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An abandoned guardhouse, blood and broken glass. What befell Plant 4D, and what awaits Deli and Wilford within? Working for Packing Peanuts is an actual play podcast of The Walking Dead RPG.

How To Play The Walking Dead Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for The Walking Dead. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own The Walking Dead game at home. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Skills Pushing and stress How to attack Armor Cover Moving Dueling Sneak attacks Brawling Leadership Swarms Threat levels Single walker attack Fighting a swarm Sacrifice someone Relieving stress Dying Healing Helping allies Jargon Building a character Game category. This is the official tabletop roleplaying game of the famous TV show, The Walking Dead. You are role playing as a character in a world where society has collapsed. An unidentified malady has spread to all living people, infecting everyone. Anyone who dies, regardless of the cause of the death, is reanimated into what is called a Walker, an undead shambling corpse driven by a compulsion to consume living flesh. If one of the living gets scratched or bitten by a walker, they will succumb, quickly becoming one if the bitten limb is not amputated. Your character can kill an individual Walker, but never enough of them to make a dent in how many there are in the world. It’s not safe out there. You might be able to clear the Walkers from a small haven, such as a roof top, so you can sleep. At your haven you can store food, water, medicine, and other resources, maybe collaborating with a close knit group of fellow survivors. But in a world with no law enforcement, can you trust the people you meet? They might be robbers eyeing your limited food, or murderers, or cannibals, or could simply make too much noise and attract a Walker swarm, a gathering of the undead so numerous that they overrun anything in their path. How long will you survive in this roleplaying game before you become one of… the walking dead. To describe the mechanics in five sentences, this is a game where you will roll six sided dice, also called d6. You succeed when you see at least one six in the dice you rolled. You can push to re roll failures, which adds stress dice. If you get a one on a stress dice, something goes wrong. Weapons deal a set number of damage depending on the weapon, and all characters have three hit points. Skills. When your character tries to accomplish something in the game world, you might roll dice to see if they are successful or not. A good game master will call for a dice roll any time the character failing could increase tension, make the situation much worse, or make the game more exciting. How do you know how many dice you will roll? Find the skill that best fits what you’re trying to do, and the attribute associated with that skill. The number next to the skill, plus the number next to the attribute, are how many dice you get to roll. Here is an example skill roll. Rick is trapped, surrounded by Walkers on all sides with no way out. Glenn’s player wants to help Rick. She proposes that Glenn sneak through the Walker filled streets, find a car without being detected, hot wire it, and drive it back to Rick to pick him up. Because the first part of her plan is sneaking, and because if that fails that dramatically changes the outcome of this plan, the game master calls for a roll. Glenn’s player looks at his character sheet. The number three is written next to the stealth skill, and it’s one of three skills under the agility attribute, which has the number four. With three dice from the stealth skill and four dice from the agility attribute, Glenn’s player rolls seven dice total. There are very good odds that at least one of them will be a six. The player rolls and the result is… two sixes! Excellent. Glenn’s stealthy sneaking through the streets was successful, he found a car with no Walkers around. For the extra six, the game master rewards Glenn’s player with a little something extra, such as asking her what color the car is. She says orange. Sweet. The next step will be hot wiring it. Pushing and stress. In The Walking Dead, a roll isn’t necessarily over if you don’t get any sixes. You can choose to push. Pushing is when you pick up all those dice, add one point of stress to your character, and roll again. For each point of stress, you add one more special dice to the pool. This special stress dice could be a different color than the other dice, or have different symbols on its faces, or can be rolled after the other dice on its own, or could be rolled in a different location on your table, etc. Anyway, to push, you pick up all those failed dice and re roll them, and also re roll as many extra dice called stress dice as you have points of stress. This is another chance to see a six. If you get at least one six as a result, c

Welcome to a special episode of Firebreathing Kittens. This is our rules discussion where we talk about how we felt about the rules we played in the past few games, for summer 2025. We’ll discuss the ttrpgs Tales From The Loop, DC20, Sexy Battle Wizards, Tiny Pirates, Into The Odd, Fudge Lite, Dragonbane, Outgunned, Black Powder and Brimstone, and Coriolis the Third Horizon.

