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What is your favorite 'rules light' system? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If it's a PbtA please expand on your system of choice!

I'll start:
I really enjoyed Sexy Battle Wizards, but I think The Witch is Dead speaks to me more. I like player characters just being little weak dudes and struggling against normal stuff. (both of these are free by grant howitt and 1 page of rules)

I also enjoyed rude detectives, it has a surprisingly juicy dice system for a game that's just 4-5 pages. It's themed around child detective stories.

PbtA I like magpies stuff, like avatar and root, but my favorite until now was Fellowship 2e I think. Just so extremely versatile, and it's a joy to give a lot of narrative control to players.

Last one is kinda cheating: my current favorite game is rules light within it's genre. 13th Age is the easiest 'dnd' I've ever seen, and the amount of dumb rules and bookkeeping it prunes has reinvigorated 20f games for me! But compared to other games, it's still a bunch of rules of course.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know... I just need to find the time and space to delve properly into it. Wicked Ones is already high on my reading list, Band of Blades sure does interest me. Time though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wicked ones is excellent! I had a lot of fun with it. Have the hardback physical and love the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@GataZapata @tissek @rhythmicotter although IT feels to me that Wicked Ones is a crunchier FitD. Still a great Game. We had way too much fun with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I liked the magic system. I made like a haunted ghost spirit to keep the place we were going to raid up at night, just coming through the ceiling and bleating in the night. It gave me just enough guidance to be really fun for me while seeming super free form as the shaman (I think)