2025 Will Be The Biggest Year For RPGs Ever!

[@whittledraws]

Timestamps! 0:27 Daggerheart 1:45 Draw Steel 3:24 Cosmere 5:00 discworld 5:40 Exodus 7:15 2024 d&d (and why it counts

[@whittledraws]

also great work as always man! :D

[@benjones1452]

Broken Empires, this I’m very excited for,

[@AnotherDuck]

Biggest D&D killer is Hasbro.

[@КостяКлючников-з6у]

On the contrary, there're lots of sci-fi TTRPG. 1st edition of Traveller was released in 1977 and remains one of the most popular TTRPG ever, it even has retroclone in the person of Cepheus Engine. There are Coriolis by Free League, Mothership by Tuesday Knight Games, Cyberpunk (2013/2020/v3/RED) by R.Talsorian, lots of them + games based on franchises (Alien and Star Trek for example).

[@Mushkinides]

I would also mention Nimble 2 and DC20! (Personally really looking forward to Nimble)

[@WickedTheReaper]

You missed DC20 which is shaping up to look super amazing. and Starfinder is one good scifi ttrpg. Bit wordy....I wish they would cut it down honestly and streamline stuff, but if you like D&D 3.5, or pathfinder 1 or 2. Starfinder Enhanced edition just makes it better.

[@tiagoratto]

@@UltraTtrpger even though it's heavily inspired by DnD, you should give it a chance, it's a completely different game now.

[@baconcommander7504]

I'm actually pretty excited for the DC20 RPG, but I haven't heard a lot of people talk about it since the Kickstarter ended. I think it'll be a great game for those who want a ton of character customization while still staying with familiar areas like classes/species/stats, etc.

[@philipliao4006]

Competition is good, glad to see more TTRPGs incoming

[@Dlnqntt]

This is so true. The more product that is out there, the more the companies do their best to put out a high quality product to draw customers.

[@chrisr3570]

FYI Discworld already had a GURPS book previously, so it's not really just stepping into TTRPG

[@kathrynwillis8331]

The dagger heart system mentioned here sounds reminiscent of the Star Wars rpg from fantasy flight games. (Eote etc)Also you should check out DC20 by the dungeon coach. It’s shaping up to be a great game.

[@doomhippie6673]

My thoughts exactly.

[@paweszymkowiak7072]

Exactly! I heard the description of Dagger Heart and I immediately went "Wait, why he presents that as something groundbreaking? I've played like that already!". The FFGs mechanics build upon Star Wars RPG line is called Genesys and has been released as a framework rulset to work in many settings, with sourcebooks for some of FFGs original universes. Also, most modern mechanics allow for degrees of succes/failure to be determined by the roll.

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Really excited for a few of these!

[@Lukasaske]

Thanks for the list! Interesting stuff for sure

[@ChaoSJino]

Hm... I am actually most excited about the Fallen London TTRPG which will be coming out in 2025. I hope its mechanics help it be as interesting as the Fallen London game, or its spinoffs like Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies. :)

[@EnterThePocketDimension]

We are sitting at the exact same table that you are, Phil! We share a love of Daggerheart, Draw Steel, and even your thoughts about "Choosing a Flavor of 5e" because you Just Can't Quit D&D (ours is mostly Tales of the Valiant). Of COURSE there are more than just these new games coming out, and tons of great not-new ones, but love to hear about the ones that you are most excited about! And none of them have to be "D&D killers", even; we just have an embarrassment of riches and truly a system for everyone and every thing. It really will be an amazing year ahead, won't it?

[@TheDragonHoard_com]

Wait what about DC20???

[@WanderingMendicant-qd7mv]

I played Genesys and I've learned that adding narrative weight to every single die roll gets old fast.

[@jed2520]

AND we getting the Mighty Nein!

[@therealianquick]

Happy holidays man. I am personally excited for Daggerheart and Draw Steel. The hard part is getting my table to try literally anything that doesn't have the D&D logo on it. A few of my players are big Sanderson fans, so that might be an option. Maybe 2025 will be the year.

[@TheDoranMaster]

Wait, what? Why didn’t you include DC20???

[@BonusAction]

There’s a few I didn’t mention due to time constraints! I think I might have to do a part 2!

[@rooster700rr]

Part two!!!! For a Sci-Fi game I think starfinder also fits on the list. Also I know Pathfinder second edition is technically already released but with the remaster version I think it could still kind of fit as a new TTRPG. Plus it has a super-rich lore history and does an amazing job at creating compelling characters and is very well balanced mechanically.

[@tylergibson7652]

@@BonusAction Time constraints...? It's an 8 minute video lol wtf

[@BonusAction]

@@tylergibson7652 Time restraints for me to get the video out before the holiday break

[@SacchieILU]

​@BonusAction DC20 is what Im most excited about so yes please make a part 2! Happy holidays!!

