DigitalHobbit's RPG Blog

Outgunned Discord Bot

About a year ago, I published a YouTube video about the Outgunned RPG, where I provide an overview, go over character creation, and discuss how to play the game online. As someone who generally prefers to play “theater of the mind style” using a lightweight virtual gaming setup, as opposed to using a VTT with maps and tokens, my recommendation was to use Discord, coupled with the official “Botgunned” dice bot, as well as the Google Sheets based Outgunned character sheet I created. However, I also stumbled over some major bugs in the Botgunned bot, which (IMO) rendered it unusable. ...

Gamehole Con 2024 Recap

In October, I attended Gamehole Con in Madison, Wisconsin. This was my second time attending this con, and I had a fantastic time! In this video, I go over some of my highlights.

The Best RPG for a Fallout Campaign

I go over a number of RPGs that can be used for a Fallout campaign - and a couple that I don’t think are a good match. Games I would recommended for Fallout: Fallout 2d20 (official Fallout game by Modiphius) Fallout 2d20 Free Quickstart Fallout 2d20 Gamemaster’s Toolkit The Rad-Hack Wasted World (EZD6) EZD6 Tiny Wastelands Games I would conditionally recommended for Fallout: Cypher System Rust and Redemption (Cypher) Savage Worlds Darwin’s World (Savage Worlds) Broken Earth (Savage Worlds) Fallout: Rough Riders (Savage Worlds, fan made) Gurps After the End Gurps Basic Set: Characters Gurps Basic Set: Campaigns Gurps After the End 1 - Wastelanders Gurps After the End 2 - The New World Cortex Prime Fallout: New Vegas Prime (Cortex Prime, fan made) Games I would not recommend for Fallout: Apocalypse World Mutant Crawl Classics (MCC) Mutant Year Zero Punkapocalyptic

How to Handle Inventory and Encumbrance

In my latest video, I go over several ways that RPGs can handle inventory, equipment, and encumbrance. I also describe my personal preferences.

Vaesen RPG Debrief (and why it's not for me)

I just concluded an 11 session Vaesen campaign. We played through 4 mysteries (a mix of published and homebrew) over the course of 5 months. I figured I’d share my thoughts and learnings about the game, and why it’s ultimately not for me.