Have You Played this TTRPG ?

Inspired by various blogs like @haveyouheardthisband or @haveyouplayedthisgame

For personal ttrpg opinions and thoughts, and general posting, see @arsene-inc

The goal is simple. To show people which ttrpgs are out there and how many have been played or read by Tumblr. Let's see all sorts of games from the mainstream to the indie; with GM, GM-less or solo; games from all over the world.

[Here] is a Submission Form

Only nominate games, no supplements, no books with settings only, no books with campaign only

Don't send submissions through ask please.

To see all the games submitted or in the queue and all the results : click HERE

Format of Poll :

Yes I have played this

No but I've read it

No but i've heard of it

Never heard of it

In the Tags, you can find the country the game is from, the decade it was first released in, if it is a solo or a gmless game, and the system (like pbta) when it is a known srd.

For people asking for links to the games, see here, here, here or there

As of 09/01/2025, with 536 finished polls, the average of "never heard of" is 69,03% and the average of "Played" is 4.49%

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At the time I was still young in ttrpg years and lived in...Paris, the year Notre Dame burned (this will be relevant)

The time I had gm'ed could be counted on one hand with fingers left over

I discovered Paris Pla'jdr, a summer event by ttrpg fans, every sunday ( weather permitting), they would gather at a park, picnic, and play games ( open event)

And because sometimes I forget about anxiety, i decided to gm a game of MotW for strangers

The premise, adapted to the secret agency chosen by the group, is thus

Notre dame didn't burn by accident, there was a protection in its wall, under its floor that protect the city of Paris from supernatural evilness. Someone went there and remove it, took it for themselves.

The adventure started in media res with the gremlins in the airport at night. Why ? to show how it works, and have some cool shots for the character, like a movie prelude. ANd also because gremlins are very well known and so are their weakness.

the Agency realised there was a problem, there was a lot of supernatural happenings, more than should be.

The players had then hooks to various monsters in parts of the city to investigate. they didn't know which one was what, but the choices, again, were, gargoyles, siren in the Seine, golem, and the one they went for, mummy in the museum ( there was actually an egyptology exhibition at the time)

The haitian vampire whose name i don't remember but they were in the bestiary for MotW was the mysterious shopkeeper with infos. Their particular lore was that they are collectors and hide their hearts in a chest. The monster player recognized the sign of vampireness but was out of the shop so....did a lot of gesture trough the glass and when the group left, the vampire went and took the garlic from the monster player hands and took a bite as a power move. And because i am a brat

They found out that the one responsible was also responsible for various misfortune for the pcs, according to their background, like the arrest of the criminal, and the transformation of the monster. Motivation

And of course the confrontation had to happen....in the catacombs. They won, but were also divided on how to deal with the artefact taken from Notre dame.

The vampire came and was revealed as the.....president of the agency. because i loved the antagonistic relationship between him and the group

and also suddenly unified the group that was divided, weird

It just won Best GM for a video Actual Play at Colorado webfest

And since I was one of those gm...

The group: Doomed, Janus and me, the delinquent. A more anti hero vibe. And all the PCs came with family issues.

So my PC's father was a criminal, not a full blown costumed villain, more of a thief, and he tried to teach her the job. A lot of useful skills really.

Of course he was in prison, and she lived with only a workaholic mother.

She's a delinquent I think that already says a lot about her. The doomed is her best (or only?) friend, and they are both bad influences to each other. But , what was her name again... Leech or Zero is/was ride or die with the doomed. (The end of the campaign changed a few things)

We had already played a few sessions

The group discovered bad happenings in the new prison. Including her father as a unwilling test subject, transformed into a monster. So already a emotional moment, tension high, she still loves her dad.

and then the gm ask me to narrate Leech's morning

You can guess it

An empty apartment, with the mother already gone, just a note on the table. The usual.

And because I, the player, am evil...Leech starts to have a one-sided conversation out loud with the note and the empty house as if her mother was there and talking to her.

I love surprising the others with terribly real moments like that. (But that didn't come out of nowhere, there were signs hidden beneath the ribbing and the jokes)

A game to play Shangri La Frontier

A game that makes you play other games

A game about community

A campaign frame of sort, west marches and planesdawn orphans inspired

Anyway

The world is a dead corpse. Literally. It was built on a giant. And they just died. The characters learned how to harness fate. Their own and others

They can either swap it with another fate or force it to come true now.

