The Rpg Gazette

Before anything else, a confession that might be relevant: I have a complicated relationship with Cyberpunk, the TTRPG.

There is a mistake that some people tend to make when they first encounter the World of Darkness, and it is an understandable one.

In any D&D game that runs for long enough, there comes a time, somewhere around the fifth level, when the group faces some sort of challenge, one that six months earlier would have been enough to cause an entire session’s worth of tension, and one person…

The World of Darkness has always marketed itself on atmosphere.

Set a Knave character sheet next to a 5e character sheet and the difference is almost absurdly stark.

Ask a table today what their character is, and you will often get an answer that sounds less like a person and more like a shopping list: Hexblade Two, Paladin Eight, Polearm Master, Sentinel, Metamagic Adept.

(Editor’s note: Hi, Șerban here!

Observe people playing TTRPGs long enough, and you will notice something interesting: someone blows upon a d20 roll in preparation of an important roll, murmurs some sort of a prayer in preparation of a death save, or ignores all the other dice there are,…

So, I was talking with Horia about the upcoming V6 (ran the scenario, an article going through the rules released in this Alpha is in progress and will probably be posted next Friday) and how White Wolf also showcased that they plan to make a new version…

Most TTRPG designers are fascinated with resource economics.