Let's Talk About Fantasy heartbreaks and other FRPGs

Maletherin · Jan 23, 2022

Ancalagon said:
My first non D&D RPG was before playing D&D: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, a system based on the old "choose your own adventure" fighting fantasy book. It worked reasonably well but had some balancing issues.

Troika! , interestingly, is built on this system and has fixed most (but not all) of said issues. Troika! has a strong, zany flavor that some people love and others... not so much. But it would not be difficult to make it into a "generic fantasy" system. I think it would work great in warhammer.

How does Troika! compare to AFF2?

Mezuka · Jan 23, 2022

Ancalagon said:
Troika! , interestingly, is built on this system and has fixed most (but not all) of said issues. Troika! has a strong, zany flavor that some people love and others... not so much. But it would not be difficult to make it into a "generic fantasy" system. I think it would work great in warhammer.

Sold! I'm a fan of Dying Earth. Reading the SRD.

Eyes of Nine · Jan 24, 2022

Arduin we liked to read, but never actually thought to play it.

Gamma World is "fantasy" just post-apocalytpic.

GURPS was the first game I actually played for real in a fantasy setting that was not D&D.

Could you run Traveller as a fantasy game, just strip out all the spaceship stuff?

Ancalagon · Jan 24, 2022

Maletherin said:
How does Troika! compare to AFF2?

I don't know enough about it to compare unfortunately, but I think there are some elements that are similar. I anticipate the backgrounds/careers (your "class", roughly speaking) to be quite different though.

Dannyalcatraz · Jan 24, 2022

Eyes of Nine said:
Arduin we liked to read, but never actually thought to play it.

Gamma World is "fantasy" just post-apocalytpic.

GURPS was the first game I actually played for real in a fantasy setting that was not D&D.

Could you run Traveller as a fantasy game, just strip out all the spaceship stuff?

Make them into ships. Or skyships.

DarkCrisis · Jan 24, 2022

I love everything about Shadowrun except the system. It needs a complete revamp.

SR Anarchy seems to be the best SR system at the moment even though it’s pulled way to far into the “streamlined” side.

There is a happy middle, it just needs to be written.

Voadam · Jan 24, 2022

Eyes of Nine said:
Could you run Traveller as a fantasy game, just strip out all the spaceship stuff?

There is Sword of Cepheus. Cepheus is a 3rd party Traveller system and Sword of Cepheus applies the rules system to the Sword and Sorcery/Sword and Planet/Sword and Sandals genres.

aramis erak · Jan 25, 2022

Voadam said:
There is Sword of Cepheus. Cepheus is a 3rd party Traveller system and Sword of Cepheus applies the rules system to the Sword and Sorcery/Sword and Planet/Sword and Sandals genres.

That's one of at least 3 published Traveller fantasy adaptations.
Sword of Cepheus, Mercator (Zozer Games/Paul Elliot), and Worlds Apart

Plus, there are several web variants - mostly built upon CT - of which Alegis Downport has one of the best "how to do it" blogs.

http://www.ace-dog.com/Traveller/AldrethA4.pdf has a MegaTraveller adaptation.

Thomas Shey · Jan 25, 2022

Eyes of Nine said:
Could you run Traveller as a fantasy game, just strip out all the spaceship stuff?

There's a fantasy version of Cepheus Engine (which is a retroclone of MegaTraveller) called "Sword of Cepheus".

aramis erak · Jan 26, 2022

Thomas Shey said:
There's a fantasy version of Cepheus Engine (which is a retroclone of MegaTraveller) called "Sword of Cepheus".

WRONG. Sword of Cepheus is derived from Cepheus Engine, which is itself derived from Mongoose Traveller 1E SRD, which is itself derived from CT1E with major changes. The chap behind Cepheus is a CT fan, and has specifically stated on COTI that the changes were to make it more like CT.