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Aug 1, 2024 07:38

TTRPGkids: This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – Summer TTRPGs!

posted on August 01, 2024 by Steph C.

In this episode of “This Month in Children’s RPGs”, we catch up on what's been going on since February (things got busy!) and get into how to utilize some of your TTRPGs for outdoor summer fun! Continue reading “This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – Summer TTRPGs!”…

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Feb 28, 2024 23:27

Deeper in the Game: The Sphere Grid as your Dungeon

posted on February 28, 2024 by bankuei

Joking around elsewhere, and talking about Final Fantasy X’s “sphere grid”, I had a neat idea for a funky advancement system for your dungeoncrawl game of choice. Take your dungeon, set it up, and key it up as normal. Then, for each room, assign some small advancement characters could make (“+3 HP”, “+1 damage”, “+1 […]

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Feb 19, 2024 14:23

TTRPGkids: This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – February 2024

posted on February 19, 2024 by Steph C.

In this episode of “This Month in Children’s RPGs”, we chat about games we tried out during the holidays and talk about expectation setting for your TTRPGs, especially when playing with younglings! Continue reading “This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – February 2024”…

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Jan 14, 2024 09:43

Indie RPG Newsletter: Science Fantasy, Rabbits, and Sci-fi

posted on January 14, 2024 by Thomas Manuel

I. Dear Reader, Thanks for all your responses to last week’s post! It was great to get a sense off which games people were excited to talk about! With your help, I’ve narrowed down the first three games we’re going to cover: Metamorphosis Alpha, Bunnies and Burrows, and Classic Traveller. The two that didn’t make […]

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Nov 19, 2023 12:11

TTRPGkids: This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG – November 2023

posted on November 19, 2023 by Steph C.

In this episode of "This Month in Children's RPGs", we chat about including food-themed challenges and plots into your games, planning festivals, and more! Check it out here and find some extra resources on TTRPGkids to read along with as you listen! Continue reading “This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG – November 2023”…

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Sep 11, 2023 02:22

TTRPGkids: Tips and tricks: all-ages friendly TTRPG festival challenges

posted on September 11, 2023 by Steph C.

This article is to help give some ideas for all-ages-friendly festival challenges to include in your TTRPGs! Festivals are great plot devices for having a special holiday game, adding to the culture of your fantasy world, or just because, and there’s a ton of options for creating festivals that are exciting, engaging, and fun for any age and player. Continue reading “Tips and tricks: a…

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Jun 29, 2023 01:55

TTRPGkids: Review: Magi-Knights, a 5e compatible magical-girl inspired TTRPG!

posted on June 29, 2023 by Steph C.

If you like the vibe of magical-girl or modern fantasy anime, Magi-Knights is a great pick! Balance your life by day as a student and friend with your secret life as a Knight in this 5e compatible core rulebook and adventure! Continue reading “Review: Magi-Knights, a 5e compatible magical-girl inspired TTRPG!”…

BESW

Feb 15, 2023 07:17

There's other Fate games that are a better fit for the kind of story told in the early DF books. Your "Local Werewolf Nerds" kind of thing, or something more like InCryptid or PC Grant. My group's big long campaign used Atomic Robo as our baseline and brought in a lot of other influences to make a sort of Weird Stuff urban science fantasy mashup.

BESW

Jan 26, 2023 00:54

makapatag wrote a twitter thread listing "a few reasons why, if you'd allow a moment of kahilas, you'd want to play GUBAT BANWA (Martial Arts Fantasy and War Drama in the islands of revel and beauty) for your next fantasy #TTRPG campaign (or as we like to call it, kandu!)"

Axoren

Oct 29, 2022 18:45

Surprisingly, taking half your HP in damage being the worst case of the spell is actually pretty reasonable early on in the campaign, which makes Final Fantasy-style gravity magic great for those End of Arc encounters.

nitsua60

Aug 18, 2022 20:42

@NautArch Yeah, there's a bit of structural thinking here that feels like it could help reinforce having "grown up" in your fantasy's setting.

Axoren

Aug 14, 2022 15:28

Before this, the crab had used a tuned-down Reverse Gravity, dropped the people who failed and then used "Intensify Gravity", which was me homebrewing in a classic from Final Fantasy. If you failed, you lost half your current HP. If you succeeded, you would lose half of that (a quarter of your current).

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Apr 15, 2022 01:38

Needles & Nilbogs: Textile traditions in fantasy, a how-to guide: part 2 of 3

posted on April 15, 2022 by Bardic Wizard

This is a continuation of the series I started one two weeks ago: textile traditions in fantasy worlds and how you build them. Part 1 was about general ideas for how cultures interact with textiles, and this part (part 2) is about specific traditions for your culture. I assume anyone reading this, fair warning, has already read part 1 and has sort of a general idea of their culture’s texti…

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Apr 1, 2022 05:40

Needles & Nilbogs: Textile traditions in fantasy, a how-to guide: part 1 of 3

posted on April 01, 2022 by Bardic Wizard

Shut up, it’s still Thursday. I really like historical textiles, and I like fantasy worlds, and I like world building. So let’s talk fantasy textile traditions, for your default fantasy d&d-ish world. I have a bunch of ideas, and so I’m going to present a guide to developing a complete textile tradition for a fantasy culture, using examples, and also a list of things I’ve done that anyone c…

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BESW

Feb 28, 2022 00:50

Aether: A Heroic Fantasy RPG by EldritchCrow. A card-based Fantasy TTRPG all about choosing your fate and deciding what heroism means to you.

