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Trollhawke posted:Most of Jacob Randolph's stuff is pretty good, although his base Mage 2.0 class can be a little overpowered. I believe there is a variant which fixes the main issue with the class, however. Otherwise, his stuff is generally good. Randolph's specialist mages (Winter Mage, Clock Mage, etc.) are probably my favorite of his (and they come in a convenient discounted bundle!), along with the Witch. EDIT: And the Dashing Hero, if you're looking for something that isn't a spellcaster of some kind. The Princess is also amazing.
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GladRagKraken posted:I love everything about Walton's Planarch Codex, except that it's based on Dungeon World. That's not to say I dislike Dungeon World, but that having a system that robustly supports violence pushes players towards styles of play that make many of the stories you can tell in a cosmopolitan and wondrous city nonviable. It's really hard to have a resurrectionist subplot when the average adventuring party produces enough corpses to crash the market. It's really hard to make extortionists from a neighboring burough scary when the characters are used to throwing down with mythological monsters. I think Walton actually favors John Harper's stripped-down "1970s version" of Dungeon World called World of Dungeons for the Planarch Codex. It might be worth checking out the game and, especially, the character sheet Walton uses when running Planarch WoD.
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thatbastardken posted:Is there a well regarded Western hack? The new magnificent seven trailer kind of has me in the mood. I don't know if anyone ever bothered to do a full Western hack 'cause the base game works pretty well for that out of the box with some renaming. At least, that's what people were doing back when AW was first released. Angel -> Doc, Battlebabe -> Gunslinger, Driver -> Horseman, Maestro D' -> Obviously Just Al Swearengen, etc.
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Zikan posted:so other then Dungeon World (which I understand has issues when you get really rolling with it), what are great fantasy PbtA hacks? I am going to be running a game for 5 friends, four of which will be new to p&p gaming in general and one who is a 3.5 d&d veteran but interested in more narrative systems. Yeah, Fellowship rules. It gives players a lot of control over building their particular corner of the setting, it has some of my favorite playbooks in any PbtA game, it lets you defeat enemies with intelligence and charm (and turn them into friends and followers), it has mushroom orcs, and the structure of the game is very easy to understand for people who aren't familiar with RPG tropes -- it's Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, etc.
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Double Plus Undead posted:Alright this is kind of a weird question but I swore I saw a Rhapsody of Blood book for like, building a good Castle as a DM aid or whatever. But now I can't find it or any link to purchase it, does it actually exist or did I dream it? It exists -- behold, Terra Incognita!
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Stonetop's author, Jeremy Strandberg, also previously wrote Homebrew World, which incorporates several changes that he also made in Stonetop but sticks far closer to standard DW, with more familiar classes (albeit with all their moves overhauled) and a generic fantasy non-setting. It is also free. (Of the many "DW but different/better" games, I also quite like Chasing Adventure, which is available in a free version as well as a $10 full version that includes more material for actually running the game. CA drifts a little further from DW than some of the others by completely changing the damage system and dropping HP, in addition to more common changes like revised moves, backgrounds instead of races, and use of advantage/disadvantage.)
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Ash Rose posted:3 players, Neither of these seems quite what we are looking for. Her own words on the game: Stonetop (originally based on DW, though it improves greatly on it) is a "hearth fantasy" game about the fortunes of a small, relatively isolated village on the edge of a massive forest full of ancient ruins, fae, giant spiders, thieving little gremlins, weird chimeric monsters, and dinosaurs. (The other side is a huge prairie filled with horse-riding nomads, saber-toothed tigers, aurochs herds, haunted burial mounds, and different dinosaurs.) I think it could work well, especially with a little tweaking to get the setting where she wants it, though the Kickstarter just finished and I don't think it's available yet for pre-order. Luke Jordan is also very shortly putting out a new playtest packet for their in-development game Tales from the Low Cantrefs, which has a similar vibe to Stonetop, though the setting is less defined (so far) and the protagonists are explicitly kids and teens in the process of growing up and finding their way. I saw an earlier version of the playtest and it looked really cool. https://twitter.com/wildwoodsgames/status/1386672111163383811
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Unfortunately, no, there is no comprehensive and up-to-date list of PbtA games. The Bakers host a list on the Apocalypse World site, but that one relies on authors personally asking Vincent or Meg to add their game, so it's also very spotty, out of date, and doesn't include any games in the Forged in the Dark and Belonging Outside Belonging sub-families (except for Blades and Dream Askew/Apart themselves). Yet another list was maintained on the PbtA Reddit, which included some unofficial and free hacks, but even there I can think of a lot of other notable free hacks that didn't make the list. The spreadsheet is also old and now locked for editing (and the genres and links are all messed up).
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To add yet another Trek-inspired PbtA game to the pile, there's Starscape, which is currently in a playtest beta format. I haven't given it a try, but it's available for free. The focus of the game seems to be on the interpersonal interactions of the characters; I think it would work especially well for a DS9 or Babylon 5 style game. There's also Voyagers in the Dark, a streamlined FitD Trek game, but I've given that one even less of a look.
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Two very different PbtA games made for one shots: Blackout (in which you play members of the women's Civil Defence Service during the Blitz) and Escape from Dino Island (in which you escape from a dino island).
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