by YourLoveOnly

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The OOC note at the end of the first letter is because the game explicitly encourages you to make notes to yourself in a different style when your character deliberately omits or distorts the truth in letters back to their mentor.

This is a really neat mechanic!

I've been skimming all your entries as they popped up and loved what I glimpsed so far, so I look forward to finding the time to read through it all properly on my next day off 🙂 This one's theme is definitely up my alley and I look forward to giving it a go myself sometime. Some time back I started on a character for The Magical Year of a Teenage Witch which I enjoyed but never actually really ended up playing as I got sidetracked, but that one is also still on my to-play list.

by YourLoveOnly

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So I've clearly not been keeping up with things, but with someone mentioning it is back but this also saying Episode 1, I am guessing this is a new play with a new character? Does M10 mean it is your 10th character/playthrough already? 😮 Either way, this is a nice read, thanks for sharing it with us 😄

by YourLoveOnly

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I did not know this game and have been kinda MIA for a bit, but this game's premise looks really neat so I am gonna go back and read all your entries 😄 Thanks for sharing!

by YourLoveOnly

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If anyone actually wants to enter this, make sure to post before the end of the year! Which is VERY close 😮 Where is time going?!

by YourLoveOnly

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Gangof8 wrote:

I love theater of the mind as it's easy to setup an encounter, but I don't like what's lost with tactics. I'm also a very visual person (but I prefer theater of the mind? Hmm) so this grid gives me the best of both worlds.

I think that's a very clever way of going about it! I got the Hexcrawl Toolbox two or three years ago which I found very helpful when visualizing but also a fun randomizer when exploring. Sure, I can use a random table or oracle to determine biome etc but there is just something so satisfying about flipping over actual hexes to reveal stuff 😄

by lageekpolis

hey hey, has anyone beaten a game with genre 'tower defense' and/or 'rhythm' and/or 'run-and-gun' 🙂 we only have these three left for 2025 to have played all genres 😄 thanks!! link here to register: https://videogamegeek.com/geeklist/348158/2025-vgg-multi-gen...

by BG05

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Congratulations!!

by pdzoch

The one that sticks out the most in my mind (and oddly appropriate for this time of year) was a certain rule entry about Insanity in the original WEG Paranoia game. I think it was the first line, but it may have been later. "Don't you believe insanity clause?" The whole rulebook was full of wit.

by chadm

joey223 wrote:

trying to introduce it to a non-gaming group.

No, breaking it up would not be good for this game. So much is about getting into the real-time texting headspace.

Perhaps you have an impression that this is a long game?
The total playtime is a little over two hours. I think if you cannot get people together for that time period, this may not be the right game for your group.

by YourLoveOnly

It's been a crazy busy month, like I imagine it has been for most of you, but all the activity here has been awesome. I hope you all had a good Christmas/holiday season so far and I wish everyone a very happy and hopefully also very healthy 2026 ❤️ Thank you for being one of the best places on the Geek and the internet that I know of 😄

I'll try to get some of my own plays posted before the year ends, but I also realized I didn't actually post anything to the 2025 RPG Character Creation Challenge this year so I need to post 31 more entries to earn my badge XD Oopsie! I totally thought I'd done 10 in January already, but that was 2024 O_o Did I mention this postcovid thing is not good for your focus? 😛 Geez, I really do feel like I've missed a large part of this year somehow... Here's to a healthier 2026!

by papiklfish

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Happy birthday, Sören! 🎉

by Pentaclebreaker

Karkared wrote:

Pentaclebreaker wrote:

The description of the use of the included mask in the very first Das Schwarze Auge (DSA) (1st Edition) box 😉

Even for a teenage person at the first years of the 80ies it was totally ridiculous 😉

Please do share, even approx.

Very loose translation from my memory 🙂

"To keep the identity of the game-master a secret use the enclosed mask."

It was the peak of nonsense . . . I know, that game ads often use grown-ups for children's games to give the games a touch of seriousness . . . I don't know what the designers of DSA had in mind with this 🙂and the mask was a simple cardboard halfmask with a rubber-band 😀

Ciao

Martin