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Are there any games that have an ecological setting?
In Tales from the Wood you play woodland animals, seeing struggles against humans from an animal perspective. I was wondering if there were any games that used ecological/climate change as part of the ...
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What is important when choosing an RPG?
I am currently writing a guide to creating a free RPG and I would like to include a section on how to mould the game in such a way that would make it appealing to the general roleplaying public. What ...
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Statless & diceless systems
Thanks to a couple of The Riddle of Steel sessions I had seneschaled, which didn't really use any dice or stat comparison, I started to ponder the idea of a statless system. I realize that it would be ...
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What game systems have a large number of adventures available for them?
One of the huge advantages of playing D&D (any edition) is that it has a truly huge base of adventures, both published and fan-made. Call of Cthulhu also has a reasonably large basis of both ...
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Tabletop RPG experience for someone only available for short interval at a time
Lately, I've been wanting to go back to the tabletop roleplaying. I have a few restraints though:
I know nobody who could play with me in my actual area.
With a quite active social life, I don't ...
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Dreyfus model of skill acquisition for skill advencements
Does anyone know of either any systems or have house rules that model skill advancement via the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition?
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What is a good gaming system for running a 'con man' game?
Follow up to this question:
What gaming system would work the best for running a 'con-man' scenario?
I'm thinking of a team of people who run a con on greedy rich landholders or merchants. Most ...
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System for Setting: Misfits
On the recommendation of one of my players, I'm watching Misfits, a British TV show about kids (Their ages aren't so far specifically stated; they're old enough to drink and young enough to live at ...
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What table-top games are best-suited for online play?
The type of play I'm talking about here is using Skype as well as an online dice roller.
The differences between this kind of play and standard play is that it can be very chaotic, especially for the ...
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System for Setting: Joe Abercrombie's The First Law
If you're a fan of gritty fantasy, you've probably already read (and re-read?) Joe Abercrombie's The First Law. If you haven't, you ought to.
Now. Click on those links and drag out your wallet. Or ...
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Which systems can emulate battles against zombie hordes?
As popular culture has been saturated with zombies in recent years, I've gotten at least half a dozen ideas for zombie RPG campaigns. The main difficulty with using well-known systems for these, ...
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RPG designed for irregular players/gaming?
Is there an RPG specifically and explicitly (as in: the developers stating this in the actual book) designed for parties whose members gather irregularly (there's always someone who can't make it) and ...
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Are there any other Beer & Pretzel PnP games along the lines of Paranoia? [closed]
Are there any other Beer & Pretzel PnP games along the lines of Paranoia? Silly games, or mold breaking games meant to be played over hours or at most a few game sessions as opposed to longer more ...
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What role-playing games best emulate a non-mystical Old West setting?
I am interested in running an American Old West RPG/campaign that doesn't rely on fantasy/mystical or sci-fi/steampunk elements. What system do you recommend, and why do you think it captures a more ...
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Regional Resource Management and Trade Rules
I've been looking at TSR's old Birthright setting lately, searching for an easy way to quantify trade between political entities. I'm thinking about ways for a city or region or planet to develop ...
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What are the differences and similarities between Pathfinder and Fantasy Craft?
Pathfinder or Fantasy Craft?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of these two unofficial D&D 3.5 "upgrades" compared to 3.5 and each other?
What kinds of play/groups are they more fit for? ...
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As a DM, how can I integrate a commerce aspect to D&D?
In my current game, two of my players are always on the lookout for "get rich quick" schemes and they are looking into establishing trade routes between cities to make money.
That led to great ...
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short campaign with well defined characters
I am about to leave my home country and since I haven't been playing any RPG recently, I would like to play for the last time with my friends. I don't really have much time to prepare a game of my ...
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Which RPGs primarily reward roleplaying your character?
In what games (either in-print or out-of-print) are the rewards for playing your character's role or depicting your character's behavior the primary means of character advancement, as opposed to ...
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Effective game mechanics for handling conflicts with spirits
A very effective set piece can be conflict with the spirit world. A nice example of the kind of thing I am thinking of is from the 1982 Conan film, where the wizard opens a gateway to the spirit ...
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Terminator style RPG setting
I've been a fan of the "Terminator" series of movies for ages. I'd like to know if there is an RPG system geared towards a future holocaust style of play. Man (or man + alien) vs. Machine.
What I'm ...
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1 GM and 1 Player games and game systems?
I'm eager to hear how other people handle this? I do quite a bit of GM-Less gaming in Mythic and some other fringe systems, but, sometimes it's just better to be playing 'other sides' even if you're ...
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Are there any games that use dice pools of multiple dice?
A friend of mine is an aspiring game designer and is currently looking at the mechanism used in the newest iteration of Warhammer Fantasy where players have multiple dice pools of differing kinds of ...
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I am looking to expand my game library. What indie game should I purchase that best features non-standard rules? [closed]
I'm looking to expand my game system library, and I would like to tap the hive mind to find funky, offbeat core rules or settings.
What system should I add to my game library that best features ...
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Are there any RPGs released based on the world of Bas-Lag?
Bas-Lag is the great world of some novels from the British author China Miéville. Does anyone know any RPG based on this world?
