You Gotta Hide the Money in the Tampon Box: What I learned from "The 'Hood" TTRPG
The 'Hood by James Mullen of Groundhoggoth Games is a TTRPG about regular ass people surviving, thriving, and conniving in the streets. Far flung from the traditional Heroic Fantasy structure of the medium, the characters in this game are confined mostly to a singular locality. That's not a bad thing, since they're enmired in so much petty minutiae that the half-dozen blocks that constitute their life are as robust and treacherous as any fantasy kingdom. I've run two campaigns of this game. The first was Kingdom of Neon , centered around a discordant Jewish family living in Jersey City. The second, Goddamn Adventurers! , recontecxtuilzed the game into a High Fantasy world where the player characters took on the roles of background NPCs in a typical DnD game: the quest-giving bartender, the city gang leader, the local peacekeepers, and so on. Both of these wildly different campaigns were among the most rewarding and valuable I've had the opportunity to