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The groups I tend to play with include anywhere between four to six players, depending on the day. If your quickstart only contains four pre-made characters and no rules for making additional ones, I literally cannot play it with all of my friends, and I'm thus way less likely to actually give it a shot.

Even when we only get together four people to try out your quickstart, it can suck when everyone has to play one of four specific characters, and one person can just get stuck with a character they don't really vibe with. It's understandable with a larger group, you can only include so many characters before your customers get choice paralysis, but when it happens with only four players it feels restrictive.

That's it really, that's all I wanted to say.

While mechanical ports exist, I'm not talking about that. I'm asking about when the narrative of the character is brought in.

"Xythpher, the umbral blade of the west, my dead mother, father, adopted wolf mom and second adopted bear dad, who I have no trauma at all with because their spirits are in a stone around my neck."

Do people consider it normal to not build a brand new PC for each new game / group?

Recently picked up a copy of Welcome to Nightvale rpg due to having a gift card to a lgs and had listened to some of the podcast. I was wondering if anyone had tried playing it? If so, what are your thoughts? I know there are a few content creator maps of Nightvale on the web/reddit but wonder if there is any other resources out there, such as home brew campaign ideas, characters, etc? Thanks in advance.

When my SO retires in two years, we plan on embarking on a slow travel lifestyle outside the US and I was wondering what the best RPG conventions are mostly in Europe and Southeast Asia, possibly South America and Canada? Many thanks!

I wanted to play a SWAT themed campaign, so I got myself a copy of GURPS SWAT. There I have read that I also need a copy of GURPS cops to play it and several more issues are reccomended. As I began to look for those, I have found out that there're also GURPS core books and several different editions.

I'm on a loss to be honest. Where should I start? How many books do I need to have to play? Is there some site where I can browse through all of the books for free or do I need to purchase all of them? Digital or physical? Where can I buy?

This is kinda a perpetual struggle for me since I've got both some dyslexia and some dyscalculia so I find it very easy to both misread something or to fail to understand what a stat or dice roll means.

Doesn't help that the game I like the publishers are a bit notorious for editorial errors and also avant garde presentation including the weirdest fonts they could find for immersion.

But tell me about instances at your table whether you were the one misunderstanding it or it was someone else's mistake.

I ran the Caverns of Hidrida onehsot found on itch.io. Everything is pretty much down to the book. The final fight is the most unexpected. The party of 4 cut down 8 of the Hydra's heads (7 burned by the flame sword). Yet, 3 players we downed, included the player using the flame sword. The final player, who hasn't lost any HP or STR (he rolled 1 HP, lol). Decided to make a last stand to cut down the Hydra's final head. Since he used 1 action to pick up the flame sword, the Hydra get to attack first. His STR got reduced from 15 to 13, there's pretty decent chance to not get affected by the Critical Wound. And he rolled a Nat 20. So yeah, the party got defeated, but they saved the farmers. Good first impression. And the first TPK i've experienced since i started playing TTRPG, lol

Our group's PF2e game is coming to an end and we tend to alternate GMs so I'll be running the next campaign. At least one of our players is burnt out on Pathfinder so I thought I'd look into other systems, and I love seeing the suggestions this community puts out based on campaign themes.

The initial premise was what if after Lord of the Rings Aragorn's lineage aren't as great at being kings and it sort of backslides back into an age of darkness, or a bit like NADDPod Campaign 1 (campaign after the campaign). The Dark Lord has been defeated by an archetypal D&D party, the true king crowned but after a few generations things have gone back to shit - the king is a tyrant, a cult has formed around the cleric and the Wizard is seeking unimaginable power. I want the players to try to resist the darkness and improve the world, so something that encapsulates zero to hero would probably be best.

I initially thought I'd run this in Shadow of the Weird Wizard, and still might, but we play on Foundry and without a premium module it means that all player facing content has to be manually built which is doable but does add more to session prep.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

For the first time today I noticed a section at my local library with core books and box sets for several TTRPGs including:

• Dungeons and Dragons (3e, 3.5e, 4e, 5e, 5.5e)
• Pathfinder (2e)
• Call of Cthulhu (7e)
• Vampire: The Masquerade (5e)
• Blades in the Dark
• Shadowrun
• Dungeon Crawl Classics

And a few more that I didn't recognize, there were even full dice sets available for borrowing. So anyways, don't underestimate your local library for trying out other TTRPGs!

So quickstarts are basically an industry standard now - and that is great! Now, with so many of them out there I wonder, which are your favorites are what are you looking to get from them?

Is it mainly to get a general feel of the game or are you looking for something specific? I know it'll be different for different people but that's why I would love to hear from you.

I'm creating a port of "Dead Rising" using the Fist base (heavily modified) and I was wondering how it would be possible to narrate hordes and hordes of zombies without it sounding repetitive?