Does anyone play TTRPGs other than D&D/Pathfinder?

[IsabellaRose]

i play in a 4ok only war game, which when other players are paying attention can go pretty quick, but isnt one for a lack of options, just (with right tools) a quick and fairly smooth flowing one.
When other players pay attention and plan their shit rather then only looking at the board when their turn comes up.

SLA industries had good and fairly clean combat, though a bit clunky in other places.

Got one for game called "the Well" which is a weird one, but seems like could make a good narrative one, but havent been able to play.

liked the idea of the star wars edge of the empire, age of rebellion, force and destiny books, though because of that weird dice system,w hich was part of the appeal to me, nigh impossible to find a game of.

I played some wargames waaay back when my brother's friends got into them. We did some Warhammer, Battletech, and Car Wars. I enjoyed them, but I'm not very tactically minded and the dice never roll in my favor no matter what I'm playing, so I invariably die in all wargames.

I looked up The Well and I LOVE that concept. It looks like it would be a lot of fun.

I've played FFG Star Wars. I love the Edge of the Empire sourcebooks. I get to play a scoundrel and only interact with the empire and rebels peripherally. The funny thing is, I HATED the dice at first. I loathe custom dice, not because I don't want to add funky dice to my collection (I do) but because I had to learn how to interpret new symbols and apparently my brain doesn't like that. I got it finally, but I'm still slower with that system than with something that uses regular dice.

[TheLaughingOne]

Only War is more of a RPG then wargame, you play imperial guardsmen(and women) on campaign going through the thick and on rare occasion, thin of it. Can also play an inquisitor in dark heresy as well. Very different style then mass mini battle and a good RPG if you got a good GM. If i wasnt so burned out on mil-sim stuff (most my TT friends are former military and thats their preference) would enjoy a lot more, but always nice to get together for game.

And yeah, The Well is a cool one, noticed it on kick starter and gave it a shot! rather pleased!

I liked the concept of EotEs dice, as while it takes a bit to look everything over, i like how it gives options for more roleplay and effect on things even if you fail. And will say i dont mind a bit slower combat where you can describe things out or give details for fun rather then "You have 10 seconds to declare your action, roll, and figure if it hit. Go." that some of recent games ive played have gone with..

[Yori]

I liked the concept of EotEs dice, as while it takes a bit to look everything over, i like how it gives options for more roleplay and effect on things even if you fail. And will say i dont mind a bit slower combat where you can describe things out or give details for fun rather then "You have 10 seconds to declare your action, roll, and figure if it hit. Go." that some of recent games ive played have gone with..

I much prefer cinematic combat where I can describe what my character is doing instead of simply calling out a move.

[TheLaughingOne]

I much prefer cinematic combat where I can describe what my character is doing instead of simply calling out a move.

Very much so. EotE you get to choose more depending on what you roll, so while you dont get any hit successes when shooting someone and thus miss, the little secondaries mean you can declare the shot bits their cover and tbrows dust and sparks into their face blinding them for a turn, giving a penalty on next attqck roll, or if you roll more declare the shots close enough they stumble out lf cover, giving next attacker a clear shot without the added protection.

Encourages you to think and plan, while making it sl while you missex, your attack might not have been completely worthless and a waste.

[IsabellaRose]

Very much so. EotE you get to choose more depending on what you roll, so while you dont get any hit successes when shooting someone and thus miss, the little secondaries mean you can declare the shot bits their cover and tbrows dust and sparks into their face blinding them for a turn, giving a penalty on next attqck roll, or if you roll more declare the shots close enough they stumble out lf cover, giving next attacker a clear shot without the added protection.

Encourages you to think and plan, while making it sl while you missex, your attack might not have been completely worthless and a waste.

That's what I LOVE about the FFG dice system. The ability to interpret the dice results, and the variations you get when you have a success AND a threat or a miss AND advantage. I like the way it promotes cinematic results over just hit/miss. Sure, people can argue that you can describe your D&D misses cinematically, but mechanically they're still just hits and misses. The threat/advantage dice give mechanical relevance to the cinematic aspects.

[TheLaughingOne]

Exactly;3

[IsabellaRose]

Right now I'm playing a game called Best Friends, which is rules (very) light and designed for you to play a group of girlfriends.

