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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 5419514" data-attributes="member: 29112">Pretty common, actually. Subtle magic seems to be rather more hard to find. Some even claim to have that, but... well, they just don't, as you discover if you try playing them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As above. Classes/professions/archetypes/whatever are an easy way to simplify chargen, and possibly "niche protection", if that happens to be a big deal in the first place. Same again. Levels, too, are easier, so you find them quite a bit.YMMV, evidently. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As for alternatives... by golly, there are a lot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I think there are some lists around the intrawebz, here and there. Perhaps it would be worth checking those out?Anyway, I would say many creators RPGs (those that actually sell in decent numbers) apparently find it terribly difficult moving away from "D&D-like", in many a way. Which isn't surprising, considering the history of the hobby. And, of course, there are those who simply want to keep it somewhat D&Dish.And as for it being kinda generic fantasy, by default? Ah, nope. Not at all. D&D is its own subgenre, so to speak.</blockquote>

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