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Yeah, some ideas come quite in unexpected circumstances.

Take one of my classes at university this past week where we talked about Perpetrator Trauma and how the concept applies to the 2012 documentary film The Act of Killing.

While discussing it and watching some excerpts from the movie some gears started to spin in my head. For I realized this lens would be amazing for Vampire the Masquerade, especially for portraying the loss of humanity.

So, once I got home, I started to read more into it, to make sure I wasn't overreaching and then to start writing the article at hand.

Once again, a more academic one, but quite different then the ones I wrote before. I hope you will like it, I hope you will find it useful and please let me know, what was for you, the greatest portrayal of Humanity and the loss of it at your tables?

Hi everyone!

Announcing Troubled Troll Grotto, my third Dolmenwood adventure is up on drivethrurpg.

Troubled Troll Grotto is an adventure set in the Dolmenwood, detailing a small cave complex inhabited by a two-headed troll who preys on passers-by and feasts on moss and fungi grown on the corpses of their victims. The grotto has been thrown into chaos by various intruders including a band of skeleton thieves and a pair of nefarious Drune who have unearthed strange treasures around a buried portal.

This adventure takes place on the Cave-Path through the Ballow-Clefts, in hex 1208. While the adventure does allude to a number of features and npcs detailed in the DCB, no prior knowledge of them or the hex itself is required to run it. The scenario includes interesting factions, weird hazards, a challenging puzzle, some brand new magic items and a very strange artifact that belonged to none other than Wrygott Gnarlgruff himself.

This adventure is suitable for PCs of Level 2 or higher. A total of approximately 6,000gp worth of monetary treasure is present. New magic items and fungi are also listed with their gp value, and many common and rare fungi and herbs are present.

Content Warning

This adventure contains effects that can cause characters minds to be swapped into the bodies of others.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/563700/troubled-troll-grotto

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about whether 5.5e is better designed, more polished, or more balanced, but I’m curious about something slightly different:

Do you think it is actually easier for a brand new player to learn and enjoy?

For me, I go back and forth on this a bit. On one hand, 5.5e feels cleaner in a lot of places. The rules seem more organized, some terminology feels more standardized, and a few things look like they were clearly meant to make the game easier to teach.

But at the same time, I’m not fully convinced it is simpler overall for a completely new player. Character creation feels a little more front-loaded now. Backgrounds matter more right away, Origin feats add another choice early, and things like Weapon Mastery can make even straightforward martial characters feel a bit less plug-and-play than before.

So to me, it sometimes feels less like the game got strictly easier, and more like it got smoother for people who already kind of understand how 5E works.

What do you think?

If you’ve introduced someone new to the game with 5.5e, did it seem easier for them to pick up?

Or are there parts that still create the same confusion as before, just in different ways?

I’d be especially curious to hear from DMs who have taught both versions.

I am looking for TTRPGS (especially class based) that have a similar vibe mechanically and genre wise to electric bastion land, troika, and the video game Dread Delusion. ideally these systems would be rules light, but anything that captures the weird spirit of those games is good enough for me!

I hope this sort of question is allowed here, but I'm looking for reccomendations for a system i'd likely be homebrewing little. I am not the most savvy on all the millions of ttrpgs there are, and would love some advice from people who play 10 times more than i get a chance to lol.

The game premise would be about being sentient files in a computer, fighting against (possibly) malware and phishing links, silly stuff like that! I'd like to have a basis for my friends to build characters with certain 'races', which would be things like .pngs, .exe files or even trojans if they wanted. this i can fully homebrew if i need to, but mechanically id like a tech based system that fits well enough so i dont have to write a whoooole new system on my own lol. if you need more info, i can provide!

While i enjoy 5e for nostalgia reasons, im not so sure i could translate things over very well. I did play Shadowrun and had fun, but not because of the system if im honest...

It's technically not my first time being a GM, but i am a biiiit inexperienced. any help pointing me in a direction of a good system would be great!

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