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Hey!

I wanna get the discussion started back up around here...

What's everyone playing these days?

m20? Other rules lite? OSR? Full mainstream?

Shadowdark seems to be the darling at the moment, but Knave v2.0 is coming soon...

Olde Swords Reign is an interesting one (With a very cool name) I think it may get it's time in the sun soon, particularly if we get some advanced companion books. I'm also very excited for my Knave 2e book. Putting a map motif on the cover made it kind of irresistable.

Aaaannnddd another one added to the "To Buy" list.

Looks good though, maybe something to "inspire" my ongoing m20 development.

It occurred to me that I started this convo and never contributed to it.

I'm happy to say that our group is an m20 majority, at least in terms of sessions played per system. We have explored some others including The Black Hack, Savage Worlds, and Pathfinder 1E. Pathfinder was a first for me, although not for most the other members. The other members of our group aren't totally sold m20 (yet), slightly moreso on rules light. They will come around.

• Right now we're playing Delta Realms, an m20 wasteland setting by yours truly, which adds some extra resource management mechanics like Deprivation (starvation/thirst), brittle stone and wood weaponry, scavenging, and crafting.
• Crescent City Gothic, which began as a whodunit as a 0 Level one-shot set at a socialite's dinner party in 1790s New Orleans. It continued through Level 6 (I think?) as a low-magic constabulary procedural.
• A one-shot for NOWULTRARPG called The Laughing Horror and all its excellent puns.
• A couple of sessions of Fiends and Phantasms of Yankton, a nice change of pace from the older-era settings.
• Some further fantasy adventuring using the rules that (I believe) became the Ancient Elements RPG.
• Grit and Bullets, a @squirewaldo production that started as straight Western and quickly turned Weird in the best possible way.
• A two-shot called "Vermin Under the House," which according to the author was based on "Microlite20 Vermin" from the Collection. Truly m20 tradition here, the rules were sent in a one-page plain text document.
• Temple of K'Thuuk, which I believe was a starter scenario, though the GM @squirewaldo extended it beyond the initial bounds. The ruleset we used now uses 2d10 instead of a d20 for basic mechanics.

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Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:00 pm

It occurred to me that I started this convo and never contributed to it.

I'm happy to say that our group is an m20 majority, at least in terms of sessions played per system. We have explored some others including The Black Hack, Savage Worlds, and Pathfinder 1E. Pathfinder was a first for me, although not for most the other members. The other members of our group aren't totally sold m20 (yet), slightly moreso on rules light. They will come around.

• Right now we're playing Delta Realms, an m20 wasteland setting by yours truly, which adds some extra resource management mechanics like Deprivation (starvation/thirst), brittle stone and wood weaponry, scavenging, and crafting.
• Crescent City Gothic, which began as a whodunit as a 0 Level one-shot set at a socialite's dinner party in 1790s New Orleans. It continued through Level 6 (I think?) as a low-magic constabulary procedural.
• A one-shot for NOWULTRARPG called The Laughing Horror and all its excellent puns.
• A couple of sessions of Fiends and Phantasms of Yankton, a nice change of pace from the older-era settings.
• Some further fantasy adventuring using the rules that (I believe) became the Ancient Elements RPG.
• Grit and Bullets, a @squirewaldo production that started as straight Western and quickly turned Weird in the best possible way.
• A two-shot called "Vermin Under the House," which according to the author was based on "Microlite20 Vermin" from the Collection. Truly m20 tradition here, the rules were sent in a one-page plain text document.
• Temple of K'Thuuk, which I believe was a starter scenario, though the GM @squirewaldo extended it beyond the initial bounds. The ruleset we used now uses 2d10 instead of a d20 for basic mechanics.

So the forum is really back up!