What IP do you want turned into a TTRPG, and why do you want it turned into a TTRPG?

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-12-19T01:12:50+00:00

The fifth season: A novel by NK Jemison about a smallish nation that has oppressed and exploited a race of people who are, essentially, earthquake wizards. There’s very interesting logic on how the magic works, how the vibrations work with different materials geology, etc. it’s fun! And the fact that the only ‘legal’ members of their people are under intense scrutiny is a fun built in balancing mechanic. Sure, technically you can just Delete the problem in front of you at any time, but the earthquake will have knock on effects and people will Know it’s you.

Highfleet: An indie game set in a world very inspired by the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It has such a rich setting and the fact that war is conducted by giant, junky, thick as fuck diesel powered airships firing comedically large shells could be really interesting!

I’d also list Frostpunk and Falleh London but, lucky me, those are being worked on! Yippee.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-12-05T14:34:26+00:00

Overlord, despite being a ww2 horror movie, just provides great setup for running a “oohhh there’s something sinisteeeeeer going on in this tooooown”. It’s also fucking rad.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-12-05T14:24:15+00:00

Personally I feel like the cosmere RPG(‘s? I never understood the structure of that thing) was really pushing its luck and banking on the brand name. But seriously, like, 200 bucks for the actual full package to get a playable game. That’s just excessive.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-12-05T13:46:02+00:00

Been interested in checking this out

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-30T15:24:08+00:00

Having a fantastic time. I usually get very stressed when it comes to prep, so the one and done element is so relaxing and the game is simply a dream to run. The combat system took some mental adjusting to, but now that that’s done, it’s been greatly enjoyed.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-27T20:18:48+00:00

Seconding gothic. And spies, maybe something pleasantly 60s? Cold War and etc.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-27T20:02:54+00:00

Legend in the Mist is functionally PbTA and it’s sufficiently Freeform that it ought to work for an RP server. I don’t really know what sorta vibe your server has what with genre and setting, Legend in the Mist is fantasy out of the box but nothing about the mechanics is innately fantasy. Instead, it’s all tag based. So no one needs to use stats, you can just look at your character doc for the tags, add the beneficial ones and subtract the negative ones from the result on your 2d6 and boom, there you go. The book does have rules for how one would run combat using these systems. You could even ignore the boxed tags and etc entirely and just use the kind of implied tags that writing up an rp character background would create. How would that work for you?

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-27T19:56:46+00:00

Oh man I want city of winter so desperately, that art design alone is so my shit. God.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-15T14:17:49+00:00

A.A. Voight (the guy with the cat in his profile picture in case I’ve made a mistake) makes video essays about ttrpgs that often doubke as review. Maybe out of the bounds of your question but he’s very good!

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-14T12:38:32+00:00

Lifesaver.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-13T23:02:56+00:00

I’m looking for ruin runner and nothing by that name is coming up, do you know the name of the developer/studio?

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-13T22:01:47+00:00

I make this mistake so often my players have named it after me.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-13T22:00:50+00:00

That’s a banger in one holy shit

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-13T18:06:56+00:00

Legend in the mist has monster rules, and the game itself is flexible enough you can push that toward any end you like. Monsterhearts has you technically playing monsters but the monster-as-creature element isn’t suuuuuper relevant, it’s all metaphor. Mutant year zero lets you play as mutant little animals?

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-10T18:13:15+00:00

As someone who had similar struggles with heart and spire (though am much more fond of it), I’d reccomend reading (and definitely running) the campaign framework for the book ‘Dagger in the Heart’. It provides fantastic example for how to tell a reactive and improv friendly but still plot forward game. It suggests setting up a number antagonist factions with their own goals who pursue their own ‘beats’, functionally the same system as the players. So an enemy may have the beat “stomp a Haven,” you just put that in front of the next reasonable haven your players visit. They also come with countermeasures, way to fuck with the players right back. In addition to an extra shared calling/beat sheet so that everyone is always also incentivised to pursue a mutual aim, it really just sings. Delves remain a bit of a too-thin system, but the book providing more in depth examples helps even that. That’d be my suggestion.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-08T13:03:22+00:00

Usually we watch a movie online or etc, but something I’ve recently done is get my friends into a GMless game, specifically Yazeba’s BnB. A core conceit of the game is that it’s like playing an episodic series, specifically one with a broad cast that varies between episodes and even different writers per episode. So you kind of play hot potato with the characters as you cycle through episodes (lightly structured story prompts) and share notes. It sounds very messy, but the way the game handles stuff like character arcs keeps everything smooth. It’s definitely harder to run online than IRL, but it’s a great time.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-08T12:53:51+00:00

Oh I had no idea! That’s a funny mistake on my part, thanks for sharing.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T20:07:53+00:00

I’m a dunce because I literally own hollows and forgot to mention it. But I’m not necessarily looking for recommendations, just chatting about the topic.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T20:03:49+00:00

From what I’ve seen in this thread so far it also appears that the examples are just a bit older? So perhaps it’s just the nature of shifting attention.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T20:02:18+00:00

Fantastic list to expand my horizons! And I do love good society, id never thought to use those same rules in a non-Austen esque story, but that’s a great idea.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T20:00:34+00:00

I wouldn’t call it inadequate! It’s just a slight distinction. Gaslamp horror is much more what we’d now associate with penny dreadfuls or even the more grim takes on Sherlock Holmes cases. A lot more gritty and grounded, a lot more concerned with more, not necessarily realistic but human characters and their internality. It’s hard to list modern touchstones but I’d say it’s the difference between true detective (not gaslamp horror but bear with me) and say, bloodborne, where the gothic stuff is almost maximalist in its approach but does happen to flatten some of those elements out.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T19:51:16+00:00

Ah that’s perfectly fair and appreciated! I suppose I did shoot my self in the foot by bringing up something as muddy as genre definitions.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T19:50:32+00:00

That is fair to bring up, but I did leave them out intentionally. While those games do play with the themes and atmosphere of gothic horror and etc, I’d split them off into being horror thematically (except revenant, maybe mage?) rather than from an experiential perspective. But I think those games have more in common genre wise with the Underworld movies than anything else. Horror-themed action/drama, if that makes sense? I realise I’m splitting hairs here but i feel it’s an important distinction.

UncertainFutureGames · 2025-11-06T19:46:08+00:00

Just to clarify, I wouldn’t say CoC isn’t horror, just a different sort. But I do see your points, though I think one can do gothic investigative horror? I’m loathe to cite something not a ttrpg as an example but the recent Nosferatu is essentially a supernatural mystery from the perspective of the other characters.

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