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Throwaway account because my players know my main :/

I'm planning to do a Truman Show-esque game where the players discover that they've been trapped in a TV show and need to find a way to get out. I'm not in the mood to hack D&D and I've already ran Call of Cuthulu for them recently. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them!

Hello everyone,

I’d like to share an extremely frustrating encounter that my fellow players and I experienced during a Deadlands session.

We started the campaign not long ago , we’re about six sessions in, and so far everything had been going really well. The group has great chemistry, the GM does a good job improvising and adapting to our actions, and overall we’ve been having a lot of fun.

Right now, we’re in a kind of sandbox phase, trying to figure out the source of a mysterious evil affecting a town.

For the past few days, the GM had been teasing me about introducing a “rival” , a recurring character who would evolve and cross our path throughout the campaign. On paper, I thought it was a really cool idea.

But things went off the rails during yesterday’s session.

We’re a group of four seasoned characters. The game’s ranks go from Novice → Seasoned → Veteran → Heroic → Legendary, with 4 advances per rank. We’re just at the very beginning of Seasoned.

We had just finished fighting a group of eight bandits, and while we won, we had already taken some damage.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a man shows up to claim the bounty on one of our party members. Combat start and we get absolutely DESTROYED.

This character was completely over the top: a highly skilled gunslinger with a very high chance to hit, four bennies, and on top of that, a spellcaster capable of doing basically everything , despite not belonging to any specific arcane background (not a huckster, not chi-based, not a sorcerer, etc.).

He had five wounds, a toughness of 14, a natural -4 penalty to be hit, 30 power points, could heal himself, and had access to some of the most powerful spells in the game.

The fight was entirely one-sided. Two party members died, and the GM seemed quite proud of the encounter.

After the session, I asked to see the character sheet. It had 36 advances… meaning Legendary +16.

He then told us that the outcome was due to our bad dice rolls.

Honestly, I find that hard to accept given the massive power gap , the character felt on par with a Judge.

At this point, I’m seriously considering leaving the game.

EDIT : We tried other approaches, like talking or fleeing, but the GM used his bennies (like luck tokens) to basically say, “No, you actually fail your roll” or “You can’t do that.”

I might be running a Feng Shui 1E campaign soon - it's that or Daggerheart after a one shot sampler. As I recall, I love this system and rereading the books made me massively overjoyed, but it's been a while since I ran it. Two questions.

First: One of my players found an archetype they'd like to play, but it's 2E. (Gene Freak, to be specific.) How difficult would it be to convert? Is it workable, or should I tell them to pick something from 1E?

Second: Any hints for encounter 'balance' and 'challenge'? I know conventional wisdom is "that isn't how Feng Shui works and the characters will always kill everything ever", which is fine, I rather like it when the characters win, but I would like them to feel like they earned it. I don't need to go as fine as "if number X is higher than number Y then add Z to number Ω", but also, if you have that that would be very helpful as whenever I try to eyeball something my players steamroll it in two seconds.

I had this ttrpg by an author by the name of Jim Farris. I lost my copy and can't find his site anymore. Does anyone out there know of this game?

Hey folks! I'm currently crowdfunding Second Gig, an expansion for my retrofuture cyberpunk RPG Hard Wired Island. We're fully funded and close to a print run stretch goal; the goals after that are assets for producing third-party works and an anthology of microgames.

(If you don't have Hard Wired Island but you think you'd be into some cyberpunk set in the distant future of the 2020s, I've got discount PDFs of the original game and its previous expansions as add-ons!)

This is long, and extremely whiny, but maybe it'll help with context. I'll add in a tldr, of course.

I was planning to run VTM because a friend of a friend really wanted me to, and I love WoD. I got together them, a friend who's been a regular player of mine, and another friend of hers together. They took... forever to organise characters, read up on literally anything (two of them are new to WoD), or even do anything at all. About 6+ weeks of nothing, even though I and the first player offered to help constantly.

It kinda killed my motivation a lot. I struggle sometimes with feeling less motivated if my players aren't putting in the same amount of effort I do, and it really made it difficutl for me to want to run for them. Then, around the same time, some irl events have made things quite difficult to me.

But, eventually, after bugging them over and over and over and over we finally had a session 0, finally had their sheets made, and ready. Now it's all on me. And I don't know if I have the energy or motivation.

I have to set up the vtt, write the session plan, NPCs, get it all together, and... I just don't know if I can. I'm dreading the idea of future sessions, I feel like my first session plan is awful, one player is way more knowledgeable about VTM than me, who's quite rusty in comparison so I feel like I won't live up to expectations, I feel really frustrated they didn't seem to want to do the bare minimum when I have a ton of prep to do. Add in all the irl stuff too, and I just don't know if I have it in me.

But I have no idea how to say this. They FINALLY got excited for the idea more than a few weeks after I was, clearly want to do it, but I don't know. I hate the idea of making a bad impression on the other two as they're lovely people and I don't want them to hate me for being such a flaky DM. But at the same time... I just don't know. I feel so guilty over the idea of it, and I'm kinda lost. It doesn't help in my other game, my players are extremely unreliable with times which has me feeling iffy too.

TLDR: Lost motivation to run VTM for a friend and two of her friends after a session 0. Feeling extremely guilty over it. Has anyone else ever done this, maybe why, and how did it go for you?

I know a weird question. I have some ttrpgs set out to play, but i have a lot of deadtimes at work, which i fill by reading new systems (and if they look fun to run i end up filing them in the list of campaigns i run over the summer). What are some ttrpgs that are interesting reads in terms of artwork, unique mechanics, ext?

Series Ive already run/read:

Loved:

Mythic Bastionlands

Without number systems

Monster of the week

Cyberpunk red/2020

Deadlands

Enjoyed:

Pathfinder 1e/2e

Knave

Pendragon

ADND 1/2e

Draw Steel

Call of cthulu

Disliked:

Lancer

Daggerheart

Dnd 4e/5e

Orbital Blues

Shadowrun

This is just a curiosity of mine still feel free to answer if you feel like it. I would like to know how people personally define player agency and game master agency? Is one more important than the other? How do you balance between the two? And is there ever a good reason to restrain or even take away a player's agency?

I’m working on an app for campaign management. It has potential. I need some game systems to add. Licensing is my concern, so I could use some suggestions of game systems to consider. My current list includes:

- OpenD6

- Basic Fantasy RPG

- OSE

I have been avoiding D20 because it’s a beast and has plenty of support. I want to help the smaller games that don’t have deep pockets for online support.

Hallo! so, i really dont know How to start in any of these RPG stuff 😭 but I want to try, since a lot of my friend reccomend me to (but didn't explain how).