Gaming Plans for 2022

The Avatar TTRPG should be released next year and I backed it at the highest level, so I really want to try that out when it's released.

Other than that, I have a couple of tabletop skirmish wargames that I would like to try running this next year (Gaslands, Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse, Rangers of Shadow Deep), but those I think won't translate well through PbP.

It's a bit awkward but you could, after figuring out how many of each token you have, assign them to a die roll. If you have 3 light and 2 dark, then you roll a D5, with 1 and 2 being bad and 3 to 5 being good. If you draw a light one and decide to draw again, you roll a D4 where 1 and 2 are bad and 3 and 4 are good

I'm keen to run an Italian RPG I discovered recently, called "Not the End." It's a fascinating system that leans heavily into player participation in the narrative. Think FFG's Star Wars/Genesys system, but stripped down to rules minima. Essentially, you create a completely unique character who has an Archetype, 3 Traits, and 3 Abilities (you get more as the game progresses). If you face a test, you determine which of those things would help you beat the challenge, the GM tells you how hard it is (1–4), and you put a bunch of tokens into a bag (light colored for your traits, dark colored for the difficulty). You draw as many tokens as you would like in a single draw. If you get at least one light token, you succeed. Further light tokens give you added boons that you decide. Dark tokens mean bad side effects happen, which the GM decides.

It would require some doing to figure out how to do token draws on Gamers Plane, as it's not easily replicable via dice. But I really love the back-and-forth of FFG's systems, so I'm eager to try something that strips that concept down to its essence.

I (co)wrote that! Should you need any advice on running it (although I haven't much experience in PbP) I'm here.

Oh, wow! Please run a game here! :) We can figure out how to do the token draws (or beg the devs to implement something...) :D

Man... I really think something like Rangers of Shadowdeep could work in pbp. Pretty well even.

Possibly the furthest back burner I have is allocated for making a digital map for each of the default Scenarios in the core book. Because once you have that? The system is actually really simple, and you could just play and do movement on a grid(or hex)-basis instead of "freeform" measuring inch for inch, and I think it would play just fine. The system doesn't care about facing, no WYSIWYG, it utilizes Skill checks/more than combat...

And RoSD is story-oriented enough that I think it'd still be fun and still have plenty of room for rp in pbp...

But... that is WAY back on the burners unfortunately...