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I love Vampire: The Masquerade, but not for the reasons most people do. Most people like the brooding atmosphere, but I really enjoy the base building mechanics.

I've long since dreamed of running a V5 game built around base building, expanding and building an empire, but I'm frequently held back by how it seems like an afterthought in the system, and also my own general inexperience running a game like that.

What are some system agnostic tips and advice for running a game about logistics, base building and politics?

Hi, I will be spending four glorious days of setting my credit card on fire in the best city in the world. Any tips for the best TTRPG shops in London? I'm in Shoreditch, but your Underground will be able to take me anywhere. Thanks!

When I was a kid I used paper to do GM prep and notes, but since I restarted as an adult I've only used electronic stuff (e.g., One Note).

Does anyone still use paper?

I'm surprised this situation hasn't come up for me before, but in my current game the PCs are meeting multiple important NPCs at the same time (multiple vassals have gathered in a rare event to meet at the kings castle) and it would be a great opportunity to:

1. Exposit a bunch of information about the kingdom; who these NPCs are and what their local holdings are like (it's a new campaign and the players don't know much about the area yet)
2. Introduce the personalities of these NPCs
3. Introduce the goals and concerns of each of these NPCs, and to a limited extent, the secondary characters linked to each of them
4. Demonstrate the tensions between them, and what each thinks of the other, etc

A movie would just play all this out in a single scene but at the table that would result in me performing a conversation between five non-player characters, which is awful.

With all these characters in one area and available - what would be a cleaner way to achieve my goals? My best idea so far is "players meet them one by one at a feast" but I'm not crazy about.

Would love to know how you'd handle it or what GM tools can be deployed here.

Thanks!

This was a Call of Cthulhu campaign, and not a very long one (5 sessions). I cooked up everything about it in my head, and it was my first time running a game in 3 years after my last one fizzled out. The ending was fantastic. The dice told such a story and after it ended we all had a group hug and sat in a circle complimenting each other. That was two days ago. In the two days since, my 5 players have made about a dozen really good fanarts of the characters. It's just so surreal to see this thing that I created inspire my players to make art like that. I'm still riding that high after two days because I just feel so proud of all my players and so happy that we came together for this campaign

Rant over, just wanted to share this awesome experience with people!

Side note, one of them stalks my reddit profile sometimes, so if you see this, hi leia! Your art is really cool

So, as the title says, I have been hosting a Star Wars game, the three players are all padawans. Each of them are troubled in one way or another

Two are fairly similar, having strong darkside temptations while the third is a bit of a misfit(stealing, hacking archives. Etc)

Regardless, im wondering what the graduation trial would actually look like? If it matters this is hosted in the high republic setting. I know padawans just need to be knighted by their masters, but I'm curious if theres a big test in particular to do?

Hey everyone!

While searching for different solo TTRPGs I came across one called Acceptance/Rejection by ashhhh. The premise sounded unusual and fun and I wanted to know more. It used to be hosted on itch, but the page has since been taken down (Wayback Machine link:https://web.archive.org/web/20220602121942/https://ashhhh.itch.io/acceptance-rejection).

Did anyone here happen to play it, download the rules, or know if it is published elsewhere? I’d love to know more about how it plays or how to get a copy if it's still available anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

I am planning on running a small event for my University's board games group centred around TTRPGs. Mainly for the purpose of GMs and Players meeting and finding groups as well as finding people who might run One Shots later in the year but also to introduce newbies to the idea of TTRPGs in general. For this I want to run a One Shot for people with 0 experience with TTRPGs in order to introduce them to the idea but we only have the space for around 1.5 hours so even with pre-made character sheets the systems I know best would take too long for any substantial One Shot. What are some systems good for brief one shots with new players (or just a very short One Shot in an "easy to learn on the go" system)

Preferably it would also either be open to a decently large player count or be easy to GM so multiple people can run it simultaneously for different groups in case a lot of people come.

Hey yall! Are there any good free websites/apps for interactive world maps? I already have mine fleshed out, but I want to be able to drop pins on it, draw areas, etc.

Like many others, my love for the Dragon Quest Monsters series has been rekindled with the demo for the newest entry to the series and, like many others I'm sure, immediately thought, but how do I bring this to the tabletop?

I know I'm opening a can of worms. I've seen myriad pokemon tabletop attempts and suggestions that range from "use D&D" to "use Showdown to literally play pokemon battles 1v1 against the GM", but none of them have really succeeded in nailing the feeling of pokemon... And, for the most part, pokemon is an easier model to emulate.

Likewise, in far rarer occasions, I've seen the Digimon attempts, but never DQM.

Do any of you have any suggestions for systems that are actually amenable to emulating the feeling and experience of Dragon Quest Monsters or perhaps even niche systems I've not found that do so?

And by that I mean games where you can buy 1 product and have everything you need to crack the book or box open and start playing.

For example, Mythic Bastionland is little bit of rules followed by dense pages of just stuff to include in your game. Myths, enemies, allies, names, spark tables, items, seers, other knights, and on and on and on. All you need that's not in the book is a hex map, and there's plenty of options for that.

Another good one: Dragonbane. In the box you get the rules, premade characters, plenty of standees, adventures, a solo adventure and accompanying rules, a map, and I think dice too. All for less than the price of many of the popular core books.

As a buyer I really love games that come essentially feature complete out of the box like these. I know pretty much all of Free League's publications are like this to some extent. What else is there?

What are your favorite, single purchase complete games? And what all comes with them?