Top 10 RPGs To Play Instead Of Dungeons & Dragons

[@NoRollsBarred]

ADAM: If you’d like to pick up any of the RPGs mentioned in this video, here are some links, including some of our Amazon Affiliate links, which help us out at no extra cost :) 10. Ten Candles : bit.ly/2TkyvHb 9. Fiasco US: amzn.to/3hjZsTt // UK: amzn.to/3h8ysrc 8. Call of Cthulhu US: amzn.to/3jqN06P // UK: amzn.to/3AoYRIS 7. Alice Is Missing bit.ly/3wbDcjU 6. Fate Core US: amzn.to/3h89Ped // UK: amzn.to/3du7Z4O 5. No thank You, Evil US: amzn.to/2TliMaQ // UK: amzn.to/3hp1bqi 4. Blades In The Dark US: amzn.to/3du6eoe // UK: amzn.to/3AgakdG 3. World Wide Wrestling : ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg 2. Honey Heist : gshowitt.itch.io/ 1. Golden Sky Stories US: amzn.to/3xa33Ke // UK: bit.ly/3h4QgTO

[@MrBrknsyt]

Please play Ten Candles with all the people from No Rolls Barred,Adam. I would love to see if.

[@CaitiffFTW]

@@MrBrknsyt Sadly, that would require the group to be together, IRL, for the full effect.

[@MrBrknsyt]

@@CaitiffFTW yeah. When all this is over then. I hope.

[@seandunne9048]

Sully was born to play Honey Heist 🍯🐻🐨🐻‍❄️🐼

[@Viking_Luchador]

what if you really wanna learn to play D&D, but can't find anyone nearby willing to help you learn?

[@MitchellinMan]

Imagine Honey Heist with Sully in it

[@CaitiffFTW]

Sullivan? Or "The Sullivan"? Either way, this comment needs to be signal boosted. Make this a Board Game Club video.

[@bnorris771]

YOU THROW OFF YOUR CLOAK TO REVEAL YOU ARE...THE HONEY BADGER.

[@dungeonmasterv]

This!!!!!!

[@voodan]

'Im a bear... A honey, honey bear'

[@darkdestiny9106]

I believe he goes by "B B B B B" now

[@marvinko6610]

Pleeeeeease do a 10 Candles session for Halloween! That would be incredibly awesome

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

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.

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

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!!

[@WolfeLeon23]

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.

[@SponsorNo1]

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!

[@mattsugrim7132]

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.

[@antoniomoralesuriarte3711]

DE NIM MATRIX!!!!

[@RagingSnorlax]

Oh I would pay good money for Sully Bo Brown to be the one to dethrone her

[@mattsugrim7132]

@@RagingSnorlax you mean BBBBB? Yeah, that's a prospect I would be down for.

[@MultiClassGeek]

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

[@ianbyrne465]

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

[@edatthegovernance]

Problem: if I do recall, Adam shares most board game café employees' (past or present) perfectly reasonable dislike of Jenga.

[@Dazz3rz450]

@@edatthegovernance you recall correctly

[@ZoeAlleyne]

We play Dread (murder jenga) every Halloween. My boyfriend spends the months leading up to it planning the prefect story.

[@ianbyrne465]

@@edatthegovernance true. Which is perfectly fair. I'd say give it a try with any variant dexterity game that has a similar mechanic maybe

[@furq1399]

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?

[@MultiClassGeek]

I’ve seen enough BotC on here to know that under no circumstances should you play Paranoia with any of the NRB gang.

[@danielmiller3596]

Never Toon.

[@danielmiller3596]

@@MultiClassGeek you know that makes us want to play it with them even more, correct?

[@furq1399]

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

[@MultiClassGeek]

@@danielmiller3596 Of course

[@jasontardiff2149]

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.

[@falcon8752]

"don't like a rule change it" is D&D with a confident GM, though. But you're right, totally worth it!

[@robintunkel4717]

I like the Savage Worlds version of Rifts. They just released the Atlantis conversion.

[@JohnFliesWithRavens]

Great stuff! Now, when do we get NRB plays 10 Candles? I need that in my life.

[@nobodywantsthethimble]

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.

[@SESauvie]

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.

[@MrBrknsyt]

Not gonna lie... TEN CANDLES sounds amazing! I wish I could play it with other people here in Thailand.

[@NarfiRef]

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!

