Introducing the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club!
A.N.I.M., the creators of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, run a "book club" for reading, analyzing, and playing lesser appreciated TTRPGs.
The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club is an open space for those who want to broaden their horizons and try out a variety of lesser known and lesser appreciated TTRPGs - which is most of them in a landscape dominated almost entirely by Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and Pathfinder.
TTRPG creators are also welcome to join and nominate their own projects.
The club operates as follows
Nominations. Members nominate RPGs they want play.
Voting. After we finish the current RPG, we vote on what the next one will be. You can vote for as many nominations as you want, and nominations with the most votes wins.
Reading. We encourage you to buy the winning game to support the developers, but if you can’t for any reason, we will find a way to get you a PDF. A rough deadline is set that will allow everyone to read the rulebook at a rate of about 10 pages a day, though reading faster or slower is okay.
Playing. We assign GMs on a volunteer basis, and players are assigned to groups with GMs based on schedule compatibility. Each group plays the same adventure module, so each group will have commonalities in their adventure that they can talk about and compare their experiences with, even with different GMs, players, and characters.
Repeat. Voting begins anew with the nominations that we have accumulated in the time since the last vote.
In addition to the main club, there is also a space maintained within the club for organizing games outside of the purview or regular operation of the nominations and organized votes, so don't worry about joining between games, there'll be something for you to do, even if you just want to sit around and talk about your favorite RPGs!
Book Club FAQ
“The Book Club games probably don’t fit with my schedule.”
They might! Because we assign multiple different groups based on schedule compatibility, the book club games are actually very very schedule-flexible! You might be surprised!
And if they still don’t, even just reading the rulebook and joining in on discussions is a valuable form of participation!
“I’m afraid to play with strangers.”
They won’t exactly be strangers if you hang out around them in the book club long enough! Yes, we do get what you mean, but there’s nothing to worry about. The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club is a safe community, and we have rules and, more importantly, procedures designed to make playing with relative strangers as smooth an experience as it can be!
“What if I don’t like the RPG that wins the vote?”
While we encourage you to step a little out of your comfort zone, participation in any given round of the main book club is not mandatory, there’s no punishment for sitting out! It’s cool to just hang around and discuss virtually anything if you want to.
