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@risa I do love a bunch of smaller channels that talk a lot about smaller games though, and i hope their following increases!
I don´t have a ton of followers but i think i'll start highlighting some of the crerators in the space that i think deserve more love
@risa one of the D&D centric wines that started to highlight some other systems is Bob World builder.
Most videos are still D&D centric but he takes every opportunity to talk about Dungeon Crawl Classics, Shadowdark, and sometimes even whacky stuff like Skate Wizards
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I'm sure this wasn't meant to undermine non-D&D RPGs, it might not have been bad phrasing at all, just bad interpretation on my part.
As I said I'm happy indie games are being talked about, at all, by bigger voices.
"Old man yells at clouds" moment over.
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I understand the sentiment. And as you play more games you will understand more about what you prefer and why, no doubt.
But the phrasing seems to imply the main reason you play other games is to try to improve your preferred one only, instead of, you know, to play and enjoy it as a game.
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Finally, I liked what she said about about "playing an RPG like a game designer", being critical of the rules.
However then at the end she said "you don't play other RPGs to replace the one you like, but to understand why you like the one you like"...
That didn't sit well with me.
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Having never played it (take this with a boulder of salt), a typical adventure centered on combat, doesn't seem to be the sort of game where GR8 would shine.
Especially not with the same table dynamics as D&D when it comes to rolls, effects of success and consequences for failure.
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THAT BEING SAID
- and I will be that annoying guy that will undermine the message of the video a bit, so i'm sorry in advance -
by her description, she seems to have played it looking for the same sort of session and experience one would have with D&D.
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Ginny Di's newest video, on the Gr8 system (https://elisheva-games.itch.io/the-gr8-system) is an example of an indie game being highlighted and a healthy approach and commentary to the "try other systems" discourse.
I like that other systems are being brought up and talked at all, in a channel as large as hers.
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Glad to see that with #daggerheart coming out, a lot of #DnD creators are starting to cover it.
Hopefully this marks a change in the non-d20 #TTRPG coverage by the bigger names in the hobby, and we might even start seeing indie RPGs reaching heights I wouldn't imagine a few months ago.
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@IcarusGames I'm a pretty new creator and publisher of TTRPG stuff, be it games, adventures, modules...
I stream TTRPG design and creation sessions, and will start playing solo games on twitch.
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Just read a post by Methods & Madness' regarding paid game Masters and it got me thinking about it. It is something I would like to try, on both sides of the table.
Let's start with the conclusion: GM-for-pay is okay. In other words: there is nothing wrong with paying someone to run a game for you, or ch...
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Have you ever paid/got paid to play at a table? How was it?