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Some of my favorite TTRPGs that I've played recently were Spire/Heart and the Wildsea, which are really unique with character options.

In Heart and Spire, all of the classes are incredibly unusual and outlandish, such as a person made of bees or someone who is so far in dept they now serve the debt god.

Similarly, the Wildsea has some really unique races, such as cactus people. a hivemind of spiders, and ghosts of wrecked ships. It also has classes that are rarely seen in rpgs, though much less weird that Spire/Heart, such as a chef class and a navigator class.

Are there any other TTRPGs with similarly unique or weird classes and/or races that I should look into?

Thanks in advance.

By which I mean “the easiest and cheapest to pick up and play”. Low page count, simple/intuitive rules, uses only one or two ranks of widely-available dice, record sheets you can reasonably handwrite on notebook paper or index cards, preferably available physically in brick-and-mortar stores.

I got the idea for this after another bout of doomscrolling and wondering which games would be the easiest to keep playing if things got BAD, geopolitically. Easy to pack, easy to find replacement components for, etc.

My three current go-tos are:

Fate Accelerated Edition -https://evilhat.itch.io/fate-accelerated
Advanced Double D6 - https://aethercorpgames.itch.io/advanced-double-d6
Troika! - https://melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/troika-numinous-edition

But does anyone have any other good suggestions?

Clarification: when I said "uses only one or two ranks of widely-available dice" I meant "only D6" or "D6 and D10", not "D4s through D20s". Look at my examples and notice they're all D6 systems? So games like D&D, Cairn, 2400, and Mausritter don't fit. Mothership is closer, at least that only needs two ranks of dice (2D10 and a D20).

Hi! My name's Jay Dragon, and u/warmneutrals and I are the creative team behind Seven-Part Pact, our new fantastical ornate TTRPG about wizards and the responsibilities they hold. We've the editorial director and art director at Possum Creek, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed imprint of Steve Jackson Games focused on GMless TTRPGs about community, identity, and narrative. We're best known for our work on Wanderhome, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and Last Train To Bremen.

Seven-Part Pact is a fantastical, ornate TTRPG for 3-7 players about the seven great wizards of a faraway archipelago. Each wizard wields tremendous power over the world, with magic giving them the ability to change the very rules of the game. But just as they wield power, so too are they trapped: by the pressures of masculinity, by the weight of their loneliness, by the tolling bell of their own mortality. Each wizard faces a choice: will they maintain the systems that imprison them, or rebel against the Pact and destroy the fragile balance of the game?

It's a blend of board games and RPGs, with each wizard taking charge of their own Domain and doing their best to safeguard it from disaster. The full boxed set includes a shared rulebook, a grimoire of magical spells, and a codex for each wizard (which functions like a mini-DMG). It features gorgeous art from an amazing team (including folks like Conner Fawcett and Pam Wishbow) and Ruby has carefully coordinated the aesthetic to land somewhere between medieval marginalia and dynamic retro risographs.

We would prefer for questions to focus on Seven-Part Pact, but if you ask questions for us in general (or anything else we’ve been involved in) we’ll do our best to answer if we have a moment. Ask away!

Welcome one and all to a post where we can freely discuss the games that we have released or the games that we are making. Stop on by and maybe you'll find your new favourite RPG!

A bunch of us make cool shit, but the Indie RPG space is crowded and it can often be difficult to get the word out about why people should try out your game. That's why every week we try to focus on a different mechanic or setting to see how new RPGs can solve decades old problems or put new spins on old greivances!

This week we're focusing on post-apoclayptic as a setting! So tell us how your game (or just any game you really like) is unique in this setting - be it through cool worldbuilding or novel mechanics!

As per mod approval, comments here do not count against rule 7 or influence the "9:1" ratio - comment as much as you want, answer as many questions as you need and discuss to your hearts content!

All that I would ask is that anyone who comments about their own system takes the time to look at minimum at one other game in the comments and ask a question or provide feedback. Lively discussions are what get people interested and what keep people engaged!

This is the first week we're doing this - here's to many more!

If you want to suggest a topic for future weeks, be sure to include "-sug-" in your comment so I can easily find it!

