The TRUTH about playing RPGs besides D&D 

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"A fantasy world without pizza is no fantasy of mine," got an immediate like from me.

'You don't need to have mastered a system to play it' - 100% this. Generations of teens and preteens have started D&D games without understanding the first thing about the rules. As long as you are willing to roll with it, you can have a good time.

My core group (3.5 years strong) plays in what we refer to as "adventures". These adventures are understood to last between 10 to 20 sessions. After 10 sessions we begin to pay attention to the the goings on the story and look for an appropriate place to have an ending. When the end comes we discuss epilogues etc. Then the GM steps down and another player of the group steps up with the system of their choice and GMs the next adventure. In the last 3.5 years we have played roughly 9 adventures over 6 different systems. Its fun, I recommend it.

In my game, our local tavern owner invented a "Flat Food" where she bakes a thin disc of bread and puts spices and meats and cheese and sauces on it. Yes, she literally "invented" pizza, because I agree - "A fantasy world without pizza is no fantasy of mine."

One-Shots to try new systems could be a good way to get a game in when one of the regular game players can't make it.

I did try running Shadowdark for one session. All of my players voted to switch to Shadowdark from 5E immediately. I was quite happy with the result

WOTC: "Nope, Pizza only! Please don't go to Critical Role's House of Dining or get Tales of the Valiant's Take-Out!"

My Tortle Monk is from the Order of Za, his mission in life is to spread the knowledge of Za throughout the realm. He carries a scratch recipe for Za with him, always, and will ask every tavern owner to make it and copy the recipe if they like it. Cowabunga, dudes.

got a friend to play MÖRK BORG for the first time last weekend. They had 1hp and burned to death just before the end of the session. Great times were had.

I've managed to convince my players to try a couple fantasy systems like PF2 and Starfinder, and my cousin seems to only play obscure non D&D TTRPGs. There are so many reasons to try new games, especially right now!

My players won't switch because they're allergic to new things and change. Regardless of how "easy" the switch may be in reality, it's new which makes it scary. Coincidentally I'm also looking for a new group. It's not going well

My group tries new games as one-shots or mini-campaigns all the time. Most often when I need a break to prep the next session, or I just want to play instead of run. It totally reinvigorates me and the other players.

I got into the hobby during a time (late 2nd edition - Late 90's) where enjoying D&D was akin to loving Vanilla ice cream. I still played a lot of D&D 3.0 back in the day, but most people were way more into Vampire the masquerade and / or GURPS.

Bob... you already made me question my love of Fogotten Realms. I got Star Wars Edge of Empire... Im loving the campaign I've started to create, and the Dice are fun.

i've been playing TTRPG since 1982, and even wrote some in french since 2008. I played almost all D&D editions (Basic D&D, Expert D&D, AD&D1 & 2, D&D3, D&D3.5,Dnd5...) but somehow, somewhere, i always ended up playing or gming something else. I enjoy gming one of two D&D campaigns, before moving away to another game, or several other games, for a few years. There are so many specific mechanics tied to D&D no matter the edition (for example : combat is based on attrition and the game revolves around lots of random encounters, or dungeon skirmishes), i can enjoy them when i feel like playing like that, and i can discard my D&D books for years because i'm in need of something else. It's a lot like eating out : you can be a regular pizza guy and still enjoy months of sushi or tacos, before going back to your favourite pizza, or the new thing from your favorite pizza guys. It's not, it's never "versus", it's just trying to see how different things taste, so you can enjoy switching back and forth from the system you and friends like the most (big surprise : it might not even be the system you began playing with, and this has nothing to do with this system being or not being the current D&D iteration or whatever).

My group tries out other systems any time one of our players has to miss a session. It has worked out really well for us.

