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With fanfare, RPG Geek was launched in 2009 by the same people behind Boardgame Geek. At the time, "BGG" was a hub of tabletop gaming culture and remains so to this day. RPGG, however, never became that. Compared to its older brother, activity on RPG Geek never really got heavy and is nearly moribund now.

Now, I confess I'm begging the question of the title because I already have an opinion on why this is. From the start RPG Geek approached its subject the same way BGG approached its own - primarily as a catalog of physical objects and user experiences of those things as physical objects. But for other than diehard collectors, TTRPGs don't really work that way. And TTRPGs aren't subject to the same limiting publication filters as boardgames. Tracking every adventure and expansion published for (at the time of RPGG's founding) 3E D&D is an endless task and ultimately not very useful for a broad audience. Same thing now with the fire-hose of material for 5E, and that's just one particular subset of the field. Watching the site fail to keep up with releases on itch.io is something else that calls its relevance into question. Its not really arguable that RPGG is actually prominent, just see how infrequently its mentioned in this sub. but are there other perspectives on why it doesn't have traction?

I believe that reading up many different games makes you a better game master; as every game has something to teach you. It could be a concept, a way of presenting fiction, a little trick to engage the table or a different way of handling initiative.

What's something you learned from an RPG that you bring to every game you play? I'll go first with Monster of the Week guiding principle "Be the characters biggest fans." Really changed of how I thought about running games.

Are there any good Dark Fantasy RPGs with extremely dark worlds but with low-level heroes that strive to hold onto the light and do right and good in the world? I played Mork Borg to death and I'm aware of Shadow of the Demon Lord, Asunder, and Lamentations of the Flame Princess, but wonder if there are any ones with characters striving to do good rather than being anti-heroes or morally grey?

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I watched Quinns review? and the game seems pretty good and short enough to complete within a semester

But it seems that requires a good improv skill, with the witches abilities and probably others

I really don't know much else besides the finale abilities and what was said in Quinns video plz give tips

I've ran LMOP once, a few one shots, and a bit into Ryokos Guide twice, is this enough?

Is it possible for an RPG system to exist or does one already exist where the early stages of character progression work in one way, and from the midpoint onward the system changes into something different?

For example, in the early levels, player characters would be very weak and vulnerable, pushing the game toward a psychological horror style. In the second half, they would receive some kind of significant power boost, shifting the tone into something closer to dark fantasy.

Another possibility would be a system that uses different mechanics throughout the campaign, such as using dice pools in one phase and later switching to a d20system.

I saw the whole Call of Cthulhu bundle on humble bundle, and I was curious what people think of it. GM or players what are your pros and cons and what would you suggest for someone running it?

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Hey people! I recently played Galactic 2e by Riley Rethal and loved the game. Now I am looking for a similar game with a animal fable theme (something like watership down or similar). anybody have some recommendations? Thanks!

I’m going to DM a session in a couple days, and I have a document (A diary of a NPC), that is a couple pages long (around 5600 characters), and I wanted to do something better than multiple PNGs with a paper texture init.
Any Suggestions? It's online, so I can’t do a physical thing like an actual written diary. I'd like a thing that would be more immersive and easy for the player to read, any of you already did something similar?

I discovered this game (I believe its a variant of D&D 3.5e?) and it has left me pretty intrigued, specially as someone who loves fantasy but prefer playing without magic or at max a Primary martial, Secundary caster.