The cool thing about it is the way the stats are derived. You have 5 stats: cool, tough, pretty, smart, and rich. You hate 1 of your friends for being smarter than you, 1 for being tougher, etc. for each of the stats. To get your stats, you add up how many of the other characters hate you for a thing, and that's your stat. Stats range from 0-3, with 0 being poor, 1 being average, 2 being great, and 3 being exceptional. It's kind of cool to let the others decide what your character is like. The system is basically "high stat wins" with a metacurrency where you can "push" to beat someone with a higher stat than you.

My character is the smart one who is totally uncool. We're on a high school reunion cruise in the Caribbean (didn't sound plausible to me, but a friend swears that her high school reunion was on a cruise, must be  Florida thing) and get left behind on a Caribbean island and run into trouble. We're not sure what yet, but the ideas we tossed out were political uprising, natural disaster, human traffickers, military coup, and weird supernatural stuff at the temple ruins... so something bad is going to happen and we'll have to try to survive it. If I know our GM well, I bet it's going to be more than one of those things.

[Vekseid]

I still haven't got a FitD game to the table. I conceptually LOVE Scum & Villainy and can't wait to play it. It just looks so much fun.

I've been in two and run one to completion. It is an utter blast.

[IsabellaRose]

I've been in two and run one to completion. It is an utter blast.

Ever tried running it on a play by post site like this? Just curious if it's adaptable. I find a lot of TTRPGs don't translate well to pbp.

[Pink Duct Tape]

Well lets see.

My regular group meets on Discord every Sunday at 5pm Eastern and we play over Foundry. We are currently in the middle of a P2 campaign.

Buuuut.

We have access to Vampire the Masquerade Revised, V20, and 5th edition. Kindred of the East, Mage 20, Old school Hunter the Reckoning, & Demon the Fallen. I've also got some of that nWoD stuff too.

In addition to that World of Darkness stuff, there is Revised edition d20 Star Wars as well as West End Games version. Some Warhammer 40K is in there. Got the Alien game. Got Conan, GI Joe, Mutants & Masterminds, a couple Numenara books, the Dishonored book, Serenity (the original one), Battlestar Galactica using the same system, that newish game based on that sweet sci-fi tv show, I think, the Expanse?

Uh... Got the whole d20 Modern collection, the Sword & Sorcery / 3.0 books, including the ridiculously hard to find / valuable Ravenloft setting, the Witcher books, a few Deadlands books, most all the 5th or 6th ed Shadowrun books, almost all of the 1e Starfinder stuff, most everything 3/3.5 Forgotten Realms, anything Drow I could get my hands on, and Cyberpunk Red. I also just picked up that Marvel 616 book that was released. I've got to have 500 or so minis and 75-100 map packs.

I haven't got to play most of it, lol. But I totally would.

I'm really into CP Red. My newest character concept is Stephanie Ford, AKA "Dirty Dutch" a Militech lobbiest Corpo, a face, and an Edgerunner who uses the jobs as an opportunity to test, display, and market new Militech toys. I've even found an appropriate look:

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[Madam Striga]

I mostly play solo these days, particularly journalling games which are based on responding to prompts and constructing a story as you go. They have varying degrees of crunch through management of resources.

[IsabellaRose]

In addition to that World of Darkness stuff, there is Revised edition d20 Star Wars as well as West End Games version. Some Warhammer 40K is in there. Got the Alien game. Got Conan, GI Joe, Mutants & Masterminds, a couple Numenara books, the Dishonored book, Serenity (the original one), Battlestar Galactica using the same system, that newish game based on that sweet sci-fi tv show, I think, the Expanse?

Uh... Got the whole d20 Modern collection, the Sword & Sorcery / 3.0 books, including the ridiculously hard to find / valuable Ravenloft setting, the Witcher books, a few Deadlands books, most all the 5th or 6th ed Shadowrun books, almost all of the 1e Starfinder stuff, most everything 3/3.5 Forgotten Realms, anything Drow I could get my hands on, and Cyberpunk Red. I also just picked up that Marvel 616 book that was released. I've got to have 500 or so minis and 75-100 map packs.

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Wow! That's an impressive collection!
Hopefully you get to play more of them, and try out that new character!

[IsabellaRose]

I mostly play solo these days, particularly journalling games which are based on responding to prompts and constructing a story as you go. They have varying degrees of crunch through management of resources.

I have really been loving solo journaling games. Itch.io should just be my homepage when I open my browser.

