Role-Playing Games

I love role-playing games. I’m working on a role playing game I hope to publish next year, I hoped crit awards would have looked at it. Now, I know their inclusivity doesn’t include me.

At least they won’t be part of GenCon this year

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Hey all, Cat here from .

This Saturday is FREE RPG Day! We're running eight sessions of different RPGs and will give away free things with any qualifying RPG purchase.

We are planning to run eight games on the day!  This is the list:

• Tales of the Valiant: Shards of the Spellforge

• Garbage & Glory: Trashrun

• D&D 5e: Not a Drop to Drink

• D&D 5e: Humblewood: Shock in Stormcrag

• Pathfinder: The Great Toy Heist

• Avatar Legends: Rebels & Refugees

• Return to Dark TowerL Sword of the Brigand King

• Dragonbane: The Skinking Ship

These games will absolutely be beginner friendly!

Get your tickets:

With every RPG purchase on the day, you get to pick from the vast trove of modules, one-shots, dice, and more.

A qualifying RPG purchase includes:

• any RPG book

• a full dice set

• a dice tray

• Any RPG miniature or miniature set

• any Lost Tome miniature

There's also a raffle!

Any of the above purchases, as well as any ticket purchase, will enter you into our raffle for some of the more unique items. This includes the official FREE RPG dice bag and dice tray, as well as some of the dice.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I feel like this question will be a niche in a niche, but any RPG players here? I love playing pen and paper Role Playing Games but loooog ago I discovered I hate playing characters that are similar to me and really like to play those who I usually imagine in exciting, hmm... aego scenarios (not involving sex, because things that excite me are something else). Then I’ve red about aegos not liking first and second person fiction and separating themselves from the characters of their fantasies and the connection suddenly became obvious for me.

What do you think? Do yo have similar experiences? Or maybe completely different?

Whether it's a webcomic, or a traditional print, I'd like to know of any other comics

I'm looking for games that take place in a pseudo-ancient Chinese setting, where there are immortals, flying swords, chi, martial arts... All that kind of stuff. I'm wondering if there are any tabletop RPGs like this?

P.S. Sorry, I don’t quite understand what tag to put

I really liked Mario RPG, I liked it cause I could sit there and grind for a few hours, it was quick paced and straightforward.

Any other games like that?

I do weirdly love level grinding

Before people bring out their pitchforks, I'm not saying starfield has great role playing overall. However one particular mechanic related to it caught my attention. When it comes to persuasion checks in games you either have it being solely based on skill level, RNG or perhaps both. The system in star field goes for the latter.

Whenever you try to get your point across the mini game activates, you have 3 chances to make arguments choosing from different possibilities with each their own chance of success and approval point gain. Get enough approval points in these steps and you succeed. At first this just seems like the same thing with literal extra steps but this seemly simple system has some unapparent benefits.

-it being several steps can lessen the impact of RNG feeling cheap since it doesn't hinge on one failure but rather your character failing many times.

-If a reply makes sense in the current context it has a higher chance to succeed, which can help with both RP'ing different characters and aiding players that just want to succeed as long they pay attention.

-outside of just having skills that increase the chance of succeeding a step, you also have skills that unlock new kinds of possibilities like being able to bribe to get your point across

-it can create more natural conversations since there's more back and forth.

Now the implementation in starfield ain't perfect but still great and I feel this kind of system deserves a try in other games too, it's a good mix of making the mechanic dynamic while still being versatile enough to be used across a big non linear game as you don't need to make every possible reply unique.

What do you think? Would you like to see it in different games or have suggestions to improve it?

(I wanted first person games but didn't seem lile there were many suggestions.

Games I'll check are stalker, red dead 2, and far cry)

Only have access to pc and xbox

Outside the obvious being fall out, cyberpunk and skyrim. My favourite games was witcher 3 and state of decay 2

I couldn't finish the two though because I'm like a quest hoarder lol What else would be fun to try I know I'm also thinking of doing far cry 4.

Lots of quests, or side activities and resource gathering I need more first person or third person because until I can get a good monitor playing any 2d games on a 43 inch monitor is practical not fun.

Also mostly singleplayer I'm also on pc

Before anyone says dark souls I have tried it just dosent cluck with me

Mostly Difficulty yes, and also grinding if I wanted a soeffic weapon the grind to get it was just not fun at all

I enjoyed combat but I think it was just levelling up was the issue for me it was slow and painful especially if I wanted to use a certain weapon

That was my experience for elden ring but I don't think I enjoy it to much

(I did not enjoy tears of the kingdom I preferred breath of the world if I'm being honest)

Throwaway account.

Edit: ty for all the replies I will change dnd group with my friends.

I read that socially anxious people like RPGs (Role-playing games) especially, and it's true for me :).
Do you play RPGs? What do you like most about them?

How many hours per week (or per day) do you spend on role-playing games, including reading RPG books, game preparation, creation, and your sessions?

Additionally, how do you manage to maintain consistency and free up time for this hobby?