cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5733635

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In commemoration of A Realm Reborn’s 10th anniversary, we are excited to announce the FINAL FANTASY XIV TTRPG (tabletop role-playing game), the first of its genre to be officially released by the FINAL FANTASY series!

Tabletop RPGs are games in which a group of participants create and act as their own character in a dynamic narrative. Each decision can lead to all sorts of unpredictable moments, as the outcomes of players’ choices are determined by a roll of the dice!

Newcomers will be well-equipped with this starter set, which includes scenarios supervised by the FFXIV Development team and original dice, all carefully crafted to provide an engaging experience for fans of FFXIV and tabletop RPGs.

Embark on your own original adventures in familiar locales and dungeons to rediscover FFXIV’s FATEs, monsters, and NPCs in tabletop form!

Visit the FINAL FANTASY XIV TTRPG teaser site^[https://www.square-enix-shop.com/ffxivttrpg/en/ (archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ja3ZN)] for product details and future updates.

Lets kick this community off with some of the good stuff. I'll go first:

1. Stars without Number - The first of many Kevin Crawford games I love, it's got excellent mechanics that can be easily extracted from the lore for homebrew purposes, but the lore is still pretty cool too.
2. Godbound - Probably the most absurd-in-scope RPG i've ever run. Turns out that when your players are heroes of steel in a world of glass you can teach them valuable lessons about the unintended consequences of taking the easy way out.
3. Star Wars FFG - Hard to run at first, it still has a certain appeal to me for the way it handles success and failure.
4. Lancer: Crunchy mechs and a strategy layer that's quite fun to play. The non-combat stuff is relatively freeform too which encourages RP.
5. Mutants and Masterminds - Last but not least, M&M comes with some caveats: Superheros are so much fun to make. Sure it takes a couple hours, but conceptualizing and building these characters mechanically is actually a ton of fun (protip: use herolab classic to build, its muuuuuuuch easier) The GM guide has some really solid advice on running hero stories of gold, silver, iron, and four color genres. What's more, the mechanics encourage acting like a comic book hero, so players /want/ to save the civilians even if the bad guy escapes because the game rewards them for it!

I could talk a lot more about these games, but this post is already looking pretty long. Tell me about some of your experiences and favorites!