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I have an idea/manuscript that's been kicking about for about 3 years now. The basic idea is that Gods are being reborn into human vessels, and trying to make sense of their new situation while defending Creation from the machinations of 'The Others' (Name to be determined and I'm undecided if...

On another forum , that's nowhere near as cool and funky as this one, there was a discussion about what you 'see' when you play RPG's. Some people see a movie play out in their minds eye, others no visualisation at all - its just information logged and filed. Me - I'm in the movie camp. Hell...

Back in the mists of time (about 1989) I ordered both volumes of the Realm of Chaos from GW. I think they were on offer. Vol.1 - Slaves to Darkness shortly arrived but there was a delay on Vol.2 The Lost and the Damned. Eventually I received a credit note from GW and an apology about the...

We've all got them, those epic campaigns in our head we either want to run or play. The mega-dungeons, the gonzo setting book we love but our mates dismiss, that idea someone suggested and you fell in love with. Mine is a setting riff from years back - The Long Stair. Modern-day infantry...

I've a chunk of change burning a hole in my pocket and a desire to wear stupid looking goggles and risk punching my television. What I'd really like to do is play my Xbox on what looks like a cinema screen. I'm looking at the Pico 4. Any VR users who can offer advice, tips etc. Even if it's...

I finally finished watching TWD and it was...a series I watched. Some great bits (S1) Some good bits (Negan) Some utter drivel (The Whisperers). The last episode had a little bit of the edge the earlier seasons had when you just didn't know who was going to make it out alive, probably because...

I have a vague memory of someone suggesting using Sudoku grids as dungeon maps. The numbers relating to treasures or traps or monsters...I can't remember exactly but it was something like that. If you were doing that, would the squares between the numbers be rooms or corridors? Would the...

I love (and have always loved) the Fae in stories. There's just something about creatures who exist just on the edges of our world, who follow rules we don't understand yet are thoroughly entwined with us and our world - it just floats my boat. You know who else meets those criteria? Gangsters...

"In a futile attempt to salvage something from a thread gone awry, Stumpydave reached into the dark workings of the Pub and fumbled for a switch or something to generate discussion about horrible things that could happen to characters. You know...like a werewolf's first change, or when those...

Reading a thread about werewolf 5th on TBP and I found myself confused. Someone had pasted up the following - a list of 10 sample first change scenarios. Cue lots of wailing and gnashing (ha, puns!) about how awful some of these scenarios are, but I can't see anything wrong with them as...

Back in the midst of lockdown, I wrote a game. Not a particularly original game, players take on the role of depowered Gods and demigods and try to do godly stuff. But it lacked...something. What I was aiming for was that "Almighty Johnson's" vibe. Yes they are gods, but their real world...

I tried getting into Bolt Action (twice!) but those Soviet minis I bought years ago never even left the box, let alone not getting painted. But I remembered there was a lot of activity around Flames of War back in the day and now I've got the 3d printing bug I can see a fair amount of WW2 15mm...

I need pregens and NPC's for the rejig of my horror/urban fantasy game. Twisted superheros as marred by their powers as they are gifted. I'm thinking power levels not much above street level though the worse the taint, the more power they can wield. In terms of powers (and the kind of media...

I've spent the last few months in a funk of no inspiration, not feeling the last game I ran and generally feeling 'meh' about rpgs and roleplaying. Then today it hit me, that curious wrinkle of inspiration that can revive my flagging interest and get me motivated to run something. It's a stupid...

My friends and I (after much badgering by me) have started playing One Page Rules 40k clone homage, Grim Dark Future. For someone as rules and maths phobic as me, it's a revelation. It was the first wargame I've played in years that managed to evoke those tentative first games of orginal 40k...

Could you use the heavily narrative Cold Shadows to run something akin to Night's Black Agents, or Hunters Hunted. You know, espionagey types discover the presence of the undead and put their resources towards combatting them? Or maybe there's conflict as to what to do? Some advocate sunlight...

"I'm bored Clytus, what plaything can you offer me today..." Like, I'm really bored. Even the threads here aren't sparking anything so I'm gonna try and jumpstart out of that funk. Let's say some big entertainment conglomerate, some bunch of soulless Hollywood corpo-rats pull a fast one and...

I did it! I've not ran a game (not counting stuff on Discord) since 2010 but I ran a game with other people around a table and much fun was had - by them. I was a bag of nerves the whole time, my plot (such as it was) went out the window in about 5 minutes. The rules went out the window at 6...

How much planning do you do pre-session? I've a session coming up and beyond a rough "This is the opening scene and this is what the bad guys want" I've only got world setting details sorted. The plan is to wing it but I've not run a face to face session for over a decade. I'm hoping to let...

My rpging (playing and plotting) has taken a hit because I've overloaded myself with other projects. To start, there's the miniatures to print and paint for various games (Stargrave, Kings of War, something historical). Then theres the various issues with the 3d printers which are stopping...