You know I have a blog? Almost forgot it myself. Finally had something to post there again. Its about Conan stuff.
#Conan #FKR #Hyborian #swordsorcery
https://trollbones.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-to-make-god-of-hyborian-age.html
@Taskerland Nice. I’m not really surprised given the similarities. I feel like I was playing #fkr decades before it became a thing. But I’m glad I stumbled across it, because it encouraged me to double down on the on a way I really wanted to play.
Hmm... Read a piece on #FKR and surveyed a number of 'systems' produced under that remit and noticed that the somewhat homebrewed version of #cairn that I run is basically #FKR with three stats and HP.
1. Roll your three stats. Assign at will.
2. Roll the HP.
3. Select an abandoned apprenticeship.
4. Determine a trait (positive)
5. Determine a trait (negative)
6. Roll social connection to world.
7. Gear.
The Into the Odd lineage of #NSR games really are the last stop before FKRtown.
@DocRotwang Welcome!
Always good to find your new #ttrpg vibe.
I’ve found play similar to #fkr scratches my simulationist itch without the rules overhead.
"In the world of Sword & Backpack you are a young explorer just beginning a career of high adventure in a fantastic and dangerous land. You live in a vast kingdom of boundless and supernatural wonder, of busy cities and sleepy villages, of gloomy dungeons and haunted ruins..."
I continue to refine my experience with Sword and Backpack....plus there is a hint at what's to come.
https://flintlocksandwitchery.blogspot.com/2024/09/orthodox-sword-backpack-part-deux.html?m=1
"Why don't you fuck off and play #FKR?' is actually a really interesting question and I would answer that - one caveat aside - I kind of already do...
The caveat is that while I - as a GM - am comfortable with that level of abstraction, I recognise that players often benefit from having their characters be a bit more grounded.
I play Into the Odd, Cairn, and Liminal Horror because they're asymptotically close to FKR but provide a minimal amount of player-side grounding #NSR #osr
@ruralgloom I wouldn't use Risus, why bother?, but I've run my SIX WORD RPG ("Describe characters. Roll dice. Gamemaster decides.") quite a lot. Often I'll write a few spot rules as we go, or have some game book on the table for lists of stuff. There's a lot of FKR (Free Kriegspiel Revival) "games" like that, too.
Works fine if you have players who engage with the world, not systems, and are willing to write and think about their characters.
#rpg #ttrpg #fkr #sixwordrpg
Where I talk about and review the infamous Swords & Six-Siders. 1d6 old school gaming that evolved out of house rules for Tunnels and Trolls.
https://flintlocksandwitchery.blogspot.com/2024/03/review-swords-and-six-siders.html?m=1
#ttrpg
#NSR
#osr
#fkr
#dungeonsAndDragons
#swordsandsixsiders
Where I introduce my newest project that is in the world, "Secrets of Arn."
This ambitious project is designed to capture how Blackmoor was and continues to played, honors the high trust environment, and turns a game into an experience. Plus, you get a sneak peak at the cover art!
https://flintlocksandwitchery.blogspot.com/2024/03/secrets-of-arn.html?m=1
The time has come! Arsenic & Old Lace has been set free! This game is set during the age of sail (mid 15th century through the mid 20th century) with a dash of supernatural and mythos and a backdrop of the English Civil War (or any way during that time really).
It is inspired by Sword and Backpack and includes the ye olde invisible rulebook to assist the Storytellers with consistency and fairness.
https://jamesthook.itch.io/arsenic-old-lace
#ttrpg
#fkr
#osr
#swordandbackpack
#ageofsail
#pirates
#cthulhu
My system-agnostic task resolution system— x-in-6 meets a dice pool— is live on itch: https://hexedpress.itch.io/do-anything-d6
#osr #nsr #fkr #ttrpg
@zozo @harperrob I was mucking around with no-HUD D&D3 and Unknown Armies back in the day, but I actually came to #fkr from trying to hack PbtA to be more flexible. It’s cool to find likeminded people when you are doing something on the fringe. I don’t see this tiny community taking itself too seriously and they laugh at themselves a lot. But it’s so very obscure I’m buggered if I know why anyone would bother to write up why they think it sucks.
1/2 Trying to summarize #FKR (what I call #OARP) for purposes of an introductory document is surprisingly slippery. The problem is you have to address all these assumptions about how role-playing works that readers will project into the explanation. So I'm spending more words explaining what it *isn't* than on what it *is*.
Had to look up #FKR hard to tell how it is different than (or maybe it's just a part of) #OSR but maybe there's just too much baggage with the latter in socal media.
I love narrative based story style games
The thing that I found contributes the most to the narrative nature of play is a drama mechanic. That is. A tool where the players have some veto power over their fortune. Drama, Hero points, Bennies, Possibilities, inspiration, xp in some games all lend to player control.
In our local #ttrpg community there was a real nice, maybe even exceptional discussion on different types or movements of ttrpgs there are.
The tone of the discussion was curious and non-confrontational. We were mostly comparing the #fkr and #storygames movements / styles and contrasting them.
I was not familiar with #fkr before, so I got an introduction on them. And an option to join a oneshot game, which I took on immediately.
And I got another idea from that discussion as well /cont
In an effort to make sure Sword and Backpack does not succumb to the sands of time, behold the Powered By Sword and Backpack call to arms!
#ttrpg
#fkr
#osr
#NSR
#swordandbackpack
#gamejam
#gamejams
https://flintlocksandwitchery.blogspot.com/2023/10/powered-by-sword-and-backpack.html?m=1
I think this is due to there being an #FKR discord which, though undiscoverable, serves as a hub and clearing-house so all you ever see is blog-posts that draw on ideas and conversations that are invisible to outsiders. I suspect this is where all online niche interest is headed - Dark Forest Theory of the Internet and all... https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1
Occasionally, my groaning RSS feed-reader will spit out a piece about #FKR and I get excited. Not just because I think that's where I have been headed all along but also because trying to find out about FKR is a bit like Neo trying to find out about the Matrix in the first film. It's all allusions to ideas that seem settled and then you click the link and it leads to a half-finished systemless critical hit table.
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