Tarō on his favorite chair #caturday

It is kind of funny that I play the fantasy-#ttrpg #DnD5e mainly online these days and the cyberpunky #Shadowrun mainly offline

Somehow the Adblocker on my iPhone was disabled and I didn’t notice. I wondered how unusable websites became and that so much gets around the adblocker these days.

How do people without adblockers use the internet? It was soooo bad. So many sites became hard to use and read on my mobile device.

Yeah, first time I did in an (interval-)training 1k in less than 5 minutes 🎉 #running

I really want to hear once that a crazy rich person responding to the question how they started out, responding: “For startersr, I had the fortune of a family with a lot of money to begin with.”

Ich hab den alten Brief mit Transport-PIN und PUK noch. Pech gehabt - die Ausweis-App ist der Meinung, dass die Transport-PIN falsch ist. Technik die begeistert. #lastpost #eid

Schon mal versucht dieses Jahr den PIN der eID zurückzusetzen? Den Service per Brief haben sie am 29.12.2023 eingestellt. Man darf jetzt zum Bürgeramt gehen, um den PIN zurückzusetzen 🤦‍♂️

Ohne eID oder entsprechende KV-Karte auch kein e-Rezept…Dann lass ich das wohl mal alles…

Rule of thumb: if it relates to IT and has “simple” or “lightweight” in its name, it is usually (though not always) complex and hard to understand

Ich war im Wintergarten in der Show Mad Magic

Der Wahnsinn. Ganz toll. Ich bin wirklich begeistert. Besonders die Seifenblasennummer war faszinierend. #berlin

These days I am rarely a game master for RPGs. Currently I am creating a run for #shadowrun which is called “The Humanis Policlub Took My Baby Away”. And I just noticed that this is the third run in a row where the objective is to free someone or something. I really need to change this for the next run.

All runs are one-shots created like half a year apart, so it didn´t really occur to me that I am always doing some kind of the same objective.

Run 1 - Free the Girl

The first run in that “series” was that the runners shall free a teenage-girl from a villa where she was hold against her will. In the end it turned out that it was a divorce-case where the mother tried to flee with her daughter from her husband. The runners were hired by the father who turned out to be a blood mage for Aztlan and they had to decide if they delivered the girl or not.
I know that the title is crap but I didn´t need to come up with something. That title is how it is in my notes-files.

Run 2 - Bloody Asphalt

This one was about a robbed rigger. The robbed rigger (an NPC who was hospitalized for the run) was a part of the team the characters played. He was robbed and his car was stolen in front of a stuffers shack. The runners had to find it and bring it back.

Run 3 - The Humanis Policlub Took My Baby Away

Well, the title says all I guess. The girlfriend of the brother of one of the runners got snatched by the Humanis Policlub. And now he asks his brother and his team for help to free her. I won´t share any details here since I will play it next week and still working out the details. But each time I think more about it, it becomes a bit more interesting I think. Just the question: why did the Humanis Policlub kidnapped her and why doesn´t the brother recruit his own gang for example to free her (the original idea was that he is a ganger) changed it yesterday quite a bit. And I could soften up the last scene which was pretty heavy in the beginning and could have made players kinda uncomfortable. Now the evil is still there but the last scene will happen someplace else.

I wanted to note something for other shadowrun-game masters. If you are doing one-shots, it is really helpful to skip the “Meet the Johnson”-phase. That one costs only time, and you can directly skip to the part where the team established that they are working together and will do the run. No “I won´t get paid, so I don´t do it” or long haggle-sessions for the price. In a normal campaign, you can do that as well but this is a real time saver and saves you from the awkward situation that a player might decide that they think that their character won´t do something or has to do it another way which only disturbs the session.

I am also currently reading “So You want to be a Game Master” by Justin Alexander and it is quite interesting and helpful in creating that third run. And even though I do a lot of things already in that book, it is worth a read for inexperienced and experienced game masters alike. Inexperienced game masters will of course get more out of it.

The last thing I want to mention is that I asked for fun ChatGPT to change the lyrics for “The KKK Took My Baby Away” by the Ramones to fit “The Humanis Policlub Took My Baby Away”. And I was surprised how good it turned out:

(Verse 1)
Late at night, in the neon glow,
My baby’s gone, lost to the shadows.
In the sprawl where danger’s the law,
The Humanis came, left me in awe.

