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Entire group: 😱 collective panic like someone just cast Fireball in a tavern full of ale kegs.

Suddenly everyone's "too busy" or "just not creative."

Meanwhile, murderhobos everywhere: “Wait, there’s lore?”

We must protect our endangered DMs. Hug one today (or at least let them roll a rogue).

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-big-or-go-home-rpg-megabundle-books Is there any catch? Some strange VTT? Sounds very good.

Edit: For clarification: You get the Books with stuff like Charsheets as plain download without any DRM or watermark via Humble bundle and additionally on drivethru.

I’ve been playing and running dnd as my exclusive ttrpg for like… 7-8 years? And even from my first campaign I really didn’t like the actual system. While I had never played a different ttrpg I had played lots of war games and such and got annoyed at how DnD worked.

I’m now in a phase where I want to play and run lots of different games and see what else is out there.

However I have a really good friend who has been talking about running a non-violent political intrigue campaign using 5e and really really wants me to play in it. And I just… have no desire. It doesn’t help that beyond the Dm I only know one person in the game and the rest I didn’t get a great first impression of.

Idk if I’m just being pretentious and annoying and should just suck it up for another dnd game or if I should be honest and bow out.

I’m realizing that not enough of the books I want are in print, and if I go with PDFs I’m going to have a much bigger world to explore. So much on drivethrurpg and the latest humble bundle that are only pdf.

So gotta figure out what to read them on. What do you guys use? Tablet, e-reader, e-reader notebook that you can write on?

Need to get my new device obsession going..

Had a patron come into the library and ask if we knew any RPGs that present as cute but are really dark when played?

We had a few suggestions, but I feel we really need help from the internet.

Our suggestions

• Goblin Quest
• Brindlewood Bay
• Some Fiasco Playsets
• Mauseritter
• Bunnies and Burrows

Let’s talk about the truly questionable art choices in TTRPG history. Not just covers that are a bit bland — I mean the ones that make you do a double take and wonder how they ever got approved.

My personal vote goes to Werewolf: Rage Across New York.

What are your picks for the most bizarre, awkward, or unintentionally funny cover art in the hobby?

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3750/rage-across-new-york

Dredd, the 2012 movie, is a perfect film IMO. It lays out it's premise early on, then lives up to it every step of the way for a tight 90 minutes of action. This, coupled with a powerful and gruff chin (from Karl Urban) and a delightfully sadistic villain in the form of Lena Headey make for an action packed climb up a skyscraper ghetto towards the BBEG. This month's Playtonics episode breaks down what makes this film tick before putting the pieces back together in a way that is easily structured and prepped for play at the table. Podcasts not your thing? Here are the key takeaways:

• Use a depth crawl structure to model the ascent through the mega-structure, creating procedurally generated encounters that get more challenging as players progress upward.
• Incorporate single-use items and novelty ammunition that players must announce via voice command, reflecting the film's depiction of Dredd’s arsenal.
• Encourage players to deliver cinematic quips before executing actions to hit the right tone, maybe by providing in-game advantages (ties really well to the above point!)
• Create a variety of enemies and encounters that key off the Depth (Height) index, starting with low-level thugs and culminating in elite opponents like corrupt judges.
• Ensure a scarcity of resources to heighten tension, mirroring the film's moments where Dredd runs out of ammo and has to strategically manage his supplies.
• Consider using systems like CY_BORG, Liminal Horror, or even D&D 5E (with some hacking) to capture the vibes of tactical combat and stylised violence from the movie.

What's your take? Got a better way to emulate this tower climb? Drop your thoughts here or join us in our Discord, where you can even suggest topics for future episodes!

Just got the core book PDF (through the incredible Humble Bundle that was posted in this sub earlier today), and I’ve already got three players talked into starting a campaign next week :) What should I pay special attention to? What should I avoid? What did you do to make your campaign particularly awesome?

I've been GMing for quite a while with this group and have recently moved from DnD to hopping around dragonbane, forbidden lands, mutant year zero, tcoc among others.

Currently, we're enjoying forbidden lands but I'm finding a bit of trouble with the difference in style vs more information heavy games like dnd. For example, players will constantly ask how high/tall something is or how far away in feet. Personally, I struggle with landing on exact measurements or distance, I find it hard to figure out the length by my own imagination. I once panicked and said a Giant was 10 feet tall and they were like "oh thats alright then" lol

FL has a looser combat system when comparing it to DnD - instead of moving squares, the characters are moving zones. I love the abstract nature of it. However, mostly outside of combat, I still get these questions.

I think a problem we might be falling into is that DnD has taught them to try and imagine the exact virtual space that is inside my head - instead of letting their imagination fill in the blanks. How do I promote this more abstract way of looking at things?

Are there any tips for this or is it best to just say "look dude it doesn't matter how tall the hill is, you wanna run up it you can..."?

I have some friends who are huge Star Wars fans and want to play a TTRPG in that world, but lack any TTRPG experience. I know a good amount of systems and have run a few games in the past, but I’m worried about the learning curve of games like d6/WEG and the 5e conversion.

Has anyone made a more OSR-style system that could run Star Wars games (and allow for things like force powers, alien species, etc) or mods/conversions to existing games could work. Would love to get some ideas for how best to get my friends onboard!

When I first got into RPGs it was through the Red Dwarf Roleplaying Game. I was young and didn’t know what TTRPGs were so I thought I was buying a computer rpg. For those who don’t know Red Dwarf is a SciFi britcom, an existing property that got a tie in game.

I’ve had a bit of a love for these types of games over the years. You had Firefly, Men In Black, Ghostbusters, Dragon Age, etc… just to name a few.

But recently I’ve noticed more kickstarters for tie in games. Specifically Welcome to Nightvale and the Magnus Archives. Properties that have passionate fan bases.

It saddens me a bit when I see these projects take off when new properties by industry vets seem to not get as much traction. I understand that this is more likely bringing new blood into TTRPG spaces who otherwise might not have. To an extent I wish when developers leave the bigger names companies to start their own projects that people followed them more.

Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford are moving over to work at Darrington Press, but I feel like a lot of DnD 5e fans who aren’t chronically online don’t know who these guys are. Or if they do they are more invested in the system than the talent that helped make that system great.

What do you all think?

TLDR version: I like bringing new people into the hobby with “tie in games”, I just wish established game designers with new ideas got more attention.