Topping Tables

  Yesterday I finished the last assignment for my summer class and announced the theatre season that I've spent the last four months working on, so I've decided that this weekend I'm taking a goddamn vacation and getting some me time. I got up at 9 AM to throw a new recipe in the slow cooker, and while I was hanging around between steps of cooking I decided to read another RPG for review, and I'd made a promise that my next post would be about Prawn, a LARP set in a fishtank and played in a pool. So this morning I made my way through the forty-odd page PDF for this system. What a weird fucking game.  Okay, I should add some context: I have zero experience with LARPs (never read or played one), so a lot of my comments and things I find surprising in here are probably just part of the genre in general. LARP fans, don't @ me, I'm sure you guys have lots of fun. The premise is basically this: the player characters are various (edible) aquatic creatures living in the...

Ever since I heard the Film Reroll episodes where they played through Ocean's 11, I'd been obsessing over the idea of running my players through that same movie heist. Legitimately one of my favorite things about any TTRPG campaign  getting really deep in the paint and making elaborate plans (I still have pictures from a storm-the-palace session from my high school D&D campaign where the players actually commandeered my whiteboard to write out their whole attack strategy), which is something that our usual system, Blades in the Dark, completely glosses over (intentionally and defensibly, to be sure, but this isn't a Blades post so I'm not going to get into it).  When I found out that Paulo had published all the NPC descriptions he made on the Film Reroll Patreon, I became hellbent on the idea of running the heist for real, and my players (very graciously) indulged me and agreed to play.  And you know what? It was a goofy good time. Here were some of the things that...