[@MikeHughey728]

I've been so frustrated for so long trying to get other RPG players to try anything -- anything at all -- that isn't D&D (and Pathfinder still counts as D&D, don't kid yourself). I love D&D, but I don't get the "one game to rule them all" mentality of so many players. It's like saying "Rick and Morty is my favorite TV show, therefore I'm never going to watch any other show, ever," and also Rick and Morty is the one and only show you've ever actually seen.

[@ishoottheyscore8970]

I never felt like playing D&D again after playing the White-Wolf Storyteller system. Combination of setting, and also the flow of the rules, it just felt so much richer

[@DozenMarks]

I do like me some Honey Heist and other games by that creator. Nice and simple and easy to play and just plain fun.

[@ZoeAlleyne]

@@ishoottheyscore8970 oh wow, world of darkness was my gateway too. Placing more emphasis on rpg and theatre of the mind it is REALLY hard to go back to something like d&d. D&d will always have a special place in my heart, but it is in the past for me.

[@ishoottheyscore8970]

@@ZoeAlleyne I won't lie, I'd still love to see a TV show that adopted some of the ideas in Mage - a Euthanatos anti-hero would be fascinating. It's a shame that Kindred: The Embraced was so limp, and that they've never tried to do something with Werewolf. That was a thing for me - with D&D the stories were essentially like a computer game. You'd grind to get levels, and the bad guys would escalate too, but it felt like a much more mechanical contest. The WW settings just had richer stories where yes, characters did progress, but it just felt like the stories developed more in to deeper antagonists, like eventually trying to take down a major wyrm corporation in Werewolf

[@garthantash]

@@ishoottheyscore8970 in April this year, Variety announced the people behind The Witcher have signed a deal with Paradox Interactive to make tv and movies based on World of Darkness properties so you could be in luck there. World of Darkness was my gateway out of D&D as well. These days I play PbtA or Genesys games and would never go back to a rigid level system, miniatures based game.

[@jamiebollans8121]

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!

[@guapounggoy]

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.

[@TheKirbyT]

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.

[@adamr6621]

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.

[@ZoeAlleyne]

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?

[@glenndallas7171]

City of Mist is CHOICE!

[@adeliciousbutterydong7664]

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.

[@Kay_Sea251]

I NEED to see that! Any chance it hasn't been deleted from Twitch and is on KZbin?

[@graph180]

I personally have always loved Savage Worlds.

[@DeadHierophant]

Never played, heard great things

[@danielmiller3596]

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

[@robintunkel4717]

I’m excited about Savage Worlds Pathfinder and the new Atlantis book for Savage Rifts.

[@graph180]

@@robintunkel4717 Savage Rifts! Ahhhh....now THAT is something I've been aching to play.

[@bedathprop]

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..

[@DanTalvi]

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.

[@tvdavis]

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.

[@GTurner1812]

Wow was not expecting to see After School Dice Club getting mentioned here. Such a nice little anime

[@shallendor]

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

[@blondgalahad]

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.

[@saltyluggage5535]

I've got to shout out for Kobolds Ate My Baby! And their beer and pretzel engine.

[@foxfireinferno3547]

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.

[@TheAtticus19]

Hell yeah, fuckin’ love me some After School Dice Club!

[@patrickjohnson1649]

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.

[@Whitebeardcrewmate]

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

[@Whitebeardcrewmate]

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)

[@unlimitedrabbit]

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.

[@SleepyDullahan]

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.

[@nickdejager8873]

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.

[@aetherealharmony]

I kind of assumed the World of Darkness would've showed up in the list. Still a good list though.

[@afp75]

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

[@EndParenthesis]

Never heard of it before, but Alice Is Missing sounds like it could be genuinly incredible.

[@fanniszathmary2266]

Vampire the Masquerade and World of Darkness altogether is amazing for horror lovers. Highly recommend!!

[@danpeak8798]

I'm a big fan of the Cypher System myself, been running all my games in that for the last few years.

[@Sephyrulz]

Welp, we need a Golden Sky Stories game on NRB gawking yesterday, lads.

[@Wolfe911]

"Make a wallet saving throw with disadvantage." Awesome.

[@TheBigGrumpy]

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.

[@CulturePhilter]

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.

[@NoRollsBarred]

ADAM: That's wonderful! So glad to hear it :)

[@Brodysseus]

Are you sure you're not talking about Mazes and Monsters?

[@DoubleCritFail]

10 Candles sounds really, really cool.

[@MrKennybass]

Ten Candles sounds awesome! I know what I'm playing around Halloween.