BESW

Feb 26, 2022 04:30

> What the other players will need to do, though, is buy into the idea of the game. Tell them it’s a game about daring scoundrels in a haunted industrial-fantasy city. Mention a few touchstones that they’re familiar with (see the list below).
“It’s kind of like 'Peaky Blinders,' but there’s also some weird magical stuff and ghosts.” If their eyes haven’t lit up yet, maybe this game isn’t going to click with them. That’s fine. You can always play a different game with that person some other time. You want to have full buy-in from your players.

BESW

Feb 15, 2022 02:27

Crowdfunding: The Snow Queen by Jeeyon Shim. A two player fantasy fairytale game that uses chess as its mechanical engine. You have one goal: take as many of your opponent's pieces as you can to ensure that your world stays whole — no matter the cost to theirs.

Hot RPG Questions

Jan 18, 2022 20:44

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Q: Is this homebrew "Sir Knight" class balanced?

I'm here today to ask whom it may concern to read through this class' description. I would ask your answers to address this class in terms of balancing, its features fitting with image of a medieval knight(of course in a fantasy setting) and on your overall feeling. I am also posting two subclass...

BESW

Jan 12, 2022 01:42

Jeeyon Shim announced on twitter The Snow Queen RPG, an upcoming two player fantasy game that uses chess as its mechanical engine. You have one goal: take as many of your opponent's pieces as you can to ensure that your world stays whole.

BESW

Oct 23, 2021 06:09

Oct 17 at 2:10, by BESW

The Roleplayer's Guide to Heists from Far Horizons Co-op. A system agnostic collection of 35 heists ranging from your standard bank jobes, to space based sci-fi capers, to fantasy smash-jobs into a wizard's mind-realm.

BESW

Oct 17, 2021 02:10

The Roleplayer's Guide to Heists from Far Horizons Co-op. A system agnostic collection of 35 heists ranging from your standard bank jobes, to space based sci-fi capers, to fantasy smash-jobs into a wizard's mind-realm.

GcL

Sep 22, 2021 17:44

@JoelHarmon Which, historically, is the difficult coordinate to get. Just check out the celestial objects and a calendar to figure out your latitude. Of course, that's making some strong assumptions about celestial bodies in fantasy settings.

BESW

Sep 15, 2021 00:20

Villainous Volume I, The Widow of Roses - Campaign BBEG by A Couple of Drakes. A Calculating Villain, Monsters, Treasure, and Hooks for your favorite Fantasy TTRPG

KorvinStarmast

Sep 14, 2021 21:26

Comments are as follows: interesting idea. A few things I'll suggest improving: Researcher {Replace the word "science" with something that fits the Swords and Socery/Fantasy Genre-there is no 'science' ability}
Improved RMMPL {wordsmithing suggestion}
At 10th level, your customization *builds' damage* increase by one damage die and you can use them up to 2/LR.
Improved RMMPL {wordsmithing suggestion}
At 18th level, you can apply two customization builds to your RMPPL and *they increase their damage by another damage die*. You can now can now use them up to 3/LR.

doppelgreener

Aug 26, 2021 20:40

Today in Your Fantasy World Isn't Weird Enough: the Racka sheep, known for its long spiralled horns.

BESW

Aug 18, 2021 22:51

"We Asked, You Answered: Your 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade" by Petra Mayer for NPR. Earlier in the summer, we asked you to vote for your favorite science fiction and fantasy reads of the past decade — so here are 50 fabulous reads, curated by our expert judges and you, the readers.

Hot RPG Questions

Aug 10, 2021 06:41

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Q: How much would it cost for a PC to fund a metropolis-wide party night?

How much would it cost for a PC to fund a metropolis-wide party night? When I say metropolis-wide party night, picture your run-of-the-mill festive fantasy village where food and drinks are in abundance (and not necessarily cheap stuff), musicians and staff work for hours and whatnot. A single PC...

pathfinder-1e economy

BESW

Jul 15, 2021 03:23

The Van Jam Hosted by Kurt Potts, Plus One Exp, Forresst! Remember those sick ass vans with space wizards riding unicorns through an asteroid field airbrushed on the side? That's what this whole thing is about. Give us your heavy metal fantasy games that look as sick as they play!

MikeQ

Jul 12, 2021 19:13

Very fair, I've spoken with a few who see this as a "You got your scifi in my fantasy!" thing and don't want it

AncientSwordRage

Jun 21, 2021 10:55

We're generating some community ads over on sff.se and wondered if you would mind any of these pointing your way: dungeons-and-dragons, or warhammer?

BESW

Jun 12, 2021 04:35

Today in Your Fantasy World Needs More Real World Things, goat towers.

