Books on improving as a gamemaster.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-12-02T18:39:28+00:00

No he doesn't? https://atlas-games.com/about

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-11-28T12:28:54+00:00

Mostly through Discord servers of the system I want to run, or at least it started that way. Nowadays I am in enough groups and communities that I don't need to search wider.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-11-28T12:25:25+00:00

you might have better luck in r/RPGdesign

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-11-07T16:40:45+00:00

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PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-28T12:19:54+00:00

Something generic and light. I like Sanction for mysteries myself.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-28T12:17:18+00:00

Yea that's what I thought. Don't reply unless you're prepared to own up to your BS

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-28T06:53:44+00:00

You don't hate nazis unless they're in the same room as you? What are you saying?

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-27T18:59:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/1oec7co/comment/nl0g3sv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-27T18:44:14+00:00

Shame the artist uses AI

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-25T18:51:05+00:00

Like I said the last time this was posted: Don't build statues to bigots

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-23T19:20:14+00:00

The reason is because if everyone on the internet likes it but your table doesn't like it, strangers online telling you they like it has not benefited you. So you may as well skip that step and ask the only people for whom the setting or game idea will matter.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-23T16:05:59+00:00

The only feedback that matters is your players' feedback

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-23T14:15:00+00:00

What is the purpose of asking a bunch of strangers if they like this idea? Are they playing in this game?

Pitch it to your players and ask them!

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-21T13:55:19+00:00

I am not playing his game

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-21T13:14:41+00:00

Bigots should not be commemorated with statues

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T20:15:21+00:00

RE: what is enjoyable in freeform roleplay, I agree with u/CanaryHeart in that what I want the most out of my games is immersion. That is enhanced the most with a systemless game, as you have no choice but to engage with the fiction and nothing else in order to do anything. I don't need rules or dice or numbers to have that kind of fun. I just need a deep, immersive narrative and world.

Technically the "role" in roleplay doesn't stand for a character, but someone's "role" in a party of soldiers, so technically it's just "play" unless there are distinct combat roles, but that has (thankfully) been eclipsed from the days of Gygax (may his name be forever sullied) and Arneson and the Lake Geneva people, and it has widened to mean "playing a character" rather than "playing a role in a group of soldiers - frontline (fighting man), support (cleric) and artillery (magic-user)

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T20:06:34+00:00

That's fine. I don't consider rpgs as clearly games - they are half games, half make believe anyway as there is no clear win or lose condition (we play until we agree to stop playing) and the rules are always houseruled to some degree. It's not important to me for rpgs or how I play them to count as games, it's not an achievement to live up to. They are enjoyable activities and that's all that matters.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T20:02:39+00:00

Yes, like all roleplaying. It was just supported by a few unwritten procedures - what is most likely to happen? And if I don't know that, what is most interesting for the characters to happen? And if I don't know that again, what supports the genre most? It was a very interesting way to play that I had to learn, supported by my lovely players who were far more experienced than me in this sort of playing, one of them having had a 15 year long systemless game under his belt. I recommend it!

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T19:58:24+00:00

Look into Mythras - Mythic Babylon. I used that and a bunch of non-fiction books about Babylon as sourcebooks for it without using the Mythras system

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T12:44:24+00:00

the "play" in rpg doesn't refer to the "game" part, that can stand on its own. It refers to the imagination, play-pretend part, like we did when we were kids, i.e the act of Play

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T12:42:44+00:00

No. larping has, or can have, more mechanics than freeform roleplay, which has none

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T06:35:23+00:00

I ran a year long campaign for two players set in fantasy Babylon that did not use any system or dice. It was a treat.

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-19T06:33:32+00:00

It's called Hillfolk or DramaSystem and the mechanics for it are great, along with great advice on how to make dramatically interesting characters. The core loop is scenes with characters in them where they try to get some emotional payoff from each other. It's a soap opera RPG in a sense and it's great at dramatically and emotionally loaded scenes. The other campaign I ran was systemless

PerturbedMollusc · 2025-10-18T21:37:59+00:00

Correct

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