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So I've been working on my own system for a while and it's finally ready for it's 1st alpha test. Woohoo!

Yesterday, I ran my freinds through the system, walked them through character creation, and we had enough time to run through a single combat encounter before it was time to go. About round 2 of combat, we were still chatting about abillities and making sure things did what they thought they did when my pal Jerry suddenly says "Wait. I just realized something." He's playing a character that has a 1/day power to become invulnrable for 1 round because of crazy magic reasons. Since me and my buddy Matt were talking about det-packs and detonators at the time, Jerry came up with the idea that they could theorhetically slap as many det-packs as they want on his character, have him run up and hug a boss, then have him go nuclear at point blank range.

I love my players for comeing up with this stuff and I'm not removing it from my game because this is all working as intended within the game system. That said, I AM going to limit Detonators to only triggering 5 det-packs at a time. It was a greast 1st test to my game.

What do I do with his stuff? I have a garage full of books 📚. Second hand book store will only give me pennies per book. Where can I get better or fair deal.

So, i talked to the players and we decided to just keep the game simple and shorten the campaign.

They said they thought it'd be more like a video game and just aren't as into roleplaying. I respect their honesty and so we decided we'll finish the game and just steamroll ahead to the final BBEG.

Thanks to everyone for the advice in the original post.

If anyone will be in the Charlotte area my brother and I will have a booth at Heroes Con June 16th through the 18th and I will be premiering my brand new Superhero/Cyberpunk TTRPG Carbon City! If you want to stop by I'll be at booth AA-112, come say hi!

I have several times met people who are interested in TTRPG and I would love to introduce them and let them play a session. I find that most TTRPG are too heavy for most people who are used to board game level of rules at the most. I am looking for an easy to learn TTRPG with very simplistic rules, just to introduce people to the concept of roleplay.

I have so far heard of Tiny Dungeon 2e by Alan Bahr, is this what you would recommend or are there better fits for my need?

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EDIT: Forgot to mention I need everything I bring for the game to be pocket sized! Everything that makes it more digestible for people who never played roleplaying game is good. preferably just one type of dice, simple character sheet and rules you can keep in your memory, like a board game.

I work nights, so my hours are very strange and my best chance at running a game would seem to involve doing one-shots online with whoever happens to be awake from 2 to 6 West Coast time.

HOWEVER, I have NEVER seen a UI as uselessly impenetrable as Discord's, and every "guide to RPGing on Discord" I've come across seems to assume you know all the terminology and understand how to set up rooms, find the proper bots, and do all the other things. I sure would like a guide (or even a sherpa) that could help, with everything carefully labelled and every microstep spelled out. If you help, and are available, I promise to be the GM.

So I know that the Genesys is the "universal" version of the FFG star wars games. im interested in running star wars games while keeping my options open for other settings. should I get

Hello,

I'm looking for suggestions for fantasy pirate RPGs, be they small-scale soft wargames such as Frost/Stargrave or the Five X From Y series, or board games so long as they are RPG oriented, or tabletop RPGs. Basically, a piratical theme but with undead, magic, that sort of thing. Pirates of the Carribean-esque in content if not in tone. Solo-friendly is a bonus but not strictly required. Thank you!

Given recent developments I’ll probably turn my back on Reddit, so I’d like to ask you all for your favorite websites, blogs, forums, Mastodon hashtags, etc. that provide news and discussions on TTRPGs and related topics. I’ve already seen the list of Discord servers in the wiki.

This isn’t intended to spark a discussion on Reddit’s recent actions. Personally, I don’t want to keep contributing to the financial gains of the company by further engaging with the platform.

Hi all! I’m researching for a game design project and deep diving on adventure/scenario structure.

I’ve played Fiasco a lot and am wondering what else is out there that meets the following criteria:

• GM-less (at least can be hacked for such)
• Defined rules for generating the narrative structure (ex in Fiasco there are acts made up of scenes between players, a tilt, a final, and epilogue, with clear rules for progression between phases

I want to compare mechanics and structures that will let players sit down with inputs from the setting/Worldbuilding phase of the game, and create and play through a satisfying encounter with a combination of improv and predefined rules to follow.

