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I’m gearing up to run a mutants and masterminds campaign set in the DC universe (and in the 90’s, no cell phones). The whole campaign is going to be a cross country roadtrip as they search for their missing friend. Of course I’ll create some random encounter tables, but I’m looking for some systems to steal/create to really make the traveling aspect fun. I’ve already got an idea like, the person in the “shotgun role” gets to pick music. The music they pick would give a small bonuses to the team depending on the vibe they pick. (For example, if they put on something heavy they would get a plus 2 to their next attack role). Does anyone have any fun ideas I should try to implement, or systems from other RPGs that I should look into to borrow from? Thanks!

Any similar tool as book world without numbers to start a world in solo campaign

I found the book world without numbers by Kevin Crawford...

I wanna start a solo campaign using Mythic Emulator.

Is it a good resource or you advise any other ?

Cheers

Stormlight Archive might be my favorite fantasy series ever. So naturally when I heard that there will be a TTRPG released not only for it, but for the whole Cosmere, I was postively extatic.

I got the starter set as soon as I could, but unfortunately, life got a bit in the way and I wasn't able to play it for a while. Perhaps for the better, cause at the time I had few people in my circles who read Stormlight, yet now, when I finally managed to ran it, I had plenty to choose from.

I am still happy with what we've got, however, they did play it safe with the rules. They made it easy for anyone who plays 5e and enjoys Stormlight to jump into the Cosmere RPG without much struggle, the rules being a combination of 5e, 4e and Pathfinder 2e. Still fun, but I would've enjoyed to see something a little bit more out there.

The starting scenario is good, however I find it strange that there is almost no magic in it, given how magic is one of Sanderson's selling points, but oh well.

Thoughts at large can be found in the review, I hope you will find it helpful!

Hi everyone. I hope y'all are well.

I just realized the Elden Ring: Nightreign TTRPG was released back in June, but only in Japan and only in Japanese. I see it is available to purchase on Play Asia.

I can't find any additional information on whether there are plans to translate it to English or other languages. Has anyone local to Japan taken a look at it? Color me curious.

My favorite TTRPG is Goblin Errands by Martin Nerurkar. It's incredible, and I am looking for recommendations on other games with similar traits:

• Great for oneshots, which I frequently run at conventions
• Game mechanics are part of the story theme, not just some universal system
• Easy to learn with quick character creation (no pregens needed)
• Fast-paced with a focus on roleplaying and goofy bits (including abilities)
• Very "Yes, and" - Rarely need to "No, but" my players
• Game mechanics still matter and influence a fun story

(Bonus points if you can think of one with Faerie theming!)

This week's RPG is Triangle Agency!

Have you played it? Have you run/GM'd it? How did it go?

What's your favourite memory from the game?

What's the best thing about the game?

What's the worst? How would you improve it?

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Last week was Dune. Join us again next week for Barbarians of Lemuria!

I recently started my first campaign of Mythic Bastionland and so far I am really enjoying everything the system has to offer. I find its mechanics are wonderful for telling a very specific mythical story. In my own head, it reminds me a lot of Sir Gawain or Elden Ring and it really pleases a lot of my special interests in storytelling.

But here is the thing: I find it really hard to convey the specific early medieval images I have in my head to my players, who are very much used to typical fantasy stories as we mostly played B/X or 5e beforehand. So when I may imagine a small 9th century european castle, they still have Minas Tirith or Winterfell in their heads. I also feel like it applies to playing in different cultural settings that are not strictly middle european inspired. I wanted parts of my Mythic Bastionland realm to feel vaguely byzantinian and felt like I had done my research, but still, it was very hard to convey those images and what differentiates them from other places we explored in our games.

Do you have any tricks for guiding your players imagination when playing RPGs that do not rely on the usual visual tropes?

Mostly DnD but I'm curious if other systems handles this better.

Might just be because I've DM'd more than I'd played.

But when I'm a player now I'm constantly finding reasons to do anything but attack the closest "enemy" when it's my turn on the initiative.

