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GR has deeply discounted most of the print books offered via Drive-Thru*. Blue Rose, Fantasy Age 1e/2e, Cthulhu Awakens, Modern Age, M&M 3e, Pathfinder/Freeport, etc.

“Green Ronin Warehouse Clearance Sale!
We have so many new products coming our way this year that we literally have to make room in the warehouse. If you are willing to do your part to help, we are willing to cut you a great deal: 65% off specific print products through the end of June, 2026!
Not only is this a limited time offer, stocks of these products is not infinite. When the print versions of these books are gone, they’re gone! So get yours today!”

*Not PoDs, retail versions available through DriveThru.

My kids (8yo and 7yo) have gotten into the show, watching it with me on YouTube. I haven't yet started them with ttrpgs, and I thought this might be a good entry genre for them. Must be rules lite and kid-friendly (as far as violence and game art).

I've been gaming since '81, so I'm familiar with all of the old school post-apoc stuff like Gamma World. I'm looking for something that doesn't get too detailed with the mechanics. Ideally , it would use a range of different dice, because my kids love dice.

I've been running a super casual game at work where players can pick quest hooks from a bounty board. The game isn't consistent enough to really create a full campaign. It's just a time for co-workers to shoot the shit and roll some dice.

However, as a GM, I still want to do a good job and put some fun stories in front of them. Sooo I'm here to get inspired and hopefully inspire some of y'all along the way!

What are some short, pre-made adventures that you have loved running, and why?

It doesn't matter what system or setting. I just want to hear what cool stuff you guys are running.

I'm a big history nerd and lately I've been thinking about running a tabletop rpg set in the actual middle ages (not just a medieval fantasy world). Probably the Viking age, or the first Crusade give or take. I've been looking into a few systems and I was curious if anybody has tried doing this before. What system did you use and how did the game go? I appreciate any advice here!

Idk why its so interesting to me lol

Hello r/RPG,

I've played most of my 25 years of TTRPG experience in D&D (with a small smattering of FATE.) Now that I'm a parent, my free time is extremely limited but I'd love to branch out and try new systems. I've used some paid GM services to get back into the hobby and I've been listening to some content creators and learned about the following systems which pique my interest and I believe are generally well regarded:

• Stonetop
• Daggerheart
• Mothership
• Public Access
• Mausritter
• Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

While learning about the systems above I have also found some others that, while less exciting, still seem like they'd be a good fit for the types of games I want to play:

• Brindlewood Bay
• Draw Steel
• Dolmenwood
• Wanderhome
• Ryuutama

I can't really commit to reading all of these rulebooks so I'd love to get the Hiveminds perspective on which of these systems may be the best for someone light on time. I'd also love suggestions on anything that I may have missed that are in the same vein as the systems above.

I'm interested in starting an Eclipse Phase campaign, but I'm not too familiar with the actual rules (either edition). I am familiar with the transhuman rules for Stars Without Number, but I haven't actually run them.

What are the pros/cons of either option, and which would you recommend? Thanks!

I am currently wondering if using DnD's currency distribution of copper / silver / gold has any advantages compared to simply using a single currency, for example gold. My assumption is that various currencies provide some narrative value (f.e. hearing that an NPC has only ever owned copper coins carries more weight than hearing they only owned a small amount of a singular currency).

Anyway, whilst pondering about this I also began thinking about what other ways there are for tracking wealth. One that I am aware of is resource dice (used f.e. in Forbidden Lands) and while I like the mechanic for the tracking of food, I am not sure if it actually simplifies anything when it comes to wealth.

So, what are some alternative ways of tracking wealth? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives?

(Light spoilers for No Room For a Wallflower campaign)

My group and I ended a few months ago No Room For a Wallflower campaign of lancer and I really liked the final boss mechanic, that thing that is not only a boss health bar, and you have to do like a little puzzle game with it. Eidolons are a very cool and engaging mechanic, I read all of it and really liked it and most importantly, its easy to use in other systems.

But left me wondering, is there other systems/house rules/homebrew from other rpgs that do something similar? I'm really curious to hear from any source really.

(sorry i dont know how to flair)

I've had the thought recently that, for all the things I loathe about D&D both in general and about 5e specifically, one thing I do quite miss from it is 5e's particular approach to classes - where rather than adding whole-cloth new ones, they were all gradually expanded with more subclass options (the only official class that's not in the PHB is the artificer, even 10 years on, which is a stark contrast to all the classes that every prior edition got in their respective runs).

Variable impact and balance of those subclasses aside, I find that setup oddly compelling (and amiss in something like Pathfinder 2e which is gonna have over 30 classes next year), for much the same reasons I keep being enamored with, in the video game space, the nine classes of Team Fortress 2 (compared to the larger rosters of individually more static characters that came with the advent of hero shooters like Overwatch), the classes in World of Warcraft and their specializations (or Hearthstone, which I have more actual experience with, and which at least when I played also stuck to a locked roster of nine classes), or the very malleable classes of Starfinder 1e (with all their sub-options and alternate class features and the like), to bring it back around to tabletops.

So now I'm left wondering what other TTRPGs offer a similar approach to publishing new player options, mostly as expansions and alternatives to their core sets of archetypes rather than introducing entirely new ones, whether that's something as tight as like 3 or 4 classes that I imagine some OSR games go for, or something in the ballpark of 10 or 12 similar to aforementioned 5e.

I know it's borderline heretical to claim that splitting the party is fine; but I've had really no problems ever doing so. It might of been a bigger deal when dungeon crawling was the name of the game, but really is it that bad now? I split the part probably once every other session and it's always been pretty fun. Just go in initiative order, keep turns short, and make sure there's something notable happening on all sides of the split. If an individual bites off more then they can chew that's on them right? They should either find a way to deal or make an expeditious retreat. Like obviously don't let the player go so far apart they can't reasonably make it back to one another, but if its just a little splittage I think it's totally fine. What do you think?