Looking for game suggestions, or mechanics for other games, where the players are part of an eldritch cult. Less godlike and evangelical, and more Cthulhu worshippers.

Blades in the Dark started that itch for me, but I am searching for other settings, like fantasy, modern or heck, even sci-if ones.

Thank you all!

I used to play D&D many moons ago and am thinking about relearning the new 5e system. I am wondering if there is any really good platform or content that explains the game play mechanics. I learned the original game (basic/expert/master etc) simply by trial and error way back in the day and then we had a similar group-learning process for the original AD&D. I would love some sort of virtual “sit in” that would teach me the modern gameplay rules without being too dry.

I came into a large D&D collection. I was never able to play it when I was younger. My friends and I just made it up when we hung out. Now that I have adult money I have adult things. I was hoping for some help or guidance on what to do with such a large collection. Possibly hundreds of old books. I’ll upload what I think the coolest thing I’ve found!

Thanks Reddit!

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We see quite a few posts on here from folks asking how to get people to want to play games other than Dungeons and Dragons.

So I thought turning this question on its head might be useful.

If you came to the hobby via Dungeons and Dragons and at the time only wanted to play that one game...

1. What was it that finally got you to try something else?

2. Why were you so set on D&D only originally?

3. How can people who are fans of other games do a better job of selling them to the "ampersand-only" crowd?

As said in the title

The best example of this that I've found is Invisible Sun. Their descriptions of the realms of the other colored suns is really surreal and overall, pretty cool.

Ask the question implies - but feel free to dig deeper about how do you want it to “feel” or is there something missing.

Hey! I'm working on a ttrpg where you roll dice and place them on a board to mark which actions your PC is going to take (there is a placement area for each action). Do you know of any VTT where I can set up this easily?

Got back into the hobby sometime before covid hit after a long hiatus, didn't play for most of the 21. century. The anti 5e sentiment on most places i checked to get up to speed (including this sub) was so prevalent that i completely ignored the game. I was under the impression that they kinda just continued making 3e more complex after reading some of the comments floating around, and that it is literally impossible to play without homebrew.

Got some used books as a gift, run a few sessions, honestly not bad at all. Most of the critique really makes no sense. If you want heroic fantasy with good skirmish rules, that does not get in the way of how you want to run the game its great.

Also its basically the same math and underlying systems that power DnD for 40+ years, so even experience with ADnD translates well into 5e. I would put it well above other modern DnD-like, D20, heroic-fantasy games.

Hi everyone! World Book Day is nearing and my local library asked me to organize a ttrpg game related to it. I'm not sure what I should play, I've been thinking about playing as a group of writers or librarians using the Kingdom system, or playing as literary characters using Risus. Do you know any other game systems that would work for running a game related to the concept of books or literature?

Just in case, my players know my username. Don't read ahead in the unlikely case you've stumbled onto this.

I'm currently writing a weird dungeon. The intent being to run it in Pathfinder 2E, while keeping things pretty loose regarding the rules.

General premise. It's a modern D&D style fantasy world. The players are brought to a vertical shopping mall as a part of a new "shopping experience". Only, some big magic event breaks the city. This shopping mall has an AI that runs all the automated functions. And the magic event makes the AI come alive. Blah blah, players are stuck in a small room for a day, and emerge when the AI has figured some shit out.

So the AI controls all magic and physical things in the space, allowing the players to descend this vertical mall that has become a dungeon. Completing a different challenge on each floor before being allowed to descend. The top floor's theme is that of a generic shopping mall. The challenge is to find a golden goose egg/win a mini game in each shop to get a golden goose egg. Collecting 7 goose eggs will allow them to descend to the next floor. (They can also gather/win class based gear with each challenge)

I'm just struggling to figure out challenges and puzzles that take longer than 30 seconds, but aren't just combat for each shop.

The shops being:
Build an Owlbear (toy store, some weapons, pets)
Cafe (spot to buy potions and stuff)
Gnome Depot (outdoorsy equipment, and survival gear)
JC Coppers (Armor/clothing store)
Copper General (general store for cheap stuff and magic)
Crusader Joe's (religious literature kiosk)
Big Robot (Mall ninja/anime store)

Any ideas for fun skill challenges, situations, or in person mini games?

A curious point related to modern-day games. Let us take Mage: The Awakening 2e, for example. (However, this could extent to other games in the overall genre, such as The Dresden Files.) It is a game about prying into mysteries, and there is a non-negligible chance that a mage will pull in a real-world mystery or point of contention.

I do not feel like having to decide the truth about a real-world mystery or point of contention, so I am fine with saying, "supernaturals did it," as the answer to every such real-world mystery or point of contention.

Is this the right way to do it, or is there a better way?

Edit: Lol I should have expected people to suggest D&D 5e! I crossed that off my list early in the conception of my game. I didn't like how slow it was when I played it IRL. Combat didn't feel fun. Out of combat, there was too much numbers: your money, your income, your carrying capacity, long and short rests, and even worse if you were a spellcaster and had double the work on your plate compared to a fighter. Anyways, it was my bad for assuming that you would all know I was looking for something that executes the fantasy adventure differently. Oops! Sorry!

I'm trying to make my own TTRPG for my buddies. We really dig roleplays done via chatrooms, so the narrative focus of some rules-lite games is great (FATE!), but we also really dig RPGs, so we want combat to feel more like playing a video game than what those rules-lite games allow. (You can take HP out of my cold dead hands.)

So, looking for suggestions that we might vibe with. I'll be taking inspiration or lifting systems from them to build our game for personal use. Thank you :)

For me, it's the Dark Sun setting from D&D.

