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I'm curious how most people feel when it comes to a RPG having arts in it, does it attract people more depending on how it looks? Or do they just ignore it and go for the mechanics, lores, and information?

For me personally, good art in a RPG might attract me to pick up the book and bad art might deter me away from it and worse, AI art turns me off completely. There's a new trend going on now with people using AI to make black and white sketches and cheap looking art to make it look like they made it themselves, which is a major turn off for me. There are some popular RPGs with certain art styles that people like, but some of them I just couldn't get into, even if the mechanics and information sound good and I wish I can ignore the arts for it. Thoughts?

I have bought some Vampire dice and some DM screen from them around 2 months ago from their EU website and asked to be delivered to my adress in Germany.

The products in question were listed as available in stock.

They still have not send me my products. When I email them all they send me is BS emails like we went on holidays sorry we will send in 2 days then a month passes by.

At this point I think I have been scammed. In any case, bad customer support/service, do not shop at Renegade Studios.

Hi all,

I’m looking for suggestions for places to grab art made by real people for my table. I’m not publishing anything or making any money off of this, I just dislike handing my players a handout for our campaign with AI art on it. I used to do it and now it just doesn’t feel that great anymore. I also don’t want to rifle through tons of public domain art and collage something together. I’d rather find some cool art that someone made and just use it for my table.

Pinterest used to be cool but all of it reeeeeally feels like AI slop these days.

Recs for non US created and non D&D 5e specific actual play podcasts?

Hello! My spouse and I are big TTRPG fans (predominately D&D and Daggerheart). Lately, our daughter (5) is showing a lot of interest in playing! Obviously the systems we use are not quite appropriate for her just yet, and the one kid friendly TRRPG I had heard of and was going to try and pick it up (Beasts and Basements), seems like they might've had to shut down production.

Does anyone else have a mini dice goblin? And are there any games/systems do you recommend for a more gentle introduction to tabletop games? We are already playing board games intended for ages 8+, so we could probably handle anything geared towards elementary schoolers.

ETA: currently leaning towards Magical Kitties Save the Day, No Thank You Evil, or Kids on Brooms as a starting point. She loves dice, and math, and customization, her favorite genres are magic, science and superheroes. Any arguments for one game over the others?

I'm looking for a one-shot RPG to play on Valentine's Day with my boyfriend.

We usually play D&D, and he is always the DM. I wanted to surprise him by organizing a night where we could play together and I would DM for once.

At first, I was considering a DM-less game, but I'm not sure I fully understand how DM emulators work, so I decided I would just DM instead.

I found a one-shot on Etsy, but I'm not completely sold on the theme yet, so I wanted to see if anyone here had recommendations.

It doesn't have to revolve around love or romance — I definitely don’t want it to be cheesy. We both love horror movies, so a horror-themed game could be really fun.

Thank you!

So I'm gonna be 100% honest about what this is, I'm tired and I'm frustrated and I'm sad,and I wish to engage in some retail therapy. I want to buy a new game, I'm not super picky on what that game is, just something I do not currently own, and that I will read and probably, maybe, possibly, play one day.

There really isn't a style of play or genre that I do not enjoy, but, as I said earlier, tired and frustrated and sad,so don't really wanna be combing the sites looking for something that catches my interest. So, I'm outsourcing my coping mechanisms to y'all.

Pitch me a game, I don't care about the system, I don't care about the genre, I don't care about the style of play, I just want something.

So if you have that game, that you really wish more people were playing, that company that needs a little bit of financial help, or just that pet system that you recommend in every post, whether it fits or not, now's your opportunity to sell someone on it.

Sell me a game, and I'll probably buy it.

Edited to note, I may not be picky about basically anything here, but I do still want something a little bit more than just a game title. Like if you're gonna pitch a game, at least tell me a little about it please. If I had the mental and emotional bandwidth to go do my own research, I wouldn't be posting this. If that sounds lazy, demanding, entitled, you're not wrong, not even a little bit

Hopefully this isn’t too niche!

I’m looking for RPGs similar to Call of Cthulhu where you investigate or respond to supernatural/occult things, but more like werewolves, fae, vampires, etc instead of unknowable horrors from beyond imagination. Bonus points for lethality.

NOTE: I’m aware of Hunter the Vigil / White Wolf. I like the idea but not the games.

I have an itch to run a fantasy campaign, but I don't want any of what has become "typical" fantasy. I want something that feels more strange, something in the line of Oz, Neverending Story, or Labyrinth.

I already have Troika and Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland (though I don't know all the Odd-likes).

I'm interested in systems that work well for this sort of thing, as well as settings and GM inspiration.

Just got this notification from Chaosium saying this Kickstarter had launched! So hyped!

(Mods, please remove if not allowed)

Is there a Canadian equivalent to Drive-Thru RPG that I can order printed media through?

I recently bought some stuff on Black Friday that I had been holding off on for a long time, due to the world going to hell. Between the weak Canadian dollar and tariffs, it is becoming unfeasible to buy anything through DTRPG any more.

My order came to about $200 US. That’s $277 Cdn. Then, I got dinged $63 in tariffs on COD. So my $200 US order ended up being $330 Cdn. 😕 I can’t justify doing that much more.

Is there any “print in Canada” options like DTRPG? I don’t mind having to pay more for exchange rate, but tariffs make it essentially paying that exchange twice. And before anyone says, just buy the PDF’s and print them yourself, the Staples in my part of the world are VERY touchy about printing ANYTHING that isn’t an original document - it it’s licensed, it’s often plutonium. Plus, they aren’t going to print a hard-backed copy of GODS OF THE FORBIDDEN NORTH 😆

Any ideas from Canadian gamers?