1d10 sanity loss

Imperium Maledictum looks promising though. Maybe be ause I simply have a soft spot for d100 games.

I guess I'm having a WH40K period of my life, so might as well run a one-shot or two for my friends.

Basically making panic engine warhammer. All it's going to take is changing the skill list and classes.

The number of people willing to accept players who won't read the rules even though they come back week after week is bizarre - you wouldn't accept it for any other game, and RPGs are just a kind of game! If the rules of one game are 'too complex' just switch to a different game! If they claim they 'don't have time' - cancel one session. That 3 hour block is now dedicated game-learning time, and 3 hours is plenty. Easy.

See, "RPGs are [...] a kind of game" is where the disconnect lies. There's a large chunk of the present D&D fandom who don't think of tabletop RPGs as games; they think of them as performances being put on by the GM for the audience of the players, who – like any audience – are obliged only to be physically present. In this understanding, the "game-ness" of the activity is part of the performance – i.e., the GM is merely pretending to moderate a game with rules as an act of kayfabe; there's no point learning the rules because there aren't "really" rules to learn.

(Partly this is a product of folks coming to the hobby whose sole prior experience is with high-production-value podcasts, where the GM actually is an entertainer putting on a show for an audience, and often a professional actor to boot; partly it's a product of Hasbro attempting to market D&D as a zero-entry-barrier hobby by framing the GM not as a fellow player with special responsibilities, but as a volunteer service provider whose job is to facilitate other people playing D&D.)

I can still suspend my disbelief for the sake of playing and enjoying the game, but it's kinda a stretch, to be perfectly honest.

ya know that lats sentence really does need to be dealt with before we can have peace

I started having actual fun, as opposed to thinking about how fun it would be to run a game (but having a miserable time running it).

A second breath of fresh air was when I understood it was okay to actually delegate stuff. Now my players get to name and describe some NPCs and roleplay as each other's bonds. They also get to improvise and describe some surroundings and mundane equipment, instead of me talking non-stop about every little detail.

This setting expressly says that systemic prejudice does not exist in this 19th/20th century world, and pointedly that if you play as a doctor that there are no such thing as medical racism and pseudoscience.

So in a world with no systemic inequality and no prejudice based on gender, mental disability or beliefs, why would an asylum exist in a way that needs to be fought ?

Furthermore in what way are players supposed to "find comfort" defeating those things when they're not rooted in institutional evil ? I feel like this game was written by people who think arguing with randos on twitter in 2026 is still activism.

I saw a look of satisfaction in their eyes. It's a Delta Green game and amongst all of the horrors happening in that town, the agents took time and effort to protect the innocent. And it felt good.

White male cosmic horror - you are powerless and insignificant.

Feminist cosmic horror - you will be used, abused and absorbed.

Black cosmic horror - there's no one at the helm, yet the whole system hates you.