Modesty Studios

 These are games I have played or observed others playing to give context. (This post is a Work in progress, I will likely come back to correct things. Genre - borrowing from movie and book categories to give you a shorthand sense of what the tropes, characters, and stories are like. (i.e. Western, High Fantasy, Space Opera, etc) Setting - A bit more specific than genre, it will include specific things like time period, location, character types, and world premise.  Dice Type - a quick description of what kind of dice and how many might be needed for playing a game. Some systems may have special dice specific to that game while some may have alternatives.   Difficulty - this is from a brand new player perspective but this incorporates how complicated the rules can get as well as how in-depth the lore might be.  Easy - rules are intuitive and there's only low-level world building Average - you can skim rules and kind of learn as you go, the lore is based on tr...

The purpose of this is to be a reference for introducing people who have maybe heard about D&D or Table Top Role Play Games (TTRPG) but just don't know much else about it. It can be a very intimidating world to get into. But I hope to clarify what these games are like, clear up some misconceptions, and a few resources to get you started. I also feel like this is helpful to adults responsible for children to get an idea what the real concerns about appropriateness for certain age groups.  (Side note: I'm working on a TTRPG-like game that can be scaled in difficulty for different age groups.) What is a Table Top Role Playing Game? 🧝 In a nutshell, Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPG) are a collaborative story telling game that put rules and limitations around the setting, characters, and actions the players can make.  The most apt analogy I have is it's like an improvised play. One person is like the play's busy-body director who is also responsible for the backgroun...