[@talhoyle]

Cyberpunk Red Chronicles of Darkness - Mage the Awakening 2E, or Vampire the Requiem 2E, but any are good. Some would substitute in Vampire the Masquerade 5E Traveller (This, Cyberpunk, Blades and Mage are the games I run at the moment.) Dread Blades in the Dark Runequest (Because of the Glorantha setting) Numenera (Or the Strange. Unmasked and Predation are excellent too.) Trail of Cthulhu, Mutant City Blues, or Night's Black Agents. Pathfinder 2E Shadow of the Demon Lord OSRIC (or another of the excellent games in its wake, like Mothership. The Rules Cyclopedia for BECMI Moldvay is excellent too.) Bluebeard's Bride or Thousand Year Old Vampire (To see the frontiers of gaming) Lancer (for innovation. I personally don't like it) Android Netrunner Shadow of the Beanstalk, or FFG Star Wars. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. (The current version, or the original) Fiasco

[@zackdawson669]

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.

[@alharron2145]

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.

[@krowvakabon]

Teared up a bit during the #1 entry Damn, that was sweet

[@MemphiStig]

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'!

[@benjaminrosa1418]

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.

[@danielmiller3596]

With a good narrative GM, 10 candles is terrifying.

[@zackdawson669]

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.

[@TheKaydenMonroe]

The updated versions of White Wolf games like Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, and Geist the Soul Eater are great games, but are kinda jank when it comes to set up. The settings and ideas are great. And with a little tweaking it can lead to great stories

[@ismolatham4393]

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!!!

[@mrnixon2287]

Mothership! Give this game a go. Its awesome. I have played Alice is MIssing! Highly recommended!

[@monoespacial]

My main problem with games like these, (which like d&d, I've never played, it's not big in Argentina) is that when Adam describes something like "Give your character something that troubles them" his example is *framed for murder and on the run* while mine is *he had a flat tire*

[@CptToast_]

The beauty of RPG's is, that this would still work, as an RPG can be anything you want it to be. All you get is a rule set and maybe some inspiration for a story, but the rest is up to you and your group. My RPG group's been doing one shot adventures in the Star Wars and Halo universe, in a Film Noir setting, as pirates on an epic quest, Vampires, Vikings, different personalities inside the brain of a schizophreniac and most recently ourselves all using the same system. If you want a flat tire to be your character's motivation to throw over the government, go for it

[@marsupialmole3926]

Legend of the 5 Rings 4th edition is my favourite RPG of all time. You play fantasy samurai in fantasy not-Japan and the game is fantastic for either playing out Princess Mononoke or basically any Kurosawa film and i love it. Also it has the best dice system ever and i will never forgive FFG for what they did to it.

[@Frisbeehat]

What did they do to it? Otherwise sounds like something I need to check out

[@marsupialmole3926]

@@Frisbeehat L5R prior to FFG buying the IP used a dice system called roll&keep. Where each roll was a dice pool of d10s. You rolled a number of d10s equal to your relevant stat + your relevant skill, but you only kept the results of your revelant stat in dice. So, for example, if you swung at someone with your katana, you rolled agility + kenjutsu, let's say 3+4 for 7 dice rolled, but of those 7 you only kept the results of the top 3. It made for really dynamic progression, as it was easier to level up skills than stats, and also reflected well a dynamic between stat and skill, as your stat illustrated your potential, but your skill increased your reliability. Then, for L5R 5th edition, FFG replaced this with the generic Genesys dice system they use for all of their RPGs and I hate it so much

[@Frisbeehat]

@@marsupialmole3926 I appreciate the reply and explanation! Really does sound unique and a shame it was done away with. Going to look into the 4th edition, then. Cheers

[@nicolasgonzalezatencio9491]

World wide wrestling is coming home on payday. A few that will fill your hunger for dark games: Vampire the masquerade 20th anniversary edition. Because... It's bloody awesome ( pun intended) Kult (which it has similarities to Cthulhu however does it's own thing with the nirvana/chaos system. Some video games like mass Effect or Kotor took this mechanic and made it mainstream).

[@ienjoypaste]

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.

[@MindOfGenius]

Personal reason why Blades In The Dark is higher than FATE? Imagine FATE, but with *just* enough crunch to still be free-form. Most things you roll that aren't directly tied to a character are rolled using their Tier. EVERYTHING has a Tier; the gangs, the police, the butchers, railroad workers, each community (how resilient the people there are), the museums, EVERYTHING. Also, it guides you into doing the things YOU SAID your character held dear or was important to them in order to get THE COOLER STUFF. Wanna be super-powered min-maxer? GOTTA ROLL-PLAY TO GET THE BUFFS, YO! TIME TO GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT! FATE always felt a bit TOO loose, like a bare skeleton. BitD has enough meat on it to keep gnawing on it for quite awhile.

