Half Minotaur Farmer

Released in 2022, Fabula Ultima is a game by Emanuele Galletto. Unabashedly calling itself TTJRPG, it is highly inspired by Japanese-style console RPGs, where young heroes-in-the-making may reluctantly save a village farm from angry wolves to penultimately fighting primordial gods and time goddesses while handling political drama of squabbling nations for world domination. Typical JRPG storyline. Unlike the games I've reviewed so far, listed as part of the character creation process is the World creation and Group creation process. And they have random tables for these! We'll have a swing at it, just to get the vibes and aesthetic of the world our future hero will help save or doom. I'll skip any steps that involves making specificity, like drawing maps and naming nations, unless it is pivotal to the character creation step. We'll then think of an archetype that suites the world and group we've made. See  Cooking Characters Primer  for more details about archetypes....

RAD by Hipólita definitely caught my eye as a Mausritter-inspired post-nuclear sovietica OSR-style adventure game. Bullets, mutations, community building, and resource management are promised in the game's description, and I am all for it. I got a copy of it from the Ind of the Year 2023 itch bundle . You can check the book here . There is no definitive version number in the book, so for documentation's sake, version I'll use is from Jan 2024 download I've made. And as of writing this, there seems to be no new update. Putting a naive but curious character would be fun in a post-apocalypse survival game, so we'll take note of [Dimasilaw] archetype when making the character. See  Cooking Characters Primer  for more details about archetypes. So let's dive in and make our post-nuclear explorer! kill fascists and look cool doing it Step 1. Roll 3d6 for each of the main stat , keeping the two highest die result as the score. If the total value of all stats is less tha...