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Tabletop RPGs: recommendations needed!

by marurun Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:48 pm

Hi all,

I'm thinking of running an online role-playing game aimed at a group with limited time and at least a few folks with limited experience with tabletop RPGs. I am not interested in running D&D or anything that would require giving potential players a ton of homework (read this book learn these arcane new rules). I'm looking for something with relatively simple and straight-forward mechanics that would be relatively easy to learn and teach. I am familiar with more rules-complex games (D&D and GURPS, for example), but as a GM, even at my best I've never been good at keeping my my thumb on all the moving fiddly bits.

I need something that's simple to manage and run and will be simple for my players to interact with. But I also don't know any up-and-coming improv actors, so I'd like to avoid something that eschews mechanics almost completely in favor of narrative. I want my players to have the ability to influence and even craft narrative beats, but I don't want them feel they have to be extroverts to enjoy the game. Basically, I need something that straddles the line between more traditional GM-as-sole-storyteller model of D&D and the we-don't-need-no-stinking-GMs model of improv storytelling.

I'm leaning toward maybe Quest or something Powered by the Apocalypse, but I'm totally open to suggestions. There's a vast universe of tabletop RPGs out there and I'm sure I only know a bit of it.
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Re: Tabletop RPGs: recommendations needed!

by Ack Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:25 am

Are you looking for a particular setting? Medieval-style fantasy, near future cyberpunk, modern day, wild west, far future spacefaring, etc.?
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Re: Tabletop RPGs: recommendations needed!

by marurun Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:26 am

Fantasy is probably the easiest for me to entertain, due to it being so massive even among the non-initiated, but I'd probably be OK trying almost anything in terms of setting. Except for horror or something too dark. A lot of folks are talking Fiasco, but I'm not sure that's something I could really run well.
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