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Whether it's a game that's not easily available currently, or an extant one that you have various issues with that could only be solved through a design overhaul, let's hear it.

I have three that I can think of, personally:

• Beam Saber - on one hand I had a really great, foundational campaign of this game back in 2020, the first one in our group's shared sci-fi mecha setting, which we still fondly think back to. On the other hand, the rules of Beam Saber were really messy in places for Forged in the Dark standards, ones that weren't entirely solved by the time the game was finalized and printed only relatively recently, so I don't expect a 2e to happen too soon, but god do I wish it...

• Pathfinder - I was really excited about PF2 when it was first announced, playtested, and released, but at this point I'm really not hot about it anymore - the balance of it hews too conservative for anything to feel powerful or exciting, among other issues that a new edition probably wouldn't solve given the Pathfinder's current trajectory, unless Paizo of the 2030s chooses to steer back into having a little more grit, friction, and attrition in the game.

• Heart: The City Beneath - I love the vibe, the artwork, the flexible nature of the nightmare megadungeon, the class design... But so much of my excitement evaporates when I think about the game's core dice mechanic and how clumsy and multi-step it is, which is a pretty tough place to have gripes with a game.

I think most (if not all) of us, who're really deep in this hobby have this one system, that you love but can't for the life of you find anyone to play with. I want to hear about those:

What makes it so interesting/special to you?

Is there one specific reason you haven't found anyone to play with so far?

Why should one give it a chance anyway?

I'm looking for a good-to-great campaign book that has everything done for you, with whatever system. Maps, monsters, NPCs, quests, everything.

Want to start a new campaign with the new year, and had the hankering for an old-school style of play. None of these complex narratives and emotional story beats. I want my players to kick down the door and stab everything with visible teeth in a 30' radius (and okay, maybe have some emotions after that). Only problem, I'm a busy adult without the time to meticulously plan out dungeon layouts and monster encounters. What's out there that's a complete campaign in a box? Something that will minimize my prep work by providing a ton of prewritten content for me. Primarily focused on Dungeon Crawling or exploring a hexmap style of play. Want the book to last us at least a couple of months to a yearish; no preference on the system, but not insanely complicated.

I'm not sure it was published. It went around some of my game design circles.

It's a political wizard rpg. Each wizard is like an archmage of a different school of magic. Each player has entirely different mechanics they engage with. I recall that there was an astrology component that affected play.

It was something recent, maybe last year or the year before.

Edit: It is The Seven Part Pact. Thanks everyone.

With the new "Royal Flash" expansion I wanted to dive in. But I wonder if anyone here ever played this system.

Traditional combat encounters are cool for sure, but what about those games that flow through it just like other parts of the game? I'm talking about a whole combat encounter/action scene that is done in just a round or two? Maybe five minutes? What games are like that, outside of FATE?

To Long Didn't Read:

I want to start a Western Marches campaign. Which rulebook is suitable? Is there a “DCC Lite” or DCC hack with fewer tables and no funky dice?

Background:

I recently ran a one-shot for friends. Most of them had never played an RPG before, but it worked out well and now we want to continue playing – possibly on a regular basis, but not everyone can always be there.

I like OSR stuff and dungeon crawling, and we're thinking of turning it into a Western Marches campaign.

Options I'm considering:

Shadowdark

Old-School Essentials (OSE)

Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC)

Knave 2e

5e (requested by some players)

I'm most excited about DCC – I love the classes, spells, and style – but the many tables and weird dice scare me and my newbies a bit.

Is there a DCC Lite, a simplified DCC variant, a hack, or a way to play DCC with fewer tables/dice?

Or would you recommend Shadowdark/OSE/Knave if the focus is on exploration + changing players?

The title basically. I’ve been playing sessions of a game called Everspark, but it is almost too rules light in the way it has basically no mechanics. It is a sort of “D&D as you imagined it” type game and relies heavily on just playing make believe with a d20, but I wonder if there is an in-between system that still does heroic fantasy while still having some light mechanics for guiding play?

I want to tell a story about a heroic solo hero becoming a legendary figure. Are there any games that support that genre of play with a single character with some mechanics that actually help tell the story?

I know very little about anything to do with this but my gf is into RPGs!

Hello everyone, I was kinda curious if anyone else still played forum based long form RPGs anymore. I've been playing Ninpocho Chronicles for like 15+ years and am curious if anyone else is like me out there

My group tends to go for "can we use a Faraday cage" a lot of the time. Install a Faraday cage in the van. Build a Faraday cage in the basement just for the sake of it. It gets treated a bit like an antimagic field for scifi.