Welcome back to the weekly Tabletop Games thread! This thread is where we can talk about all kinds of RPGs, card games, board games, etc. Whether you gather around a physical table in the real world, or use a virtual space to play with friends who may live far away from you, this is where you can discuss your favorites, ask for and/or receive recommendations, recap your recent adventures, or even find some people to play games with!

Discussion Prompt: The second of the three “pillars of play” in D&D and other TTRPGs is social encounters, or the “RP” part of the acronym. Any time the players are interacting with an NPC (without trying to kill them), that’s a social encounter. Like exploration this covers a lot of ground and, in D&D anyway, doesn’t have a ton of mechanical support in the official rules. Whether you can talk your way past a guard, convince a shopkeeper to give you a discount, seduce a wealthy noble, etc can be decided by rolling dice, or it can be completely up to the GM. If you were running a campaign that focused on the social pillar, how would you go about it? And what TTRPGs (regardless of genre) might be better suited to a heavily social-focused story?

If you would like to suggest a prompt or contribute a write-up or discussion topic of your own, let me know in the comments!