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Ars Magica is a troupe-style tabletop roleplaying game about wizards and their allies in Mythic Europe, a version of medieval Europe around the year 1200 in which folklore and religious belief are literally true. It was created by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen and first published by Lion Rampant in 1987.  The Fifth Edition, written by David Chart and published by Atlas Games in 2004, won the Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game of 2004 and took Gold for Best Rules at the 2005 ENnie Awards. Atlas Games has since released the Definitive Edition, a revised and expanded version of the Fifth Edition with over 600 pages, new art and a new layout. It was funded on BackerKit in 2024 and shipped to backers in 2026, and it keeps the Fifth Edition rules. The Fifth Edition directly evolved from Ars Magica Fourth Edition (Atlas Games, 1996), which in turn descends from the original 1987 game. Description Players portray magi, powerful wizards of the Order of Hermes, alongside companions, skilled specialists who go out into the world, and grogs, the hired hands and retainers who do the dangerous legwork. Most players run one of each, and the group's real shared character is the covenant, the wizards' home base, often built on a place of power.  A Game Master, called the Storyguide (SG), frames the stories, which can span decades or centuries of in-game time. The game asks a table to think in long arcs. Magi spend most of their time studying and working in a laboratory, and many of the best stories come from what that research costs the covenant and its neighbors. It also asks for a fair amount of reading and bookkeeping: the magic system rewards players who plan spells and lab projects, and a character's progress is measured in seasons rather than adventures.

Conan 2d20 or "Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of", is a low-magic, high-action, fantasy roleplaying game set millennia ago, in the Hyborian Age. Immersed in an exotic land, strewn with ancient ruins, Stygian jungles and frozen wastes - where the heroes are daring, the treasures fleeting and the horrors Lovecraftian. Magic is shunned (but present nonetheless) and sorcerers are vilified; their dark machinations and obscene rituals have earned them fearful reputations and, often as not, a swift burning at the stake. Description The players can create competent and cunning characters from the start (best done with the online character generator - below) and immerse themselves in the joy of battle, tactical play and clever use of the environment. Teamwork is strongly encourage via archetypal characters, powerful talents and the use of shared Momentum and Doom resources, that can be used to spectacular effect or perilous misadventure.  System Overview & Key Features Momentum and Doom points are shared resources that accumulate during action scenes and battles. They are spent to activate powerful talents and abilities, which allow the characters to perform outrageous feats and spectacular displays - or imperil them just when they thought they were safe. Displays are a methods of intimidation, varying techniques that enable a character to demoralise their foes and strike fear into the hearts of man and beast alike. Win the war before it starts! Wounds and healing mechanics that allow character to shrug off scrapes but still significantly suffer from serious injuries until healed. Skills and talents related to them that cater for most possible situations and allow for daring escapades and mighty battles. Additional links modiphius.net - Official storefront and support page for the 2d20 system catalog https://pulp-lit.com/270.htmlpulp-lit.com - Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian

Mutants & Masterminds is a superhero role-playing game written by Steve Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing. The current 3rd Edition, which also serves as the engine for the DC Adventures game, was released in 2010. It is highly flexible, point buy system that allows players to build any superpower they can come up with, from classic caped crusaders and vigilantes to cosmic entities and mystical sorcerers. Description Mutants & Masterminds' game mechanics use a highly modified version of the d20 System. All characters in this game, from heroes and villains to the average person on the street, are defined by eight abilities, basic traits each character has to a greater or lesser extent. Abilities tell you how strong, smart, and aware a character is, among other things. The abilities are: Strength, Stamina, Agility, Dexterity, Fighting, Intellect, Awareness, and Presence

Pokémon Tabletop United is a tactical, rules-medium tabletop roleplaying game designed to capture the depth, strategy, and wonder of the Pokémon video games and anime. Built for one Game Master and a party of trainers, it features extensive class and skill customization for human characters, detailed turn-based Pokémon combat on grid maps, and comprehensive Pokédex stat blocks spanning multiple generations.

