Best New Indie TTRPG Books!

[@Runehammer1]

thanks jp!!!!!

[@AEGISDEFENSE]

Was looking at Shadowdark, but this has caught my eye big time. Looks amazing! Also checking out Neon Skies.

[@Renigade16]

Crown and skull as you said, it's fantastic! Runehammers other and original game *IndexCard RPG* is also 100% worth checking out. Especially for anyone interested in easy to learn but full of depth systems and Homebrewing that is the game for you.

[@ogbang]

Crown and Skull!!!! You gotta play it. The Attrition system is amazing. The elegant and simple mechanics are a refreshing take in the TTRPG scene that I wish other games would embrace more.

[@netomorgan7991]

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate these indie rpg recommendation videos. It’s not always easy to find these smaller products when barraged by ads for the larger products. Thank you

[@CaffinatedLifeform]

Crown and Skull is an absolutely gorgeous book, and a ton of fun to play! We've been running it weekly and having a blast! So stoked to see you cover it! Love your stuff, man. 🤘

[@hkapeman]

I've binged so many of your videos this weekend! I'm just getting into Ttrpgs and you've been a great help/inspiration!

[@oKingLexx]

Welcome to the hobby!

[@EbonyMcKickass]

Saaaame, JP is Awesome!

[@haroldyoung2361]

I have never seen a video of yours before this, and I absolutely love your vibe dude! You just got a subscriber!

[@christianstraubhaar339]

I love Cloud Empress. I keep going back and forth on whether to buy Crown and Skull, though...

[@johnleach8553]

awesome as usual - love Runehammer - great content - watched listened as i worked on my latest map commission

[@matthewconstantine5015]

Cloud Empress looks really cool. For multiple reasons, I've stopped doing crowdfunding, but I was super tempted by the current Kickstarter. As far as recent stuff making me happy, I read and really enjoyed Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City. And I'm currently reading through 1984's Ringworld RPG from Chaosium, based on Larry Niven's Known Space universe. It's been a Holy Grail game for me for 30+ years and a friend got it for me for this past Christmas.

[@joshs_boxes]

I’ve been playing Pirate Borg recently and really digging it!

[@jimjones7980]

It's not "new new", but I have really been enjoying reading Swords of the Serpentine. The internal setting is so cool and I get tons of adventure ideas from just reading descriptions of magical items or various factions. I also picked up Into the Cess & Citadel which is a system-less guide from running urban fantasy adventures and I can't wait to smash them together and run it for my friends in the, hopefully near, future.

[@AlkanetEXE]

I recently came across a book called Kosmosaurs that's pretty fun! Small booklet system all about playing Dinosaurs In Space. Very pleasing to read through - and DEFINITELY on my "if only I had more time" list. :D

[@JPCoovert]

Fantastic game! I love Diogo’s work!

[@galadan88]

I just backed Relict RPG and Tales of Argosa on Kickstarter this last month, both look really promising and the basic rules are free to download. Really pumped about these!

[@JPCoovert]

Haven’t heard of either of those! Excited to check them out!

[@Boxman214]

Seconding Tales of Argosa!

[@mateofantasma]

Tales of Argosa is really cool. Sword and sorcery with lots of cool ideas in it and great art by Luke Eichenik (spelling ?)​@@JPCoovert

[@kraigmeatbicycle1636]

I'm also interested in Crown and Skull

[@Skulliver-t8q]

Great list. Crown and Skull is a TRIP. Really fun and like most things from Runehammer, it encourages you to make it your own while still giving you plenty to work with.

[@Crust_Monster]

Great list! The Cloud Empress Land of Cicadas book has my absolute favorite hex crawl system.

[@jeffwmoore]

Not new, but new to me. I've really been enamored of Golden Sky Stories.

[@matiasnl]

Thanks for the amazing content! I’m so excited for Dragon Town and the Darkness Below!

[@travisc7883]

Loved this video! Thank you for the novel reviews of these books and ideas!

[@Skulliver-t8q]

Thanks for the tip on Cloud Empress. I just downloaded it and got stuck in. What a cool read.

[@optionsgoat9432]

My home Dungeon Crawl Classics group just finished The Stygian Library (Em also has a Kickstarter going for their Gardens of Ynn), and Temple of 1,000 Swords. We're going to the halls of the Blood King next (to rescue their merchant friend Jacque de Mort from Unscrupulous Emporiums!). I met Diogo Nogueira at Gary Con and he was SUPER nice! Those OSE adventures are formatted so well for the GM. Super hyped for the Dragon Town Kickstarter! I'd really like to see some cool stretch goals, like maybe a ribbon bookmark, stickers, paper minis templates, premade magic item cards from your cool templates, a big map, player handouts, etc. Maybe at a certain tier some backers can get added into the story as NPCs?

