RPG Deep Dive: Bunkers & Badasses

 The RPG Deep Dive

I am now starting up a new series on a particular Discord community. I am taking non-mainstream TTRPG games and taking four sessions to learn and explore them. The community on the discord is jumping in with me and we are doing the following:

• Session 1: Lore and character creation
• Session 2: Combat and game mechanics
• Session 3: Session zero (prep for the one-shot)
• Session 4: One-shot led by me usually

The purpose of this is to allow me to actually play the many TTRPG games I have collected (and continue collecting). It also allows the community to try out games they otherwise would never have heard of. 

Bunkers & Badasses

The first TTRPG for this series is Bunkers & Badasses! This is the rpg that was inspired by the videogame Borderlands, and the DLC "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep." The lore is super fluid as it is a parody of fantasy TTRPGs allowing you to create pretty much whatever experience you want.. as long as you include guns! It brings in all the crazy antics of the Borderlands with a fun fantasy spin.

For the first session, we just went through the lore (not much there) and did some fun character creation. We had 2 other people including myself, and we went through creating characters using the tables in the book. Normally the players have some choice over backgrounds, but since I was the only one with the book we did pure dice rolls. Each had a different character and class which was fun to show off. You can watch/listen to the recording here: 

Note!! I am a novice when it comes to recording so the video is almost no help when following along. Feel free to listen more than you watch. I hope to have a better result next time.

That was the first dive into Bunkers & Badasses! I am excited for what the future will bring with this series so stay tuned!

Streaming and Gameplay Videos: Trial of Dawnfall

So I am starting to make game-play videos for YouTube as well as streaming games on twitch. Now these are only digital versions of the tabletop games I play so I will still be focusing on the tabletop. The digital medium is a convenient way to create content especially when I have no one around at the time. 

This video is our initial trial in preparation of doing regular streams and videos of The Edge: Dawnfall. It is unedited and originally was not planned to be posted but we decided to do so anyway as to provide some actual game-play to people who are interested in the game. I will be adding music in the background of future videos and try to be a bit more polished in general :P 

He I am playing as the Faceless vs the mod creator, Ken and his Reborn. The reborn are the druid-type faction that like to play with special terrain tokens they create. These allow them to block off area and make them hazardous for opponents. Ken failed to really make use of them here which is due to inexperience in general. The Faceless are a faction of cheap meat that you use to "evolve" your bigger units. Let me know how you think the game looks and any feedback for improving video or streaming quality is welcome!

In future updates I will be providing a breakdown of each faction and my opinions of models and cards. The next update will be covering a new deck for L5R so stay tuned!