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 âD&D isnât the only TTRPG if you donât want fantasy play another goddamn game!â
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 âHey I want to run a D&D campaign and throw out all the D&Disms and hereâs all the notes I have for running a campaign about courtly romance and chivalry in a historical settingâ and Iâm just like STOP YOU DONâT NEED TO RUN THIS USING D&D
Thereâs a sort of a mistaken assumption that because D&D is the biggest game on the market and that itâs fantasy that it should be the go-to fantasy game but look itâs not D&D isnât a generic fantasy game itâs 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 youâre 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 youâre trying to do
And this is not to say that you shouldnât play D&D: D&D is hella fun. But thereâs a lot of genres and styles that D&D does a piss-poor job of doing, and because of that itâs so good weâve got other games
*cracks knuckles*
All right then. Iâve been meaning to dust off my own D&D sideblog for a while, so here we go with providing some examples. Iâm 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 shouldnât 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 oneâs 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 Iâm going to emphasise Europe here simply due to greater familiarity with games in that millieu, and as a European myself Iâm 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.
Itâs 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 Sorcererâs 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 âMythic Europeâ 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
This is so funny because thereâs a phrase in Middle Egyptian commonly translated as âforever and everâ or âforever and for all eternityâ. The Mummy is the best thanks for your attention
Reblogging for that rare case of a female character âWell actually-ingâ and being badass while doing soÂ
We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but donât know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company whoâs workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if itâs not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say âthatâs great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workersâ whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
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why do i keep getting ads telling me to join the US secret service
does the algorithm not know iâm pro-assassination here
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