Top 10 RPGs To Play Instead Of Dungeons & Dragons
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- We love DnD at NRB, but what about all the other amazing Tabletop RPGs? Join Adam as he runs down his favourite TTRPG alternatives to Dungeons & Dragons
#BoardGames #Tabletop #Top10
0:00 #Intro
1:20 #10. Ten Candles
2:40 #9. Fiasco
3:48 #8. Call of Cthulhu
4:59 #7. Alice Is Missing
6:33 #6. Fate Core
7:59 #5. No thank You, Evil
9:23 #4. Blades In The Dark
10:34 #3. World Wide Wrestling
11:58 #2. Honey Heist
13:29 #1. Golden Sky Stories
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1. Golden Sky Stories US: amzn.to/3xa33Ke // UK: bit.ly/3h4QgTO
Please play Ten Candles with all the people from No Rolls Barred,Adam. I would love to see if.
@@MrBrknsyt Sadly, that would require the group to be together, IRL, for the full effect.
@@CaitiffFTW yeah. When all this is over then. I hope.
Sully was born to play Honey Heist 🍯🐻🐨🐻❄️🐼
what if you really wanna learn to play D&D, but can't find anyone nearby willing to help you learn?
Imagine Honey Heist with Sully in it
Sullivan? Or "The Sullivan"?
Either way, this comment needs to be signal boosted. Make this a Board Game Club video.
YOU THROW OFF YOUR CLOAK TO REVEAL YOU ARE...THE HONEY BADGER.
This!!!!!!
'Im a bear... A honey, honey bear'
I believe he goes by "B B B B B" now
Shout-outs to Dread, a horror RPG with one simple but effective gimmick. Instead of rolling dice, all skill checks are decided using a single Jenga tower. When the tower inevitably falls, the player who pulled the critical piece is punished, often times with death. It's never a matter of if things go horribly wrong, but when.
Pleeeeeease do a 10 Candles session for Halloween! That would be incredibly awesome
Personally I've always thought D&D's largest, incurable flaw is its reliance on combat. Even Charisma has a combat application first, and trying to talk your way out of a situation basically means: if you're ugly, you ain't doin' it. That's something I REALLY thought World of Darkness did better than almost any other system: give you a basic way to socialize in the game world.
Also GOD I LOVE FIASCO! I love playing it, I love listening to others play it, I would pay GOOD, LOUIS DANGOOR MONEY to see No Rolls Barred play it, bonus if you could PLEASE involve Austin Walker somehow. He's writing a comic with the New Day, there's your in!
Also good LORD, Alice is Missing sounds BRILLIANT!!
My favorite TTRPG that I was hoping to see on this list is "Vampire: the Masquerade". I love it's lore and how heavy it is on role playing. Not to mention the fact that it is a story about you, the player, is the monster in this horror game and it's how you handle it that defines your character. Knowing that you're only ever one bad roll away from giving into the beast within and doing something you might latter regret.
I’m going to throw the newest Alien TTRPG in for consideration. Core system is rolling a dice pool of d6 based off Stat+Skill, 6 succeeds. The catch is that you have a Stress mechanic which accumulates as you progress, and for every point you have, you add an extra dice to your pool….. BUT if you roll a 1 on your stress dice, that’s a botch.
If you’ve ever wanted to live out the short, painful and ultimately doomed life of a Colonial Marine, or play the William Gibson version of Alien 3, or anything like that, it’s your golden choice
I remember watching Adam play Call of Cthulhu on a Twitch livestream back in 2018. The chat roleplayed as ghosts watching the player characters. Good times.
I NEED to see that! Any chance it hasn't been deleted from Twitch and is on TH-cam?
My daughters love No Thank You Evil. Great thing about it is that NPC creation is incredibly easy and adaptable. Your kid into Transformers? Disney Princesses? The Paw Patrol? It’s as simple as coming up with a single stat and you can incorporate them into your games.
They also like Adventure Maximus, where you create your adventure using a Mad Lib and some random cards. Great for one off adventures.
