1:47 Lol Да здравствует первое мая!

Missing the point. It's a different niche. They don't need to be as popular as those that output a lot of content. Content that is expensive to make. The model is different, they are not trying to replace dnd, but to appeal to a different crowd. They don't need huge numbers to break even. Basically your definition of "successful" is too narrow.

I suppose price is high, but thats what youre going to pay on the secondary market

Try Pirate Borg!!!

Great analogy using ice cream…great, now I’m hungry.

If Grimdark is Doom Metal, then Hopepunk is Power Metal.

it sounds like Delinquents are antiheroes

Their was a misunderstanding on the pronunciation of kyrie? They battle over magic pools that when they drink of them they get certain magic abilities (like summoning beings from all over space and time) and they grow wings. Ironically you say think of them as valkyrie which is easy because that's what they are. The Val is a prefix which indicates they are empowered. So val+kyrie. It wasn't hard you just had to interact with the lore at some point.

Speaking as someone who hates WOTC (and Hasbro to an extent but they make Marvel Legends and Transformers so, probably a bit more forgiving than I should be) I see D&D as only one tool for me as a DM, out of many. There's also Alien, One Ring, the fan made Zelda TTRPG "Dangerous to Go Alone!," Cyberpunk Red...if I want some high fantasy zaniness where my players use the mother of all backhands to slap a dragon's head off as their finisher? True story, btw. Then I go with D&D. Old school style Greyhawk adventures? I'll look to Dungeon Crawl Classics. And so on and so forth. What helps too is there's not really any 5e books that interest me much that I cant just get secondhand, the only one left I'm wanting is Xanathar's Guide. That is to say, I love D&D as a game. The company needs a massive shakeup, time will tell if hiring a guy who worked on World of Warcraft will fix things but I'm still refraining from new releases. Especially when the world of indie RPGs exist and keep catching my attention. I might have to look into this Dungeon World you keep mentioning...

Played a lot of different systems with a lot of different levels of number crunching (5E is on the low end of that btw, old time dnd fans find 5E is dumbed down) and I almost never get a complaint about number crunching, it's almost always about the pressure to role play from other players. A lot of people are intimidated and do want to play a game rather than be pressured into improv. I would disagree that most people get into DND because they "want to tell stories." People get into it for a wide variety of reasons and people are into different levels of wargaming and role playing. DND did start from a wargaming group after all. Some people get invested in the narrative, others want a space to mess around, others want a highly strategic game where they can customize their builds, synergize a party, and play a tactical game. I get you prefer the role playing aspect and that's great, you found a game that works for you and I'm glad you love it, but a lot of us like the game aspect and DND is barely number crunchy compared to systems like 3.5, GURPS, Witcher/Cyberpunk, and you don't have to be a dick about it.

I keep pontificating about making KZfaq videos mostly about both 5e and mayhaps pf2. But I have a lot of criticisms about pf2 and I keep wanting to make a video where it's basically me reading off my complaints and why i disagree with the design philosophy of balance over everything else. I also want to talk about how it made me appreciate 5e more by helping me see its pros and put them into words. I still like both systems, but I'm like genuinely afraid of getting doxxed and harrassed by some pf2 fan from kiwifarms or whatever. Because the pf2 online community in particular is full of aholes who can't handle anyone calling pf2 anything less than perfect.

isn't roleplaying like.. the point? doesn't RPG stand for role-playing game...? Idk ig i just like improv exercises

if this is the definition of doomed, i am more than happy that OSR is "doomed"

World of Dungeons has a great level up system

DW is to PbtA as Mint is to Linux.

I disagree with anyone who says more water is unnecessary, my old water tiles are the most brittle out of all my hexes

Where is DC20

No it isn’t, it’s boring and tedious

Those prices are pretty standard for mini games these days.

"Things cost more money" - BOOO! HiSSSS! "Still cheaper than Warhammer" - .... OK. You got me.

Popular = successful? Tell that to Basic Fantasy.

Gotta be honest, I bought Dungeon World on your recommendation and hated it unlike any other TTRPG I've played so far. not mad at you, but dang I hate that game.

Your editing is so gd good

How about people just play what they want... There's a huge spectrum of rules and numbers crunching and how much role playing you do is really up to you and not super dependent on rulesets anyways. Having played games all across the spectrum, liking most of them for different reasons. I'll say that one advantage of a more crunchy system is predictability and strategy. The less that's left to the DM, the more the players can strategize and collaborate. I also enjoy wargames and the more (good) systems you have for combat, and the better you set up your encounters, the more it feels like a game. I've run games for many people with many different interest. Some of them hate wargames and want the story to move on because they're not here for the combat mechanics, they're here for the story and the roleplay. Role play I've also found to be independent of crunchy rules. Half of our sessions have always been characters talking to each other, maybe a roll here or there to determine something.