[@zachde5940]

I don't think it was out at the time but Coriolis: The Third Horizon is something that has captured my attention now.

[@andrew232]

I would love to see a full on NRB playthrough of Alice is Missing

[@matthewwood4481]

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

[@p1g30n11]

If anyone watches this video and is interested in Alice is missing. I'VE PLAYED IT! Make sure you have a group that is prepared to heavily improv. certain forced events in the game are required to be completely improv'd :)

[@MeonLights]

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.

[@eternalmiasma5586]

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

[@flicnerdy4385]

Ok so very late butttttttttt: Anime campaign, An insane system based on shounen anime, the players can be Mundies: Normal people, but extra tough and can level up faster, or Epithet users: Where you get a power based on one word, and you get that word from random word generators. As a GM sitting down with someone and then having to work out how to make words liek "Rice" into a power is hilarious. Also people get weirdly creative as mundies too just to match the chaos of the epithet users. I also love Kids on Broomsticks, which is great if you love roleplaying (Which I do). It's built for magic school type things. so like Harry potter but not creator isn't a bigot! (Atleast if your Gm's cool). It also has some pages in the manuel for the players to help create the school their in. I've done a few oneshots this way, a personal highlight was myself, 2 otehrs around my age then my dad's 60 year old friend just doing it to not be bored and us ending up with a cat-person school and the older guy playing a teacher that was definately a dog-person. It was hilarious.

[@pouletnoir4441]

Have you guys tried Inspectres? It's a simple goofy Ghostbusters-like RPG about running a paranormal investigation franchise and it has a similar mechanism to BitD's Flashback mechanic.

[@kimmikkelsen9601]

Castle Falkenstein Ladies and Gentlemen. For the people in the know, you know why it makes sense. Now, bugger off the rest of you riff raff scallywags that use... ."dice".

[@fernandomeneghetti]

Please, take a look at these and see if they deserve a second video. Toon - Roger rabbit style rpg where physics is irrelevant. Paranoia - 1984 meets 2001 space odyssey where everyone is a traitor and communists are mutants. In... space... Cyberpunk - the one that gave the inspiration to the video game has a new version out. Travelers - the only rpg where you can die during character creation. It's a futuristic space rpg like star wars / trek. Catthulu - call of cthulu, but you're a cat. Tales of Equestria - My... little... pony... World of Darknes - now on V5, you can play with all the classic horror monsters like vampires, werewolves, mages, mummies. If you need reference to those so you can see them played let me know.

[@glenndallas7171]

This list needs more silly games. Honey Heist is great, but I don't think I have ever laughed harder during RPG play than I have with Ninja Burger. Also Kobolds Ate My Baby.

[@stevencowan37]

The one game of Fiasco I played, we somehow ended up blowing an arctic Pokemon research facility ran by nazis. 10/10 would play again.

[@michaelennis9040]

Adding the out of print Marvel Heroic Role-playing for consideration. The core books and a couple supplements are still floating around the aftermarket and the entire run can be downloaded. MHR is simply the finest narrative-based RPG out there, bar none. Deceptively simple mechanics with surprisingly deep nuances of play that encourages creativity and storytelling. The system is toolbox oriented and lends itself to a fair amount of tweaks and adjustment without breaking the game and the rules can be very easily adapted to other setting, with several publi actions specifically supporting this. It's easily the best game people don't know about.

[@lindyxyo4254]

Call of Cthulhu is the only PnP game I've ever had a real desire to play. I'd much rather a meaty mystery, information gathering, and problem solving then just taking turns rolling dice to see if I hit a Kobold. CoC seems deadly, like combat is the last resort if nothing else is possible. And rightly so, that's how it should be in that world.

[@tyrnicl]

I'm still yet to invest in or play a TTRPG in any capacity other than YT campaigns, but of the ones I've narrowed my interest down to, 7th Seas seems quite good (because who doesn't like pirates?!).

[@yeshayahzaner6960]

What about the star wars RPGs from fantasy flight games? Also, the discontinued Warhammer 40k games

[@Graehaus]

Wow, just wow. I am a long time roger, starting in ‘79. Thankfully Fate is on this. But what about Cyberpunk 2020. CR is a cancer to gaming, it is a business not friends gaming, I know a lot of players and DM’s who think that is the way to game. It is not, I was a fan, until meeting folks who are scared to play or run games.

