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I was sold on Orbital Blues thanks to a great AP and some amazing interviews with the creators. Sad space cowboys, gig economy survival, tragedy and comedy and pathos built into the rules - fab.

But the rulebook was a chore to read. The vibe of the genre was disconnected with the plain voice of the writing, which read like an unenthusiastic sales-pitch for the rules. No drama. No blues or soul or laconic tone. No excitement for the premise. Even with the amazing art of the book, I checked out.

Two questions:

1. For those who play it, how did you maintain the genre vibe and attitude of the premise?

2. What game would you recommend for the same vibe but a more engaging read (Scum & Villainy was suggested, but I find FitD games fun to play but not run).

All suggestions welcome!

Forever GM by choice here. My current long term campaign is on break and nearing the final levels, so I'm looking towards my next. I've always been more in to SciFi than Fantasy, so that's where I'm looking. If I'm pouring my energy in to another long term campaign, I want the perfect system. But that's where I'm running in to problems.

The main things I'm looking for are:
1. Interesting combat, something deeper than "roll to shoot" then end turn.
2. Character building with meaningful choices every level, that doesn't kill you before Level 1.
3. Weapon customisation like suppressors, holographic sights and extended mags.
4. Decent variety of conventional weapons rather than wall to wall energy weapons.
5. Not strictly tied to a single setting. I'm a chronic worldbuilder and like to run my own settings.

My current main option is Star/Pathfinder. This hits the first 2 points dead on and I have some experience with the system. I have issues with point 3 and especially 4, but with system knowledge and a lot of time to prepare I'd look in to homebrewing some new weapons and customisation options. Point 5 is easy enough outside of the minor effort to pick a Deity list.

Another game I've played is Fallout2d20. The combat is interesting with Called Shots and Action Points, the character building is solid for a classless system and the gear customisation is fantastic. But running anything other than Fallout requires reskinning the entire game from top to bottom, without mentioning the range system. So this one isn't an option but might give some context, hopefully.

Many of the games I've found with solid weapons have puddle deep combat disguised by being "hyper lethal". But I want to run something combat heavy, with planet hopping mercenaries/adventurers, not a game where combat must be avoided at all costs. I've looked through the suggestion list and from the rules I've managed to find nothing has jumped out. Which is really the main problem, there are many good and highly recommended SciFi RPGs out there that don't fit my awkward preferences.

I'm fully prepared to be told there's nothing out there that fits 100% and Starfinder is close enough to my ideal system. But I have to ask, am I missing something?

Thanks for any help.

On September 18, as part of their Autumn Preview of upcoming products, Games Workshop announced their first in-house RPG in roughly 20 years; Necromunda Roleplay. They had products to show off and a promotional video of them sitting around playing it. It was due to come out by years end (most likely).

A couple weeks after the announcement, the articles about the game were removed from Warhammer Community (Games Workshop's official news site).

Today, 35 days after the announcement, they've announced Necromunda Roleplay isn't happening.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ntkfvqdt/new-for-necromunda-in-2027/

I was wondering because in my personal conception of a podcast for live play a group of friends get together with a pre-existing idea and put it out there so their world/characters/acting gets seen. But usually people stick to something like D&D.

I was wondering if there were podcasts that had multiple systems, especially indie ones... mostly because I'd love to talk to them about the possibility of them doing some live play sessions of my game at some point. But I don't even know if people do that, or how I would begin searching for that...

So... here's the first attempt!

I say its stupid because in my head it shouldn't work, really. The idea of a Rogue-like is either A) you progress through your of objective until you loose it all and must begin from the start or B) you progress as above and keep some stuff in a loss.

The game Rogue itself comes from the legacy of trying to put D&D into old computers in its on unique way. An old dungeon crawl where you go room from room acquiring treasures until either the end or your end.

I love Rogue-likes and Rogue-lites (Hades I & II being my favorites), so I'm very intrigued on if its possible to do a Rogue-like using a TTRPG.

