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Anonymous10/16/25, 06:01No.96764488
How would you do a fishing minigame in tabletop?
No, seriously. Have you ever tried to put in a mini game into your tabletop game where it's just mostly there for the players to engage and relax in whenever they feel like it? I'm not sure if there's a way to do this, and I'm wondering if this is a strange artifact of tabletop being inferior to video games, or if I'm just not clever enough to think of it.
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Anon10/16/25, 06:05No.96764506
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Anon10/16/25, 06:06No.96764511
Use that kids magnetic fishing game. It'll probably get a few laughs
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Anon10/16/25, 07:21No.96764710
I wouldn't because I don't think mini-games are appropriate in a multi-player context. A single player can just dip in and out as they please, but a group has to manage different people who may or may not want to play. Also context switching is going to be more expensive.
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Anon10/16/25, 19:41No.96768561
Why would you want to put a mini game inside a ttgame?
Mini games in vidya are specifically designed to increase play time (waste time) to increase value of the game to consumers. Some do it better than others but thats the intention behind mini games. There's no reason to want to pad out play time in a TT game with a mini game considering the rulebook probably already has rules for any kind of thing youd already want to do.
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Anon10/16/25, 20:09No.96768760
>Have you ever tried to put in a mini game into your tabletop game where it's just mostly there for the players to engage and relax in whenever they feel like it?We just play a boardgame instead.
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Anon10/16/25, 20:16No.96768810
>How would you do a fishing minigame in tabletop?
I wouldn't.
>Player wants his character to fish
Cool, roll a d20 and add survival or some other appropriate skill modifier
>Player 'I rolled low/medium/high"
Cool, you fail to catch a fish/catch a couple of small fish/catch a bunch of fish including one fat ass carp.
Done.
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Anon10/16/25, 21:28No.96769255
Why do zoomers feel to need to try and cram every video game concept into ttrpgs instead of just playing video games?
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Anon10/16/25, 21:33No.96769299
if you have an entire party of fishermen I could imagine making notes on each area about what fish (or other things in the water, probably meaner than fish) could be fished up, mixing together both real fish and ones you made up for extra worldbuilding
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Anon10/16/25, 21:37No.96769324
If my players want to fish, I'll make fish tables for the setting. Then a skill check for casting the rod, then I'll roll on the fish table. Then, an opposed series of grapples against the fish to reel it in.
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Anon10/16/25, 22:39No.96769813
The friendly fishermen you encountered at the beach is actually the reincarnation of a sea god who unknowningly is preparing for the ultimate battle with his ancient nemesis whom he must fight eternally.The cultist who worship the ancient devil fish seek to sabotage the fisherman and the secret cult who worship the sea god need your help to make sure the fisherman arrives at the point where the battle is to take place where he will remember his purpose and transform.
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Anon10/16/25, 22:48No.96769872
Roll to fish. If success, roll on the fish table, if failure roll on the amusing garbage table. If it's a natural 1, roll for initiative.
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Anon10/16/25, 22:50No.96769883
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhLebtQU3x8
Fishing is a noble and Christian occupation
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Anon10/16/25, 23:57No.96770363
I wouldn't, because fishing is fucking boring. The only thing that could possibly be more boring that fishing, is sitting on my ass while some OTHER motherfucker fucks around wasting everybody's time with a stupid fishing minigame.
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Anon10/17/25, 03:12No.96771396
I don't play traditional games and saw this thread on the front page. I love fishing minigames in vidya. I'm sorry you're getting so many retarded lame as fuck responses OP. There's a reason why TG is seen as boring and it's because of half the retards in here pushing their glasses up and going "just roll a dice for it, its a waste of time, heh"Anyway as a non-tg player,
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Anon10/17/25, 21:06No.96776673
Fishing you say?
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Anon10/18/25, 01:28No.96778504
Get a real fish pond installed in your back yard, take the group out back for the fishing arc. The mage can have a fly zapper to make it realistic.The retards saying minigames are to pad playtime as a marketing scam don't know shit about videogames btw. There are way easier ways to pad playtime, and one of the most common and effective is just extending loading screens a little bit beyond when the game is actually loaded, which has been common practice since about 2005. Many games that make no claims about play time have minigames. There are games that are literally just "fishing minigames," they're called fishing games. If anything a more likely "cynical" explanation for things like minigames is that a game programmer had fun designing and implementing some extra features and got to have them kept in the game.
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Anon10/18/25, 01:57No.96778707
It would be hard for me to make fishing into a minigame and not an autistic, phoenix command sub-system with mechanics for line breakages, tackle loss, and so on.
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Anon10/18/25, 02:35No.96778946
I usually approach stuff like that from a character building/RP standpoint. Instead of making up some little mechanic for players to fiddle with I would ask them to describe how their character approaches such a casual, low stakes activity and make up some fun trivia about their character related to said activity, throwing in some questions in case they need help getting started (When did your character learn to fish? What is their preferred fishing method/strategy/tool? Is there a significant or interesting even that happened in their past that involved fishing?). Once everyone involved has had a chance to contribute or wants to move on I would then try and come up with a result that fits in with what everyone put in (methodical PC catches a bunch of fish while PC who uses their bare hands only nabs one but it's the biggest, PC who remembers The One That Got Away catches a similar fish, etc.).
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Anon10/18/25, 04:03No.96779405
Why in the fuck would I put a fishing minigame in when I could just have them roll a check of some kind and move on with the actual interesting stuff?
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Anon10/18/25, 07:36No.96780107
>Have you ever tried to put in a mini game into your tabletop game where it's just mostly there for the players to engage and relax in whenever they feel like it?It's called "having conversation".
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Anon10/18/25, 11:11No.96780726
>just talk bro why play a game we're trying to get to the actually interesting stuff like the plot the GM wrote for us
Holy FUCK this thread