Welcome to InsightRPG
Welcome
InsightRPG is a tabletop exercising (TTx) system that aims traditional tabletop roleplaying at business strategy. It's a hands-on way to stress-test strategy and risk inside your organisation - teams think, argue, and decide together while the mechanics stay light enough for real problems to lead the session.
Design Principles
Five principles shaped every design decision.
Simple
Understand the system in 10 minutes. Rules stay out of the way so players focus on the exercise, not the mechanics.
Familiar
GMs get up to speed fast. No reinvented wheels. If you've played DnD, you can play this.
Modular
Scales to fit the situation. Add or remove rules as your exercise demands.
Pragmatic
Works for beginners out of the box. Scales up for experienced facilitators via modular add-ons.
Insightful
Thinking over crunchy mechanics. Discussion and better decisions over number-crunching.
About The Long Game Project
In 2023, we designed over 130 scenarios for organisations with a combined market cap of $3.4 billion, hitting a Net Promoter Score of 74.9 (world class). Scaling this practice takes more trained professional GMs. Organisations and governments are already picking up tabletop gaming for decision-making, leadership, risk, operations, strategy, and team building - tomorrow's leaders grew up taking games seriously, and the professionals running those sessions need to get the culture right.
About the Authors
Dr Dan Epstein
Director of core team strategy and game design at LGP. Medical doctor and academic with a PhD from Monash University's Faculty of Public Health. Expertise in decision-making, behaviour change, tabletop game design, behavioural economics, pandemic prevention, forecasting, and philanthropy. Has designed tabletop games for 10 years and played Dungeons and Dragons since he was 11.
Sanjana Kashyap
Management consultant who has worked on strategy and implementation for ministries under the Government of India, bringing together industry, academia, and civil society for better citizen outcomes. Master's degree in Management Studies, specialising in Finance, Statistics, and Economics. At LGP, she supports strategy, operations, and partnerships.
How to Use This Guide
This is a reference, not a linear read. Jump to what you need:
- Learn to play. Start with the basics: what you need, how the dice work, the general rules. Enough to run your first session.
- Create a character. Work through character creation: person or entity, archetype, core skills, and abilities.
- Run the game. If you're taking the GM chair, there's a dedicated section. The GM guides the flow and keeps the game in balance.
Acknowledgements and SRD References
This work uses modified material from The Quest Creators Resource by The Adventure Guild LLC, and the SRD 5.1 by Wizards of the Coast LLC. Both are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Other Inspirations
Mechanics and GM instructions also draw on:
- Into the Odd
- Electric Bastionland
- Cypher
- Fate
- Mythic Oracle
- Mausritter
- Index RPG
- Worlds Without Number
- Honey Heist