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A little background: I have been having some recent "wake up call" cardiac situations, which has motivated me to finally take some things off my Creative Bucket list. I have been freelancing off and on in the TTRPG space for 25 years, but one thing I have never done is design my own system...

Upon catching up to A Knight of Seven kingdom with Episode 5, I am angry at myself for not waiting until all the episodes were out. This show is definitely better as a binge. it feels like a long movie, rather than a series. This got me wondering what shows people felt were better binged versus...

NOTE: This would have just gone in the Shadowdark General thread but the author of that thread decided to lock me out with two way ignore. I am prepping my 4 session "West Marches" style convention game for next weekend at TotalCon. Part of doing so is stocking small dungeons for the PCs to...

In the same way that Buffy had that musical episode, or some grounded cop show has an apparently supernatural episode, what is a time in a campaign you were either running or playing had an adventure or "epsidoe" that broke the general genre of the thing? How did it go? Was it intentional? Was...

Just a chat thread: What does your planar/worlds/heaven and hell/etc cosmology look like in your D&D campaign? I very rare use the official D&D cosmology. I just don't particularly like. it. If I am inclined to use it, I use at least the 4E version of the Astral Sea as opposed to the Astral...

This came up in he Daggerheart General thread and I thought I would move it to its own thread for discussion. In games that havel levels, ranks, tiers, etc, do you prefer difficulty or target numbers to be dependent on those levels, or should they be independent of levels? For example, let's...

So I had this situation last night when a player got upset because he felt the party was being "railroaded" and I take issue with his definition. I set up the adventure in which the party is stuck in the Faewild after the Winter Court stages a coup and takes over. They have locked down the...

One thing that I find interesting is how different TTRPGs handle the shift from one mode of playing (talking to the Baron) to another mode of play (combat against the Baron's guards) based on the things happening in play. Some games try and minimize the mode shift such that the mechanics are the...

Since we (almost) have confirmation that there will be a big adventure this year due to the Beadle & Grimm's Platinum Edition set to pre-order late Q2, I thought it would be fun to have a poll and see what people think it might be. I have included the options from the speculation I have seen in...

TTRPGs get new editions on a regular basis, and often times those new editions have significant changes. When this works, awesome! But when it doesn't, it can be frustrating (especially since a new edition usually means the old edition is no longer going to be supported). For you personally...

Everyone has their preferences and limits. Is there a genre, medium or other form of geek media that you just don't do? For me, it is LitRPG. Nope. I love Portal Fantasy, and Guardians of the Flame (a portal fantasy where they traveled to the world of the game they played) was foundational for...

Traditionally, due to the origins of superhero comics in the real world, supers appear in their setting around or during World War 2. Sometimes it is a little earlier (WW1) or later (the Atomic Age) but most superhero RPG settings have them appear in the early to mid 20th century. I think it...

This is a poll. Using a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is something like no-rules storygaming, 2 is something like Lasers and Feelings, 6 is something like 5E D&D and 10 is Phoenix Command, what (in general*) is your preferred complexity level for TTRPGs? *I know that we often want different...

I did not see one of these for comic books, so I thought I would make one. If I missed it, mods please delete. So let's have a thread where we can talk comics of all kinds. I tend toward supers, but I also try and read a cross section of sci-fi, fantasy, and noir/crime stuff. Every one in a...

This might belong in Other Media. If so, mods please move. I have been a Fantasy Grounds user for years. I have also had a paid Roll20 account for years but did not use it much (I am one of those people that forgets to cancel it every year. ::sigh:: Anyway) I own both Dragonbane and Marvel...

Star Wars may be the best licensed TTRPG setting there is (IMHO, of course). It has so much built into it that makes for great roleplaying adventure. Obviously, we have seen a number of different Star Wars RPGs over the years, and everyone has their favorite. But if you were the one to decide...

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...

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