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After playing some video games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur’s Gate 3, I’ve had a yearning to tell romantic stories in RPGs. But it’s hella awkward. I know plenty of people who enjoy this side of fiction, and write about it, but at the table? I’m a sucker for this sort of thing, but I don’t...

I'm going to be running a survival game in which part of the game "loop" involves foraging for supplies and materials to help build, craft and maintain the heroes. I want to keep track of the condition of "fragile" (ie, non-metal) tools and weapons so that the PCs have things to do with their...

I am going to be continuing my Mythras campaign soon, this time the character will be shipwrecked onto an island and have to engage in exploration and survival. Part of this is exploring the map. I'd like to use a fog of war mechanism, which is very doable in vitual table tops (I'm using...

I've discovered this expansion to Dungeon Crawl Classics while looking into Mutant Crawl Classics, and most places online said that the Umerican Survival Guide, and its original blog Crawling under a broken moon is the better choice. So I dove in and I love it! Anyone use it? Any feedback...

I’m looking for a source or a series of portrait images for NPCs. Preferably all by the same artist and in the same style. With a solid variety. While I’m specifically looking for something to use with Old school essentials, this could be a decent thread for anyone else too (eg, a set of 1920s...

Thanks to a Humble Bundle a few months ago, I snagged the official Necrotic Gnome Referee Screen for Old School Essentials (in PDF), but I wasn't hugely impressed (not with the layout and readability, but with the included charts). From your experience, what are the most useful tables and...

Is there a well-regarded explanation of the conceptual difference between a Paladin and Cleric? They're both heavily armored, faithful, with the ability to turn undead. Clerics can't use cutting weapons and get more spells. That's about all I can say. Like, explaining this to newcomers... what...

So I’m about to start an Old School Essentials campaign with modern players and youths. I’m looking for simplicity… What are people’s opinions, in this day and age, of Race as Class Race and Class mixtures Using both options in the same campaign at the same time Level limitations (for...

So traditionally a lot of these games go with "gold acquired and spent = XP gained" as a baseline. Many different classes / races have different XP progression charts. Some games just strip things down into smaller values (eg instead of 1000 XP, just 1 XP, takes 10 XP to level up). What is...

So I like the idea of encouraging players to spend varying ammounts of treasure at the local tavern to gain fame, bonus XP, allies, rumors and possibly items too. With a tradeoff risk of losing some of those things (ie, you wake up in a gutter, robbed and stinking, or you set fire to the...

So I was reading these European Sci-Fi comics… and got to thinking about an interesting campaign pitch… - setting is huge indoor city built on a massive satellite - think THX-1138, Brazil, 1984, Logan’s Run etc… dystopian society - people live in cramped, tiny living spaces, never see...

Okay, I know that kobolds are a big favorite among D&D people. I get it. But I hate them. The subservient, cowardly, cute dragon-dog people. I hate the memes, the "LOL so cute and wacky" comics and the Gully Dwarf personalities. I refuse to roleplay as them. NO WAY. What to replace them with...

I will be running Stonehell soon at a gaming store. Any tips for managing the logistics of a mega-dungeon? Some things I'm planning to do: Use a turn chart to keep track of dungeon "turns" (ie, 10 minutes) and duration of light sources Use a highlighter to mark off the rooms that the party...

So I decided that I needed to get out of the house more often (well, my wife convinced me). Instead of struggling with motivations to do new things, I settled on doing something that I actively love: table top RPGs. There's a gaming shop in my neighborhood with friendly staff. They offer tables...

I recently played through Cyberpunk 2077 and absolutely loved the way "hacking" went. Quickhacks, in particular. Essentially it was spellcasting vs. technology, including cursing, blinding and damaging people as long as they have cybernetic implants. It was simple, cool and effective. Now...

So I've been really warming up to the concept of spellcasting rolls instead of spell slots (Vancian or otherwise) in D&D, in general. A few Youtube personalities have talked about this, including Dungeon Craft and House DM (great vids, check them out), pulling from Dungeon Crawl Classic's...

Let’s just do it. Let’s build a RPGPub collaborative dungeon in time for the holidays. Assemble it and put it up on drivethru as PWYW to gather money to donate to a charity in the name of the Pub. We could do it as an evil Krampus dungeon or something . Everyone donates a single square piece...

The recent launch of the a Kickstarter campaign of shipwrecked island survival (Castaway) has triggered really fond memories of my times with a PC video game called the Forest. All of this has made we wonder if there are any existing RPGs that could tackle this concept well? The...

As I’m reading Old School Essentials, I’m getting inspired to plan a “Mythic Underworld” campaign for the next inevitable D&D experience. The concept, to me, is simple. Taking a cue from House of Leaves (wiki) I could see a multi-levelled dungeon as a surrealistic nightmare realm fuelled by an...

Some friends of mine want to play a gritty, bloody, heavy-metal inspired, vengeance-fuelled Norse campaign. We're using Mythras because they want some cinematic realism. Does anyone know of any good Norse-themed sandboxes or campaign modules (system is unimportant) that are a good set-up or...