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@hawkeyefan that's a good start. As a nod to the solo journaling genre and the very recent lyric game families on itch.io that spiritually descend from Yoko Ono's performance poetry, I'd broaden the definitions: One or more participants adopt fictional roles There are one or more fictional...

That's exactly what Gygax wanted. https://kotaku.com/dungeons-deceptions-the-first-d-d-players-push-back-1837516834

On this one, Lancer. Players actually have things worth fighting for, and life can get better (like in the core worlds). Although the setting has a big Deimos-sized mcguffin that forbids transhumanism...

Arneson's home game used 2d6 so...

The city is a rich environment for crime stories of all sorts. Draw your inspirations from crime fiction. PCs take part in a manhunt PCs escape a manhunt PCs search for a wanted item PCs infiltrate a powerful gang or cabal PCs pull off a heist PCs prevent a heist PCs rescue a prisoner PCs...

It takes a while for sandbox play to really register. Some people don't know it's what they like until they're deep into it. And some people don't know it's what they don't want until they get into it, either.

I wanted to springboard a discussion off this really interesting point made in the "Limits of my Language" thread. I'm sure there's a way we can come up with a list of qualities that TTRPGs share, in a similar way to how the 2008 International Roguelike Development Conference in Berlin came up...

Ill Met In Legionspace Battlegroup Hannibal: 1) Maneuver: Heavy Kinetic Battery Fire, Single Target Attack at Range 4-0, targeting two ships (Nikolai Bukharin and We Demand Hazard Pay). Roll of 16 hits the Bukharin for 6 damage, roll of 6 misses the We Demand Hazard Pay. This is pretty much all...

DiTillio also wrote the famous Masks of Nyarlathotep for Call of Cthulhu, how's that for an RPG connection?

(Lancer: Battlegroup) "Your great-grandfather dated my mom?!?" Explanation here: Moral Dilemma: Killing and Deaths in RPGs

In my current Lancer: Battlegroup game (being recounted in Story Time), my players recently finished a grueling 2-day space battle that left thousands dead, only to find that half the enemy fleet agreed to a conditional surrender, so now they're negotiating the exact details of the enemy...

I'd write more fanfic, play more board games.

Targeting Priorities "It looks like the Bukharin is drawing their fire sir," Chief Van Ghent notes, as they watch the sensor blips swarm around Battlegroup Eland and the Sour Brains. The Wagner's bridge lighting is transitioning from a calming blue to a considerably more alarming red as the...

I'm quite fond of allowing my players copious personal plot time in the Downtime phases of my Blades in the Dark game. These sometimes result in my players' favourite sessions. And games like Delta Green and Cthulhu Deep Green also have "at home" scenes to let players show their characters at...

My current favourite investigative RPG is Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave, about Old Norse magic practitioners who must unravel curses and uncover threats from otherworldly beings. It's a Viking game that doesn't have a combat system! It manages to capture an OSR feel despite not being using a...

I once designed a game like this, sort of based on the Cthulhu Dark engine. If you try to fight anyone 1 size class larger than you, you die. And all the PCs are halflings. It's a detective game, so it's not like combat is meant to be the right way to solve problems anyway...

A House of Flying Daggers The narrowing space between the flagships fills with smaller missiles and point-defense gunfire as the Titania's escort corvettes lunge into action. The dagger-shaped vessels make strafing runs at the Nikolai Bukharin and the Mirrorsmoke carrier. Aegis also marks...

Good for them. Their adventure Dead Planet in particular is a classic - a heck of a "killer app" scenario that really shows off the game.

I'm specifically not talking about games like Zweihander. There is no jargon, there are no numbers. Lasers and Feelings and Cthulhu Dark each have one stat per character -that's not a lot to keep track of. And I do post visual aids, and if it helps, a city map or some other document to help...

If I can suggest some light indie RPGs: Stories of Love in Manila by Jammi Nedjadi is a Tarot-driven game about a soothsayer helping mythological spirits and creatures to navigate their love lives in modern-day Manila. It's not a long game and it uses playbooks to make it easy to guide new...