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Hello, friends. Does anyone here have experience using the Quest Portal VTT? I am intrigued because it has games like Runequest and Level Up Advanced 5e available, but it also seems like it's leaning heavily into AI (which I am cautious about). There is a Chaosium component to it, as well, like...

Greetings, friends. Bit of a backstory: I'v been playing TTRPGs for 44 years(!). The majority of that time was face to face around a table, and completely done with theater of the mind. Never used minis or maps or grids. In 2019, my group picked up again after a long hiatus (marriages, little...

I might be overthinking this, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to begin a campaign in Middle Earth. I've recently been a player in a 5e LotR game, and it was a blast, but when the DM finished up, he said he wished he had laid down some restrictions at the beginning (like where in...

Rules-nerds, crunch-meisters, deep thinkers, unite! I could use some help workshopping an idea. Let me say from the get-go, I'm not asking if anyone likes this idea! I'm asking for people to help me think through the mechanics of the DCC rules related to magic users. I recently played a fun...

For those who are interested, the NYT published a story about some of the changes to D&D's newest edition. Hopefully this link works! https://archive.is/z2q8s

Thoughts? I liked it very much. I am not a huge fan of Japanese animation, generally, but the story was excellent.

This is not to start an argument, but to seek advice: I am not thrilled with how quickly characters become powerful in 5e. I am a dude who started with 1st, then 2nd, then 3rd edition, and I find the powers that characters have very quickly in 5e is a bit...vexing. Similarly, they just get too...

Friends, I am trying to wrap my head around a West Marches-style campaign, and I'm not sure I'm getting how I could make this work. I have a very stable ('stable' being a relative term...) group of players. I'd like to try and run a more open-world (I'm not sure that's the term I want) kind of...

Greetings, friends. I know ToV is similar to 5e. I am wondering how different it is. For example, is this high heroic fantasy, like 5e? Are there the same (he writes politely) power creep issues with characters as in 5e? Any insights would be most welcome!

Hello friends. So, I am about to re-start a 5e D&D game with my players (five) in a highly bastardized version of Descent Into Avernus. The characters are level 6. I have been a DM for a long, long (loooonnnnngggggg...) time, and I have struggled a bit with the power creep in 5e. Essentially...

Has anyone played Dungeon World? What's the verdict? The longer I play these games, the more I appreciate simple rules and systems. This one looks pretty narrative.

Hello, friends! I am looking for some recommendations for OSR resources: Youtube channels, websites, blogs, whatevah (in my Massachusetts accent). Thank you! (if there is a way to tag this post with OSR, I don't know what it is).

Greetings, friends. Does anyone, or has anyone, run or played a campaign in the Game of Thrones world? I am wondering what resources or guidance there might be out there in the lands of the internet. I did see that there were a few TTRPG books published, but other than that, not to much. Curious...

Great interview with the dude who runs Free League, talking about Dragonbane and other games his company produces. Free League's games are beautiful to behold. This is the only one I've played, and I love it. If anyone else is digging it, give this a listen. I was especially interested to learn...

Does anyone have the inside scoop on Chaosium Games' future plans re: virtual tabletops? I know they just released Pendragon on Roll20, but anyone have the skinny on whether or not they'll be adding Runequest, or BRP? I wasn't sure if there are others 'in the know' about this stuff. Thanks!

Hello, friends. I recently purchased Path of the Planebreaker from Monte Cook Games, and I am wondering if anyone has experience using it. I am not going to run it with 5e, so there will be some modifications necessary (the first of which is, what system will I run it with? Dungeon Crawl...

Friends, I am beginning to plan a sword&sorcery campaign using the Dungeon Crawl Classics rules, with a little bit of their Lankhmar stuff thrown in. One of the things I keep telling myself is to not over plan, and to let some of the story occur naturally. There is a certain amount of randomness...

Greetings, friends. So, my group and I have been playing Dragonbane for a few months now, and we really like it. It's an easy system; not too crunchy, not too narrative. It's fully supported on Roll20, which is necessary for us since we are geographically separate, and are all middle aged dudes...

Hello! If you are a DCC player who uses the Roll20 VTT, or if you are interested in doing so, here is a link to Goodman Games' Backerkit. I am a huge fan of this gonzo system; it is pure fun and entertainment. Consider backing this worthy project!