Tabletop Roleplaying Games

I decided to wax philosophic about a theme that tends to pop up in a lot of the games and adventures I write and run. Check it out, and feel free to beg/borrow/steal some of the shrines for your own games!

-- Mac (author)

Pros / cons / experiences as player and as GM?

If you're a Dungeon Crawl Classics or Pathfinder Xcrawl player, the long awaited Xcrawl Classics book is coming. I'm sure it's going to be a blast just like the adventures for Pathfinder and DCC.

In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR printed an adventure so scandalous that when newly printed copies reached key TSR management, they ordered the entire print run sent to dumpsters rathe…

Although I have played and enjoyed some of the crunchier games out there, sometimes they just start to feel more exhausting than fun. I've also found it hard to get players to buy into games where you have 20+ different questions/choices during character creation.

Ontop of those, sometimes a systems release schedule has made me stop wanting to run the game, I am personally not a huge fan of games that put out 3+ books a year,

How much is too much for you/your table?

Whether it be due to scheduling, lack of interested players, or some other reason, what's an RPG system you're just hoping to get to the table one of these days but haven't been able to yet?

I've only ever played 5e for my ttrpgs, but with WOTC showing its true colors, I'm trying to find a new system to adopt. I've been seeing people say Pathfinder 2e, and while i have a digital copy of the book I've been reading, i didn't realize how large it was until i saw it in a game store; the core rulebook is almost 3 times as long as the 5e PHB!

I guess what I'm looking for is a system that isn't as heavy as Pathfinder 2e but still has depth to it. Do you all have any suggestions?

I've been playing this recently at the table. It's insane and dice-heavy in so many ways, but then so lightweight when it comes to character maintenance activity. Any discussion we could have here about this game would bring me a measurement level of joy.

You don't grow during your downtime, you grow while you're scrambling around in some hole half-dead. Your changes are significant, and they happen in-game, not as an after effect of finishing the night's fun. As a general rule, if I describe some of the ways your character has grown since their creation (more HP, scars, oddities) you should be able to tell me the specific event that caused that change, not just see the change as a general reward for actions.

Hi all,

This is probably a bit of an odd request. But I need to find a single regular size D6 - but it needs to be the lowest possible quality, shabby looking die you can imagine!

I need it to say "look man, I really cannot be bothered to take any of this seriously" right at first glance.

These days, even dice that are cheaply priced are manufactured to a much higher standard than the stuff you'd sometimes find packaged with a classic family board game back in the day.

So, any tips or advice? I'm in Germany btw and shipping especially from the US is probably prohibitive these days.

In this week's ACTUALLY very special detail diatribe, our guest presenter schools us in the beautiful diversity of tabletop role-playing games and broadens o...

Add more adventure and new monsters to your Forbidden Lands games with two new expansions - The Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch.

Two years ago, I decided to make a list of all the public domain, English-language folk tale collections I could find, and deposited them at Wikisource. If you need to research the folklore of any given region, then I hope that this list has you covered!

Just take some of these works with a grain of salt - especially if the authors discuss a culture that is not their own. Most of these are from the 19th century, after all.

What games are you playing? What's your style?