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I used to love Cyberpunk 2020 back in the day and was exciting to jump on Cyberpunk Red. Unfortunately my players and I were disappointed with Cyberpunk Red and resolved that we had no interest in playing it ever again. I've got an idea for a cyberpunk campaign but thought I might expand my...

I'm going to go out on a limb and define role-playing as taking on a role and responding to situations as if you were that person. You could role-play as yourself, a 17th century samurai from Iga, a lone warrior from Cimmeria, or a stoic Vulcan serving as a security officer on a Federation...

In my games the answer is yes. Allow me to give you an example. In my Deadlands game, a PC went to go talk to the recently widowed woman of a man two other PCs were currently sitting in jail for allegedly murdering. I don't remember what the PC said, but he started the conversation by saying...

For quite a while I've seen the term bounded accuracy thrown around but I don't think I ever saw someone explain exactly what that was. Fair enough. I decided I wanted to know, so I put on my big boy pants and Googled the heck out of it. There's even an entry on the D&D Wiki. But then the...

I’m running a Deadlands game using the Savage Worlds rules, and one of my players was trying to find information about a missing man. His character isn’t the friendly sort and doesn’t so much ask questions as he tends to threaten and bully others into giving him answers. i.e. He uses the...

Once in a while we come across an RPG that surprises us. Maybe we had low expectations and were surprised by how much we loved it. Or maybe we had high expectations and it disappointed us on every level. I'm curous about what RPG release surprised you and in what way? It can be a base game...

One of my favorite games from the 1990s was Legend of the Five Rings as I felt it was the perfect combination of rules and setting. I even had a ton of the splat books from 1st edition! Unfortunately, I've had mixed feelings about further editions of the game. Second was a flat out...

Earlier this morning when I logged onto thhe I would see ads on my screen which is compeltely fine. I have no problems with advertising because you gotta pay the rent. But this evening, I'm getting pop up ads on the site. When I open the site I get pop ups, when I click on a new thread I get...

I'm a big fan of painting miniatures and using them not just for role playing games but also for table top miniatures war games. Over the years, I've bought and played a lot of them including Clan War (for Legend of the Five Rings), Warzone, Battletech, and some lesser known games you haven't...

I had a lot of fun with the Fighting the Gray Tide thread I started in December 2022 and I appreciate everyone who participated in it throughout the year. It was nice to have an overhwhelmingly positive thread without the necessity of a + and it reinforced my belief that no matter the skill...

At the beginning of 2023 I made two decisions. The first was that I was going to put a dent in the number of unpainted miniatuers I had and the second was that I was going to keep track of my gaming expenditures for 2023. While there's still a month left, I thought it was late enough in the...

Content Warning: There's some discussion of harm to children here. There will be no explicit descriptions of harm to children in this thread, but it's part of this opening post because I'll briefly discuss a new campaign released for Delta Green called God's Teeth. It's possible we might...

While playing Baldur's Gate 3, my character came across a book that discussed the Cult of the Dragon. So I checked it out on the Forgotten Realms Wiki when I was suddenly inspired to start planning my next D&D campaign. I thought it'd be great for the PCs to stop the cult from summoning a...

This past summer I went to see the D&D movie. It was a lighthearted movie appropriate for the whole family with no bad language, the cutest fattest dragon I've ever seen, bloodless violence, and comedy. In contrast, I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and there's a party member who frequently...

Towards the end of of 2019, I tried to start a Vampire 5th edition campaign with some people I didn't know very well. I posted on my FLG's Facebook page that I was looking for a group and I managed to put together a group of five people. After some back and forth, we picked a day for us all to...

One of the things I like about 5th edition is the inclusion of backgrounds which I (naively) thought would eliminate some of the desire for people to multiclass. After all, does my Fighter really need to take a level of Rogue in order for me to meet my vision of a character with who grew up as...

I'm usually pretty stoked when I game I like is coming out with a new edition. And why wouldn't I be? If the new edition of the game is going to improve something I already love then what's not to like. Of course that doesn't happen all the time and on rare occasion I just don't care for the...

It's been oft lamented that treasure becomes essentially meaningless very quickly in 5th edition D&D. At least it's oft lamented by me. I ran my first 5th edition campaign in 2014 or 2015, and just accumulating treasure off of monsters and foes, even at lower levels, kept the party hip deep in...

What's the purpose of a + in the thread title? I mean, I kind of get it, if I want to discuss the best way to handle social encounters in D&D I might put a little + sign so we can avoid having people telling me to play Vampire, somthing Powered by the Apocalypse, or some other hippie game. But...

Okay, maybe it's not bad for WotC or Hasbro. I think we're all in agreement here the role playing game industry, insofar as we can call it an industry, is overwhelmingly dominated by Dungeons & Dragons. It's the oldest, most recognizable property whose very name is synonomous with RPGs for...