[@thewingedporpoise]

YES!!!! I am a massive fan of TTRPGs and am trying to get into more non DnD games also I love Blades in the Dark and have so far run only one game of it but it was very fun. Am also watching an actual play of it on Outside Xtra I have yet to actually play a session of Eidolon: Become Your Best Self but it is very anime and I have a character and honestly a style of system I've been looking for for ages

[@DamwainGames]

Ribbon Drive, Love in the time of Seið, Montsegur 1244, Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne, Grey Ranks

[@-KiTToBuG]

Wait, so there's no way to "win" at 10 Candles? Everyone always dies? The GM always wins and kills everyone?... ... And this is the only game you've GM'd?

[@slyliquid4985]

You have missed the purpose of RPGs. It is not players against the GM. The GM facilitates a world for the players to play in as together you all craft a story. It is not competitive like you are thinking. There is no win or lose. Just the story and the world that is crafted. Any GM who plays to win or players playing to foil a GM should not be playing table top RPGs.

[@-KiTToBuG]

@@slyliquid4985 I generally agree. However, if you play a game, and all but one person dies by the end, SOMEBODY WON! I was more making a statement about Adam choosing a game where all the player characters are killed as the only game he's ever GM'd, but thanks for your input on who should/shouldn't play RPGs. I thought it was about getting together and having fun, but apparently (according to the authority that is Sly Liquid) only those with the correct motivation should be accepted into this elite and cloistered cult. Thank you sir for enlightening me.

[@slyliquid4985]

@@-KiTToBuG It is not authorty I wield but an opinion that is held by the vast majority of people who play RPGs. It is about having fun with others but it is not a competition type of game. I was stating the "I won" mentality has no place at a table of friends playing a non competive game. Now if is a competitive game by all means try to win because thats the point of thoes games.

[@AbscondPT]

All outta bubblegum!!!! All Outta Bubblegum is an extremely short roleplaying game that uses bubblegum as a pacing mechanic. Players start with 8 sticks, and either have to roll greater than (if the action falls in the "kicking ass" category) or equal to or under (if it does not) the number of remaining sticks on a 1d10 to resolve an action. A stick of bubblegum is lost if a successful asskicking roll is made against a character, or when the character fails a non-asskicking roll. When a character is all out of bubblegum, they automatically succeed at all combat-related actions, but automatically fail at all non-combat related actions. Also, it works best with some minor tweaks: You start in a mundane setting, like stuck in traffic and late to catch a flight. Instead of ass kicking, you roll for awesome stuff or mundane stuff. From experience, the games usually end up with someone summoning Chtulu, because it's awesome to ask an elder god to take you to the airport, please and thank you.

[@stevenbeier]

I know they are bigger games but surprise there was no mention of Rifts or World of Darkness. Plus if you want a crunchier version of D&D, check out Pathfinder 2.0.

[@doomblackdragon]

Really surprise you did not say stuff like Warhammer 40k RPG, Cyberpunk, Fading Suns, or World of Darkness. Honestly it is like half these games you can not even play online. So many one shot games too.

[@philipmarlowe5249]

Honestly my favorite RPG that is not D&D (and honestly I like it better than D&D) is Shadowrun. I have been playing or running it sense it came out, and it never gets boring.

[@jamesmclane6036]

I get that this is a list weighted for accessibility since it’s for people who have only heard of d&d, but no love for any of the White Wolf games? Vampire the Masquerade is, after d&d, the single most influential rpg ever released. Also Exalted is amazing

[@JacksonOwex]

3:04 Is that Uncle Bruce from The Jackal(I think that's what it was called), he played the bad guy, it was weird but still very good!

[@ManateeGag]

Disappointed that Paranoia didn't make the lost. 1984 meets the Marx Brothers. You can equate the environment to a Fallout vault but large and run by an insane computer that thinks the cold war is still happening.

[@sergiofrazier4604]

After School Dice Club is gold.

[@TheGlock30owner]

Gamma World, Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Top Secret, and Marvel Superheroes

[@house3x382]

Fate of Cthulhu, Call of Cthulhu crossed with the Terminator. Truly great and truly bonkers.

[@thebestame3582]

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

[@Luigiking3]

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.

[@Justin_North]

Watching this at three hours after publication. The video currently has 3 dislikes. I wonder why those guys are sour.

[@donaldwatson6863]

The Dark Eye and Lancer are two of my favorite "off-brand" RPG's

[@Japanlover79]

I knew you would reference after school dice club at some point. Speaking of I really need to finish it