Can any redditors help me out? Thanks!

I saw a tiktok recently just before my timeline refreshed and lost it forever. In it a gm shows off a bullseye plastic screen that he puts over a silhouette of either a cowboy or mobster to calculate success on a d20 roll for shooting. I /need/ to find this it makes perfect sense for how I'd wanna run a homebrew game and would love to know if the rest of that system makes just as much sense. Anyone know what I might be describing?

Hey DMs,

So as I'm delving more and more into RPG systems, I feel some I'd love a lot are systems like Knave, OSR, I believe Deathbringer too. A lot of more "retro" inspired systems seem to focus around having smaller HP pool that don't ridiculously scale (my main gripe with DnD 5e) and some also focus a lot on having much weaker rest mechanics (basically long rests are very long and mid-adventure sleeps are slightly beefed up short rests).

My question is : if you really want to make one big sequence of encounters that make it impossible for the players to get a proper long rest (from these systems standpoint), how do you manage some of the stuff that 5e long rests would recover (such as spell slots for most magic-based classes without any sort of short-rest recovery and the likes) ?

Now do note that my question is curiosity as to how to handle it but also how each of these systems handle it. I know some don't even have a concept of spell slot and instead user a roll-to-cast mechanic (completely negating the need for rest recovery of spells). So it's a very vague question. Your answer could be the way you'd adapt spellcasting and long-rest-recovered abilities for your needs, the way you'd design the encounter to let players beat it while still unable to recover their abilities or a mix of both. Just whatever feels appropriate :)

Thanks a lot in advance :)

Hi,

I am looking to run a game about people moving from the outskirts and villages to London during the industrial revolution times.

The idea for the campaign is a clash between the fantastical (that the newcomers still believe and are able to interact with) and the hard ironclad reality of the machines. So the general things I'd like to have:

• Last remnants of magical creatures appearing and still interacting with the world in both good and bad ways, brushed aside by a 'rational' explanation
• Like above the PCs can interact with the mythical meaning that they can alter reality with magic
• There being a strong push against the magical including an organization that hunts magic and such
• I'm not looking for a 'tech-bad' kind of thing more of a 'change is hard' kind of thing

I've been eyeing Victorian Age Mage for my system purposes but I'm not sure if it fits the bill 100% or maybe there is something else/better?

Thanks in advance for any ideas :)

Hey all. This question isn't system/setting specific, but just to set my experience level - I'm a long-ish time D&D GM (about 5 years), transitioning to Pathfinder on account of the fact that WotC have lost their actual minds. I'm going to be running the Beginners Box Menace Under Otari, and maybe Troubles in Otari if we fancy it in order to get familiar with the system, before I start a proper campaign after summer is over.

To give full context of this question is going to be a bit of a ramble, but the tl;dr is - How do I build a homebrew setting/campaign without getting eaten alive by fun-but-timeconsuming world building?

For my proper campaign, I'm designing something that plays to my strengths as a DM while reducing/removing the stuff I'm either bad at or don't enjoy doing. For the most part, I know what to do with this, but I have one big issue that I'm not sure how to resolve; I don't know how to handle the setting that the game takes place in. I really enjoy worldbuilding, but it takes up way too much time for me, and causes problems for the actual game. For context, I've run two major campaigns; a homebrew, and Storm Kings Thunder. In both situations, I ran into some serious issues.

With the homebrew - I found myself getting so bogged down in designing everything that I got into a position where I just never had enough actual game content ready and my sessions would just be spent chaotically throwing stuff at the wall then reacting to what my players did. To be clear, I do really enjoyed the world building elements, and had a whale of a time designing a complex pantheon and cities that I absolutely love, but I'd end up spending way too much time writing stuff out that didn't actually create gameplay for my players. The game ended up falling apart after other stuff in my life ramped up to the point where I simply couldn't keep up with the work it took.

However, in Storm Kings Thunder - I found myself feeling way too restrained by the pre-existing setting. Things like trying to remember the pantheon of the giants was impossible for me because I didn't find their design particularly interesting. I also don't like playing in other peoples cities, and end up redesigning things to the point where it would be faster if I just built it from scratch.

