What is your favorite reflavor/reskin of officially published RPG material?

posted 2 years ago

Elevator7009@kbin.run

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When I say “RPG material,” I mean things like statblocks, classes, etc.

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StraySojourner@lemmy.world

5 points

2 years ago

Honestly, especially after their team up with Paizo, SWADE has been really, really improving and become my favorite system to reskin things in.

Hell I’m thinking about running a Curse of Strahd campaign in Savage Worlds.

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org

6 points

2 years ago

In the same vein, I was in a Shadowrun campaign that switched over to the Sprawlrunners rules for Savage Worlds (which can be used for either Shadowrun or Cyberpunk). Savage Worlds brought out the dynamic action and calculated hacking scenes that define good cyberpunk fiction without being dragged down by clunky rules.

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StraySojourner@lemmy.world

4 points

2 years ago

It is an unfortunate fact that Shadowrun tends to suffocate under its own density.

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Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml

3 points

2 years ago

I love Shadowrun as a setting and a game aesthetic; but fuck do I hate the sheer bookkeeping of just standing a character up, never mind the density of the actual play.

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flibbertygibbit@ttrpg.network

2 points

2 years ago

I have never played Shadowrun online. I wonder if a lot of the tedium of the dice would be eliminated by character sheet math?

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Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml

4 points

2 years ago

Oh nah when I say “online” in this case, I’m talking “getting out of character creation and into gameplay”. Only found one good program that made Shadowrun chums, but it was a for-cost program that locked the purchase code to one machine. And I lost that code; so I’m just… Never making a sheet again, 'cause I’m not going back to the days of meticulously tabbing out how much nuyen I spent on what during character creation in a notepad file again.

(And honestly, roll20 play as far as Shadowrun goes is just as dense from what I remember.)

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not a martian, honest@dice.camp

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2 years ago

@frauddogg @StraySojourner we went back to 3rd edition. It’s a bit better.

A bit.

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