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With Foundry becoming my go to tool for online gaming I slowly realized how much people pay attention to stuff that when I roleplayed at the table didn't matter at all. Like maps for every encounter. For most encounters we just put pencils on blank squares map to indicate walls and then some random tidbits to say where important stuff is. For characters we had mini eiffel tower, a smurf and chaos marine for our classic D&D game. Now it seems that not only map (and even animated map!) is required but vast array of animation tools, visual effects, automated sound effects, huge visual cues on different stuff. I know this might be fun for a lot of people - I myself enjoy preping my games and adding small things but not on this scale. Mind you I don't play D&D these days (aside AD&D which I started recently and which made me come to such conclusions) so my perception might be totally different. But when playing stuff like D&D do people really expect all this bells and whistles? What it does for me - even sometimes portraits vs text description - is it takes whole imagination process out of it. If GM tries to show every bit, every scene, every monster visually it kinda chops away stuff I enjoyed before. But again - do people enjoy playing the game like it was computer game? I was considering opening up my AD&D game for people outside my table but I asked myself is this kind of gaming appeals to anyone these days?

I really like low magic settings and I am building one for my campaigns (very inspired by the xiii century) but I don't know if DnD 5e could be a good game system, I thought of changing some classes or remove them and I also did it with the spell that the players can use, I also thought to play max to the 10th level because after it the characters are too powerful.

There are other systems that are better at doing low magic?

I saw GURPS and it seems very good, because it's very customisable on the mechanics. I saw also Warhammer fantasy but the magic have some negative effects and I don't want these things.

In my setting the magic is not prohibited in all the world only in some regions, and in these regions there are some people that can have access to magic.

I don't mean stuff like FATAL, (which is just made by a disgusting edgelord), or Hybrid, (made from an extremely long psychotic episode), or RoHoWa, (made by a literal nazi cult), which are just awful, period, Im talking about ttrpgs made to be awful ON PURPOSE. Like that someone actually purposefully attempted to make the worse ttrpg imaginable, in a complete self aware way, with the most unplayable system, frustrating mechanics, worse writting, but purposefully awful as an experiment by itself, or as a joke, or as an attempted parody/satire of ttrpgs themselves, of like "am i able to make the worse ttrpg and how would that be", like the rpg equivelent of that board game whose title is literally "the worse board game ever". Has anyone actually attempted that? If so, what's some examples?

Anyone have any suggestions for pre-written adventures that feature factions? I have read a lot of theory about using factions, but would like to see some practical examples. I have heard Arden Vul is good for this, but something on a smaller scale would be good.

I am currently doing some research into game systems and thought about this question a bit. Imagine you had to show someone new to the hobby 5 different games to explain the scope of tabletop role playing to them.

Was looking at getting my friend a book or two off dtrpg for Xmas and in check out saw it said print on demand and media mail shipping was 4 to 7 weeks.

He uses the pdf but likes to collect the actual books read them so I figured I'd get a pdf+physical copy of the books. One was a hardcover the other 3 softcover(I'm assuming it's paperback).

I originally thought it'd be like buying a book from Barnes and noble or Amazon but now I'm not so sure so are all books bought there print on demand and take upwards of 4 to 7 weeks go ship? Any info or experiences would be great thanks!

My kids (4 boys aged 8-14) have recently become obsessed with Stranger Things so I thought it would be fun to start running our own ttrpg campaign as a family. I found the new Stranger Things DnD set, but decided that it seems a little too advanced and rules heavy for our family (especially the youngest). In my research for an easier alternative to DnD I’ve come across the Tiny Dungeon/Tiny d6 system which seems promising, but I’m having trouble understanding how to actually run a campaign and hoping folks here have some experience and guidance on the matter before I spend the $30 on the book and additional cost for figurines & other materials.

My first and biggest concern is… am I going to actually have to write out all of my own adventures? Or is there somewhere I can source adventures from? It seems like the books don’t come with actual adventures in them, only loose “micro settings”. I’ve never been a DM and have only played about 10 sessions of DnD in my life, so this seems like a very daunting task. Am I making it seem harder than it actually needs to be? Any advice here would be much appreciated!!

This is kinda of an odd question, but ever since I first discovered the TTRPG community, the bestiaries and monster books have always been my main Intrest, and I rarely actually play the RPGs those bestiaries belong to, rather I only buy and read the bestiaries, and I’ve been called weird or some people have said that it is disrespectful to the creators of the RPG to only buy the bestiary, but I’m not sure if I should look elsewhere for good monster books to stick to reading RPG bestiaries.

My group has been using a rotating GM format we call Savage Isles. It solved the usual problems around prep, burnout, and missed sessions, so I finally wrote it all down. If you’re interested in open-table style play or shared-world campaigns, here’s the write-up:

https://open.substack.com/pub/ed12372944/p/savage-isles-west-marches-at-sea

Would love to hear how others handle rotating GMs.

Hiya! I'm thinking about writing my own setting and rulebook, so:

What are top 5 qualities that decides about if you want to play a game or buy the rulebook?

What are the absolute "no no's"?

Edit: thank you guys for detailed comments! It means a lot, in one evening I learnt a lot more than I thought! For sure it's not my last post here :)