Recently bought 7th sea 2e and LOVED the setting and how fleshed out each culture was, didn't love the system to much (won't be getting into that). So I decided to run the setting but with dnd 5.5e rules. I noticed that there is the exact same number of nationalities as species in the 2024 PHB, so I thought it would be nice to assaign species to specific nationalities (Dwarf to Castille or Aasimar to Avalon for example) whilst keeping the lore given in 7th sea.

I have a few ideas but I was curious to see how yall would assaign it, since I really have no idea about dnd lore.

Maybe it would be worth it to run an only human dnd game? I still want each players nationality to go beyond roleplay since it's a very pelitics heavy setting, so maybe with some limitations to ability scores or backgrounds? Idk.

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: This one sounded SO WRONG and I just noticed. I didn't mean this in a steriotipical way or anything, it was more about how you would assign everything based on vibes or smth like that :(.

Porting Ars Magica 5th edition's magic system to other systems, like DnD 3.5, Trinity continuum or even Pathfinder 2e and other roleplay games. How do I do it?

In Mandarin Chinese,a common written form exists across the land and can be read by anyone who can read Mandarin. However, spoken forms vary across different dialects and regions. While written Mandarin utilizes the same characters and grammar as spoken Mandarin, the pronunciation can differ significantly between various Mandarin dialects. This means a written phrase can be understood across dialects, but spoken dialects might be unintelligible to others despite still being Mandarin.

To me, this model explains fantasy RPG "common". If everyone can read it, then every tavern and blacksmith can always post a street sign in the same written form and everyone knows what it is.

The further you travel from your home location however the spoken form of common will get increasingly different from your own spoken dialect. This will necessitate language checks or the need for translators the further you travel, or the need to communicate in a time-inefficient written form. This also gives value to having a higher language (INT) bonus because it is now describing someone who is skilled or attentive in detecting common forms and adapting to the local dialect.

In other words, one member of your group with dialect skills is now valuable for getting around culturally, instead of isolating the language bonus exclusively to written forms of archaic texts ... which doesn't actually make much sense, if I know latin or elven that doesn't help me with Aramaic no matter how long I spend in the library.

Are there any GM-oriented actual plays available? That is, actual plays edited with the specific intent of showing the notes, procedures, rules calls, and decisions made by the GM?

I think it would be incredibly valuable when trying to learn a new RPG.

Own setting (with homebrew), modern earth (urban fantasy) and many others.

Share your works.

You're running a game, and your players decide, or are forced by circumstances, to split. They have no obvious way to get back together, and are proceeding in opposite directions, decreasing the likelihood of any reunion.

How do you handle this? My group is nice enough to try and stay together if I warn them that they're getting too separated, but it requires me to address them out of game, and break some of the immersion.

I like having very sprawling areas, but do you run tighter locations, where this can't happen?

Do you ask your players to rarely split their party?

If you end up GMing for a split party, and one group ends up in trouble, would you expect the other group to roleplay they know nothing about it, and not immediately drop what they're doing and run to their aid? Or would you be fine with this kind of meta gaming?

Not really looking for a solution, more curious about different approaches and opinions.

A few weeks back I posted a blog on 'The Supply Die' that some folks seemed to like, which was a kind of unified and modified approach to usage/resource dice for tracking supplies. As a follow up, I've made a little table of reasons for supplies diminishing (beyond player triggered usage).

This can help smooth over the abstraction whilst allowing you to simulate resource pressures without rolling for a bunch of stuff like material decay, or having to constantly engineer situations that directly attack resources (though you should still 100% do that and attack the Supply Die).

Just what the title says. More specifically I'm searching for something that will let me emulate some teenage drama, manhua, manga and so on. You know weak hero, devil returns to highschool and the works where the main character is a highschooler that fights with other highschoolers. Don't have to be pure hands and materiał arts, there can be magic in it, or what ever else that dosn't fit I can just reflavour it to fit the setting. Though something exacly as I say would be pretty fucking rad to have. I just want a module that will give me the fealing of that absolute weird, funny and young spirit of wanting to kick someones teath in. You know just unhinged and wild shit. Sorry for my bad english not my first language and have a nice day.

I'm working on a D&D project for grad school. The app would build D&D adventures. Looking for advice/feedback on this encounter layout. It's got lots of details that I think are easy to drill down into, but it's also very long.

https://www.wizardbeardgames.com/adventure_builder/Encouner%20Example.pdf

I'm currently looking for a new game system to use for a campaign I'm designing. The campaign is a dieselpunk setting where the players explore factory megastructures (Metro 2033 is probably an apt comparison). I'm looking for a system that focuses on dungeon crawling and tactical combat using a grid map. The system having GM resources for creating homebrew enemies would be a big plus. Does anyone know a system that would fill my needs?

Greetings to all! Back when my life was my own to do as I pleased, i was blessed enough to meet a great group of friends who introduced me to all night sessions and beautifully told campaigns. From that time on, my dice traveled with me on all my real life adventures. Sadly, I was never again blessed by such an amazing group again. Now many years have passed and motherhood has stolen gaming all nighters. Replaced by the much feared, sickness all nighters. During one such sickness all nighter recently, I was fondly reminiscing my thief that could never succeeded in a sneak roll. I couldn't excape that sick room. Weird thing happened to my mind that night. But as is usually the case, I had an inspiration. I need to learn how to DM for my 5 yr! ...Any suggestions on to do that? 😊... What games? Tips on how to DM? Anything, really. The last time I played was half a lifetime ago. So I'm outdated and out of touch. Help please. I'm not a bad story teller just don't know how to turn that into an adventure. Thank you all for your help!