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I found 436 people who wanted to play TTRPGs in-person near me. Here’s how I did it and the 10 tips I learned along the way.

I really like it when games include "mundane" rules for stuff that characters can do. Like lifting and throwing anything, with rules which govern how far you can throw an object based on its weight and how much damage it would do. Or rules for how much you can dig through earth. Or rules for how weather affects travel or combat.

For example, GURPS includes rules for picking up objects (which includes characters) and throwing them, as well as rules for how much you can dig based on your physical stats, and how much you can drink! While some might turn their nose up at these things, I like them because it gives me a foundation to build upon, or allows me to make more consistent rulings.

I know there are a few instances in D&D where if you wanted to throw something, your options are to find the closest equivalent weapon for the range, and deal 1d4 damage. But throwing a creature? You would have to improvise based on a monster ability, which doesn't feel correct. And let's hope your players never ask to dig a hole. Sure, you can look up how long it takes to dig a grave or something and improvise from there -- but what if the character asking is a goliath with 24 strength and 18 con? It would be nice to not have to improvise it, but have some hard and fast rule that takes into consideration character statistics.

It seems to me that most games neglect these sorts of rules. Why is that? And what other games include these sorts of considerations?

Am I just being pedantic or am I on to something? lol

I see this type of antagonist often. Crucially, the mundane evils are (mostly) unaware of the existence of the supernatural evils. This often involves subtle mind control, but it is sometimes just a matter of superhuman persuasion or other incentives.

Two examples that come to mind are Eberron and Chronicles of Darkness. Both are full of rapacious industrialists, tyrannous rulers, myopic warmongerers, and other malefactors. (In Chronicles' case, it is simply due to modern-day Earth setting.)

In Eberron, warmongering Queen Aurala or short-sighted mad scientist Merrix Vown d'Cannith Jr. might be that way naturally, or they could be influenced by the fiends of the Lords of Dust, the dragons of the Chamber, the quori and their psionic powers, or the daelkyr and their mind-aberrating influence, all without knowing it.

In the Chronicles of Darkness, the local heartless billionaire might be be that way naturally, or they could be steered by a spirit from the Shadow, a devil from the Inferno, an angel from the God-Machine, or a mage of the Seers of the Throne, all without knowing it.

Sufficiently powerful characters can beat up these supernatural evils to make the world a brighter place. Indeed, I have run such adventures many times. It can be cathartic to fight and kill/banish an embodiment of greed, tyranny, warmongering, etc.

A tricky part is that it can reduce culpability. "You see, they were actually an innocent little bean who was being mind controlled." I prefer it when this is mitigated by the manipulation methods having involved minimal mind control. The rakshasa Mordakhesh in Eberron prints multiple inflammatory and disinformation-rife newspapers to gin up a war; and to use a non-RPG example, Ares in Wonder Woman (2017) mostly implants ideas for superweapons without directly exerting mind control.

What do you think?

To be clear, the concept of secret societies touches upon this to a degree. However, the kind of supernatural evil I am talking about is (mostly) unknown to the mundane evil.

In the above examples, Queen Aurala or Merrix Vown d'Cannith Jr. know nothing (relevant, anyway) about fiends, dragons, quori, or daelkyr; and the local heartless billionaire is ignorant of spirits, devils, God-Machine angels, mages, and so on.

So if secret societies are involved, they are unknown to the high-profile catspaw.

I've been running a Legend of the 5 Rings 4e campaign for 2 years now, with a closeknit group of family, playing once or twice every week. great fun.

