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I finally landed on the game series I want to run for RPGCon in Marlborough MA in April: C list supervillains (something like the Flash's Rogues Gallery) just trying to score, while avoiding both superheroes and the higher tier villains trying to force them into their diabolical plans. These...

What are two (or more) genres, IPs, setting or otherwise that you could, would, or even have mashed up together to create a campaign or adventure? I really want to do a Delta Green style modern technothriller, except the squad (PCs) is making sorties into Oz. Or, War of the Worlds but set in...

It won't let me get to some controls, specifically saving changes to a thread.

A poll. Choose 3. If one is not on there, comment and I will add it.

I need to get my events in for a convention coming up in April, and I am having a heck of a time settling on a thing. So I thought I would ask the hivemind and see if inspiration boils up from the depths. For anyone interested, the con is Rising Phoenix Game Con in Marlborough MA, April 23-26...

This started in another thread but I thought I would spin it off into its own thread before it goes wild. What do you think of TTRPGs (broadly) in relation to "story." Are RPGs "stories." Are they "story generators"? Something else? How do the particular mechanics of a game interact with what...

My guess would be they would be stickied in the Meta forum, but I don't see it. And on a site like this searching "rules" is... no helpful. Maybe the Rules post is by Morrus and since he has me blocked it is invisible? In any case, I was hoping to look up the rules regarding +threads, since I...

D&D has been changing since the first time it was played, let along published. Cross pollination with related media as well as other RPGs, not to mention the simple creativity of the people making the game over the years and editions, have caused many elements of D&D to evolve. Sometimes these...

Has anyone run Red Hand of Doom in 5E? Did you use the conversion document on DMsGuild? In either case, how did it go? Was it difficult to convert if you did so yourself? Extra points if you can tell me about the Fantasy Grounds conversion. Thanks.

The 6 attributes are the most sacred of the D&D legacy elements. But what if we just eliminated them entirely? What if we just used skills, proficiencies, feats, etc to define what a character is good at mechanically? Could D&D be D&D without ability scores? Would you play D&D without ability...

As I get close to end what was a more trying "open world" and "player driven" than I expected D&D campaign, I think I want the next one to be more story driven and linear. So what linear, story driven TTRPG campaigns have you played or run that you really like? Any system, but extra points if...

This dropped: I will be vey curious to see if this is just a Big brother clone or something dfferent.

In tonight's session, it is very likely that the PCs (11th level) are going to end up fighting A LOT of Knights of the Realm and their commander. The Commander is a Legendary character and rides of stone golem horse, but I want the PCs to feel awesome so I am planning on making her soldiers...

We are starting an in person Daggerheart campaign tonight and I could use some help in brainstorming the foundational stuff of the first "adventure". We established the overall setting in our session 0: speaking in very broad trope terms, the Old World is a fantasy, elf-dominated western roman...

On Wednesday, I ran a first session of my new monthly Daggerheart campaign. On Thursday I ran like the 30th session of my ongoing D&D 2024 campaign. One thing I really missed during the latter was Hope and Fear from Daggerheart. Not so much the metacurrency aspect, but the narrative informative...

Last year, I started a D&D 2024 campaign to give the rules a "fair shake" and I decided to base the campaign on a great map (Dyson Logos' Autumnlands) a strong premise (a evil wizard has usurped the throne) and a player-driven narrative. The only requirement was that the PCs all be harmed...

Look, I get it. Morrus does not want to read my posts. Fair enough. But I literally can't read the news posts he puts up, which sort of defeats half the purpose of me being here.

I am currently playing through Divnity orginal Sin 2, and it got me thinking about using a CRPG as the foundation for a TTRPG campaign. I have done this to a limited degree way back in the day, using the officla prima guid for Fallout 2 as my campaign "module" and doing whatever conversions I...

Note: this is in Geek Media because I am interested in folks' preferences beyond RPGs. This thread is about RPGs, but also board games and card games and video games and all the genres and sub genres within those media. So what sort of games do you like? Not just medium wise, but genre and...

Difficulty: it can't be anything that has already appeared in an official version of D&D or adjacent game (like D20 Modern or Star Wars d20 or whatever). If you were to add one stat to D&D intended to be for player characters, what would it be? It can be an ability score, of course, but could...