A session of Praxis: Of the Flesh with Denmotherplays!

Was very happy to have been invited to help Denma and friends play jim pinto's PRAXIS: OF THE FLESH, which is an incredible game system with a very different approach to tabletop roleplaying games. Thank you for having me!

Watch the entire episode here:
 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1606271253

Stay updated with Denma, here:
https://twitter.com/denmotherplays

And learn more about Praxis: Of the Flesh here:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193522/Praxis-Of-the-Flesh

We played THE BLACK MONK

 The Black Monk

Had a fantastic game session with Den Mother Plays, Titus, and Lanz.
We had a tale of friendship, of deception, of transformative fire, and of hunger.  Such a wonderful experience and was so happy to have this chance to introduce the game system to more people.  The Praxis system is such a well-done engine that empowers people to tell stories.  Few rpgs are as story-focused and narrative-empowering as this.
Watch the Stream here!

Grab the game today!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193523/Praxis-The-Black-Monk

12 New Games for 2020 - first update

Now that is 2020, it is time for a new set of 12 new games to try playing in or running.  I greatly encourage others who want to become prolific designers to embrace a similar mindset towards games and playing games. Unless you broaden your horizons and experiences, you might be doomed to limit yourself to a large extent in your potential designs.

For this year, however, things are starting slow:

1) Praxis: Black Sun - Sunrise End

Our first new game for the year was a session of Black Monk, Sunrise End. For this game, I got to play it with Thomas and his friends. It was a cool introspective exploration on the meaning of worship and the reasons one would ever choose to bow before a foreign power. 

I'm hoping to be able to try other games this year, including Trinity Continuum, Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne, The Expanse RPG, and maybe even Continuum!

Five Inspirations for King of Storms

Memes

The Invisibles


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The Cloud Atlas

Elliot and Margo from The Magicians



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Easter from American Gods

2019 April : TAG Bites : Praxis, The King of Storms

Had a spectacular session of jim pinto's praxis game, King of Storms! Players for today's session included Titus as the Troll King, Bianca as the Iron Widow, Reyo as the Scion of the East, and Sophia supposedly as the Child of the Sea, but I messed up and forgot to print it out, so she ended up becoming the Prince of the Dead. This left me playing the Heir to the Sun.

We opted to have the game set in the modern day, giving it a fantastic American Gods feel with us gathering at some New York sky deck bar whenever we wanted to discuss godly things. The One King was dying and we all knew one of us was bound to become the new One King. Secret god-babies, information wars, and secret dealings with the Crones lead to the Prince of the Dead sacrificing her own daughter and the son of the Troll King and the Iron Widow to force me, the Heir of the Sun, to take her place and allow her to ascend to the One King's throne.

It was a blast, with us using all three Story Milestones, as well as a Plot Twist, and a Finale. The Troll King had a final valiant attempt to kill the Prince of the Dead, turned One King, but even the bullets from the people he had empowered were barely able to hurt her. With a gesture, the Heir of the Sun turned Prince of Dead then killed the Troll King. He did not find himself in the realm of the dead, however The Troll King felt pulled to a higher plane and there plots for his eventual revenge.

I will confess that in this game, I had a FANTASTIC time playing the Heir of the Sun with his abuse of libations and his impossible expectations from others. Given the world building also had us declare him and the Iron Widow as besties, we ended up patterning their relationship to that of Elliot and Margo from the fun show, Magicians.

tagbites 2017: July Offerings

July 2017 tagbites offerings

For this month of July, we have the following tagbites offerings:

jim pinto's Praxis:
The Black Monk

In The Black Monk, the characters are people living in a desolate, but vibrant world where time seems to have lost meaning. Living for decades, perhaps longer, in isolation from others, the people of Elysia toil in work, only to be visited once a year by the Black Monk.

In between these visits, their lives are interrupted by sometimes trivial and other times confusing events. Everything seems to fit together like an elongated jigsaw puzzle, but no one can see the starter pieces stretching across the horizon.

But they don’t complain. There is always more work. The village needs workers.

Then one evening, the sun stayed in the sky all day. When there should have been night, the sun remained. And now it feels as though it’s been years since the Black Monk came. But perhaps it was yesterday. Nothing is right…

Is that blood?

Praxis is a series of story roleplaying games that thrusts characters into dramatic situations and is based on the principles of the Protocol game system. Each game uses the same set of rules, with vastly different parameters, start-points, roles, plot twists, and finales. Praxis does not play like a traditional roleplaying game. It does not require a gamemaster. There is no script. No endpoint. No cumbersome or extraneous mechanics detracting from the story. An entire epic can be played in under four hours.

I had the luck of playing The Black Monk with the very author of the game while I was at Gamex 2017 in Los Angeles. The game was wonderfully surreal and combined dark fantasy with moments of horror and dread. The game reminded me of the works of Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker and I highly recommend it for those who want to add a new GMless game to their list of game experiences.

Grab this game at drivethrurpg.

John Wick Presents
7th Sea 2nd edition

7th Sea is a tabletop role-playing game of swashbuckling and intrigue, exploration and adventure, taking place on the continent of Théah, a land of magic and mystery inspired by our own Europe.

Players take on the roles of heroes thrown into global conspiracies and sinister plots, exploring ancient ruins of a race long vanished and protecting the rightful kings and queens of Théah from murderous villains. It is a world of sharp blades and sharp wits, where a cutting retort can be just as deadly as a sword’s point.

Learn more about 7th Sea here.
Grab this game at drivethrurpg.

I am a huge fan of the new 7th Sea game, and having also contributed to the Pirate Nations book of the gameline, I will probably be accused of being somewhat biased towards the system. But admittedly, I love how the game approaches shared Narrative Control, and I really enjoy the flavors the different Nations offers to the player. I highly recommend this for those who are used to the traditional RPG approach and want to open their horizons to something somewhat less traditional in its approach.  I mean, come on, in this game, the players very RARELY fail at anything.  (Unless they choose to).

If you are interested in trying either (or both) of these games, be sure to mention your interest in the tagbites Facebook Post for July.  If you have any other questions on tagbites, check out the faq which can be found here.