(Pre-Chorus)
Runners of the shadows, hear my plea,
Bring her back, set my baby free.
In the darkness where secrets play,
I’m calling out to you, find a way.

(Chorus)
The Humanis took my love away,
Down in the shadows where the runners stray.
Mercenaries, heart of the night,
Bring her back, make it right.

(Verse 2)
Chrome and magic, the city’s heartbeat,
Whispers in the darkness, secrets they keep.
She’s out there, caught in the vice,
Runners, I need you, roll the dice.

(Pre-Chorus)
Runners of the shadows, heed my cry,
In the underworld, where shadows lie.
Through the sprawl, where danger’s rife,
Bring her back, save my life.

(Chorus)
The Humanis took my love away,
Down in the shadows where the runners stray.
Mercenaries, heart of the night,
Bring her back, make it right.

(Bridge)
Through the matrix, in the back alleys,
Follow the trail, where darkness rallies.
Runners, hunters, seekers of fate,
Rescue my love, don’t hesitate.

(Verse 3)
In the city of sin, where the streets are mean,
She’s a pawn in a game, a part of the scene.
To the shadows, where the runners tread,
Bring her back, or I’ll be dead.

(Pre-Chorus)
Runners of the shadows, don’t delay,
In the web of intrigue, find a way.
Through the chaos, where the secrets breed,
Bring her back, fulfill this need.

(Chorus)
The Humanis took my love away,
Down in the shadows where the runners stray.
Mercenaries, heart of the night,
Bring her back, make it right.

I ran Saturday my first half-marathon and now I am in bed probably with Corona (someone close has it and developed symptoms a couple of days before me).

If the symptoms would have started a day earlier I wouldn’t have been able to run. Lucky me I guess.

#caturday

#caturday

I just finished The Lost Cause, the newest book by @pluralistic@mamot.fr an d it is great. A book of hope playing in a dystopian near future that could be really our future. Interesting characters and as always interesting ideas.

Good morning #caturday

If you are playing #ttrpg related to #cyberpunk, you might want to listen to the episode about a tragic fire in Johannesburg to get some material. The part about “hijacked buildings” is something how for example people in the Redmond Barrens in #Shadowrun probably live.

Gerade habe ich einen schönen Aufkleber gesehen: Lebe so, dass die AfD was dagegen hätte

😁

Day 31 of #RPGaDay

I forgot to post yesterday.

Favorite RPG of all time: Shadowrun!

I don’t care about the edition. The world is awesome and I love the dice pools (big trolls == big dice pools) and you have a reason why strangers run together. Sometimes I don’t like the crunchiness.

I ❤️ #Shadowrun

Day 30 of #RPGaDay

Obscure RPG you played: Plüsch, Power and Plunder

You bring your character to the table (a stuffed toy); you play how it comes to life. In the session I played plastic toys enslaved teddy bears and we had to fight the BBEGs: action figures of Gandalf, Sauron and a plastic unicorn…

Day 29 of #RPGaDay

Most memorable encounter: a session of Shadowrun. A plan to do something in a gang HQ. First runner sneaks into the HQ, second character critically glitches his roll, activates the alarm. Big shootout ensues, the headquarter didn’t exist anymore after that. Best laid plans…

Day 29 of #RPGaDay:

Most memorable encounter:

The one were we played DnD with higher level characters and the game master designed an encounter with skeletons - scaled to our level. So we fought like a hundred or two hundred skeletons. Took a while and was more fun than expected.

Day 28 of #RPGaDay

Scariest game you played:

That was a session of a self-designed game from a game master at a convention set in a Ravenloft-style setting.

We were in a neon-lit crafts room but the GM was so good that it was still very scary. One of the best sessions I was ever part of.

Day 27 of #RPGaDay

Game you’d like a new edition of:

A new edition of “Mutant Chronicles” would be neat. New full-colored books, more modern mechanics but leave the character creation more or less alone. I had so much fun generating characters together with friends because of the life-path system.

Day 26 of #RPGaDay

Favorite Character Sheet: I really like the character sheets of the World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf etc). 1 page, all information you need, styled for the game.

I hate glueing together tabletop minis. Warhammer 40k-minis are even worse than Star Wars-Minis (except those battle droids maybe).

And all for the kids…