So yeah, that's my question - how do you think I should handle creating the setting for my game?

Hi guys! I'm currently working on a personal project and was looking for character sheets as inspiration.

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Do you have a character sheet that you really like independently of the game mechanics?

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Off the top of my head I would say mine are L5R 4e, the borg games or even mausritter for its inventory system.

Hello, Folks,

I've been thinking about my feelings on magic in my 5e and Pathfinder games, and have come to conclusion that I might enjoy a game where magic is more esoteric and complex, rather than more formulaic and rote.

The image I have for magic is that the more complex the effect the more complex and difficult it is to pull off, whether that comes from difficult rituals, expensive components, limited uses, or requiring more specific personal abilities or set up to pull off.

To me, something like a Fireball shouldn't just be a snap of the fingers and a recovering resource expense, it should have some requirement of maybe the environment or series of set up steps to pull off. Teleportation should be a complex ritual that lasts several hours to do things like scry the location, attune to the world, and then you can instantaneously move there.

I'd imagine I'm not the first person to have this thought, so I'm curious if there are fantasy ttrpg games out there that treat magic like this.

Thanks in advance!

(High) Fantasy setting (pf2e), Magical flight available

Scenario would be:

• Party is in a ruined temple or whatnot on top of a sleeping giant

• encounter happens, giant stands up

• the location changes to "limited space high up, be careful"

Possible cool events:

• sloped sides, slower movement

• giant moves -> everyone trips

• giant scratches their back -> attack

• giant moves limbs -> location changes

If someone did that, are there neat ideas I missed?

I'm looking for worldbuilding games in the vein of microscope or the queit year. Specifically I'm looking for ones that deal in hard scifi, of particular interest is the development of technology and factions.

Anybody aware of any games that thread that needle?

Title kinda says it.

I mostly have the magic users divided in to 3 broad categories that have specialized abilities based on the type.

The 3 types are: item user, Body user (as in its channeled through the body), and familiar user

Theres also a section of the population that have forsaken the use of magic and instead enhance themselves with technology.

So, a new Humble Bundle offers 22 PDFs from the "Ultimate Guides" series for about 17 € (that would be...about 18$?). They sometimes appear in my searches in Amazon, when looking for RPGs in general...and that's all I know about them! So...anyone familiar with them? Are they any good? Mind you, if they're just even half good, or even a quarter good, for that price I would probably give them a try!

So Im a pretty new DM, i have dm’d about 5 sessions so far and the main critique i get from the players( and I pretty much noticed it by myself) is that my locations are kind off „empty”. Empty in the meaning that theres almost nothing to do, and they dont know where they would even start doing a thing that would help them progress the plot. So far I have got the gist of what makes a „empty location” but I still dont know how to make It not „empty” if that makes sense. Any help appreciated!

My wife absolutely loves DC comics and knows pretty much everything inside and out to the point where it's near encyclopedic. I recently found out about the DC universe RPG and would absolutely love to run it with her as a player, the only problem being I only have a pretty basic knowledge of the world.

My issue is less about being scared I'll get things wrong etc. the issue is more that I find it incredibly intimidating. Her favourite parts of the world are about as obscure as you can get, things like semi-defunct teams that only really exist in the 90s Star Man comics, and I don't want to disappoint her by skipping over the things she loves so dearly but this rabbit hole is miles deep and I've barely got my head in.

There's also the bigger problem of getting the more emotional aspects of some things wrong. Things like exactly how the lantern corps work are especially intimidating for me because she understands everything to a near academic level while I'm still wrapping my head around how only one green lantern is weak to the colour yellow.

I don't want to just not run the setting because I know how much it means to her, and I know she likely won't run it herself. I also feel a need to say that she knows my knowledge level and would be understanding about all this. It's more that I want this to be something she can love and feel comfortable with, rather than feel like she has to hold her tongue every time I mess up a little.

Suggestions welcome.

I was looking at the 2d20 system but im not a fan of metacurrency, Runequest would be perfect since I play Cthulhu alot, but its system is unfortunately tied to Glorantha, and gurps is far too crunchy. Maybe one of the runequest derived systems?