Blades in the Dark is a heist-themed tabletop roleplaying game system about a crew of daring misfits  on the streets of an industrial fantasy city. Published by Evil Hat Productions in 2017 and designed by John Harper, it introduced the highly influential Forged in the Dark rules engine. BitD revolutionized the heist genre in tabletop gaming by pushing players straight into the act, eliminating the "planning phase". The system it loosely evolved from is Apocalypse World Description In Blades in the Dark, players are part of a criminal organization in Doskvol, a grim Victorian era city. The city is protected by a wall of lightning, to keep any threat on the outside. Players create their characters as either smugglers, thieves, assassins or cultists and explore the criminal underworld, perform dangerous heists, manage gang warfare and grow their criminal organization. The game focuses heavily on narrative momentum and failing forward. Characters are competent but flawed, constantly accumulating stress, trauma, and heat from the law as their gang rises to power. System Overview & Key Features Action Roll (d6 Dice Pool) The core mechanic uses a pool of six-sided dice(d6) based on a character's action rating. The highest die result will determine the outcome of the action. 6 is considered a full success, 4-5 is a partial success with a consequence, and 1-3 is a failure. Rolling multiple full successes is considered a critical success. Position and Effect Before every roll, the Game Master explicitly states the character's Position (Controlled, Risky, or Desperate) and Effect (Limited, Standard, or Great). This transparently communicates the exact stakes and potential fallout of the action before the dice hit the table. Stress and Resistance Characters have a Stress track. Players can spend Stress to give themselves for extra dice when rolling. They can also use it to assist an ally, or fuel their special abilities. Players can also spend Stress when facing any situation or consequence the GM throws at them, this makes the characters very skilled, but forces them to consider when to spend it. The Flashback Mechanic Instead of spending hours planning a heist, the crew simply chooses a target, picks a detail, and jumps right into the action. Later, they can use Stress, to envoke a flashback moment, where they explain how they had already planned for such a situation, or had "solved" it beforehand. Progress Clocks The game uses circular progress tracks called Clocks to visually represent approaching danger or the progress of a complex task. A clock might represent the alert level of the city watch, the structural integrity of a safe vault, or the patience of a rival gang leader. The Crew as a Character The criminal organization the players run has its own character sheet. The organization gains experience, levels up, claims territory, and unlocks special abilities, ensuring that the gang's rise to power is just as mechanically significant as the characters' Additional links evilhat.com - Official Evil Hat Productions website bladesinthedark.com - Official System Reference Document and rules database

We admit. This Update log comes a "bit" late. But for good reasons. We've been busy, busy working on Groupfinder. After all, we reached 10,000 users and the platform is actively growing. New people are discovering Groupfinder and adding their player profiles or using it to look for their games. For your constant and reliable support, we are very grateful. Thank you to all of you. So lets take a look at what were the main updates and improvements in September. Groupmanager The group managing side of the platform is evolving and growing. We have introduced a number of various tweaks and improvements to make it an even better tool for you and your group. Tiles Multiple new tiles have been added to the Groupmanager, allowing groups to add rulebooks, characters and monsters (from Roll20 and D&D Beyond) to the dashboard of your group's page. You have full control over what you find necessary and useful and what makes the manager useful to you. If you like the concept of the tiles but dont see one that matches your need - you can simply build your own and add it to the tiles library. Your Groupmanager dashboard is yours - customize it by adding relevant tiles to your particular group or game. /images/general-media/1792593736_15rGmolf.png Various other improvements and tweaks have been implemented to make the whole dashboard easier to use and giving the GMs more control over what users can have access to and what you want to keep private. State of tabletop We also posted an updated version of our user analysis in the form of "State of tabletop - 2026". Looking at what you are using Groupfinder for - which game systems, what format and how the ratio of players-to-games looks like. It is definitely an interesting read - and anyone curious about numbers and data is more than welcome to take a look and see what conclusions we were able to make. Messenger and chat The messenger has undergone quite a few design changes - making it more modern and user friendly. The initial approach needed proper love and care. We finally got around to refreshing the way the messenger feels and behaves. Including various performance improvements to help make it even better. Getting in touch with groups or players is now even easier and familiar with how the messengers on other platforms work. Player profiles Players can now find the "Additional info" tab in their player profile page. There you can fill questionnaires to determine your playstyle and preferences, making it easier for others to see what kind of a player you are and whether you'd be a good fit for their game. You can also list your previous game history to give you a space to show off all the games you've been a part of. /images/general-media/1792593833_yNKIsawr.png In addition to the Additional info tab, you will also find a "Characters" tab. If you are waiting to play a specific character concept, feel free to show it off to others. Either to better show others what kind of characters you are planning to play. Or just show off characters you've played in the past. If a character you've created has a themesong or music. Add that as well - give the readers the full experience of who that character is. The Library We have redesigned multiple parts of the library to bring everything up to date with the various bits and pieces that were updated in the past. More tools, game systems, creators and events have been added. And you can suggest more for us to add if you feel like there is something still missing. More focus and room has been given to projects to post updates and news for their projects. Either a new podcast episode gets released, a major update to the tool platform or just something to let others know you are still actively working on it. And more There have been other, smaller server-side improvements to make sure the platform stays fast, easy to use and mostly bug-free. And various tweaks in different parts of the platform that, while important and necessary, would eventually make this Update log too long. Some of those updates were implemented in October, some updates that are live will be discussed in next month's Update log. As this log gets posted a bit later than we'd like, it sits in a weird limbo between September and October. But again, thank you for being here, using Groupfinder and hopefully telling others about the platform. Till next time