I was playing D&D 5e up until January. Then, with the OGL fiasco I decided to try learning Pathfinder 2e. I have been playing through the Beginner Box for that and I like it a lot more than D&D already!
Got started with D&D, found Traveller a few years ago and have been obsessed ever since.
Since the OGL stuff I’ve switched my D&D game to Pathfinder and everybody’s loved the switch.
I’m playing 5e; it’s my first RPG. I’ve wanted to play D&D for most of my life and got a first group together about 6 months ago. Loving it. But I’m very interested in other systems in the future.
PF2e seems great for being similar in style, but having a deep tactical system for combat.
Star Trek Adventurers excites me for giving me a system to be a part of my favourite universe. I’ve always wanted to be in Starfleet!
And on a very different side of the spectrum, Fate seems to be a game that takes all the tactical RPG elements and throws them out, leaving just the juicy roleplay, characters, and world building. I wonder if the absence of any solid system will leave it a little… “vague”… but I think it would appeal to some players.
The other nice thing about PF2e is that Paizo is a much better company than WOTC. I have trouble supporting WOTC after all the awful stuff they’ve done, especially in the last year. Paizo makes the entire system free and open, so you don’t need to pay for or pirate material in order to play like you do with 5e.
Of course, it does help that PF2e feels like a more fun system to me (as a DM). My players seem to like it more too.
I’ve played with the same people for more than a decade and in that time we’ve played a TON of stuff. Most recently we’ve played Shield Maidens (which I loved) revisited Midnight for 5th Edition and played classic Werewolf and Vampire 5th.
Flipping between White Box FMAG (an OD&D clone) and Star Trek Adventures. One of my players has asked for a Kids on Brooms campaign, so we flip around a lot. Somewhere in there we’re going to play a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game using the old wonky Palladium system from the 1990s.
The events of January changed my plans to go back to 5E after playing Fate for a campaign (Star Trek). After ignoring it completely I decided to look at 13th Age, and I liked it. My group are all enjoying it more the 5E as well. It isnt perfect, but it tends to not focus on the things that we all wanted to not focus on, while still staying true to the “D&D” feel. Pathfinder 2E is the other obvious option but most of my group prefer less ‘crunch’ not more. Monster of the Week or Dungeon World are next on our list to try.
I’m playing VtM 20th, Traveller, and OSE lately. I also have Knave 2e ordered for later.
@bionicjoey@lemmy.ca @rpg@lemmy.ca I’ve played a bit of Invisible Sun and I really want to begin another campaign soon!
I really like Pathfinder 2e, and I’ve been running an Abomination Vaults game for my oldest kid where he’s controlling several characters. It’s a bit too much for the younger ones, so we play Tiny Dungeon for the family games. My main group is playing Advanced Tiny Dungeons right now, it adds enough crunch to the simplistic Tiny D6 rules to keep it interesting, but it’s a bit too simple for my tastes still.
I’m kind of new to TTRPGs, but I’m loving Troika!
Not having friends who already play I need to be the GM, and a system so simple is great
I usually float around PF2e, though our group’s starting our session 0 of UESRPG3e tomorrow and I’m pretty excited about that. There’s a spellcrafting system that I’m planning to use on an Atronach+Mysticism specialist to gamble on absorbing my own high MP spells that also absorb MP from enemies and non-magical teammates.
Currently playing Pathfinder 2e. I like the system and the lore. Played Scum and Villainy a while back and loved it. My understanding is it’s largely the same as Blades in the Dark. There’s so much freedom to create some really memorable experiences. Our GM for Pathfinder also mentioned Dungeon Crawl Classics. That looks like it could be interesting.
I’m running a Cypher System campaign right now. My partner and I foolishly decided to craft a whole new world instead of using an already made one (like, Predation was right there) so it’s been a bit slow-going. We’ve had to bend some rules around mechanics we wanted to install, but Cypher’s good for that. A lot less crunchy than D&D, but it’s not the communal make-believe of Fate.
