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I think some people might consider Lancer: Battlegroup in the hybrid wargame/RPG category, although as a cooperative party-vs-GM system, it's actually a closer cousin to D&D 4e than any wargame. https://www.enworld.org/threads/lancer-battlegroup-to-kill-the-worthy-king.682769/

Sounding the All Clear Captain Ashanti faces her officers in the fleet legion channel: Commandant Almarik of the Ching Shih, Commandant Singer of the Patrice, and Commandant Torres of the Jubei. Nobody wants to be the first to speak. But Almarik goes ahead anyway. "Sir. They lose more ground...

A Talk in the Boneyard "Holding steady, Captain. We will be at close range in an hour or two. At that distance, our main guns will make short work of whoever we choose to aim at." CGO Petrov reports without taking her eyes off the constantly shifting firing solutions on her screen. "Björn's...

Get well soon, Morrus!

Nearlight Klaxons Round 5 begins. At the beginning of the 5th round of play just before the Logistics Step begins, every player needs to determine whether or not they plan to continue the current engagement — by this point, their nearlight drives have cooled down and charged back up, their...

The Straggler, Part 1 The Harrison Armory fleet legion is hosting a confrontation. "I gave you an order, Commandant!" Captain Ashanti's eyes are wide in disbelief as she stares down the carrier commander through the holodisplay. "Commit your wings and start eliminating the damaged hostiles...

Does it do the Scum and Villainy thing where some of the upgrades to the ship give buffs to all PCs?

That's a good observation. Beam Saber, which is Forged in the Dark, has a home base for a military unit that you buy upgrades for, a bit of a step up from the criminal lair in Blades in the Dark. One variation on the theme is the travelling base - often some kind of ship. Scum and Villainy...

Makapatag (Gubat Banwa) got a mention in this article about indie TTRPG designers to look out for in 2022, which is great because I want to talk about another designer on this list, Jay Dragon! https://www.cbr.com/indie-tabletop-rpg-designers-2022/ You see, Jay is best known for diceless...

This reminds me of a story from my game. To escape the consequences of Heat in my Blades in the Dark game, my player snitched on her rival Flint, leader of a smaller spirit trafficking gang, and got him locked up in Ironhook Prison. Then later, she arranged a jailbreak mission to free Flint, to...

Speaking as someone who runs games with Heat rules (Night's Black Agents, Blades in the Dark), whenever the PCs are travelling in town, feel free to spring a random police questioning/search on them. The higher the Heat, the more penalties on the roll needed to get through without getting into...

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Survival Caspian waits for the world to stop bouncing around before gingerly prying his way out from the nanofoam crash bubble that his emergency jumpseat has deployed around him. A hand grasps his and helps yank him out - its van Ghent. The senior chief looks bruised but otherwise intact. CGO...

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Sturgeon's Law applies to roleplaying games, too. There's a lot of crap on DrivethruRPG too, and that's true of games in print, too. A lot of Kickstarted games that are over-padded with 500 hundred pages of unnecessary prose, which sort of brings us back around to this topic. Itch.io offers...

There are 19,796 ttrpgs on itch.io, most of which were added after 2018 (I know, because I was there when the indie ttrpg scene on itch exploded). https://itch.io/physical-games Only 183 are 3rd-party releases for 5e. Most of the other 19,613 releases use their own systems, or pretty new...

There should also be some discussion of sea raiders, which occupy a similar niche in maritime settings. There are recent and upcoming games that put sea raiders in protagonist roles, whether they are Norse homesteaders gone a-viking in The North Sea Epilogues or the Mangangayaw inspired by...