My 9 Favorite RPGs That Aren't D&D!

Have you tried Cypher System?

Gotta check out delta green

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Ultraviolet Grasslands ... should be on everyone's list.

No Ars Magica mention? Invalid video.

Man You looks like a Kingsman agent. You're very elegant.

are there any table tops thats like the show bright.

If I could only pick one RPG to play and run for the rest of my life, it would be Maustitter! 🙌
Absolutly amazing game! Easy to prep and run, easy to learn and play, and the tactile feel makes it great for converting friends from board games! 😈😝 Also everything you need is in one small, free book! Seriously check this one out!

Narrative… the natural enemy of good rpgs. This list is the fuel of my nightmares:)

One game that is worth having a look at is Smallville, just for the way it blends character creation with world building. When you're making your characters, you're building connections with the other players and with the world, creating the locations you'll be playing in and the NPCs that you'll be interacting with. Everything and everyone is interconnected and it can result in some truly unique settings.

I like Swords & Wizardry really good entry level rpg and also cheap (there's a free pdf if im not mistaken)😊

Frankly, dnd has a huge problem of getting in the way of itself. Like wizards forced Larions hand in making bg3, and having been someone who never played dnd, I hated bg3. Then I find out wizards was trying to use bg3 as a way to get more people playing dnd, I’m sorry what? Bg3 took like 30 years of steps back in QoL improvements that video games have made.

So I didn’t like bg3, my friend who really wants me to play dnd says that dnd never translates to video games well. Ok I’ll play dnd then. Well after finally getting a group together we start and my god I have never ever been so bored in my entire life. I figured imagination would make things better but removing the instantaneous computer processing just killed everything for me. Why does killing 2 lvl 2 goblins take 20 mins???? Why does stopping in a town take literal weeks??? What’s with the ultra lazy decision making systems in this game? It’s like Gary guygax thought “how can I sell blank paper for a ton of money” and dnd fans just ate it up.

If wizards wants to expand their dnd player base they need to make, quite frankly, a new game. D20 is lazy and bad for any type of decision making

That sponsor transition was so smooth I slipped on it and was caught by the alien horror chasing me

I LOLed (and I only use that acronym if it's true) at the 'rococo' comment.

Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea blows my mind
I adore it

Not a PbTA guy, I see. Great recommendations!

This is a great list. Thanks.

What system would you suggest to someone who is looking to substitute 5e for something where acquiring new gear matters more than leveling up?

Thank u for saying Mausritter is your favorite rpg, it’s mine too.

Too many games where you can play as dumb animals or children, and only like 3 Wild West games, none of them worthwhile.

Why are TTRPG makers like this?

What you said about fate hits home, I loved the idea of it when I first learned of it a few years back.

I ran a session for a group and one player did not enjoy it so I didn’t play for a long time.

And present day I’m about 5 sessions I to a campaign and it’s good fun but I can’t help but feel like I’m falling short when playing it, I dont think my players are goblin skull cracking only type players, but I do see that you really need a narrative motivated and narrative/“put your ideas out there” confident group to really let fate shine. With aspects, compels, stunts.

Everyone says they enjoy it and are having fun and they love the world we made together, and I’ve had my Players express that they like just thinking what they want to do and it happening because of aspect permissions, and the “what do you want to achieve” nature of the actions. Compared to DnD which can feel restrictive. That being the only other ROG they played and have ever played as their brand new to TTRPG but I can’t help the feeling I still don’t have a great grasp on fate even after going back and forth a few times through many resources.

It’s not that it’s mechanically complex it’s more unexpectedly obtuse to ME at times .

It says rules lite but there’s quite a bit there especially in core, contests conflicts and challenges, team work rolls, different NPC types. Etc.

I like it and wouldn’t say it’s bad but maybe I would say the execution of it all could have been better, I just feel like fate could have achieved a lot more and be a part of more conversations up there with DnD and pathfinder etc.

I will note that some of my criticisms might come from a bias of inexperience in my end and my own ability as a GM and role player

This video is how I know about Mauseritter. I've never really looked into TTRPGS other than D&D, and I hope this guy reaches 100k subs sometime soon.

Chronicles of Darkness and their books (Vampire the Requiem, Promethian, Geist, etc.) are a nice alternative to the WoD books, I like that one can be an animal indefinitely as you wish through Protean.