BESW

May 31, 2021 11:33

"3 Chinese Dishes Your Fantasy Tavern Should Have - And How To Portray Them Respectfully" by Connie Chang on StartPlaying.Games

kviiri

May 20, 2021 16:21

If you've ever played a JRPG (eg. Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Chrono Trigger) this is something they make heavy use of. You have a big monster that's too awesome to be easy to defeat, but you also don't want to bore your players by making them fight the same monster for very long

BESW

May 16, 2021 10:15

But even outside that, like. Part of the point of being Seanan McGuire and Mira Grant is that your readers never have to cross wires between horror and pulp fantasy unless they want to.

BESW

May 5, 2021 02:17

I'm briefly reviving "Why Doesn't Your Fantasy World Have" to bring you doggos with backpacks reseeding forests by running really fast

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BESW

May 4, 2021 11:09

Elf Genders by Lucian Kahn. A worldbuilding tool for creating your own new systems of fantasy genders. Most humans are women, men, or nonbinary, but maybe elves are… something else? Elf Genders helps you decide what!

MikeQ

Apr 8, 2021 17:31

Oof. Personally I advise against using backstories as some sort of trauma contest, if I want the game to be about big fun heroic fantasy. But again, poll your players (not internet strangers) for how they feel about it, especially if you think the backstory details will be mentioned in-game at some point.

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BESW

Feb 14, 2021 01:48

Kickstarter: Lands of Legends - SIX Zines for #ZineQuest3 by Guiseppe Rotondo. An OSR toolkit in SIX zines to spark your fantasy sandbox with 500 unique areas and 500 special encounters, in five different flavors!

BESW

Feb 14, 2021 01:42

Kickstarter: Have You Heard About The Beast? & We Sail Beyond by Sealed Library. Two collaborative worldbuilding zines. One monsters. One maps. Drop them into your fantasy RPG campaign or play standalone.

AncientSwordRage

Jan 28, 2021 18:53

Sorry, but after some enquiries with mods and users of various sites, this post as-is doesn't seem to be on-topic for any site on the Stack Exchange network. Science Fiction & Fantasy deals with in-universe questions but not real-world physics; Physics deals with real-world physics but they might consider this "too basic" or homework-type if it's distilled down to the underlying physics problem; for Role-playing Games see Someone_Evil's comment above; Worldbuilding usually doesn't take questions about 3rd-party worlds, but they'd consider this if it was rephrased to be about something in your own world. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 4 mins ago

BESW

Dec 15, 2020 23:56

The Global Fantasy Book Club hosted by Brown Geeks. A virtual community that reads and discusses fantasy books inspired by cultures and mythologies from around the world. We read one book a month, and discuss our books through Discord. If you’ve ever wanted to diversify your fantasy experience, exploring imaginative worlds that move beyond elves and blond farm boys, join us!

Glazius

Dec 13, 2020 22:38

That said, while the rules are intended to cover most of the situations that show up in play at a genre-fiction sort of level, they'll usually include a rules grammar and guidance for writing your own as you run into circumstances that rise above the general. Like there's a general move for making a getaway because it all the time comes up in urban fantasy that things come to a head and one character is at a disadvantage so they try to bolt.

BESW

Nov 25, 2020 23:37

@Yuuki The usual formulation is "Today in Your Fantasy [X] isn't [Y] Enough"

BESW

Nov 5, 2020 12:00

But really, why are THESE your stars of sci-fi and fantasy anyway? More like 1980s Novels I Remember From The Discount Shelf In The Used Bookstore.

Axoren

Sep 23, 2020 04:37

Our tables tend to want to have Heroic Fantasy journeys. What are your play goals?

lisardggY

Sep 13, 2020 08:15

Similarly, my requirements of worldbuilding in a fantasy novel are different than they are in a fantasy game setting. The worldbuilding is there to prop up your game, give you places to adventure and places for downtime and places to explore, within a more-or-less coherent framework. I'm fine with it not being up to Tolkien- or Sanderson-level coherence.

BESW

Sep 8, 2020 00:03

Shattered City by Mina @ UFO Press. Rebuild a war-torn city and win fame for your guild in this geomantic fantasy tabletop RPG.

Adeptus

Aug 27, 2020 07:06

As far as TTRPGs, I started with solo books - Choose Your Own Adventure and the like, where you just decide which page to turn to; then Fighting Fantasy etc, where you roll dice to fight monsters, inventory (sometimes) matters, etc. By this point I'd heard of D&D but didn't know anyone who played, & couldn't have afforded it anyway. But I found Dragon Warriors, which was originally published as a series of novel-sized paperbacks. I had one friend who was interested, so we'd take turns GMing & playing a whole party. I don't remember the mechanics.

AncientSwordRage

Aug 18, 2020 11:15

The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…

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BESW

Aug 5, 2020 03:07

Tower Of Power by ThatAceGal is a high-powered fantasy solo journaling game hack of Orion.D.Black’s plot ARMOR. The game follows you, a powerful wanderer and warrior, who seeks to travel through the dangerous titular Tower to achieve your one wish: To transition.