Role Playing in Westeros (Game of Thrones/HotD)

[GothmogIV]

Greetings, friends. Does anyone, or has anyone, run or played a campaign in the Game of Thrones world? I am wondering what resources or guidance there might be out there in the lands of the internet. I did see that there were a few TTRPG books published, but other than that, not to much. Curious about people's experiences and ideas. I like to run low magic, low fantasy games, and Westeros is the perfect setting that vibe, or so it seems to me.

Unrelated: I am an American, so I don't really get some British idioms and words, but I just learned 'wankpanzer' and that's the funniest goddamn thing ever.

 

[GMMichael]

My campaign world is low magic/fantasy (but those darn players keep dragging more fantasy in...). I use Modos RPG, which is a light game that puts rules in the background. So the Onion Knight could roll one quick contest to see how persuading Stannis goes, without the concern of a Failure Table Result of "lose your remaining fingertips." (That outcome would, of course, still be on the table. Like the fingertips...)
Also, magic is a module, not threaded throughout the whole tapestry, so it's easy to remove or add more. So if you need to, for example, create/cast Give Birth To Shadow Demon Spawn, you don't have to worry about every other magic-user in the game having access to the same spell!
Modos RPG

From the looks of it, this would be your perfect online companion site for Westeros. It has hyperlinks to all the setting stuff to which you'd refer, and seems well-maintained:
A Wiki of Ice and Fire
and ASOIF gear (because it's not right up front)

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GMMichael - Wankpanzer-free

 

[Voadam]

They are out of print and unavailable as PDFs (expired licenses I would expect) but there were two Game of Thrones RPGs.

Green Ronin made one using a custom system that they now sell separately as a generic fantasy version of in Sword Chronicle which is gritty political medieval fantasy RPG with a lot of house politics systems and brutal dangerous combat.

Guardians of Order made an earlier d20 version in the 3e era that was a mechanically brutal gritty adaptation of the d20 system. I can't remember if this was before the HBO series when there were just a few novels or just early on in the HBO series.

 

[Voadam]

There are also a lot of non-RPG books that can work as setting guides for if you want to run a game set in Westeros using whatever RPG system you prefer.

 

[payn]

I really wish they would do a 5E Birthright setting update as it would be perfect for this.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Greetings, friends. Does anyone, or has anyone, run or played a campaign in the Game of Thrones world?

Played 3 sessions before our GM (no wife, no kids) took a 4-year break. not-kidding. Anyways, I recently told him I'm not interested anymore and removed myself from the Obsidian Portal page and he was disappointed.

It is reasons like this why I'm a forever DM. The official RPG system for this setting is quite good though.

 

[GothmogIV]

This is all very helpful. Thank you, brethren. I grabbed a copy of A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Book by Green Ronin. I need to look a bit more carefully at Chaosium's Pendragon rules, but I am thinking Castles&Crusades.

 

[GMMichael]

Played 3 sessions before our GM (no wife, no kids) took a 4-year break. not-kidding. Anyways, I recently told him I'm not interested anymore and removed myself from the Obsidian Portal page and he was disappointed.

Taking a seemingly unnecessary, years-long break? Sounds like a true GRR Martin fan!

 

[innerdude]

ASOIAF is exactly the type of thing I'd use Ironsworn for, especially if you have a small group (2-3 or players), and really want to lean in on the intrigue / relationship side of things.

Using the base Ironsworn rules with the campaign guide you just picked up sounds pretty sweet, actually.

 

[TheSword]

Greetings, friends. Does anyone, or has anyone, run or played a campaign in the Game of Thrones world? I am wondering what resources or guidance there might be out there in the lands of the internet. I did see that there were a few TTRPG books published, but other than that, not to much. Curious about people's experiences and ideas. I like to run low magic, low fantasy games, and Westeros is the perfect setting that vibe, or so it seems to me.

Unrelated: I am an American, so I don't really get some British idioms and words, but I just learned 'wankpanzer' and that's the funniest goddamn thing ever.

WFRP4e would work very well for this. It’s a low magic (easily made no-magic) gritty setting with politics, status, lots of roleplaying mechanics. With a career system that includes spies, judicial champions, nobles, sailors, etc etc.