RollPlay - Tales from the Loop GM Prep

Preparing to run the Tales from the Loop RollPlay one shot. Canada! Sci-fi! The 1980s!
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[@manvsbias4565]

"i think that bigfoot is blurry thats the problem. its not the photographers fault. bigfoot is blurry, and thats extra scary to me, cause theres a large out of focus monster roaming the country side" -mitch hedberg

[@steelebear]

Please bring another Tale from the Loop with that crew, that was great. Love the gameplay and cinematic style you all used. It was a joy to watch.

[@TheYojimbo06]

thanks for making this video. it's the only gm guide from tales from the loop that explains the game well

[@Cawktism]

my jaw dropped when I saw this! I love that guys art and they made an rpg around it!

[@housecaldwell]

Really fun listening to this after watching the playthrough and seeing what the framework was behind the magic.

[@staticsight]

This feels like a Sci-Fi version of the Goonies

[@gagrin1565]

Pincers of Power!

[@spellhaus]

Listening to this while cleaning my room. It's a good day.

[@zonegamma8197]

These game setup videos are helping a lot

[@AdamKoebel]

Glad to hear it!

[@CrazyConnor2]

This is the coolest fucking idea for a roleplaying game ever.

[@gorram]

This is one of the most infectiously enthusiastic videos I’ve watched of yours - so looking forward to watching the game play out!

[@alamos52]

So interesting watching this after 1st having watched their actual game. I have to say, I really enjoy how the plot actually developed. Well done Adam for rolling with it. I think what emerged during play was nicely boiled down.

[@zilles]

It's almost more entertaining to listen to you get excited about your ideas that it is to watch the actual game. :-)

[@FoxerBoxerNaaniwa]

Never before have I wanted a one-shot to turn into a full on show more than now. This system is perfect. It could be a kinda west-marches kinda thing. Where its a guest cast and everyone has there own character and it can be a monster/scenario a week kinda deal (not literally every week, its a genre name thing). Its just a really big group of kids, but only a couple of them a week can come together to solve mysteries. Oh my god, I want so badly for this to be a thing.

[@TheMainMane]

A west marches TftL would be amazing. Everyone's character is from the same region, probably go to the same school. Would be a really interesting game to be a part of!

[@seannelson8956]

Dude. Where did you go. We need your brilliance back.

[@MythrilZenith]

I've just been watching all the Being Everything Else episodes, and this video goes hand-in-hand perfect with the Genre & Inspiration one. Plus, I feel like now I've been trained to listen for the phrase "like this but that." So "Like stranger things, but the demogorgon is a good guy." Nailed it Adam!

[@MythrilZenith]

Just got time to finish watching this. Not sure how I feel about having the same last name as your bumbling officer... :P

[@ammo1317]

This is literally the script writing tool to Stranger Things

[@DrummClem]

Hey Adam. Thanks for your advice. I wanted to write my own Mysteries but I was struggling on the method... and yours is pretty fun. It seems a bit different to write a story for this kind of game (compared to traditional RPG or Star Wars for example), but that looks kind of interesting! Can't wait to try it and tell it :) Cheers !

[@jpettersson19]

I'm all about a late-90s cartoon where a Sasquatch starts going to normal people high school

[@laserbeastjr]

HAH, I'm from Boulder, CO!

[@Jareth0069]

Adams finds the best indie RPGs. Going to have to run this with my group

[@mikeharrison6039]

My archetype (and I remind you this wasn't that long ago) was I was a nerd but I was uncharacteristicly popular and charismatic for a nerd I even had a west marches style game with people in all different social groups of my school

[@neemneemnom]

The one thing that comes to my mind listening to this is "The Squatch teaches the Kids, 'The Birds and the Bees"

[@CrazyConnor2]

Adam you are enjoying this far too much XD

[@spoonlamp]

Just grabbed this as a free pdf from drivethru rpg, looking forward to running it

[@B4byl0ni4]

This sounds pretty awesome...!

