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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.

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 encoraging 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.

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!

I have never had so much fun playing a martial character in a TTRPG. The class is all about being a performative fighter, and the feats(class abilities for no Pathfinder players) reflect that so well. You can dance with your opponent to move them, you can play a subclass that allows you to fight like a cheat and be rewarded for it, and you can volunteer to go last in initiative to get your resource.

It's such a good marriage of mechanics and roleplay. I love it!

Hey! Long-time GM here. My friends and me are finishing up our latest call of Cthulhu campaign and are looking for something new. I’ve played many RPGs, but I’ve never come across a good war-simulator rpg.

And I don’t mean just massiv battles but rather an RPG that deals with things like supply-lines, infrastructure as attack targets, covert actions etc. These things don’t necessarily need to be the core-game mechanic but I am looking for something that gives a GM enough resources to run a complex war campaign.

The closest I could find was Twilight 2K. Anything else I might not know?

please no PbA games

As the title suggests, I’d like to know what you consider to be the best RPGs that feature witches. By "witches," I’m referring to the mythological archetype of a female magic-user in a world where no one else knows how to use magic.

I've always been a big fan of the world Shadowrun presents, but never the systems.

Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 being a light(er) version of Shadowrun has me hopeful. I understand it took the flashback mechanic from Blades in the Dark. What are the other inspirations it wears on its sleeves?

How does it run at the table?

Does the system support longish campaigns (20+ sessions)? Or is it made for shorter campaigns, like most other lite games?*

What type of players are the most likely to enjoy Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0? What about GMs?

*I understand the english PDF came out 2 weeks ago, so most people who own it might not have had the time to properly play it, but anything helps!

By "timeline update," I mean advancing the time of the setting so that it's set in the "present day" and not the date of the game's original publication.

In general, most of the times a game's timeline is updated, there seems to be a lingering preference for the era of the original game (or earlier). In another thread, there is someone talking about how they prefer the 90s setting of Over the Edge 2e over the current day setting of 3e. There is an entire source book for running games in the conspiracy era of Delta Green using the updated rules, as well as many scenarios published that are explicitly set in that time. Old World of Darkness seems more at home in the 90s than in the current era, but I haven't looked too closely at the new editions to judge for myself. I definitely think Unknown Armies fits the turn of the millennium better than the present day, even if I do like some of the setting elements of 3e.

Are there examples of games that pulled this off? Feel free to disagree with some of the above; I myself find merit with the post-conspiracy timeline of Delta Green.

As it says, got my newest article up. Took me a bit to form my thoughts on this (frankly, it's a gmae I really like, and also feel weird about, in equal measure). You can read it here!

I’ve been a bit hyper fixated on Avatar as of late, have loved both finished animated series and am currently enjoying the new one as well, and was looking into the TTRPG but haven’t found much on it opinion wise. Or at least I’ve not really seen any of the more well known TTRPG YouTubers play it at all yet.

If anyone has group YouTube session they’d personally recommend I look up the video of, I’d appreciate it. Even if opinions are mixed on it I’ll probably still get it just to have it for my TTRPG Collection I’m slowly building, but I was curious if anyone here has it and has had experience with it more than just a one shot or two.

I’d love to make and play a characters who’s a bit rigid in their views, but never expects people to change their own views and opinions to suit them. I’d love to have my character show the aspect of friendship where real friends respect your personal beliefs and don’t try to force you to betray yourself for them or others, I don’t think that aspect of friendship is seen in media enough.

Would this be possible without modifying the character creation process in the books? If modification is necessary do you think it’s something a DM would be fine with doing in the interest of drama and story?

Thank you all in advance for your advice and for if you read this! I appreciate it!

Hello! I love ttrpgs! I collect anything that appeals to my interests and I enjoy learning about new systems. This of course has caused a steady growth of ttrpg books that I haven't had the chance to use. I have been aggressively trying to chew through opportunities to try everything.

So the question is how do you do the same? What methods have you guys found to make it easier to sell a ttrpg to others? How do you come to the conclusion you've given a system a fair shake?

What draws you to continuing to increase your pile of shame? Should it even be called that? It's a term I hear used all the time in miniature painting but is it really appropriate for this hobby? Do you guys have a term for your collection?