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There's a great story/RPG podcast which uses Cortex Prime to frame things: The Tide It's one player and one GM, and uses the mechanics quite sparingly as the performers are accomplished improvised storytellers, but Cortex is the basis for resolving uncertain outcomes and providing mechanical...

Slow Horses is amazing, though not a traditional mystery/cop show. I recently watched Ludwig: David Mitchell playing an introverted puzzle setter who pretends to be his police detective twin brother to investigate his disappearance. In a similar gently unusual/comic/British vein, Magpie...

It's a long way from D&D, but there are gamified character-driven story-writing games, like Storium - the Online Storytelling Game (Which I backed on Kickstarter but had forgotten about until this thread!) I could imagine games with scene-wide mechanics (like 4e skill challenges...) which also...

Not at all campaign or sharing level. Each player can select what is available to their character. But those selections are more granular than they’ve been before. You can turn off third party content, for instance. It’s not as helpful as it could be as you can’t select individual books to...

They recently changed the rules sources options on the first page of character creation, so there's more control over what items a character can choose from. This really helps, and means you can do PHB 2024-only if you want. I think there are some 2024 rules elements which aren't supported yet...

I don't really play MMOs, but this is an interesting comparison and opens up the discussion of 'what limits on using the most powerful powers every attack, or every encounter add to the fun of the game?' Clearly in both MMOs and combat-heavy tabletop games, a significant part of the tactical...

Maybe it could have a character/group backstory mini-game, with a guide to creating the state of the world and what the characters did as lower-tier adventurers. That could set up the nature of the power the PCs now wield, and the various organisations they may have annoyed in the process of...

This game has a name and a teaser trailer now: Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

Are there two slightly different discussions happening here? There is a wide range of play activity which is encompassed in 'roleplaying game' - as noted, that could run almost from roleplaying-only collaborative fiction-writing in forum games to I guess something as game-only as Gloomhaven...

The Old School ... whatever ... was a reaction to 3rd edition, really, rather than 4th. OSRIC was created using the OGL as a way to enable the creation of 1e-compatible material and old-school play. The more established OSR did become more visible during the 4e era but that's primarily due to...

There is some more information from Chris Tulach about this campaign on the D&D Beyond blog today: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1892-legends-of-greyhawk-characters-advancement-and I like the simple approach to advancement and treasure, and keeping it to the Player's Handbook (at least for now).

Would Modern AGE work? With bits from the Threefold setting and perhaps bits from Fantasy AGE? I don't know how generic Rivers of London would be. I think some elements of the novels are quite particular in how they'll be represented in the game. For paranormal investigators, have you looked...

Plus random Irish, naturally. What teenager knows how to pronounce shillelagh?? Not this one in the 90s, that's for sure. I only recently spent the time trying to figure out how to say geas.

Yes, it's useful to recall that the current form of organised play has evolved from the major shift in convention play from 'play a self-contained adventure with characters created by the adventure designer for just that adventure' (usually as a competition of some sort) to 'create a character...

There's also a list compiled by Darran Simms which he posts on Facebook and elsewhere: UK Roleplaying Game Conventions Notable UK cons that ChatGPT hasn't noticed: Furnace, Seven Hills, North Star, and Revelation which are small events held in The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield (with slightly...