[@JPCoovert]

Oh fun! Love that Stygian library book and psyched on the Ynn ones too!!!

[@bobbycrosby9765]

I read "Fart Quest" to my 8 year old as a hook into tabletop roleplaying games. Her mother was obviously ecstatic about it. It definitely has its share of "those" kind of jokes, but it doesn't overwhelm the series.

[@robertthyberg5846]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing!

[@EcowarriorII]

I’ve still been getting huge amounts of fun from Dungeon Crawl Classic.

[@SmileyTrilobite]

I’ve been using Shadowdark to play an OSE adventure anthology, Wyvern Songs, which comes with a cozy campaign map where all the adventures may be placed. Brad Kerr’s adventures blend levity with a dash of horror. Finding the Apple-Bottom Gang’s secret bicycle in that place where staying too long in a room chances the Skitterlord coalescing is just one example. Old School Stylish: “Classless, discovery-based advancement”. Basically, class abilities are instead treasure you equip, mix, and match. There’s a collection of distinct abilities, each with suggestions on how you might discover or obtain them. You could collect and decipher the 3 tablets of the last master, stalk or befriend a certain monster, or just find a secret scroll amid treasure. One idea is to capture an assassin or spy to get them to teach you an ability, with the caution that they’d probably want to tie up the loose end later. Reminiscent of video games like Final Fantasy V, I want to combine it with Dragon-Quest-inspired Asterlan Odyssey!

[@nickmoore8486]

If you haven't come across it, there is a great Indie company that came out with 2D6 Dungeon that is grabbing a lot of traction worldwide. Just came out with an overworld expansion 2D6 Realm. Definitely worth a look

[@Hellvector]

Currently super obsessed with The Mecha Hack!

[@lock_]

Being a very very noob on this matter, it would be really nice if you could actually play one of these books here on KZbin. Maybe in a live event or so. :)

[@JPCoovert]

I might do something like that for one of my own games eventually. I played in a game of Cairn on @jocularjunction channel. It was a lot of fun and definitely worth checking out!

[@JiyanMajithiya_the_Great]

Dude you are amazing and my absolute no 1 idol

[@samuelteare8160]

Thanks for this list.

[@sketchasaurrex4087]

Dingo Doodles youtube channel converted their campaign into a 5e game for people to play. The Bellowing Wilds has a lot of fun ideas and concepts to run with.

[@spaceben11]

Fantastic content! Thank you!

[@colinmorton8074]

AWESOME

[@jadorejoe]

Thanks so much!

[@mavfan21]

Sojourn Index Card RPG (my fave, and I think you've reviewed it before) F.O.R.G.E. Those are three of my favorite Indy RPGs.

[@gillcaz]

It says a lot that I'm leaving a comment on the pile of glitchiness that is my phone that got run over yesterday. I been digging on an oldie: just started the Taltos novels. You may have asked how an assassin's guild might possibly exist given the social contract. So did this author.

[@scribblingjoe]

I’ve been into Tiny RPGs lately (Tiny Frontier, Tiny Dungeon, Tiny Cthulhu,… etc.)

[@markperry1603]

Where did you find all of these? Did people send these to you? Cloud empress looks great!

[@JPCoovert]

Nope! Some through Kickstarter. I pay attention to social media and am subscribed to a bunch of good newsletters and KZbin channels!

[@thebulkkka]

try fever knights rpg! pretty nice game.

[@BunnyNiyori]

The worst thing you can do for rolegaming, is buy anything from Hasbro. Is D&D 5th 2024 any good? who cares, you are giving money to Hasbro. If you love D&D, buy something that doesn't reward Hasbro. Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game gives no money to Hasbro. OSE same thing. OSRIC, same thing. Castles and Crusades same thing. It's all D&D, it just sends no money to Hasbro. Pathfinder might as well be D&D, just a different company name. I have a lot of great products, all sort of D&D. No money for Hasbro. Next on my list to get is Crown and Skull. Anything, as long as Hasbro gets nothing.

[@Shards-of-Narsil]

Check out literally EVERYTING by Diogo Nogueira, the man is awesome! Also check out Dark Places & Demogorgons for OSE by Eric Bloat (if you haven't already) also another awesome creator.

[@JPCoovert]

Big fan of both!

[@billbrown4026]

Out of curiosity, how does one convince you to talk about one's ttrpg game?

[@JPCoovert]

Must have the physical version and be excited about a unique aspect of it around the time I'm making one of these kinds of videos :P

[@DanielleKing-n7z]

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[@Ross-f4x]

I think there is to many

[@JiyanMajithiya_the_Great]

Please pin my comment dude that’ll actually make me happy for the rest of eternity