I've played through The Beast, Fetch, Thousand Year Old Vampire, and The Magical Year of A Teenage Witch. I'm about to start Her Odyssey and I have Notorious queued up next, but I might switch those around. I still haven't played Ironsworn but I made a starter setting and character for it.

Which solo games have been your favorites?

[Madam Striga]

I have really been loving solo journaling games. Itch.io should just be my homepage when I open my browser.
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Which solo games have been your favorites?

I relate to this so much that it isn't even funny at this point. I've picked up a bunch of different games in bundles on itch.io but my favourite games so far are Thousand Year Old Vampire and Apothecaria.

I've tried the Broken Casket but I couldn't get into the flow with that one as much as I wanted to.

[IsabellaRose]

I relate to this so much that it isn't even funny at this point. I've picked up a bunch of different games in bundles on itch.io but my favourite games so far are Thousand Year Old Vampire and Apothecaria.

I've tried the Broken Casket but I couldn't get into the flow with that one as much as I wanted to.

How did you like Thousand Year Old Vampire? I really got into it, and probably wrote way too much for it. I just bought Apothecaria, can't wait to try it!

[CaptainErotica]

I play Savage Worlds, mainly using the Deadlands setting. The system is very easy to learn and quite fun. It’s also highly adaptable for any genre. Deadlands is supernatural Wild West, but I’ve played everything from Firefly to Zombie Apocalypse to East Texas University (Buffy mixed with Scooby Doo and Cthulhu in college. There is even a setting for Supers and they recently did a version for RIFTS and Pathfinder.

[Pink Duct Tape]

I got my hands on the Marvel Multi-verse RPG book and I've been looking to test it out.

[DeformedCatholic]

I got my hands on the Marvel Multi-verse RPG book and I've been looking to test it out.

I’ve heard a couple of actual-plays playing that and it sounds like a lot of fun and actually a kind of unique system. 

I own a few non-fantasy RPG books that I’ve been wanting to get a group to play consistently, like Blades in the Dark and Minster of the week. I’m super interested in the new group playbooks in the new MOTW expansion. 

[Pink Duct Tape]

Thankfully our P2 game is wrapping up soon and we will be moving onto Fallout 2d20. After playing around with Pathfinder 2, here is my assessment. I actively dislike it. I get that they had to rename a bunch of stuff and find new ways to do things in order to avoid the D&D copywrite. But no. It isn't very good at all.

[DeformedCatholic]

Thankfully our P2 game is wrapping up soon and we will be moving onto Fallout 2d20. After playing around with Pathfinder 2, here is my assessment. I actively dislike it. I get that they had to rename a bunch of stuff and find new ways to do things in order to avoid the D&D copywrite. But no. It isn't very good at all.

I'm interested in why you say that about P2? I haven't played it myself yet, but in listening to actual plays and people discuss the system there's a lot about it I find intriguing.  The only flaw that I see is it falls into a similar issue that P1 had where if you want to do something interesting in combat - say, disarm for example - and you haven't spent the requisite skill feats to get good at that, any attempt to do that particular maneuver is pretty much impossible to the point of being useless.  Other than that, there's a lot of things I dig - the three action economy, ways they've streamlined things like spells, critical successes/failures.  

But I'd love to hear your take on it.  

[castleoflight]

Fateless Legacies is a new system being developed and rolled out right now. There's a discord full of playtesters, some of whom stream their campaigns on twitch. 

I find that combat isn't quite as slow because of the way actions are arranged. There's no penalty for Nat 1's. It's much more geared towards narration and story telling than combat. Also, while there's the option for pre-set legacies, the big draw is you aren't stuck in a specific class. You choose what powers or abilities fit your character instead of, for example, shoe horning them into having all the traits of a bard and thus being bad at wielding a hammer. Maybe you have a retired soldier who picked up the lute but can still kick butt in battle if need be. You can arrange it like that. Maybe your brutish and dumb gal grew up on a farm so she knows the land and can connect with animals, even if socially she sucks with humans. Go ahead and pick some spells that would help a farmer and allot some points so she knows them if you like. It's very freeing and much more genuine this way.

I also find the races very fun! There are no humans so everyone is something cool and you can also choose traits within that race/species that fit you. It's very lore rich, but I've played it both in a dark dystopian setting and a magic university, so it's not limited to one style. I know the website is up and they've been tabling at events, so look into it!