You're the GM, but haven't prep anything for tonight. How do you make tonight game a succes ?
Pretty sure it happened to everyone, you lacked time to prep tonight session, and now the first player just arrived...
Pretty sure it happened to everyone, you lacked time to prep tonight session, and now the first player just arrived...
I'll recycle a discussion from the Francophone !forumlibre link but obviously the answer were more focused on video game....
Full post on Reddit. Final paragraphs:...
The question is discussed in this podcast episode....
Here are two blog posts in response to a video and it's all about the old discussion if systems matter....
I am a bit old, and never got why so many people watch "actual play". I've done it once or twice to get the mechanic of a game, but found the experience more technical/boring than fun....
I invite You to read and discuss. if You have Your own "twisted gods", feel free to share them here....
...and why haven't you run it yet? :D
Very often, people praise Blades for "popularizing" the concept of "downtime actions" and "flashback" in TTRPG....
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/12847215...
I've been invited to join a game of Daggerheart. I like the critical role people, but otherwise know nothing about the game. I haven't read much about it or anything yet. And I haven't seen a thread about it on Lemmy yet, so I'm wondering what the different opinions on it so far are....
The Three Kingdoms era of Chinese History has long been a topic of fascination for me and my brothers growing up....
Just a general conversation thread,...
This last decade, the big trend in game design has been the success with consequences that you'll find in system like FU RPG, * PTBA*, FITD and other I forget....
I'm thinking of running a Cyberpunk RED campaign. My group has played D&D together for about five years now....
Agter our latest DnD game our regular DM once again thought loudly on how to make dragons have more teeth. And it got me thinking about how Dragonbane handles capital M monsters differently....
So, I like stories where everyone is competent, and as a GM I try to run my villains as playing to win. My goal is for the players to have a good time, but the enemies will use every resource at their disposal to achieve their aims: they will retreat if continuing to give battle is a bad idea, they will go scorched earth if it's...
I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think....
I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask this, but I don't know where else to go. I'm having trouble reaching the pathfinder.social instance; I can't seem to post, or subscribe to their communities. Is anyone else having issues?
Show us some pictures of your gaming, notebook or binder. I’m getting back into using a physical binder now that my games are more in person, and I need the inspiration!...
Hope I'm right here with this, sorry if the question is too specific for this community....
I keep reading over various internets communities, how being a GM is hard, how player are ungrateful spoiled kids, and how much GM struggles....
Hi All,...
Looking to recreate the feel of Firefly, The Outer Worlds, The Expanse, or similar, in a ttrpg that is somewhat leaning to the hard sci fi side. Any thoughts?...