Cy_Borg is a dark cyberpunk fantasy game. About a dozen players rotate through in groups of 3-4 take on the chaos of the apocalypse every other week. This is the world/system synopsis that I’ll be providing to players next session. CyBorg Start of the world Meta Synopsis Miseries on a 1d3 Every in-game time dawn…
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TTRPG Meta Game Master Prep 1/6: Synopsis
I currently break my session prep into six categories. This is the first in a series of 6 posts about these six session prep categories. synopsis prepare a snapshot from the players view of what’s going on. this could be very detailed but doesn’t need to be for most games. for a one shot adventure…
Building up Success
It was sweet but now the jig is up. I was called out and rightly so. Who am I to spill all the beans and tell all the secrets. More importantly who are you, those who wish to know? Are you all worthy? Are you one of my players? GET OUT! Just Kidding. I also…
Morticians Session 0 Prep
This is my first pass at preparing a session 0 for a Mortician’s campaign at my LGS. Next week I will run through James D’Amato’s excellent book on Game Play to ensure I’m not missing too much major topics for my session 0. Mortician’s at DH Mortician’s at DH Table of Contents Session 0 <2024-05-12…
Map Wipe #1
Today’s the day to erase some maps and get ready for new maps This Map is from B1 In Search of the Unknown. It was drawn collaboratively at the table during play. Several different players all took part in creating this map from descriptive narration. I provided the narration, drew lines when we were short…
5e D&D Prep #1
Orvold’s Tower <2024-05-05 Sun> Orvold’s Tower <2024-05-05 Sun> Table of Contents first :: meta talk read the table rules explain rpgs as collaborative storytelling explain the time requirements of all players at the table meta gaming no-nos remember where your character is do not spill the beans about monsters explain that this is a good…
Cy_Borg Game Prep #1
<2024-05-05 Sun> <2024-05-05 Sun> Table of Contents synopsis players robbed a rws shipment of t&dv items players hijacked the recovery attempte players hosted a safety concert and murdered the leader of the vipers 6/7 miseries have occured with all these miseries district borders are locked down milcorp major deployment means random checks TODO update the…