I severely miss CBW now after you've made this list. Maybe when the pandemic eases off we finally get CBW Season 2 and the Denimatrix title reign story we deserve.
DE NIM MATRIX!!!!
Oh I would pay good money for Sully Bo Brown to be the one to dethrone her
@@RagingSnorlax you mean BBBBB? Yeah, that's a prospect I would be down for.
I would love to see some oneshots of these games on the channel, especially Ten Candles with Adam being the DM, that just sounds amazing!
Hard to do in the pandemic, but you could always turn the brightness down, or add in more spooky effects in post or something.
Great content, and thank you for introducing me to the 'feel good' anime genre I never knew I needed so much.
Ryuutama is a fantasy based game originally from Japan described as Miyazaki meets Oregon Trail. The focus is on traveling and the gimmick is a character called a Ryuujin, a dragon character that is run by the GM and helps out the players. The overall mood of the game is whimsical and heartwarming with slight variation depending on the color of this Ryuujin character.
I would love to see some one shot style games with Adam and the crew. I think the sheer potential of people like Sully, Rosie and the CBW regulars acting out so many varied, off the wall ideas would be wonderful. However, I'm sure that's not everyone's cup of tea and setting it up may be a nightmare.
I really do want Sully in Honey Heist though.
This list made me miss CBW so much. Come back soon Tony, Joe, Bro, Denim, Kid and Tom.
Holy shit, Adam mentioned World Wide Wrestling! CBDub! CBDub! CBDub!
Also, can NRB play Ten Candles with Tom as the DM?! Please!
I hate being “that guy” but I would personally swap Ten Candles for Dread.
I love TC, but Dread is such a unique horror experience. A horror game where instead of dice rolls to resolve actions, you pull a block from a jenga tower. If the tower falls, your character is killed. It’s so wonderfully tense, and it really feels like the truest form of horror in an rpg form
Problem: if I do recall, Adam shares most board game café employees' (past or present) perfectly reasonable dislike of Jenga.
@@edatthegovernance you recall correctly
We play Dread (murder jenga) every Halloween. My boyfriend spends the months leading up to it planning the prefect story.
@@edatthegovernance true. Which is perfectly fair. I'd say give it a try with any variant dexterity game that has a similar mechanic maybe
Wow was not expecting to see After School Dice Club getting mentioned here. Such a nice little anime
I love D&D. I mean, finding Critical Role and then getting into the game was a life changing experience. Some of my best memories are around a gaming table. Blades in the Dark is the best game I've ever played.
Not gonna lie... TEN CANDLES sounds amazing! I wish I could play it with other people here in Thailand.
You overlooked, in my opinion, the HERO System. A point-buy system that you can use for *any* genre of game you want, with one single unified set of mechanics.
What a lovely list. I've had the pleasure of playing some of the games on this list, & our local tabletop RPG club has run most of these at some point. We're currently halfway through Masks of Nyarlathotep, which we started playing in... January 2019. So aye, it's a pretty epic campaign.
We tend to break up our campaigns into blocks, with one-shots in between. 10 Candles would be great when we get back to some semblance of normality, & Honey Heist sounds exactly like what we're looking for too.
Great stuff! Now, when do we get NRB plays 10 Candles? I need that in my life.
Deadlands was/is a brilliant game. Steampunk zombie cowboys, innovative mechanics with poker chips and playing cards, and lots of fun. I loved it. Although I also loved Traveller and Pendragon..
Deadlands was the first TTRPG system I ever played, and still return to once in a while. I love the card-based initiative system & “chipping” out of damage. Instead of a new Savage Worlds release, I wish they would remaster the old DL system, streamlining all of the updates they made in later compendiums.
Love this list as well as this channel. You guys have really opened my eyes to a broader spectrum of gaming.
A couple of rpg's I would have loved to see make this list (but not complaining) would be They Came From Beneath The Sea and Vampire The Masquerade or pretty much anything from the World of Darkness and/or Chronicles of Darkness settings.