Norbert, Newson, and Belle are hurled across the galaxy and must find their way home armed only with companionship, a little knowledge, and an accelerator cannon. Just Trying To Pay Rent is an actual play podcast of Coriolis The Third Horizon.

Norbert, Newson, and Belle are hurled across the galaxy and must find their way home armed only with companionship, a little knowledge, and an accelerator cannon. Just Trying To Pay Rent is an actual play podcast of Coriolis The Third Horizon.

How to play Coriolis The Third Horizon. Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Coriolis The Third Horizon. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Coriolis The Third Horizon game at home. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Attributes and skills Icons Initiative Action Points Armor Critical success Distances Ranged combat particulars Reactions Movement and encumbrance Partial damage Zero hit points or mind points Darkness points Building a character Game category. Coriolis is a tabletop roleplaying game set in space. You can crew a space craft, explore the horizon by traveling to new star systems through portals, unravel secrets such as who built the portals, plot and scheme with factions over power and influence, pray to the icons, and carry out missions. But beware the Dark between the Stars, an unspeakable corrupting force in the intersection between civilization and the endless nothing of space. All of the dice used for Coriolis The Third Horizon are six sided dice, also called d6. You roll the number of dice your character has in a specific skill. If one of your dice rolls a six, you succeed at what you were trying to do. Coriolis has well described combat rules that players who enjoy Dungeons and Dragons will find interesting. Attributes and skills. Your character has four attributes: Strength, Agility, Wits, and Empathy. Each attribute has a few skills, which are ways you can apply that attribute during gameplay. The strength attribute has the skill of melee combat. The agility attribute has the skills dexterity, infiltration, ranged combat, and piloting. The wits attribute has the skills observation, survival, data djinn, medicurgy, science, and technology. The empathy attribute has the skills manipulation, command, culture, and mystic powers. Every point you have in an attribute or skill gives you a six sided dice, also called a d6, that you can roll. For example your observation skill is two and your wits attribute is three, so you roll five dice total when you observe. If you roll all the dice but none of them show the number six, that roll was a failure. Read the skill’s failure text out loud for your game master to interpret. If you get one six on one dice, that means you succeeded. One six is a limited success, so you will read the skill’s wording out loud to find out how that specific skill is limited. For example it might take longer than expected or the information gained might be brief. Extra sixes beyond the first one give you cool bonus effects, which vary depending on which skill you used. You can exchange each extra six one for one for a bonus effect. If you roll three sixes, that means you got a critical success. Each skill has words explaining how a critical success is awesome and how you get an extra bonus because of the critical. There are 16 possible skills you can put points in. Half are general skills and the other half are advanced skills. Anyone can roll a general skill, but you can’t roll for an advanced skill unless you have at least one point in it. One notable advanced skill is command, which can be used to heal a stressed out ally whose mind points have been depleted to zero. You can’t roll for command to help your friend unless you have at least one point in it. Here is an example skill roll. The airlock is closing. Sabah tries to hurl herself towards the airlock to make it through before it closes. The Game Master calls for a dexterity roll to see if Sabah gets through the airlock or not. Sabah has one point in the dexterity skill and three points in the agility attribute, so that means she rolls four dice total. If zero of the four dice show a six, she failed, and the airlock closes before she can get through it. If any of those dice show a six, she succeeds and makes it through the airlock before it closes. If one dice shows a six, that is called a limited success. For the dexterity skill, a limited success is described as, quote, “Limited success: you manage to pull off the maneuver, but just barely.” End quote. Every extra six beyond your first might let you pick a bonus effect from the dexterity skill’s page, if it has bonus effects. Some skills do, some skills don’t. Dexterity doesn’t have any bonus effects for extra sixes, but the manipulation skill, for example, does. If three of the dice show sixes, that’s a critical success. For dexterity, the rule book says, quote, “Critical Success. You succeed with flawless skill, and you achieve some unexpected, positive side effect, like helping a friend or creating an obstacle for an enemy. The GM decides the details.” End quote. This example of a skill roll shows you that the mo

Rock The Boat is an actual play podcast of the Black Powder and Brimstone system. Ships are disappearing off the Crescent Steps and there are rumors of a sea beast. Deli and Hefty are on the job to restore the safety of the shipping route.

