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What Does the RPG Hobby Need Now?
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Swanosaurus
Adventurer
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Nothing specific, really, as far as I am concerned. There's an enormous diversity of RPG products, and I can usually find what I want. Play is limited by my available free time, however, I have little interest in material that abbreviates play (including preparation), because well, that's actually what I want to do. If I can't find the time to do it more often, that's not a problem with RPG's, it's a problem with me having to juggle too many other things, and no RPG innovation is going tho change it.
Regarding zero-prep rpg: They are already there by the dozens - though if they want to be tools to create meaningful stories, they have to make some part of what is usual prep (creating motivations for the NPCs and connecting the PCs to the story) part of the game session instead. Fiasco does so admirably; I think Brindlewood Bay is also pretty zero prep, though I never ran it. Polaris. Durance.
I think what RPG's need is that they need to stay diverse in every sense. As I said, I can always find what I need, and I don't care if RPGs become more or less niche; I'm inhabiting a niche in the niche anyway, so either way, not much will change for me.
Nothing specific, really, as far as I am concerned. There's an enormous diversity of RPG products, and I can usually find what I want. Play is limited by my available free time, however, I have little interest in material that abbreviates play (including preparation), because well, that's actually what I want to do. If I can't find the time to do it more often, that's not a problem with RPG's, it's a problem with me having to juggle too many other things, and no RPG innovation is going tho change it.
Regarding zero-prep rpg: They are already there by the dozens - though if they want to be tools to create meaningful stories, they have to make some part of what is usual prep (creating motivations for the NPCs and connecting the PCs to the story) part of the game session instead. Fiasco does so admirably; I think Brindlewood Bay is also pretty zero prep, though I never ran it. Polaris. Durance.
I think what RPG's need is that they need to stay diverse in every sense. As I said, I can always find what I need, and I don't care if RPGs become more or less niche; I'm inhabiting a niche in the niche anyway, so either way, not much will change for me.
paradisebunny
Explorer
those are great, but in practice what i found to be even more useful is great simple online srds. it is just the matter of texting players a link, format will adapt to whatever screen they use and I do not have to worry about doing anything illegal. It has become one of the key criteria what to play next with my table, as there are people that simply do no have the resources to spend any money on this. I find this important to be inclusive and not create an asymmetry of "buy-in" at the table. great examples of well designed and table useable SRDs are:
Black Sword Hack SRD
Basic Fantasy SRD
Vaults of Vaarn SRD
Cairn SRD
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Answer to the OP: optimistic space opera with fun starship combat.
Small Angry Planet RPG?
Small Angry Planet RPG?
Like this?
Han Cluster - Optimistic Sci-Fi RPG for Savage Worlds
Han Cluster is a hopeful sci-fi RPG in which humanity and a few robots have unlocked amazing transhuman powers via the discovery of "the Nex." But with it also comes "the Blinding," an ominous phenomenon that represents a grave threat to human space.
www.backerkit.com
Disclaimer: I haven't tried starship combat in Savage Worlds.
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