If it is, which you found to be the best systems for such a game? I personally, if possible, am looking for too things:

• Extreme customization of everything
• A very strong Zero to God pipeline
• Real difficulty in choices to make, specially in limited resources at any given time

I say this because this really highlights to me the strengths of a Rogue-like. My main gripe, of course, is how to play out a STORY in such a style of game.

I say this because Rogue-likes are often not well known for their deep storytelling, the complete opposite of TTRPGs, and in that case I would just then look for a co-op Rogue-like to play with my friends.

So my final and most important question then is:

• How does one tell a story in a TTRPG in a multi layered Dungeon Crawl were TPKs are expected at any corner? Is it actually that easy and I've been conditioned wrong by the media about RPGs?

Hey, just wondering if anyone's had a chance to play any of this year's entries.

If so, which ones did you try, and how did it go?

I've played ttrpgs (mostly dnd 5e) on and off for about eight years, and during that time, I've always been a pretty reactive player: I respond when there's clear prompts, like when the GM describes or controls an NPC or calls out a situation we perceive, or when a fellow player says something that's obviously looking for a response, like a ludicrous statement in need of a straight man or an outright question.
However, that's most of what I do, is responding. I don't take initiative much, I don't prod things, I don't explore on my own account. I would like to change that, but that's so much easier said than done.
In theory I know how to be a more active player: just do something, anything. Thinking about what my character wants and trying to pursue that actively. But in practice that is just not where my behavior pattern trends. I hate feeling like I'm interrupting someone else, or that I'm overriding or distracting from what's going on, or that I'm nagging in the case of something like pursuing a character's wants, or, heavens forbid, that I'm being outright disruptive to the game.

It's so easy to fall back into that reactive behavior pattern because that's what I did for eight years, but I want to break out of that pattern because I would rather be more active and feel like I'm more engaged with the game with my friends. Unfortunately, just wanting to be more active isn't enough for me to actually be more active.

If anyone has any advice on how to hold myself accountable to be more active, or any little cheats and tricks to get myself to at least behave more actively, I'd really appreciate it, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.

Hey all. I have collected a large number of systems at this point but I am not sure which would be best to start out with (Not dnd or pathfinder). I and my older sister and parents have started to play but none of us have any real experience. I am GM.

The one we tried first was Mothership. I ran another bug hunt but ran into a number of problems when it came to improvising as the game didn't exactly teach how to do that under pressure very well. They enjoyed it but i ended up feeling like i did a pretty crappy job as GM.

It is a little demoralizing feeling like i have no clue what i'm doing. I picked mothership because i had heard it was really good for GM advice and new gms, but in my experience, it wanted me to improvise a LOT without giving me tools to help in the moment to actually do so...

The full list of games i have availible (and if they have a starter box or a box set i have those too to work from) are these:

Beyond the Wall
Cairn 2e
Mork Borg
Pirate Borg
Vaesen
Call of Cthulhu
Dolmenwood
Dragonbane
Index card rpg master edition
Kids on Bikes
Mothership
Root RPG
The Warren
Shadowdark
Stonetop
Monster of the Week
Into the Odd

Any advice or suggestions with reasons why from the list are greatly apreciated, thanks much!

I’m fairly new to TTRPG’s, starting with two campaigns in DND 5E. I enjoy it, but only so much. The creativity is limiting and the building for characters is also extremely limiting in my opinion. A bard is charismatic. A rogue is sneaky. And it’s just different faces on the same skeleton for every. Fucking. Character.

I want something that completely removes that barrier. Something I don’t need to have defined classes in, where I can make my own up and still be confined in the rules. Also… DND 5e is just too boring anymore for me, I want to be challenged.

I’m exploring some options and ive seen a couple come up. So far, ive found the most interesting to be GURPS. Any ideas?

Like a lot of people I was excited for the Necromunda RPG because it seemed like it was gunna be an RPG with a higher focus on combat, and use less theatre of the mind. Very run and gun while still having the narrative elements I wanted. Now I'm looking for something that fits this concept. Doesn't have to be Warhammer themed, hopefully sci-fi themed for obvious reasons but something modern/20th century could work. I've tried Imp Mal and it's not really what I'm after. Does anyone have any recs for something that fits this description?