#tabletop rpg

[molombo]

Where's the African mythology?

The Kickstarter is live now!

[anim-ttrpgs]

The more I think on it, and I know this greatly differs from what people have come to expect in recent years, but to me a TTRPG with no adventure modules is like booting up a video game and finding out the devs didn’t make any levels. Like I wanted to play this but I guess we’ll have to wait until someone in the group, who may have never played the game before, spends a not-insignificant amount of their free time in the level-editor throwing something together for us to play.

[fanonical]

i am looking at you, new ttrpg players. i am looking you in the eyes. you do not need to be like the professional players. it's okay if you can't do voices or stutter or need to pause to think about what you're going to say or how your character would act. we are doing this for fun. gaming should never stop being fun

[vintagerpg]

I grew up fairly obsessed with Usborne’s World of the Unknown series: UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters. Image the frenzy that awoke inside me a few years ago when I learned that there was a second series of three books, from the same period, with the same style and art direction called Supernatural Guides. Worse, imagine my frustration when I found that they command frankly ridiculous prices second hand. Three kid books at 50 bucks a pop? Nah. Even this, the all-in-one digest remained well over a hundred bucks for longer than I liked. Eventually I got it off Etsy for like 60, which, fine, OK, more than I wanted, but still a good buy.

Anyway, three constituent books: Vampires, Werewolves and Demons, then Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres and finally Mysterious Powers & Strange Forces, all originally published in 1979. Nice of Usborne to arrange them in order of my interest. This collected edition, The Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World, came out in 1990. Really love the world continents etched into the skull (someone used the skull for some knock-off toy packaging and the map aspect is a dead giveaway).

Vampires is my fave, naturally, though mostly for the demon section. Ghosts is solid and surprisingly doesn’t have much overlap with the World of the Unknown book. Powers is a potpourri of paranormal topics, including ESP, UFOs, Uri Gellar and so on. It’s fine, but I don’t have more than a passing interest in most of it.

As with World of the Unknown, there is an attempt to make these books “educational.” They are designed to maximize the delivery of trivia in an easy-to-read package, but I think between the selection of stories and the bloody artwork, these books are more intentionally lurid than the other series. Not a complaint, really! I love it. If my Usborne science books, produced in the same style, had even half the buckets of blood, I’d maybe be a scientist.

[macguffinandco]

THE BAD YEAR - Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page Open NOW!

The Bad Year contains 53 horror investigation adventures for any RPG system, playable as one-shot mysteries, concise arcs or a year-long interwoven campaign.

Keep your eyes peeled on our social media channels over the coming weeks for information, previews and more!

Head to our Kickstarter page and sign up to be notified on launch!

Art by @kingcael

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

How many different ttrpgs have you played ?

We are counting them all. To answer what has been asked on the Anim ttrpg book club where this poll originated, yes solo and one page games count of course.

The Stipulation : you have to have sat down for at least one session of gameplay

For the sake of this poll, different editions count as different games, if they are major rules or design changes between the different editions.

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Voting ended onAug 8, 2025

[leidensygdom]

Pascuali, a mixed drow warlock / bard, for @deepspacehoney ! I had such a fun time with this one, even if I had to face my greenest demons once again. I'm a sucker for swords and morally dubious warlocks, so this was very much a comfort zone kinda drawing~~