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Great video! I have all but 1 of those games, but haven't played them all yet. If you are into 80's stuff at all like Stranger Things, Dark Places and Demogorgons looks really cool too.

First-time viewer . Your content is great ! Thanks for uploading

Def check out JP Coovert's channel for mapping tips n tricks. So damn helpful.

I love Ganesha Games, but honestly I find 4 Against Darkness too be unplayable. Did you have to tweak anything to make it work for you?

I love how the characters start their day with drinks at the tavern. Breakfast ale! What could go wrong? Then straight into gambling. These are true adventurers ... unlikely to survive :-) I'm enjoying your channel.

Great video and great suggestions. I'm going to return the favor and make a suggestions as well. Check out DC20. They just finished their Kickstarter and have released Beta 0.8 to it's backers. Great system. Super easy to dive into and start playing.

Some great games on this list. FMAG is maybe the best choice for people who want to experience how we played D&D in the 70's. Cairn is a wonderful modern-minimalist game.

Have to admit, I am massively into Call of Cthulhu of late. As I say to anyone who will listen: it's the game I didn't know I needed. Everything feels like it's on a knife edge and you can feel the story developing beyond what's going on in any one session.

Happy Belated Birthday 🎉

Great list - thanks!

Speak "Tswie-Henda" ("ie" like in "Tie-Figher", hard "T"). Literally meaning Two-Hander in German. Basically a Greatsword. Some Longswords can be Zweihänders, but mostly swords like Claymores and the like are called a Zweihänder.

I haven’t played Blades in the Dark but have heard good things about it. I should pick it up.

Yes, Dragonbane is freak’n awesome! I need to try DCC some day. Thanks for the video!

Ugh. DragonballZ. Ugh.

Thanks!! That was cool!! :-)

Just found your channel and will add you to the Fel-Dark Entertainment listing because again- we support indie content and creators like you that stretch out peoples awareness of Indie TTRPGs. Thank you for helping out the little guys!!!

I love the concept of Blades but I don't think I have the right mindset to run it. Would love to play it and get more used to things, though. Cairn's on my list of games that I want to rope my friends in to play since it's so ulralight. My personal recommendation: Savage Worlds. I'm convinced one can do quite literally anything in Savage Worlds and I've done some wild stuff with it. My buddy hacked in some 40k flavor with the Rifts supplement and we played an investigation into a potential chaos cult. Our party consisted of a Grey Knight, a Rogue Trader with unholy combat stats, and myself the rogue psyker gang leader who could brute force through daemon possession. Many liberties were taken for flavor but everything was within the purview of the base rules. SWADE is currently my favorite TTRPG outside of maybe Lancer, but I'm a sucker for mechs and scifi XD

One of the things I like best about this game is that *ANYBODY* can do *ANYTHING,* whether (s)he has "skill" in the action or not. Thus, there is no "fighter" or "rogue" or "magic user" class ... though your chosen playbook obviously gives benefits to certain kinds of actions. I *LOVE* this game!

Blades in the Dark is possibly my favorite RPG since I quit buying WotC products after the Pinkerton Incident. But I'm *ALSO* a *HUGE* fan of Savage Worlds, and am currently busy rebuilding the Fading Suns game using its rules. 😁

Happy belated birthday!

So... none of those are D&D 5E, but how many of them are still based on D&D? What do you recommend that is not fantasy? Any sci-fi? Supers? Horror? Modern? Thanks.

New sub. Happy birthday. I'd love to hear your pics for non fantasy rpgs. I left 5e for Shadowdark

I love your style and vibe I ran into your channel and I love it

Just found your channel! Very nice and very friendly. I like how you talk to your audience like friends and not teaching to students. I've been playing on and off since 1983 ( more off than on 😢) and I love your selection of non-D&D games. Thank you so much and you have a new subscriber!!!

Happy birthday 🎉 coach

Looking forward to your Blades in the Dark review. I own the game, but have yet to go too deep into it. Keep up the great work. Your following is growing.

You are such a blast to listen to! Love the stream of consciousness!

How you could not mention RuneQuest is beyond me. In addition to being the creator of "skill use based" character advancement, it's canon world, Glorantha is in my opinion the best fantasy TTRPG world ever created. 'RuneQuest was chosen for inclusion in the 2007 book Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Jennell Jaquays commented, "After RuneQuest and Glorantha, detailed fantasy worlds would become the norm, not the exception. Dragon Pass paved the way for TSR's Faerûn, better known as the Forgotten Realms, and Krynn, setting for the Dragonlance saga. But few would ever achieve the elegant but approachable rules complexity of the original RuneQuest or instill a fervent loyalty in fans that would span decades."' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneQuest

Blades In The Dark's amazing, but requires all at the table to have the same mindset about it. It needs to be seen as a way to play a TV show or a series of short novels, with flashbacks, side events, and flawed characters. Sadly, most of the players i found for this game were under the impression they were in, to 'beat the game".

Cool list Cool channel Glad i found you Im an indie game designer totally amateur compared to your list but we have fun, and that is the goal. Cheers Keep em rollin

Very nice list :) Have you tried Death Bringer RPG, or Eldritch Hack? Both of those look interesting (and they are pretty cheap)

I know you're likely speaking to an audience that's into heroic fantasy, and many would want a setting that's somewhat similar to D&D, but I believe that if you want something different, you may as well take a peek beyond into other genres. There are some very solid and entertaining games out there in genres of science fiction, horror, super heroes, and others, along with all the sub-genres.

Glad you're feeling better. Happy belated birthday!

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+1 for Dragonbane! That's an awesome beer and pretzel darker fantasy game :) And it is sooo beautiful!

A bit late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Thank you for your refreshing energy and the great content you put in the world. I really appreciate it!

So many great picks here. Blades in the Dark is awesome. Dragonbane is so much fun and an incredible value on the box set. ICRPG is one of the BEST guides on GM theory in addition to a cool rule set. DCC is bonkers in the best of ways. I hope you will also cover Shadowdark. That kicks ass. Happy Birthday!

Happy late birthday coach! Great topic for the Indie RPG Month! Let's go!

I'm still playing 3.5/ pathfinder....when a publisher moves on from an edition. That's their own damn problem! Not yours! You got a functioning game system, you're already familiar with right? WotC didn't kick in your front door and send in Pinkertons....you know...yet. And imagine the cost! They'll go bankrupt long before they get us all. The asshat telling you. You need a new game, us probably trying to sell you a game.

New sub! Just came across your channel. Good stuff. Oh, and happy belated B'day!

Happy belated birthday!!! great video ^-^

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This was great! Looking forward to more from you!

Happy birthday! If you've ever read the Jhereg series by Steven Brust, there's a Blades In The Dark supplement just for that world! And if you haven't read any of them, they're excellent. Thank you for the video!

Love the list! Recommendation: Troika. It's excellent, weird, and you can play as a Sphinx or a professional Poisoner of Wells or a person with the front of their brain removed and more. It also has incredible surreal adventures for it, my favorite being The Big Squirm.

Looking forward to the cairn kickstarter being fulfilled.

I have played Cairn, the simple rules breed creativity.

Nice I love BID requires a different midset though if you can Id suggest playing with folk on that one mega fan of nearly all of these not played DCC though.

Some great choices there--I've only played Zweihander once, but really, really liked it.

You are pretty super freakin' cool!!! I'm so glad I found your page. :)