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**Come here and talk about anything!**

This post will stay stickied for (at least) the week-end. Please enjoy this space where you can talk about anything: your last game, your current project, your patreon, etc. You can even talk about video games, ask for a group, or post a survey or share a new meme you've just found. This is the place for small talk on r/rpg.

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Free League Unbound

Probably not something I'm going to use myself, but might just be a grumpy old man. Missed opportunity not to use the technology we have available to us of course. But I prefer physical books, I'm lucky to have a ton of friends who share my interest, so I can play in person though.

I don't like the trend towards subscriptions everywhere though, but I also trust Free League not to this compromise their actual products. Best case scenario, it will just make their games more accessible for people just joining their hobby.

EDIT: Don't see any subscriptions on the page, was just my kneejerk reaction, seems pretty fairly priced and everything from what I can tell, if you're into this sort of thing. Up to everyone to decide of course, but don't wanna trash them for something that isn't true.

It is very important to me, that I can portray my PC faithfully. So generally i ask the GM before the game what kind of motivations my PC should have so they will do what needs to happen.

Sometimes however GMs are very reluctant to tell me what my PC should want because telling a player what their PCs motivation "should" be, apparently restricts player agency.

So I make my PC and then the GM presents a plot hook my PC wouldn't take. And since im not gonna be the "it's what my character would do" guy, i either do some mental gymnastics to fit the hook to my PCs motivations or just handwave my reasons to go to the place and do the thing.

It annoys me because i could have easily made a PC that would have jumped at that hook immediately. I dont mind having my choices restricted, i will make the choices i can within the framework you give me. But please dont tell me there is no framework when there is.

Am I alone in this or is this an issue for anybody else?

So... D&D announced a crossover with WoW. Surprisingly, I don't hate the idea, would love to see it be done great, but I don't have faith WotC will be capable of such thing.

While I've never played WoW, I love its lore and I'm actually a fan of MMO style combat, with powers on cooldowns, 90% combat focus and multi person dungeons.

However, I don't have energy or friends necessary to play an actual MMORPG, but I do have a group that I always play with for TTRPGs.

So then, I ask: which is a good game to play an MMORPG as a TTRPG? A very Gamistic TTRPG instead of something focused more on simulation or narratives, though I'm still 100% okay with rules for roleplay. It still is an TTRPG, not a videogame, after all.

Mostly, I'm looking for games that abstracts A LOT of rules for a more "what is fun" than "what makes sense narratively", though if there are games that do both pretty well, amazing! Most importantly, the player should feel like HEROES most of the time, and the mode of play still "go into a dungeon, kill everything that moves, take everything not glued to the ground".

Ah, and one that works without the need for a virtual aid would be great. Me and my friends are super duper okay with very crunchy games with granular, near infinite +1s and +2s everywhere, but we still prefer when it doesn't go overboard.

What are green flags you see in online game listings?

For me, green flags:

• LGBT+ Friendly
• New Player Friendly

Everyone seems to be having so much fun in their campaigns, but I never found it that fun at all. I love the idea of being a character in the story, but I’m autistic and ADHD, so I have a hard time memorizing the plot, taking notes and filling out all the fiddly bits on my character sheet, so I always end up standing in the background like a doofus. Hence why I prefer video games; I can watch a playthrough online and look at GameFAQs, and I usually play games where I automatically level up and don’t have to record all my stats.

Is there anything with the fun of a tabletop RPG but the ease of a video game?

I tried out the Cairn 2e Warden's Guide procedures for generating a dungeon seed. They were fun, useful, and good! The result is The Hole Beneath Chateau Carna. It's on itch.io for free.

More importantly (IMO), I took inspiration from Yochai Gal's Let's Make a Forest blog and I recorded my notes on the whole process for posterity here. I had a lot of fun with the "no rerolls" mentality. There were several points during the process where I resisted the urge to massage a random outcome to "fit better." In every case, I think it wound up more interesting as a result.

I've been in a dry spell on creative projects so I'm hyping myself up to try making a new one each month. I'm definitely going to do a few more spins on Cairn. I'm starting to mess with a 2-story dungeon in the spirit of Zelda, and I'll probably try a forest seed at some point. I'm really interested in walking through His Majesty The Worm's Designing Dungeons Course, although I'm not sure I want to make something so large -- last time I did, it took me almost 2 years.

I'm just back from a gaming event and had a marvellous time, ran five games over a few days and played seven, plus some board and card games. I appreciate some people don't want to GM as much (I like to get about 50/50 play/run) or have full schedules, but I got to try CyBorg, Royal Blood and Two Sides to the Coin out, which I wouldn't have normally and to get some games in with all kinds of new people.

Events rely on new people and I'm always keen to mix it with new folk and try different styles and approaches. Conventions and events are a great way to do this.

Aside from cost & time (which affects everything), is there something acting as a barrier to giving a convention a go? Stranger danger? Not knowing anyone else there? Just not bothered and happy with your home group?

There's a lot of fun to be had, new experiences, and let's face it, great war stories from the games that are... suboptimal. 😄

I've been GMing for a couple of years on and off. I started off with DND 5e and had three "campaigns" that ran 3-10 sessions each before subcoming to the group's schedule and not restarting. This lead to my current strategy of doing holiday oneshots, a Thanksgiving 5e one shot with a giant reanimated turkey, a Dread one shot with Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf chasing a group of teens through a corn maze and finally a Slugblaster NYE one shot.

I've enjoyed DMing, but I'm inevitably frustrated when games stall out due to life getting in the way. That's why I've really enjoyed the oneshots, I can close out a story in a single night and get closure. Unfortunately the downside with oneshots is you miss out on some of the more satisfying arcs. Plus with me hopping systems you spend a decent amount of time getting people up to speed.

Are there any systems that would work well for a 5-7 session arc. I think if I came to my group and told them hey, let's get 5-7 sessions on the calendar right here and commit to coming I think they could do that.

I'm currently reading through Stonetop, but it's looking like it will be more involved than 7 sessions. Any suggestions?

TLDR; I need a simple rpg system for running a weak vampire pc with level up options (not dnd and not vtm)

So I'm a fairly inexperienced GM, i only ran dnd so far. I have been a lurker for a while so i know the general consensus is "pick a system for the game you wanna play"

Well i wanna run a oneshot (maybe more we'll see) for my gf, we talked a bit and i figured dnd isn't really what I'm looking for, because she wants to be a vampire, and VtM isn't really what I'm looking for cause she want a fantasy world.

She's a beginner, so something relatively simple would be nice, and I'd like to run a low power game. Progress would be appreciated in case she likes it and wants to play something more powerful