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How Many RPG's Are Being Made Because of the WotC OGL Debacle? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just discovered Kobold Press's Black Flag Role Playing system and Tales of the Valorant game being made. I had no idea that was a thing.

Added with the ones I did know about:

Critical Role's Daggerheart
MCDM's new RPG (Matt Colville's company)
And we can count the Pathfinder 2's updates if we want

I wonder how many other RPG's are being made as a result of that debacle.

It does seem like a lot. WotC really shot themselves in the foot spawning all this new competition, didn't they?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I hope many.

I tire of D&D's stranglehold on players minds. It's slowly getting easier and easier to suggest people read a second book, and while that's great to see, we still have plenty of work to do.

And, no, for the 11th time, I will not run my Star Trek game in 5e that's insane.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Star wars 5e mod (i hope that's the name) is dope as hell. They ran it for a season of Dimension 20, it looked really fun if you like the crunch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Star wars is about sword-wielding space wizards, so it's not exactly a force leap off from DnD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would say they are closer to clerics both mechanically (with the spectrum of martial to magical subclasses) and flavorwise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're right, though paladins would make sense too. But Space Wizards is the idiomatic form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you using the official Star Trek TTRPG? I definitely want to run something with the Lower Decks book for my party at some point. Maybe next First Contact Day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Star Trek Adventures? Yeah! It's a great book. It takes a little bit to wrap your head around, as it's a little abstract in some places, but once you get it, it's simple to play and works very well for emulating an episode of Star Trek.

I had used Mongoose's Traveller in the past, but ST:A is a far better system for the purpose.