Great video, and plenty of great games that will get missed because the genre is so wide. Hopefully we get a second top 10 at some point, if not just to include some of the wonderful games that got a miss this time around. Like City of Mist, which is absolutely brilliant.
Never heard of it before, but Alice Is Missing sounds like it could be genuinly incredible.
Love seeing Ten Candles and Blades make this list. I’ve run both and adore both. Actually have a group getting together Mondays now, so I’m very much trying to work both of those into the rotation of games. I’ve been designing my own RPG based on the Ghostbusters universe, but I may need to break to play some Honey Heist, because that sounds like WAY too much fun.
I hadn't heard of Blades in the Dark before now, and now that I have, I NEED that game in my life and to find a group to play it as soon as possible. Thank you, Adam!
Oh Adam, you missed out three of my favourite RPGs in that list :
1) Vampire : The Masquerade. A wonderful dark supernatural where you play a member of several clans where you have to do what you have to do to survive each night. Yes the in game politics system can get very complicated, but the fun thing is, it doesn't matter how much you desperately try to hold on to your humanity, your character is a monster at heart, and that will always win out.
Cyberpunk : Come on, how the hell could this gem be left out in the cold?!
Shadowrun : Very similar to Cyberpunk since it's set in the future where megacorps rule the world, but with a fantasy twist where your characters can be orcs, elves and dwarves with cybernetic enhancements hired to bring down a company run by a dragon. Yes that's right, futuristic dragons!
I'm amazed that there's no mention of Paranoia, would've thought that be right up you guys street.
Also, if you can find a copy, how about something as daft as Toon?
I’ve seen enough BotC on here to know that under no circumstances should you play Paranoia with any of the NRB gang.
Never Toon.
@@MultiClassGeek you know that makes us want to play it with them even more, correct?
Also any of the Year Zero Engine games, such as Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, or the Alien RPG. Although Vaesen is one of my favourites at the mo
@@danielmiller3596 Of course
Rather than Fate, I’d recommend GURPS for an open-ended system. It’s not as collaborative as Fate, but it is more customizable. Whereas Fate is only geared toward a “cinematic” tone, GURPS can be used for a variety of tones by picking what sorts of sub-systems or alternate rules you want to use, and it’s only as complex as you want it to be; you can even get GURPS Lite for free!
Thanks for this Adam 😊 I've been wondering what me and my kids first RPG should be to play together and "no thankyou evil" looks great 👍
the camping Anime is quite wholesome and I approve Adams choices because of it..... thought I'm surprised that vampire and werewolf aren't on this list some where
I love the Fate Accelerated System. Played an ongoing campaign of it it set in a superhero world & it was just an easy game to play & DM.
I'm a big fan of the Cypher System myself, been running all my games in that for the last few years.
Another game that uses the Powered by the Apocalypse engine is The Warren by Bully Pulpit Games. If you've ever watched the movie or read the book Watership Down, it's basically Watership Down: The Roleplaying Game but without the license. Players play as one of several rabbits living in an underground community. You try to find food while trying to avoid becoming food yourself. Tired of keeping track of those those pesky inventory lists? Well, you're a rabbit so you have neither the ability nor the inclination to carry equipment or weapons. What you do have are your eyes, nose and ears to help you detect danger and four legs to help you dig or flee. Every rabbit has a Panic score so if it gets too high, make sure you Relax at your earliest convenience or else risk freaking out, attacking anything in sight or becoming paralyzed with fear at the worst possible time. Character moves are chosen at the beginning of the game (the Seer move is available so you could recreate Fiver from Watership Down should you choose) and are unique to your specific rabbit until it dies - which doesn't necessary spell the end of the game for a player. If you produced (or sired) a litter back home, you can return at a later interval as your own son or daughter. Making it through "chapters" will earn you further Character moves to give your rabbit more in-game options and personality traits for roleplaying versatility but ultimately, your rabbit isn't going to live forever. This is a storytelling game at its heart and if you should happen to see an opportunity to go out as a hero by making the ultimate sacrifice, you're absolutely encouraged to pursue that course of action for the sake of creating the kind of memorable gaming moment that makes roleplaying so much fun.
