I just started a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians for a bunch of 13-16 year olds. ... Wait, officer, just let me explain....

I'm being a little lazy - I made this about 18 months ago after a conversation in one shop. A couple of days ago in a different shop the "alternative" mentioned was Dungeon Crawl Classics. As far as I'm concerned, D&D with the serial numbers filed off is still D&D.

No Daggerheart?

I am in the final countdown of our Brindlewood Bay game that I've been GM for a little over a year. Next up is a Dark Age Mage game for that group. The other night we are playing a version of Battle Bots with house rules after a couple of years of Shadowrun,, originally on 1st Ed modified, later of homebrew simplifications. We've also played Ultraviolet Grasslands, The Between, Blades in the Dark, and Dungeon World in the last couple of years, along with several house experiments.

Wildsea and Metro:Otherscape over here.

I mean DCC & 5e are very different.

is that any good now? Know it’s probably changed a lot since the initial latest was released but that initial release looked…. Bad.

> D&D with the serial numbers filed off is still D&D.

Mörk Borg? Other Fria Liga? Other Borg-likes? Other Kickstarter games? Is that just me? Don't get me wrong, I love PF2 and I mostly play 5E with my friends on zoom, but I can't be the only one obsessively finding niche games online like *Into the Odd* and *Forbidden Lands* and *Frontier Scum* and porting them into system-agnostic hex-flowers that could support Dark-Tower-esque realm crawling and West March-ish living worlds that I can never find anyone that wants to play and... Do I have a problem? Am I out of touch? No, it's the D&D players that are out of touch

Be the change you want to see. Try to start up something new.

I've been enjoying Numenera for years

I miss playing Traveller so much, it's ruined me.

Is the US situation that bad regarding game diversity ? I am in a very active club, and less than half of the games are D&D and clones (including pathfinder and OSR in D&D and clones), before that I was part of an active online community, and again while D&D was big it wasn't more than half of the game ran. And if you look at new games starting, due to D&D tendency to be relatively long campaign, it's even hard to find a seat at a D&D game because relatively few games starts compared to other games. (And then there is a couple of indie-game one-shots GM, meaning that there is always a slot open for a less known and often weirder game)

No, actually, but general cultural awareness is really only those two, and maybe iffy on Pathfinder, and given the popularity of Stranger Things, D&D had a lot of mainstream attention, and Pathfinder is arguably a better place to start for newbies interested due to Stranger Things. As far as I understand. I've never actually played either D&D or Pathfinder, but I have been in Vampire the Masquerade and Serenity tabletop groups.

A Blues Brothers meme template used with a D&D reference.... How do I upvote more than once?

Spare a thought for those of us running a TTRPG via Foundry VTT. 90% of the cool mods are for DnD or Pathfinder, which is a problem if you're running Dark Heresy or FATE or something.

I'm running a game for a steampunk airship crew in GURPS over Foundry. Local game shop seems to be about half D&D and related, but I do see a fair number of others represented.

whow, RPG over Zoom. Didn't know people did that. It was always Discord for us. (WELL, Skype in the way back when times when my back didn't hurt but y'know)

just never could get into D&D. currently playing Apocalypse Keys. planning a FATE game, and Outgunned.

Would love to see more Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) or World/Chronicles of Darkness (CoD) love around. I think CoD has one of the best systems out there to play modern and contemporary settings imo. Also, long live Mage (MtA)!