One thing we've done is play Dungeon World and I tell them it's D&D.* Or do it with a game that is geared toward whatever genre and themes you want to explore, and tell them it's "basically" D&D. Thanks :)īut your broader question about the degree you can separate the setting and the rules causes me to wonder about the existence of systems which that sharp divide does exists GURPS is one for sure beyond that I can't say. I think I'm more interested on what are the experiences, issues, pitfalls, problems, and triumphs - which you did touch on. My question wasn't really "is it OK to re-skin D&D", or really Hack it, since the changes have to go well beyond merely cosmetic as - you noted - the system and the setting aren't totally distinct.
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We discussed some of the mechanics/approaches to mysteries in the GUMSHOE system when they were floundering in a mystery ( that actually ended up being more DM education in how to handle mysteries ), we've poached the idea of "Character Drives" out of Ashen Stars ( also GUMSHOE ), and we've recently instated a "someone can't be here Wednesday, don't cancel, let's do a random one-shot, anyone can GM" policy ( although given my Paladin's sense of humor, I pale at the idea of him trying to run a Paranoia one-shot :p ) You're talking about educating an existing RPG group about the broader possibilities, and I agree that is 100% doable I'm doing that now with my group. My point regarding D&D and finding a player base wasn't that it's impossible to do - just that most new people coming into the hobby, or looking for groups that are specifically D&D and don't have any interest in anything else I would hazard a guess that it's very difficult to decide that you want a different system/flavor than default D&D so you're going to start a game of GURPS Fantasy, and find a new group of players right off the bat. The group seems leaning toward the same DM, same world, different party, different part of the world option - and I'll take the advantage of that to relax or remove some of the homebrew adaptations in place for the new setting, since they don't seem to accomplish their intended purpose. Excellent points, I don't think 5e and the default setting are completely divorceable either, and this non-default-setting experiment has partly been an exploration of those limits.Ĭurrently the party is coming to the end of their current campaign arc, and we take the opportunity at those points to decide whether we want to continue with the current campaign, swap DMs, swap settings, or swap parties & locations.
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