Rock The Boat is an actual play podcast of the Black Powder and Brimstone system. Ships are disappearing off the Crescent Steps and there are rumors of a sea beast. Deli and Hefty are on the job to restore the safety of the shipping route.

Using the Outgunned TTRPG mechanics, Belle, Muriel, Arik, and Muse stop a bar fight and wind up involving themselves in a car chase, high seas heist, and fight against weresharks guarding Atlantis. What more could you want?

Using the Outgunned TTRPG mechanics, Belle, Muriel, Arik, and Muse stop a bar fight and wind up involving themselves in a car chase, high seas heist, and fight against weresharks guarding Atlantis. What more could you want?

Join Oliver, Alastair, and Divan as they use the Outgunned mechanics to rescue a lost boat of seamen from a watery grave and learn of secrets hidden in the deep.

Join Oliver, Alastair, and Divan as they use the Outgunned mechanics to rescue a lost boat of seamen from a watery grave and learn of secrets hidden in the deep.

How To Play Outgunned Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Outgunned. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Outgunned game at home. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Skills Distances Gear How to attack Grit Conditions Time Out Reloading Death roulette Gambling Cover Adrenaline Spotlight Rides Chases Helping allies Double difficulty Weak spots Re-rolling Extra actions Heat Building a character Game category. Outgunned is a cinematic action role playing game. We’ve all seen movies where heroes crawl through air ducts, keep a runaway bus above a minimum speed, face off alone against a dozen goons, look to the camera with a dashing cut on their cheek, a hero who walks in slow motion towards the camera while everything behind them explodes. That’s the type of game Outgunned is, and that’s the sort of hero you will be roleplaying as. A hero is someone on a mission who lives dangerously and is one of the good guys. Central to the theme of Outgunned is the idea that the hero is racing against time, making split second decisions with great consequence, never stopping to look back. There’s no rest for heroes. Your goal is to carry out your mission, whether that means avenging your dog, finding your kidnapped loved one, clearing out a bank vault, or something else. Mechanically, you will accomplish this by rolling multiple six sided dice, also called d6, hoping to get not high or low numbers, but matching results of two of a kind, three of a kind, or even four of the same number across multiple dice. Gear such as your weapon give you more dice to roll. Feats during character creation let you reroll failed rolls when attempting certain types of actions. If the going gets tough, you can spend the limited adrenaline and spotlight resources to pull off something really cool in an an epic scene. Skills. When you want your character to do an action that has the risk of something going wrong, you will pick the relevant skill on your character sheet. You will roll as many six sided dice, also called d6, as you have as a number in that skill and attribute. There are five attributes: brawn, nerves, smooth, focus, and crime. Each attribute lists four skills under it. You can and usually will pair the skill with the attribute it’s listed under, but you don’t have to. You’re not required to combine the attribute that’s directly above a skill on the character sheet. For example, the know skill is under the focus attribute on the character sheet. If you are at a fancy cocktail party before an opera and are trying to make a good impression on the mayor with your sophisticated knowledge of opera, you can roll the smooth attribute with the know skill. The know skill is listed under the focus attribute, but you can use the smooth attribute because it better fits what you’re trying to do. Success on a skill roll. In Outgunned, success is determined by whether or not you got multiple dice of the same number. It doesn’t matter how high or low the number is. A one isn’t bad and a six isn’t good. Getting two ones or two sixes is what you’re looking for. There are four difficulty levels: basic, critical, extreme, and impossible. A basic difficulty needs two dice to have matching numbers for you to succeed. For example, two twos. If you get a basic success after rolling the dice, you are eligible to reroll your dice that weren’t part of the combination once. A critical difficulty is cleared with three of a kind. For example, three twos. An extreme difficulty needs four dice to have the same number to pass. The impossible difficulty requires five dice to show the same number to succeed. What happens if you get six dice of a kind? If that ever happens, which it probably won’t, six dice of a kind is called a Jackpot. If you roll a jackpot, you become the Game Master, who is called the Director in Outgunned, for one turn. Players can roll nine dice at most. The probability table for how likely a player is to succeed at each of the four difficulty levels for rolling two through nine dice is on page 67. Here is an example of a roll at basic difficulty, where two dice need to be the same number for you to succeed. Let’s say you are sneaking through an air duct quietly, infiltrating the compound stealthily, when suddenly a spider crawls on you. You try to stay as still as possible, because if you react loudly, your enemy could hear you. Roll as many dice as you have in nerves and cool. The Director says this is pretty basic. With two dice in nerves and one in cool, your odds of getting two dice to be the same number when rolling three dice is 45%. So there’s about a fifty fifty chance the spider crawls o

