it's like D&D, but it's actually good.

I do, even if I still kept my old D&D books around to mine for ideas. There's just some cool shit in the older books, before they lopped their balls off to appeal to the troons and normies.
It's also not dying of number bloat like other systems.

Why?

>>95911226 (OP)
>STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
>WIS
easiest way to tell that a game is just a mindless d&d bootleg.

>>95911226 (OP)
>it's like D&D
Pass!

>>95911226 (OP)
>It's like D&D
>But actually good

These two things as are mutually exclusive.

>>95911402
Please?

I mine it for stuff. I like the Sense The Need psionic power for example which lets a character produce a mundane item they weren't carrying because they had sensed they would need it later and had absentmindedly picked it up and forgotten about it.

>>95911226 (OP)
I do. It's excellent.

>>95912592

>d6 flexible skill system
>Cool, simple feats system
>setting flexible
>great GM tools for generating NPCs, locations, quests
>decent faction simulation rules
>cross compatible with all of the other "X Without Number" games.

You can download the base version for free and get a feel for what you think of it. Includes everything but some specific high-power rules and some of the gm tables.

>>95912762
My friends and I dumbed the faction system down a bit. We then took turns rolling 20 planets. Once done, we started at the scream and played 1 turn of faction action at 25 years each to simulate 400 years of history. 20 planets, 4 major factions. Then played in it. It's rad.

>>95911226 (OP)
>X Wihout Number
>it's like D&D, but it's actually good.
Kevin Crawfords OSR games have also inspired some pretty lulz retsupraes aswell.
Heres a slapper from an SWN game from a couple years back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHrZoda-Go&t=701s

>>95911226 (OP)
Nah, it's hipster dogshit.
I can just play actual old school DMD and get a lot more mileage out of the $0 I would spend

>>95913020
Yeah it really is a great game. It'd too bacd Kevins game is so underrated. Hopefully more people can come to understand the methods to his madness.
Great games. Lotta Fun!

anyone play Godbound much? I like the premise a lot but I don't see people talk about it.

>>95911226 (OP)
What makes it good

>>95912823
>Kevin Crawfords OSR games have also inspired some pretty lulz retsupraes aswell.
Restsupurae a tabletop game? do they just talk over a podcast

>>95912782
QRD on how it works?
Would it be compatible with traveller?
Been playing SWN and the only issue I have is the economy system compared to Traveller.

>>95914303
Anon, fix your bot. It keeps posting the same canned responses.

>>95914396
???
this was my first post
I don't know how you retsupurae a tabletop game

>>95914330
Here's the primer I handed out that we used to build our sector and then manage one faction each, in turns of 25 years each. We just gave d4 experience each 25 years based on how many centuries in. And we ran from 28th to 32nd century. So turns 1-4 you get 1d4 exp, 5-8 2d4, 9-12... et cetera. We'd never used this before and did have to amend a tiny bit as we played through. But it worked out well and was hella fun. And we ended up w/ 4 international super powers that were a banking guild, a mercenary company, a psitech research secret service, and the straight up military expansionists.

Oh fuck I can't upload pdfs any more. Forgot. Fine. Here's the catbox link to it: https://files.catbox.moe/kp4dpi.pdf

>>95911226 (OP)
It's not really like D&D.

>>95914291
>only 3 classes and they all play differently
>focuses (feats) are character-defining instead of being fluff
>player characters can actually die; characters start with 1d6 HP at level 1
>morale checks + encounter disposition rolls enforce dynamic gameplay (enemies may flee from combat RAW depending on their morale stat)
>2d6 skill system stolen from Traveller = no swingy skill check bullshit; characters are actually allowed to be good at things
>wizards get more significant spells and cast them less often; almost no direct-damage magic
>simple and effective XP system

>>95914449
Thanks

>>95914330
>>95914449
Oh and for worlds... everyone rolled up their world, selected a marble to represent it (we were doing this on Tabletop Simulator), placed their world, named it, and gave me a sentence describing it in addition to the stats. I collated everything into an excel sheet and, from that I built a 2-page primer of each planet. Here's an early version of the world book we ended up with. I cannot find the final version at this moment, but it's burried somewhere in my discord. (Spergs calm down. Yes: it's got AI art. It's just for me and my group of friends to play an RPG with).

Catbox link: https://files.catbox.moe/9mpnvw.pdf

>>95911226 (OP)
>it's like D&D, but it's actually good.

I have heard this dozens of times, and EVERY SINGLE TIME the game making this claim SOMEHOW manages to be even worse than D&D somehow.

>>95914512
Then don't play it. For those of us who do? It's hella fun.

>>95911226 (OP)
SWN is an amazing sector generator for a good sci fi system like WEG D6.

>>95915165
you've probably heard of it, but Sectors Without Number is a cool tool. It automatically generates sectors using SWN's rules and then lets you edit them:
https://sectorswithoutnumber.com/

>>95915174
It's really good! I've also really enjoyed using The Perilous Void.

>>95911226 (OP)
The way the psychic powers are set up kinda chafe my autism a bit but otherwise I love everything about SWN.

I also have something of a deep seeded desire to use it to run a game in the Star Fox universe.

>>95911257
>There's just some cool shit in the older books, before they lopped their balls off to appeal to the troons and normies.
qrd?

>>95912510
Your mom is mutually exclusive.

>>95917613
Yours isn't.

>>95917399
Random Harlot table

>>95911458
This is a good replacement to 5e for those looking for a new system. Give the GM lots of tables and tools to make a great setting. If you really going to whine if it has stats for the characters it a bootleg then you don't be shocked when everything is a clone/bootleg/knock off of DND. That's like saying every car is the knock off of the Model T.

>>95911226 (OP)
Stars Without Number is one of my favorite SF systems. A lot like Traveller, it just works.

>>95919222
It's not about being a copy, but about being a MINDLESS copy, about copying stupid shit that was already stupid in D&D yet kept in there for sake of tradition.

>>95919265
>mindless
Elaborate?

Crawford pretty obviously has a high degree of compatibility with OSR and to a lesser extent the broader D&D sphere as one of his design goals. Your seething doesn't make his design decision mindless.

>>95919274
NTA but I think he means calling the stat Wisdom while it doesn't actually mean wisdom, but more of perception or instinct.