UK software engineer, tabletop gamer, painter of miniatures, LARPer, and hacker of things. he/him. AKA David Dorward🔸
@INeedMana Choose Your Own Adventure is a style of solo game book where you get prompted to make decisions where each choice tells you to go to a different numbered paragraph to find out the consequces.
The Fighting Fantasy series mixed things up with a very simple D&D-style character sheet and added combat and skill checks.
Troika’s system is built on those mechanics, but it is a GMed game by default.
@mr_noxx Thanks! I need to crack on with it. Life has been a bit busy of late.
I am starting out by playtesting my capital ship rules which, to avoid having to build 40% of the rest of the game, I am reskinning in the style of Spelljammer to use with the regular Daggerheart rules.
@mr_noxx Many things made it vibe with what I wanted to do, but the top 2:
I ♥️ the core dice mechanic. It has a bell curve with a +/-vs side effect using standard D12s (I 💕 D12s). It is like the Yes But you find in PbtA but more relaxed about possible outcomes.
It arranges special abilities so that classes have access to two overlapping sets, which really lends itself to building a commercial and security telepath classes which share Teep powers but get either Diplomacy or Combat.
@mr_noxx I’m slowly rewritting Babylon 5 as a Daggerheart hack…
@Ziggurat I’m with you on the closeness of narrative games and OSR.
I see them both as (in part) reactions to the heavily combat focused mechanics of D&D ≥ 3.
I think the difference is that narrative games tend to include lots of mechanics that decid how good an outcome is while OSR puts the duty on the GM to weigh the factors at hand and judge the outcome (and goes back to slightly crunchier mechanics for combat).
@jjjalljs So very true. I had to invest far too much of my time listening to that before I discovered it was a “scheduling is hard” video and not the “D&D is designed for n players” video that its title led me to believe it was.
@rayquetzalcoatl You mean this?
That isn’t out for about another six months. It got an early preview on WarCom because someone leaked potatocam photos of it.
@INeedMana No. Troika uses the D&Desque dice rolling mechanics from FF, not the CYOA solo gamebook play.