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How many people do you know who got interested in the game because of BG3? I imagine I'm not the only one.

I've always had a passing interest in it but my only friend who plays lives 8 hours away. I did a one shot campaign while visiting him years ago but I was totally overwhelmed. Now that I've played BG3 I'm thinking about finding a local game shop to meet some players..

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It indirectly is making me want to leave my current DND group more. I love rpgs but DND specifically makes me grind my teeth. Bg3 is a great game but honestly it would be better with a different rule system. And the fact that DND is so popular that it sucks all the air out of the hobby just frustrates me.

But at the end of the day it's just a game, and if people are having fun they're having fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I switched my group over to PF2e back in January, and playing BG3 makes me wish there was a similar calibre CRPG using the Pathfinder 2 system

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

I like DnD more as a video game, in BG3. A while ago, I started exploring more narratively centered systems, like Fate, or even the new Cowboy Bebop TTRPG, for actual role playing.

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

Fate is my current game crush I want to play more, but I haven't had much opportunity. I got my D&D group to try it as a one-shot twice, and both times didn't really sing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Cowboy Bebop TTRPG seemed easier to setup, less involved character creation, and works nicely for one shots.

The rules are not very well written imo, not a lot of support for DMs, so I had to kind of lean on my past experience, and there wasn't really any guidance on how to use the clocks so one session was great, the other just slogged because I think I messed up the pacing since it was a lot fewer players.

Its also somewhat predicated on most people being familiar with the aesthetic of the show cowboy bebop.

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

Yeah, when the new Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG was announced, despite the OGL controversy that happened earlier this year the only TTRPG mentioned by name in the titles of news articles about it is Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). You would think it would cause a major shift in other properties being mentioned. Nope, it still seems it will be like the Mario Kart or Pokémon of TTRPGs, where people seemly instantly try to compare TTRPGs to D&D and mention the latter by name, but not anything else in the field, as if there were only two of that genre at a time or something.