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If it's a PbtA please expand on your system of choice!

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I really enjoyed Sexy Battle Wizards, but I think The Witch is Dead speaks to me more. I like player characters just being little weak dudes and struggling against normal stuff. (both of these are free by grant howitt and 1 page of rules)

I also enjoyed rude detectives, it has a surprisingly juicy dice system for a game that's just 4-5 pages. It's themed around child detective stories.

PbtA I like magpies stuff, like avatar and root, but my favorite until now was Fellowship 2e I think. Just so extremely versatile, and it's a joy to give a lot of narrative control to players.

Last one is kinda cheating: my current favorite game is rules light within it's genre. 13th Age is the easiest 'dnd' I've ever seen, and the amount of dumb rules and bookkeeping it prunes has reinvigorated 20f games for me! But compared to other games, it's still a bunch of rules of course.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two I really enjoy are Index Card RPG by Runehammer, d20 done nice and light.

The other is Breathless by Fari Games, it has a free SRD and tons of games for it released under the Breathless Jam https://itch.io/jam/breathless-jam/entries

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seconded for ICRPG. The way it handles exploration and the whole tension die thing is great.