This is a very specific and maybe unfair pet peeve, but because RED is such a lifepath dependent system and lifepaths are going to be dictated by role ability choices, it’s lowkey impossible to make a clear pitch. Every LFG post on both the Tal and the JonJontheWise discord is either a very unclear “Hey, I want to run cyberpunk ig. Here’s a timeslot,” or an incomprehensible slurry of setting lingo that says nothing by Hell Bingus the Paid Gm and Their Auxiliary Force of One Million Emojis
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It’s not a bad problem. Every game is tied to the life path and the life path provides characters the players are invested in. It’s just that you’ll want a clear communication of style and ethos with internet randos. I was blessed to have the setting of The Apartment module for my first game, since it let me keep things cozy and communal for players coming in from 5e, as well as for myself. I’m not interested in the game’s fuck you got mine attitude.
Maintaining that communal attitude was also fraught, though. Nobody cared about the established cast of npcs from the module, not because they were bad, but because they weren’t integrated into the life path. If I tried again, I’d try to make them free lifepath npcs in a sense and give them missions in the lead up, or scrap them in favour of the PCs’ existing lifepath npcs. Even then, the module itself was probably the least interesting part of the campaign. The setting and the characters that I got to introduce were pulling all the weight.
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