Shill your number one favorite.I’m looking for easy to learn and teach while fun to dm and be a player.
>>98062135I would suggest ACKS just to make the woke tourists REEEE. Though it's mostly easy to learn, has a lot tables and rules to add for custom monsters, classes/races, spells, items, as well as rules for running a castle, shops, towns, armies, kingdoms, etc. So if you're not fried by tik toks and can read past a 5th grade level. You should be easily able to grasp and learn the system and start having fun making your own shit in it as well as letting others make their own shit too without much worry of them breaking the game and all.
>universal systemHow’s BRP for fitting those vs genesys?>t. Impulse bought those books but never found players either. It is dnd country where I am.
>>98062178BRP is a great fit for simulationist and more grounded games, Genesys is good for more narrative and heroic games.
>>98062135you missed the part where he said 'universal' bud>and can read past a 5th grade levelironic!
>>98062200Thanks anon!Do any of those games fit the easy to learn teach and fun thing op is requesting?>>98062147>fried by TikTok and can’t ready past 5th gradeI was already fried before Vine before TikTok.I don’t think I’ve properly read for enjoyment of it since middle school.That’s partly why I’m getting into ttrpgs to fix myself.And invested in this thread in hopes of genuine. My helpful answers.
>>98062229I suppose Genesys (BRP's crunch can be dropped depending on the setting and type of a game though), but Genesys's proprietary dice can be a problem unless the group is content with digital dice rollers.
>>98062264And you can also just adapt it to regular dice.
>>98062264>>98062292For real life I’m thinking of blank dice with an online source of sticker templates to reuse as “decals” to throw on some blank dice.I’m not sure how long varnished decal dice would work or if the dice will somehow be unbalanced.I do know that I can’t see myself using proprietary dice and instead use diy because of the possibility of losing the dice.It’s why I opted for buckets of white with black dot dice for d6 running wargames.
>>98062135Mini Six (and OpenD6 more generally)>Free>Easy to read all the way through (36 pages and you'll probably only need half)>Long pedigree, lots of material you could mine and convert from dozens of allied games>Additive die pool, action doesn't feel TOO madcap, players can gauge what they can/can't fight head on>Universal resolution mechanic, once you understand skills you also understand damage, spells, etc. No "which die do I roll for...">Complications work a lot better than GURPS (increases XP gain, not points at start, encouraging players to remember their character flaws)Top tips are to use Body Points, not the Wound Track. Also give Hero Point if the PC has none and gains a mid-session XP (e.g. from a Complication). It'll make sense in context.
>>98062135Prose Descriptive Qualities is my go-to. Really flexible and has cool genre books to mix and match things wrong. I do like the non-generic Jaws of the Six Serpents and Questers of the Middle-Realms adaptations the most though.
>>98062331>freeAlright now I’m interested.Is it actually good despite being free?Free and open source software has a negative reputation of being bad with few exceptions.Is it like this for free ttrpg/free wargames too?Are open d6 and free d6 exceptions to free stuff being usually subpar?
>>98062467>free d6 I meant mini d6. No idea why I typed that beyond weird typo stuff.
>>98062135Freeform improvisation with 2d6.
>>98062135I recommend BRP or mythras. Both of those have so many supplements or rules that allow you to do practically anything. The fan made mythras ones are pretty good in particular.
>>98062551Is brp actually easy to learn and teach?If memory serves it uses the same familiar dice dnd 5e uses so that should make some dnd player heads turn.
>>98066164>If memory serves it uses the same familiar dice dnd 5e uses so that should make some dnd player heads turnBRP is very easy and robust. There is dozens of optional rules/mechanics and skills. You'd effectively choose how complicated you want your experience to be. BRP can end up a simple story narrative game or damn near full blown simulation when you factor is all the optional rules and start stealing stuff from Runequest (same system at its core). The core mechanic is roll a d100 get under the number value your skill is currently rated to that your are using. Let's say you attack someone with a sword. You'd roll your Sword skill. Let's say Sword skill is at 65%. You'd roll a d100 and get equal or under 65 on the dice to succeed. Now the Target of the sword strike rolls their Doge or Parry Skill. And based who got the better degree of success determines if the hit connected it was parry/dodge. I'm being a little vague here because like I said you effectively choose how complicated you want this all to be. Like you can use general HP pools or use optional rules and start assigning HP values to your limbs and track your entire body's HP and armor per leg, arm head ect. There is no classes but instead professions. Professions come with a pack of skills that are already at a certain skill value. You raise them during play since there isn't any levels in the D&D sense either. And any character can use and skill /magic whatever as long as they get training in it. Since the game is d100 percentile it makes it really easy for new people to understand. "What my chances of throwing this javalin and hitting an enemy". If your Throw (Javalin) skill is at 40%. Then it's 40 out of a hundred. Skills can go over 100 but again that's optional rules.
>>98066287This is all in the latest version of brp?I didn’t see anything about previous editions in your post and I’m sorry if I missed it.Got a pdf of it so I can try before I buy digital and physical?
>>98062147ACKS isn't a universal system, you fucking idiot. Go back to shitting up some OSR thread
>>98066420The free quickstart is pretty good mixer on what it offers. https://www.chaosium.com/blogdownload-your-free-copy-of-the-basic-roleplaying-universal-game-engine-quickstart/
>>98066474I'm 80% certain it's just a guy making fun of the ACKS shills.
>>98062292That seems so messy. You'll have to keep checking that table every time you make a roll until you got that shit tattooed in the back of your mind.
>>98062135Savage worlds hands down iny favorite. It can do fantasy, sci-fi and everything in between.