Hey love your videos, just found your channel. I was curious after watching this one, what do you think of Call of Cthulhu?

No monster of the week…

I play Rolemaster with adults and Cairn with my kids. That is the furthest stretch in rpg type imaginable, I guess, haha.

One of the RPG that taught me the most recently was Degenesis. Especially about how it is "ok" to have statistically unbalanced characters and factions, if the roleplay behind it is rich enough to compensate, and how it blew me away by it's worldbuilding. Starting to realise midcampaign that your stats aren't extradiegetic but intradiegetic is wild.

What is in your opinion the easiest to learn for new, young players and easiest to prep for the GM?

Have you ever played any rpg games from the Ubiquity roleplaying system? Like Hollow Earth Expedition or Leagues of Adventure?

Awesome video, thank you!

My favorite is the Hero System (aka the Champions System). I used to try a new system about once a year and tried the Hero System to play some super heroes but me and my group loved it so much that we found we were unable to play anything else. We would still try a new system once a year but shorty after we would get started we generally would have an irresistible call to convert it to the Hero System and just kept the lore and setting of the other system. We've played superheroes, horror, high and low fantasy, urban fantasy, scifi, gritty modern combat and even wargaming tabletop systems. Maybe me and my group are a bit odd but I never understood why it wasn't more popular, maybe its the weak lore, we would always use other systems for the setting. Or maybe its because it seems scary to learn but it really isn't much harder than several other systems we tried. But its great when anyone finds any system they love, 5e or other.

put some markers god damn it

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Wow, Mausritter is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you.

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No mention of RuneQuest or its non-Glorantha-based cousin Mythras? How saddening.

RQ came out in 1978, four years after TSR published D&D 1st edition, and it has been around ever since. It's skill-based, not level-based or class-based, so any character can learn any skill with in-game effort and time. All sorts of different magic spells allows spell throwers to be what they want. Attributes and damage dice are similar to D&D's with skill rolls being performed with a d100 rather than a d20 (which is generates percentage rolls in 5% increments).

A legally free PDF version of Mythras can be downloaded at its publisher's website and that PDF is all that's needed to run a complete multi-year campaign whether it's ancient, medieval (low and high fantasy), or modern. Since posting a link may be removed, anyone can just search the Internet with the keywords "Mythras Imperative". The publisher is Design Mechanism.

Great video and thanks for the recommendations, thanks to this video I'll start playing in a tiny dungeon 2e game

But I also must ask, why do you hate rules?

I have tried and failed to wrap my head around Fate several times. Is there anything you can recommend to get enough of an understanding of how it works to benefit from the insights you are talking about?

Anything similar with Burning Wheel? It seems pretty intimidating from the books and feels like I'd need to spend a lot of time with it to fully appreciate what's going on.

Currently, I'm not planning to run either system, but I do want to get a broader perspective on things that make me think about the games I do run in a different way. (That said, I am part of an improv troupe and your elevator pitch here has me kind of curious about whether we could take some of these ideas and make a show out of it.)

What do you think about The Expanse TTRPG system?

Mausritter sounds fantastic

WOW! Great video! Would love to see more like this, really is going to help me stem from 5e! Well deserved sub, keep up the good work!

Stars and Worlds Without Number come highly recommended when it comes to worldbuilding.

None of these appeal to me.

I like the sound of "Old School Rococo". Sounds like a good category for games like ItO.

For me, it's mostly D&D, but outside of that:
- Dark Heresy (1.0 and 2.0, as well as the related series like Deathwatch, Only War, Rogue Trader, etc)
- Inquisitor
- World of Darkness games (mainly Vampire, but also Mage, Werewolf, and Hunter)
- Exalted
- Warhammer Fantasy RPG

Ah yes, the FATE system. Which I both love and hate. It can do so much - yet I often run into places where it doesn't handle what needs doing. Keep things simple and it works pretty well.

I always like the Palladium games EXCEPT for the combat. At least in the edition I played.

I have a feeling this video is about to blow up...

I'm a huge FATE fan. Glad you touched on it even if it frustrating to some.

I got so tired of Western euro fantasy Theres one called the old gods of Appalachia very cool to look into