5e is fine but I also love indie games and creators
Old-School Runescape as a TTRPG sounds interesting
As long as we are capturing the world and not the grind. Could you imagine partying up and your DM narrates chopping yews for 4 hours? Lmao “you failed your one tick check”
Many years ago, our party found itself on a boat going down a river. With nothing better to do, we started fishing, hoping for the plot to continue after a couple of inconsequential dice rolls.
It didn’t. We literally spent hours irl rolling dice to fish because our DM was very clearly not interested in running an actual game that day.
We soon started playing without him, bit I think that is the closest I ever got to OSR the ttrpg.
Pictured: Me, getting excited for DC20, even though I know I’ll never get to play it
- OSR = Old School Revival
- PbtA = Powered by the Apocalypse
- FitD = Forged in the Dark
I only know the middle one! I’ll check the rest out!
Forged in the dark are games that use blades in the dark which is a powered by the apocalypse game, so you’ll pick them up quickly. Blades is an amazing game so I’d absolutely recommend this.
OSR games are definitely for a specific taste, they try to capture the early TTRPG era dungeon crawl tone over the very narrative forward modern TTRPG, which personally is the opposite direction from where my tastes have trended from 5e.
Oh, I’m even harder to pull. I know I’ve had a couple friends try to jump me into other settings this way, but if I can’t convert my legacy Pathfinder characters into the setting you’re trying to get into without having to sand parts off and sacrifice parts of the vision, it’s a lot harder to get me to consider it more than that one time-- which is ironically, a lot of the reason I don’t gel with 5e. Not enough splats for me to run my aged concepts as envisioned without having to make ill-fitting changes, or figure out how to convert a non-core Pathfinder class to 5e.
FitD is my favorite non-crunchy system. I don’t want to call it “rules light” because it isn’t that light. But it is great.
