Hello all, I'm planning a pie-in-the-sky sort of dream campaign set in an eerie, supernaturally infested town in the midwest US, taking heavy inspiration from media like the Dresden Files, Persona, Buffy, and Night in the Woods. Naturally my first port of call would have been Monster of the Week, but my regular play group is into more tactical combat experiences than what PbtA typically provides. I'm also not enthused about Call of Cthulhu as I'm not super into the grittiness and high lethality of that system.

I am of course aware that "tactical combat urban fantasy with low lethality but also the PCs are average midwesterners plunging headlong into the supernatural" is a pretty darn narrow set of parameters and nothing is going to totally satisfy all of it, but nothing ventured nothing gained. Does anyone have an obscure little favorite system that might be good for this use case? Thanks!

The Lands Beyond, acrylic on canvas, 2023. Here's a link to the game's website if you're interested in our progress - https://untold-destiny.com/

Of note, I've tried Ronin/En Garde, Five Leagues From the Borderlands, Shatterpoint, Arena Rex and Guildball. I particularly like the damage trees in the latter two but nothing is really doing it for me. I find the way most tabletop games handle melee to be quite boring, sadly.

I'd like to find games that have more to their up-close combat than just two people rolling dice until one miniature falls down.

TIA.

The pilot episode takes place in 1940 just before the evacuation of Dunkirk (History details in below spoiler if your history is not good 😀)

!When Germany invaded Netherlands and France, they managed to cut off a part of the French army, along with the main bulk of the British army forcing a push back to Dunkirk, encircling the allies.!<

My players are part of the groups that remained behind to hold off the Germans to buy the army time to get evacuated from Dunkirk.

The plan is the players start off with just their rifles (All supporting kit has been lost due to the retreat) and MINIMAL ammo due to the weeks in intense fighting previously without supply replenishments.

I am trying to get the feeling across to them that they are seriously screwed (Preferably with more colourful language in my own words), but also to get across the idea the war is not going their way (Which it wasn't).

Any further ideas to instill that needed dread?

On the topic of railroading

!This may come across as railroading-- and it is-- but that is how my players prefer it. I have asked them, and they have expressed a desire to be railroaded with options they can choose.!<

I’m making my own table top, think dungeons and dragons but it takes place in a 1920s - early 1950s rural Midwest American gothic, New England gothic, midwestern style style Midwest with American folklore and cryptids. The gods ruling over this land, being American folklore heroes like Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan. The table top is inspired heavily by Brother, where art thou movie, over the garden wall, old Americana art, my love for all things vintage in American folklore and more. I also really love the aesthetics of American Gothic, midwestern Gothic, New England Gothic, and stuff like that.

My problem is that I am struggling to find what I could call rogue, barbarian , Druid and wizerd I don’t want rogue to just be criminal or outlaw, and I’m not sure what I could call a barbarian in the setting What do you all think?

Y'all I am so excited about my first officially launched board game!!

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Hey all, looking at getting into wargaming after painting some Battlemechs with my girlfriend the other day. I am probably going to dabble in Warhammer because there's a store near me so it would be very easy to play at the store. However, for mainly financial reasons (and also GW seems like the WOTC of wargaming) I'd like to focus mainly on something else.

I was in the Marines for five years and thus know a lot about small unit tactics. I'd love a game that highlights this with an emphasis on the fire and maneuvre part, I also really like realism in games but I think I moreso want rules that aren't a dictionary. I play TTRPGs often and definitely gravitate towards rules light ones. Bonus if I can play as the USMC!

I saw Team Yankee mentioned and looked at it, my issue I think was I saw a lot of people say it was very "Hollywood" so I'm not sure that's for me. I've also seen Bolt Action, and there's a lot I like about it but I'm very much a history buff and some of the product descriptions on their site rubbed me the wrong way in regards to WWII history.

I'm currently looking at Spectre and probably going to buy that to satisfy my door kicker side, but hopefully I can get something to satisfy the rifle squad aspect as well!

I’m about to turn 30 and need a new hobby. I’ve never played really any table top games and want to try getting into one and from what I’ve read / watched these 2 seem like the best ones. But how do I choose? I plan on teaching and playing with my wife and kids and obviously for warhammer I can paint the miniatures by myself. What are the biggest differences and how do I see if either has a community locally?

