Yora
2013-07-23, 04:37 PM
I am seriously considering running a short campaign with some friends from all over the world over the summer using skype and some virtual tabletop. Getting that all set up is relatively easy.
But with potentially some players who never played any RPGs before, I think Pathfinder might not be such a great choice. Some D&D retroclone might be somewhat easier to run, but I'm not ecactly a fan of those.
Dragon Age might do the job quite well since it's easily explained and doesn't have a lot of different mechanics, and I think I should be able to help people with character creation without pointing where to put the numbers on the character sheet.
But I am wondering if anyone else has other suggestions for a good system. The only other one I know is RISUS, which would work well, but might actually be a bit too simple. :smallbiggrin:
What I need is a relatively simple game that does a Conan-style setting reasonably well. If mages have a handful straightforward spells, that will do just fine, without any need for fancy magic items and the like.
Maybe Warrior Rogue Mage? I've taken a look at that one some years ago and it didn't seem quite bad.
But with potentially some players who never played any RPGs before, I think Pathfinder might not be such a great choice. Some D&D retroclone might be somewhat easier to run, but I'm not ecactly a fan of those.
Dragon Age might do the job quite well since it's easily explained and doesn't have a lot of different mechanics, and I think I should be able to help people with character creation without pointing where to put the numbers on the character sheet.
But I am wondering if anyone else has other suggestions for a good system. The only other one I know is RISUS, which would work well, but might actually be a bit too simple. :smallbiggrin:
What I need is a relatively simple game that does a Conan-style setting reasonably well. If mages have a handful straightforward spells, that will do just fine, without any need for fancy magic items and the like.
Maybe Warrior Rogue Mage? I've taken a look at that one some years ago and it didn't seem quite bad.