I've got to shout out for Kobolds Ate My Baby! And their beer and pretzel engine.
Just got the FATE Core book a few weeks ago and, it's interesting having no guidelines for setting, available races or classes, equipment or abilities as a person who, 99% of his ttrpg experience is with D&D with one or two games of Call of Cthulhu in between. My perspective as a GM to be has shifted in expectation of what I HAVE to present to my players in terms of homebrew setting and towards what I CAN present to them, it's kind of liberating.
And the system of Aspects leading to compels, leading to fate points, leading to the use of aspects is actually pretty simple to grasp which I love.
Going to give a quick recommendation for Monster of the Week. It's a very social RPG system that combines ideas from great shows like Buffy, Supernatural, and X-Files into one very flexible and fun system
Nvm just watched the whole video! That'll teach me to make a comment based off the video description alone lmao. (Still gets my recommendation)
Welp, we need a Golden Sky Stories game on NRB gawking yesterday, lads.
Bought ‘No Thank You, Evil’ to play with my 6!year old daughter. We’ve had one adventure so far and she really enjoyed it.
ADAM: That's wonderful! So glad to hear it :)
Teared up a bit during the #1 entry
Damn, that was sweet
Yes! I love it that you mentioned a recent and underrated anime called After School Dice Club!!
I would love to see a full on NRB playthrough of Alice is Missing
I personally have always loved Savage Worlds.
Never played, heard great things
Ok, same, BUT. Serious level of BUUUUUUUUUUT the old DeadLands. I miss THAT. it had the card hands, and more stuff to it. I GET it got streamlined to play different games in system, but I miss that old feel
I’m excited about Savage Worlds Pathfinder and the new Atlantis book for Savage Rifts.
@@robintunkel4717
Savage Rifts! Ahhhh....now THAT is something I've been aching to play.
After finishing a 5e campaign of 1-2 years I changed to running a blades in the dark game, inspired by Outside Xtra's Oxventures series.
Its a lot of fun and people picked it up quickly and a definite recommendation
My top 10 RPG's so far, 1-Cypher, 2-Teenagers From Outer Space, 3-Gamma World 4E(not based on D&D 4E), 4-All Flesh Must be Eaten, 5-Battlelords of the 23rd Century, 6-Pathfinder, 7-5E, 8-Palladium system, 9-AD&D, and 10-Star Frontiers
Adam narrating my bookshelf, the video.
GSS in first place makes up for the omission of Maid: The RPG. ;)
Ten Candles sounds awesome! I know what I'm playing around Halloween.
For the Spanish folks here: Vieja Escuela. Sumpersimplified DnD, perfect for both oneshots and campaigns. Easy to master and ideal to introduce to new people as long as one of the group is mildly aware of how RPGs works.
Hell yeah, fuckin’ love me some After School Dice Club!
Currently playing City of Mist, seems pretty fun so far. My first breakaway from D&d was World of Darkness. Like a crunchier Powered By the Apocalypse had a baby with Fate?
City of Mist is CHOICE!
Grant Howitt also has a podcast where he and his friend improvise insane games. There's one where they make a dungeon on wheels that you have to break into AND then explore.
I don’t want to make it sound easier than it is or sound too desperate but I need more NRB content. It’s like the only content I watch anymore, this is easily my favorite channel
I would also like to recommend Masks: A New Generation. A PBTA style game where you play as a team of teenage superheroes trying to save the world but also experiencing all the drama and emotional stress of being a teenager. Each playbook doesn’t necessarily determine what powers you have (some do place limits) but mostly about what your core conflict is. And the best part, all your stats change based on how the city sees you and how you see yourself. It’s an excellent game with excellent theming for telling action-packed and emotionally charged stories.