We recently had an encounter where the party is looking to rescue some hostages. The DM had us immediately roll initiative the moment a member of the kidnappers saw us

But i feel like just because we made eye contact, it doesn't mean we're necessarily fighting.

I'm immediately thinking I should go to their leader to work out an exchange for the hostages.

But I feel like the way the games are set up, i'm supposed to just roll to hit the closest enemy whenever initiative is rolled?

Recently, I allowed one of my distinguished colleagues to read some of my VtM fanfic and I got a rather scathing review I didn't expect. Okay, sidebar, I'm not the sensitive type who gets all butt hurt when someone says they don't like an story concept or plot idea in my writing in fact I like it, honest criticism is what helps make ones writing better. But my distinguished colleague pointed out something that I personal just flat out think is wrong. He feels that the Camarilla and the Sabbat should be equal in terms of size and influence, he says that making the Camarilla a superpower under scores it and makes it impossible for any other vampire group to "realistically" oppose it.

In most of my fanfic I always write from the Sabbat's POV because I love the idea that this whacked out group of fiends from beyond the grave are the only hope for liberation from this pseudo fascist secret aristocratic consortium that has spread its tentacles into add least 293 major cities around the world.

Here is a list of the cities the Camarilla rules:

Shanghai

Beijing

Shenzhen

Guangzhou

Chengdu

Tianjin

Wuhan

Dongguan

Chongqing

Xi'an

Hangzhou

Foshan

Nanjing

Shenyang

Zhengzhou

Qingdao

Suzhou

Jinan

Changsha

Kunming

Harbin

Shijiazhuang

Hefei

Dalian

Xiamen

Nanning

Changchun

Taiyuan

Guiyang

Wuxi

Ürümqi

Zhongshan

Shantou

Ningbo

Fuzhou

Nanchang

Changzhou

Lanzhou

Nantong

Huizhou

Xuzhou

Zibo

Linyi

Wenzhou

Tangshan

Hohhot

Haikou

Shaoxing

Yantai

Luoyang

Zhuhai

Liuzhou

Baotou

Handan

Yangzhou

Weifang

Baoding

Datong

Huai'an

Jiangmen

Ganzhou

Jining

Xiangyang

Xining

Zunyi

Yinchuan

Kunshan

Daqing

Wuhu

Mianyang

Putian

Qinhuangdao

Zhuzhou

Jilin

Taizhou — Zhejiang

Yiwu

Xingtai

Anshan

Quanzhou

Cixi

Tai'an

Jinjiang

Nanyang

Zhanjiang

Guilin

Yancheng

Zaozhuang

Taizhou — Jiangsu

Shangrao

Weihai

Zhangjiakou

Jiangyin

Maoming

Heze

Yichang

Xinxiang

Huainan

Nanchong

Chaozhou

Jieyang

Changshu

Fushun

Qingyuan

Kaifeng

Xianyang

Fuyang

Jiaxing

Anyang

Hengyang

Rizhao

Dazhou

Luzhou

Yueyang

Zhenjiang

Baoji

Yibin

Changde

Chifeng

Huzhou

Suqian

Wanzhou District

Bengbu

Lianyungang

Lu'an

Zhangjiagang

Changzhi

Pingdingshan

Jinhua

Zhaoqing

Shangqiu

Qiqihar

Jinzhou

Liaocheng

Xinyang

Yuyao

Rui'an

Jakarta

Dhaka

Tokyo

Osaka

Nagoya

Sapporo

Delhi

Mumbai

Kolkata

Bengaluru

Chennai

Hyderabad

Ahmedabad

Nagpur

Lucknow

Manila

Seoul

Karachi

Lahore

Bangkok

Ho Chi Minh City

Singapore

Adelaide

Moscow

Saint Petersburg

Novosibirsk

Yekaterinburg

Kazan

Nizhny Novgorod

Chelyabinsk

Krasnoyarsk

Samara

Ufa

Rostov-on-Don

Omsk

Krasnodar

Voronezh

Perm

Volgograd

Donetsk

Saratov

Tyumen

Tolyatti

Barnaul

Izhevsk

Makhachkala

Khabarovsk

Ulyanovsk

Irkutsk

Vladivostok

Yaroslavl

Kemerovo

Tomsk

Naberezhnye Chelny

Sevastopol

Stavropol

Orenburg

Novokuznetsk

Ryazan

