I just started a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians for a bunch of 13-16 year olds.
... Wait, officer, just let me explain....
I'm being a little lazy - I made this about 18 months ago after a conversation in one shop. A couple of days ago in a different shop the "alternative" mentioned was Dungeon Crawl Classics. As far as I'm concerned, D&D with the serial numbers filed off is still D&D.
I mean DCC & 5e are very different.
D&D with the serial numbers filed off is still D&D.
I'm getting tired of eating Mac and Cheese all the time "have you tried Caccio e Pepe?"
It's still pasta and cheese.
If someone asked me for something other than dnd to play, I'd imagine they're looking to get out of the tolkein flavored medieval fantasy genre into something different and recommend something like World of Darkness, modern supernatural urban fantasy for political intrigue and melodramatics, or Blades in the Dark, victorian industrial fantasy heists. Not "grittier Tolkien flavored medieval fantasy."
A Blues Brothers meme template used with a D&D reference....
How do I upvote more than once?
Spare a thought for those of us running a TTRPG via Foundry VTT. 90% of the cool mods are for DnD or Pathfinder, which is a problem if you're running Dark Heresy or FATE or something.
Mörk Borg? Other Fria Liga? Other Borg-likes? Other Kickstarter games? Is that just me?
Don't get me wrong, I love PF2 and I mostly actually play 5E with my friends on zoom (that bunch of Philistines), but I can't be the only one obsessively finding niche games online like Into the Odd and Forbidden Lands and Frontier Scum and Inevitable and porting them into system-agnostic hex-flowers that could support Dark-Tower-esque realm crawling and West March-ish living worlds that I can never find anyone that wants to play and...
Do I have a problem? Am I out of touch? No, it's the D&D players that are wrong
whow, RPG over Zoom. Didn't know people did that. It was always Discord for us. (WELL, Skype in the way back when times when my back didn't hurt but y'know)
Is the US situation that bad regarding game diversity ?
I am in a very active club, and less than half of the games are D&D and clones (including pathfinder and OSR in D&D and clones), before that I was part of an active online community, and again while D&D was big it wasn't more than half of the game ran.
And if you look at new games starting, due to D&D tendency to be relatively long campaign, it's even hard to find a seat at a D&D game because relatively few games starts compared to other games. (And then there is a couple of indie-game one-shots GM, meaning that there is always a slot open for a less known and often weirder game)
No, actually, but general cultural awareness is really only those two, and maybe iffy on Pathfinder, and given the popularity of Stranger Things, D&D had a lot of mainstream attention, and Pathfinder is arguably a better place to start for newbies interested due to Stranger Things. As far as I understand. I've never actually played either D&D or Pathfinder, but I have been in Vampire the Masquerade and Serenity tabletop groups.
Well, consider that D&D spent almost two decades being the only role playing game in America, and just over a decade being the only role playing game everywhere else it got translated to. It got a massive head start. The only reason Pathfinder got so big is because WotC shot themselves in the foot with 4e by trying to get rid of the OGL and pissing off all their customers
Roll20 stats one year showed primarily 5e, but that's also what it works best with (in my opinion), and I think general sentiment has changed for d&d generally. My group started with 5e, but we haven't really played it much recently. My first group we never did d&d, though started and never finished multiple. So I don't think so, but it's one of the more popularized options.
I'm running a game for a steampunk airship crew in GURPS over Foundry.
Local game shop seems to be about half D&D and related, but I do see a fair number of others represented.
I am in the final countdown of our Brindlewood Bay game that I've been GM for a little over a year. Next up is a Dark Age Mage game for that group.
The other night we are playing a version of Battle Bots with house rules after a couple of years of Shadowrun,, originally on 1st Ed modified, later of homebrew simplifications.
We've also played Ultraviolet Grasslands, The Between, Blades in the Dark, and Dungeon World in the last couple of years, along with several house experiments.
Be the change you want to see. Try to start up something new.
Pathfinder, D&D 5e, Call of Cthulhu, and Vampire: the Masquerade.
The V:tM group is about to implode due to out-of-game drama, and the Call of Cthulhu group went on hiatus a few months ago. The 5e group is a therapy group but has a couple powergamers making everyone miserable. The Pathfinder group is the only sane one, and they've been doing the same campaign for going on three years now.
Paranoia and Mothership
Wildsea and Metro:Otherscape over here.
I miss playing Traveller so much, it's ruined me.
I finished up a Mutants and Masterminds campaign last month, now I run two DnD games weekly, one for my particular party and one open to all comers.
Thank you! You're doing Lliira's work!
Well, the rule at the shop is you need to DM a game open to everyone to get to reserve a spot for your own stuff.
I'm prepping a one-shot with Fangelsehala and a longer campaign with Mothership.
I'm gonna bookmark this. Please let me go how the Mothership Campaign goes. I would live to run something in that system. But it seems like the character die way to fast for ä ling lasting campaign.
I own the tidebreaker extension and if your experience is good I'd love to run it as a campaign setting with my group.
I'll send you an update once it's done. My group rotates GMs and systems but within a few months I'll have them doing Gradient Descent.
Just finished a long campaign using a system loosely based on 5e based on Animorphs that my friend made. Has entirely new classes, races, feats, and abilities.
just never could get into D&D.
currently playing Apocalypse Keys. planning a FATE game, and Outgunned.
I'm wondering if I could adapt storypath ultra to WoD. The turn thing probably won't be in it but all the other things look mighty fine.
I've started running call of cthulhu and I really love it so far
I've been enjoying Numenera for years
Das schwarze Auge, Hexxen, Mothership and Warhammer Fantasy. I do still have a long running DnD Campaign, but I'm hoping on finishing that sometime this or early next year.
I've been doing some Delta Green and it's been great. We're about to close the campaign and I fear for my character's life and or sanity.
A lot of the usual suspects, but when my group of grognards plays we reach back a bit. Tomorrow we're playing Traveler. Last few times we played it was Champions.
I'd like to run an OpenD6 game of I can pull a group together. The last few times I ran it was D6 Star Wars, but I like the system for other genres as well.
Would love to see more Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) or World/Chronicles of Darkness (CoD) love around. I think CoD has one of the best systems out there to play modern and contemporary settings imo. Also, long live Mage (MtA)!