Juneau and Muriel help unravel Newson’s past while fighting off deadly plants. Will Muriel’s elemental magic kill them all? Bodies Botany and Bleeding Hearts is an actual play podcast of Dragonbane.

Juneau and Muriel help unravel Newson’s past while fighting off deadly plants. Will Muriel’s elemental magic kill them all? Bodies Botany and Bleeding Hearts is an actual play podcast of Dragonbane.

How to play Dragonbane Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Dragonbane. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Dragonbane game at home. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Attributes Skills Pushing Conditions Dragons, demons Boons, banes Initiative How to attack Zero hit points Sneak attacks Actions and reactions Armor Weapon durability Movement Terrain Encumbrance Resting Magic Building a character Game category. Dragons, demons, and player characters of fantasy races. Magic, mystery, and adventure. Dragonbane is a tabletop roleplaying game designed in the mirth and mayhem roleplaying style. Mirth and mayhem means there is room for laughter and a pinch of silliness, and also brutal challenges for adventurers to face in combat. Dragonbane is a translated and updated version of the Scandinavian game Drakar och Demoner, first released in 1982. Its main author Tomas Harenstam intended Dragonbane to facilitate fast and furious play, with less prep time than other d20 based ttrpg systems. Players embody characters whose professions give them specialized skills and weapons, to roll four, six, eight, ten, twelve, or twenty sided dice to fight against enemies such as harpies, minotaurs, giants, manticores, griffins, wights, trolls, and of course, dragons. Attributes. Your character has six attributes: strength, constitution, agility, intelligence, willpower, and charisma. The character’s ability to do everything from wield their weapon, to sneak undetected, to barter with a shop keeper, to how many hit points they have, is derived from their numbers in these core attributes. You’ll determine those attribute numbers by rolling dice during character creation, and I’ve gone through an example of character creation at the end of this how to play guide to show you how attribute points are rolled. But basically, the higher the number, the better your character is at that thing. Here’s an example of the attribute number ranges. A five in the strength attribute would mean you’re not great at lifting or carrying things. Your inventory would be scant, and you’d get over encumbered easily. A ten is pretty average for an attribute. A sixteen in the strength attribute means you’re really strong, and are way better than a regular person at brawling and axes. Skills. Every Dragonbane character has a number in thirty skills. Some example skills are the agility attribute based acrobatics skill, the charisma attribute based persuasion skill, the intelligence attribute based languages skill, and the strength based brawling skill. To see if you succeed when doing one of your skills, roll a twenty sided dice, also called a d20. If the dice result is the same as or lower than your skill level, you succeed at what you were trying to do. If the dice shows a number higher than your skill number, then you failed. Here is an example skill roll. You want to spot something hidden. Your spot hidden skill is a 14. You roll a d20. If the dice is a 14, 13, 12, 11, etc, down to 2, you see the hidden thing, yay. If your dice is a 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19, you don’t see the hidden thing. The higher your skill number, the more likely you are to succeed. If you fail, that might impact the story. Not only do you not see the hidden thing, which could allow an enemy to deal extra ambush damage to you, but also it might cost you more time, risk, or gold to achieve your goals. Failure never stops the story completely, but it is expensive to some of your consumables. Pushing. Failing a skill roll doesn’t have to be the end. You could choose to push, which means gaining a condition in exchange for rerolling the dice. To push, first explain how the condition you’re choosing to gain results from the action you’re performing. You can’t choose a condition you already have. And then roll your dice again. Whether or not your new roll succeeds, you have gained that condition. A small note, if the first dice was a twenty, a demon roll, it can’t be pushed. Conditions. There are six conditions, one for each attribute. The conditions are: exhausted for strength, sickly for constitution, dazed for agility, angry for intelligence, scared for willpower, and disheartened for charisma. For as long as you have the condition for that attribute, roll it with bane, meaning roll two dice and keeping the higher of the two numbers, whichever is worse. You can recover from conditions by resting. Here is an example of pushing to gain a condition. You went fishing as part of a diplomatic delegation with a prince. The fishing roll was an 11, and you have a 10 in fishing, it’s a failure of a fishing trip. The prince is getting pretty frustrated

