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Durf


Durf is a small game I will often play with people who have never played TTRPGs before and ask me to run something for them. It's very simple to play, and free to download.
My favorite part of this game has to be it's non-deterministic health system, where whenever you take damage you roll your hit dice to see if it kills you or not. It's very risky and fun.
Find it here!


Delta Green


In Delta Green you play a field operative for a secret government organization that is tasked with ensuring weird abberant eldritch forces do not cause problems for society.
Think SCP, or like Call of Cthulhu if it was set in the modern day. Switch between arguing with your family and doing a boring day job to ravaging your psyche as you fight alien creatures from beyond reality.
Find it here!


Nobilis

Nobilis is a game where you play as a god, representing a concept of reality. It's fun if you like social role playing and strange cosmological worldbuilding.
It's a diceless system, where everything is dependant on your number being higher than your enemy's. It's quite complex, but also very fun, and there are a lot of resources out there to make the learning curve easier.

Some Resources:
Nobilis Character, Chancel, and Imperator Sheets
"So You've Been EnNobled", A handy guide for new Nobilis.


BUCKET LIST

Games I want to play but have not yet had the oppurtunity.



MY CHARACTERS

My weirdo freaks I have piloted around in previous games I've played. I mostly GM for games, so this list is rather short. I hope to expand it in future! I'm not including characters from one shots that list would go on forever lol

Viktor Moritov

From D&D 5e
Viktor Moritov, the Gnome Rogue, spends most of his days roaming the lands, stealing medical supplies, and violently mending the wounds of any who come in his way. People who have known Viktor tell tales of how he once surgically removed all of a man's body parts until he was just a skeleton, but did this without killing him, leading to history's first non-undead skeleton. He lost his medical liscence because of this stunt, obviously. It also turns out that Viktor's unnatural medical ability comes from the fact he has ancestors from the Far Plane! Wow! That explains a lot about this weirdo freak, actually.

John Flame, of the Eternal Flame

From Scavengers (a system my friend made)
The hastily named John Flame was created as a playtest character for a game my friend made. I created John Flame initially as a joke character, as a Mage character who did not focus on spells and instead only used martial attacks. Surpisingly, John Flame was one of the most effective fighters in the party, as he was able to be an effective combatant both in melee and in range, something players in scavengers are not meant to do. I think they changed the rules so that characters like John Flame can't exist anymore, but he'll always have a place in my heart as a joke character that lived too long. He equips every magic item he finds no matter what, leading to him wearing two different boots on each foot and two different gauntlets on each hand. What a legend.

Daryl Stevenson (RIP)

From Delta Green
Daryl Stevenson was a paramedic from Texas. He was divorced, and lived alone with his dog. His best friends were his dog and the old woman who serves him coffee at the nearby gas station diner. He was a member of Delta Green, and was called in to a mission to figure out a series of engimatic disappearances in a small town in Georgia. After bearing witness to the Yellow Symbol, he went mad, eventually leading to him being shot and killed. Nobody came to his funeral. Probably the most depressing character I've ever played.

Yvia (RIP)

From Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Yvia was a cleric who worships Bastet, god of cats. "Oh, so like a cute catgirl cleric?" No, not quite. Yvia could be found lurking about the dark and dingy alleyways of her city, eating out of garbage cans and falling asleep in piles of dirt. She is filthy no matter the circumstance, and wears nothing but scraps of hide. She mostly subsisted on rats she caught out of the sewers. On one adventure, she encountered a type of enemy called a Cat God, and, thinking him to be an insult to her god, took it upon herself to to anything in her power to kill him. She pushed him off the roof of his tower and into a pit where he was devoured by ten thousand rats. This lead her to instantly level up four times. In the end, she died to a wizard's disintegration spell. Good times.

Pipes, who was once known as Leah Armstrong

From Nobilis
A human called Leah got turned into Pipes one day. And I don't mean their physical form was changed to be composed of pipes, I mean they literally became every pipe in existance, both abstract and material. EnNobled by the Imperator of Movement, Pipes spent the first years of their Noblehood fighting against the Dominus of Waterborn Illness, who was trying to keep New York City from updating its water infrastructure. They eventually came to an agreement with Waterborn Illness where the pipes would be fixed, but would be made out of a material that could cause waterborn illnesses. Nobilis is a fucking crazy game.

Derek Knight

From Vampire the Masquerade
Before embrace, Derek was a loser intern working for the Pentex corporation. His boss, thinking him a upstanding employee, turned him into a vampire, a member of the Ventrue. Derek Knight is a real piece of shit. I think he tried to betray his fellow kindred like at least three times to save his own skin. Truth is, he was always, and always will be, only in it for himself. Eventually he got in hot water with the Prince of Ottawa, which led to an epic battle. He would've probably died too if it wasn't for his Brujah friend employee doing all the work. He likes to eat old people. I don't think I've ever had a character I played I wish had died more than Derek Knight. But unfortunately for us all, Derek is never punished. Alas.

Wisp

From BLOODY CAPES (a system I playtested)
Wisp had a childhood so bad they gained the power to turn into a cloud of mist. They are now employed by the TRA, a group who keeps order and stops super-powered teenagers from fucking over the world economy too bad, among other things probably. Wisp never really paid attention during training. Wisp just kinda floats around (often literally) and does what they're told, at least some of the time. They fought against a bunch of norwegian psychic terrorists who were trying to kill a bunch of superheroes by tricking a very powerful gay blood-drinking kid. There was a fake bioweapon, a high-tech hockey type supervillain, and some sort of robot person? Also there was the blue pill from the matrix which is epic. In the end Wisp ended up getting betrayed by their best friend and trapped in an Otome game, which then lead to them being taken prisoner by the Icelandic government. I don't think I've played a game this wacky since Nobilis, and I hope to play it again.



MY LIBRARY

(not including D&D books lol fuck that)
  1. Fate System
  2. Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
  3. Fiasco
  4. Ironsworn: Starforged
  5. Centurion
  6. Masks: A New Generation
  7. Dungeon World
  8. Urban Shadows
  9. Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
  10. Marvel: Heroic Roleplaying
  11. True20 Adventure Roleplaying: Revised Edition
  12. Cyberpunk Red
  13. Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game (Quickstart)
  14. Pathfinder Core Rulebook
  15. Pathfinder 2e GM Core & Player Core
  16. Warhammer 40k Roleplay: Dark Heresy
  17. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
  18. Mutants & Masterminds
  19. Star Trek Adventures: The Roleplaying Game
  20. Shadows of Cthulhu
  21. Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition
  22. Starblazer Adventures
  23. Silver Age Sentinels
Other physical books that I know I have somewhere but couldn't find in my remarkably unsorted and structurally dubious Book Cave:
In the future, I'd like to write a bit on my experience with each of these games.

Physical books I am very must hoping to one day obtain: