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Like I have 5 awesome ones I read and would love to run and want to get a good idea of which ones my players are excited about.

For me as a GM reading the rulebooks is the best way to "get" an RPG and fall in love with it, but players aren't as patient. I'd love to be able to point them to like 1 page for each RPG that captures well what makes it awesome and what it's about. You'd think their own store listings would do that, but alas I haven't seen that be the page.

Just sending the first page or two from each rulebook doesn't quite work either. My only option that's left seems to be to throw the books at the table and talk about each and see what my players pick, but this will still more get their likes on the setting and art and for adventures esp hard to do so without spoilers.

Would be awesome if every little thing came with a one-page pitch which seems common in other industries. Like imagine one single page that captures the awesomeness and art of Mythic Bastionland, or that of Mork Bork and so on.

Maybe it's too much to ask haha, but right after writing this I think I'm gonna go write up some flyer-type page for each RPG/adventure I wanna run to hook my players.

I am looking for some rule light narrative/Theater of the mind games to try out with my group.

We're getting tired of the exhaustive character creation and combat rules and are looking for more simple stuff. Can be modern or fantasy or sci-fi or whatever.

As long as it is a TotM game that offer some sort of campaign play support(aka, progression), we would be happy.

I'm thinking something akin to Lancer but instead of mechs, its starships. Can be either a tactical game or a narrative game, just wanna see what's the most popular ones at the moment.

I don’t mean political intrigue as players aligning with factions but rather players running things like a country, department, big company or even a planet. Basically a game that allows players to make big decisions that change the political landscape.

please not PbA games

I again went through the Worlds Without Number book by Kevin Crawford and was AGAIN amazed at how useful it is for a DM. As a reminder, here are the things it offers to help the DM:

• Site/Ruins/Dungeon exploration guides
• Campaign World Building Guide with dozens of amazing, useful tables
• City/Village Creation with tables, advice
• Aristocratic/Business/Religious Faction building advice with lots of random generators
• Advice on prepping/adapting adventures
• Generators for combat/exploration/social encounters
• Tables for interesting treasure
• Strategies and random tables for creating or customizing monsters
• Strategies and random tables for creating or customizing magic items

If you have not dug into this book do yourself a favour and go buy the PDF, or at LEAST download the hefty free preview version from DTRPG.

Working on an expansion for my one pager ttrpg and have been scratching my head on some of the formatting i see in other ttrpg books. How do y'all add those side bars/side boxes that talk about relevant information without breaking the flow of a chapter? I mainly use Word and Elipsus but if I need to swap to a (free) document app that isn't google docs I will. Any advice is appreciated!

We ran a game of Eat the Reich. I was the GM. Let me start with the positives: vibes and atmosphere rocked, aesthetic through the roof. Everything was "cool" and there were "cool" moments.

The players had fun, and I as the GM had some fun watching them. But it really felt like my role was so minimal, especially in terms of choices. I would roll dice and then sit back and watch, decsribe and add some flavor here and there. But overall, didn't feel that good to me. 90% of my dice were blocked anyways, so all I would do is set the scene and track HP. It got really repetitive 4-5 scenes in.

Anyone had similar experiences? Or any experience running this GMless?

I'm writing this while in tears. Maybe I should have waited to write this at another time, but I fell like this moment needs to be captured, so I'm powering through it. I think I really needed a good cry for quite a while, so I'm feeding this flame while I write, cuz being sad feels good sometimes.

I've been playing in a long game for a few months, like 2 or 3. It's a table I've entered after it had already been playing for 20+ sessions in a custom system.
I... like playing RPG. I love it. But it's just so fucking hard for me. I have SEVERE ADHD and that shows up mainly in the form of a very short "social battery", and the sessions are grueling for me. The sitting down for many hours in a row forcing myself to "pay attention", it's fucking torturous.

The reason why I cry is that I'm "leaving behind" my friends and this character I've made. Kind of simply not finishing this story that I started. But that's not the main reason. I feel frustrated and upset with myself that I can't bring myself to enjoy something I love so much. It fucking hurts so much. This feeling of not belonging, being inadequate. I WANT TO HAVE FUN playing RPG. I love it. I love telling stories, I love being my character, but just in theory. In practice it's so torturous. I just... I just need to hear some encouraging words or some advices. I'm so lost at what to do. I'm going to cut this text short here because it hurts to type right now. But please if you want to help and you need to be more specific and explain my situation better, I'll surely reply with more details.

I'm just so fucking sad about it, man.

*EDIT* Hey guys, it's the next day. Just giving a little update to not leave this opened. I'm okay. I feel... "wilted". Kind of feels like I'm at that point after a relative died and I'm processing it, but doesn't feel as desolate, obviously. It's gonna be fine. I'm really sad to cut off this story short, but the feeling of relief for not having to force myself to participate every week is way bigger, so I feel like I made the right choice, even if it still hurts.

I thank all of you guys for your words, they did help a lot. As a big answer to a lot of people, I will try to go back to roleplaying again in the future. I just need a way less chaotic group, I think. But I need time to recover and put my life in place.

Ironically, being so sad and how much I've cried felt good. Made me remember I'm actually in here, deep down. I can still feel things. I just kind of sometimes forgot about that, you know.

3 months ago, I wrote an infopost/cautionary/inspirational tale about why I spent close to $1300 to write a scenario as a community content creator. (TLDR I wanted to go all in on commissioned art, a layouter, an editor, and make it as cool as possible, and we're fortunate enough to have the money from previous MR scenarios I had written. Link to the full post if anyone is curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/callofcthulhu/comments/1vfc0fp/how_i_ended_up_spending_1279_writing_a_scenario/ )

And with that out of the way, back to part 2:

At the onset of releasing The Horror I was perfectly ok with not selling enough copies to break even. I would naturally be a tad disappointed if it didn't get any attention, but knowing that the Miskatonic Repository has a vast catalog of scenarios competing for attention and times are lean, it would be understandable if sales were slow.

To my great delight, the reception was mind-blowing.

Brent Kramer loved it and offered to make a bundle containing The Dare with The Horror as well as promoting it on his social media. And he asked me if I would be interested in writing another scenario using the Call of Kidthulu rules :O
Jon and Seth of the Modern Mythos podcast loved it and invited me to talk about it on their podcast.
Matthew Pook of Reviews from R´lyeh wrote an amazing review.
Hokyung Park from Korea asked for permission to translate it into Korean, which I gladly agreed to.

And fans of The Dare and horror with children Investigators appear to like it as well :)

Yesterday was Halloween, one of my favourite holidays of the year, which incidentally was also the exact 3-month anniversary of the scenario's release. It almost feels like kismet that it was the day sales not only hit the break-even point, but tipped into the profit-making level.

Pretty cool for an amateur fan scenario writer.

And I can't wait to start spending the money on commission art for the next project!

Hello

I am running the official Pinnacle's Necessary Evil: Cosmic Crisis but not with Savage Worlds. I use theSupers! Revised Edition RPG (see https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/130108/supers-revised-edition(

Anyone has clues about adapting/ converting the former system to the later?

Regards

So I’m looking for a game for my group. Can’t be Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, Deadlands, D&D or any world of darkness games. It shouldn’t be too narrative (only really have one player that can play narrative) and rules simple or lite.
The reason I’m saying rules simple or lite is one player is a rules lawyer that has many times ruined a game night because we weren’t using a mechanic from the game(even though we all hated it). Also I have a player who always plays broken characters. I don’t mean overly strong I mean broken. He will take over the maximum in flaws and make characters that are children or paraplegics or insane, etc.
I would prefer to stay away from medieval fantasy. Also the suggestion of just completely dropping this group is a vailed suggestion.
Thank you for anyone who responds