Niels K.

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…

Day 25 of #RPGaDay

Unplayed RPG you own: 🤣 so so many…. 🤣

Tenra Bansho Zero, Shinobigami, Ryuutama, Blade Runner, Coyote & Crow, Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse, KULT (the new one), Sigmata – just to name a few of those I really want to play at some point.

Day 24 of #RPGaDay

Most complex/simple RPG you play

Complex: Shadowrun - 6th edition got less crunchier than previous editions but not necessarily less complex.

Simple: I cheat here because I don’t actually play it anymore. But I played for a while “Hero Kids” with my sons but they grew out of it.

Desktop #Linux-distributions that block mDNS (UDP/5353) by default are something that I don’t understand.

Day 23 of #RPGaDay

Coolest Looking RPG product: when I look at the whole product, I think it is something like modern game master screens with the art over the whole width and sometimes great art on the inside. Especially the ones from DnD and the SR-GM screen.

Day 22 of #RPGaDay

Best secondhand purchase: That would be “The Security Handbook” for Shadowrun.

This book really helped me out back then to flesh out my runs and how to think about securing those corporation-buildings.

Day 21 of #RPGaDay

Favorite licensed RPG: Alien RPG is just awesome.

One of the best RPGs I’ve ever played.

Beware: When you buy books from HumbleBundle it can happen that those are only keys for Kobo. And those books are protected by Adobe DRM.

It just happened to me and now I need to figure out how I can get them onto my devices (please don´t try to help me; I will find a way). #fuckDRM

Day 20 of #RPGaDay:

Will still play in 20 years time:

Whatever my regular group plays. And I hope Shadowrun.

Insects might feel pain or joy. Very interesting article about it and it’s implications: Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain?

Day 19 of #RPGaDay

Favorite Published Adventure: Hope’s Last Day for Alien RPG

That is the adventure in the core rule book of Alien RPG. I ran it twice for different groups and both times it was awesome. It had a great atmosphere, the right length and I would run it again.

NixOS looks more and more interesting. But what I already dislike is how often I read how bad the documentation is and that googling is usually the way to go.

Why can’t there be a Linux-distribution with documentation like the BSDs?

Day 18 of #RPGaDay

Favorite game system: Powered by the Apocalypse

I love how it emphasizes telling a story together and makes this relatively easy.

For the people who wanted to be informed about a sustainability-report for smartphones: Greenpeace replied and wasn’t helpful unfortunately. For Germany they only linked to the list of Fair Trade-smartphones that are available here: utopia.de/bestenlis…

Day 17 of #RPGaDay

Funniest game you’ve played: that is definitely Paranoia.

I didn’t play it often but it was always a blast and so much to laugh.

Day 16 of #RPGaDay

Game you wished to own: the 2nd or 3rd English edition of KULT

I played it once and it was pretty awesome. I have the new version (as PDF) but I’d really like to have the old version.

More vacation. “Return to Monkey Island” in a day. That was fun 🤩

Day 15 of #RPGaDay

Favorite Con-module/one-shot: the next one!

Day 14 of #RPGaDay

Favorite convention purchase: the last convention I was at, was the first one where Inbought something. So this is easy: a used Civilization-board game

I still have to try it out though.

Day 13 of #RPGaDay

Most memorable character demise: we nearly made it and a spontaneous solo effort of a player lead to a TPK in the final session of the campaign. Nobody understands why he did it. If he would have done nothing, we would have been in the clear.

Day 12 of #RPGaDAY

Old game you still play: I play unfortunately rarely thus I play what I can. So most of the time it is DnD 5e and outside of this it is usually newer stuff like Shadowrun 6, Alien RPG or something Powered by the Apocalypse.

So no old games I play these days.

Real vacation. I am close to 4 books in 7 days.

I am seriously thinking about getting an Android-phone as my next phone (Fairphone 4 with e/OS) even though I am so invested in the Apple-eco system.

I’d really like to see what the level of sustainability of current iPhones is. The last report I found from Greenpeace was from 2017.