Norton Glover @ng76@tabletop.social

I've organized my page of fillable character sheets for various dead, old, mostly forgotten, and out-of-print RPGs.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/05/10/character-sheets-for-dead-rpgs/
#ttrpg

I put together a list of Barsoom/John Carter inspired RPGs earlier this year. I've been updating it through the year, and I just added a new one. Scroll down to the end to see it.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2020/01/19/gaming-on-mars-a-mostly-complete-list-of-barsoomian-role-playing-games/
#rpg #ttrpg #barsoom

I just learned about the concept of Chernoff Faces, the data visualization concept in which numerical data is presented using cartoon faces rather than numbers, as it's easier for people to process faces than digits.

I immediately wondered how to adapt this for #ttrpg use. How would you design a game that used faces instead of numbers?

Hell if I know, but the character sheet would look like this:

Interesting post about pricing of RPG books.

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2022/09/21/the-trouble-with-rpg-prices/

If I spend a whole day fiddling around with a tabletop RPG I'll only play once or not at all, I still feel like I've accomplished something.

If I play a video game for a half-hour, I feel like I'm wasting my life.

Just ran Liminal Horror, the modern horror #ttrpg. I've made a fillable version of the official character sheet, and an initial version of my own custom sheet. You can download them here:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/09/23/liminal-horror-a-fillable-custom-character-sheet-for-the-horror-rpg/

Latest OSR mail call. Might be the core of my next campaign...might sit on my shelf for the next decade. Either way, I'm happy with my purchase.

A bunch of old, free OSR adventures from Gus L., the author of Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier:

https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/p/pdf-adventure-archives.html

Forgot to add the link to TravellerCon:

http://www.travellercon-usa.com/

SIgned up for the TravellerCon USA convention this October

I'm planning on running a session of the Traveller version of Judge Dredd, and a session of Zaibatsu, the Cepheus cyberpunk RPG.

Here's an itch game jam where you create a adventure or supplement for a RPG that literally does not exist:

https://itch.io/jam/system-fictional-jam

No one asked for this, but I wasted my afternoon on this..

There's an OSR horror/fantasy adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess called The Doom That Came to Chapman Farm, set in 1600s Maryland.

I've converted all of the NPCs and monsters in it to the #TravellerRPG

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2022/09/11/the-doom-that-came-to-chapman-farm-converting-a-osr-adventure-to-traveller/

I've been reading about the artificial language Volapük (like Esperanto, but even less popular), and it makes me want to design a Mitteleuropa-based #ttrpg fantasy world using Volapük for all the place names.

Nostalgia-soaked link to a PDF copy of the 1988 Mail Order Hobby Shop catalog.

This was TSR's catalog that had pretty much every RPG available in 88. It was the DriveThruRPG of its time.

Weirdly, despite being pre-internet, you could order stuff from the catalog online - through the commercial service Compuserve.

https://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2022/09/free-download-free-tsr-1988-mail-order.html

thoughts toward a flat earth campaign https://lurkerablog.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/thoughts-toward-a-flat-earth-campaign/

If you're going to run a Pulp RPG, here's a different kind of hero:

Instead of a masked crimefighter, how about a kindly, elderly pharmacist - the exploits of Doc Turner!
https://pulpgamer.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/another-sort-of-pulp-campaign-the-cases-of-doc-turner/

Big sale on Gallant Knight Games Tiny D6 system:
https://t.co/v2LWALNggg

It's a fun little system, great for one-shots.