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Thinking of getting it for map making. Seems to be a one and done purchase. Looks fine.

Any first hand experience?

I'm actually a bit hyped over the next cyberpunk red books, and the upcoming scorpion clan book for l5r. Also looking forwards for Delta Green material.. what about ya and Babylon city of monsters. Any products yer looking for?

I usually make my own worlds, but I have for some time wanted to run in certain settings that are already Established (like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Cyberpunk, etc), but I always worry about not knowing enough about the setting.

Any tips when it comes to running an existing setting, both when it comes to knowledge and other problems I may face?

Last year I ran a short horror-themed Halloween adventure for my friends. It was "Uncle Timothy's Will" from the old Call of Cthulhu scenario collection Blood Brothers. It was a blast and we had fun in a creaky old fashioned horror story about a rich dead uncle, his haunted manor, and a bunch of greedy family members who came to hear his last will and testament.

I was thinking of doing something similar this year as well: something that would ostensibly be horror, but not too disturbing or too morbid. More of a.... nice, cozy, spoopy horror variety. My main inspiration are old, old horror movies, like Universal horrors from 1930s or Hammer horror flicks from the 1960s.

I'm looking for recommendations for short adventures and scenarios in that vein that I could either steal from or just run as they are.

Some systems I'd comfortable with running: Trail of Cthulhu, Call of Cthulhu, Vaesen.

Possible variations on a theme:

- instead of running an adventure set in horror version of 19th or 20th century Europe, I could try running a folk horror adventure using something like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or Shadowdark RPG, featuring small, isolated communities and weird religious practices.

- a scenario inspired by sci-fi horror movies from 1950s and 1960s like Fiend Without a Face or the Quatermass movies. Creepy alien invaders, ancient and dangerous technology, mutants... Something like that.

I know that my ideas sound a bit scattered, but I would love to hear people recommend me scenarios touching upon at least some of those ideas. I mean, I could ask ChatGPT instead, but I would prefer the human experience and taste.

Thank you for your time!

City of Espers, a card-based TTRPG about found families of psychics getting into superpowered sports battles in Zener City, is now in its last few days on Backerkit! (and I do believe I'm permitted a 'last days' post.)

Why is City of Espers worth your time?

• Inspired in part by street-level superhero comics, CoE lets you make characters with meaningfully unique builds that have mechanical purpose while still being quick to do and keeping the list of options tight (and if you want to write your own psychic abilities and item effects, there's advice for that).
• It's great at telling stories that dig into why the players care about the community and city they live in. It's a facet of urban fantasy that few TTRPGs in that genre actively ask! Weathering a difficult challenge as a House awakens a metaphysical connection with your neighbourhood; your Turf. Not only is communing with your Turf a mechanic in the game, strengthening your bond with it provides perks to your House that can't be gained from ordinary levelling.
• It has miniature skirmish game DNA that lets action sequences be tactical, but without needing big map grids or terrain. Whenever timing, tactics or positioning are important to a scene, it's time to use the Action Sequence rules. Action Sequences take place on a 3x3 grid, the zones of which can represent anything from a basketball court, to rooms of a house, to districts in the city. In its early alpha days, CoE was evenly spit between TTRPG rules and skirmish game rules; as miniature painting is a massive hobby of mine. You can use anything from toys to counters to represent players in an Action Sequence, but trust me there's nothing like sitting down as a table to build and paint the members of your House together.
• The game is already complete! Three Sails Studios (who previously released Gallows Corner and the ENNIE Nominated Mappa Mundi) make a point of getting the game text complete before the crowdfunding campaign launch, to minimise the time between backing and getting the game. We're on track to have physical copies in people's hands by January, and the PDF even sooner than that.

Praise for City of Espers

"Fundamentally, City of Espers is a coming of age story heavily influenced by and celebrating queer culture. And so, in some sense, Zener City is the Brighton of TTRPGs, but maybe a bit cooler. And certainly cool enough for me to be really looking forward to seeing where this goes."

Cozy RPG Reviews ~ 'My Most Anticipated TTRPG Of 2026 | City Of Espers'

"I love this so much. I'm imagining starting a campaign of City of Espers and the players' Turf is completely normal and asleep, and then slowly over the course of each touching scene of found family, the players can experience is waking up, reflecting the players' bonds and causing all kinds of trouble for the local community."

Quinns Quest ~ 'Fan Club “Blog” #32: Summer Reading 🏖️ pt 4'

See the game played!

While Actual Play is not everyone's thing, if you'd like to see the game in action before you back, you can tune into highly polished one-shots of the game on EUphoria Actual Play and on my own Youtube channel.

So i'm going to my first convention and I have what may be a dumb question. It's the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo and I've got my ticket. Now how do I sign up for events? Do you have to be on-site? Can you sign up online? I go to their website but there doesn't seem to be a "click here to add events to your schedule" button. Anyone know?

Any similar tool as book world without numbers to start a world in solo campaign

I found the book world without numbers by Kevin Crawford...

I wanna start a solo campaign using Mythic Emulator.

Is it a good resource or you advise any other ?

Cheers

I’m gearing up to run a mutants and masterminds campaign set in the DC universe (and in the 90’s, no cell phones). The whole campaign is going to be a cross country roadtrip as they search for their missing friend. Of course I’ll create some random encounter tables, but I’m looking for some systems to steal/create to really make the traveling aspect fun. I’ve already got an idea like, the person in the “shotgun role” gets to pick music. The music they pick would give a small bonuses to the team depending on the vibe they pick. (For example, if they put on something heavy they would get a plus 2 to their next attack role). Does anyone have any fun ideas I should try to implement, or systems from other RPGs that I should look into to borrow from? Thanks!

I dont mean it like in dnd, because yeah you can make soemthng just stronger or take a creature with a bigger cr. But those are just numbers. I meant something that would be like encountering something high magic in a low magic setting. Like in dark souls the player faces enemies that are shadows of themselves like Gwynn as lord of cinder instead of lord of sunlight. Is there a game that captures this smehow? Making foes on a different level, still beatable maybe, maybe with magic items or such. Maybe kinda like in vampire where a low generation vampire has waaaay more blood points to spend per round like the usual player character, so its still beatable but noticable on a different level.

Stormlight Archive might be my favorite fantasy series ever. So naturally when I heard that there will be a TTRPG released not only for it, but for the whole Cosmere, I was postively extatic.

I got the starter set as soon as I could, but unfortunately, life got a bit in the way and I wasn't able to play it for a while. Perhaps for the better, cause at the time I had few people in my circles who read Stormlight, yet now, when I finally managed to ran it, I had plenty to choose from.

I am still happy with what we've got, however, they did play it safe with the rules. They made it easy for anyone who plays 5e and enjoys Stormlight to jump into the Cosmere RPG without much struggle, the rules being a combination of 5e, 4e and Pathfinder 2e. Still fun, but I would've enjoyed to see something a little bit more out there.

The starting scenario is good, however I find it strange that there is almost no magic in it, given how magic is one of Sanderson's selling points, but oh well.

Thoughts at large can be found in the review, I hope you will find it helpful!

I'm creating a tool that will update the page labels in a PDF to match the actual printed page numbers on the rendered pages, and I'm looking for examples of publishers that do this. All the GURPS PDFs do this. But I'd like to see some more examples, so the tool isn't GURPS-specific.