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Hi, I will be spending four glorious days of setting my credit card on fire in the best city in the world. Any tips for the best TTRPG shops in London? I'm in Shoreditch, but your Underground will be able to take me anywhere. Thanks!

This was a Call of Cthulhu campaign, and not a very long one (5 sessions). I cooked up everything about it in my head, and it was my first time running a game in 3 years after my last one fizzled out. The ending was fantastic. The dice told such a story and after it ended we all had a group hug and sat in a circle complimenting each other. That was two days ago. In the two days since, my 5 players have made about a dozen really good fanarts of the characters. It's just so surreal to see this thing that I created inspire my players to make art like that. I'm still riding that high after two days because I just feel so proud of all my players and so happy that we came together for this campaign

Rant over, just wanted to share this awesome experience with people!

Side note, one of them stalks my reddit profile sometimes, so if you see this, hi leia! Your art is really cool

I'm surprised this situation hasn't come up for me before, but in my current game the PCs are meeting multiple important NPCs at the same time (multiple vassals have gathered in a rare event to meet at the kings castle) and it would be a great opportunity to:

1. Exposit a bunch of information about the kingdom; who these NPCs are and what their local holdings are like (it's a new campaign and the players don't know much about the area yet)
2. Introduce the personalities of these NPCs
3. Introduce the goals and concerns of each of these NPCs, and to a limited extent, the secondary characters linked to each of them
4. Demonstrate the tensions between them, and what each thinks of the other, etc

A movie would just play all this out in a single scene but at the table that would result in me performing a conversation between five non-player characters, which is awful.

With all these characters in one area and available - what would be a cleaner way to achieve my goals? My best idea so far is "players meet them one by one at a feast" but I'm not crazy about.

Would love to know how you'd handle it or what GM tools can be deployed here.

Thanks!

When I was a kid I used paper to do GM prep and notes, but since I restarted as an adult I've only used electronic stuff (e.g., One Note).

Does anyone still use paper?

And by that I mean games where you can buy 1 product and have everything you need to crack the book or box open and start playing.

For example, Mythic Bastionland is little bit of rules followed by dense pages of just stuff to include in your game. Myths, enemies, allies, names, spark tables, items, seers, other knights, and on and on and on. All you need that's not in the book is a hex map, and there's plenty of options for that.

Another good one: Dragonbane. In the box you get the rules, premade characters, plenty of standees, adventures, a solo adventure and accompanying rules, a map, and I think dice too. All for less than the price of many of the popular core books.

As a buyer I really love games that come essentially feature complete out of the box like these. I know pretty much all of Free League's publications are like this to some extent. What else is there?

What are your favorite, single purchase complete games? And what all comes with them?

Like many others, my love for the Dragon Quest Monsters series has been rekindled with the demo for the newest entry to the series and, like many others I'm sure, immediately thought, but how do I bring this to the tabletop?

I know I'm opening a can of worms. I've seen myriad pokemon tabletop attempts and suggestions that range from "use D&D" to "use Showdown to literally play pokemon battles 1v1 against the GM", but none of them have really succeeded in nailing the feeling of pokemon... And, for the most part, pokemon is an easier model to emulate.

Likewise, in far rarer occasions, I've seen the Digimon attempts, but never DQM.

Do any of you have any suggestions for systems that are actually amenable to emulating the feeling and experience of Dragon Quest Monsters or perhaps even niche systems I've not found that do so?

Currently I'm excited for a Wuxia/Xianxia inspired game, Jadestorm.

I'm curious if anyone can point me to any soundtracks for media set in Feudal or a Fantasy Japan, Korea, or China? This is so I can play the music while running my TTRPG games.

My list so far:

• Dynasty Warriors series
• Jade Empire
• Westworld - Shogun World's covers of Western songs.
• Total War Three Kingdoms
• Okami
• Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• House of Flying Daggers

These aren't set in a Feudal or Fantasy setting, but I really enjoy the music from them:

• Kung-Fu Hustle
• Legend of the Drunken Master

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

So I'm a big fan of the Metro games and have been thinking about running a campaign in the Metro setting. But I'm not really sure what system to use. I've looked online and have seen people suggest multiple things. Modified D&D 5e, Call of Cthulhu, and multiple others I can't remember off the top of my head.

I also found this online, but not only do I not speak French, I haven't found anyone online to speak of the quality of it.

So does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to run a Metro inspired campaign? Thankyou in advance.

I am planning on running a small event for my University's board games group centred around TTRPGs. Mainly for the purpose of GMs and Players meeting and finding groups as well as finding people who might run One Shots later in the year but also to introduce newbies to the idea of TTRPGs in general. For this I want to run a One Shot for people with 0 experience with TTRPGs in order to introduce them to the idea but we only have the space for around 1.5 hours so even with pre-made character sheets the systems I know best would take too long for any substantial One Shot. What are some systems good for brief one shots with new players (or just a very short One Shot in an "easy to learn on the go" system)

Preferably it would also either be open to a decently large player count or be easy to GM so multiple people can run it simultaneously for different groups in case a lot of people come.

I've DM'd a decent number of games, ranging from masks, DnD 5e, LotE, mutants and masterminds and a few others, but I'm looking for something more Sci-fi. I would prefer it to have no magic, or at least a kind of magic that can be explained away like "that's not healing, that's nano machines".

Could anyone recommend a game that has space combat, spaceships, maybe rules for cities as well if I need to build them and traditional RPG aspects? Gunfights and nanotech? Preferably no magic or magic-like equivalence?

Hi! I want to share not so much a problem as a situation I’ve found myself in. Three years ago, my friends and I were playing Cyberpunk. I was running separate adventures for two pairs of players—street-level gang stuff for one pair, and corporate intrigue and investigations for the other. Just as I kicked off new story arcs (the street characters and their gang suddenly found themselves at war with a rival gang encroaching on their turf, while the medic and the journalist encountered their first patients with the "Carbon Plague" and began tracing its origins) the campaign fizzled out. Life got in the way. Still, over those three years, the players would occasionally bring up the game and create plenty of memes about it. So now, I’ve decided to revive it.

How do you think the process of reviving such an old game should look?