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I need to get this out of my system, because I don't really have anyone around me to talk about this with.

Mutant Chronicles is fucking awesome.

I played it obsessively about 20 years ago. Then I grew up, got distracted by other things in life, and eventually Mutant Chronicles became one of those weird things I remembered fondly but hadn't thought about in years.

Until recently.

And now I've fallen down the rabbit hole again.

I've been reading old lore, looking at artwork, remembering old campaigns and generally rediscovering the setting — and I'm honestly amazed at how much I still love it.

What's funny is that I'm not even particularly nostalgic about the rules at this point. It's the setting that grabbed me all over again.

It's this completely bonkers mixture of military sci-fi, space opera, cosmic horror, dystopia, corporate warfare, occultism and gothic aesthetics.

Humanity has colonized the Solar System and instead of building some glorious utopian future, we've created gigantic corporations that rule entire planets and wage wars against each other.

And then there's the Dark Legion.

And the Brotherhood.

And the Dark Symmetry.

And somehow you can put all of that together with trench warfare, corporate espionage, religious fanaticism, mutants, cybernetics and ridiculous amounts of power armour and it just... works.

I think what I appreciate about it much more now is that it's over the top without necessarily being shallow.

You can have absolutely ridiculous aesthetics and pulpy action, but underneath that there's plenty of room for stories about paranoia, fanaticism, corporate exploitation, war, loyalty, trauma and what happens to ordinary people when the universe goes completely to shit.

Basically, I keep looking at it and thinking:

"Holy shit, I could run so many good games in this setting."

And apparently my brain has decided that after 20 years this is what it wants to think about now.

So I'm curious:

Are there any other old Mutant Chronicles players lurking around here?

What edition did you play? What corporation/faction did you gravitate towards? Any particularly memorable campaigns or characters?

Or if you discovered it much later — what was your first impression?

I don't even have a particularly profound point here. I just rediscovered something I loved when I was younger and realized that, apparently, I still fucking love it.

And I desperately need someone to talk about Bauhaus with. 😂

I'm only human, so some TTRPG books may have slipped under the radar.
This list is for books. For a book to qualify it needed to have around 50 pages worth of content.
This list excludes One Pages, Zines, Supplements, unfinished/in development, AI Slop, etc.

If I forgot a 2026 TTRPG Book that came out during the first half of this year mention it so that I can add it to the list at some point!

So our usual DM are busy this weekend. I decided to host a Cairn oneshot. I think i've learn the basic of it (read through the rule and watched a guide video once), but i'm still pretty nervous (and excited) for my first game. Any tips on how to run a Cairn oneshot smoothly?

I was following the third edition of Blue Planet during the crowdfunding campaign and now I see it in the Bundle of Holdings time bundle. I tought it was still WIP.

How is it? Would you suggest it to someone (me!) who never played one of the three editions or one of the oldest in better?

P.S.
What about the old supplements if I buy the 3e rulebooks?

Looking for a game in the realm of modern day monster hunting( or aliens). Would love some fun character advancement options for my players but would be fine with advancement based on loot. Preferably something with a bit of crunch.

Not necessarily looking for my players to have access to magic themselves but ways they can utilize magic with technology to help them. Similar to XCOMM(video game) is the vibe I’m looking for. Maybe the players raid a vampire nest and can utilize magical properties of their blood to advance their stuff.

I think I’m describing Delta Green from what I’ve been able to search through on reddit but wanted to see if there are any others that would work other than D20 Modern or a GURPs mashup.

I’ve been thinking about this while reading Symbaroum.

A huge part of the game’s appeal is exploring Davokar, a forbidden forest full of ruins, treasures and horrible things waiting to kill you. Then the introductory adventure sends you across a mountain pass, far away from Davokar. You spend the entire adventure travelling towards the forest... and never actually reach it.

Sure, it teaches you a few rules. But it doesn’t really show you what playing Symbaroum is supposed to feel like. It’s one of my favourite games, but I can’t help feeling that its introductory adventure completely missed the mark.

The more games I read, the more I see the same problems. Too many NPCs, huge lore dumps, unclear objectives, investigations that fall apart if the players miss a single clue, and encounters that expect the GM to already understand every subsystem. Sometimes it feels like these adventures are more interested in showing off the setting than teaching people how to actually play the game.

I’m currently working on the introductory scenario for my own TTRPG, and it has made me realise how difficult this is to get right.

So, which games do you think really nailed their introductory adventure? And which ones completely missed the mark? Why?

Hello fellow players :)

I'm currently searching for a solo rpg that has similar vibes to curse of strahd or Bloodborne. My curren DmD group isn't that fond of the CoS campaign and we broke it off after two years since they didn't like the aspect of maybe dying (we made it surprisingly far without pc death lmao)

I heard that you cam solo CoS and i plan to do so in the future but right now i feel too inexperienced and uncomfortable in solo DMing to jump right into it.

Are there any SoloRPGs that have a similar setting?

My preferences are:

- Darker setting (horror is welcome too, just don't like too much unnecessary gore)

- The pure chaos some fights tuned out to be

- fighting or sometimes running for your life

- interesting encounters and characters that are just...strange or wonky

If there are any solorpgs that spring to your mind (even if they just mildly hit the mark) i'm open to suggestions!

I've just discovered a game called Avalon Rising by Black Site Studios. It seems really well put together, has great art, a neat concept and basically looks like a high quality product. Yet I've found literally ZERO posts about it on this sub.

https://blacksitestudio.com/pages/avalon-rising-products

It takes place in the far future in an undeground city that was supposed to be a bunker or a shelter of some kind but after many years it changed into a crumbling dangerous megacity. There are some dystopian elements, some horror stuff - the city is leaking in some weird energy that changes things - some survival elements. Quite a cool mix. It reminds me of a more serious mix of Paranoia and Mutant Year Zero Elysium, maybe with a dash of Electric State.

Did anyone play it or read it at least? I'm tempted to buy it since it looks quite interesting but I'm looking for some opinions.

Hey,

since I'm playing some rpg's on a con and I only have 2h slots I wanted to ask for suggestions for good and especially beginner friendly one Shots. The system does not matter, since I like to play variety and like to try out new things. Give me your best shots!

I know asking which is "Best" is silly for a number of reaosn. From just system preference to the fact that different mechanics and source books fit different types of games.

I'm looking to run a game set right after Return of the Jedi where the players are officers on a small Imperial frigate trying to survive a rapidly imploding Empire.

I'm pretty familiar with star wars d20 and we've played Pathfinder 1e for over a decade so its not a hard system to learn.

Thing is I want scarcity to be a big deal. You've got this ship and a pretty well stocked Armory and a crew but I want to damage the ship, kill crew and troopers, and have gear be lost or broken. I want to so this to force the party to look for jobs and scores or to have to make allies or go and look or buy more gear and hire crew to keep flying.

Do any of the star wars games have things like persistent armor damage you see in systems like Cyberpunk Red where armor just gets damaged from taking hits as opposed to from attacks that specifically aim to damage it? Similar weapon malfunctions that damage the weapon or durability mechanics?