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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤
@thoughtpunks.com

The French TTRPG scene is substantial and completely alien to English speaking circles. For all the talk of advancing the art and hobby, shockingly few of my peers know much of anything about JDRs. Or about The Dark Eye and German scene. Let alone anywhere else.

Flintlock. Why do all these nerds follow me? I'm not a nerd.@flintlock.bsky.social

Potentially hot TTRPG take. It's absolutely true we need more RPGs inspired by non European cultures. But we don't need less European RPGs, we need more of those as well. This is especially true of Eastern Europe (where there's few) but it's true of Western Europe. We don't have that currently.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤
@thoughtpunks.com

On those "old" games: The Dark Eye and INS/MV both had new editions 10 years ago. INS/MV even released a revised edition of that version since. They're not bygone relics and they're still iconic of their scenes. Do you have a less loaded question? Any particular types of games you're looking for?

Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social

Yeah, while the question was a bit of a drive-by snark, I am curious: Do you think these games, or their current gaming cultures, have something new to teach us in 2026? Games, and their game play spaces certainly can evolve, and Lord knows D&D isn't the same as it was a quarter century ago.

Taewyth
@taewyth.bsky.social

Never underestimate what old games and cultures could teach us today, while some discussions seems evergreen you'd be surprised of the amount that either aren't or took a different, less common, direction in different cultures

Jimmy Caadium
@caadium.bsky.social

I know American In Nomine, & knew it has French roots, but have never seen that version. I'm curious how much the new, French, publisher will influence 7th Sea 3e (in KS now).

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤
@thoughtpunks.com

Same in return, from my POV so many niches well underserved. Even just counting my own tastes, not nearly the depth and breadth of games I want. Also mature media is absurdly high volume. Even picking most tiny subgenre fiction niches, one human *couldn't* read them all. We need so much more imo.

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤
@thoughtpunks.com

No debate to be clear, just my POV in return. I think we've such different expectations and subjective experiences of it that talking out to the middle is unlikely. But I think we can at least both see where the other is coming from. To be clear, I hear you how the overall volume is overwhelming.

Khelren
@khelren.itch.io

I really feel like there was some interaction during the Google+ era between the French-speaking and the English community (in English, of course). But, since then, yeah...🫤

Richard Lam
@rickyslams.bsky.social

I’m super curious about this because I speak french but I don’t know any of the vocabulary for ttrpgs. Do you know what terms in french would get me started on a search?

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤
@thoughtpunks.com

RPG = JDR (jeu de role) TTRPG = JDRST (jeu de role sur table) GM = MJ (maitre de jeu) PC = PJ (personnage joueur) NPC = PNJ (personnage nonjoueur) Croc, Denis Gerfaud, Le Grumph, Emmanuel Gharbi are all big designers to check out. Landrieu/Malefices and Leygonie/Nephilim for 2 big classics.

Khelren
@khelren.itch.io

Please don't use "Maître de Jeu" for the GM. "Meneur de Jeu" is right there, far less problematic and the word that is commonly used anyway.