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This is a place to talk about tabletop roleplaying games.
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— ttrpgs.com/second_person.gmi
Writing in the Second Person
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Apr 28 · 9 days ago
Homebrew magic systems? — Hey ttrpg-ers! Have any of you made up spells for your games? I mean either if you're using a homebrew set of classes, or if you're using standard rulesets. I'm asking because I'm running a campaign made of entirely homebrew encoutners, out of ICRPG, and my players have fun ideas for what kinds of characters they want to be. It doesn't fit easily into any game system's ideas of class/race progressions. So I'm finding ways for them to forge their own character...
💬 3 comments · 2025-12-08 · 5 months ago
RPG — Hi. Does anyone here like to play board rpg games, like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder? Which one do you think are superior and why? I have bought cheap the main three DnD 5e books some years ago, but never get very used to it. I started at 3e several year ago, did a tour through Gurps and Vampire, 3D&T, etc., but never ever felt very used to any of them.
💬 6 comments · 2025-09-22 · 7 months ago
— Marsaglias mental pseudo random number generator
Calculating random numbers in your head — If you need to generate some random numbers between 0 and 9 in your head with simple mental calculations, you can use Marsaglia's method, which works as this: think of whatever number between 1-99 this is your random see now take the ones of this number and multiply by 6 take the tens and divide by 10 add these two numbers, this is your...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-09-14 · 8 months ago
Anybody here played Rolemaster, MERP, or any of their modern descendants (HARP, Lightmaster, Against the Darkmaster, Fantasy Express)? I’m reading HARP Fantasy’s supplements right now, and am finding it a very interesting game, quite different from the other games I’ve read or played. I’m planning on finishing HARP Fantasy’s supplements, and then move on to Fantasy Express, Lightmaster, Against the Darkmaster, and MERP, in no particular order. I’m working my way up gradually to Rolemaster.
💬 View post · 2025-05-25 · 11 months ago
Anyone have recommendations for RPG books that are more fun to ponder or tinker with as a GM than to realistically implement? I'm only familiar with Traveller, but love the overcomplex tech systems of Fire, Fusion, and Steel and mad scientist toolbox that is Traveller5. What other games/supplements are there where just building or generating stuff is fun?
💬 3 comments · 2025-03-18 · 1 year ago
Any idea for a TTRPG for beginners (adults and children ages 6-10)? Does anyone have experience with this?
💬 10 comments · 2 likes · 2025-01-10 · 1 year ago
Anybody tried the Fabula Ultima TTJRPG? — It has recently come to the top of my RPG to-read pile. I have hardly played any CJRPGs, but find the kind of world described by Fabula Ultima interesting, and to a very quick scan the rules seem reasonable. Does anybody have any thoughts on it?
💬 1 like · 2025-01-10 · 1 year ago
Munster - A Primer for War, by Eero Tuovinen — I just finished "Muster - A Primer for War", by Eero Tuovinen, a little bit ago, and thought it was a very good book about, as it says, playing D&D in the wargaming way. For a short statement of the argument of the book, see the Munster Manifesto. I just finished this book a little bit ago, and thought it was a very good explanation of a methodology for play D&D in a wargamy way, a very Old School D&D way. When I run D&D, this is the way I want...
💬 View post · 2024-10-20 · 2 years ago
Who all solos TTRPG? — I caught the bug to get back into TTRPG last spring. Of course being a dad of two small children and working remotely I have very little IRL human interaction that isn't just doing the parenting thing. So I started down the deep rabbit hole of Solo play. Summer got busy so I put that all on the back burner but now with the weather changing and less going outside I'm going to start back up. Who all here likes to Solo TTRPG?
💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2024-10-08 · 2 years ago
Another session in Hole in the Ook — The regular DM for my regular Saturday D&D game wasn't avalible last night, so I ran another session in Necrotic Gnome's The Hole in the Oak. It looked like only two players would be avalable. With that few players I usually have them play a couple of characters each, so the group is large enough. Why multiple characters per player rather than lots of hirelings? So the players each have a little more to do, and so I don't. 😀 As this is an intermittent...
💬 1 like · 2024-06-02 · 2 years ago
Playing OSE's The Hole in the Oak with Fantasy Grounds — Last night the DM of my regular Saturday Night D&D game wasn't available, so I ran another session of The Hole in the Oak for the other players in that group, minus two who weren't available, as I have been doing occasionally when the regular DM isn't available, or between games which that DM is running. Apparently, the last time I ran this game was in 2022… The regular DM is very consistent at running, generally only not available when...