That was the best outro yet. That is the game for people who just want to sit down and have fun. That even has less rules than Kobolds ate my Baby. Thanks for making entertaining stuff for us to watch.

This was the first PBTA game I ever run, in a one shoot made to introduce the players to a 2d6 mechanics game with 6-, 7 to 9 and 10+. The 12+ is a plus for when I later started a Dungeon World campaign.

PBTA games are narrative because their whole point is "the narrative triggers the move", which means "in the appropriate circumstances of the tale we are telling we use mechanics to solve the situation". Like every other RPG,.

Good video

If I was to rate Freeform games as perfect to did they truly make an effort, this one feels like it was created over a weekend of copious amounts bong usage and good ‘nuff mentality. I feel like he initial concepts have merit but it would benefit strongly from at least a couple of examples of spells, monsters and combat. Too much of it is left vague or nonexistent and that leads to infighting at the table or a complete control monger of a GM. If I wanted to make my own game, I would. Wait, I did.

Looks like it has everything you need. Assuming you don't need a lot of rules😅

If you squint, you can see a lot of proto-Blades in there...

I bought it and read it. It feels like it would make a good kernel for a Solo trial preceeding a sandboxy one-shot. Procedural exploration as the primary game loop, with perilous challenges to punctuate the adventure.

Did you just click stealth? 😮😉

People would flip out if they realized what the avg cost of minis from peeps like GW is, and those are unassembled AND unpainted. Anyway look up what zenithal highlight painting is and get some simple contrast or speed paints yall (vallejo and GW offer some good paints), it aint that hard.

I'd say the only thing the game is lacking is a list of general actions or consequences to perform on a 9-. It could be the list of GM moves from Dungeon world. Whenever a character has a partial success or failure use one of the following that fits: - Deal damage or apply a condition - Use up their resources - Use their move against them - Separate the character - Show a downside from their characters - Offer an opportunity with or without a cost - Put someone in the spot

Nice video mate. I doubt WoDu is for me. But hey.

My FAVORITE short game of all time.

Great for quick 1 shots

Learning about WoDu is great but holy premier pro CS6 those are some sleek editing skills

World of Dungeons has one of my all time favorite magic systems. Hat tip to Sorcerer. I honestly don't see where the confusion with hit dice is, guess it's the decades of experience with old school games.

I'm a huge fan of the Planarch Codex (Dark Heart of the Dreamer; The Calvino Cycle or, If on a Wintry Plane a Freebooter; and The Path of Ghosts), and I am sad to see it so thoroughly scrubbed from the internet. It's not exactly directly related to this, but I found them at the same time and have them saved together in the same space. It's 100% Dungeon World Planescape.

World of Dungeons FUCKS. Also it is indeed eminently hackable. I’ve seen it do WFRP, Shadowrun, Star Wars, and more. See also World of Dungeons Turbo: Breakers. That is an updated rule set that fucks HARD (thank you John Harper!)

Yes, the Die of Fate is a d6. Any and all dice are d6s.

The HD and HP are not as confusing as you make them out to be lol

Lol. Just wait til you see awesome WoDu subset Breakers!

For combat, it's technically in WoDu. "When you attempt something risky, sum 2d6 and add one of your attribute scores, based on the action you’re taking." So roll 2d6+stat, you then roll your damage if you succeed. Take damage from the creature if you fail. And DM decides what happens on a partial succeed, but I like both sides take damage to keep things moving.

I'm glad you have finally found it!

Hey! Great video as always! Off topic, but: any plans on talking about the Masks expansions? Are they good? Worth it? Do they give you any interesting options or alternative settings?

My house rules have gotten longer than WoDu itself. Which is why it's such a great game.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend checking out Fantasy World by Alessandro Piroddi and Luca Maiorani. It describes itself as a modern and updated PbtA RPG with a focus on dramatic fantasy (as opposed to dungeon crawling), so something more akin to fantasy novels. One of the things that stand out to me is how damage and injury are completely narrative, though there are mechanics to track the effects of the injuries you've taken (which serve to inform the narrative and your roleplay). All in all, it has its place in the collection of PbtA games on how to play this style of RPG with the hopes of making things clearer and more concrete in areas that were lacking in previous PbtA games.