I'm throwing Paizo's Starfinder out there for folks who (like me) enjoy the core mechanics and gameflow of 5e but feel like 5e's class/specializations are a bit same-y and are looking for a slightly more crunchy game system. Starfinder isn't 5e (or Pathfinder) in space, so I think it counts as a non D&D experience. You can really go nuts with making your character exactly what you want them to be in a way that 5e's simpler system doesn't really allow. Not that simple is bad, 5e is super approachable and fun - I love running and playing it. Plus if there are new folks at my table, I'm probably going to introduce them to TTRPG with a 5e campaign. Starfinder will feel comfortable to 5e folks, but is different enough that I think folks looking for a more option heavy/sophisticated take on D&D will appreciate it.
That #1 entry threw a curveball at me. I think I need a hug now.
That game? Hug in game form.
Vampire the Masquerade and World of Darkness altogether is amazing for horror lovers. Highly recommend!!
The latest version of Fiasco uses decks of themed cards rather than rolling on tables. It makes it even easier to set up and run and is a ton of fun.
A card based RPG sounds badass!
"Make a wallet saving throw with disadvantage." Awesome.
One of the best horror rpg systems I’ve used is Dread. No dice, just the players making pulls off of a Jenga tower. It gets super tense.
Grant Howard's games are truly the best to start with. I personally love The Witch is Dead where you play several witch's familiars hunting down a witch hunter.
And I ran several games of Sexy Battle Wizards. Can confirm it gets very chaotic and absurd and it's wonderful.
Grant Howitt also made a rather excellent game called Spire: The City Must Fall which has a fantasy steam punk setting and is very player driven with a lot of crazy backgrounds. It's a very different game and has been great to run with my usual roleplaying group.
After School Dice Club is gold.
For one shots I like Lasers & Feelings, though when I run it, I tweak it with some FATE aspects.
I love the Dresden Files RPG, which is based on the FATE system.
GURPS is a classic. It's fairly heavy, but extremely flexible.
The second RPG I ever played was Mage: The Ascension. And I still have a fondness for the old World of Darkness system.
I’ve played a ton of DND, but after running a campaign for Tales from the Loop, I’ve found so much more fun in many random systems, 10 candles, Call of Cthulhu, monster of the week, vaesen, so many options
10 Candles sounds really, really cool.
Adam at 13:53: "Play the type of game you want to play."
Me: "Bears it is."
I do like that there are more and more games now that de-emphasize violence. We've got plenty of monster killers, but there are other challenges in life. Like wrasslin'!
Omg, that Becca Scott clip at 4:31 lol
god i hope this means we'll see some TTRPGs covered on this channel, i would LOVE a fiasco with, like, Adam, Sully, Rosie, and Tom
I'm really happy to see Grant's one-page RPGs get some love. I've not run Honey Heist yet, but it sounds as funny as Goat Crashers - a similar game where you're goats crashing a party, but there's a twist at the party. I also really like the one he designed with Nate Crowley (full disclosure, I know Nate personally) called Reverse Beastmaster, not least of which because it involves the use of a sock puppet and players take turns to be the foul animals at a rather decrepit zoo.
Another RPG I love is Paranoia, not least because it has multiple modes of play and absurdity is encouraged in the 1984 universe.
I knew you would reference after school dice club at some point. Speaking of I really need to finish it
You had me at Cohen Brothers. I need to give Fiasco a go.
With a good narrative GM, 10 candles is terrifying.
I’ve run Ten Candles twice. It was genuinely wonderful, because it is such a shared narrative experience. Even when the game ended, we spent hours afterwards talking about the story we crafted. It’s brilliantly simple to get started, but the experience is complex and frightening in the best way. Our second game had a candle go out mid chapter, which automatically ends that chapter, and the players begged me to light a replacement because they weren’t ready to end the game yet. Some of my best RPG memories.
I bought world wide wrestling thanks to your cbw game play. Can't wait for season 2 adam!
I kind of assumed the World of Darkness would've showed up in the list. Still a good list though.
