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I may be a bit of a.... collector at this point. I own rulebooks for like a dozen different TTRPG's, including the bigger ones and multiple versions of those, random solo games, indie games, even a big book of 25+ one shot standalone games.

The problem is that I literally don't even have a gaming group to play with. I haven't even ACTUALLY played D&D in over 10 years.

Just bought Slugblaster and Ion Heart at Pax West today and I'm stoked about them (especially Ion Heart as I might actually get to play it. lol) but I already know I won't be playing any group campaigns any time soon.

NOTE: This doesn't mean "three things you hate and three things you love", I mean one-to-three RPG things you're burnt out on, and one-to-three things you want to see more of.

Tired of (in no particular order)

Anime/Zelda/Ghibli settings: Especially because most of the time they just slap the aesthetics of contemporary Japan's concept of pastoral Europe onto whatever RPG slop of the day mechanics are popular.

Anything Grimdark: Double-points if it's clearly Bloodborne inspired. Like the previous point, it's usually an aesthetic slapped onto OSR-but-different mechanics. These titles also usually are just grimdark, without any sense of irony, satire, or black humor, making them much like the poison swamps of whatever latest game FromSoft put out.

Meta-currencies: Particularly GM-facing ones. The sort of mechanics where you're "buying permission to be a decent GM" (or how it feels to me).

What I want to see more of

Traditional (non-European Medieval) Fantasy Settings: This has been a problem since I was a child, but the fantasy genre isn't limited to Tolkein-esque medieval Europe. 1001 Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Journey to the West, and Star Wars are all fantasy.

Great Book Layout: I'm soo happy that this is becoming more of a staple, and have started to buy books from publishers that care about layout and editing. Also any book that contains an entire subject of rules to one page or paragraph.

Adventures: It used to be that adventure paths were far more common, but even WotC seems to be shrinking away from them in exchange for a glut of settings. Even though I'm unlikely to run Kala Mandala, I will use Reach of the Roach God at some point, for example.

It feels to me that gaming has never been in a more popular place, as I currently have *a lot* of gaming groups on the go (details below). But! I was speaking to one of my friends who recently bemoaned that he can't find a group that lasts longer than a few sessions. I'd invite him to one of mine (he's not a bad player by any means) but my dance card is currently extremely full.

So I wondered what your gaming situation is right now? Here's what I'm currently running:

Right now, I'm running Jadestorm (currently crowdfunding!), SLA Industries, and Vampire: The Dark Ages for my local groups.

For my online (Patreon) groups I'm running two Call of Cthulhu campaigns, Pendragon, two Vampire: The Dark Ages games, one Wraith: The Oblivion, one Victorian Age Vampire, one Kult: Divinity Lost, one Werewolf: The Apocalypse, two Curseborne campaigns, one Vampire: The Masquerade chronicle, and one SLA Industries campaign.

I'm also running Call of Cthulhu for Red Moon Roleplaying (excellent AP podcast).

The local groups and Red Moon Roleplaying are once a week, the online ones are at least once a month.

Across these groups I have well over 40 players. Most of these games have been running for several months, and in a couple of cases several years (I think Pendragon is the longest running campaign at almost three years).

Accepting that my scale of running games is somewhat industrial, how often are you getting to the table?

I mean, there are several APs that I enjoy like Mystery Quest because I get to se how new games are played, but I like my friends more. Even when I game with strangers like when I go to cons, I normally enjoy myself more because I'm actually playing rather than just watching/listening.

Idk why, but it's always easier to remember the great moments when my friends nailed a scene, had a great plan, got into shenanigans, etc. I remember and cherish my successes and my fails and those of people around me.

I get confused when people are disappointed that their table isn't like Critical Role. I mean, why should it be? It can be its own unique special brand of fun!

Ive found a video about SUZi ttrpg and id like to read it myself, but it got taken down from itch. Is there another way to get it?

Heya.

I'm looking for game recomendations. I usually play rules lite, OSR stuff like MORK BORG and Shadowdark, and more medium crunch games Vampire the Masquerade and Werewolf the Apocalypse. What I am currently looking for is:

More rules lite or medium crunch games, and I want a tactical game that isnt too complex, or at least its well written and clear enough.

The themes I am looking for is:

Steampunk

Mecha

Stone age

Bronze age

Super heroes

Zombies

And otherwise bizarre, out there settings.

So, I'd been preparing to run a game of Public Access, but one of the members of our group who had dropped out a while ago is coming back in, and instead of excluding him I want to find something with the same vibe that I can run with him in it. I have Slugblasters, and I'm leaning towards that, but I could use some suggestions.

Things that I'm specifically looking for:

• Gameplay that highlights the weird, strange, and absurd, and encourages the players to indulge in it.
• Something with an emergent story where the players are actively shaping it, and have at least some kind of structure for the GM to cling onto while they're doing this because I fucking suck at coming up with whole storylines of my own, but pretty good at flying by the seat of my pants.
• Not fantasy.
• Is good with 5 players.

I've still got a while before it's my turn to run things, so I'd like to explore some games and have a few options to pitch to my players to see what they'd want to play.

Is there a video explaining the concept of RPG games in Chinese Mandarin? I have a friend who wants to play and has no clue what they are!

I don’t want to show her “the rules”, I simply want her to see a video on her native language that would hype her up for a session. You know, kinda like this video really hypes you up for Troika, but it’s in English:

https://youtu.be/FNDNBlBP3Mw?is=v9NhYDB2Z85tKR1C

Hey folks!

I was wondering..how many of us around here actually *prefer* running one-shots rather than running campaigns? (Obviously, I do)

I've been rewatching Andor and wanted to run a SW RPG, I want it to be lower power scale but not as low as something like WOD. Ideally, I'd want a group of 6 trained soldiers to be a large threat. None of the players are going to be Jedi so I don't need force powers or any magic system. Spaceship stuff preferred but not necessary.

Edit: So everyone's been giving star wars games so if you read nothing else read this: I don't need a star wars TTRPG. I just need a game that I can flavor. What I really need is the mechanics to enable spy stuff to happen.

I just found this ttrpg called "space bounty blues" (https://nerdypapergames.itch.io/sbb), which is a Gm-less ttrpg, or rather a ttrpg with switching GMs. The idea is that in the central part of the game, one character is in the spotlight, one other player acts as GM and the other players help fleshing out the world by asking questions. Each character has a scene of being in the spotlight, so there is always another Player acting as GM (I hope I explained it correctly). I really like this idea for a Quick game, that can be improvised without big preparations and without needing a fixed GM, so i wanted to ask, if anybody knows similar games to check out. One, that came to my mind was "Quantum Popcorn", even though this game works a bit different.

Thanks for your help !