Joshua Randall
Legend
I can come back later and say why for my votes.
Agree the 13th Age 2e is a dud.
Sundered Isles is Starforged, but you’re pirates in the (fantasy’d up) age of sail. Kickstarted. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shawntomkin/sundered-isles-expansion-for-ironsworn-starforged
You’ve probably already played Apocalypse World / Meguey and Vincent Baker - but it’s worth a re-read because of how revolutionary it was. The game that codified the Forge-ite principals of story now play, in a game that doesn’t make you feel like it’s an esoteric PhD dissertation.
AW is secretly (?) one of the best written games in terms of prose style. (Its mechanical explanation could be cleaner. ) Every “naughty word” and every neologism is deliberate.
Agree the 13th Age 2e is a dud.
Sundered Isles is Starforged, but you’re pirates in the (fantasy’d up) age of sail. Kickstarted. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shawntomkin/sundered-isles-expansion-for-ironsworn-starforged
You’ve probably already played Apocalypse World / Meguey and Vincent Baker - but it’s worth a re-read because of how revolutionary it was. The game that codified the Forge-ite principals of story now play, in a game that doesn’t make you feel like it’s an esoteric PhD dissertation.
AW is secretly (?) one of the best written games in terms of prose style. (Its mechanical explanation could be cleaner. ) Every “naughty word” and every neologism is deliberate.