Ah yes, my birthday party.

Ah yes, my birthday party.

Ah yes, my birthday party. Few other times of the year grant me the social capital required to force my non-gaming friends to play games with me.

On the docket I have Kaleidoscope (finally!) and Hobbit Tales. Any other easy to pick up story games you all might recommend? If there’s a time, DW or another PBTA game could be fun since they’re pretty intuitive.

14 thoughts on “Ah yes, my birthday party.”

  3. Dread and Final Girl are good, short RPGs with interesting enough gimmicks to get non-gamers interested. Dead of Night is another horror rpg good for one shots and a little more traditional in how it resolves things.

    For a really short RPG, I would recommend We Are Here to see the Evil Wizard Kormákur which is free on Bully Pulpit Games. It lasted about 40 minutes and did quite well for my group with varied levels of experience. You all have cards with actions on them for your normal and secret role, pick a player, pick an action each and narrate a scene combining the two.

    I’ve yet to play them but maybe Vast & Starlit, Spy-Fi or What is a Role-Playing Game by Epidiah Ravachol might be worth checking out.

  4. Dread and Final Girl are good, short RPGs with interesting enough gimmicks to get non-gamers interested. Dead of Night is another horror rpg good for one shots and a little more traditional in how it resolves things.

    For a really short RPG, I would recommend We Are Here to see the Evil Wizard Kormákur which is free on Bully Pulpit Games. It lasted about 40 minutes and did quite well for my group with varied levels of experience. You all have cards with actions on them for your normal and secret role, pick a player, pick an action each and narrate a scene combining the two.

    I’ve yet to play them but maybe Vast & Starlit, Spy-Fi or What is a Role-Playing Game by Epidiah Ravachol might be worth checking out.

  7. The Daughters of Verona  it sits somewhere halfway between RPG and party game. Play Shakespearean comedies with your friends. Highly flexible player count, and even pretty shy people can enjoy themselves by playing the audience (boo and cheer at the “stage” at the right time, which can be surprisingly enjoyable.)

     

    And the PCs are shared among the players, so someone from the sidelines can jump in at any time and become an actor.  So it is fine to start as a spectator, and when one understands how it works and becomes enthusiastic, join for real.

  8. The Daughters of Verona  it sits somewhere halfway between RPG and party game. Play Shakespearean comedies with your friends. Highly flexible player count, and even pretty shy people can enjoy themselves by playing the audience (boo and cheer at the “stage” at the right time, which can be surprisingly enjoyable.)

     

    And the PCs are shared among the players, so someone from the sidelines can jump in at any time and become an actor.  So it is fine to start as a spectator, and when one understands how it works and becomes enthusiastic, join for real.

  13. By the way, CYOA was perfect. We started in the Crypts of Death, skulking for macabre presents for our online girlfriend in Seattle, and then everything went sideways when my friend brought in the Juggalos. Shit got weird, y’all.

  14. By the way, CYOA was perfect. We started in the Crypts of Death, skulking for macabre presents for our online girlfriend in Seattle, and then everything went sideways when my friend brought in the Juggalos. Shit got weird, y’all.

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