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Okay, this is going to seem kinda weird. Basically, I'm running a group right now with two other people (I'm GMing). We run a very story and character driven game, and all of us stick to doing what characters would do and how the story should go. The two players get along great, like honestly, we all love each other. None of this is interpersonal issues. However, their characters have not.

They used to get along really well, but one has been wanting to go down a pretty dark arc and has been getting worse, and it has been causing the two of them (in character) to fight. Initially, I was cool with this, it made for an interesting arc which caused them two to split up and we had some fun solo adventures. Problem was, the return. The two of them pretty much now had little reason to stick together. I had a plan, which was NPCs they'd befriended along the way urging them two to bond and make up. But, them two are so incredibly stubborn. One tries to reach out to the other, the other makes some socially inept comment or honestly kind of attack at them, the original one takes it very personally and boom. Right now, it's hard to see why there's a party in the first place.

This may seem like a weird problem to have, but we really try to draw a line of in character and ooc. It's just our way of having fun. But this has come at the price of the party losing the comradery they once had. I don't want to interrupt that character's arc, and I'm thinking of probably just talking to them both about it, but I wanted to see if there were any other suggestions. Feel free to ask any questions! Thanks! :')

Hey I have been thinking about role-playing a RPG type game for a long time and was wondering, do people really mind if your not very good at roleplay, is it ok to keep your speaking to be less words, i always wanted to like get immersed in a character and have full interactions etc but im not sure the best way to start.

Is there good ways to practice or anyone have any tips on like prolonging a conversation in character.

P.s. im sorry if this is the wrong sub, please delete if im in the wrong.

I was curious what the most popular RPG systems are nowadays, among those played online at least. The proxy I came up with is the number of discord server members as displayed on the public channel invite screen. I did not expect Lancer to come second! Also happy to see Mothership make the cut. My favourite free league games have small communities and do not show up here.

One of the things I love the most about the hobby is how many systems there are based on franchises I love. My favorites include Grimoire of the Heart which is based on Persona, Shinobi no Sho which is based on Naruto. And there are also some I'd like to try out someday like that one AC rpg that was in development a Star wars system and Alien rpg.

What are other ones that you like? How often do you play them? Are they good to play or would you rather reskin another game?

(Edit for emphasis: please do not recommend systems. For example, Mothership is a system, not a one-shot adventure module)

We’re wrapping up a year-long Old-School Essentials campaign soon, and am looking for a palette cleanser. I mostly run vanilla fantasy, and since 2/3 of these players have only ever had me as their GM, I thought a brief hop over to sci-fi might be fun, and perhaps eye opening to most of my table.

System is less important, as I can convert as-needed, but I’m leaning toward a Mark of the Odd game like Monolith, Meteor, or Opera.

I’m interested in an adventure module that can be played in 1 or 2 three-hour sessions.

Themes/Settings I’m not interested in:

- a lot of insectoid horror (no triggers, just not into it)
- a lot of body horror (no triggers, just not into it)
- IP settings (I love Starwars, Dune, Star Trek,… but I don’t want to distract my players with any setting errors I make)
- military/space marines (just doesn’t sound interesting to me)
- (ETA) Science Fantasy.

Themes/Settings I’m into:

- space opera
- space western
- retrofuturism
- steampunk
- Tech-noir
- light horror/thriller
- Exploration and/or investigation

(Please no “just write your own adventure” recommendations).

My group decided on City of Mist for our next campaign. It's been on my list of games to play since it came out, and I'm stoked to finally get it to the table.

Since the release of City of Mist, Son of Oak has released Otherscape and Legends in the Mist, both using the same game system.

My question is for folks who have experience with these games. Are there any big quality of life improvements to the system that were implemented in the later games that I should port over to City of Mist?

Hey, folks;

Thanks to the support of the Bundle of Holding over the summer, I was able to survive between teaching years and pay my graphic designer without needing to crowdfund! I know a lot of support came from the folks here, so thanks for that, already!

And as a result, the GMA2e Fantasy Deck is up on DriveThru!

As always, if you're a teacher or a student, or otherwise under duress due to the techno-fascist apocalypse, reach out to me directly if you can't afford to purchase anything I make at the current prices, and I can try to help you out.

And now, back to grading essays and student-made games...

Hi everyone! I hope you're all doing well!

I'm looking for some help with something I've been trying to figure out for a while. I've searched YouTube and even tried using AI music generators like Suno.ai, but I haven't had much luck finding what I'm looking for.

I'm going to be playing in an Old West-themed tabletop RPG campaign, and my character plays the guitar (but doesn't sing). I'd love to find instrumental acoustic guitar music with a country or Western feel that fits the mood of different scenes during our sessions. I'd also be happy to use existing instrumental country guitar tracks rather than create entirely new music.

Does anyone know of a website, app, or other tool that could help me find or create this kind of music? I know it's a pretty specific request 😅

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

A profile of Dr. Rick Barton, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, who developed the megadungeon "The Halls of Arden Vul."

I'm thinking about running a session of Dread for my group on Halloween, but have been struggling to understand how the game works after reading it and watching a few Actual Plays.

The game asks for a block to be pulled in situations where there is a chance of failure, whether there is an actual risk of death or not. The example in the book is translating an ancient text, but other examples from APs I've seen are improving weapons, knowing facts about nature, impressing someone, contacting someone on a radio. These are things where, if the tower were to fall, there's no reasonable narrative way to kill the character.

The rules seem to adress this in three ways: first, it says that a character can be killed with "the flimsiest of justifications". Secondly, it suggests a list of eays for a character to exit the game without dying, but they're all incredibly context-specific. Lastly, it says to reference Chapter 4 for what to do when the tpwer falls but there is no way to kill a character. Chapter 4 says nothing about the topic at all, so I'm assuming this is just bad editing.

So, how does it work? What do I do if the tower falls during a task that involved no risk of death at all? This seems like a huge hole that the book should be doing more to address, but maybe I'm missing something.

Wondering about ranked Game Jams, writing contests, and other fun community-building competitions. I've done a bunch of game jams lately, and I'm hungry for more!