Bundle of Holding has two Orbital Blues bundles right now - one with the rulebook and a few adventures (across two tiers), and the other with some newer supplements.

I really like the look of the system but I'm not sure I want to go all-in. Does anyone have advice on what's worth getting here? e.g. just the base rules, or some combination of the second tier and/or other bundle?

Thanks!

The Invincible ttrpg by Free League, which just released and uses a modified version of the Year Zero Engine, might just be the most perfect superhero ttrpg that I have ever played! And I’ve played pretty much all of them!

I can’t wait to use this system to run a group through my story campaign!

I'm having some trouble motivating myself to get through Thirsty Sword Lesbians and in the past have had books I'd like to talk about but nobody to talk with.

Something like a weekly online (EU timezone) meetup would be great. We could all be reading different books and just talk about what we read that week.

Legend in the Mist, the brand-new rustic fantasy game from Son of Oak, of City of Mist fame, is the deal of the day on Drivethru!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/510638/legend-in-the-mist-core-book

It's incredible to me to see a game so new so deeply discounted - it's less than half price! And LitM is a hotly awaited title that is still arriving in physical form to backers and hasn't been out very long in PDF either!

I haven't read mine cover to cover yet, but it's a streamlined implementation of the tag-based system from City of Mist. No moves, just a single resolution system with two levels of detail that is chosen on a moment-to-moment basis, depending on whether a simple yes / no result is sufficient.

It looks super flexible, the art is amazing, and I can't wait to get it to my table!

As always, I'm unaffiliated with either the storefront or the game itself. I'm just super excited to see LitM for less than $12!

We recently discussed the Finnish TTRPG scene here on r/rpg. As I briefly mentioned, I run a small indie TTRPG studio. I'm releasing four new games at Ropecon later this month. Print and PDF, I ship globally:

Laser Dinosaur Cavalry

You are muscular heroes who ride on dinosaurs that shoot lasers from their eyes and you fight nazi robots. Delightfully crunchy, tactical pulp action, six distinct dinosaur species, genuine build differentiation, zero filler, lots of explosions.

Rope Setä, a Finnish TTRPG youtuber, called it "the best RPG ever".

mesolitgames.com/ldc

The Moon Is an Annoyance

The rover is down. Two crew members are stranded on the lunar surface with failing life support and a ten-kilometer trek back to base. Vacuum, radiation, power loss, bad decisions. The Moon doesn't hate you. It doesn't notice you at all.

A hard science catastrophe engine for lunar EVA missions.

Includes over a dozen scientifically plausible, unheroic ways to die in space, and an original electroacoustic soundtrack by Uumen - already available for streaming.

mesolitgames.com/tmiaa

Northpyre: Council

Stone age political negotiations. Three leaders meet at the boundary between their peoples. Irreconcilable wants, personal grudges, promises with teeth.

mesolitgames.com/npc

Blood Nocturne City Hunger

An urban vampire tragedy RPG on a business card. Hunt, feed, lose yourself. Complete game – builds, progression, social system, GM guide, the whole shebang – fits in a wallet. Free, physical only – available at conventions and included with any Mesolit Games order.

mesolitgames.com/bnch

Join the mailing list if you're interested in this kind of stuff. Plenty of new games in the pipeline.

mesolitgames.com/#subscribe

P.S., if you're interested in the UNESCO living heritage thing, Rascal News recently published a piece where I also answer some questions about the submission and the meaning of recognition of RPGs as living heritage.

I really like the way that CoD does character generation with characters being built from regular people and then adding another layer for the supernatural template on top of that and I was wondering if there were any other systems that do something similar.

Ideally I'd like to look at options that aren't Horror games, but I'll take what I can get.

I've been playing Jeffrey Talanian's Hyperborea and getting really into it, so I created a subreddit for it since there wasn't one. If you're a fan of the game then feel free to share whatever you feel is relevant there: your favourite adventures to run, play reports, questions, fan art, duscussions of sword & sorcery fiction, mighty thews, etc. If you are interested in sword & sorcery as a TTRPG genre but haven't checked out Hyperborea or the adventures written for it, I encourage you to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HyperboreaRPG/