Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Gingervitis]

Card shops, comic book stores. Meetup if that's still a thing. Facebook groups if you got a Facebook account. .

I wish. Meetup stuff is all online, at least around this area. The shops aren't doing in-person games anymore, thanks to Murphy. As for facebook, I should keep an eye on that for a while and see if anyone's up for something.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I wish. Meetup stuff is all online, at least around this area. The shops aren't doing in-person games anymore, thanks to Murphy. As for facebook, I should keep an eye on that for a while and see if anyone's up for something.

Up here I would also find games through Kijiji too, so should check the equivalent in your area, and while shops aren't holding games many should have bulletin boards for them. Universities also have game nights, clubs, and bulletin boards with people looking for groups. EN World also has LFG threads
These sites also exist.

Tabletop Wizard - Tabletop Group Finder For Online and Face to Face Games

Find a tabletop Group, Online & Around the World. No Matter the Tabletop Game. Get Started now for free

www.rpgtablefinder.com

http://nearbygamers.com/groups

https://www.findgamers.us

(possibly soon so check for updates on their progress) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/role/role-a-new-kind-of-platform-for-the-rpg-community

https://crawlr.app

 

[Mr. Manchester]

I wish. Meetup stuff is all online, at least around this area. The shops aren't doing in-person games anymore, thanks to Murphy. As for facebook, I should keep an eye on that for a while and see if anyone's up for something.

I'll second the facebook thing. There's a bunch of different looking for game groups on there. I think the covid shit has make it a lot harder though and you might be stuck slumming it in roll20 for a while.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

 

[Brain Problems]

Ravenloft splatbook announced: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/van-richtens-guide-ravenloft

Unleash the horrors of Ravenloft in this campaign sourcebook for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

Terror stalks the nightmare realms of Ravenloft. No one knows this better than monster scholar Rudolph Van Richten. To arm a new generation against the creatures of the night, Van Richten has compiled his correspondence and case files into this tome of eerie tales and chilling truths.

Discover the mysteries of Ravenloft, mist-shrouded lands where infamous Darklords lurk among ageless vampires, zombie hordes, cosmic terrors, and worse. Then make your choice. Will you create your own Domains of Dread, settings to host endless terrifying adventures? Or will you join the ranks of haunted heroes who embrace macabre lineages, dual-edged Dark Gifts, haunted subclasses, and other forbidden powers?

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft contains everything you need to craft a horror-themed campaign for Dungeons & Dragons. Unleash a treasure trove of new story hooks, character options, and campaign customization to bring one of the most exciting Dungeons & Dragons settings to life!

• Travel (perhaps even by choice) to familiar domains and discover new ones—as Ravenloft’s expanded Domains of Dread return for the first time in fifth edition! Includes rules and advice for building custom domains and Darklords using established horror tropes or your own special blend.
  
• Discover a host of new backgrounds and trinkets themed specifically for a horror setting, as well as new character lineages, including the dhampir, hexblood, and reborn.
  
• Find two new subclasses, the College of Spirits for bards and the Undead pact for warlocks.
  
• Explore Dark Gifts for characters that flesh out your place in the Domains of Dread.
  
• Encounter a horrific assortment of creatures from the monstrous bestiary.
  
• And includes a brand-new adventure!

Ravenloft is kind of exploding right now it feels but I base this on nothing except my own personal feelings and this book.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Ravenloft splatbook announced: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/van-richtens-guide-ravenloft



Ravenloft is kind of exploding right now it feels but I base this on nothing except my own personal feelings and this book.

I get the same feeling, though in my case it's because I have one player who keeps asking me to run it, and because I occasionally come across SJWs and normies trying to "fix" it and miss the point entirely.

eg. One YouTube video suggested changing Tatyana into a mary sue strong independent woman who kicks ass, takes names, and kills Strahd at the end.

I think the same YouTuber also "fixed" the Tomb of Horrors by nerfing it to such an extreme one comment called it The Tomb of Minor Inconveniences.

 

[Corn Flakes]

"Dual-edged dark gifts."

Given how Wizards has been doing shit lately, I'm calling it here: the only two edges those gifts will have will be an edge in gameplay, and the edge of playing a "cursed" character. Any drawback to them will be so minor as to be no more than a quirk.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

I'd like to see them bring back race-specific vampire variants but with how much they kowtow to the whiny faggot audience I won't hold my breath on that.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

This is why I went out and picked up a "new" copy of Ravenloft. My old copy was in tatters and I'm not a fan of the print on demand version from DrivethruRPG.

A lot of crying going on about gypsies in Ravenloft. Pretty sure they were called Vistani. Sword and Sorcery even made them a race. You could find Half -Vistani.

 

[BlazikenLover]

Undead patron for warlock, guess that's how they plan to fix the underwhelming as fuck undying patron: Just make a new subclass lol.
I wonder why they are so allergic to having revised classes and the like, they danced around fixing rangers for years and then went "lol we are scrapping it altogether", the most we got were a few stronger archetypes (which failed to fix how dogshit the beastmaster is) and it wouldn't be until what, 3 years after having scrapped the idea altogether that we get optional class features in the form of tasha's cauldron to everything?
I get that it could get confusing for some people but new printings of the books or when the class is reprinted in a new splat it could be the updated version. For those who are stuck with the old printings they could just release an online supplement/errata (they have done this in the past).

 

[EnemyStand]

Undead patron for warlock, guess that's how they plan to fix the underwhelming as fuck undying patron: Just make a new subclass lol.
I wonder why they are so allergic to having revised classes and the like, they danced around fixing rangers for years and then went "lol we are scrapping it altogether", the most we got were a few stronger archetypes (which failed to fix how dogshit the beastmaster is) and it wouldn't be until what, 3 years after having scrapped the idea altogether that we get optional class features in the form of tasha's cauldron to everything?
I get that it could get confusing for some people but new printings of the books or when the class is reprinted in a new splat it could be the updated version. For those who are stuck with the old printings they could just release an online supplement/errata (they have done this in the past).

Eh, D&D's been bass ackwards since they announced 4th Edition. They got Mercer and Co. advertising their product, so they've got the wannabe geeks eating that shit up. They never played a better system, so they can rot in RPG purgatory while the actual nerds play better games. WotC is making money, so that's all that really matters to them. When the wannabes find a new shiny pop can to apply SocJus to, they'll start catering to actual nerds again.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Eh, D&D's been bass ackwards since they announced 4th Edition. They got Mercer and Co. advertising their product, so they've got the wannabe geeks eating that shit up. They never played a better system, so they can rot in RPG purgatory while the actual nerds play better games. WotC is making money, so that's all that really matters to them. When the wannabes find a new shiny pop can to apply SocJus to, they'll start catering to actual nerds again.

WotC is "making money" but they're not seeing growth which is upsetting their masters.

 

[EnemyStand]

WotC is "making money" but they're not seeing growth which is upsetting their masters.

Hmm...well then, releasing a new Ravenloft splat makes more sense. Trying to pull the old guard back in. That is, if the old guard isn't off playing some other horror/dungeonpunk RPG. WotC has developed the GW problem. They had the biggest dick for so long they don't know what to do when we suck someone else's.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Hmm...well then, releasing a new Ravenloft splat makes more sense. Trying to pull the old guard back in. That is, if the old guard isn't off playing some other horror/dungeonpunk RPG. WotC has developed the GW problem. They had the biggest dick for so long they don't know what to do when we suck someone else's.

They can offer to suck my left nut and I still wouldn't buy the new book. WotC is making a good argument as to why RPG's should have gatekeeped the hobby.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

This is why I went out and picked up a "new" copy of Ravenloft. My old copy was in tatters and I'm not a fan of the print on demand version from DrivethruRPG.

A lot of crying going on about gypsies in Ravenloft. Pretty sure they were called Vistani. Sword and Sorcery even made them a race. You could find Half -Vistani.

You can tell it was American lefties bitching about the Vistani because I'd take them and their flaws any day over the gypsies we have in reality.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

You can tell it was American lefties bitching about the Vistani because I'd take them and their flaws any day over the gypsies we have in reality.

Vistani tend to be protagonists and at the very least neutral supporting casts. There's like a handful of antagonist Vistani's. Can't say that about real gypsies.

 

[It'sallabitsillyreally]

They can offer to suck my left nut and I still wouldn't buy the new book. WotC is making a good argument as to why RPG's should have gatekeeped the hobby.

While it's not quite that bad for me I've just 0 faith in their ability to put out an edition I enjoy as much as 3.5. Even when they bring out settings I'm fond of they add nothing good to the existing material (Eberron, Ravnica) so I've no motivation to even pick up the few books I'd be interested in for that.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

While it's not quite that bad for me I've just 0 faith in their ability to put out an edition I enjoy as much as 3.5. Even when they bring out settings I'm fond of they add nothing good to the existing material (Eberron, Ravnica) so I've no motivation to even pick up the few books I'd be interested in for that.

I feel like my group is stuck in the 5e rut and am currently reading through Hackmaster to see if it'd be something I could viably run for them in the future.

 

[It'sallabitsillyreally]

I feel like my group is stuck in the 5e rut and am currently reading through Hackmaster to see if it'd be something I could viably run for them in the future.

Never played it though I am amused to note it's using the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting for its 5th edition (which was about a decade ago from a quick search). New system never hurts to get things out of a rut though.

 

[Elysian]

show me your dice

My mom got me these cool iridescent oil spill colour metal dice and a matching dragon bag to keep them in. Haven’t had chance to use them in an IRL game yet though, finding other players is kinda difficult due to the coof lockdowns.