We are a few sessions away from the grand finale. my players know that. last night, my players were in the right place at the right time, a saw X npc running away, with her father's guards running behind to arrest/save her and bring her back. player G decides to go after her, while the rest of the party just said they'd go and inform her father about the whole thing. that's where the problem started

in the story, the players were supposed to spend the night at the lord/father's estate, and go in the following morning to look for the girl and the missing guards, leading to a big bad thing they need to find to almost complete the campaign (a portal to hell). they know this is why they are here, that's why they travelled here.

he run into the unknown, in a completely abandoned, dark and somewhat dangerous area of a city that was half destroyed a long time ago, with no armor, no weapons, and no magic of any kind (they were chilling in a geisha house so he had to give up his gear at the entrance). i let him play this, as to not block his free will, and keep following foot tracks. an hour passes in game, and i ask him if he plans to spend the whole night wandering the empty ruins. he says yes. another hour passes, i ask if he thinks he should rest and come back tomorrow. he wants to keep going. to make things interesting, i let him stumble upon the bad guys (that he is supposed to find tomorrow) and tell him they havent seen him yet. he spies on them, figures out what's what, and goes to find the guard looking for the girl. i ask if he wants to leave now. he says no. he takes the guards to the bad guys. everyone is fully armed and armored but him. he still doesnt leave. a fight breaks out, he stays to fight. i tell him his side is losing badly. he doesnt leave. they hurt him a lot, he's left with 3 hp and i spare his life, in order to recruit him. he says he will never serve them (he doesnt even know who exactly these guys are). i stopped the session there, as i didnt want to say "your character dies" right before "goodnight".

i have spent a lot of time and effort on this, and i want both player G, and the other 2 players to enjoy the finale. its too late for him to make a new character, and it wouldnt feel right to finish the campaign with only the other players participating. i also dont want to deny him his choices and say "no, your character wouldnt do that".

do you have any suggestions on what to do at this point?

I plan on running a mystery and I would love any recommendations or any books that touch on it

Hey there everyone, I'm preparing to introduce 2 new players to rpgs. They became interested when seeing a Cthulhu game at the bookstore and wanted to play something like that but were worried about how complicated it might be for them. I'm an experienced DM though i haven't run any Lovecraft or Cthulhu games yet. I'm confident in running horror games, I've run tons of Vaesen, Mothership, Deadlands, and other little Horror games, but wanted some recommendations as Lovecraft horror can lean pretty heavy on players being able to get into the game.

I already own Cthulhu Dark and like the system, my only worry is that with such little mechanical framework new players might feel a little lost. Sometimes having stats, skills and abilities can help orient newbies to what they can and should be doing. I also considered running Call of Cthulhu proper, I've never touched the system but its what first caught the players eyes, they just didn't want to invest in it knowing nothing about RPGs and the physical game being pretty pricey.

Basically is Cthulhu Dark good for new roleplayers, is Call of Cthulhu easy to run for new players with prep, pregens or a prewritten one shot? Any recommendations on Lovecraft One-Shots, I've heard a little of Delta Green being a good option too.

Lastly (I already have and) I'll be speaking more with the players to understand what they want and expect out of this experience, proper session 0 stuff. Just would like to come to the table with an option or two prepared to keep things moving quick and easy.

sorry if i'm using this subreddit wrong but i genuinely can't find anywhere else to post

i used to LOVE roleplaying on roblox when i was little because i loved customizing actual avatar oc's and role playing with real people. i would be on fantasia for hours lmfao. roblox rp died down for a variety of reasons — roblox is just full of brainrot rp now, the genuine rp games are used as a social hangout game, and im older now (20 and looking for rp games, embarrassing i know) and dont want to (and also can't bc of roblox age restrictions) rp with much younger kids...

i also used to rp on minecraft too, but hypixel's housings are pretty dead now too. idk if there's more servers for that

does anyone know of any good games for older players to roleplay? it would be nice to have a game where i can make oc's and enjoy complex rp with other people. i'm yearning for the old days 💔💔

I’ve been thinking about a few things in an RPG I play often. And this is the question that bothers me the most: I have a winged character who’s a hand-to-hand combatant—is it possible to use wings in close quarters combat? If yes, how would you effectyvelu do that?! There is no special abilites that the wings can do except for... Well, flying

Okay after my agency question, I noticed a kind of pattern in some people comments which made me kind of curious. What do you personally believe is a misconception or completely irrelevant when it comes to agency?

I live in a third world country where Internet acces is extremely expensive so I need an offline tool similar to Owlbear Rodeo where I can put an image that contains a map and put stuff, mainly the tokens for every player, NPCs, enemies and all of that. If the software is free, better.