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After five sessions in the Delian Tomb adventure, my group discussed and reviewed Draw Steel, the tactical heroic fantasy game currently in the spotlight.

Here are our full thoughts on the game.

A Summary

While we liked the system, most of the negatives we brought up came from the adventure, particularly its open-ended second Act. After the initial dungeon, the adventure appears to become a small sandbox of different tasks around this small village that needs help with several small tasks, many of which balloon into larger ones. As-written, the game literally throws 6 quests at you at exactly the same time, which I found really poorly paced.

The system itself has a very strong specific vision, and some members of our group didn't click with it as well as they expected to, trying to approach some obstacles with an OSR mindset of leveraging tools and approaches in the narrative to bypass rolls or fair fights, which isn't something the game care for.

It's also a spectacularly tightly balanced game, with difficult encounters often invoking a powerful "kill it before we die" feeling. Again, really well done, so much so that some group members discovered they wanted less desperate fights.

The book itself has great D&D-style art, but has a pretty basic layout. I love that the index is at the start, but there were a few times where I missed information right in front of me (looking at you, minion squad leader buffs). There were also a few times I had to look up a rule for more clarification, and the search function of the compendium is useless.

Overall, several members of my group felt it was a good game, but not for them. I personally really liked it and would be happy to keep playing or GMing it.

Also the fishing mechanics automatically make it a 10/10.

There was a ttrpg Kickstarter that was ready to go, and just waiting for the okay from the printer to continue. He had a team and he stopped replying and no one in the team could get in contact. The team couldn't give the printer the okay because it needed the guy's signature. They were afraid something happened to the guy.

I don't remember which game it aas, bur does anyone know what I'm talking about and if there was ever an update?

From the FL newsletter:

Get ready – Dragonbane: Trudvang, a stand-alone tabletop roleplaying game based on the multiple award-winning Dragonbane RPG, will be launched on Kickstarter on February 17, at 3 pm CET (9 am US Eastern, 6 am US Pacific).
That's right – we have listened to the community and decided to offer Dragonbane: Trudvang as a stand-alone RPG, not requiring the Dragonbane Core Set or Rulebook – but still 100% compatible with the Dragonbane core rules.

I like that decision and look forward to the campaign!

I was thinking about setting up a horror sandbox with the players being ordinary humans with a focus on weird places, occult items and mystical lore. I was thinking about making knowledge more tradeble in order to get more npc's invested in acquiring certain books, relics and other things. The rest is pretty much open. I was thinking about using Cthulhu, Public Access, Liminal Horror or maybe one of those Monte Cook settings like Old Gods of Appalachia or maybe the Magnus Archives.

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The Merry Mushmen (the folks who make Knock magazine) have a new kickstarter. It's for a game in which you play the monsters of a dungeon. Core rule system is apparently based on Macchiato Monsters (itself a blend of Whitehack and The Black Hack). I think it looks pretty interesting. Check it out!

Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with the creators of the project. Just think it's neat.

Been playing with the idea of one day having my players roll up “every day” slice of life type characters — a business exec, a nurse, a bus driver, etc. Not tell them what the story is going to be, just that they will need to work together to overcome the challenge.

Then as the scenario unfolds it’s clear it’s some kind of catastrophic disaster. What is it? An earthquake? A terrorist attack? A fast spreading virus?

Then - surprise! It’s zombies.

Here are some of the challenges:

- It would have to be a setting-agnostic system

- It would have to allow for “regular people” type characters to be built/rolled up

- Players would have to be onboard with a mystery like this. (I feel like my group trust me enough and would actually be down for a limited run on something like this, maybe 4-6 sessions, which would be perfect)

Anyone ever do anything like this? If so, how did it work and what system did you use? I’ve never run, or even played, FATE, but it seems like it would allow for the homebrew something like this would require. I have more experience with Cypher, which I enjoy, but I’m not sure it would be right for the character builds.

Thoughts?

As others have stated, one of the appeals of Forbidden Lands is the intrigue and terror associated with the hexcrawl. I would like to incorporate that with the flexibility of a West Marches, to accommodate real world schedule conflicts, so we can swap in / out as available.

But.

How do we maintain the tension of travel from location to location, while not in a stronghold, and swapping players?

Always making sure that a session ends in a convenient location and story beat?

Hand waving that Torag the dwarf, with full hit points, appears mid dungeon to support the bedraggled team?

Thanks!

Anyone have experience with expanding /u/gshowitt 's Pride and Extreme Prejudice for 5 or 6 players?

Hi, I'm looking for a ttrpg to play with my SO, and only with her... She's not really into ttrpgs but she agree to play with me if the game is about romance and fantasy, although not necessarily bedchamber related, lol.

Since we will be only 2 players a gmless and light on rules game would be nice. Any recommendations?

I've been having fun with purely solo RPGs, but the options are sort of limited. Which RPGs meant to be played with a group have you all had a good time solo-ing? I'm looking for games that translate well to solo play with minimal revision. I have a copy of Mythic, so I'm open to pretty much anything.