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Hey all. I'm looking for recommendations on upcoming TTRPG games, projects, supplements that are releasing next year.

What are you excited about? What's going to be the next big thing?

I normally play narrative games like Pbta or Blades in the dark.

I am looking for a game with a more defined combat subsystem. However, the reason I am not going with 5e is because I feel like it makes a lot of concessions for the sake of like narrative design that i feel ultimately makes the combat system worse

I want a game whose main goal was to give an engaging combat system. High character customization preferred

Do y’all know anything like that ?

It's the most wonderful time of the year because I can buy couple books there and there. I am seeking recommendations for books that:

Helped you a lot on being a game master (I have all the Sly Flourish Stuff fyi)

And/Or:

Rulebooks that have great GM sections (I heard good stuff about Mothership, for example).

Anything goes. Fire away!

There are many games in my library that have no mention as to how long a campaign could/should run for. Some games don't get pumping until 3-4 sessions in, whereas some take much longer. Others start to fall apart if you spend too long with the same characters.

I simply wish when reading a blurb on a book cover or on DriveThru that a benchmark phrase like "designed for X sessions of play" is included.

Caveat: I acknowledge that a "session" is not a standard of unit - it doesn't. Have to be definitive, just indicative.

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering which combat orientated RPG out there give the most decision making, with the smallest quantity of rules?

Most RPG I've played or read are either rules light, with very little decision making once you are in a fight (IE, Mork Borg), or rules heavy, with screeds of pages of rules text and random abilities - but often not really any depth to it or the depth comes from character construction decisions (IE, Pathfinder, DnD)

The best example of what I like isn't a tabletop RPG at all, but the game Into the Breach. Extremely simple abilities and extremely important positioning combine to make an elegant set of combat rules where your best decision with the same tools and same opponents can be totally different based on the terrain and the game state.

IE, a "ranged attack that pushes the target back" can push enemies into (very common) lethal terrain, into the way of an enemy projectile, into a position where their attack misses, into a position where your attack or an area attack can hit them, or even where their attack hits another enemy. All that from "1 damage ranged attack with a push".

Examples from tabletop are hard to specifically recall. In Mork Borg, there is a rule where you can sacrifice your shield to totally nullify an attack. In many grid based games, there are zones of control or gang up bonuses based on where the characters go. Sometimes your facing is important; a shield might give you a bonus against frontal attacks - combine that with several shield characters for a shield wall and there is no chink in that armor.

While yes, Aragorn was the main inspiration for the Ranger concept in RPGs and he didn't have a special companion, almost every other representatives of the concept have one, be it for traversal, scouting, combat, exploration, companionship, etc.

In games where exploration rules are more developed, I don't need a full combat buddy but at least a familiar or frailer pet is always great to have. But in games where exploration is not that focus, like in D&D 5e/5.5e, Rangers start to lose its identity a bit when it comes to combat, with at max some type of Hunter's Mark, a few spells and maybe being good with a bow.

Having an Animal Companion helps a lot in giving them a niche outside being the Exploration Guy in my view.

Prompted by a previous post by another user regarding ICRPG. Seemed like a lot of people were put off by the idea. Why is that? What physical materials do you use for your games? What difference does it make for you and your table?

Good day y'all,

a little question, if I may? I want to run Achtung Cthulhu 2d20 in the near future and wish to implement more of that globe trotting hot sauce into my game - basically I want more 'Indiana Jones' and less 'Saving Private Ryan' (tentacles are welcome either way, and naturally some nazi punching mayhem is par for the course).

Could you please point me towards some Pulp Adventure style missions/modules, which I could use or mine (ha!) for this? Which official Achtung Cthulhu missions can do the job? Could the old TSR Indiana Jones-Modules possibly work? Then I could go and replay Raiders of the Lost Ark!

Bonus points if the module is beginner friendly. Additional bonus points if said module comes from one of the following systems: d20, BRP/CoC, OSR, as I'm already familiar with those.

Thank you all very much

is there a genre of RPG that has players taking on the role of world leaders, rules of a country or it’s sometimes called “domain level play”?

i don’t have a specific era in mind, rather looking for if this is a genre, what it might be called, what are systems that support it.

Playing the “wargame” Empires in Arms and more often than not, it feels like a DMless RPG with the players playing world leaders. While there are victory conditions and points, we’r playing for the experience (for two years!) and there can be more than one winner, so not quite a zero-sum.

I recently found a post about how there are many dating apps, but no one has made one for finding friends to play with. What do you think about this idea?

Would anyone actually use it, or is it unnecessary with Reddit and Discord?

Does anyone know of any RPG stores in Toronto you can play your games at, either cheap or free?