User:Glm

Opinions pls

Systems we've played

S6S

S6S. The way we've been playing it isn't quite right. Main improvements we'd need to make as far as I see are:

• Remember to award EXP for everything. This will allow eg, warrior skill to be a different number to warrior defence etc
• Encounter design. This will (possibly only) come with practice, the irl-experience to come up with ways for each encounter to have something interesting for a player to do with their wizard skill, their priest defence etc
• Player's system mastery. Again one that can probably-only come with practice but *also* requires the other two points to be present. If a player can think "ooh hey I can use my priest attack for this" even if they are not a priest as their key class, it allows for games with a lot more variety.

Systems to try

D&D

D&D (specifically 5e) is a popular tabletop roleplaying game.

Pros:

• I am personally relatively familiar with the rules
  • As in, I have an idea of what kind of number to assign to a difficulty for a task (sorely lacking from my s6s knowledge)
• Mechanical variety
  • Sorta. It is almost always 1d20+modifiers, but it's more fine-grained than "rogue attack" etc
• probably the ttrpg for which there is the most resources available

Cons:

• irl-expensive to get a book for everyone
  • but a lot of the material is (legally!) available for free
• heavyweight rules

Neutral:

• Dice variety. The core mechanic is almost always 1d20+modifiers, but different weapons etc use different dice.

GURPS

GURPS is the ttrpg to use when you want there to be rules and stats available for any conceivable scenario. No really.

Pros:

• extremely versatile. Rules exist to cover basically any setting.

Cons:

• relatively heavyweight rules
  • Although to get *just* the core stuff isn't too bad

Neutral:

• a bellcurvey 3d6 core mechanic instead of 1d20/1d6/etc

Risus

Risus is an extremely flexible d6 ttrpg

Pros:

• literally any character idea is viable
• can fit into absolutely any universe/setting

Cons:

• might suffer from the same issue of "i use my trait that i use for everything" "ok roll it"
  • Relies on being more interested in the narrative being satisfying than the mechanics being satisfying, or on the same points as for S6S, above.

Wushu Open

Wushu Open is a very players-control-the-narrative game that rewards being cinematic.

Pros:

• all character ideas are viable
• can fit into many universes/settings

Cons:

• all character ideas are exactly equally viable
  • Will require a solid session 0 to allow for party design so that not-everybody chooses the same kind of character

Neutral:

• Player power is much higher in Wushu than in many other ttrpgs.

Microlite 20

Microlite20 is an attempt to make the most lightweight SRD-compatible game possible.

Pros:

• lightweight
• a bit of dice variety

Cons:

• I haven't read it yet lol

Roll for shoes

Roll for shoes is a game where you get better at increasingly-specific things as you try them.

Pros:

• extremely lightweight

Cons:

• means rolling all-new characters/starting over, as it's clearly very progression based

Justice Hobos

Justice Hobos is a drinking game dressed as a ttrpg.

Pros:

• very lightweight ruleset

Cons:

• could get irl-expensive

Neutral:

• very one-shot oriented - you wouldn't run a campaign in Justice Hobos