The Old School Renaissance (or Old School Revival) is a movement to bring back not only the original D&D rules, but also the style of play they encouraged, which is very different to the modern game. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is an old school, isometric RPG, adapted from one of the campaigns published for the tabletop game-it's brilliant in its own right, but will also give you a great sense of whether Pathfinder is the right TTRPG for you. It's also one of the few games on this list to have videogames based on it. If you love min-maxing your build, you'll feel like a kid in a potion shop, and a focus on new hybrid classes for every occasion takes away a lot of the awkwardness of multi-classing to get what you want. Pathfinder really leans into the crunch-it's all about detailed, comprehensive rules, and an absolute metric ton of character options. Now in its second edition, the game has developed a really strong identity of its own these days, but the core mechanics will be immediately familiar to anyone who played D&D in the 2000s-which means they're not far away from 5e either. If you're the sort of person who thinks D&D peaked at 3.5e, Pathfinder is the game for you. If your Warhammer tastes skew in a different direction, publisher Cubicle 7 has still got you covered-they also make the latest version of the delightfully grim Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, as well as two Warhammer 40,000 RPGs: the heroic and action-packed Wrath & Glory, and Imperium Maledictum, a spiritual successor to Dark Heresy that goes all-in on the setting's bleaker elements. There are also lots of prewritten adventures, including the excellent Blackened Earth campaign-an epic tale that sees you trying to broker peace between careless industrialists and vengeful tree folk, while ratmen and cultists cause chaos at every turn. The sprawling, mythic realms of Age of Sigmar set the stage for super powerful player characters, larger than life warriors who can challenge enormous monsters and entire armies on their own.Ī truly impressive number of ongoing releases mean the game now supports almost any kind of premise in the setting that you can imagine-with particularly good options for playing the bad guys, if you've ever harboured a desire to be a 12-foot stone troll or a mad ghoul king. Soulbound is the official RPG of Games Workshop's current fantasy setting, but even if you don't know that world, it stands up on its own as a brilliant fantasy RPG.
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