In September, I wrote 5 blog posts in a week to try and get more thoughts out there. It was great! I’m going to do the same thing this week, not my best idea since I’m quite busy and already tired, but I gotta make time for this.
I cross-posted a few of my posts on https://ludicrpg.com. It’s a website started by a very good friend of mine, Ludo, with whom I play a lot of TTRPGs.
I played in a lot of games DM’d by Ludo, but the biggest ones are Cops, “Pavillon Noir” (Black Flag), and Alien. And I’ve DM’d a few sessions of Warhammer, Witcher, and Wild Imaginary West with Ludo as a player. Both of us love taking things to the next level, especially concerning TTRPGs.
I’ve built a small website to mimic the intranet used by my character in Cops that you can find here (not up to date). He built multiple apps, including an amazing motion-tracker for a single weekend of Alien.
Ludo created hundreds of NPCs for Cops, with pictures that we can use to put them on a board during our investigations, custom cards for bullets and initiatives/postures to bring more physical elements to the game. I’ve made too many props for an 18-person Murder Mystery Party, drawn full maps on stained paper for RPGs, wrote backstories for players, or my own characters adventures.
And together, we made S.I.X. for 6 players, 2 DMs, 2 tables, over a full weekend. I didn’t share anything about S.I.X. on my blog yet, which is a shame because it was an amazing experience and we learned a lot about running this kind of game that we’ll use for our next games. In short, it was two different rule systems, players switching from one table to the other to influence different parts of the story, 5 maps printed on A0, 1 app for each player on one table, a back office for the DMs, and another app for all players on the second table. It was a lot. It was great.
So Ludo invited me to join in on ludic to also share the experiments I’m doing in TTRPGs and keep building things together.
Right now we’re each working on different things. Ludo is overhauling “Pavillon Noir”(Black flag), cleaning up the rules, making DM and player help cards, etc… to prepare a new regular table where I’ll have the pleasure to play Diane again, probably my favorite RPG character.
On my side, I’m still working on my West March Wild Imaginary West world, I’ve played the first few sessions, and created the characters of the next batch of players. It’s now time to start the work on the companion website for this game!
On both subjects, we’re exchanging a lot of ideas, and I think it’s going to lead to some very great TTRPG games! We also started brainstorming the next big game we want to co-DM with ~6 or so players. We’ve already got some interesting ideas, but that’d deserve another blog post.
I can’t wait to share more of this on here (and on there too now!). See you soon!