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If you'd like to craft stories and play role playing games
with thousands of people from around the world,
you've come to the right place!

RPG Crossing is a 40,000+ member online community that focuses on play by post role playing games (PBP RPG) and features such systems as Dungeons and Dragons (2e, 3e, 3.5e, 4e, 5e), Pathfinder, GURPS, d20 Modern, Serenity, Star Wars, Storytelling (World of Darkness) and many more. We are an active community with many new games looking for players every day, and with plentiful guides and tutorials for the new player and the veteran alike, including: New Player Solo Games to introduce new players to PBP and/or RPing; and DM Mentoring - a forum full of collaborative DM tools.

We also publish Explosive Runes, a terrific free role playing magazine with stunning artwork and great articles.

Free membership also gives access to our character sheets. We currently host over 82000 sheets for 10 different role playing systems!
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2024 Hall of Fame Nominations Open
Mar 15, 2024 - 1:12 AM - by savoylen
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The day has finally arrived – nominations for the Hall of Fame 2024 are now open!

It's time to shine the spotlight on the extraordinary games that have left a lasting impact on our community. Whether they've been running for at least a year or are already completed, nominate the games you believe deserve to be immortalized in the RPGCrossing Hall of Fame.

Head over to the 2024 HOF Nominations Thread and make your voice heard! Nominations will be open for the next four weeks, so don't miss your chance to participate in this exciting event.

Good luck to all nominees!

~ Savoylen and Ildrahil
2024 Scavenger Hunt
Mar 10, 2024 - 5:16 PM - by bananabadger
Calling all glory-seeking goblins!
The 2024 Scavenger Hunt is near!
Play begins on March 31 and sign-ups begin now!
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Premise of 2024 Event: You team up with 2 other players from RPG Crossing to form a group of goblins who have been charged with stealing a golden T-Rex egg and returning it to your goblin queen.

Mechanics: Your team may choose to play competitively or non-competitively. Either way, there will be a goblin world to explore, trivia questions about RPG Crossing, and challenging tasks.

Duration and Post Rate: The game lasts for two weeks. Each team is to post daily, one post per team. This means you can divide up the posts among team members for an average of two posts per week per team member.

Roll Play or Role Play?: Dice-rolling... [Read More]
2024 Hall Of Fame
Feb 29, 2024 - 9:00 PM - by savoylen
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Announcing the Hall of Fame 2024!

Greetings, Adventurers of RPGCrossing!

As we prepare to embark on an exciting journey to honor the very best games within our community, let us take a moment to reflect on the timeless wisdom of Pericles, the esteemed Athenian statesman. Pericles understood the essence of democracy and the importance of voting in shaping our collective destiny.

Nominations for the Hall of Fame will open to all members of the site on the Ides of March (March 15th) and will continue for four weeks. Following that, we'll have two weeks of public feedback, with the entire community casting their votes. This year, we're introducing exciting new changes to the voting process: You'll be asked to rank at least three nominated games, allowing for a... [Read More]
PotM January
Feb 23, 2024 - 7:43 AM - by Admin Choc
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Better late than never: a huge shoutout to Wynamoinen!!!! They managed to convince the judges of their talent to write the best post in January 2023.
Ofcourse this could not happen without a player who thought this post was impressive, and spent time and effort to nominate this post. To quote [tt=banabadger]our loyal nominater[/tt]: Wynamoinen deftly weaves together several histories and agendas as the pit fight concludes. For some players, the battle of strength and spilled blood is the visceral center of the world, but for others it is merely a sideshow to more subtle and more important power plays. You don't have to know any of the characters' stats or hidden agendas to feel how Wynamoinen's post provides each of them a scene that responds to their actions, places each of them at the center of events, and unfolds numerous possibilities for their next post.

Curious? Yes, I... [Read More]
A heartfelt thank you to some retiring moderators
Feb 14, 2024 - 11:17 AM - by Birched
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I mentioned this in my New Year 2024 post, but I want to separately acknowledge and my deepest gratitude for the contributions of a couple of active moderators of our community who retired recently: Retry, Moderator during 2023; and HenryLockwood, Moderator from 2012 to 2023 (!!).

And I have one more to announce: Aethera will be retiring today, after serving as a volunteer staff member since 2016 (!!). Fun fact: she's one of the few RPG Crossing members that I have met in person (more than once, even!) Aethera, you will be greatly missed!

Their tireless efforts have helped shape our community and make it the wonderful place it is today. Our community members past and present can be grateful to all of these retiring staff members for their hard work and dedication, and I hope they will continue to find time for storytelling, games, and fun at RPG Crossing. We will miss them in the Staff forums, though....

I have created a "Happy retirement thread for Aethera, HenryLockwood, and Retry" to share thanks and memories for any who are interested.

PS Here's a list of current staff members.
Post of the year 2023
Feb 07, 2024 - 2:11 PM - by Admin Choc
A very talented writer once wrote: 'All this effort really paid off -- it is a delight!'. We all agreed at some point in the past, we could see that [tt=the talented writer]Fillyjonk ofc :-)[/tt] words of recommendation were true and sincere and it made a post stand out in the month of February...

In January we asked our valuable and loyal Community supporters to have a concentrated read, twelve posts were up for nomination to become the best post of 2023. Time was taken, energy was spent, a poll was made, and concluded in a result that was beyond clear.

In a small town, Saltmarch the players were asked to explain a red-washed total eclipse of the moon, a challenge that lured players into storytelling. The winner of the Post of the Month 2023 made an impression. To quote Fillyjonk once more:

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It comes out of the secretive, snoochy, knitting-obsessed gnome society that has been building for the entire game. Her character has been growing into her role as a hero, pushing back, and Bingle edits the traditional DIRE gnome tale of woe and warning to reflect her movement from terrified runaway to bold adventurer (a shift that is very much
... [Read More]
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