FROTH games

 I've been toying with an idea, or concept for a type of TTRPG...

I decided to call it "FROTH", or "FROTH games". 

What is FROTH? It's an acronym, F.R.O.T.H. stands for "Fantasy Rules of the House".

FROTH is a big categorization of TTRPGs, totally arbitrary and made up by myself, but I use it to classify certain types of games or systems.

I created a website for it... as a concept and to explain the idea and philosophy behind it, but also to share my FROTH games subsystems and procedures.

But I'll try to explain what a FROTH game is in this post.

neat20: the "yet another d20system variant" to rule them all

Since 2019 or so I've been toying with a project of an RPG system for medieval fantasy shenanigans ala D&D, but better™. Surely I'm the first with this idea, amirite?

I also wanted to write it in spanish (my native language) for reasons I can't really explain -- most of my creations are written in english. Why? Not sure, maybe because it's the language I'm most used to read RPG stuff in, or because publishing any RPG product in english makes more sense (better reach and demographics I guess?). But once or twice I decide to create something in spanish, perhaps because I'm envisioning the thing being played by my friends and acquaintances (all spanish-first speakers) before strangers from the internet.

Anyway, this was the case for this system that I called "Aventura & Fantasía" (which translates to "Adventure & Fantasy", but the ampersand is a wink-wink because it's not really used in spanish).

Generic Fantasy World Map

 

A few months ago, Skerples from coins and scrolls fame wrote a twitter thread sharing several "Generic" Fantasy World maps, full of clichés and classic tropes of kitchen-sink fantasy.