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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9714767" data-attributes="member: 42040">Like D&D 5E and you want to remain compatible with your existing system, but you want more tactical depth and character options, try Level Up: Advanced 5e. (Or if you want to wait a bit longer, maybe look at DC 20.)Like D&D 5E and you don't care about compatibility with your existing system, and you want more tactical depth, character options, and great adventures, while not minding a big step up in complexity, try Pathfinder 2e. (Or if you want to wait a month, look at Draw Steel.)Like D&D 5E but want a streamlined/grittier version that is compatible with your existing system, try Five Torches Deep or 5E Hardcore Mode.Like D&D 5E and want a streamlined/grittier version but don't care about compatibility with your existing system, try Shadowdark or Old School Essentials.Like D&D 5E and want a streamlined version that can be compatible (with work) with your existing system that has a feel of 1980s and 1990s AD&D, try Castles & Crusades. (If you don't care about the nostalgia, maybe look at Nimble 5e.)Like fantasy RPGs in general, but you'd prefer a game with epic heroes and greater narrative focus, try Daggerheart. (Or if you like the work of Brandon Sanderson, consider Cosmere.)Like fantasy RPGs in general, but you'd prefer a game with epic heroes and greater narrative focus, with more collaborative world building and an anime/console JRPG esthetic, try Fabula Ultima.Like fantasy RPGs with a unique setting and strange ancestries, try Wildsea.Like fantasy RPGs in general and want a streamlined game that's great for casual players, try Dragonbane.Like fantasy RPGs in general and want a streamlined game that focuses on survival and taming a wilderness, try Forbidden Lands.Want to try an RPG that feels like a streamlined version of D&D that is set in the 1980s with high school protagonists, like playing through episodes of Stranger Things, try Dark Places and Demogorgons.Like RPGs that are streamlined and can handle a variety of genres - including fantasy - try Index Card RPG. (Powered by the Apocalypse games such as Dungeon World can also fit the bill.) [If you don't care about the "streamlined" part, take a look at Savage Worlds Adventurer Edition or the Savage Pathfinder set.]Like fantasy RPGs with epic heroes and you're not intimidated by new mechanics, try Age of Sigmar: Soulbound.Like a fantasy RPG with a gritty setting and commoners going on adventures, try Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. (If that sounds appealing, but just a little too gritty, try Warhammer The Old World.)Want to play D&D in the world of Tolkien, try The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying.Want to play a fantasy RPG in the world of Tolkien but don't care about the 5E system, try The One Ring.Want to play a dark fantasy RPG with a Dark Souls or Elden Ring feel, try Symbaroum (in 5E and non-5E varieties).Want to play a dark fantasy RPG that is gritty and streamlined that will still feel familiar to 5E players, play Mork Borg.Done with D&D 5E, but in name only and actually want to still be playing D&D, play Tales of the Valiant.</blockquote>

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