For some odd reason I would love to see a monster hearts play with you all of you. It's is one of my favorites. But another table top I like to play is a bit older horror rpg called "Dread" it uses the Jenga tower so if you want to do something outside your character wheel house you have to pull from the tower. It uses your own dexterity since you choose what piece to pull from the tower. It can get very anxious and nervous cause that jenga tower lol. It's a fun game I love it.
The Dark Eye and Lancer are two of my favorite "off-brand" RPG's
Urban Shadows is amazing, and fairly similar to Bades in the Dark. Setting can be your own hometown or anywhere else, and focuses on a supernatural underside to your city.
Solid list, but I honestly would have loved to hear you mention Troika.
Troika is a very rules lite science fantasy RPG. It's super easy to get into, really only requiring a few d6 and some counters to play. And best of all there's a huge community of creators making content for it. It's probably my favorite TTRPG.
Ribbon Drive, Love in the time of Seið, Montsegur 1244, Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne, Grey Ranks
You Know, I'd be willing to bet if you guys starting a DND Campaign is how you guys would get to a Million Subscribers.
Great list still want to get Blades in the Dark and might look into a few others. For my own addition: I feel needing to recommend Savage Worlds Deadlands, Hollow Earth Expedition, and for those on a budget who want some light nostalgic fun Kids on Bikes. Savage Worlds can be pricey but Kids on Bikes can be picked up for under 20 dollars and is extremely easy to pick up and play.
I played honey heist with my dnd group and I've honestly never laughed so much and we managed to succeed, all of us!!! We got our honey!!!
I can highly recommend the Kids on Bikes system. It's incredibly easy to teach, as you've only got six stats, to each you're gonna assign on of six dice between a D4 and a D20 to. It definitely is not a mechanics heavy system, but it's great for inexperienced players and a perfect tool for more story driven, role playing heavy campaigns/one shots. If you wanna check it out, I can't reccomend HyperRPG's Kollok 1991 series enough, it's basically Twin Peaks meets Stranger Things the RPG and it's got both incredible role play as well as a super impressive production value.
Fate of Cthulhu, Call of Cthulhu crossed with the Terminator. Truly great and truly bonkers.
3:58 Any video with a Full Metal Jacket reference means its a good video
Thank you for this!
Thanks to this video I grabbed Alice is Missing. I'm hoping this video means we might see a little Alice is missing video from you guys
I really enjoyed Shadows of Estoren. It's a low magic fantasy setting that has a medieval theme to it.
Was waiting for Pathfinder to pop up, but on second thought, definitely not an easy one to recommend.
Rifts it’s DND on crack. Don’t like a rule change it. Don’t like a character class make something you do like. GM pissing you off revolt against the power. Every time I by an expansion book it’s always been worth it.
"don't like a rule change it" is D&D with a confident GM, though. But you're right, totally worth it!
I like the Savage Worlds version of Rifts. They just released the Atlantis conversion.
Great list. Blades in the Dark is a phenomenal game.
Golden Sky Stories sounds so sweet and cute I could cry.
Ten candles sounds amazing and I really want to pick it up now. I also wanted to mention the Star Wars role playing game by ffg because I’ve been in a campaign with that system for almost a full year now and it’s been a wild ride the whole time. It’s complex sure, but it’s so much fun I urge viewers to try it one day if your a big fan of Star Wars.
Why does Ten Candles sound like real life? The longer it goes on, the harder and harder it gets, until eventually, everyone dies. 😐
I’m still gonna buy it, though.
Does anybody know if there's a RPG that you can play alone?
BOOK THE EGG, BLAMPIED.
Also, good list. Rules for including Fiasco and FATE. I'd toss in Scion 2e, Chuubo's Marvelous Wish Granting Engine, and Paranoia.
Oh hey! Monster of the Week! I've played that! Fun times!
I know it's probably the 3rd most well known tabletop RPG (after DandD and Pathfinder) but Vampire: The Masquerade was a lot of fun when I played it. I don't play a ton of Tabletop games from lack of opportunity but I liked that one.