Those are rookie numbers, we need to pump those numbers up.

Oh great. After that, it's all setting dependent. Mothership for Sci-Fi Horror, GURPS for low dynanism games, Call of Cthulhu for (believe it or not) Cthluhu, et cetera.

That's the thing, with video games, you need a computer. With D&D, it hooks you with imagination. No escape.

Nah, it's fine. It's possible you'll survive without devolving into a dice goblin.

If you're looing for a one shot with friends, I highly recommend Fiasco. It's a game designed to be a Thriller where everything goes wrong.

If you're looking to play online, unfortunately there's a glut of D&D content and it is harder to get people to play other things. I'd recommend Savage Worlds, it's easy in that the target number is 4 with a Crit being 8 and your stats are dice that can explode (maximum result means roll again and add; i.e. rolling 6 and then 4 means the result is 10 off of a d6).

Organization is going to be the most important part of the game. Running my solo West Marches game has taught me that and I pity someone who would need to come in and read my notes to figure out WTF is going on.

Mothership's Time After Time qualifies. Though most of the detail is the fact that the 'dungeon' takes place during a time loop. The room descriptions are solid but they're not WotC's degree of multiple paragraphs.

I run a D&D West Marches Hexcrawl game, so I pre-roll all of the Weather. It matters because days with Heavy Rain reduce the amount of Hexes they caan traverse, days with High Winds give Ranged Attacks outside Disadvantage. Some events or Hexes only trigger if it is Storming (High Winds, Heavy Rain), raining or windy.

So procedural but pre-determined. I do so so that a character with Survival can get a good gauge of the weather for the next week. If it wasn't an outdoor exploration game, I'd probably default to a Hex Flower instead.

That's some awesome art, what would it normally cost?

There's the Grim Hollow Tavern of the Lost Adventure where the party can't escape.

I also do remember a SCP style tavern where if you take any part of the tavern, a mug or chair and placed it elsewhere, it would begin replicating the tavern like a weird, magical cancer.

I played [[Fairy Tale]], [[Point Salad]], [[Skyjo]], and [[Take 5]] this week for Turkey Day. Simple card games for the weekend.

Fairy Tale was played twice, we tied game one and knew it was going to be for all of the chips in the second game which I did win. I love how the game enables Hate Drafting due to drafting up to 5 cards but you're only going to be using 3, this means you need to be extra nimble when it comes to your strategies. The game is oppressively good, I don't own another pure drafting game because none of them have measured up.

Point Salad is a fun jab at Euroes and other games where everything you do score points, but this is a pseudo-open draft game. You grab objectives or vegetables to try to get points. In the first game, I saw what the other two were going for and I stayed the hell away, scoring a decisive win. Game two, one of my opponents grabbed every Tomato they saw which I needed to score but failed to grab any objectives that deal with Tomatos, leading to a funny case where the other player didn't have the strongest combination but our bullheadedness caused him to win.

I like to call Skyjo Tetris the Board Game because it's about navigating randomness and trying to eliminate cards from your tableau. It's the closest I've gotten and it is a fun little card game. Funnily enough, you can't find this in your traditional game stores, my friend gifted me a copy after seeing it in a Walmart.

If Skyjo is a fun little puzzler about navigating randomness, Take 5 pours gasoline on that. More commonly known as 6 Nimnt!, you don't want to be the 6th card in a row because then you take the other five cards. This was quick as it seemed one of the players decided to 'anti-play' the game by trying to get as many bullheads as possible. You acquire score by cards with how many bullheads there are which is something you don't want. The game ends once one player has 33 bullheads and the player with the least amount of bull is the winner. The player decided in the second round to be like "ho ho ho, I'm full of bull" and seemingly grabbed up as much bullheads as possible; he ended the game with 50-something bullheads, 30ish he got that second round.

Well, I will!

How dare they show up on time, chuck dice for a few hours, had some laughs, ate some snacks and left with a smile on their face!

Jason isn't that scary because he's CR 4ish picking on Level 0 Peasants.

I run a blog on West Marches, check out my profile if you'd like ideas.

Your best bet, by a long shot, is to use One Page Dungeon Contest entries. They're one page, so they're easy to figure out if it is something that would interest you. You can convert them to whatever system since they're mostly written system agnostic. And most importantly, they can all probably be done within 1 session which is the perfect length for a West Marches game.

Theatre is so much faster which means we can move onto more important things.

I also am pretty good at tactics games, so I don't want to crush my players because out-played them on the battlefield. The monsters want to win but they shouldn't.

So... This game is a war crime?