Balashikha

Penza

Cheboksary

Lipetsk

Kaliningrad

Astrakhan

Tula

Kirov

Sochi

Kursk

Mariupol

Ulan-Ude

Tver

Magnitogorsk

Lugansk

Surgut

Bryansk

Ivanovo

Yakutsk

Vladimir

Simferopol

Belgorod

Makeyevka

Nizhny Tagil

Kaluga

Chita

Grozny

Volzhsky

Smolensk

Podolsk

Saransk

Vologda

Kurgan

Cherepovets

Oryol

Arkhangelsk

Vladikavkaz

Nizhnevartovsk

Yoshkar-Ola

Sterlitamak

Murmansk

Kostroma

Novorossiysk

Tambov

Khimki

Mytishchi

Nalchik

Taganrog

Nizhnekamsk

Blagoveshchensk

Gorlovka

Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Petrozavodsk

Korolyov

Shakhty

Engels

Veliky Novgorod

Lyubertsy

Bratsk

Stary Oskol

Angarsk

Syktyvkar

Dzerzhinsk

Pskov

Orsk

Krasnogorsk

Armavir

Abakan

Balakovo

Biysk

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Cairo, Egypt

Istanbul, Turkey

Tehran, Iran

Baghdad, Iraq

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Baku, Azerbaijan

London, United Kingdom

Paris, France

Madrid, Spain

Hamburg, Germany

Warsaw, Poland

Minsk, Belarus

Mexico City, Mexico

Toronto, Canada

São Paulo, Brazil

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bogotá, Colombia

Lima, Peru

Santiago, Chile

Curitiba, Brazil

Quito, Ecuador

Lagos, Nigeria

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Luanda, Angola

Cairo, Egypt

New York, New York

Los Angeles, California

Chicago, Illinois

Houston, Texas

Phoenix, Arizona

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

San Antonio, Texas

San Diego, California

Dallas, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Jacksonville, Florida

Austin, Texas

San Jose, California

Charlotte, North Carolina

Columbus, Ohio

Indianapolis, Indiana

San Francisco, California

Seattle, Washington

Denver, Colorado

Nashville, Tennessee

The Laibon, the Kuei-Jin and the Ashirra all support the Camarilla that's the reason for it far reaching influence. In my fanfic I always make the Camarilla as influential and as enmeshed in the global infrastructure of world politics as possible because I think it makes stories more neo-noir and hi-tech espionage in terms of style. The Camarilla as this utterly bloated and antiquated group ruled by medieval vampires who are totally out of touch with the 21st century and the Sabbat maybe the only force capable of saving us is, to me, endlessly fascinating. But my distinguished colleague disagrees. Fine. My question for anyone running a Camarilla chronicle is how powerful is to powerful?

I’m looking to run the alien ttrpg and I’m putting together a list of stuff I’ll need that’s not just the print outs. Anyone who’s ran it before, are there any props that would add any value or immersion to a game?

I dont mean it like in dnd, because yeah you can make soemthng just stronger or take a creature with a bigger cr. But those are just numbers. I meant something that would be like encountering something high magic in a low magic setting. Like in dark souls the player faces enemies that are shadows of themselves like Gwynn as lord of cinder instead of lord of sunlight. Is there a game that captures this smehow? Making foes on a different level, still beatable maybe, maybe with magic items or such. Maybe kinda like in vampire where a low generation vampire has waaaay more blood points to spend per round like the usual player character, so its still beatable but noticable on a different level.