How the Japanese play TTRPGs 

this is really neat. I love learning about other cultures and, and how the people in said culture do the things I love.

CoC has a lot of one-shots so it can work as a nice afternoon type of game.

Interesting context, yeah it might help to get that sort of information up front. Like I can imagine having dragons in the background of Ryuutama but it would feel weird to give them too prominent a role, but that would be how I try to approach things now. Before I'd emerged from the more entertainer side of things, which was a lot more work if I'm honest with myself. Now I'm curious about what sorts of games tend to skew less "entertainer" style in Japan. Other games have a sort of player-centric get out of jail system, like fate points, so maybe it could be a sort of powerful-creature style to that and might be more relatable, either as a bad choice second chance, or mitigation on dice roll randomness And yeah, I've noticed that a lot of people's definitions wind up skewing what is possible as a whole. Have you seen the Six Cultures essay on the Retired Adventurer's blog?

Curiously, I actually felt like I started to understand the role of the GM right away when I picked up the book and started perusing through the whole thing. I'm not sure if my take is completely how the game is meant to run, but this is how I handle the game. The Ryuujin is a DMPC, I understand the bad stereotypes that usually come with that... but in this game, they have no combat stats, even the red Ryuujin don't. They have a selection of abilities to help the players with if necessary, but they should be wary of using those abilities because it costs their life force to use those abilities. They might be near-godlike beings, but once they use up their magic, that's it... poof, gone. So they are meant to be in the background, observing the PCs journey and making sure they grow at a rate that the characters feel they earned, but stepping in if things get a bit too dicey so the party can have a chance to make it to safety (potentially even saying something along the lines of "I can buy you some time, get to safety so you can recover") It really kind of feels like the role of Gandalf from The Hobbit. He didn't show up often in the story and it was largely to point the characters in the right direction when he did show up.

yay, a new rpg game design channel (as in new to me, you've obviously been working it well before this vid).

I just saw this and this was so great !! I think the parallels alot of animes too because of this or maybe vice versa haha

Good to see you again, buddy!

Hi. Why quick and dirty? I say this in good spirit: consider getting a high quality microphone for your next uploads. It is important for the audio quality to be good and for your voice to be over the music. Good luck with the channel. I really enjoy TTRPG!