Wilford, Hefty, and Deli have been invited to a special opening of a market but something else has also arrived, and it's draining the life out of the place. Death Comes to Market is an actual play podcast of the Fudge Lite system.

Wilford, Hefty, and Deli have been invited to a special opening of a market but something else has also arrived, and it's draining the life out of the place. Death Comes to Market is an actual play podcast of the Fudge Lite system.

Deli Kincaid Interview

A silent monk exhorts Belle, Hefty and Newson to visit a remote monastery in search of a powerful, cursed relic. They’ll lose their memory and their voice, but will they keep their life? 'Dust To Dust' is an actual play podcast of Into The Odd.

A silent monk exhorts Belle, Hefty and Newson to visit a remote monastery in search of a powerful, cursed relic. They’ll lose their memory and their voice, but will they keep their life? 'Dust To Dust' is an actual play podcast of Into The Odd.

Join Freya, Bobby and Edgar as they try to solve the clues and escape being marooned on a deserted island using the play mechanics of Tiny Pirates.

Join Freya, Bobby and Edgar as they try to solve the clues and escape being marooned on a deserted island using the play mechanics of Tiny Pirates.

Bombs at the ready, Alastair, Edgar, and Divan go on an adventure to find what they really desire, finding the truth and a few bombs along the way.

Bombs at the ready, Alastair, Edgar, and Divan go on an adventure to find what they really desire, finding the truth and a few bombs along the way.

Join Freya, Hefty and Grumm as they help solve mysterious disappearances in the town of Briairfen using the DC20 game system.

Join Freya, Hefty and Grumm as they help solve mysterious disappearances in the town of Briairfen using the DC20 game system.

Wilford and Norbert reunite for the first time in years after the fateful summer they met as kids. Instantly, they are transported back to rediscover events that left indelible marks in their lives. Rewind To Remember is an actual play podcast of the Tales From The Loop TTRPG.

Wilford and Norbert reunite for the first time in years after the fateful summer they met as kids. Instantly, they are transported back to rediscover events that left indelible marks in their lives. Rewind To Remember is an actual play podcast of the Tales From The Loop TTRPG.

