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Jordi
2019-12-21, 09:32 PM
Excuse me boys, i am in search of advice for roleplay duo. i and my brother are rpg fans and want to roleplay,but we dont have many players,just the two of us.

I have much experience in roleplay than my brother,thats because i am always the gm,i have tested many systems but
failed.Nearly all systems are to play whith 3 people(d&d) or more, and others have a brutal combat system (Warhmmer).

So,¿What system you recommend?.

kyoryu
2019-12-22, 11:55 AM
Fate or a PbtA game would probably work well.

Grod_The_Giant
2019-12-22, 12:22 PM
I've had a lot of great solo games with Mutants and Masterminds 3e.

Jordi
2019-12-22, 12:53 PM
I've had a lot of great solo games with Mutants and Masterminds 3e.

¿Mutan and Masterminds?, i hear a lot of that system, ¿How flexible is?

Grod_The_Giant
2019-12-22, 01:49 PM
¿Mutan and Masterminds?, i hear a lot of that system, ¿How flexible is?
Incredibly.

Well, within reason.

M&M is a superhero system, so it's always going to be weighted towards action, towards combat, and towards reliance on powers. It's not amazing at subtly different characters (say, a D&D Fighter and Barbarian). However, the reason it's not good at subtly different characters is that it's downright incredible at wildly distinct ones-- I've had people show up with ten foot tall battle robots, alien abduction victims who turn into flying saucers, a telepath whose left arm was replaced by an alien symbiote, a super-intelligent velociraptor with super-speed, a guy with an extra-dimensional castle he could impose over reality, a cop with the ability to selectively enforce and repeal the laws of physics...

The way it manages all those concepts so easily is that it doesn't use classes, like D&D, or a list of pre-selected abilities, like GURPS. It doesn't have you buy superpowers, it has you build superpowers-- you combine basic Effects (like "Damage" or "Move Object") with Modifiers (like "Multiattack" or "Triggered") until you get something that works exactly like you want.

There's also a free SRD (https://www.d20herosrd.com/).

lightningcat
2019-12-22, 03:08 PM
¿Mutan and Masterminds?, i hear a lot of that system, ¿How flexible is?

It is a point buy version of d20 built to run superhero games, although it has supplements to emulate others genres as well. You can play both Lois Lane and Superman, so it has a good amount of flexibility.

And as an answer to your original question the ERA Epic Storytelling Game (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118877/ERA-Epic-Storytelling-Game) is a pay-what-you-want game intended for 1 or 2 players.

Jordi
2019-12-22, 08:14 PM
¿Is posible to play M&M whith a medieval fantasy world?

AMFV
2019-12-22, 10:08 PM
¿Is posible to play M&M whith a medieval fantasy world?

It is, but it'll be an interesting setting to say the least. M&M is great at creating really diverse wacky concepts (as others have pointed out) so you'd probably be looking at a high fantasy or really pulpy setting, rather than a really gritty type of setting.

Grod_The_Giant
2019-12-23, 11:49 AM
¿Is posible to play M&M whith a medieval fantasy world?
Sure, I've done it a couple times. It'll inevitably have an element of fantasy superheroes-- more Stormlight Archives than Lord of the Rings-- and you might wind up wanting to tweak a few things to account for different tropes (M&M doesn't really bother with money, for example, and it leans more towards saturday morning cartoon action than blood-and-guts), but if you want epic heroes it works quite well. As an example, I converted a ton of D&D character options here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?279503-D-amp-D-in-M-amp-M-a-new-approach-to-rebalancing-3-5-PF), and someone else did most of the Monster Manual here (http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=706712#p706712).