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The The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying was just released and the core rules and extra support are all available from Free League Publishing and in game stores. D&D gets another cookbook (and a TV show). Warhammer RPGs get all kinds of support from an adventure to a xeno manual to new core...

Good question. I didn't ask him about the tone exactly. The PCs go on a journey through a world falling apart, so more moving toward extinction than away. But he did say it is more about the journey than anything else. I would suppose if your PC is trying to reunite with an absent loved one for...

The Electric State Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter December 5 (at 3 pm CET). The new tabletop RPG is based on the internationally acclaimed narrative art book The Electric State by artist and author Simon Stålenhag, soon to be adapted into a major motion picture by the Russo brothers...

Are you thinking Historian via world lore? Or edition lore? Because a GM that can draw in earlier edition adventures and lore can really engage players. Heck, Wizards basically just puts out previous edition worlds and Magic the Gathering worlds now, so there is a player base for it. For the...

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Release dates are an arcane study. Noble Knight usually lists just new releases most likely from the last few months. Miniature Market lists anything they just received as new and usually doesn't have a publish date at all. The same goes for many other online hobby stores. Anything on this list...

Lots of fighting this week. D&D gets a book and decks of cards to create brutal combat encounters. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG also gets brutal with death maze rules. Savage Battlelords is all about the sci fi merc life, Traveller gets an updated equipment book, and vampires take over Chicago...

Thank you for the compliment, I really appreciate it. I enjoy reading about successful campaigns like yours. I really like your list of recommended reading and your lessons learned: excellent maps, PC backgrounds and motivations, and improvisation with a specific clearly defined world. I'm...

I think those four subclasses you wrote up make a lot of sense. I watch GMs on Youtube and whole channels are devoted to terrain and miniatures like a Propsmaster or mechanics like a Gamesman. GMs who find a subclass like that can build on that strength to sharpen the other tools in their toolbox.

I respectively disagree. If you're willing to get in front of a group of other people and run a TTRPG for them, especially more than one time, you are a GM. The courage it takes to do this job cannot be overstated and it should be acknowledged and celebrated.

Thanks! I would say that spotlight management gets covered here under interconnected and small group: An interest in developing and sustaining long-term an interconnected small group activity that happens over months or even years for hours at a time

Just like in D&D 5E, I see subclass abilities as specializations that not all GMs have. Your additions to the subclass list are more what I consider expert skills that all GMs are going to work on learning. No GM starting out is going to be able to do many of those well except for 9. And 5...

While numbers are hard to pin down, in my experience the average length of a typical table top roleplaying game campaign is six sessions. Yet many rulebooks are two hundred pages or more. This contrast between endless campaign presentation and short-term campaigns may lead to false expectations...

Do you know if Broken Compass is fun to run and play?

Did the game itself look like it would be fun to run and play?

Abyss of Hallucinations freaks me out in the right way, but then One HONK Before Midnight helps me keep from getting my feathers too ruffled. I also want to hang out with Santa Claus master of the dark arts and be one of the few survivors (if any?!) of a found footage video. What a great...