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Non-heroic Post-apocalyptic systems
I am slowly preparing to start my first campaign in a non-DnD setting, and I wanted to start something in a post-apocalyptical setting. I have thought about using modern d20, I like that there are ...
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Systems with a dice mechanic that handles very easy and very difficult tasks
I'm looking for a system that has a dice mechanic that supports a particular type of realistic feel. In particular, I'd like to find a system where any task could potentially be rolled for without ...
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What system would be the most interesting to run as a recorded, solitare Let's Play?
This question inspired by Veriax's Let's Play of Oblivion.
His LP involves a remarkably high level of role playing while travelling around the CRPG of Oblivion. I believe that a well-recorded LP of a ...
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What game system is best suited for running a campaign based on EVE Online?
The game system would need to (at least) handle the following well:
detailed rules for space combat (especially movement in space and damage to ships)
highly customizable ships (preferably offering ...
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What are some of the systems which were built for a Star Trek setting?
What are some of the systems which were built for a Star Trek setting? What are their strengths?
Is there a new system for the new Star Trek franchise?
One system per answer, please.
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Games with mechanics for introducing new players/characters?
My current D&D group has a pretty high turnover rate (we average around 16 active players). To help manage this, we have a few activities performed whenever a new player joins:
Their interview ...
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Does a good list of open-content RPGs exist?
I'm looking for open RPGs to play with my group. By "open-content" I mean games that are licensed similar to open-source software—everyone is allowed to get and modify the game and release the result.
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Difficulties & Benefits of Choosing A Small-Press RPG
What do you feel are the pros and cons of choosing to play/run an RPG produced by a smaller RPG company over a larger RPG company in terms of customer and product attention, support, and feedback?
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RPG system based on Diablo?
What pen and paper system would come closest to the advancement mechanics of the computer game Diablo - in particular class advancement with a talent/ability tree?
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Systems that use ability tests with a descriptive result applied by GM interpretation?
Thinking about a number of questions on here that have been to do with ability test modeling, I was thinking that there would be a lot of potential in a system that, rather than operating on a ...
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What systems exist with rules that fit on a single page (or so)?
I was reading the Overview of OSR Games and as many of the linked-to systems I could fine. Most of them seemed sort of ho-hum, in that they all had about the same kind of complexity as one of the ...
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How do you port Dark Sun from AD&D to another system?
I really like Dark Sun; its depiction of a whole world gone bad is just amazing. Unfortunately I don't think that the AD&D rules are well suited to it -- a little too high fantasy to deal with ...
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System or resources for a campaign about governing a city/village
One of campaigns I used to GM was centered around governing a small, elven village (it was D&D3.5 campaign but it shouldn't really matter). I thought about rules as they were needed, but it was ...
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What game system is best for playing Fallout on the tabletop?
Give details - why is the game system a good fit? What matches the Fallout setting?
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How does the Cortex System RPG differ from more traditional RPG rulesystems like D&D and nWoD?
We're starting to get that bug to try switching up our RPGs for a bit of variety. I've heard that a popular system, known as "Cortex", is used in several settings which our group would be enthused ...
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Implementing the rational magic and world from Harry Potter: Methods of Rationality in a game?
HP:MoR is a novel-length fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, exploring the concept of a rational Harry Potter.
The world is a profoundly rationalist world, and has elements of scientific experiment, ...
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What are the major differences between Vampire: the Requiem and Vampire: the Masquerade?
As the title states, I would like to know the biggest changes between the two systems, both mechanic-wise and story-wise. Why should I choose one over the other?
(And please, don't use "Vampire: the ...
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Which role playing games/systems are being successfully used with/have been successfully adapted for use in virtual reality systems? [closed]
Which table-top games have been adapted for use in a virtual-reality emulator, such as Second Life?
That is, I'm looking to find out about table-top games which have been adapted/are being played ...
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Good first “indie” rpg to try out? [closed]
What would be a good "indie" role-playing game to try out something a little more experimental than the mainstream games?
Recently we've been playing D&D3, WFRP 2nd ed, and a FUDGE-game based on ...
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What are the advantages of Tabletop Roleplaying Games over MMORPGS and CRPGs [closed]
Normally this question would be highly subjective. But it cuts to heart of the current state of the hobby. When Dungeons & Dragons and RPGs developed in the 70's there was nothing else like it in ...
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Rendering Final Fantasy Tactics Advance as a tabletop RPG
The setting of Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance) is remarkably compelling from a tabletop standpoint. By suggesting that the party are playing reconstructions of self-characters who can change jobs via ...
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How can I run Sweeney Todd as an RPG?
A flatmate of mine was interested in trying (as her first time playing an RPG) something about Sweeney Todd.
What good, simple, system would work for this sort of game? If possible, a system that ...
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Are there good game mechanics/systems for a timetravel-heavy game/character?
What techniques(or systems) can be used to deal with a game (or even a single session) where time travel is a heavy part of the game?
For example, I have a player whose character concept has the ...
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Single Player Games [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do solo, non-computer, RPG's exist, and if yes, which are good?
Are there any single player RPGs?
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Settings and game mechanics for Sherlock Holmes–inspired theme
We tried to organize an investigation-based campaign, and we used the D&D engine. Unfortunately, this engine is not suited for investigation. The Call of Cthulhu engine is better, but it's deeply ...
