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This has been a question poking at me since I've started playing tabletop games, and has persisted even as I've run my own and continued to keep it secret. The only two reasons I can think of are to fudge health and to "keep immersion," the latter of which sounds like a flimsy excuse when players actively discuss their own HP levels. Is there a reason you do it? And if you don't, have you noticed a difference in how your players act?

This question is inspired by Zach the Bold's video on TPKs.

While I DM for my friend group and am trying to do some DMing on YouTube, I have read through more then a few campaign/adventures. I have found that I just truly enjoyed reading through a few adventure paths just as much as reading a novel/book, if I DM them for a group or not.

Which campaign/adventure (any system) was your favorite to just read through? Excluding how great it was to play, what was just enjoyable to read through?

Thanks.

Oh, Pendragon, how long I awaited for you, beloved. I think I got this starter set about a year and a half ago and I had a couple of unsuccessful attempts to put together a group in order to run the game. But, finally, a couple of weeks ago, the planets alligned and the Lady of the Lake smiled upon me and I was finally able to run the starter set!

And it was an absolute blast! I was always a big fan of the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and I constantly heard how Pendragon is one of the best TTRPGs out there. And finally, I can say that I see why that is the case. The system is elegant, fun, the mechanics flow together very nicely and manage to encourage roleplay in a very simple fashion - the more you describe how you do a certain thing, the easier it becomes (of course, up to a certain level).

The Starter Set is an amazing point to try out Pendragon and it more then makes up the value of its cost! Truth be told, I feel like it's somewhat of a steal, with dice, superbly illustrated characters, combat cards and of course the three booklets. But more about that in the actual review, now if you'll excuse me, I have to look for the corebooks!

I can't find any in-depth reviews based on actual table play, only day one quick rules breakdowns. Even people who really praised the game didn't seem to play it afterward.

It can either be systems that have you roll multiple dice at once, systems that ask you to do a lot of dice rolls, or both.

I'm a father of two, and have very few time.

I'm a huge lore nerd, love reading and writing.

Have been getting bored of video games lately, and started looking into not so digital experiences. Eventually, RPGs came into my radar.

I played a one shot session once and really liked it. However, currently, it's hard for me to have time to play.

So, any suggestions for me to start getting into it? Not sure if this is silly, but are there alternatives? Lore books, litRPG for lonely sessions?

Thanks!

I’m a dm looking for a pokemon themed system to play with some friends. I tried to homebrew one but it was too chaotic and didn’t work late game and now i’m trying to find one that can actually work. Thanks in advance!

What are you using to track your games, and what information do you collect? I started with earnest data collection this year, but so far it's only a text document, which I will probably turn into a Calc sheet so I can do some statistics at the end of the year.

But I'd love to know

• What data are you collecting?
• What do you use to track your games?
• What are the coolest statistics you have collected?

Note that this is about the sessions (what game, what module, who played, which characters died, etc) and not about what games you own.

I play vtm v20 with a group of friends every other weekend. We are playing for about 1 1/2 years with some breaks where we couldn't agree for a date to play because of jobs etc.

I think I should tell you guys first what happened so far.

When we started it was my second time playing a ttrpg. Before that I only played 1 relatively short campaign of DND. So when we started I had the most basic character who was basically a mixture of spike and angel from buffy. He was that way to righteous guy who from what I heard a lot of peoples first character was.

At the start his whole character was about not hurting innocent people and that cool Coat he got. (Totally not because spike has one) Eventually I wanted to play him differently and after a few fights were he never got hit because of extremely lucky rolls he turned into a way more cocky version of himself who didn't prioritize helping innocent anymore. Instead he wanted to get a spot in the primogen (I hope that's what it called in English as well) and become more powerful.

We as the group eventually decided to see what the Sabbath had in store for us. But because we fought one of the members (Zorya) a few sessions earlier she was not the biggest fan of my character (mostly because I mocked her for fleeing... Like I said cocky). One thing led to another and we agreed that we would join them but only if I got to fight Zorya.

I was almost killed in the first round of combat. But because another member of the group went to one of the primogen in advance and made a deal that we wouldn't get in trouble, join the camarilla completely, hand the Sabbath to them and our 3 great favors that we had I survived.

So now to my question. That was maybe 6-8 sessions ago and I don't know where to go with my character now. He was so cocky because he never got hit in a fight. Should I just keep playing him like that or should he be more careful and planning his actions more?

So I run an online D&D game on Thursdays. Last Thursday I got some terrible news(My cat was having surgery related complications and didn't have long.), notified my players and left. I am however worried that it will adversely affect me due to associating the game with what happened and get me a severe burnout. Honestly I don't even want to start up the server at the moment but we have a session scheduled this Thursday. The game has been going for months so I don't want it to die out. If anyone had something similar happen could you give me advise on how to get back to GM'ing that game?

Currently, I'm planning for a future campaign I wish to run for some friends, and the options I've given them are either traditional sci-fi or a mecha campaign. My plan is to create a custom setting that can feature both these genres depending on what they want to play. To help explain what I mean, my current plan is to run The Space Hack or The Mecha Hack depending on what they want, then if they wish to play the other system I'll use the same setting. Ideally, the systems should be able to have a custom setting and be of similar complexity.

The systems don't need to be identical like the above example. They just need to match the other criteria. Also, if one system exists that has what I'm looking for, I'll also check that out. However, I dont need a system that allows you to swap between them, I'd the campaign to stick to one genre. Supplements for one game that matches the other genre is fine.

I've looked into GURPs but wasn't sure about any specific supplement. So if you know of any go ahead and recommend those.

If this sounds strange, I'll try to explain what I mean better when I get the chance.

Tl;Dr looking for system(s) that are either mecha or traditional space fairing sci-fi that I can use the same custom setting for.