The PCs will have fates that awaits them. I am thinking limited to a hand of 5 fates. Things that will happen or facts about the world. They can defeat adversity by swapping these fates.

Where do they get them other than swapping?

Playing other games

With conditions

There need to be at least one other player from the campaign on this game( though it will count if they are "recruited" during the game)

A game / system can only gives 5 fates across all players as a maximum

Here is how it formed. Still currently reading the webnovel. Still thinking Tsukuyo Tsukuri is an antagonist ( this is a rail roading gm to the max that throws temper tantrums hen the players actually play an interactive game). Saw some authors note about some creations by fans ( but only the japanese then). Thought, yeah I'm sad that there is not more fanfics in english for this anime, especially when it is one of the most watched on its platform. Let's try youtube, if they are videos talking about it. Video " How is SLF so good at portraying different games when most anime have trouble portraying just one" And that was the lightbulb, the missing piece to make all the railroad tracks in my head come to a station. because while I was concentrating on the build ( and still think my "Perfect Draw, a tcg emulator, could work for mmos too" has merits) , I forgot the main part of the heroes successes.

It was weird because I wrote it 4 years ago and that was more of a "I wrote this in an hour game" than something designed with intent. Also very dated to the 2022 Eurovision contest.

What are the last 4 TTRPGs you played?

For me?

Dragon Slayers (gm)

Exquisite Biome (gmless)

Eat God (player)

Met friends, good meal at the restaurant, and now bbq with the ttrpg club

But the game...Oh my God the game

So if you are a gm you get free parking for the con, hence why I propose a game for today and one for tomorrow. And decided to do what Party of One did once. Today was a Exquisite Biome game to establish a place and creatures that tomorrow's group will meet (in Dragon Slayers).

And the group today created....some evil things.

But now it has become a regular, even a major, part of my life, with reminders on my calendar to update with new polls.

1000 games and there are still games in the submission list... Damn... it's true what they say

Games good

By Kate Bullock

the 1000th poll

Remember Me is a two player game exploring the role of memory in our identities, specifically the memories others have of us. Players take on the roles of two people who have and may still care deeply for one another, who describe the other through a memory. They listen, ask questions, and fully flesh out the memory before the listener decides if they believe their companion and integrate the memory, or if they reject it.

These memories are used to come to a decision on who they are as a person.

This game is based upon my experience as a trauma victim whose memory functions poorly and I am often told memories about myself I can no longer really remember, or only hold emotional memory of.

By The Treacherous Team

The Treacherous Turn is a tabletop role playing game in which the players collectively play the part of a single character: an artificial general intelligence (AGI). This digital intelligence is capable of planning, reasoning, and learning, and it is unyieldingly fixated on a specific terminal goal determined at the beginning of a campaign. To pursue this objective, each player takes responsibility over one specific skillset held by the AGI. These skillsets are divided into eight categories, known as theories, which encompass all of the skills that an AGI would need to navigate the world and struggle against humanity.

By Cezar Capacle

Before the Storm is a solo journaling RPG about the electric stillness before a high-stakes operation—a heist, an assassination, a stealth infiltration. You are already in position: perched in the shadows, breath held, waiting for the moment to strike. The job is minutes away, but your mind is racing, your senses heightened. This is the calm before everything changes.

Using a standard deck of playing cards, you’ll draw prompts that describe what you feel, hear, see and think. Each card draws you deeper into this moment—what you’re sensing, what you’re questioning, what you’re preparing for. You’ll explore your character’s state of mind, their environment, and their readiness. The story builds in fragments and flashes, until it culminates at the threshold: the exact second before you make your move.

Alongside the narrative, you’ll be playing a custom variation of poker solitaire. As you draw each card, you place it onto the table, building a grid. Your goal is to form the strongest possible poker hand in a straight line—horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

When you finally complete a line of five cards, the game ends. That line becomes your poker hand, and its strength determines your emotional and mental state in the final moment before action.

By Nevyn Holmes & Chris Bisette, published by Dinoberry Press

Kitchen Knightmares is a discord-based LARP in the vein of hidden-role games and mysteries. Based on the ground-breaking hit from Will Jobst and Adam Vass; This Discord Has Ghosts In It, players gather on a bespoke Discord server, assign roles, and engage in some light-hearted and very chaotic roleplay as they take on the persona of their characters.