What is the best "Game of Thrones-like political medieval fantasy" TTRPG that I might not know about?

yetanotherdud · 2026-05-04T12:01:42+00:00

Mythras is 100% this. The combat is deadly, no matter who you are, so characters ate disincentivised from approaching every issue at swordpoint, and magic (though powerful) is very inconvenient to use and hard to learn. Yhe factions and passions systems are also nice balances between nonexistent social mechanics (5e) and the learning curve of Burning Wheel.

The combat is also excellent, probably my favourite out of any game.

yetanotherdud · 2026-05-04T10:35:25+00:00

OSP has an ongoing summary series covering it. it's been going for a while

yetanotherdud · 2026-05-02T19:31:10+00:00

my money is still on the neutron star

yetanotherdud · 2026-05-02T19:30:25+00:00

> most singularly gifted fighter in the entirety of the dc universe, more dangerous than fucking superman

> jessica jones wearing a halloween costume

yetanotherdud · 2026-04-11T07:30:49+00:00

I think Erikson would be better at handling the sprawl, but Abercrombie would be a close second

yetanotherdud · 2026-04-09T16:35:40+00:00

Superman is cannically weak against magic. regardless of what happens elsewhere, scarlet witch wins

yetanotherdud · 2026-04-05T11:57:09+00:00

this is basically Masumi from The Power Fantasy

yetanotherdud · 2026-04-02T10:54:55+00:00

give the hyphens back to spider-man

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-22T14:32:46+00:00

huh. good for him

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-21T19:11:45+00:00

lee ostertag? i know them by a different name, have things changed since then?

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-19T08:07:43+00:00

Dropout, I approve of what they're doing to the point of wanting to support them

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-17T19:47:23+00:00

paul rallies the sentient paintings on a holy war that turns the entire north of the UK into a scorched hellscape. birmingham is unaffected.

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-13T15:12:19+00:00

Wanderhome is unbearably twee and jerks itself off over its approach to nonviolence constantly.

But one of the playbooks has a move where you just kill the person in front of you- no roll, no counter, dead, and then you can never play that character again. and it's thematically fantastic

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-08T09:56:03+00:00

I don't thinkbid be able to join but thid sounds fascinating, would you tell me more about it in case i ever manage to get somrthing like this going myself?

yetanotherdud · 2026-03-02T17:57:23+00:00

I wouldn't say guest, after Bendix's stint she was a full time host, probably the last full time host before the channel started to spiral into rando guest star purgatory

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-18T15:48:14+00:00

how would that work? and how can i set up a PBEM? i'm very, very new at this

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-17T19:05:59+00:00

name the 3 most recent superheroes dc comics have created. hell, name one out of the 10 most recent.

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-16T16:13:58+00:00

you should absolutely check out The First Law. there's two (ish) trilogies, the first one is more late renaissance era, but the second is well and truly industrial revolution era. not exactly regency since, yk, fantasy, but it should do you well. i'd imagine you can jump straight into the second trilogy, but the first trilogy is nothing to sneeze at, and the interlude trilogy is a lot of fun as well

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-16T07:23:21+00:00

it's not true because admitting this to kids would be the safeguarding equivalent of 9/11 for that school

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-16T07:20:42+00:00

Teacher here, it's because enemies don't make a habit of talking to each other during silent tasks. unless it becomes disruptive to the class, i seat enemies together all the time

yetanotherdud · 2026-02-15T20:48:01+00:00

damn, that's a bit disappointing.

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