The hardest part about trying new gaming systems is inertia within the gaming community. Lots of people just aren't interested in trying new things, and that's been the case for the 45 yeas I've been doing TTRPG's. Well...maybe in the 80's it wasn't quite so bad because at that point, even D&D was kind of new. I can remember playing tons of new games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Middle Earth Role Playing System, GURPs, the systems for Marvel and DC super heroes (as well as the generic Hero system for superhero games), and a bunch of others. But, by the mid-90's, it was a lot harder to find people interested in playing things other than AD&D 2e (though I seem to remember Vampire the Masquerade getting popular in my area then). This stayed the same into the 2000's and early 2010's. But, I think now is actually a lot better. I've seen tons of different games come and go over the years, largely because of the difficulty in finding play groups. But, with things like Roll20 being around, it makes it easier to find people to play with even for the more niche game systems. This doesn't do away with the inertia that I mentioned above, but it does make it easier to find people to play a game if your own play group isn't interested in something new.

Honestly, I prefer trying systems and settings that are very unlike D&D. I enjoy how very different they are from the classic "d20, roll high, str, dex, con, int, wis, cha" of so many D&D derivatives. - Heavy Gear RPG (1+d6, roll high, wounds give cumulative penalties) - Fate (4dfate, roll high, aspects instead of stats, has fate points to encourage interesting-but-non-optimal choices) - White Wolf (multiple d10s, roll high, success determined by how many dice roll above the target amount) - 7th Sea 1e (1+d10, roll high, 10s explode, drama dice let you be A SWASHBUCKLING GOD) - Firefly (2 dice but which particular ones depend on your stats, roll high, fate points allow you more dice) So many cool, interesting mechanics that look nothing like D&D but are nonetheless super-fun to experiment with.

Our group is ending a looong 5e campaign in our next session. Then I am doing a Savage Worlds Summer One Shot Fest. Our highschool RPG group will meet weekly, 14+ teens and growing, at the local game store. Then our adult group will continue the same biweekly sessions, but using various one shots. Players past that can't commit to a long term campaign are welcome to join in the fun or new players that need a group. Then in the fall we will pick our favorite setting and play till next summer.

I played D&D and had dominoes pizza just last night… But then there are days when we get a local New York style pizza and run Blades in the Dark.

Fantastic video, man. Pizza is also my favorite food (lol) and I was just flipping through my own PHB. The wave of nostalgia was so intense and emotional. Looking forward to (hopefully) having a chance to meet and roll bones this fall!

I love that you're throwing so much love to other systems. The truth is that WotC is going to be a problem for a long time and we need to make sure we don't let the small competition die out, because then WotC can do whatever they want.

The three questions do work for DnD-like/OSR games but it's really not that easy for anything outside that. Blades in the Dark for example is a very simple game but it has so many "stages" of things like actions and types of scenes that it does require a bit of a learning curve for someone not used to this type of game, on the other hand these same numerous "stages" easily allow for a GM to come to session with LITERALLY 0 PREP and I've GMed it recently and was blown away on how naturally running a game with no prep at all was.

We have a 5e Campaign, but we are running a Fallout 2d20 campaign and a Pathfinder 2e campaign. We just meet every other Friday for those ones and every Wednesday is the normal D&D game. I'd say I like Modiphius's 2d20 system, it is FAR more varied and less swingy than D&D, for your example. it is 2D20 Roll: Low Stats: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L.) oh and the Group Pool of Action Points. Best part is the level of Collaborative Story telling, if you Crit Fail you describe the disadvantage NOT the DM, or you can not and the Monsters( Mutants, Raiders, etc) get an Action Point in their pool. I've been playing D&D some 30 years and I find this system refreshing and new.

If only people were used to talk online with your register, open mindedness and kindness, online RPG communities would be magical places.

Never thought I'd see myself back in a video, but it's really cool that it happened! I'm glad to hear you think my reason is a good one :) Thank you for all the content Bob

Our group did convert our ongoing game to pathfinder, not because of the OGL but because we're kind of done with 5e jank, especially after we hit lvl 13. We have also played Shadowrun and Call of Cthulhu, which are both good fun for nearly entirely opposite reasons. We have been wanting to try some other systems too, I'm still a bit iffy on whether DCC would be a good fit for this group but seeing some of the things on this channel has made me heavily consider trying it at least once. Overall, I think there's just too much worth exploring to limit yourself to one system even if it was perfect for what it was trying to achieve, there are simply other types of experiences that the one game could never begin to grasp.

