Pathfinder is awesome, haters gonna hate

I'm considering becoming a professional GM, some of the more interesting games I've come across while planning out my game options include Knave, Ironsworn, Twilight 2000, and Dungeons & Kittens

Where Paranoia?

Just to note, "indie company" and "2nd biggest game on the market" aren't mutually exclusive. This isn't a big market, and most of it is D&D.

Daggerheart: "Theatre Kid (derogatory)" lmao

This list is actually hilarious

Damn somebody knows a Pathfinder player they don't like huh

GURPS. The "Overcomplicated" part stems from 4channers deciding an optional rule that the majority of people will never actually encounter in a game means you have to do calculus all the time. The actual majority of the game is roll 3 dice, try to get under the number next to your skill plus modifiers.

Not sure what the clichés about Fate are. I think it's a fun light system.

Also there are dozens of us who prefer vampire: the requiem over masquerade. Dozens! I recently started a game of it. So far they killed 3 CEOs and blew up a data center (in the game).

It's been fun seeing the DND player adapt to "wait I can just do my cool thing as much as I want?". Like he was going to punch a dude and I was like "are you sure you don't want to just Mesmerize him? It's free and more likely to work, given your stats"

I chuckled at a lot of this, but have qualms with a fair few others. Some don't say anything about the player at all, entirely dodging the premise of the meme. For example, Pathfinder "their game is just D&D without commitment" says nothing about the player, it's just a direct critique of the game. Starfinder "just pathfinder in space" also does not comment on the player at all. GURPS sounding like a disease has nothing to do with the player. There's examples like this in most of the games.

No Mork Borg. Too bad.

Shadowrun.

But nobody wants to play with me (we played one campaign of 4E and nobody else in my group liked it, even tho it's the one we end up talking about the most) 😩

hey, Im not japanese! i just like the rules for Call of Cthulhu. makes for good x-files and SCP style campaigns.

Let me add my bundle:
Mausritter, Mothership, BrindlewoodBay, FIST, Kids on Bikes, Breathless, Escape Dinossaur Island, Spire: The City Must Fall, Ironsworn, Fiasco, The Job and all the Mork Borg hacks (Pirateborg, Maizeborg, etc.).

Plus some mentioned here like Paranoia or Cairn.

And yes, I'm learning Paizo's Thirteen Omens.

I might have a problem.

GURPS fan here. yeah, the core game is really not that complicated, it's only once you get into the supplements that- HOW DO YOU KNOW I'M BRAZILIAN

No Stars Without Number?

Here you go, the French flavor: Nephilim

Prophecy

Magna veritas/in nomine satanis

Berlin XVIII (OK I think this one's German)

Mega 3

Polaris

I'm just happy to see Lancer get more attention. I don't really understand why the goblin is apparently transfem coded but I'm happy for those who celebrate anyway

FATE CORE

FATE CORE

FATE CORE

Nobody's mentioned Dungeon Crawl Classics (and variants), which is a shame.

Holy shit this post keeps on giving. Literally smiled at each RPG at least once.

Star Wars 3.5 was my favorite campaign by far. I played an Ewok engineer that fixed things by banging on them with his rusty wrench. I can do a damned good Ewok voice. It was a riot. He also found and fixed a hoverdisc and just sat on it, floating behind the party wherever they went.

Fair enough there's no entry for Reign, because there isn't anyone else who plays it 🥲

Cortex Prime, Savage Worlds, Fate, Eat the Reich, Thirsty Sword Lesbians.....

It must be so fun to have friends

Where's the entry for

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No Cairn? It's niche, but so cool.

Loves the settings more than the game

My dude, the G stands for Generic. It works for literally any setting, it's optimized for homebrew settings. I've never touched the "canon" settings.

I kinda want to try them all.

Only played D&D, the Alien RPG and Dragonbane.

I own F.O.R.G.E., Dragonbane, PDF versions of Pathfinder, One Ring and a few others.

Never DMed but have started using 'solo' supplements to play coop games. Must find the time to play more.

How dare you throw shade at my Great Lakes Avengers! lol.

LANCER is absolutely a vibe and I enjoy very much.

I think my favorite system to run is LUMEN especially with groups that want the freedom to do the coolest thing. I mostly end up running D&D 5e and I’m very tired of being the rules lawyer/ loremaster/ combat manager/ etc.

Rules-light systems like LUMEN actually give my players a chance to get what they want while still paying the cost in resources, with a touch of tactical combat that made a memorable game.

Also a fan of Kids on Bikes, and the exploding dice mechanic from games like Savage Worlds!

I'd not say Wildsea is my favorite, but I always like to bring it up because it's really good at what it does and it will be someones favorite.

Daggerheart making the cut and Draw Steel being missing is par for course, but still sad.

Mine is Shadowdark. Sadly, it isn't listed.

Now do

• Hârnmaster
• 7th Sea
• The Dark Eye
• Savage Worlds
• DungeonSlayer

Deadlands isn't in here! Alas!

Tales from the Floating Vagabond

• Theater kid (mildly derogatory)
• Mimes actions, has never LARPed
• Hums "The Raiders March" unconsciously
• Brings pitcher of margaritas to game

The fact that tables and lists galore, or German stuff is not part of Shadowrun is bothering me on a personal level.

