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I am currently playing through Divnity orginal Sin 2, and it got me thinking about using a CRPG as the foundation for a TTRPG campaign. I have done this to a limited degree way back in the day, using the officla prima guid for Fallout 2 as my campaign "module" and doing whatever conversions I...

Note: this is in Geek Media because I am interested in folks' preferences beyond RPGs. This thread is about RPGs, but also board games and card games and video games and all the genres and sub genres within those media. So what sort of games do you like? Not just medium wise, but genre and...

Difficulty: it can't be anything that has already appeared in an official version of D&D or adjacent game (like D20 Modern or Star Wars d20 or whatever). If you were to add one stat to D&D intended to be for player characters, what would it be? It can be an ability score, of course, but could...

Pure curiosity: How do you view the forums? I mean, the threads and stuff? I always just go to "Community" and view everything. I almost never go to specific forums unless I can't find the thing I am looking for and I don't know its title but I know what sub forum it was tagged as. What about...

So how was your 2025 as it relates to TTRPGs? What did you play and/or run? Did you start and/or finish campaigns? Did you try new games? What did you buy? What did you get rid of? Did you go to any conventions or other organized events? Did you host any cons or other organized events? What was...

I am not sure what board to file this under, so I put it here. Has anyone else run into fake Kickstarter ads for TTRPG related stuff coming across their feeds. I got one for "K-Pop DnD Hunters" this morning and I tried to follow up (because it felt like a crass sash grab) but its does not seem...

This question is NOT aimed at new entrants into the hobby. of course those people need rules and adventures and stuff. But the vast majority of ENWorlders are NOT new entrants into the hobby. They have been playing RPGs for years, probably decades. They own games, probably multiples systems...

For those who thought corporations would protect us from slop: Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora (ad or paywall)

Note that this thread is marked 2014 but you can pick something from Vecna or Dragon Delves or the new Starters, too. I was just trying to keep it to 5E. What is your favorite dungeon, adventure site, or set piece encounter from a 5E official WotC adventure? Why? What do you like about it, or...

One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be honest, it is mostly D&D) is the monetization of convinging people that being a Dungeon master is hard. Early on as 5E gained steam, we had people like Matt Coville...

Let's talk about map design for dungeons in D&D. What works, what doesn't. What promotes good exploration play versus what hinders it. I see a lot of maps on r/battlemaps (for example) that are IMO bad dungeon design (even for small dungeons) They are usually linear, without any real choices in...

FIRST: This is a + thread, meaning that as we discuss this, we all recognize that we can have differing opinions about what "simulation" means in the context of TTRPGs. SECOND: As the thread title suggests this is about your personal definitions and opinions, not necessarily the S of GNS or...

Just for fun: You are put in charge of adapting an existing campaign length adventure to prestige television for WotC. It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft. Note that the "short"...

The newest episode of the wonderful Our Fake History podcast is diving into hoe Buffalo Bill Cody "invented" the Old West by way of the stories he told about himself and his involvement in major events of the era. This got me to thinking about a potential from for an RPG: instead of the PCs...

I am planning on running a big dungeon thing (using Shadowdark, but I don't think that is relevant) and I am considering options for how to deal with mapping from the player side. My first impulse is to do "theater of the mind" exploration, letting the players map as they will (or won't; that's...

I know we have a bit over a month left, but sometimes these things take some thinking and planning. So, do you have any New year's Resolutions for your gaming life for 2026? A big project you want to embark on, or a new campaign, or a a character to play, or whatever?

Over the weekend, I listened to the brief (3 hour) lecture series "A Short History of Role-Playing Games" by Jamin Warren, from the Great Courses and available on Audible. In short: it is okay. It is definitely a "short history" and glosses over much of the kind of historical detail that...

We have all been there: the dice go bad, or someone makes a terrible choice and everyone ends up rolling on the floor with laughter. Let's share those stories today! This happened a very long time ago, playing BECMI. My oldest brother was the DM, and my middle brother was playing along with a...

We have done this poll before, but it has been a while and I see new usernames pretty regularly, so I thought it worth asking anew.

This is a question primarily from a player perspective. As a player, do you prefer to get XP from finding treasure? Killing monsters? "Overcoming obstacles"? Identifiable Milestones? GM Fiat? There is a lot of nuance, of course, so feel free to comment as well as choose multiple answers in the...