How to play Tales From The Loop Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Tales From The Loop. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Tales From The Loop game. I’ll organize this how to play guide into five sections. Game category Combat rules The “broken” condition Attributes and skills Building an example character Game category. Tales From The Loop is a game where the players role play as ten to fifteen year old kids solving a mystery in an alternative history version of the late 1980’s. The town you live in has an advanced science facility whose adult employee researchers are investigating a powerful phenomenon. What the scientists have learned is out of reach from the kids, and the parents don’t talk about their work with their children. Effects from the artifact they are working on have spilled out into the town, though, including escaped robots, gravity distortions, and time loops. You and your friends seek to escape the never ending homework and nagging parents of your dull everyday life to take part in something meaningful, magical, and possibly a little bit dangerous. You risk being injured, imprisoned, broken-hearted, or changed by the troubles you overcome to solve the mysteries that have captured your fascination. But in general, although the land of the loop is dangerous, kids cannot die in this game. Combat in Tales From The Loop involves describing your what you’re trying to do and then rolling multiple six sided dice, also called d6, to see if any of the rolled numbers were a six. If one or more of the dice show a six, that’s a success at normal difficulty. You rolled a six, so you accomplished what you were trying to do. If none of the dice show a six, that’s a failure. If you fail, you don’t accomplish what you were trying to do and you might get hurt or scared. The more dice you roll, the better your odds of getting a six. For example, you are more likely to succeed when rolling five dice than when rolling only two dice. Troubles can be normal difficulty, which requires one six to succeed, or extreme difficulty, which require rolling two sixes to succeed, or almost impossible difficulty, which require getting three sixes to succeed. Your game master will tell you the trouble difficulty during your roll. If you roll more than the needed number of sixes, your character sheet’s skills section might list a few special effects that you can spend the extra successes on, to buy. Spending an extra success to buy an effect is a way to get even more than you asked for from a situation, on top of succeeding you also get a fun in-game bonus. Are you unsure your roll will succeed? A friend can help your dice roll if they narrate how their character is helping in the scene. To help, describe what you do, and your friend gets an extra dice. Only one person can help per roll. The person who helps is bound to the outcome of the roll. If the roll fails, then you both suffer the same consequences from it failing. If you don’t roll enough sixes and fail a particularly important roll, it’s not the end. You can choose to spend a single luck point after seeing that your roll failed. The luck point lets you reroll a single failed dice. You can only spend one luck per roll. After each game session, your luck refreshes back to full. Sometimes getting help from a friend or rerolling a single failed dice by spending a luck point isn’t enough. What option do you have when you’ve failed a roll that you really wanted to succeed at? You can push. Pushing is when you gather up all the dice that failed and try rolling them again. You can only push once per roll, and you have to do it right away before the consequences are narrated. The cost of pushing is that you gain a condition first, and then try to push second. Conditions include being scared, being injured, etc. Your future rolls will be at negative one success for each condition you gain. If your push fails, you can’t push again that roll. Let’s do an example of a combat roll. Your character is being chased by an escaped robot. You have cleverly run up to the top of a hill. You say that you want to turn and shove the robot so that they fall down the hill. The game master says it’s a normal difficulty. That means you need one six to succeed. You roll your body ability number of dice, 2, and your force skill number of dice, 1, for 3 dice total. You get a 2, a 4, and a 6. There’s a six, so that’s a success. You shove the robot down the hill. What if you had rolled a 2, a 4, and a 5? Your friend could help you, by distracting the robot by yelling, “Hey!” When a friend helps you, add a dice. That’s now a 2, a 4, a 5, and a 6, success. Or, if your friend helpin

We discuss our feedback for the rules mechanics from the tabletop roleplaying games Dungeoncaster, Vaesen, the two solo play systems InkSea: The Abyss and Exclusion Zone Botanist, Risus Epic, Travel Sized Role Playing Game, Roll For Shoes, and Escape From An Endless Ikrala (a setting expansion of the game Liminal Horror).

A mysterious message in a bottle leads Newson, Hefty and Alastair to a remote island, where they must confront the past, the future and themselves in order to help some orphaned children. This is an actual play podcast of Travel-Sized RPG.

