John R Davis
Hero
I like Houses of the Bloodied. Have played/ran excellent Dune and GOT hacks.
It's doubly frustrating with stuff like crits.This probably appears in more than one game, but I've always thought it's weird when a game gives you three chances to miss your opponent:
1) Fail a roll against your own skill.
2) Fail to beat your opponent's defense.
3) Roll a trivial amount of damage / opponent reduces your damage to zero.
Not so much weird once one considers that it postdates a whole raft of playing-the-monsters games - Monsters Monsters! (1981), VTM (1990?), WTA, CTD, WTO, Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic, and many more that almost no one has heard of.Getting back to the topic, does the PbtA game Monster Hearts count as weird? If playing an emo high school kid who is also a monster (possibly both figuratively and literally), then this game is for you.
I noticed this one in the game store Tuesday. Do you think it would work on discord (text only), perhaps with a bot to handle the timed events?Alice is Missing. In this game, after explaining the rules and completing the setup, nobody is allowed to speak. The game is played completely by text message with certain events taking place at specific set times. It can be a pretty moving experience (which is what the writer was going for, it seems) but doesn't have to be. While the events unfold differently each time you play, I don't find it that replayable. Worth playing with the right group.
The first time I played it, the DM ran it on Discord and it worked great. I ran it by buying the Roll20 version, but I still used Discord for the chats. One advantage of running it online is that you can just turn off voice after the instructions and setup. In person can be more intense but only if the group buys into it and can keep themselves from talking.I noticed this one in the game store Tuesday. Do you think it would work on discord (text only), perhaps with a bot to handle the timed events?