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Make sure the system you use matches the kind of players you have, for an optimal experience
Admin Note: This is part of the ongoing series called “D&D isn’t the only TTRPG if you don’t want fantasy play another goddamn game!”
I already reblogged this once but this is important:
Like I run a D&D blog. I understand that D&D is the most well-known and popular RPG in the world. But a lot of the time I see people going like “Hey I want to run a D&D campaign and throw out all the D&Disms and here’s all the notes I have for running a campaign about courtly romance and chivalry in a historical setting” and I’m just like STOP YOU DON’T NEED TO RUN THIS USING D&D
There’s a sort of a mistaken assumption that because D&D is the biggest game on the market and that it’s fantasy that it should be the go-to fantasy game but look it’s not D&D isn’t a generic fantasy game it’s a very specific kind of fantasy all of its own, one that steals liberally from swords & sorcery and high fantasy and adds fucking extradimensional cube robots for good measure
So next time you’re thinking about a fantasy campaign in a decidedly non-D&Dish setting consider instead of jamming the square peg that is D&D into a round hole trying to find a system that actually supports what you’re trying to do
And this is not to say that you shouldn’t play D&D: D&D is hella fun. But there’s a lot of genres and styles that D&D does a piss-poor job of doing, and because of that it’s so good we’ve got other games
*cracks knuckles*
All right then. I’ve been meaning to dust off my own D&D sideblog for a while, so here we go with providing some examples. I’m limiting this specifically to other types of fantasy outside of the standard high fantasy and sword & sorcery millieu.
Courtly Romance and Chivalry
There are a number of options for this, and they range from standard secondary world fantasy to more historical and mythological settings. My list here shouldn’t be treated as fully extensive.
Blue Rose - based on the romantic fantasy subgenre, specifically as seen in the works of Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey. A lot of courtly drama and intrigue and swashbuckling, based in a fictional world.
Pendragon - naturally based off of Arthurian mythology, and having a lot of stuff given over to the court of Camelot and the chivalric adventures of the various knights. The same company also has a kickstarter for a spin-off called Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne that might be worth checking out.
Historical Fantasy
This one’s a bit more prominent as historical settings serve as an inspiration for a variety of fantasy worlds and games, and this of course invariably extends to settings that actually use historical settings with a degree of fantasy elements thrown in. Note that I’m going to emphasise Europe here simply due to greater familiarity with games in that millieu, and as a European myself I’m ill-equipped to judge how accurate or respectful games using other settings actually are.
Because of this, feel free to add other examples in reblogs
Chivalry & Sorcery - one of the early tabletop games inspired by D&D, taking a more pseudo-historical approach. It’s based on 12th century France and strives for a degree of historical accuracy and medieval politics.
World of Darkness, Dark Ages (including Vampire and Mage) - while the World of Darkness has earned some negative attention lately (and for good reason), the dark ages RPGs are still an old favourite of mine. Also worth checking out is Mage: The Sorcerer’s Crusade, set during the Renaissance. The Mage stuff has a really cool open-ended magic system worth checking out.
Ars Magica - this exists along very similar lines to the dark age material above, based around mages and magic-users in a ‘Mythic Europe’ setting. It also has a really cool open-ended magic system, and one of my personal favourites.
Awwww shit heck yes I might want to add to this list but this is a really good starting point
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13th Age RPG
A Song of Ice and Fire RPG
AEG (A Legend of the Five Rings)
Anima; Beyond Fantasy
Apocalypse World
Basic Fantasy System
Blades in the Dark
Burn Bryte
Burning Wheel
Call of Cthulhu
Castles & Crusaders
Chroniques Oubliées
City of Mist
Cortex
Cyberpunk 2020
Cypher System
D&D (All Editions)
Das Schwarze Auge
Dragon Age RPG
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Dungeon World
Exalted
FATE System
Fallout
Fantasy AGE
Fiasco
GUMSHOE
GURPS
Gamma World
Hero Games (Champions)
Hackmaster
Hârn
Iron Kingdoms
King Arthur Pendragon
Labyrinth Lord
Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk
Maid RPG
Marvel Heroic RPG
Mouse Guard RPG
Munchkin
Mutants and Masterminds
Open Legend
Palladium Games
Paranoia
Pathfinder
Pokemon Tabletop
Rolemaster
Runequest
Savage Worlds
Shadowrun
Star Trek Adventures
Star Wars
Starfinder
Stars Without Number
Swords and Wizardry
Tavern Tales
The One Ring
The Quiet Year
Tormenta
Traveller RPG
Unisystem
Warhammer
World of Darkness
COMPLETE TABLETOP RPG ARCHIVE
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we just finished after four hours of storm king's thunder wherin they advanced to level five and did a bunch of memeing
been dming for my irl sib and their friends all night and like... I love this sm
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I lost like four followers for this post but I also gained this really nice note so thank you
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I lost like four followers for this post but I also gained this really nice note so thank you
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hi i’m doing some very important scientific research, if you’re lgbtq+ and like d&d please take this survey
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put in the tags whether youre a Homestuck and how many of your characters in campaigns are teiflings out of the total number of characters
cishet ppl need not apply not because I don't like you but because there's no such thing as a cishet Homestuck and that skews it
I javent posted rpg shit in a long time because I keep telling myself to follow rpg tags and then I don't so I dont have any content in the first place