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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs)

@burnafterrunning.bsky.social

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Mostly TTRPGs and shizz. He/Him. Blog at burnafterrunningrpg.com, run and play games at Unconventional GMs. Seven Hills RPG convention. All about games. Check out pacy all-action Actual Plays: https://www.youtube.com/@unconventionalgms

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 1h

What happens when you mash up two of @chaosium.bsky.social 's biggest recent releases? Find out with our one-shot #actualplay of @icooper.bsky.social #Questworlds #AgeOfVikings over on Unconventional GMsa
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Questworlds | Age of Vikings : One Shot | King of the Bears | Actual Play

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 9h

Game 3 at #furnacerpg was @cubicle7games.bsky.social Warhammer: The Old World, a chance for me to play while my co-UGM @evilgaz.bsky.social GMs - great stuff!

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 16h

#furnacerpg Slot 2 - Run Out The Guns. I have a book of critical hit tables, and an awful lot of skills to do sums with. Hornpiping the poop deck with @paulbaldowski.bsky.social at the helm (?)

A games table with a ttrpg in progress with a cardboard ship in the centre

A booklet "The Combat Book" with lots of critical hits

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 19h

#furnacerpg slot 1 - ran #daggerheart, first time using background Qs in a one shot to adapt the adventure on the fly. Reincorporation ftw!

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 1d

Session minus one of #furnacerpg (the 20th one) complete - setting the gaming world to rights in the bar!

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 1d

On the contrary, the very best TTRPG ever written is based on a licensed property - Mouse Guard!

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 3d

"They go to a different server"

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 3d

Were you brave enough for the breakfast kebab?

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 3d

Just get the rules right - you don't need to be an expert. I dont think I'd consider myself "expert" at any systems - but I know how to run them!

We've had enough of experts!

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! You don't have to be expert in every system - often the best way to first run a TTRPG is as a one-shot

(I'm assuming by public spaces you mean conventions, and not just in some park somewhere)

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 7d

It's not the failure that bothers me, it's the lack of stakes. And the "everyone rolls" which guarantees somebody will make it (thanks to binomial probabilities)

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 7d

Rolling Perception / Spot Hidden / etc

Tab Creations @tabcreations.com · 7d

Hey #ttrpgCommunity!

What's a common GM habit that you think should be reconsidered or even eliminated?

#ttrpgs #dnd #rpg #gaming

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 7d

Top game of @jesseross.com and @jaymeantrim.bsky.social 's R'leywatch just now, ably GMed by @mikeferdinando.bsky.social - check it out if you think mashing up Baywatch and Cthulhu is a great idea (and if you don't, you're wrong) hedgemazepress.itch.io/rlyehwatch

R’lyehwatch by Hedgemaze Press

Baywatch vs. Cthulhu

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 8d

I find ammesia / blank slate one shots really frustrating as a player, to the point where I'll actively avoid them - I need something to play my character with, even if its just "Dwarf Fighter"

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 11d

Just realised it's ages since I've done a "How to Run X As A One-Shot" post on Burn After Running - any requests?

(example below - how to run FATE as a one-shot: burnafterrunningrpg.com/2017/10/24/c...)

Counters and Cards – how to run a great Fate one-shot

A couple of weeks ago I went to Furnace, the original and biggest RPG con based at The Garrison Hotel in Sheffield, UK. One of the games I ran was a Justice Society game using the Fate system &#821…

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 12d

Do you like #TTRPG #DnD #Pirates? Check out my (play-informed) review of #MTBlack 's The Dawn Chasers, a best in class one-shot
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The Ultimate Fantasy Pirate One-Shot? – Review: The Dawn Chasers

It’s been a while since I offered a review of an adventure instead of an entire game. But in truth I’m much more interested in reading and buying adventures – they offer all the usefulness of…

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 13d

A strong choice! I'm a fan of it mixed 1:1 with creme de menthe; a tonic for the roughest of times that will put hairs on your chest

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 13d

Tractors for everyone!

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 13d

Reposting for the Sunday crowd - check out our new #SciFi #ActualPlay of Ex Tenebris

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14d

Terrifying sci fi horror, with an innovative mystery system? You want to check out our latest #TTRPG #actualplay of Ex Tenebris, currently kickstartering, from Black Armada!

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Ex Tenebris : One Shot | Too Greedily And Too Deep | Actual Play

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 14d

🎬 It's mystery in space time as we head to the stars with @armadajosh.bsky.social and @beckyannison.bsky.social in Ex Tenebris! What nefarious secrets await our interstellar investigators and how will they cope with with the revelations? Find out in our pacy Actual Play!

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Ex Tenebris : One Shot | Too Greedily And Too Deep | Actual Play

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14d

So the first two are absolutely of the TV era where an episode was a one-shot.

I think "go big," while slightly hand-wavey, is probably the best advice I can offer. Extend the scope of threats, stakes, and failure.

Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14d

Terrifying sci fi horror, with an innovative mystery system? You want to check out our latest #TTRPG #actualplay of Ex Tenebris, currently kickstartering, from Black Armada!

youtu.be/aHiHuFXNFqg?...

Ex Tenebris : One Shot | Too Greedily And Too Deep | Actual Play

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14d

Out now on Burn After Running - why #TTRPG one shots are, well, one shots
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Johnson says he will never use government ID

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14d

It's a strong contender to be up there with when Spurs sacked Mourinho a few days before a cup final.