• Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

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    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.

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    I just started a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians for a bunch of 13-16 year olds.

    … Wait, officer, just let me explain…

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    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.

  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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    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)

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      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

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      is that any good now? Know it’s probably changed a lot since the initial latest was released but that initial release looked…. Bad.

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    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.