[@JJR93]

I would love to set this game in Germany in the 1980s....it reminds me a lot of the German SF series "Dark"...

[@AdamKoebel]

making your own loop is super fun.

[@joakimhalstensen9604]

Dark is really great!

[@LoveBombMedia]

If you look immediatly to the south east of thunderbay. In that little lake superior strait. On Google maps, and you will see a true mystery. :) ;P

[@shaleyaregenherz]

Adam, have you looked at Coriolis, too, from the same publisher? Explicitly claims to be "Arabian Nights in space" inspired by a middle-eastern conception of the future rather than a western one. At least it says so in the Quickstart rules.

[@Afterdarkillustrations]

So, I know this is 4 years late, but I'm new to all this online RGP. What website are you using to bring up the die and the character sheet ?

[@mackingsly7792]

Sweden, represent! I really recommend anyone who never heard of this to look into Simon Stålenhags paintings! My top two things are art and tabletop RPGs, and I'm glad Adam's giving this one some exposition! EDIT: If there's some old-school Mutant:UA players out there that resonate with this, lemme know! ^_^

[@SirLucien]

I started to get a Teen Wolf vibe by the end of this Micheal J Fox would be proud

[@BlockMechanics]

Do you think its possible to play games of Codename: Kids Next Door with this? (Of course, the age of limitation would have to be 13)

[@LichyNyx]

I think that it would require for you to hack the game a bit to do that because you would not really be focusing much on anything but the action parts. The game seems to set a tone with it's rules and KND, while it's about kinds in fantastical situations, has vastly has a completely different tone from what I remember. You could probably hack it and remove the structure the game gives you, make it mostly about action with some elements of the mundane at small parts. Still, I have not tested the system so I am not an expert. Still, it might be one of the best games you could use to run a KND game with if you still like some deeper customisation. If you don't then Fate Accelerated is another amazing game that you can use and you can run more or less anything with it, but the "problem" with that game is that it's mostly just RP and not a lot of rolling dice. Last suggestion I have....is Blades. Blades in the Dark, if hacked, could be a great KND game. All one has to do I think, is create new crew and character sheets.

[@BlockMechanics]

Maybe not Blades, because that game also focuses on building up HQ, which would be silly because we never really see Sectors made, much less built up (outside of the Amish episode, and even then a whole treehouse was grown in an instant) I really need to get around and try FATE. Thanks for the thoughts anyway.

[@Nagytika]

the new cortex prime (being in late beta in ks and the Demon Hunters a Comedy of terror has the earlier version of it....basically it's a cortex-fate hack)

[@DuamnFigueroa]

"The Sasquatch is my daddy and he's going to protect... ME!"

[@JordonVirtue]

Always always always make the Weakerthans reference.

[@NEWYORKERZ360]

Song inspired by one of Stalenhags paintings on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/1FCSmjGSkqP4CYXgICvX3d

[@Metzok]

This is cool! How do you set up the game mechanics? You made a script yourself for rolls etc? Nevermind... found the sheet ;)

[@petervilla5221]

Dammit chat! Not a single Jack Link's for Sasquatch food? I'm disappointed in you.

[@asaskald]

Rocker.

[@dcap1]

Now that i'm craving this gameplay; when will the VoDs be posted?

[@MythrilZenith]

dominick Caputo VoDs are already starting to go up on itmeJP's youtube channel! Looks like 1 hour per day until it's done.

[@dcap1]

Awesome I noticed thanks I don't think the first was posted until after I had commented but yea iv watched the first two

[@montezuma0000]

Go Jets!!

[@CrazyConnor2]

33:03 Noooooes

[@gnarsick]

Who picks cherry trees late at night!?Especially an old man lol

[@CrazyConnor2]

23:25 Where is the option for "Complete loser?" XD

[@nightcrawler51]

Stupid question: What is the note taking software being used? I have my Evernote stuff sort of set up like that, but this looks different.

[@Nagytika]

i think that is the roll20 site itself