A mysterious message in a bottle leads Newson, Hefty and Alastair to a remote island, where they must confront the past, the future and themselves in order to help some orphaned children. This is an actual play podcast of Travel-Sized RPG.

Alastair Marril Interview

Creepy Kralas is an actual play podcast of Trapped in an Endless Ikrala featuring Muse, Wilford, and Edgar. The adventurers risk their lives in a horrific store full of hungry furniture mimics. Ikrala is compatible with the game Liminal Horror.

Creepy Kralas is an actual play podcast of Trapped in an Endless Ikrala featuring Muse, Wilford, and Edgar. The adventurers risk their lives in a horrific store full of hungry furniture mimics. Ikrala is compatible with the game Liminal Horror.

How to play Ikrala Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Ikrala. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Ikrala game at home. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Abilities: STR, DEX, CTRL Combat rules Zero hit points Building a character Game category. Ikrala is a fantasy survival horror procedural dungeon crawl through a massive artificial constructed place, resembling something like a mall, a casino, an airport, or a furniture store. On the one hand, there is a horror to a place with no natural light where every square foot has been planned to slow you down, lure you into forgetting what time it is, and not realize you are spending forever there. On the other hand, there is a fantasy aspect to being in the store overnight, jumping onto the display bed, picking up any container off the shelf and eating out of it. Ikrala melds the horror and fantasy together into a massive nearly endless store where everything is yours for the taking, but everything is also out to kill you. Like the movie Beauty and the Beast where the furniture and cutlery has a mind of its own, or like a mimic treasure chest that eats the adventurers who open it, players will fight floor after floor in their quest to find the item they’re shopping for, and then find the elusive parking garage exit. How to play. Players roll a 20 sided dice, also called a d20, and compare the result to their ability score. If the dice is equal to or lower than their ability, they succeed. For example, a dice roll of 10 and an ability of 11 would mean the player succeeded on what they were trying to do. If the dice is higher than the ability, they failed. For example a dice roll of 20, which is often a critical success in other tabletop role playing games, is always a failure in Ikrala. In Ikrala, a 1 is always a success. Here is an example of a strength ability roll. Vera is trying to lift a dresser to block the door she and her party just came through. The dresser is heavy, and will be a good barricade for the door. But, being heavy, it is not trivial to move it. Vera’s strength ability is 11. Vera’s player rolls a d20 and gets a 6. This is a success. Vera successfully moves the dresser to barricade the door. Here is an example of a dexterity ability roll. William is trying to sneak past a display couch that has ominously opened up to reveal a giant mouth with sharp teeth. His dexterity ability is 8. He rolls a 10, which is higher than an 8, so he fails to sneak past and the couch notices him. It licks its couch cushion lips in anticipation. Here is an example of a control ability roll. Rut is walking along looking at items for sale when she spots a lava lamp. Its fluid motions are mesmerizing. Her player is asked to roll a control saving roll. Rut’s control is 13. Her player rolls a 13, which meets it to beat it, and Rut is able to pull her eyes away from the very interesting lava lamp motions and keep walking. Combat rules. At the start of combat, players roll against their dexterity ability to see if they go before or after the enemies. If their dice is lower than or equal to their dexterity, they go before the enemies. If the dice is higher than their dexterity, they go after the enemies. A dexterity challenge is also used to determine if the players successfully retreat from an enemy, which is something to keep in mind. Players can make one movement and one action on their turn. All attacks hit in Ikrala. There are no missed swings of a sword or arrows flying past the target. Attacks can deal either physical damage or stress damage. Physical damage is reduced by armor. Stress damage is reduced by stability. To make an attack, roll the weapon dice. For example you roll a d6 and get a 4 on the dice. Then subtract the target’s armor or stability. For example if the target has 1 armor or stability, a 4 on the dice minus 1 armor or stability equals 3 damage. It is possible to be impaired or enhanced by combat scenarios. Examples of being impaired are when your character is trying to swing a sword while prone on the ground, or is attacking an enemy protected by partial cover, or if your character’s in a mental fog. When impaired, use a four sided dice, called a d4, for your damage dice instead of your weapon’s normal d6, d8, etc dice. 