Definitely dig the video. Honestly, my biggest hurdle is just finding a consistent group, or even a group willing to *start*. I've played probably fewer than 20 sessions so far, and I'd like to take a stab at DM'ing a campaign, but it's shocking hard to meet folks who want to give it a shot.

We did this exact thing tonight with DCC and it was great

'Harness the fun of other RPGs' is my personal class, alignment, and religion!

Also, outside of the fantasy realm a shout out for Alien RPG which is very easy to learn and you can teach it as you go while playing. Plus the setting is just so rich and dripping with atmosphere. Very few actual mechanics to learn just like the ones mentioned.

We switch from 5e to 3.5 and Star Wars. We enjoy the changes

This is a great video! I like a lot of your videos Bob...maybe its how relaxed and calm you are with everything and how you don't lose the sense of logic within, at times, an emotional issue with how people view how to handle being screwed over. My group and I are deep within a PF2e homebrew campaign of mine, but we have elected for one of my players to GM a PF2e within the world of Golorian at the end of the month, and we've also chosen to play other systems once in awhile just to not rush everything and try new things. I've played a lot of other RPGs, but not everyone at my table has and they want to try things out...doing one shots within those other RPGs is a good way to introduce it. So this is a perfect video for people to see!

I think the best thing about new RPGs is a new genre. I am two sessions into a Super Hero campaign, session 3 this weekend. There is so much more out there than just Fantasy RPGs.

It amazes me that 5e has been around long enough for someone to feel nostalgic about it. I'm so old.

What a fantastic video Bob. I run games for my family of five - including me - and finding time is hard, but I homebrew so much from so many different systems. You captured this idea perfectly. Whatever makes the adventure the best it can be for you and your players - that’s the key!

I just converted my ongoing campaign from Pizz! I mean D&D to Pf2e and it didn't really cause many issues. Just learning rules as we go, but that's about it

I ordered cairn because of your other video. I've wanted to GM for a while now, but the complexity of 5e was holding me back from trying. I ordered the soft booklet cause I prefer reading actual paper than pdf files, and I love the anticipation of waiting and joy of when things like this arrive. Expecting it through the letterbox any day now and I'm incredibly excited! Thanks so much

To combat "Forever DM" and system fatigue, my group years ago rotated GMs, which led to multiple campaigns through various systems. WEG Star Wars, Shadowrun, Hero, or whatever system the GM would use. We would play that campaign for a full story arc, usually 3 -4 sessions, and then rotate to the next GM. That gave everyone a chance to play different systems, and it gave the GMs who normally ran exclusively to play. It also gave not forever GMs a chance to run, and get some sessions under their belt.

Bob I appreciate how you speak about anything. Respectful

I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but your video about Cairn made me seriously consider trying out a non-D&D traditional fantasy rpg for the first time. And not just consider, but feel EXCITED about! I've played a handful of other game systems targeting wildly different game genres (Call of Cthulhu, Mistborn RPG, Doctor Who RPG, Alien the RPG, I even got to playtest an obscure indy game called Summon Skate.), and I love all of those for their unique niches. To me, D&D is THE traditional fantasy RPG. I've tried Pathfinder & didn't like it. I started with 4e and did like it. But if I want something other than traditional fantasy, I'm likely to look towards a completely different system.

Got your dice and LOVE THEM! Thanks for all you do, and KEEP BUILDING!

😂 you totally got me on your side with the pizza argument! Oh boy...Bob you have to come to Italy some day! 😊 Anyway, on the ttrpg subject, I always homebrew the 5e rules with cool stuff from other games. In the current campaign, we are using 5 torches deep classes, DCC magic and warriors deeds, along with variable proficiency with 1d4 dice and hero points. And it's a very good "pizza" 😊

These types of vídeos are always interesting to me, because DnD was the "new system I wanted to try" for many years. I started playing RPGs with GURPS and Tormenta, so getting into other stuff (like my favourite, Savage Worlds) was relatively painless. Also, my current group of ~4 years goes with whatever bullshit I throw at them. 😅

Yes! Been thinking about this a lot lately... But something that comes up with many folks I know and see is they only game once, or MAYBE twice a month, and if that's their only chance they go for the "pizza". They're not willing to gamble those precious few gaming meets.