Good Morning, friends, how you doing? So, Im looking for some coop tabletop games to play with my gf. He is not into competitive stuff and don’t like difficult rules, so she don’t want to 40K with me. We played Zombicide and Pandemic with some friends and she had some fun, I’m looking for games like this 🫶🏽

Hi all

I just recently started printing and painting minis. I'm proud of my collection and in my ideal fantasy I can use these to play with them on a 'battlefield' as well. This sounds like the 'normal' Warhammer situation, but I'm not so much into "wargames" and Warhammer lore. I'd like to combine my skeleton mage and horse riding spearman into a team, somewhat custom, and enjoy playing with them a skirmish battle against another "custom" team of my opponent. Technically I can of course exchange rules and sheets from 'normal wargames' to fit them into different minis, but maybe somebody already came up with a game like this...

Does something like this exist at all? For me the main aspect is to use own minis and drive forward an asymmetric battle game. In the end, game mechanics should be also tactical and terrain/positioning should play a role. Maybe something like XCOM just that it's not a videogame and also more focused on minis :)

Looking forward to hearing your comments, thanks.

Every so often I used to post a question like this to r/rpg or here. I'm always interested in tales from other tables. So, what's one cool moment that happened at your game this past week? Tabletop boardgames, roleplaying games, card games, wargames — I'd love to hear it. What made it so awesome? What made it so fun?

When I was younger and getting into TTRPGs, predictably I took a stroll into the less scrupulous parts of the community and liked previewing different systems I could get into.

I vaguely remember stumbling into this one crime-based TTRPG that was vaguely futuristic that had a character class(?) called the Face.

When my head remembers something but can’t find it, it gets stuck there, so if anyone could do me a favor by tracking it down, it would be much appreciated.

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Does anyone know of any hex maps that would fit the bases of the minis from Pacific Rim Extinction? Thanks.

By curiosity, what is the limit how tall human is allow to be in a tabletop game for you guys?

I am creating my own miniature game.

And I have been thinking what is the limit for how tall a figurine is allow to be, now the reason why I comeby here and ask, is that I working with 3d printer, and you are going to need a 3d printer in order to get the models. Due to I sell STL files.

Another rule I had when I started making this was, FDM printer only, and the point was that you don’t need resin printer to reach good quality.

You are not going to control armies on this RPG game. You are going to be just one mercenary.
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So is 5cm OK? or should i cramp it down somehow?

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I'm a college student studying sociology and data analysis. For much of my life, I've been both an avid collector and player of tabletop games. In college, I've been able to combine my vocational path with my passion for board games, which has been particularly exciting.

I currently need respondents for a survey exploring people's experiences with crowdfunding and tabletop. If you have any experience with that intersection- even as a window shopper, I'd love it if you'd take my survey! It's about 15 questions of varying types and should be friendly to both phone and monitor screens. The link with this post will also anonymize respondent data. Any responses are greatly appreciated!

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For those unfamiliar it would be match where two fighters start in a wrestling ring and one person comes in every so many mins time interval. And the goal is to basically ring out your opponent to eliminate them, last man standing wins. 30 total competitors

Is there any system out there that works like this? I’m unfamiliar.

I’m ideally seeking one that could have stats like pro- wrestlers would have, would allow for grappling and throwing, would allow for boosts from the crowd. Any suggestions?

As of now, the only thing I could think to try would be savage worlds. I think k their system could be heavily modified to probably work. Any other suggestions?

If not any recommendations on how I could get Savage Worlds to work for this purpose? Any pro-wrestling fans?

A recall a while ago I watched a video talking about a Tabletop RPG where in the rule book it states something to the likes of “Don’t bother naming your character as they will die!”. I found myself wanting to find you more but I can’t remember the video nor the name of the TTRPG.

Does anyone know of a system this could be?

What crowdfunding site do you use to look for new boardgames to back? Do you go on Kickstarter, Gamefound, Backerkit or what?

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I'm declaring open season on this here set of images. Tell me what kind of adventure or even a campaign you would run in this kind of environment. Can be any system or setting. What does this remind you of or inspire you to do? Give me all of your ideas.

Hey all, I’ve been a table top war gamer for over 2 decades at this point on and off. I have to admit I am coming off a rather long Hiatus, having stopped wargaming with Warmachine MK2-3. I had played WH40k 3rd and 4th prior to that.

While I have been and will continue collecting the rest of my Warmachine Cryx faction, coming back just after the “Sun Setting” of the legacy factions makes it a hard sell to me now. I dislike most of the aesthetics of the current Prime Armies, but eagerly await the Nu-Cryx.

In any case coming back after so long I would love to try to bring my wife into the hobby. She has never played table top games before so I think a Skirmish scale would be a great place to start (if the rules aren’t exhaustive). She is a fan of Steampunk/Victorian eras and I think finding something aesthetically appealing may help get her into it.

She also likes High Fantasy so I’ve already considered the likes of Frostgrave or Warcry, we will see.

Any suggestions would be appreciated and welcome!