Just trying to start a conversation and see what people are interested in. Nothing special about the categories - add anything you want to talk about.
Favorites limited to ones I’ve played.
Overall: Fallen by Perplexing Ruins. Love the setting, atmosphere and mechanics. I have some quibbles about healing in the default rules but want the Fear mechanic in everything. It’s great for both groups and solo.
Combat: Lancer by Massif Pres
Solo: Broken Shores by BlackOath Entertainment. I haven’t managed to keep a PC alive for longer than an in-game week, but it’s awesome. Runner-up is Riftbreakers, also by BlackOath. Much less deadly and more heroic. Also the best run-a-group-solo that I’ve seen.
Magic system: Path of the Aram Thyr by BlackOath, again. Another solo, and I’m not a fan of the game-play loop, as written, but that is easily fixed by making your own narrative/PC goals. And the magic system is so cool.
Supplement: Lots here, but from what I’ve used in games is a tie between Into the Cess & Citadel and Into the Wyrd and Wild, both by Feral Indie.
I’ve got a large TBR/TBP pile, so a couple of things I’m very excited about: Across a Thousand Dead Worlds (BlackOath), Salvage Union (Leyline) and Goblinville (Narrative Dynamics). The current top of the TBP is Pirate Borg, Runecairn and WWN.
I’ve been playing a lot of Traveller with my group and I really enjoy it so far. Seth Skorkowsky has some great videos on youtube about it if you are interested.
Apocalypse World 2nd Ed. has given me the most delight in the fewest sessions of any TTRPG. It takes a group willing to follow the rules though. If you try to play it the way you play D&D it won’t work so keep that in mind.
With Apocalypse World, I haven’t had a single bad session. They’ve all been interesting and hilarious. On the other hand, I’ve had all sorts of awful experiences with many other TTRPGs…
I can’t wait for a new edition to come out!
I love cool magic systems, what’s so interesting about the one on
Path of the Aram Thyr? I’ve never heard of BlackOath but liked the style of what I saw on their website so I might buy some stuff from them or sign in to their patreon since PotAT is not yet available outside of it as far as I could see.There will be a kickstarter for PAT. I’m not sure when, but can’t be too far off. I suspect Alex is waiting until the physical books for ATDW ship. There are three aspects to the magic - affinity, path and domain. Your PC has an affinity (forger, dominator, caster, shaper or none). You can use any affinity, but have an advantage with your specialty. Your path is a collection of signature “spells,” one per affinity, bound by a common theme. Domaine is a things like fire, poison, plants, etc. You gain magic abilities by killing magical creatures and absorbing their the part of their spirit tied to a domain with a random affinity. It’s pretty complicated to explain, but is quite simple in game play.