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Fairly straight forward question. I will say that i'm primarily thinking of classes, not sub-classes that are a wacky and zany twist on a class.

Hello fellow enthusiasts!

These days I find myself collecting rpgs more often then playing them. That said I think of each book/game in my collection as my treasures. What is your favorite piece or pieces in collection and why? Lately I have two favorite:

-Mappa Mundi: the art is exceptional, and the design is a treat.

- Yazeba B&B: I love an rpg that plays like a Legacy Board game, with an eclectic cast and stickers!

Thanks in advance for sharing! 😊

Ever since I started playing rpg's a few years ago, I noticed every single GM I've had had some sort of cult plot that was central or in the background of a campaign. Additionally, when I run games myself, there's always at least 1 player that wants their background to include a cult. I'm usually playing traditional fantasy games, and I'm not very interested in cults myself. Where is this huge interest coming from?

Not a hardcore dedicated group, in other words.

And like many of us, I thought, this Bronze Age collapse period is pretty cool. I could see a game here.

I don't think I want to run the Odyssey, but I could be tempted to run something like the Illiad.

An idea that stuck in my head is the Campaign "You have just won the Trojan War. The Greeks have retreated. They have left a great gift, it has been brought into the city and tonight, we celebrate."

Then the players will make characters who are veterans of the Trojan War or Trojans who live in Troy.

The last step of Character Creation will be rolling on a random table where they begin, and what state they are in.

Then essentially the game starts as a kind of city as mega-dungeon​ as the sacking Greeks arrive (spoilers). The players must then choose to hopelessly defend their home or try and cut and escape from the city.

If the game runs long they will get a ship and sail to Italy to found Rome.

I am looking for a game with medium-high levels of crunch (but nothing from the D20 lineage of hit point bags). My favourite games are FFG's Star Wars and Blades in the Dark.

A few months ago I've seen that Dimension 20 has decided to do a show using the Vampire the Masquerade system - the City Council of Darkness. Being a fan of both, I've had some fun watching the episodes as they were coming out, planning to do a review of it once it was all said and done.

What started as a simple review ballooned into a full blown analysis of the show since I kept finding more and more things to talk about, to the point it took me about two weeks to put everything to paper. Then when I posted what I've written it got caught by Google's puriteen filters for mentioning some more out there things that happened in the show. But after a manual review, here we are, the blog post can be seen by anyone!

Hope you enjoy!

Hi guys,

So I have built and ran campaigns of my own TTRPG and my own system for about 3-5 years now.
I've tried to land an investment to really go big with the project from the start (hire artists, copy writers, proof readers, etc), but to no success unfortunately.

I have come to the point where I am going to ,just get it out there, finishing the product and publishing it on drivethruRPG and the likes as a downloadable PDF so my work is out there and I can be proud of it.

My biggest issue is that I don't have anyone who can do the artwork and I prefer not to use any AI in my work.

Are there any artists out there who can help in a sort of hobby manner?

I am willing to pay some, but do have a limited budget as I am a regular job working dad with a household.

If you do have a portfolio and perhaps price indication/list per type of image available that would be great.

Imagine the players are faced with A Problem. They may be coming up with their own Solutions, or maybe they're struggling to figure out a suitable one. Regardless, the GM has one or more ideas how to solve The Problem they find cool. So the GM shares these possible solutions directly with the group (perhaps even presenting multiple possible solutions like a bullet point list), unprompted, no rolls involved.

This isn't railroading. The GM would accept any solution the players end up choosing, but throws additional ideas unprompted into the round.

Is this good or bad GMing? Do you think this would bias the average player decision making? Is this taking away the players' job from them?

Hey everyone! I’m currently prepping a short Western RPG for a group of 5 players, including 3 beginners (one of them being my younger brother). Since our schedules are about to get busy with classes starting soon, I need something punchy. I only have about two days to prep everything, so I’m torn between two concepts and would love your advice.

My first concept is a 2 to 3 session campaign. It starts in media res right in the middle of a bank heist where they grab the cash. The real chaos happens during the escape shootout: just as a lawman is about to take out one of the PCs, an indigenous warrior shoots an arrow into the officer's neck, saving the character so the party can make their getaway. On the road, the party ends up losing their stolen money.

When they reach their hideout, the warrior who saved them shows up asking for help because the government is trying to destroy his tribe's lands. Since the party lost their loot and they owe him one for saving their lives during the escape, he offers a massive reward to help them out.

From there, I plan to give them different ways to reach their goal so they have full freedom, with both a 100% peaceful diplomatic route and a full-on violence route available. The setting is already pre-made in our system so expanding the world isn't an issue, but my main fear is that it might drag on for too many sessions.

My second concept is meant to be a one-shot. The idea is that the group robs a moving train, and during the heist they’ll have to juggle multiple problems at the exact same time—like stopping the train or letting it keep running, finding the hidden safe, interacting with NPCs, and preventing passengers from escaping to alert the law.

I think it’s a great idea for a session zero, like testing out the system and introducing everyone's characters, but I don't know if it would be that good for an actual stand-alone one-shot. Even with a large train, it feels like there isn't much to explore, so I'm worried it might end up being a bit boring.

My biggest fear with this second idea is that it might end up running way too short, leaving me with no clear way to continue the session. I could try to improvise and stretch it by 10 or 20 minutes, but I'm still afraid of the session feeling incomplete or too quick.

Which option would you go with for a group with a few beginners? And if you have any tips to keep the train heist exciting or to prevent the native reservation plot from stretching too long, I’d love to hear them!

Hello comrades!

I’m going camping for several weeks with my partner and we’re looking for a game to play at night by the fire. I’d love to hear your suggestions. Here’s what I’m looking for:

-one book/pdf
-rules lite
-no digital elements
-GM less ideally
-no prep
-cards/dice/paper/pencil are ok!

So far the games that have caught my eye for this trip are- I’m sorry did you say street magic, the quiet year, the world we left behind, and wanderhome

I’m not opposed to something that has more combat, but these are what’s caught my interest. I’d love to hear your thoughts on these games and any others you think would be a good fit. Thank you!