u/TalesUntoldRpg

Currently in the process of sorting manufacturing for Gilmoril: Technogothic Nightmare. We had some initial thoughts on what to do with the book, and worked with multiple manufacturers on the best way to handle them.

However, I'm curious to know what other players and GMs have found particularly interesting/creative/useful when it comes to the design of TTRPG manuals.

Stuff like bookmark ribbons, included tear-out pages, folded map posters, or the like. Anything at all that comes to mind!

(Please feel free to gush about your favourite layout/designs as well, it definitely counts as an important inclusion in TTRPG manuals)

Hey all, I'm around a bit, currently crowdfunding a game but this isn't a promo post. Instead I'm putting out the character creation rules as a preview and thought I'd ask for more direct feedback here.

"Gilmoril: Technogothic Nightmare is a TTRPG about being expert hunters of mechanical monstrosities called Technocytes. These creatures take on the forms of monsters from myth to terrorise and kill the citizens of Gilmoril. Each hunt, you will track a particular monster, learn it's traits, habits, and vulnerabilities, and use that information to destroy it. At the end of the hunt, you will be called upon to report what happened, with your report coming to represent the truth from that point on."

The idea is to make an expert monster hunter who is joining a larger group. You pick a culture you want your character to be from, which affects what kind of hunts they go on, then you follow one of the 5 methods of creating your character.

I've tried to cover all the bases as well as I can, though I'll note the actual game rules aren't in this document as 1. The layout for those is super important so we're taking our time and 2. A brief version of them is available in the free quickstart anyway.

Let me know what you think, ask questions if you need to, but please remember that I'm looking for feedback on the character creation itself rather than the game rules at this time.

Note: these steps will be placed after the how to play section, so many of the referenced rules are already explained by the time you get here in the full book.

https://www.talesuntoldrpg.com/free-pdfs/19ab02ba-2f5f-461f-9e0d-713faee7e796

You can find the pdf with the creation steps and a form-fillable character sheet at the link above.

Thanks in advance!

Currently working on a tabletop game project about monster hunting that is mostly complete, just filling in details before the final edit pass.

Got to the section about traps and went to write something along the lines of "Making traps for intelligent predator species can be more difficult, as their experience setting ambushes makes them particularly good at spotting them."

But I quickly realised I have no idea if that is generally true for this kind of thing. I understand quick little prey animals can be difficult to coax into a sense of security, but I figured predators would not be easily fooled because, well that's their job an they can see the signs.

As with many things I have previously had assumptions about, I am somewhat expecting that the truth is the reverse of my assumption. So I figured I'd get the opinions of the people who have had to deal with this sort of thing in the past. Any anecdotes or general knowledge on this subject would be appreciated.

What is attempting to set traps for predators really like? Is it harder than other animals? Is there a specific approach that definitely doesn't work? Is it something that is avoided for one reason or another?

If possible, try to avoid the details of what predators you were trapping. I don't want people reading comments on this to think it's some kind of direct advice for specific species, especially because I know trapping predators is illegal in certain countries. I'm not wanting advice to use in the real world, I'm just writing about the approaches to trapping predators for a game book.