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It's one of the simplest on the market. I'm a fan of simple mechanics, even if I also love to make them more complex. Actually, I'm just a fan of mechanics - I love simple and complex mechanics.
In A Wicked Age is quite simple, if not necessarily straightforward first time around. Plus, it all but sets up your campaign for you, with the aid of a humble deck of playing cards. You still use dice for resolution at times, so it's semi-traditional in some ways, maybe. Still pretty 'out there' if you're coming from D&D, however. Worth a look, if you like the sound of rules light, story-oriented, character-driven sword & sorcery.
Microlite20 is a traditional RPG, and a neat one at that. I believe the basic rules fit on one page! Based on d20, as you might expect, but *woah*, is it quicker and simpler. Variants exist, from sci-fi to modern, to OD&D-style (Microlite74) and so on.
I've heard some good things about PDQ, or PDQ# these days I think. Prose descriptive qualities? Something like that. Anyway, might want to check that out.
Similarly, Heroquest? Could be coming out with a new edition and all, IIRC.
Not so familiar with very rules light games, myself, so I'll leave it there.
Back in middle school, my friends and I just made one person the "GM" and everyone else players. The players said what they did, the GM described what happened. No rules, no dice, no anything. Completely freeform roleplaying.
Doesn't get much simpler and faster to learn than that.
You know, I thought of a few more. Attached are Diminutive d20, Cat, and Red Box Hack (Version 2). Do note that, despite being named "Red Box Hack" the game doesn't actually have much to do with Red Box D&D past the basic premise. It's still crazy fun, though.
It is, unfortunately, a little hard to track down. I own several full sets for this reason and have tried (unsuccessfully) to start a PbP here using TWERPS that didn't take off, I was told, because people had trouble finding the rule book.
When I last spoke to Lou Zocchi (2005-ish), he commented that he still had many boxes of unsold TWERPS books, though, so I wonder if they can't be obtained directly from him.
You know, I thought of a few more. Attached are Diminutive d20, Cat, and Red Box Hack (Version 2). Do note that, despite being named "Red Box Hack" the game doesn't actually have much to do with Red Box D&D past the basic premise. It's still crazy fun, though.
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Originally Posted by jdrakeh in Red Box Hack
I prefer a slightly Asian flavored setting with
a heaping helping of Heavy Metal strangeness.
This sounds rather cool. Do you have any campaign stuff hiding in public places? Is your White Box Hack full of this?
"You must spread dignitas around before giving it to jdrakeh again"
There is a copy on eBay right now that's quite reasonable. The S&H is high, but he notes that assumes the most expensive option, so it can be dropped by a lot.
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