#different tabletop rpgs

[legionofmyth]

Compare & Contrast: Palladium Megaverse Games

Whether you're looking for a new game to play or you're already a fan, you need to check out this complete overview of the Palladium Books Megaverse: • After the Bomb • Beyond the Supernatural • Dead Reign • Heroes Unlimited • The Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy • Nightbane • Ninjas & Superspies • Palladium Fantasy RPG • RECON • Rifts • Rifts: Chaos Earth • Rifts: Phase World • Splicers • Systems Failure • TMNT & Other Strangeness • Robotech The Role-playing Game

After the Bomb After the Bomb After the Bomb is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set in a world devastated by a nuclear war after a virus that led to widespread death and mutation. Created by Palladium Books, this setting features anthropomorphic animals, the result of genetic manipulation, who now struggle to rebuild civilization amidst the ruins of human society. The game is rich with…

[vintagerpg]

Different Worlds 39 (May/June, 1985). Another gap in publication as editor Tadashi Ehara moved operations to San Francisco under Sleuth Publications. I can’t find a real explanation as to why the magazine went with Ehara — it was launched by him and Greg Stafford as a Chaosium product, but Ehara produced every issue, so maybe Stafford considered it his? Maybe he bought it! But that doesn’t seem to be the case — in the editor’s note, it seems like Sleuth took over publication, but it was Ehara’s decision to relocate. Anyway, the cover is “Insectoid Robots,” by Brad W. Foster. It seems to harken to an earlier period of the magazine’s design aesthetic. It is also “The Magazine for Adventurers” now.

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played An Altogether Different River ?

By Aaron Lim

It has been some time since you’ve left home, but now it’s finally time to return. To what, though?

The home you held in your mind, and the home you will encounter will not be the same. You are not the same.

You can’t step into the same river twice. You can’t go home again.

This is a GM-less roleplaying game meant for 2 to 4 players and a single session of about 3-4 hours. It is inspired in parts by Downfall, by Caroline Hobbs and Microscope, by Ben Robbins. Cover and interior art is by Venessa Tang. You will need pencils and paper and maybe a deck of cards to pick randomly from lists.

It is about a Town, the people who have left it and returned, and the people who stayed behind.

It is about returning home and grappling with what has and hasn't changed.

[lazerinth]

very normal about her

[caffeinesystem]

Making an illithid character for a friend's post-apocalyptic bronze age flavored campaign. Their name is Qhurgangezi (but you can call them Chu) and they only eat sapient brains sometimes, don't even worry about it

[quadrantadvisor]

I'm trying so hard not to be a hater but the more I learn about other ttrpgs the more the way that people talk about dnd annoys me

[tomatoluvr69]

Making friends as an adult is hard but I’m starting to get the hang of taking those steps with people but like…there’s only so much I can ask you about your job and background over dinner or drinks we need to get into SITUATIONS…

[bizlybebo]

being creative and having lots of ongoing projects at once is so fun until the Horrors get to you

[dravencroft]

I haven't drawn Aayl'ani in ages... I miss her a lot, and it's very sad that we stopped playing Edge of the Empire and she never got to continue her story :/ but at least I can keep drawing her!

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

there's so many tablegame interaction bait posts and all of them are for dnd

what if i want to ask people what my heroquest runes would be!! what if i want people to assign each other an exalt type!! what about monsterhearts playbooks or lancer mechs!! :(

[eelslippers]

That moment when you begin planning for a tabletop session and it can either be a wholesome chill session or a session that ends in someone dying and you have no idea which way it will go

[vintagerpg]

Different Worlds 21 (June, 1982). A two month break! Alan Burton on the cover. Absolutely adore this one. Great color scheme, great composition, very late ‘70s fantasy fan art vibe. There is something in this that reminds me of some of the stranger art in the David Day Tolkien books.

[homunculus-argument]

Tabletop rpg character concept:

A character who has aphasia, specifically struggles with word retrieval. So the player has a number of hats/jars/containers full of paper slips with words written on them, sorted into different categories, and every time they want to communciate something beyond "yes" and "no", they'll have to pull words of the right category out of the containers. They may gradually narrow down more and more specific categories, but managing to retrieve the complete perfect sentence they needed is statistically extremely unlikely. The rest of the party just has to learn to figure out what they mean at any time.

"Dog! Horse! No! Not horse!" "Wait, you mean some animal? Is there an animal here the rest of us haven't noticed?" "[frustrated groan]" "What animal is it? Why is it so important?" "Not horse! ...Fire! FIRE HORSE!" "OH FUCK THERE'S A DRAGON!" "YES!! YES!!"

[a-wa-c]

I keep seeing various advertisements for this come up, and I will never not be taken aback by the keyword-salad that I normally only see on Magic cards.

[helicoprinus]

okay not to jinx myself but if i keep up a decent pace i could have my 'locke rules ready to playtest by new year's 👀

[frogisgoodfrogislife]

As a DM who tends to heavily rely on my players character backstories to form a plot, I love it when my players do this! Not only does it make things easier for me, but it opens up so many ways for storytelling and roleplaying with the other characters and not just the NPCs

"Oh, but what if my D&D character's complicated backstory is unintentionally a little bit similar to another party member's backstory" the default party in Baldur's Gate 3 has two completely unrelated characters whose central arc involves angsting over the fact that they're going to explode soon for two completely different reasons.