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How to play Travel Sized Role Playing Game (TSRPG) Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Travel Sized Role Playing Game, abbreviated TSRPG. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Travel Sized Role Playing Game. I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections. Game category Combat rules Equipment Annoyed, wounded, disabled, killed Building an example character Game category. TSRPG is designed to be, well, travel sized. You can teach others how to play and build a character with them in under ten minutes. TSRPG can be played using any setting, anywhere, anytime. You can play it without dice, for example on a long ride, or sitting around a campfire. Combat rules. Combats in travel sized role playing game are a series of challenges. A player can attempt a challenge to harm an opponent or to defend against an incoming attack. To resolve the challenge, the storyteller either rolls a number or picks one to themself quietly, and says the difficulty range out loud. The player picks a number. If the player’s number either matches or is within their stat number’s range of the storyteller’s number, then the player succeeds at the challenge. If the player’s pick for a number is further away from the storyteller’s number than even adding or subtracting their stat doesn’t get them there, then the player failed the challenge. Here is an example of a challenge. A player says their character Ruben swings a sword at the dragon. The storyteller picks the number 2 and says out loud that this is a strength challenge with a range of 1 to 10. Ruben’s player guesses a number within the range. If they guess 2, they succeed. They also succeed if the number they guess is within their strength stat distance away from the storyteller’s number. If Ruben’s strength stat is 1, then guessing a 1, a 2, and a three will all succeed, and Ruben’s sword will strike the dragon. If Ruben’s strength stat is 4, then guessing 1, 2, 3, all the way up to 6 will succeed, because a guess of 6 minus the strength stat of 4 equals the storyteller’s number of 2. Let’s do a second example challenge. Caitlin is a halfling barbarian. She’s being attacked by a charm spell from a monster, who is singing, trying to lure Caitlin to put down her battleaxe. Defending against this attack is a challenge. The storyteller thinks of the number 5 and tells Caitlin’s player that it’s a mental challenge with a range of 10. Caitlin has a mental stat of 2, so her player thinks strategically. If they answer a 1 or a 9, they won’t be taking full advantage of their range of two. A 3 should be their lowest guess because it will cover 3, 2, and 1. An 8 should be their highest guess because that will cover 8, 9 and 10. Caitlin’s player guesses 8. The range of storyteller numbers they would have passed the challenge on is 10, 9, 8, 7, and 6. Unfortunately, the storyteller thought of a 5, so, Caitlin the halfling barbarian puts down her battleaxe and falls for the monster’s charm. Non player characters can assist on a challenge to give a +1 bonus, but they suffer from the same consequences a player character would face if they fail. Equipment. Equipment in TSRPG is either durable, and gives a +1 bonus to appropriate challenges it’s used for, or consumable, which provides a +2 bonus on two challenges and is then consumed. Masterwork items double the numbers from mundane equipment, and magical items triple the numbers compared to mundane equipment. In other tabletop roleplaying games that have hit points, a character might start at 10 hit points and after receiving 6 damage and then later 4 damage, go down to 0 hit points. Travel sized RPG does not have hit points. Instead, it has status effects. Characters can be annoyed, wounded, disabled, and killed. Falling prone is an example of being annoyed. Being prone might decrease your character’s physical stat by one for your next check, or until you stand up. If your character’s arm is slashed by claws, that is an example of being wounded. The slash wound could reduce your physical trait by two for the rest of the combat. Being disabled, such as suffering a head injury, could leave your mental stat reduced by one for multiple combats, for example all day. And lastly, a character can be killed, which removes them from the game. Recovering from being annoyed is something you can do for yourself. Spend your turn standing up from being prone, problem solved. Wounded characters can bandage themselves up after combat ends. Disabled characters, though, need to be helped by another character. 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