>>98066519Like a larp to make the community it is mimicking look bad?I’ve seen /pol/trolls larp as bad left leaners. They were most active when the 40k femstodes were revealed.Not sure why they would be all over /tg/. Should go for bigger boards that are more active to be honest.
>>98062467>Free and open source software has a negative reputation of being bad with few exceptions.It wasn't always a free product. West End Games filed for bankruptcy and they released everything under an open gaming license so the stuff would be open to the community no matter what happened to the business. They're very solid systems, and some fondly think of Star Wars d6 as *the* star wars ttrpg.
>>98066629Nice!What’s the most up to date d6 system that is also free? Links please?
>>98066672https://ogc.rpglibrary.org/index.php?title=OpenD6I don't know about most up to date d6 system, but these are the ones that are under the Open Gaming License. You just kind of pick your poison between what type of game you want, Fantasy, Sci-fi, or Modern.
>>98066786Thanks anon!When my pc comes back I’ll start downloading.Got enough files on my phone as is.
>>98062135Basic Roleplaying for crunchier games, Genesys for rules-lite ones. Both are intuitive and are easily adaptable to multiple genres, and make rolls interesting with the former’s different levels of success and the latter’s advantage and disadvantage system.
>>98062135I don't have anything really to say, but I got a copy of the new BRP book essentially for free yesterday, and I want to brag about it.
>>98067160I hope it is a good book and you enjoy it for more than just your copy not costing you a cent.
>>98067186The book as a physical object is fucking excellent. It's got a really heavy weight, matte paper for the pages, and a nice matte cover. Very good.Haven't really had a chance to dive into it too hard, but I'm thinking I might really strip down the skill list and use it for a post Apoc/supers game.
>>98066420BRP like almost all of Chaosiums games aren't substantially different from edition to edition. Sure some of the rules get tweaked. A term gets added or taken away. The spell list gets new spells or replacements. But 99-95% of it is the same at it core. Runequest 1e adventures and monsters can be used in the newest edition with little to no conversation. Same with Call of Cthulhu and Pendragon. As for BRP specifically the newest edition is good and is getting a steady stream of splat books.
>>98067297It’s weird how they didn’t incorporate all the changes the newest edition of CoC implemented into the latest edition of BRP though. Why not use Hard and Impossible rolls, and Bonus/Penalty Dice?
>>98066672Mini Six, which is why I recommended it. Google it yourself. Normally I'd post links but free software rules and you can suckstart a shotgun for saying otherwise.
>>98062135what is cortex prime like? it's the one game sharing a space with genesys and fate that nobody plays?
>>98068257Best I for was a scribe link.https://www.scribd.com/document/397140095/RPG-Minimal-D6I’m not sure if it is the latest edition given that it is scribe.
>>98066474It is universal . . . ly shitty.
Never found a decent one. Which makes sense, really.
>>98062135FU is very minimalist. My only problem is the probability swings on advance/disadvantage. It's not balanced enough. You could easily modify it would like d100 roll under system, where each mod is worth 10%. Linear modifiers instead of logarithmic
>>98062135Your number one favorite should be>take a few of these systems and others>stripmine them for different ideas>piece the ideas together to make your own systemIn totality just about every system pictured kinda sucks, as do the companies behind them.
Learned about OVA recently. I really like what I've read so far. D6 dice pool system. You build characters buy giving them abilities and weaknesses which alter your d6 dice pool when rolling. I'm trying to get my friends interested in a cyborg 009 type of game where everyone is a monster chimera of some kind and I think I almost got them ready to take the plunge.
>>98068187I'm not sure. Maybe just boomery on Chaosiums part. You can integrate them from CoC 7e easily enough.>>98071174Most generic systems are meant to be spring boards you homebrew the shit out of to mold to your own setting. Now the problem is most genres already have a good system you can just rip the settings out of instead of using a generic system. For example I've had this idea for a mystery game based off of Alice in Wonderland but taking place in a small town on the 1960s. I go back and forth if I would go with BRP or just use CoC. Some would argue the difference is whatever because BRP is just most of the rules from all BRP games just tweaked and altered to be more generic but I have a feeling if I was to use BRP to run it then after I selected all the rules and optional mechanics for the Alice in Wonderland game it would end up damn close to CoC anyway.
>>98068187I swear I read an article where someone was talking about the reason why they didn't, but I cannot remember where it was or what the reasoning was.
>>98062135Which one is most easiest for 5e/5.5e players to adapt to?I’ve accepted that is the best way to get games and people to stick with the system at the lgs.
>>98062135Savage Worlds is simple. All systems suck when you think about them long enough, but I had fun with it for a while.
>>98072362D20 Modern. Quest Worlds. BRP since it's percentile.
>>98062135I will always shill GURPS. Been using it for 4 years now, running everything from iron age sword and sorcery to early modern detective games to space opera. Its the only system I've ever played where I didn't need to have a massive document of houserules to unfuck it.
>>98062135Good for heavy action? Savage WorldsBest all rounder? GenesysStill find myself reaching for SW the most because it is by far one of the easiest systems to make enemies for and it fits the group's preferred play style. Genesys is fucking dope and we like it a lot, but for kicking in a door and chucking dynamite at mooks kind of play, SW runs better overall. Also helps it has a pretty large amount of setting books and splats to fit whatever flavor of doors and dynamite we want. FFG and Edge seems to have just abandoned Genesys overall and it really needs some more splats to make it shine.
>>98072579You don't need houserules to unfuck a fair amount of generic systems. By all means, run GURPS though, any time someone gets others to go into a generic system is a fucking win in my book.
