Sunday Nonsense: Which TTRPG Systems Survive

[Kannik]

Have you actually played or run it?

That is my next step, to at least see it in action or, even better, play with it at the table, so I can get a more full sense of it. Though I have a bit of the same Aldarc issue where there are other games that I'd rather see/try first that keep getting stacked in front of it.

(If anyone has a recommendation for a good online vid of a SWADE game/campaign being played please let me know -- it'd be easier to find time to watch something like that in chunks when the opportunity strikes.)

 

[Gradine]

The adage is that it's everyone's second favorite edition of D&D, not their second favorite TTRPG.

I would say that 5e is by far my favorite edition of D&D, but it also didn't end up making my top 3.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

On the subject of true interest though, going back to a previous post you'd made about how you don't see a lot of these games discussed nearly as often, I struggled with a reply to that as well. I adore --- absolutely adore --- so much of 13th Age and Cypher System (two games that are quite different in many ways), but honestly, I just don't know what to post about them half the time. I'm excited when they get mentioned in passing, but I can't find myself gushing over them as a thread-starter. (Incidentally, however, I am doing a Let's Read of 13th Age 2E's player book on the purple site.)

I would love to see a head to head thread discussing 13th Age vs. Shadow of the ____ vs. other not-D&D fantasy RPGs, personally. A lot of those other games sound really good, but outside of Daggerheart and Draw Steel, I'm unclear why one would choose those games versus the alternatives.

Point is, I feel there could definitely be some deep appreciation for these games that just doesn't translate into forum activity.

For sure. Forum activity is the main metric I can think of, but it definitely doesn't truly capture how anyone feels about games.