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An automated TTRPG experiment by @periaptgames.bsky.social. Posts randomly-generated ideas. May misspell "lifepaths" due to technical reasons. Behind the scenes, this is a bunch of dice tables strung together using Tracery.

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Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 8m

Introduce cute motifs to an underworld/picaresque game

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a tip: Your usual monster template can just be replaced with a strategic meaty randomly flat Tarot card.

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 4h

Remember, the normal overall structure can be excised and replaced with a roleplaying-based point pool rule. Electric Bastionland does this, sort of

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 6h

Coin-based post-apocalyptic game. Best idea I've ever had 🙂

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 8h

Even if you're running an anime dark fantasy game, you should consider using a transferable narrative-based trope play procedure!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 10h

Giving up on making a snack-based baking procedure and going all in on uniform beads. Might reconsider once I'm fully awake!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 12h

If you're starting a game in a new system and have players coming from popular elegantly speculative games like Runequest or Shadowdark, try using splatbooks to help them get over the rules hump

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 14h

Remember, the normal play experience can be excised and replaced with a hefty pebble

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Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 16h

I'm calling yet again for a tighter kind of dangerous game with meditative verisimilitude.

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 18h

Try tracking downtime with lists. Great for establishing compassion and easier on the GM

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 20h

Making a nautical-cogpunk courtroom drama minigame hinging on a new stone-based safety heuristic.

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 22h

And now, a new attempt to answer the Luck Issue: just use tokens to track reactions. It's a lot quicker – especially in unique games!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

A paper doll-based tension procedure for Daggerheart

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a way to tackle the Slot Test: ignore the rulebook and just rely on traps! Let me know if it works!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

A great game of Pendragon involves rafting

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

Most medieval games don't have HP. But you can make one that does. A really great one with a matchstick-based bookkeeping system!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

In my experience, action economy could afford to feel more burlesque. Like in Blades in the Dark!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by war games, a malus matchstick (and throw in more maps!)

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

How about an epic version of Wildsea where the whole game boils down to a single method.

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

How about a WWII version of Zweihander where the whole game boils down to a single rule?

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't like games that are attritional, maybe try out a chivalric game with a novel pebble-based navigation engine

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about a fiction-first game that's like visiting family (and mechanically similar to Exclusion Zone Botanist)!!!

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

Not every game has a set of Tarot cards, and not every game has shields. But you probably want at least one of them if your game is meant to have an antagonistic feel.

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 1d

Try tracking score with Tarot cards. Great for establishing tension and easier on the referee. (Hack this)

Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 2d

Mausritter was originally going to have a dedicated kangaroo farming subsystem. Maybe you could add it back in with a Tarot card-based resolution method.