In a way, I think they do take on a bit of a role because each player has different interests and interpretations that I’ve found can foreshadow what they bring to the table with their characters if they continue to play through the setting. The whole game is kind of a take on Spout Lore - Dungeon World-style. At least that’s how it’s played out for our group. We used the Quiet Year as a lead in to Rime of the Frostmaiden and created an alternate non-FR setting for it.
Four non-D&D games that show the breadth of TTRPGs
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Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
heh, I was just thinking to myself "no-ones mentioned VtM or Ars Magica, which seems odd"
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Those games are not all thst current, though admittedly my choices are either older than me or came out when I was a child.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Both of those games have new-ish editions. The most recent printing of Vampire (5e) came out in 2021 and a new edition of Ars Magica was Kickstarted last year.
Thomas Shey
Legend
With respect, I don't take "vaguely suggesting what kind of person they might play if there were a role playing game" does not qualify as an RPG in my book.
Sigh. Fine. You win.
Never mind no one else took anyone else’s choice down a peg but you do you, man.
So over this.
mamba
Legend
the main reason for that to me is that you avoid using something 5e adjacent as one of the four
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Oooh...Coriolis is a good nominee for your thread on "5 games in 2026". (I already have Dragonbane and Vaesen.)
Free League is really crushing it, huh?
(Actually, if I had one wish for 2026 it would be for Free League to combine their Tolkien license with their Dragonbane system.)
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