AD&D 1e/2e. And contrary to what the meme says, I've also played later editions, Call of Cthulhu, Weird Frontiers, Traveller, Mothership, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Symbaroum, Dolmenwood, Troika, Don't Tell Mom & Dad, and Toon. I'm probably leaving some out. Old-school AD&D is still my favorite.

Fabula Ultima

• picked it up after their D&D GM wouldn't allow anime homebrew
• thinks the GM shouldn't have fun
• has played every Final Fantasy
• thinks 4, 6, 7, and 9 are the only Final Fantasies

I like Delta Green, CoC, Trail of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark, Trophy Dark, Kult, etc. because I want terrible, fucked up, traumatic things to happen to my character. I want them to go insane or die, and to suffer the entire time it's happening.

Or sometimes I want to play Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast. 🤷

No Rifts? Not that it was ever popular, nor was it easy to get into and play, and the rules were a bit convoluted, and the balance was all over the place, but at least it was

Do "favorites" count if you've no one to play them with? 🥲

(Yes, I've tried online in many forms, but it either the group didn't click or [more often] the ever-watchful nemesis of every RPG group everywhere, "scheduling conflict", crept in with its slow, virulent death knell... like it do.)

"Nothing ever happens"? Uhm... what about the stuff that do happens between Editions?

Does Paizo have other investment streams besides the revenue stream? Because I believe that Paizo, even if its big, is indie.

Starfinder would be my favourite ttprg, even though I have currently no group :(

Been playing Wildsea lately. It's been really fun, although the travel system can be a bit clunky with a smaller group.

Warhammer 40k Wrath and Glory, anyone?

• Theatre kid (probably derogatory)
• Owns an actual WH40k army, or at least the dice for one
• "Of course there's another WH40k TTRPG!"
• Would definitely give their soul to Slaanesh

Rolemaster - the crit tables were insane.

I love delta green. The glass cannon play through of impossible landscapes was top tier - OP have you heard it?

I recently picked up Pilgrims of the Murk Dome based on the artwork alone. Cool setting, weirdly complicated rules for really just hands off communal story telling. Itching to play it.

Not gonna lie, this kinda sold me on Exalted.

Currently playing in Eclipse Phase setting with Ironsworn Starforged (because Eclipse Phase is so massive, I play solo ttrpg)

I was very happy to see both my faves on this list! Lancer and Delta Green! Ive only ran them (one of the Forever GM's in my group) but the systems are so cool and rich for my kind of storytelling!

In addition to the other AD&D 1e fans, I did not see Gamma World on the list. Shout out to the other Sci Fi ttrpg!

I've never played Lancer but I got into K6BD last year so it's cool to see people like Abbadon's other work

I really like MCDM's Draw Steel system. It's not perfect but it fixes so much of the stuff I hated about D&D/Pathfinder.

Not a huge fan of the default setting but whatever.

Mine is Delta Green to

Would love to see them take down HERO system and RuneQuest

I guess D&D, but we never went beyond 2.5e. No critical role (or youtube) at that point.

We also played VtM and I think ran a couple other campaigns in the WoD (Mage and Changeling maybe? It's been 25 years at this point). I was a theater kid, but didn't really call into the rest.

Wyrdwood Wand.

I think.

Someone please play it with me so I can finally try it lol

Numenera/Cypher System by MCG, but mostly Numenera the far future setting. Solved the problems I had with D&D. It's Earth 1,000,000,000 years in the future, and it has one of the best bestiaries to read through

Other than my various flavors of homebrew over the years, it was probably Empire of the Petal Throne.

Second to that would be the Albedo TTRPG.

How could they not include EotW series?

My favorite TTRPG is the homebrew system I made myself!

But besides that I've played D&D 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 5.5, Pathfinder 1 and 2, CoC, GURPS, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Traveler, Star Wars 5e, and Mini Six. I'm familiar with a lot of others through podcasts, like Paranoia, Toon, VtM, Fate Core, Fiasco, and Over The Edge.

WH40k: Black Crusade

Apparently, not note-worthy enough 😄

Very hard decision, I mean the one I played most and still play with a few friends is in fact "Shadowrun" (2e - 6e), but I have to confess, I never joked about Cyberpunk players, I even played Cyberpunk, sometimes both on the same weekend (weird, right).

Here are the three that I remember having the most fun with:

1. "Magna Veritas" and "In Nomine Satanis" (originally from France, iirc), where you played Angels vs Daemons (think "Good Omens" just even more absurd).

2. There was one called "Plüsch, Power und Plunder" where you played living plushies, and had to hide the fact that you're alive from humans.

3. "Paranoia", a game where just surviving was the adventure in a dystopian social credit system, that executed you immediately with killer drones, when you got demoted to the lowest level "Infrared", but you could just use a new clone and start again.

The most rounded rule system I ever expierienced is ERPS, no levels, no experience, just using the skills/attributes give you a change of increasing that particular attribute or skill (this is also free, but only available in German iirc).

I'm not familiar with every one of them but the ones I am familiar with sound mostly wrong, so I expect the others are too. Seems mostly to be belittling people to make the author feel special. I don't like it, and the comm would not be worsened by its deletion.

I'm hard pressed to say what my personal favorite system is, but currently I'm saying Fabula Ultima.

Honey Heists or Roll for Shoes anyone?