I have enjoyed creating one shots to try new games. It’s how I’ve got to run EZd6, ShadowDark, and (soon) Numenera. It’s also how I got to play Dungeon World.

I too love Pizza! Lately it feels like I've been trying different kinds of Pizza myself =P Thanks for the shoutout, and keep up the fun and positive content, I love it!

YES to all of this. Splendid Metaphor, fantastic video and message. Thanks Bob! As Argyle said to Mike when he was hesitant to try a slice of pineapple pizza that Argyle brought over, "You must try before you deny" so get out there and eat different pizza 🍕, try it with different toppings! Variety is the spice of life! Speaking of…I’ve been diving into DCC more and more and I’m loving it. Also SUPER excited for Shadowdark which I kicked. I read some of the digital assets they made available and it’s going to be so fun to run and play.

Never really felt that much of a desire to play another system until just recently when I discovered call of catthulhu. It’s a ttrpg with the same eldritch themes as call of Cthulhu but you play as cats instead. All my players and I love cats, so I’m now teaching myself the system so that hopefully we can play it some time

In an analogous manner: I take frozen store pizza and customize it. Scrambled eggs (with habanjero sauce mixed in, duh), extra bell peppers especially the sweeter yellow and orange ones a bit pre-grilled, anchovies from the jar if we have some for 1/4 of the pizza, some shredded 5-cheese over top to keep it all together. Or really whatever is in the fridge. As long as it isn't too much work because I hate spending time on meal prep. It's great. Drawdown aging inventory. Add to the sparse corpo offerrings. Adds flavor.

Fantastic analogy, you'll never know what your favorite foods are if you don't try them first!

4:20 I'm currently trying to understand how PbtA works, and it's quite obscure, and the one thing everyone agrees on (my experience confirms it; it was fun to just hang out with interesting people, - can't say the same about my experience with Pathfinder, but it's off-topic, - but the game itself just didn't work) is that it will suck if you run/play it wrong. I guess it's kinda unick for this engine (it has a reputation for being pretty restrictive), but it makes me to question this argument a bit.

Great work, Bob. You're ageing like fine wine. God bless!

Well In europe we don't seem to have the same difficulties to switch games. Of course we play D&D, but we also play a lot of différent things. I have been a GM for 26 years, I own sixty different RPG from Fantasy, Swashbucling adventure, Sword & Sorcery, to pulp, Sci-fi and horror. We play every week and over all these years, I gmed fifteen different games. In fact we rarely play the same game twice in a row. I gmed six D&D campaign along the years. We are actually in our 47th session of D&D5 Ravenloft, with one group and a mini campaign of Advanced Fighting Fantasy with another group. We planned to play Mutant Year Zero and a Savage Worlds campaign after those two. Amongst all the game I own, D&D5 is probably the most crunchy/heavy system, so learn something else is easy. D&D is cool, but not in my top five favorite rpg and never will. And by the Way playing a fanstasy RPG with class and level (DCC, PF2, Castle & Crusade, ...) is still eating a pizza (you could argue about different mechanics such as Dungeon World for exemple). People could try Savage Worlds, Year Zero Engine,, FATE, Everywhen, Vortex, PBTA, Ubiquity, 2D20, Storyteller system, Call of Cthulhu,... and so many more.

There is something to be said about being focused on a campaign. I played with another guy, who would try a new system each week and we were never able to get anything done.

As a player i enjoy crunchy games like Pathfinder because i have only my character to worry about As a GM i prefer to run game systems like Cypher because it just clears up soo much bookkeeping

Solid, solid video and take. Cyberpunk GM here, and when I have people come over from D&D, they always are surprised that after that first step it's easier than they expected. For example, people always are surprised how fast combat can be in Cyberpunk Red and it's not as deadly as people try to push it to be. Folks do build those misconceptions and don't see through them until they give it a try. And I get it, I was a 5e DM for 4 years nonstop and felt 5e was the only game that ever needed to exist.

Exactly right. 5e,4e,OSE, DCC--it all comes down to you roll high on a d20. Great video. Only now I want pizza.

