What is TTRPG? Discover Tabletop RPGs

Table Top Role Playing Game

TTRPG stands for Tabletop Role Playing Game. It's a genre where players become characters in a fictional world. Guided by rules and a narrative, they embark on adventures, make choices, and deal with the fallout, both good and bad.

A TTRPG is collaborative storytelling at its finest (or messiest). Unlike board games fixated on winning, TTRPGs focus on narrative and character arcs. Players gather (usually around a table, surprise!) with character sheets, dice, and rulebooks. A Game Master (GM) or Dungeon Master (DM) runs the show, setting scenes and voicing all the characters you don't.

Role Playing

Character Creation: Design your hero or antihero by choosing race, class, skills, and gear. Be the stealthy rogue or the wizard who forgot his spellbook.

Backstory Development: Give your character depth. Tragic past? Mysterious origin? Go wild.

Immersive Acting: Speak and act as your character would. Yes, accents are optional but encouraged.

Character Growth: Evolve over time. Gain experience, new abilities, and maybe a fear of dragons.

Storytelling

Both GM and players push the narrative forward.

Game Master's Narrative: The GM weaves the world, its challenges, and possibly its doom.

Player Agency: Your decisions can (and will) derail the plot. GMs love that.

Collaborative Plot Development: Together, you create a story filled with epic wins and facepalm-worthy fails.

Thematic Depth: Explore big themes like morality and identity, or just set things on fire.

Dice and Mechanics

Because what's a game without some randomness?

Rule Systems: Guidelines for actions, combat, and magic to keep things fair, or hilariously unfair.

Dice Rolling: Let fate (and your terrible rolling skills) decide outcomes.

Skill Checks: Attempt something tricky? Roll for it and hope for the best.

Combat Mechanics: Structured rules for when talking it out isn't an option.

Collaboration

Teamwork makes the dream work, or the TPK (Total Party Kill).

Team Strategies: Combine abilities to overcome obstacles. Or argue about the best plan until it's too late.

Problem Solving: Puzzles and scenarios that require collective brainpower, or Google.

Shared Goals: Align objectives to keep the party (barely) together.

Conflict Resolution: Navigate differing opinions without flipping the table.