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A thing that takes up rent-free space in my brain: portal fantasy RPG. More at the campaign level than at the design level. Today’s tenant - the players start off as Young Offenders (the term of art for the PCs) in a Misspent Youth game, fighting against the Authority in a near future...

tl;dr Some nominees were marked as "not eligible" because North American Hugo award administrators pre-caved to what they thought the Chinese govm't might do https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/ Comments on Scalzi’s blog are interesting. A) At next...

I thought people here might be interested in this. A collection of all the entries in the Jennell Jaquays memorial jam https://crowdfundr.com/perinthos?ref=ab_8hvUKDyp9Zd8hvUKDyp9Zd

Over here, we're talking about campaigns in a nutshell https://www.enworld.org/threads/campaigns-in-a-nutshell-adventures-in-a-sentence.102706/post-9262064 But I was thinking - campaigns inspired by songs! Song lyrics or the music or whatever. Doesn't have to be one you've already run, although...

For those who have been keeping up with the playtest materials - what will the impact of 1D&D be on 3PP material? I know WotC has promised to make 1D&D backwards compatible with their own stuff; but they can't ensure it's compatible with the loads of Third Party Publisher (3PP) material that's...

https://pandaily.com/hasbro-seeks-to-sell-ip-dnd-and-has-had-preliminary-contact-with-tencent/

Thinking about running Arden Vul in 4e. Why? Well, I'm almost done re-reading the 4e PHB1 and after the massive "appreciate 4e on its own terms" I've decided to come back to it again with my two sons. They were the ones who I ran the first half of the first adventure in the Scales of War...

https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/01/criminal-rpg-activity-chapbook.html Funny stuff here, but also thought-provoking Captures some of the many perspectives I have heard in the discourse about railroading. The question for you dear judge - which "railroading" crimes are the most heinous? And...

In this recent post by Trilemma Adventures creator Michael Prescott he muses about how for some rules the incentives are all wrong, so no wonder we just ignore those rules. Why would any player track encumbrance when the best outcome is "no change" and the worst is a decrease in your overall...

[updated this to discuss 1st Ed AD&D art] Share your favorite Classic D&D art!

If you live in Cary NC or nearby, you could do worse than visit this estate sale this weekend... Tons of early Dragon Mags, a Dieties and Demigods (don't know if it has Cthulhu/Melnibonean or not), Fiend Folio, AD&D Monster Manual, and so much more. And if you like vinyl music, wow. A couple...

When I first saw this thread title, I thought it was talking about how we organize our RPG books and files And while an interesting discussion, not what I was expecting. So now, here's the thread about what I was expecting! I'll start with an interesting link to a study done by YouGov...

Surprised! My college age sons and one of their gfs want to play in Strixhaven. I'll will probably be using the first adventure in the book, unless folks have "opinions" on which one is best. Looking for a 2-3 session short campaign. Want to hear the collected wisdom. I will probably use...

The title says it all. My son wants to run a 1-shot for his gamer group. They like combat. He wants them to be higher than 1st level, I suggested 3rd level so that all characters are sub-classed already. 4th would be ok too. (Once they hit 5th of course, it's a different game due to fireball...

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/49890/roleplaying-games/rpgs-through-history-famous-quotes Great stuff

https://www.deathmatchis.land/ Ok the design of this site blew me away And the game itself sounds AMAZING Of course I signed up to be notified. @Egg Embry this one should definitely be considered in about 6 weeks when there will be ~2 weeks left on it. But I'm so fired up about it, posting...

I always wonder and am curious - what are people's criteria for whether an adventure is "good" or "bad"? For me, my assessment might be different depending on whether I have an idealized or actual play-group I'm considering running an adventure for. For an actual group - it'll depend on the...

In another space I am in, @Jocher symbolic systems shared their masters thesis. It's about how to take an existing IP and translate the original aesthetic experience into a TTRPG rule system. I'm about 20% through, and it's already confirmed a bunch of things I had thought but never articulated...

There have been a couple of Forgotten Realms Magic the Gathering sets. And at least one LotR sets. That's what made me think of this idea... For an RPG, what sort of compelling storyline would you create that mixes Forgotten Realms and LotR? Things I'd consider: A LotR PC party in the...

I'm effectively copying and pasting Snarf's verbiage from a former poll of this nature, which you can find here https://www.enworld.org/threads/lance-henriksen-and-peter-weller-enworld-decides.690247/ Effectively copying and pasting, except for all the parts that I edited :ROFLMAO: I just...