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Accidental Villainy [Cyberpunk RED] (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't need to make anyone switch. Just wondering if I should add myself to a LFG group recruiting for Cyberpunk Red. Always fun meeting new people and making new friends over a shared love of TTRPG.

I'll never give up D&D and i have no desire to wander from 5e. It's basically perfect.

But I would like to see how good the storytelling can be. I like the flavour potential, just never tried. I'd also love to be a player for once and not just DM.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'll never give up D&D and i have no desire to wander from 5e. It's basically perfect.

I genuinely love this for you. My very molecules are vibrating with the raw power of my disagreement, but when someone finds the thing they love, it's a beautiful thing.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Story time? ;)

Feel free to share your vibrations.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I enjoy playing D&D with friends but I hate the system and its strict focus on combat mechanics and hand waving of other ways to interact with the world. I vastly prefer the setting and perspective of Exalted (to be fair the setting isn't anything that couldn't be done in D&D), but the mechanics are super crunchy and reward min-maxing, and adjudicating combat rounds is really slow.

I prefer systems where social skills are first class mechanics, I don't love offloading part of progression onto loot, and I don't particularly enjoy the gold economy. Like I don't enjoy tracking wealth and rations and such. I also prefer systems that attempt to recreate the narrative arcs of stories, so things that affect pacing, drama, contacting the flow of the story to character flaws, etc.

So ultimately I enjoy things like Fate/Dresden Files, World of Darkness, and Dungeon World. I think I might enjoy Thirsty Sword Lesbians as well but I've only played it once so I'm not sure.

D&D is... fine. I've played every version going back to the red box. Fifth is my favorite version of it so far. But I definitely don't love it.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Hard agree on both sentiments!