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I love running long campaigns but the admin was killing me. NPCs in one place, locations in another, session notes scattered across notebooks and random files. I'd sit down to prep and spend an hour just trying to find what I needed.

still tweak it, though. Anyone else deal with this?

Im a huge sucker for Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. because of that, most of the esoteric ttrpgs i run (Mage the Ascension, Esoterrorist, Delta Green, maybe Mage the Awakening, Unknown Armies) face The Outer Church from that book. (The Outer Church is a cosmic horror cult that worships a a primordial darkness that feeds of shame, horror, compliciency through orwellian mind control.)

For me personally, it's usually any ability that does force movement shenanigans because when I started RPGs I loved knocking enemies off of ledges or into hazards.

Another one I've seen players get drawn to are "shape-shifting clothes". Like something out of James Bond, you are in battle gear and suddenly need to be in a tuxedo so the armor transforms into that while still providing protection.

Would be criminal not to recommend the latest big release from such an excellent designer. Having play-tested this new edition when it was being called “Chronicle,” I can confirm that the new changes are really cool!!!!

It seems to have an evergreen presence that is in no way challenged by any other place or time. Some genres like Cyberpunk or Noir have their corners, but those do not seem to have nearly the dominance of the generic fantasy.

My partner has asked me to run an introductory TTRPG for her and her two teenage boys.

They've never played any TTRPG before, but do like (simple) board games.

I've run D&D games before.

I'm looking for a game 60-90min which includes premade characters, some role play elements, some fighting, perhaps some puzzles. It needs to have minimal rules.

Any suggestions please?

I would characterize myself as a big fan of the game's vibes but my impression is that it might be a little mechanically complex for me. I don't really like complicated character building or combat. I would say D&D 5e is about my upper bound of tolerance for either (though I don't care for it either.) If I play SotDL, bearing that in mind, am I gonna have a bad time?

I know of Play Dirty and other strange RPG books that have come out over the years and I'm honestly interested in reading them. Not to make fun of them, I really just want to do a "tour" of the weirder ideas that shaped the hobby.

Can you recommend me any advice books for running games, strange RPG supplements or straight up weird RPGs, as far back as you like. My only caveat is that they aren't the usual memed on nonsense (FATAL) or straight up nonsense (RaHoWa, MYFAROG).

Thanks!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/118669/myriad-song-role-play-adventure-of-ten-thousand-worlds

It's a very good space opera game. Kinda reminds me of Savage Worlds, with maybe a bit of Cortex in it. It's a bit heavy and complicated, but I feel like the parts that make it complicated add a decent amount of value.

It uses a dice pool system where you count successes. A lot of things have different recharge conditions, which can seem complicated, but isn't actually that hard to track. Combat has a nice rhythm to it, and has range bands or you can optionally measure.

The setting is interesting. It's very inspired by old school 1960s/70s sci-fi. It is very easy to convert to other settings as well.

Edit: I just noticed they have basically all the supplement books for Myriad Song on sale too, plus some other stuff. Definitely check out the rest of their stuff too: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/793/sanguine-productions