Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular:
Shadowdark
Dungeon Crawl Classics
AD&D
OSE
Call of Cthulhu
Mothership / Delta Green / Shadowrun 6th ed
Most common RPGs of today?
- Thread starter neceros
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Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular:
Shadowdark
Dungeon Crawl Classics
AD&D
OSE
Call of Cthulhu
Mothership / Delta Green / Shadowrun 6th ed
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I have a monthly game that alternates between Shadowdark and DCC, so that checks out.
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Explorer
pirate borg
neceros
Adventurer
I've made sheets for 3rd and gurps. not hero though
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
This is a good list, but Old School Essentials (as distinct from just the cloud of OSR games) is worth including, since it's the 800 pound gorilla in the OSR space, closely followed by Shadowdark now. Mothership is also pretty huge nowadays.
If you're interested in making character sheets, @neceros, both Pirate Borg and Mork Borg have very stylized character sheets that were probably fun for the creators to draw but are actually pretty mediocre for actual play. Both games would definitely have an eager audience for cleaner sheets.
On the other hand, Mothership is very popular, but its character sheet is held up as the design everyone else ought to emulate going forward, so there's probably not a lot of demand for a new sheet there.
zarionofarabel
Hero
Second for Mothership, it's a fantastic game!
CommodoreKong
Adventurer
I find it amazing the PDF is $60thank you none the less
The $10 Delian Tomb adventure is a level 1-3 starter adventure for Draw Steel that includes all the rules you need to run the first 3 levels of the game. It’s a great way to dip your toes in the Draw Steel water for very little.
I ran The Delian Tomb late last year/early this year and can’t recommend it and Draw Steel enough. It’s a wonderful, well designed system and Delian Tomb is a good starter adventure. My players all enjoyed it and are looking forward to playing the mega adventure Crack the Sun when it releases.
CommodoreKong
Adventurer
Yeah as much as I enjoy Draw Steel they made some questionable design choices with their Heroes book. It feels like they never had someone unfamiliar with Draw Steel look at the book and only people very familiar with it.
mamba
Legend
you mean 29.99, because most of the time things are not in sale…
agreed, but if you want to play the game, you need the core books, this one at least only has two, unlike 5e
I really did not understand this. I looked forward to draw steel quite a lot, and there are other 4e inspired games out there with really great layout etc to take inspiration from like Beacon (or even the work in progress wyrdwood wand). And this pdf costs a lot more and has no colour to help, has rules mixed with character creation and just feels like work reading through.
Beacon was a 10 times smaller kickstarter and less than half the price and just the example pages look so much better: BEACON TTRPG by Pirate Gonzalez Games
Really 60$ for the pdfs or 40$ for just the hero book is not a good price at all for the production value... You can get the same amount of hours out of much cheaper and better produced products. And you will need way less hours to read them...
This and avatar RPG are the only 2 RPG products where I felt ripped off when I bought them.
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