Tabletop Roleplaying Games

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?

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

Confession time: I am not overly enamored of "rules-lite" RPG systems. As long as the system is coherent and well-thought out, I prefer it when the system has rules for all sorts of things - from tactical combat to running chases to social encounters to falling damage and so forth. I like GURPS, I like D&D5E, I like Pathfinder...

The playtest is going to drop in 2024, likely to coincide with either paizocon (June/July) or Gen con (usually August) the playtest is going to feature 6 classes....

The Magnus Archives is an award-winning horror fiction podcast that digs into the archives of the Magnus Institute. It follows the actions of head archivist Jonathan Sims as he attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of supernatural statements up to date, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up...

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....

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...

A game jam from 2023-01-01 to 2024-01-01 hosted by Rev Casey. Celebrate Open Gaming! Embrace open source games and true free license systems This jam was created because: open source gaming is amazing whole thing...

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!...

0:00 Introduction1:00 Gameplay Review2:31 Combat and Dungeon4:40 VerdictJoin me as I delve into the hauntingly beautiful world of ‘Astra: Knights of Veda,’ a...

The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my kids were not at an age…

Hey guys, I just released my own TTRPG. Its a fun rules-light system, that uses only a standard deck of cards.....and nothing else. Check out the store page for more information. Enjoy a 25% discount in celebration of the release!

#RPGCovers Week Fourteen

Issue #5 of Polyhedron (April 1982)

Late & messy today due to working off mobile on holidays. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on weekly blogroll on r/OSR or the RPG Blog Carnival or a roundup of non-blog news on Third Kingdom Games...

A really underrated RPG is the OneDice system from Cakebread & Walton. It's a ultra-light system, ideal for running one-shots. They are various versions of it available - Space, Fantasy, WWII, etc. Each one is a complete game. They're all quite cheap and easy to run....

Hey all, my friend is starting a new game. We have some newbies joining and their attendance maybe hit and miss, with work schedules and life. What are some creative ways your groups have managed missing players outside of someone paying for them one session?

It was a campaign we'd made from one of those 'Roll 4 commoners' tables, where we took our little party and the sole survivor we adopted as our hero going forward....

Playing or running an RPG this weekend? Spending time on world building, prep, painting minis, or writing something? Let's hear it....