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Wanting to up my dungeon design game and I want to make a mega dungeon, so I'm looking for some inspiration.

I'm a major tabletop newbie and I'd love some advice. I was planning on trying my first time at DMing with an adventure of Deadlands for a few friends. I spent a good deal of time learning the ins and outs of SWADE and getting a lot of content prepared, but then I fell in love with Cyberpunk. I know there are a few options out there to play a Cyberpunk adventure in SWADE but I'm also not against getting into RED if it's a fairly better experience for the setting.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Also I hope this is the right place to post this sorry if it's not!

We’re developing a tool to help our party with character creation and note-keeping. It’s based on BRP (Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine), and we’re hoping to make it compatible with other BRP-like d100 TTRPGs like Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and others.

We wanted to see if other people would be interested in something like this, and in case, make it free for everyone.

We’re not expert programmers, so it probably won’t be perfect. Still, we’re hoping to find some beta testers in the near future. If people show interest and appreciation for the idea, we’d love to eventually make a website for it.

Right now, we’re on a very preliminary alpha version (0.3.11), which already includes:

• A compendium of professions, skills, and related specialties
• Core game mechanics
• Guided character creation
• A digital character sheet

The database containing all the information (professions, skills, specialties, etc.) is fully editable, exportable, and importable through JSON files, making it easy to implement homebrew content to adapt it to any setting and campaign.

We’d love to hear thoughts and suggestions.

Hi,

In Kal-Arath, some monsters have a damage formula written like this:

(d6/a)x2 - rd

What does this formula mean?

Also, many enemies have special abilities listed in their stat blocks. Are there any conditions for these effects to apply, or do they happen automatically every round?

Thanks!

I've always wanted use a tarot deck as like a fun, thematic tool to use as a sometimes alternative to dice (ie: occasionally players can choose to pull from the deck instead of rolling and the interpretation of the card adds a lot of extra depth + consequences + importance to the moment on top of the randomness of the card)

However a lot of people take Tarot seriously and I do not, and I neither seek to hurt anyone's feelings nor get their preconceptions in the way - I'm not going to be learning how to use it properly so that might lead to some misconceptions/miscommunications

I know alternatives exist, I can't name any but I've seen them out there, and I'm sure there's suitable 'decks of artful esoteric bs with multiple interpretations that aren't strictly aping tarot' out there as well - but I don't know what they are.

Can anyone recommend any?

I'm not talking, say, Deck of Many Things where the cards have specific effects.

I know it would be largely trivial to write 52 folk-deities/omens/arcana in a table but I want the tactility of a beautiful, threatening deck on the table as well

Thanks!

This week's RPG is Neon City Overdrive!

Have you played it? Have you run/GM'd it? How did it go?

What's your favourite memory from the game?

What's the best thing about the game?

What's the worst? How would you improve it?

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Last week was Star Wars FFG. Join us again next week for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying [4th]!

As the Title suggests I am a big Fallout Fan. And I was thinking about running a Fallout game with my friends, but I am struggling about which system to use.

1. The Official Fallout Game
   Pros:
   + It has the "official" Lore of the games

+ Everything is tailored for a Fallout adventure

+ I have experience with the 2d20 System it uses

Kons:
- the Prices are frankly bonkers €60 for the Physical Copy and €40 for the PDF
- from what I have heard a good number of mechanics are broken like every good Bethesda game should be, but I like a game that is not easily exploitable

1. Mutant Year Zero
   Pros:
   + It's a bit more universal so I can run other things that aren't Fallout
   + Its cheaper to get €20 Pdf (Sadly no Physical)
   + from what I have heard more Action focused which I personally really like

Kons:

- I Have to do the lore on my own and create new items
- I dont know the dice system

1. Mutants & Masterminds
   Pros:
   + I already own the entire System
   + my players know how it works
   + it is really universal in the thinks you can do

Kons:

- I have to reflavour almost everything

- I have to precreate items, think of a system to level them up

- I need to come up with the entirety of the lore

Has anyone experience with running one of these systems in a Fallout style? What would you recommend personally? Do you have a few other recommendations for me?

My FLGS has this in and it looked appealing, but I wasn't able to get a vibe for how the system is browsing the web. Is it a good system? Has anyone played it to any degree and can tell me how their experience was? How is the worldbuilding?

Please do your due diligence before backing projects by either of these creators. They have established a consistent pattern of advertising PDFs for their campaigns, only to deliver practically unusable Google Docs instead then telling backers to make a PDF themselves. Their VTT tokens are also nothing of the sort, just a bunch of images pasted into a Google Doc.

They claim it's a mistake, that they'll fix it going forward, etc, but they have been called out on it before and done nothing to change. They have admitted that using Google Docs was always their intention and that they were knowingly, falsely advertising PDFs.

They also claim that all of their content is made, edited, polished etc. by humans, but it's obvious from even a glance at their "final products" that they heavily use AI.

They are mass reporting comments on their past and current campaigns in an attempt to cover it up.

If you backed one of their previous campaigns, please report it. If you see this and you are backing one of their current campaigns, I urge you to reconsider.

Campaign links for reference:

Current Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/evolution-was-not-gentle-100-evolving-race-options

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/they-all-think-theyre-right-100-evolving-factions

Previous Campaigns:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allisterdnd/living-bestiary-100-evolving-horrors-and-eldritch-bosses

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/world-under-red-glass-a-5e-campaign-setting/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/subclasses-of-wonder/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmrain/brews-of-wonder-50-potions-for-every-adventure-5e-one-dandd

I've been falling in love with Vaesen, the folklore mystery RPG from Free League Publishing. Aside from the simple mechanics and the unique atmosphere, my main factor in liking Vaesen comes from how good and complete the adventure modules are. As a DM, I feel like I can get almost any of them and go straight to the table with minimal additional work.

I think that comes from how the mysteries are structured. You have an A plot (a monster) and a B plot (all the human drama surrounding the monster). The book gives you a hook to get players on the trail of the A plot and necessarily demands they follow the B plot to get clues - which are extensively noted on the book so you can give players a hint at any moment.

Are your players stuck? No problem: we have this countdown mechanic which triggers an indepedent event that moves the plot forward with minimal build-up. This is just genius for me.

I feel like I've finally found what type of RPG adventure I want to run and I'm comming for you guys for advice on where I can find more of it. Are there any other RPGs with modules just as structured as Vaesen's? I do not mean mystery or supernatural RPGs with the same flavor: I just want something that is so well structured that I can run without much more additional preparation.

Side-note: English is not my first language. Sorry if any wording or phrasing doesn't sound natural.