I did a quick mental tally, and the number of different TTRPG systems I've played is 50+. Part of the enjoyment for me is seeing how different rule systems help tell different kinds of stories. I do sometimes wish I could have more time to play my favorites, but I never tire of trying something new.

So far my favorite non d&d fantasy rpg has been Mazes and Minotaurs, which is half ttrpg, half alternate history fiction, where the game itself is from an alternate timeline where the biggest fantasy rpg was based on Homer and Jason instead of Tolkien and Conan. So not only is it a full rpg based on greek mythology, with a phb, gm guide, and mm, but it's also full of these "author's notes" full of the fictional history of the development of this game in the 70s and 80s, even though the game was made in the 2000s. Those are a lot of fun to read, and the system itself feels really cool and gives you the same fantasy gameplay but with an ancient greek vibe.

This reminds me of the “you know what, I love D&D too” in the Matt Colville video where he announced the new MCDM TTRPG system. Very nice to have some people saying “it’s okay to still play D&D” so newer players don’t avoid the hobby.

As a creator and GM, you hit all of the fine points Bob! If there are still stories left to be told in your rpg, just keep playing. Especially if you are having fun.

Thanks for bringing up ICRPG, Shadowdark, and Knave. We've had a lot of fun playing different genres with the first and I'm stoked to run or play something with the other two.

I played WHFB 2nd edition first, Ran a few games of it, Moved over to Wrath and Glory, Ran a game of it, then Tried Pathfinder 2nd Edition before running my first game of D & D 5e and I have found it to be the best one for my group.

I play now for over 25 years and have characters for so many systems. My first was DSA 3 (I am German > The black eye) DSA4 and now DSA5, DnD5, ADnD second, Shadowrun 3 and now 6, Many GURPS Settings (Have a discworld rulebook for GURPS), Call of Cthulhu, Vampire, Changeling and other white wolf stuff, Chill, Deadlands, PPnP, Warhammer 40 000 and Fantasy, Earthdawn and and and :)

I’m not a big fan of 5e but can appreciate aspects of it. And as such I didn’t watch much of your older content. But seeing you get into the OSR sphere has been a pleasure, I feel like I’m discovering it for myself all over again. I really hope you get into Ultraviolet Grasslands. It’s easily the most fun I’ve ever had playing a ttrpg in 25+years.

Hey Bob, the timing on this video is perfect! Literally last weekend, one of my D&D players decided he wanted to run Hit Point Press's "SHIFT" RPG, which is currently in beta and looking for feedback. We've started their published one-shot adventure, and we're going to finish it on Saturday. It's been a whole lot of fun, and we might end up playing it more once it's properly published. It's always good to have a try of something new every now and then!

Regarding pizza: If there was only one food I could eat, pizza would be high on the list of candidates. It's essentially an open faced sandwich with cheese, and therefore gives me a lot of variety in my diet, and options for my tastes. If you're going to have to suffer with "just one thing", picking something that offers you the greatest variety within that one choice is smart.

I played in a 3-shot Vampire The Masquerade game at an event. I think the best thing compared to DnD 5e was at it was variety and a different setting to the usual high-fantasy dnd games. Overall my experience with other systems than 5e is that if you and your group already knows 5e, you can get pretty far with just a rules-tweak and a change in setting, while the core of the game is still 5th edition dnd

Yup! My group is in the middle of what will probably be another 4 year campaign. But we occasionally do a one shot, or 2-3 session game here or there in a different system with a different DM. I've been running an occasional horror game using Shiver, and we're going to be trying Pirate Borg soon. I also backed Shadowdark. It's fun to try different genres and not agonize over building a character because you can just try something, even if it's not your usual character preference.

I would recommend "You awaken in a strange place" for a really basic starting place for someone who's never played a ttrpg

I've been playing TTRPGs for 30+ years now, and I've always thought it was weird when people said they only played one kind of game. Then again, I also thought it was weird when I met a dude who said he only listened to classical music. Anyway, glad you're out there helping give folks a little nudge to try new games.

For my sunday game, we started a Pulp Call of Cthulhu in parallel with your 5e game.(1 week D&D, 1 week CoC) I GM the CoC, because it's one my favorite system (and run like 3 or 4 one shot for that group and all love it). Plus it help the GM 5e to have some time off. Also, one of my players said that he found CoC more easy to learn for the simple reason it's skill based and are simple. If you want to shot someone, roll firearm and that all.

