7 What fantasy RPG other
than D&D have you enjoyed most? Why?
It's not old school, and
it's arguably still D&D, but I found the Mongoose d20 Conan game
to be pretty awesome.
How is it different from
D&D? Well, for one thing, there are a dozen or so classes, but
only one can use magic. The magic system is fairly different from
D&D, and no one tried it out when we played it with my old Ebisu
gaming group. Dave C. had planned to run a game for our Busan gaming
group a few years back, and Josh was thinking of the Scholar class,
but we never got that game off the ground.
So we have a version of 3E
D&D (a game designed around the “magic item Christmas tree”
approach to gaming) without a lot of magic. Yet it worked.
The game captured the feel
of the Hyborean Age from the original stories, as well as comic books
and movie adaptations. It was heavy on combat (at least as we played
it), with most classes being variations on Fighter types, and it was
both high-powered yet challenging.
One of these days, I'll
try some other non-D&D fantasy games, but for the most part,
yeah, I've played D&D when I want to scratch my fantasy adventure
itch.
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