![]() ![]() It’s written by John Harper – whose brilliant, much more involved industrial horror heist RPG Blades in the Dark is also well worth checking out. If you want to run a game where learning the rules takes less time than double-knotting a pair of shoes, then Lasers and Feelings is the system for you. There’s a school of game design that tries to get you as close to the experience of just sitting around making up stories with your friends as possible, removing all but the flimsiest skeleton of a mechanical system at the core of the game and leaving everything else up to you. If your group’s schedule frequently gets messed up, having a second, more casual game ready to go on the back burner is a hugely helpful resource when it comes to making sure people actually get to play something on game night. If you can see your group’s DM getting burned out, this is a perfect opportunity to offer to take the reins for a few weeks while they get a chance to play. If you’ve never run a roleplaying game before, this can be a great way to dip your toes into something less complex than 5e. I’ve put together a list of 10 fantastic games that you can pick up cheaply (or for free) that tend toward having light rulesets and a strong concept players can grasp in no time and that lend themselves toward one-shots or mini-campaigns. ![]() So, rather than blowing up your 5e campaign like some sort of dice-rolling Nietzean superman ( Gygax is dead! We have killed him!) and trying to replace it with something new, may I suggest something a little less drastic? Now, I know from personal experience that getting a group of 5e players to commit to learning and playing a new system can feel like pulling teeth, especially if you want to dive into something meaty like Call of Cthulhu or Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. There are tons of amazing, well-written, exciting TTRPGs out there, whether you want to explore established universes, new genres, or just different styles of play. Sure, it’s the biggest, most popular property on the market by an eye-wateringly wide margin, but it’s definitely not the only game in town. It’s grown the community, brought thousands of new fans into the hobby, and shifted roleplaying games firmly into the mainstream, with references to D&D cropping up in everything from Stranger Things to Hawkeye.īecause 5e is such a juggernaut, however, it’s sometimes easy to forget that D&D 5e isn’t the beginning or end of this hobby. The huge surge in popularity that Dungeons & Dragons 5e has seen over the last few years has been fantastic.
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