This is pretty much it! A simple one-shot of a fun little game is all it takes! The one night that changed my ttrpg trajectory was playing one game of Turbo Breakers what feels like must’ve been 7 years ago. I still played lots of 5e after that but I only stopped playing the game started frustrating me. You’ll takeaway so much amazing ideas and knowledge from trying a new game that will just greatly improve your 5e game! And it’ll be a fun night with friends, what’s not to love?

I loved your video and just yesterday Kelly from Dungeon Dudes came pretty much to the same conclusion about D&D v Pathfinder: it's like Coke v Pepsi. They taste different, but are cola-flavored sodas at the end of the day. Professor Dungeon Master also talked about the concept of "it's all D&D" some time ago. I'd like to add that I can see 2 other big misconceptions about trying new systems: 1. You have to migrate. It's seems like you have abandon your preview system in order to play another one, as if you could only ever play one system for a couple years. Which as you very well explained with pizza, makes no sense at all. 2. It all boils down to medieval fantasy. Discussions like "Star Wars is just a bunch of Monks in space", "How to make Wolverine or Batman in D&D?", "Is Mando a Ranger?" are commonplace in the community. And as though it may be fun to discuss this, it shows that a major part of the community can't even grasp the idea that RPGs offer a LOT more than just D&D-like fantasy games. I mean, it really surprises me that in a hobby that demands so much imagination, there's only a few people that really wanna explore themes like Cyberpunk, Space Opera, Super Heroes, Horror, Investigation/Noir, Time Travel, Pulp Stories, etc.... there's so much to explore that it feels like a missed opportunity to be forever stuck in medieval d20 level/class-based systems. Cheers!

I loved the dead pan at the beginning Bob! You’re branching out, great job!

With you, Bob, even becoming vegan couldn't diminish my love of pizza.

I've been playing multiple game since the early days of D&D, even those with very different systems. D&D, Gamma World, Boot Hill, Star Wars RPG, Car Wars, Traveller, Star Frontiers, the list goes on. For me and many of my players, swapping out with something different is nothing new and always a blast. Excellent video!

Played 4e once. Fun game but not a TTRPG for me. Never played 5e. Our campaign is 30+ years old. We are locked into our 3.5e game as we have SO MANY weird amalgam characters. Thoroughly would support any new system, if we had the time.

I've run many different games and systems and I often find that sometimes it can take a few sessions for a new system to really "gel" with a group. Not always. But usually. So many times one session is not enough to really get into a new game! And oh, in my Dolmenwood campaign I have Tom Puck's Pizzeria run by the elven mafia who secretly controls the town.

Discovering your channel... Man, your so good. A natural (20!)

Listen to Bob! That is good advice. I have been playing some many RPG in the 90's at cons because there was not many that would play D&D (or AD&D). Why? It was old stuff. So I got to play a lot of other systems and sometimes RPG's without a system. You young guys deserve to get to know to have fun with other systems as us old guys did. Kudos Bob! Carry on. ^^

Now I want pizza... damn you, Bob World Builer! ... but I still have no urge to play DnD.

Great video! Thanks Bob. I admit most all of the things mention here I subscribed to. I haven't changed from 5e this whole time and was totally anxious about ever changing. But. Much to your final point/story of your forst game. We only use 5e books for classes level up features. We make up so much of our own stuff. We use a free tool, have access to everything for no cost. So there's very little incentive to change when 5e works just fine for us.

Perfectly put together, Bob. I love trying out other RPGs.

One-shots as a way of trying new systems is my personal favorite way to do so. We tried Call of Cthulhu (me as DM) during our 2 year campaign (still going strong) and after that one of my players cam forth and because they wanted to try to DM a Shadowrun one-shot, so I got to play to. Next was a Deadlands one-shot I made (only recently) and the Pathfinder 2e one-shot (one of my players as the DM) is alreay in the planning while I got Cyberpunk:Red ready and loaded for the one after Pathfinder. Having one-shots of different systems inbetween is a super relaxing alteration from your normal game that hugely helps clearing the mind, trying different characters, classes, etc. and overall also makes people appreciate the D&D campaing more. I can only wholeheartedly recommend trying different systems with your players and as already mentioned in the video, you definetly don't have to know all the rules by heart. Many of the on the spot interpetrations of the very "niche" rules often lead to funny and memorable moments, at least in my experience.

