D&D General What To Play in 2025?

[Micah Sweet]

I think that playing a completely different genre has always been the best way to detach from D&D-brain.

"I wanna play Warhammer 40k!" "Or Star Wars!"
... yes I'm sure there are dnd5e homebrew hacks for playing inquisitors a la Dark Heresy or Deathwatch Marines etc., and the thought of that makes me a little queasy, but I'll stick with my hopes of getting my players that have only played dnd5e to try NOT dnd5e by going to something very different.

edit: crap you can probably just use like ... Esper Genesis or THE ALL NEW LEVEL UP A5E Voidrunners Codex to play 40k/star wars/whatever and never detach from the 5e system!

The new Voidrunner's material for A5e is great! I'm planning to use the rules to make the vehicles and wargear of 40k. Looks to be a great fit actually.

 

[Zardnaar]

ACKS is my favorite OSR game. If my players were into old school style play I'd run that in a heartbeat.

Funny you should mention that. Copies were distributed for consideration.

DCC is also being read but a couple of players. Ones gonna buy it I think.

 

[Velderan]

Starfinder.

Different genre, and available here
Archives of Nethys

Starfinder 2e playtest is another option.

Free PDF available later today, along with Archives of Nethys support for the Player Core/GM Core rules not being playtested.