The AARPGs Presents: Playing with Myself, part 1 - A deep dive into Twilight 2000 4e Shift Mechanics

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Welcome to the AARPG’s first installment of Playing With Myself, a look at Solo Play and Twilight 2000 4th Edition. In Part 1, your co-host Matt will take a deeper look at the Shift Mechanic and how characters in Twilight can spend their days just trying to get enough food and water to survive. It will follow a single day for four notional basic characters and walk through many of the different tasks your characters can perform during a shift.
The rolls are real and the outcome is less than stellar for the four hapless survivors but their struggle is a very real possibility for any group of characters that are trying to survive the harsh and unforgiving world of Twilight 2000
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@Franzkrooziek 5 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for making this video, it help me a lot ! 😃

@theaarpgs 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching and the kind feedback. Glad it was of use. I am way behind schedule but do have plans for more of these in the future. Are there any topics or aspects of the game you might have questions about?

@Franzkrooziek 5 месяцев назад

@@theaarpgs It would be nice if you can make a video explains about how Damage works. 😃 Also seems like you didn't explains the reload mechanic in Ammo Dice video.

@Franzkrooziek 5 месяцев назад

@@theaarpgs Oh, and also it would be nice if you can explain how the faction war works. Like how to move it, and make battle between faction units.

@theaarpgs 5 месяцев назад

Matt has a lot of work to do. Haha

@jasonmountain4643 2 года назад

I hope this series keeps up. This has been a HUGE help! most of the playthroughs online have been heavy role play. That's fine, but I want to really learn the crunch by example. Thank you.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Matt is working on a tutorial on explosions right now. Might do Artillery strikes next. Basically, all the things we had trouble with in our actual play. Haha. Is there any topic you’d like to see us cover? (Nathan)

@jasonmountain4643 2 года назад

@@theaarpgs those sound great! I got all the basics.

@imhotepthewise 2 года назад

Nicely done Matt. I think I was confused at first because you identified the dice bump after you rolled. I also did not connect that there were multiple terrain tables in the rulebook. I was very impressed by the presentation itself.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it. I should have covered the terrain modifications chart (it was on the sheet, but I forgot), it would have better explained the bump for the roll. I put it all together using Camtasia, but Nathan made sure the sound was good.

@abstractbybrian 2 года назад

@21:00 for solo play make the cooking roll AFTER they eat it. If bob fails then roll for stamina/possible food poisoning, etc.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

You could definitely do it that way, makes total sense for solo play since there is no way to otherwise hide the outcome from yourself. Another great example of how this game system can provide surprise even when playing with ones self.

@Jason-gu2kj 2 года назад

Just picked this RPG up, and these videos are so helpful. Thanks!!

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks, it was fun making them and it helped me learn the rules as well.

@greypilgrimone 11 месяцев назад

Hi - I'm, Dennis Appell, part of The Raconteur Society. Thanks for tuning in to our streaming casts and following us. We're following you guys now too. Keep up the nice work!

@theaarpgs 11 месяцев назад

Much appreciated! We’ve got more tutorials planned! Eventually, we might even go back and do a second chapter of our Twilight 2000 game.

@wolfsden 2 года назад

A good friend of mine has been running a TW2k4 game for us over the past couple months (every other Saturday) and he's doing a good job of learning the system, but I can't wait until he can see his way past all this crunch. 4th Ed is actually twice as crunchy as 1st Ed. There is so much die rolling going on I'm beginning to understand why I never played this game until my friend decided to run it.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

We tried to do a lot of crunch at first as we were just learning the system, but I think there were times where Nathan handwaved some stuff or it was taken care of in roleplay. Some people (Matt here for one) appreciate a higher level of crunch, it's the physics, biology, and chemistry that make up a game world, the forces that push back when you try to do something crazy. And for solo play, critical if your looking for something to keep your own desire for success at bay. But as always, it is a discussion between the GM and players to find the mix that is right for your group.

@larish2040 2 года назад

Excellent illustrated the v4 and i agree, this is a slow game if you play it this way.

@robertduffield5979 2 года назад

Played this almost 37 years ago. Working to begin again again…. Great presentation as this will be my starting point

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks for checking us out, glad the tutorial videos are helpful. I played the original too, loved it, for me it was like someone made Red Dawn the roleplaying game. Heads up, we have another episode almost ready for release all about bullet dice, should be out next week.

@OnesUponaGame 2 года назад

Great video and very helpful. The water rules seem a bit silly, IMO. Seems to me the test should be finding water. If you do then you can simply fill up whatever container you have. Doesn't seem thematic to find a great source of fresh water, but then only able to get 1 unit from it. The finding food and hunting make perfect sense. But not the water. If you were foraging in a store, then sure, you found perhaps one unopened bottle of water. But with a river, it's fresh or it's not. :)

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Yeah I hand-waved some of that when I ran “Always Cloudy…”. But I do like “resource scarcity” as a mechanic.

