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I did a cortex hack back in the day (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mUwk2qfZj8i_N9l0DxwVM-Lofw9HigTpkhDGG2Do5w4/edit?usp=drivesdk) and there is Truth Seeker (https://sagedamage.itch.io/truth-seeker) but its unfinished, but its weird no one has tried to explicitly do a Full Metal Alchemist game.

It's a fantasy show, it was extremely popular TWICE (once for the original series and once for Brotherhood), and it has a unique, hard magic system with clear rules that can be used to make a unique TRPG experience.

Like, why hasn't anyone jumped on this?

It seems that, regardless of the games I run or play in, they always seem to end up with the same semi-slapstick comedy tone thanks to the other players. This means that horror games devolve into farce, gritty action is packed with dumb one-liners, failure at rolls get treated like pratfalls (even if they're not described that way by me) etc.

This is entirely independent of the type of game that is being run, and happens across different player groups.

How can I get my tables to treat games differently to this? I don't want to say "take it more seriously", it IS a game, but I'd like to at least try to get a bigger range of atmosphere and emotion into the games. But other folk always seem to default to the same light comedy, which is getting a little dull for me.

It happened when I was teaching a group of children to play D&D.

We had a Knight in Shining Armor, a Ninja, an Elven Archer who was totally not Legolas, and a Wizard. And they entered the woods, seeking monsters to slay.

What they didn't have was a Ranger. Or, for that matter, any extra food.

After a couple of days, they were getting really hungry. "Guys," I said, "if you don't get some food soon, you won't be able to heal any lost hit points. And after a week, you'll start LOSING hit points."

This was a matter of concern. They began hunting for game. But deer and game birds did not present themselves. None of them knew how to track.

Finally, two days later, a random encounter roll came up. I rolled on the chart. Ooof. A troll. None of the children knew what a troll was, or had ever seen one. So I just took out the miniature and put it on the map in the middle of the clearing. "That's what you see," I said. "Warty. Green. About eight feet tall, with big pointy teeth."

They stared at it for a moment. There was silence.

The ten-year-old Ninja looked at it critically.

"We are NOT eating THAT," he said.

And the table fell apart, laughing.

Any good lines you can recall from YOUR games that stuck in your memory?

Someone started a discussion on another subreddit with this title. I didn't want to hijack his thread, so I came here and started my own.

'Bout a million years ago, I found this box in a discount bin at the game shop. Little RPG called "Chill." A horror roleplaying game, along the lines of Call of Cthulhu, except it allowed for a sort of Monster Of The Week format; players are paranormal investigators sent to check out possible monster infestations... vampires, werewolves, and so forth.

I won't bore you with the game itself. But I bought it, and ran a session one Friday night when I was in college. Players were INVESTED, and the investigation was mysterious and spooky... obviously SOMETHING supernatural was up, but they weren't quite SURE what it WAS yet... and around eleven, a break was called, pizza ordered, and the man we called Pink Floyd said, "Hey, I got a chest of beer in the car, on ice. Who wants?"

It was agreed that beer would be good, and he headed for the front door, opened it... and stared into the night... and didn't move.

"What's wrong?" said the man we called Tank. Because he was the party tank, even if we didn't have a word for it yet.

Pink looked back over his shoulder. "I ... don't wanna seem weird..." he said, "but... well, it's DARK out there... and ... my car's headlights are ... STARING at me..."

It was a great moment. I managed to creep out a fully growed college student bad enough that he was nervous about walking thirty feet out to his own car in the dark, even with beer at stake...

Anyone else got a story about Your Finest Moment Behind The Screen?

I put a decent amount of effort into prep before session 0, but that's usually just a couple of hooks, a premade dungeon or two and maybe a villain.

Then at the end of each session I ask my players what they've got planned for next session and than once I'm one hour away from next session I read up on what they've done using my player's notes, and prepare the thing theyre gonna do.

I also dont prep any maps or handouts and just draw stuff on blank paper if needed.

Could I make my game more fun for my players if I prepped more? Almost certainly, but I don't run games to perform or to entertain, I play them to have fun with my friends.

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It seem to be a good shounen-inspired TTRPG, got recommended many time in my "hype moment and aura system" post

Hi! Which one do you prefer and why? We're torn on what to play with our friends.

Would prefer a place online as i dont have really any good shops near me. Im looking to get into solos but im not sure where to get physical ready to play games from?

Also how often does the suggested site have deals and sales? what makes the site stand out compared to others?

I find some of them like drivethrurpg to be good but annoying to find what i want.

for me it’s gotta be monster hearts. it captures the supernatural messy teen drama so well

I've played starfinder, spelljammer, lancer, and a little bit of shadowrun, and for the most part I feel like there just aren't very many sci-fi options for character creation. Not that there's none, but a lot of the options just feel like either reskinned dnd things, or a little basic. So I'm just curious if there are any ttrpgs with a smorgasbord of sci-fi options to make multiple varied characters with. To be fair it has been years since I've looked into any of these so maybe I'm misremembering, sorry ahead of time if that's the case.