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I am normally a GM for personal and psychological horror. I play Vampire V5, KULT and even my DnD campaigns are very straight forward, story-driven games. So a joke at my table is that it will be horrible (in the best way possible) in my games, no matter what. Because of that and because I was interested as well, I researched cozy TTRPGs. I found one that particularly stood out to me called Pumpkin Spice, think Kiki's delivery service meets the dream of having your own bakery/coffe place/reading space, but also some others that seem to be very cozy.

Now onto my question: How do you play those games? What do you do? Is there a plot? Are there stakes? Is there an adventure/throughline of a story or is it "just" slice-of-life, talks of the player characters with various NPCs, maybe some romance or comedy thrown in?

I would love to know how some of you, those who have played such games, well.. play those games. Maybe I can surprise my table with a cozy adventure some time in the future.

Is there one beyond GURPS? Runequest *can* do it, but it'd great to have one a dedicated one.

John Harper had one but with a kind of narrow focus. Maybe I'll pick up the pdf and give it a look.

According to https://rpgmuseum.fandom.com/wiki/Fruitful_void a fruitful void is a part of a game that is not covered by the rules but which the system direct players torwards. I have heard this same concept called negative space. The prime example is Mothership not having rules for hiding. Other examples are D&D 0th edition not having rules for disarming traps, pre 2nd edition not having persuasion rules. I would like to collect more examples.
I think that if you see ttrpgs as conversations, then rules moderate the conversation and the fruitful void is what the game wants you to talk about.

I Dm multiple Indies online…Or I try to… Mothership… Shadowdark… Pirate Borg… Daggerheart…. all these games have discord servers with thousands of members, and posting in looking for players you are lucky to get a single eye on your post. Same goes for looking for games a s a player. I always hear about the DM/GM shortage… but it sure seems like folks are not looking that hard. Why does discord suck so bad for getting new players?

So I backed the recent Godzilla TTRPG and while the game does look fun for what it is, I was disappointed they didn’t go with the angle of the player characters being kaiju.

Now I realize this might be somewhat difficult if they Kaiju all the time however, in the actual genre, there are multiple instances of either humans controlling kaiju through like a psychic connection or humans transforming into kaiju etc.

So I’m looking for system recommendations, where the player characters are Kaiju. Not fighting against the kaiju, not controlling a single kaiju at once. One where the player characters control their own kaiju.

Any suggestions?

As a newish GM, one of the problems I always find myself in, is making cities not just a place to find plot hooks to other locations, but making the city itself a playable place.

What I mean is, when I GM, I create cities as a place for players to buy things and get plot hooks from NPCs, so they can then go to the dungeon, cave, ruins etc. I want to make it feel like they can also do things within the city that they can do in dungeons, and etc.

Any advice?

When you think of playing a SciFi galactic TTRPG, what systems, rules, tropes do you look for?

The Crumbling Pyramid, Undercroft is the third and final installment of The Crumbling Pyramid, a set of One Page Dungeons that can be run singly or together. Ostensibly for ShadowDark, is should offer a night or two of fun for any table playing one of many different OSR and old school games with little to no adjustment.

Looking at the shelves of books I've accumulated over the years, I'm thinking of doing a bit of pruning. Many have never made it to the table and while interesting, the production value is just OK. I'd be happy with a pdf. On the other hand, some books are a joy to flip through whether they get to the table or not. Off hand, everything I own by Chaosium and Free League come to mind. What other publishers have great art and overall production value?

footnote; I understand the irony of this post likely leading me to purchase more books.

Hi! I'm looking for rpgs made for mechas vs kaijus with the next features!-

-It's mid to easy to understand

-Doesn't use d6

-It's flexible enough to play with "small" (house to small buildings) mechas and gigant mechas(big buildings, skyscrapper). Maybe even evangelion-height

-It's not lancer

I'm thinking on doing somethin like the Godzilla monster apocalypse novels! Combined with a little bit of x-com where death and failure (even TPK) doesn't mean loosing right away, but it does mean steps back on the kaiju war

Along side with this, I will be playing other sistems such as: [Endure](https://vonbednar.itch.io/endure), Rats in the walls and FIST. As a second (civilian) view of how fucked up is the world. (And as a way to take a break between battles so that it's not too repetitive)

Thank you!

I've been thinking lately about how some characters stick with us long after the campaign ends.

My favorite started because of one mechanic in D&D 3.5 that I absolutely fell in love with: Shadow Conjuration and Shadow Evocation. The idea that you could weave shadows into imitations of other spells was just incredibly flavorful to me. Then I started digging through books and discovered ways to make those shadow spells more and more "real," eventually pushing them beyond 100% reality. The whole concept was ridiculous in the best possible way.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking about the mechanics and started asking myself, "What kind of person could actually do this? What would they believe after learning that shadows could become more real than reality itself?"

That character ended up inspiring an entire deity in my own campaign setting, and years later I'm still expanding on that lore. It all came from one weird spell interaction that captured my imagination.

What's your favorite character you've ever built? It doesn't have to be your strongest or most successful. I'm more interested in the ones that stuck with you. Was it their personality, a memorable moment in a campaign, an unusual mechanic, or something else entirely?