Tabletop RPGs I Currently Play or GM
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- Cyberpunk Red: A game of the dark dystopian future. It’s 2045 and the slow rebuilding after the 4th Corporate War continues. Welcome to Night City, choomba, a city where anything can go. Especially your blood down the storm drains if you don’t play your cards right. (R. Talsorian Games).
- Delta Green: A tabletop role-playing game of cosmic horror and conspiracy. Often described as The X-Files meets H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu, players take on the roles of secret government agents, military personnel, or scientists fighting unnatural, otherworldly threats while trying to keep their operations hidden from the public. Are you ready to put up your sanity against the true reality? Will you wreck your personal life if it means your loved ones survive another week, another month? (Arc Dream Publishing).
- Vaesen: Tabletop Nordic folkloric horror and mystery? Yes, please. Set in a 19th-century gothic Scandinavia where folklore is real, players act as members of an investigative secret society who possess “The Sight”- the ability to see hidden, mythical creatures known as Vaesen. (Free League Publishing).
- The Wildsea: Set several centuries after a global plant-growth cataclysm called the Verdancy covered the planet in a vast, fast-regrowing ocean of mile-high trees. The bloodlines (characters) navigate this leafy canopy using specialized ships equipped with chainsaw prows, giant shears, and alternative engines. The Wildsea is a place of wonders and horrors; what will you explore, Wildsailor? (Mythworks).
Board Games In My Rotation
- Dead Man’s Cabal: Be the Best Necromancer. Throw a party with your new undead friends!
- Dominion: A classic deck builder with tons of expansions and great replayability.
- Everdell: Want to build the best woodland kingdom filled with super cute forest critters? This should work for you. Many expansions, and standalone products that tie in with the main world.
- Evolution: Want to build a Yak with a turtle shell and a Giraffe neck? Yup, you can probably do that. Just be careful, your opponent has some plans with their horned flying monstrosity, and your Yak is looking tasty…
- Expeditions: From the makers of Scythe and set in the same universe. Explore an alternate Tunguska Event (one with some weird tentacles involved).
- Gloom: Play a card game where the family of biggest, suffering, sad sack losers. Win after living hellish lives only to die in absurd and darkly humorous ways.
- Lizard Wizard: Collect Reagents, Cast some Spells, Delve a Dungeon, Build a Tower or two . Recruit some Wizards… who are Lizards.
- Merchants of the Dark Road: Buy and sell goods, Recruit Heroes, Travel the Dark Road with said goods and heroes. Get rich (hopefully).
- Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right: If you like Everdell and cute woodland creatures, then you should like Root and those woodland creatures going to war with each other.
- Scythe: In an alternate Dieselpunk 1920’s the war is over, or is it? Expand territory, compete with the table, Use your Mechs, and come out on top of Europa’s heap.
- Terra Mystica: A Euro-style game about expanding and terraforming territory for your fantastical civilization/faction.
- Terraforming Mars: You are one of the CEOs in charge of one of the Mega Corporations contracted to help terraform the Red Planet. Be better at it than everyone else!
- Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar: Dynamic worker placement on GEARS THAT MOVE. Competing tribes work their way through the Mayan Calendar. As a side note, at our table we lovingly call this “The Corn game”.
- Wasteland Express Delivery Service: You are a driver for the last delivery company in a post apocalyptic hellhole. Ever wondered what its like to be the Fedex guy in Fallout or Mad Max? Here you go.
- Wyrmspan: You are a dracologist building a sanctuary for dragons of all kinds. Collect some eggs, hatch some monsters, it’s perfectly safe (there isn’t a mechanic for getting eaten by your scaly wards).