💬 View post · 2024-05-12 · 2 years ago
What to do when only one player is available? 1 on 1 adventure! — This time only one player was able to make it to my Saturday game session, but we hand enough notice that I got one of the 1 on 1 Adventures from Expeditious Press and did a quick read through and a very simple conversion from D&D 3E to Labyrinth Lord, mostly by substituting hit dice, armor class, and attacks from Labyrinth Lord and writing down the To Hit Armor Class Zero number. The player had a Labyrinth Lord monk from an...
💬 4 comments · 3 likes · 2024-05-08 · 2 years ago
Some have a random room with a random bandit. But why is a bandit in this dungeon, on his own? What is he doing here? So I've made a little python dungeon generator ('dungen') which generates a dungeon by making history. (1) A cavern or mine makes tunnels, then (2) dwarves, gnomes, or elves make the place liveable. Finally, (3) a bad-guy attacks, and converts those nice liveable spaces with minions. Get a copy here, on my little git server. '> ssh -p 2222 soft.dmz.rs -t dungen' git clone...
💬 2 comments · 2024-03-24 · 2 years ago
— taichara.smol.pub/ttrpg-lindwyrm
so I made a mini "basic D&D" — Last weekendish I decided hell with it, I'd try to smush a take on "Basic D&D" into one 16-page minizine format (1/8-letter pages). After a lot of scribbling right onto a blank mockup minizine, and tweaking some things here and there, I got one. Spent the middle of the week typing and formatting, and here we are: Lindwyrm. It's pretty loosey-goosey but I'm okie with that, lol.
💬 1 comment · 4 likes · 2024-03-15 · 2 years ago
— Generating random TFT labyrinths using the drop chart in the bottom of the TFT Legacy Edition box
The Legacy Edition's Box's Random Labyrinth Generation — The only thing I've done recently with The Fantasy Trip was use the Random Labyrinth Generation dice drop table in the bottom of the Legacy Edition Box. I've got a post on my µBlog that talks about...
💬 View post · 2024-02-19 · 2 years ago
— gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~trunnion/d24
dungeon24 — Has anyone in gemspace been playing with #dungeon24 (or the predecessor #dungeon23)? The rough concept is: make one room of a megadungeon every day for a year. No other rules. I burnt out hard after a couple weeks last year, but even though I'm a few days behind in 2024, I have a good feeling. I'm treating it more like a daily writing discipline exercise than a "I...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · 2024-01-21 · 2 years ago
My TFT gaming is on hold right now while I set things up to handle the changing schedules of the players. I’m going to run the Barrowmaze megadungeon on nights when people are missing, with everybody having to be out of the dungeon at the end of the session, so next time when it’s a different group who can play it doesn’t matter.
💬 4 comments · 1 like · 2024-01-19 · 2 years ago
I've been playing Melee/Wizard on game night when people are missing, which is sadly not uncommon, since they're all busy young adults. So far it has been random dungeons from The Fantasy Trip 2019 Postcard Contest that I'm running with Melee/Wizard to help people learn the basic rules of The Fantasy Trip. I'm going to move it to a TFT campaign, but basically one where everybody has to be back in town at the end of each session of play. That means it doesn't matter who is there and who isn't. I...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-16 · 3 years ago
Right now, I'm playing the Melee and Wizard parts of The Fantasy Trip on nights when some of my players are missing, as a means of learning the system and teaching it to my players. One of my players did not like the way turn sequencing worked and options worked, and I found keeping track of current adjusted Dexterity when the combat phase came around was difficult. Since we're playing online I made a Google Sheets spreadsheet that kept track of things and automated some of the process. I...
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-08-21 · 3 years ago
My Tabletop Interest — I sometimes play DELVE, a solo map drawing tabletop game based on Dwarf Fortress, its a fun exercise in creativity I like it. I have never played a TTRPG but am interested in the lore of the World Of Darkness series thanks to a YouTube video series called hunter: the parenting that is set in WOD. very excellent series highly recommend. I also am somewhat familiar with Warhammer 40k thanks to the series 'what if the emperor had a Text To Speech device' and I also played...
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · 2023-06-26 · 3 years ago
The games I play — My friends and I play D&D mostly, but we just finished a few adventures of the new Blade Runner game. Blade Runner RPG has an interesting ability system that seems well balanced without having too much math. I have super fond memories of TFT. I played it a lot when it first came out (*cough cough*) but not much since then. Over the years I kept returning to the idea that the TFT rule system was what D&D should have been.
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-25 · 3 years ago
What Tabletop RPGs interest folks here? — Right now I'm very interested in The Fantasy Trip from Steve Jackson Games, Monsters! Monsters! from Trollgodfather Press (which has the same rules as Tunnels & Trolls, but is from the original author of T&T), The Lair of the Leopard Empresses RPG from Mindjammer Press (which uses the M!M! rules and builds on them in very interesting ways), the Westlands 2D6 System RPG from Menagerie Press, and Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2E from Arion Games, but I'm...