[@JeffsGameBox]

I'm sticking with Dragonbane. I just don't care any more. I found my game. Shadowdark is good, too.

[@AzureShadow88]

I started to run Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. My players are excited because they think it brings more depth to the roleplaying. I personally also like the scaling better. If anyone is interested,the starter set has enough material in in to last a full campaigns length in Ubersreik, your favorite vermintide hangout. Im not buying in, but im curious how the upcoming tainted grail ttrp will perform.

[@bombjelly5795]

Where is 0:17 from ?

[@TTRPG_Quebec]

Forget dc20 and also Ember from the creator of foundry vtt

[@RenegadeRolls]

Daggerheart is the one that I'm most excited about, though I have a feeling that a lot of groups will drop the initiative-less setup in favour of more structured play. Us humans don't have the acting / comedy / improv chops to know when we're taking too much of the spotlight in combat, and even with the initiative tracker tokens, it can feel like one character gets to shine at the expense of the others. That's pretty much my only gripe with it though, I'm in love with everything else about the system - including the fact the Combat Wheelchair is part of the core rules and EVERYONE knows sign language. Discworld is going to be a tonne of fun too - I just need to find some players with a similar enthusiam for witty puns! Happy holidays to you from (sometimes) sunny Scotland!

[@MikChaos]

Merry Christmas sir, I'm going to be continuing to play D&D 5e /5.5e into and through 2025, including starting a new campaign with a whole new group.

[@nateshelton1052]

Was more excited about daggerheart before i learned about the dice/roll systems. Tbh, the more I hear of the game, the less appealing its becoming.

[@davidmcculloch7709]

Daggerheart has some cool ideas, but ultimately it’s a less interesting Genesys which inspired the narrative roll system (as stated by Genesys). It didn’t catch on, but it’s a better system.

[@MrGrokNRoll]

Speaking of scifi: Blue Planet: Recontact should be released early 2025 (backers already have the pdfs).

[@simeonsnow6742]

I love Daggerheart's good and bad side effects in addition to success and failure. Star Wars FFG RPG did this concept, but unfortunately that product line has been neglected

[@GMMace]

Have you never played Edge of the Empire? Its been doing what Daggerheart has for almost a decade.

[@GMMace]

In regards to Draw Steel, this is just Savage World but in d20

[@zebesttfd]

I really doubt any of these will be DnD killers, but any competition is good

[@Newnodrogbob]

Yeah. I know everybody hates WotC and Loathes Hasbro, but the idea that Dungeons and Dragons is going to stop being the market leader in the ttrpg space is a pretty wild fantasy at this point.

[@FattyMcFox]

Strange choice to add exodus when there are no details that hint at its quality and leave DC20 off the list when there are ample details on that.

[@yukimuratoru]

idk about dnd dying in 2025, I tried telling a group of complete ttrpg noobs that dnd does not equal ttrpg and that, for what we were looking to play, it would be best to use a different system and they said "no we wanna play dnd." In session 0 I almost completely converted the entire system to something completely different by asking what "settings" they wanted to adjust XD Like it was a video game.

[@cwesley2005]

Daggerheart yes!!

[@MorpheousXO]

Given my feels on 5e, I have no faith in WotC making a good sci fi rpg. For the time being I'll stick to PF2e for fantasy, and I'll check out Starfinder 2e when it comes out. I'm curious about Daggerheart and... uh... the MCDM rpg too. Cosmere RPG... well, while I do quite enjoy the books, I have never once thought "I want to play in these worlds" so unless the system is stellar (I haven't looked into it) and not a pita to put into a different setting, I imagine I'll be passing on it.

[@miaou5878]

So basically if I understand why you like Daggerheart, then try Genesis

[@doomhippie6673]

Hm, non of the mentioned rpgs sounds even vaguely interesting to me. And that's kind of sad as I do appreciate the people involved quite a bit.

[@JScottGaribay]

It is ridiculous to state that Daggerheart, the Discworld RPG or the Cosmere RPG will be a DND Killer. You would have to ignore math, pattern recognition and logic to state this - and I think you very much are.

[@BonusAction]

I think it could be for some tables

[@JScottGaribay]

@BonusAction Every TTRPG has a few tables that prefer their game. The definition of a D&D killer is a ttrpg that fully arrives and actually competes with D&D a national and international level. Thank you for the video.

[@steveholmes11]

Moar product.

[@MrVargeth]

Honestly none of these are even mildly interesting to me. It seems like they are not innovative in any way and the only thing they have is marketing and/or big money behind them.

[@plymoth1015]

Lmao, Daggerheart. Earthdawn has done all this since the 90’s. None if this is new. D&d absolutely needs de-throning. The game that will be and should always have been king since the 90’s is Earthdawn. The only fantasy rpg for series role-players and great system mechanic buffs alike.