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Been GMing consistently for about 10 years, and for the first time I've got an artist at my table, and she's a really good one on top of that. Tonight she showed us a drawing she had made of her and another person's character in the game im running, and it made me feel ecstatic. Awesome feeling

Just wanted to share

This article was written by a human (me), with no AI used in any of the images or content. I also purchased a copy of the Invincible Starter Set at my own expense (although Free League has sent me review materials in the past).

Hi everyone. I’m going to my FLGS tomorrow and can’t decide between these two games! I already have OSR staples like S&W and OSE so I was thinking of something new to try like HMtW for mega dungeon goodness and to put my tarot cards to use, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Shadowdark. Seems super popular.

The HMtW’s dungeon design course winning an Ennie drew my attention to the system.

Please help me decide, if you have any thoughts to share I would love to hear them!

I have been playing D&D with the same group of only guys for four years. It's going well. We're tight. I married one of them.

We take turns DMing and, unfortunately, I had to bail out on my campaign because it just got too overwhelming. I tried to engineer a campaign setting that would be perfect for them (a gladiator ring). Sadly, I overlooked a very important factor: I do not care about gladiators whatsoever at all.

It's occurred to me that if I'm actually going to pull off a campaign, I need enough background knowledge and genuine interest to pull from that I can improvise world elements without killing myself with preparation.

For better or worse, my favorite fanciful setting as a child was the series of Disney Pixie Hollow chapter books. Obviously, that's going to be a hard sell.

I want a fairy-based ttrpg that, ideally, contains some of the following elements:

1) The PCs are small and cannot solve everything with combat

2) Everyone has a class/specialization like communicating with animals, plant manipulation, controlling water, etc. Everyone gets a niche with HIGH role-playing impact.

3) A fantastical setting with plenty of factions, creatures, etc.

4) They still have to be able to kill things I guess. They're going to want to do that.

Thanks!

I attend two most years, Gary Con and Gamehole Con. Next year I might go back to Gen Con after a 10 year hiatus. I love Gamehole because it is one of the best run cons I've attended and the selection of games is phenomenal. I love Gary Con for the venue (cannot be overstated) the smaller size and the sense of history. Gen Con is for the spectacle and the vendor hall. What would make for a better con? Lest this turn into a gripefest, what is something new you'd love to see?

I've been a gm for a little over a year and have a great group, we almost never cancel last minute, everyone is up to play whatever system I want to, we all take it seriously, etc, all green flags of an amazing group.

I've ran a 5 month long campaign, and a few short adventures trying out systems. Now I am working on a year long campaign, which everyone has shown interest in doing.

The problem I always have when writing these is I enjoy low fantasy and grimdark campaigns, its the type of books I normally read, ASOIAF, Joe Abercrombie, etc. But some of my players have expressed interest in doing more heroic/high fantasy type games. Where the world is more mystical and grand, I normally don't read high fantasy books so I'm not use to things like the fey, teleportation, big frog emperors, demi gods etc. Things you would kind of expect out of high fantasy.

I've tried running a scifi campaign that fizzled out after 3 sessions because I couldn't get into the headspace of doing scifi.

The biggest challenge for me is mixing enough things I like, with things my players want.

How do you other GMs juggle things like, my players want to add these elements into the campaign, but I'm not comfortable or don't know enough about it to add it?

Do you just kinda say fuck it, I write what I want and if players don't want to play it, they can sit out? Or do you compromise a bit?

I'm a noob who got onboard the recent Kickstarter. These games seem to have a small but dedicated following, but there's not a huge amount of community info out there... and the books themselves don't seem to answer this question at first glance (as an aside, you can tell these were written by an academic because... why use one word when five will do).

My obvious question: with Cold City set in 1950 Berlin, and Hot War in 1963 London, has anyone played a linked campaign of surviving PCs crossing from on to the other?

Any other play reports or thoughts invited. Thank you :)

Decent article about Tokyo's tabletop scene.

https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/explore-tokyos-beginner-friendly-gaming-circles

I have never run a supers game. It is a massive blindspot for me that I want to fix. In 2026, what is the best supers pre-made adventure on the market?

I recently got the book and reading through it, I was wondering though if anyone else had played it and wanted to share how it was. Some parts are confusing me prob because I misread it, like do monsters also make spell checks or just use the value? I think spell checks is the right word.