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Hey everyone,

We’re organizing Roleplay Ukraine 2026, an online English-speaking TTRPG festival taking place on May 1–3.

The idea is simple: bring people together to play great games and raise money for a real cause.

🎲 What’s happening Online games with Ukrainian GMs Live streams, talks, and actual plays Charity giveaway & auction

🎮 Games
We’ll have a mix of well-known systems and some unique Ukrainian projects: Ukrainian games: Wild Steppe, Archeterica, Marevo Also running: Cyberpunk RED, Fate Condensed, Heart: The City Beneath, Honey Heist, Kids on Brooms, Pathfinder 2e, World of Darkness

📺 Streams Actual play of Ukrainian game Wild Steppe (Wildsea hack) with star guests. Presentations of new Ukrainian TTRPG projects A conversation with the developers of the Cosmere RPG

❤️‍🩹 Charity We’re fundraising for Ukraine’s Frontline Hospitals, supporting medical evacuation vehicles that operate near the frontlines.

🎁 Giveaway Everyone who donates will be entered into a giveaway with 30+ prizes, including books, subscriptions, gift cards, and PDFs.

👉 Want to play, watch, or support? All links are here: https://linktr.ee/roleplayua

If you’ve been looking for a way to try new systems, meet Ukrainian creators, or just support something meaningful — you’re very welcome.

For those who mainly GM, have you found any TTRPGs that you felt were harder to run than others? And what are your reasons for this?

Be it on the back of a book or a box, on a Kickstarter page, or from an excited nerd at a con?

• Did it use design terms from the industry (like "crunch," "storygame," "rules light?")
• Did it reference other media properties (inspirational movies/games, Appendix N?)
• Did it speak about system or setting first?

I'm refining the "about" page for my own game, so I'm looking for hard-hitting examples.

I was actively working on my first oneshot, drawing maps (I think they're pretty cool), looking for fun riddles and puzzles. I sent message to the chat group with which I'm currently playing another game, whether anyone would be interested, no one replied. I asked in several other places, including chats related to the universe in which my oneshot was supposed to be. In total, one person replied that maybe, maybe not. That's it

I know that I should have prepared everything first and then looked for players, but now my work has stalled. When I sit down to write or draw, I think that now there is a chance that no one will ever play this, and all fun is fading for me. I'll finish this anyway and try again to search somewhere else, but still... Eh

I have a great idea for a campaign using Fabula Ultima. I have made the setting, the backgrounds, the enemies, the NPCs...but I lack of the most important thing: the players. I have tried sooo many times to gather people for other games but I fail every time. I once thought I was going to run Demon Castle Dracula (which is a one shot) and everyone cancelled the day of the one shot. Then I gathered another group on Discord, they went to the first session and then abandoned. I recently tried to run a D&D5E one shot and no one replied to my post. I have read stories of groups that have finished a lot of campaigns, and also one story about a group that has run a campaign for 20 years. I really want to run this campaign, any advices?

Anything similar to Blacksad, Albedo, or Usagi Yojimbo? Worlds where, while yes, everyone is an anthropomorphic animal person, everything else is taken in earnest.

I've only run campaigns with D&D and one very brief one shot with Mork Borg. I want to branch out with some different game systems, I don't mind gimmicks (like Dread) and was wondering what lesser known systems you guys might suggest?

My game style is pretty light with the rules, I tend to prioritise story and player enjoyment where I can

Hello r/rpg!

I recently released Uneasy Lies the Head, a GMless roleplaying game where you act as nobles and monarchs embroiled in royal court intrigue.

Here is a video that explains the game in under five minutes.

To play the game, you'll step through the 13 rows of the Public Record, which is styled loosely off of a medieval calendar. Each row starts off blank, which means a player will set a scene to show how their character is scheming at court. When a scene is done, that player gets to prepare one of the game's plans, which mechanically sit somewhere between a PBTA move and a Firebrands mini game, and allow you to do things like propose decrees, host festivities, and welcome new allies to the court.

Those plans get added to later rows of the public record, so won't resolve until a few turns of the game passes. This delayed gratification adds some juicy tension and intrigue, as players set scenes to get out ahead of the rumors you're spreading, wars your declaring, or duels your proposing.

Uneasy Lies the Head was just nominated for two Indie Groundbreaker awards by IGDN in the Best Writing and Most Innovative categories. The game can be bought as a pdf, book, or deluxe boxed set and is available in a few places:

• My webshop
• Tabletop Bookshelf
• IPR
• itch.io (pdf)

Some that come to mind for me:

• Can't Find A Game/Players
• The game loses support, such as supplements or new edition.
• Lose interest in the game's setting.
• A new edition comes out.
• A new game comes out that you like better than the other system.

Why has caused you to drop a game system?

Not knocking on 5E here, just interested in hearing about what (if any) older editions of D&D you play and why.

I have experience with AD&D 1e - fun but probably won't go back to it for a variety of reasons. I've also played quite a bit of 4e - this is likely just nostalgia speaking, but there come times that I'd like to get back into it. Heard Draw Steel might scratch a similar itch. I've only played one session of 3.5, can't comment on it much beyond remembering that character creation took quite a while.

I'd be interested to hear about editions you still play in the present and why you prefer them.

Fanatical currently has a sale on a bundle for DCC. https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/dungeon-crawl-classics-purple-planet-and-dying-earth-rpg-collection