@carpma11 2 года назад

I think it would be a no-brainer house rule that a body of water in a grid equals automatic success "finding water" especially if you're not worrying about whether the water is potable or not.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

So i actually agree, if there is a river, you ought to be able to collect water from it. We also kind of fudged it once because normally, unless you are no where near a body of water, you should be able to transport as much water as you can carry. In one shift we just all gave our canteens to one person to go fill. Not that a single canteen of water is enough for a whole day, but we sort of treated it like that. Another house rule, or one that I just have not read much on is temperature and water. Does water intake needs go up when the weather gets really hot? In my own experience, when I have had the fun of living outdoors in hot climates, I drank a ton of water.

@maxmcgloin 2 года назад

Thanks for this Matt.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks, glad you found it helpful. It was a good way to help teach myself the system as well.

@maxmcgloin 2 года назад

Great video!!! Well done!

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks! Matt worked hard on this series. (Nathan)

@thomasnihil4878 2 года назад

Just got into this series. Amazing how FL achieved to expand upon the YZ engine in order to simulate the more complex spirit of the original editions. Although I've never played the original, the FL games I've played so far turned me into a fanboy. Good job!

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

We really like the system as well and some of the mechanics that seem to weave a thread through many of their games (namely stress, pushing, and the open, hex-crawl feel). We also highly recommend the Aliens rule set as well and although I (Matt) have not played Coriolis, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the lore and play rules.

@blarfnugle5653 2 года назад

Really liked this! I haven't seen the new episodes yet but are you including maps and visuals in the newer episodes?

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! (Nathan here) We use some official maps and visuals from Free League along with one I created and one from the Twilight 2000 discord community when we had some tactical combat. It’s definitely something we’d like do more of in future games.

@blarfnugle5653 2 года назад

@@theaarpgs there's a twilight 2000 discord community?! Any chance I can get added to that?

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

@@blarfnugle5653 Thought I sent this earlier, but here you go! discord.gg/pt2NtQKS

@pedroneves8485 Год назад

only one thing i believe u made a mistake when foraging for water . On a sucess u fill all your bottles with water

@theaarpgs Год назад

You are absolutely right. I wish there was a way to edit these videos after we published them. We've made a couple other errors in some of the other videos so be sure to check the comments.

@johnlocke9091 2 года назад

Thank you

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Thank you, I hope it was helpful. I just release the part 2 the other day. I am intrigued by the solo play aspect of the game.

@johnlocke9091 2 года назад

@@theaarpgs I like solo play because I can run the adventures I wanted. Being a gm you don't always get to. I did homebrew a feature where if you have a camp you need to gather units of wood and the base number of units is dependent on the season and weather

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

That is a pretty cool homebrew. Did you basically fold it under the forage mechanic? I know even on fun family camping overnights, one job for the kids is always get out there and forage me some sticks to get the fire going.

@johnlocke9091 2 года назад

@@theaarpgs It is a separate roll using the foraging rules. I used it for stationary camps such as people going to hold out for several weeks. The units of wood is dependent of weather and number of people. Fall 1 unit wood, Winter 1 1/2 unit, Jan Feb 2 units spring 1 unit, summer 1/2 unit. Plus 1 unit for every 6 people because you need larger fire.

@johnlocke9091 2 года назад

@@theaarpgs Another homebrew +1 recon for tracking in fresh snow.

@innerstrengthcheck Год назад

Thanks for this video. I'm keen to give the system a go solo, perhaps potentially introduce to my Mutant Year Zero group after that campaign concludes. Any help I can get on the mechanics side of this RPG is very useful! Cheers :)

@theaarpgs Год назад

Thanks, they were fun to make, and I have plans to make more, just RL keeps getting in the way. Glad that they have been helpful. It is both a simple and complex system all at once.

@abstractbybrian 2 года назад

Where did you come up with rabbit? My animal table is quite limited. I’m going to expand it.

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

Nathan here. The hunting table is on pg 147 in the player’s guide. Rabbit is in there. Thanks for watching!

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

oooo if you do an expanded hunting table please share. I thought the list was very limited as well, especially when you consider not only normal animals that you would expect to find in a part of the world, lets not forget all the critters in the zoos that may have found themselves a new home in the apocalypse.

@abstractbybrian Год назад

It’s odd to me that if there is a river to fish from then you shouldn’t have to forage for water. Finding water should be automatic. I guess you could roll for an aquatic encounter with a very low chance of having one. But getting water and boiling it, I guess you could roll for starting a fire etc.

@theaarpgs Год назад

you are correct, this is something I got wrong (hehe, you are not the first to notice), I would agree, you should only need to forage for water when there is not an obvious water source. I think the only reason you might forage for water with an obvious source is if you had concern about the water itself. When I was a kid, my uncle would take me with his friends camping, we normally boiled any water from streams and such, but we would search uphill for small water springs just coming out of the ground and drink from them without boiling.

@PotatoAmbassador 2 года назад

You just make this sound dirty

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

(Matt) - Just for you Sean....just for you. See you soon, the call of Geek Weekend is upon us!

@ddolllaw 2 года назад

Seem like too much rolling to set up a camp

@theaarpgs 2 года назад

So just setting up a camp is a single survival role, but yes, they way I read it was if you want to make your camp difficult to spot, the second role is needed. As with any rule, it is up to the GM and players to work out what they want to abstract and what they want to crunch on.