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Hi! My name's Jay Dragon, and u/warmneutrals and I are the creative team behind Seven-Part Pact, our new fantastical ornate TTRPG about wizards and the responsibilities they hold. We've the editorial director and art director at Possum Creek, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed imprint of Steve Jackson Games focused on GMless TTRPGs about community, identity, and narrative. We're best known for our work on Wanderhome, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and Last Train To Bremen.

Seven-Part Pact is a fantastical, ornate TTRPG for 3-7 players about the seven great wizards of a faraway archipelago. Each wizard wields tremendous power over the world, with magic giving them the ability to change the very rules of the game. But just as they wield power, so too are they trapped: by the pressures of masculinity, by the weight of their loneliness, by the tolling bell of their own mortality. Each wizard faces a choice: will they maintain the systems that imprison them, or rebel against the Pact and destroy the fragile balance of the game?

It's a blend of board games and RPGs, with each wizard taking charge of their own Domain and doing their best to safeguard it from disaster. The full boxed set includes a shared rulebook, a grimoire of magical spells, and a codex for each wizard (which functions like a mini-DMG). It features gorgeous art from an amazing team (including folks like Conner Fawcett and Pam Wishbow) and Ruby has carefully coordinated the aesthetic to land somewhere between medieval marginalia and dynamic retro risographs.

We would prefer for questions to focus on Seven-Part Pact, but if you ask questions for us in general (or anything else we’ve been involved in) we’ll do our best to answer if we have a moment. Ask away!

Legend in the Mist, the brand-new rustic fantasy game from Son of Oak, of City of Mist fame, is the deal of the day on Drivethru!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/510638/legend-in-the-mist-core-book

It's incredible to me to see a game so new so deeply discounted - it's less than half price! And LitM is a hotly awaited title that is still arriving in physical form to backers and hasn't been out very long in PDF either!

I haven't read mine cover to cover yet, but it's a streamlined implementation of the tag-based system from City of Mist. No moves, just a single resolution system with two levels of detail that is chosen on a moment-to-moment basis, depending on whether a simple yes / no result is sufficient.

It looks super flexible, the art is amazing, and I can't wait to get it to my table!

As always, I'm unaffiliated with either the storefront or the game itself. I'm just super excited to see LitM for less than $12!

We recently discussed the Finnish TTRPG scene here on r/rpg. As I briefly mentioned, I run a small indie TTRPG studio. I'm releasing four new games at Ropecon later this month. Print and PDF, I ship globally:

Laser Dinosaur Cavalry

You are muscular heroes who ride on dinosaurs that shoot lasers from their eyes and you fight nazi robots. Delightfully crunchy, tactical pulp action, six distinct dinosaur species, genuine build differentiation, zero filler, lots of explosions.

Rope Setä, a Finnish TTRPG youtuber, called it "the best RPG ever".

mesolitgames.com/ldc

The Moon Is an Annoyance

The rover is down. Two crew members are stranded on the lunar surface with failing life support and a ten-kilometer trek back to base. Vacuum, radiation, power loss, bad decisions. The Moon doesn't hate you. It doesn't notice you at all.

A hard science catastrophe engine for lunar EVA missions.

Includes over a dozen scientifically plausible, unheroic ways to die in space, and an original electroacoustic soundtrack by Uumen - already available for streaming.

mesolitgames.com/tmiaa

Northpyre: Council

Stone age political negotiations. Three leaders meet at the boundary between their peoples. Irreconcilable wants, personal grudges, promises with teeth.

mesolitgames.com/npc

Blood Nocturne City Hunger

An urban vampire tragedy RPG on a business card. Hunt, feed, lose yourself. Complete game – builds, progression, social system, GM guide, the whole shebang – fits in a wallet. Free, physical only – available at conventions and included with any Mesolit Games order.

mesolitgames.com/bnch

Join the mailing list if you're interested in this kind of stuff. Plenty of new games in the pipeline.

mesolitgames.com/#subscribe

P.S., if you're interested in the UNESCO living heritage thing, Rascal News recently published a piece where I also answer some questions about the submission and the meaning of recognition of RPGs as living heritage.

I've been playing Jeffrey Talanian's Hyperborea and getting really into it, so I created a subreddit for it since there wasn't one. If you're a fan of the game then feel free to share whatever you feel is relevant there: your favourite adventures to run, play reports, questions, fan art, duscussions of sword & sorcery fiction, mighty thews, etc. If you are interested in sword & sorcery as a TTRPG genre but haven't checked out Hyperborea or the adventures written for it, I encourage you to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HyperboreaRPG/

Some of my favorite TTRPGs that I've played recently were Spire/Heart and the Wildsea, which are really unique with character options.

In Heart and Spire, all of the classes are incredibly unusual and outlandish, such as a person made of bees or someone who is so far in dept they now serve the debt god.

Similarly, the Wildsea has some really unique races, such as cactus people. a hivemind of spiders, and ghosts of wrecked ships. It also has classes that are rarely seen in rpgs, though much less weird that Spire/Heart, such as a chef class and a navigator class.

Are there any other TTRPGs with similarly unique or weird classes and/or races that I should look into?

Thanks in advance.

I live all the way down in England and interested and spending my money on Viral, Carnival of Madness, The Highway of Blood and Signal to Noise (Call of Cthulhu scenario books), but after I looked at the website I was buying it off of, DriveThruRPG, and I looked at Trustpilot reviews and it was a 2.6. I couldn't find anywhere else and people who reviewed the those books had a physical copy they seemingly got from DriveThruRPG. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it honestly is trustworthy or really shady, if being the latter, I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me where else I could find those books.

So, I know most games, if you die, you can keep playing by rolling up a new character. what I'm looking for is games like Paranoia, where you have characters that can keep coming back, or the one i can never remember the name of where you are kids in a weird land, and if you die, you play as your ghost, or I know I've read at least one where if you die, you pick up an NPC to play as...

Any other suggestions like that?

Out of all the systems, who do you think either does melee combat the best, or creates the best gameplay for a melee combatant? I'm trying to find a system where the melee characters are resourceless and aren't in the shadows of their magical counterparts.
Edit: I probably should've also asked why it was the best/your favourite

I really like the way that CoD does character generation with characters being built from regular people and then adding another layer for the supernatural template on top of that and I was wondering if there were any other systems that do something similar.

Ideally I'd like to look at options that aren't Horror games, but I'll take what I can get.

Each summer the community comes together for the One-Page RPG game jam and creates hundreds of new, small tabletop RPGs. It's a great opportunity to try designing your own RPG and getting ideas on paper. Some designers have gone on to expand their one-pagers into larger games and get them on Kickstarter, or start a series of games. The jam is accepting submissions already, up until August 16th.

Hey folks! :D
Hope that you're all fine and having luck on our rolls <3

Me and my group are going to start a Cyberpunk or SciFi campaign soon. We currently love and play Dragonbane (that I've discovered in this sub!).

As we love the experience that Dragonbane brings to us, I wanted to know if there are any suggestions of systems like Dragonbane, but for SciFi or cyberpunk setting?

Thx in advance!