I 100% love the idea of one shots for a new ttrpg. Running a DCC campaign atm but its been stalled because players are busy. but the two left REALLY want to play. So we are doing some MCC till everyone is back.

Loved this video! And also the haircut looks amazing Bob!!

I just noticed your dice roll logo animation at 2:17. Have I just been oblivious all this time or is it new? What a clever frickin logo! :)

I love TTRPGs and for the longest time I only played 5e and Pathfinder, but I really don't like the way magic works in those systems. I'm so glad that my players were willing to try out DCC, Dungeon World, and Troika. I'm actually looking to run Cairn because I love the idea of the fatigue mechanic.

My first game ever was with the red Mentzer box a neighbor kid had in the 80's he didn't have the blue box yet so we basically just made it up after lvl 3. Then a few years later we met another kid whos older brother ran Ad&d. Our rules worked just as good. The little secret that wizards does not want you to know, is you dont need the books, just some friends and dice , paper, pencil, and imagination. Im currently running a 5e game online as well as a hybrid of DCC/OSE IRL.

If you're a DM and need a way to get players to try new games, try this set up: whenever a player misses a session, instead of continuing the campaign, you run a one shot using a brand new system. It'll get your group to try new games (more often than you'd think/like) and additionally half of the excuses won't be valid because you can't carry on the D&D campaign, you're missing a player after all~

I play Dark Heresy 2, Dark Crusade, Imperium Maledictum, Degenesis, pf2 and etc. I basically stopped playing dnd at all

I tied out monster of the week with my D&D group so we had something to play when one of our players couldn't make it to the table. It was a nice alternative to doing one-shots and let us explore new ways of playing TTRPGs,

My experiences switching systems were horrendous, they ruined our experience with the campaign we were playing and no-one felt comfortable with that changes, and we switched from 5e to pathfinder (every single one of us played 3e and 3.5e). I'll never recommend that! Just open another campaign and if you don't have time, when the one that you are playing ends, just start a new one with a new system. Loved your video and all your content!!! (Sorry for the angry message of above hahaha)

Cool video as always ) Yet it was a bit sad to see as it was implied that TTRG basically equals dnd-style-play, whereas there are things like FATE, PbtA, VtM, 2D20 and other great and popular games, that are... a bit more difficult to switch to, then from 5e to PF ))) Though I 100% agree with the main idea )

Thanks for being positive and level headed... though I do miss your lucious locks.

Been playing an Ars Magica 'campaign' where we actually had a grog carry an unleavened bread, soft cheese and salted meat pack (with a couple of bottles of a homemade local brew) in his baggage during a visit to a remote Covenant in Iberia just to break the ice the when visiting the Magi there. Good times.

When I first started playing TTRPGs in college our group(s) played everything under the sun and several people took turns running the game. This included games like Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, Rifts, and of course AD&D. After college I fell in with another group that did the same. (This was the norm as far as I knew) This added games like Star Wars, Fading Sun, Pathfinder, 7th Sea, D&D 3.5 and all things White Wolf to the plethora games and systems I was already familiar with and loved to play. When 4e came out most of us shifted away from D&D completely and Pathfinder 1e is now our go to fantasy game system. We still play other RPGs. The first game I ever played was AD&D. The first game I ever ran was Trinity…because space marines, lost colonies, aberrants and, oh yeah, I was voluntold that I was running after everyone showed up at my place for our weekly game night. Prepped, PCs made with quick-start backstories, and rolling dice in under 20 minutes. What was to be a one shot trial by fire turned into a Star Trek style campaign. Now, with all the new games coming out, I’m looking for a simple game system that I can run at a local game shop as an open table and/or West Marches that isn’t 5e. As of right now, Knave 2, Shadowdark and the original Adventure! are at the top of that list. Grab your ketchup and crunch away my friends.