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Basically I'm looking around and it's a bit overwhelming. Can you guys point out some good deals on some good games or bundles? Can be digital or physical!

I’m pretty tired of D&D and I wanna try a new, more rules light TTRPG that is still in the medieval fantasy setting as I have a campaign in mind that fits the setting. A rules light system would be nice cuz I have some friends who wanna get into TTRPGing. The two systems that intrigue me the most rn is Dungeon World and Old School Essentials but I’m not sure which one to get. I like the mechanics Dungeon Worlds and its focus on narrative, but I also really like the sound of the exploration and old school mechanics of OSE.

I’m just looking for opinions on the systems from you guys as I’m unsure which one I should get rn. Or if you wanna you can recommend something else that is similar feel free to.

I am thinking of running a hexcrawl, specifically Evils of Illmire, although using a non-OSR system for the non-crawling parts of the game. I’ve read a bunch of blogs/articles, and get the mechanics, but I am having a hard time understanding the main exploration loop and how to make it engaging.

Rolling to figure out if the party gets lost, finds food/shelter, etc. OK, but that seems like it’ll take up a minute or three of table time, maximum. Am I missing something,or is that how it is supposed to be?

I’ve been looking at of TTRPGs recently and I’ve noticed most of them are fantasy or some other similar genre, but I would like to know if their are any good sci-fi TTRPGs.

What games have you played or read recently that had mechanics or settings or characters that totally surprised you? What games have shown you something that you had never seen before?

To clarify a little, it seems that senses (sight smell hearing...) are a passive trait, and as such it would affect how the GM describes the circumstance.

For example, a party that has 4 PCs with more or less human senses and one with superhuman smelling would require the GM to alert the players if a band of stinky goblins was upwind from the players, even if the players couldn't see them. The party essentially has good smelling because one of the PCs do, and would alert the party to an odorous approach. This would also apply to a char with tremorsense, if one PC has it, you can bet the character warns the party on the approach of a wurm from below.

Systems that have a very good way of handling passive perception would be great too.

Thanks in advance.

I'm open to mechanical ways of doing this, but some well written advice would also be great. And if you don't have a resource but your own way of doing it, feel free to share!

Edit: to clarify: I'm looking for some sort of step by step plan for prepping a narrative campaign that incorporate PC backstories. Or at least some clear tips that can help me formulate my own step by step process. Just so I have clear, non-overwhelming, idea of how to put a campaign plan together. As a reliable tool.

Tl;dr: do you think a more rules light system like city of mist or monster of the week is a better introduction to ttrpgs than something like D&D?

So I've run some games, someone one shots and a campaign that I ran for a couple months, I've only ever been a player for a short-ish campaign of Monster of the Week. I've had some friends/family members that either were curious or that I thought would really enjoy ttrpgs but the one wall I keep running into is as soon as I start explaining things like combat, more technical things, it's like their eyes glaze over.

I was thinking it might be interested to try to introduce someone to ttrpgs with something a little more loose like City of Mist specifically. Do you guys think that'd be a good idea? My thought process was 1) I think the system is a lot closer to "I say what I want to do and it happens" 2) it's a modern setting so a lot of people (at least the people I know) aren't thrown off by having to play as elves and dwarves 3) it just doesn't have the same baggage D&D has. D&D may be mainstream now and you won't get your head put in a toilet for it but I really do think media has negatively colored people's expectations of D&D

Thoughts?

My wife has been writing fanfic recently, and got tired of MS Word, so she went looking and found a program called Scrivener.

I was planning on doing some extensive GM prep for a Delta Green game, so I was using and hating obsidian, as usual. Then I looked over on the couch and saw the program she was using...

If you have the money, this program is the absolute, unquestionable GOAT of Campaign prep. Internal folder organization, document linking, active pinable maps, selective sharing, this thing does it all.

Documents for scenes, which hyperlink to documents about characters in that scene, evidence in the scene links to another document with my handouts for that evidence, time lines, outlines, cause trees....

This is an unpaid, announcement that literally Noone asked for, but we should all be using this program. It has increased the speed of framing this game tremendously, and is organized in a way that makes me feel like I actually know what im doing.

/rant

What are folks thoughts on the Land of Eem?

If you like it, is it a core rule book kind of purchase or a deluxe box set kind of purchase?