{"id":459,"date":"2015-08-20T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/rpgaday2015-part-3-17\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T08:32:31","slug":"rpgaday2015-part-3-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/rpgaday2015-part-3-17\/","title":{"rendered":"RPGaDay2015, Part 3 (#17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Favorite Fantasy RPG<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Fantasy” is a pretty broad category, so I’m going to assume the typical gaming definition of “Sword & Sorcery and\/or Elves and Shit.” In that case, the best fantasy game I’ve ever played is the Sword & Sorcery game that the Hex staff plays once every year or two when we can get everyone together. I’ve written about it here<\/a> and you can download an actual play recording from the Hex website<\/a>. Of course, that’s a specific campaign, and the question is about my favorite fantasy RPG, which suggests a published setting.<\/p>\n

Hex’s entry into the fantasy genre, Qerth<\/a>, is a product I’m really proud of, but mostly because it’s such a perfect satire of fantasy games; it’s not really something I actually want to play very often. And, of course, most of that satire comes from years of playing Dungeons & Dragons. My feelings on D&D are complicated. It’s the game that got me into the hobby and I spent a lot of time playing (or thinking\/reading about playing) D&D and and probably spent thousands of dollars buying D&D books from fourth grade until a few years after I graduated from college. I always wanted to play other games and in college I finally got a chance to play stuff other than D&D regularly, but I always came back to D&D, if only because it was the easiest game to find players for.<\/p>\n

Then at some point I just…I don’t know…outgrew D&D. Playing other games and especially writing QAGS opened up so many possibilities for gaming that the idea of running another same-old-same-old D&D game just seemed kind of pointless. Except for a 4th Edition demo and a few sessions of a Pathfinder campaign I joined because it was the only game anyone was playing, I haven’t played D&D since at least 1998, maybe earlier. When I started going to a lot of conventions for Hex, it felt like most D&D players were unfailingly emblematic of everything that I hate about gaming and gamers. This added to my disillusionment about D&D while also providing a healthy dose of self-loathing for my younger, D&D-obsessed self.<\/p>\n

Of course, nearly every other (traditional) fantasy game is basically someone’s attempt to write a better version of D&D (and usually failing miserably). I’ve heard some good things about some newer games that focus more on the American sword & sorcery tradition than Tolkien-style fantasy, but haven’t had a chance to play any of them. So yeah, I guess D&D is my favorite fantasy game, but there are a lot of caveats and I don’t want to join your Forgotten Realms game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Favorite Fantasy RPG “Fantasy” is a pretty broad category, so I’m going to assume the typical gaming definition of “Sword & Sorcery and\/or Elves and Shit.” In that case, the best fantasy game I’ve ever played is the Sword & Sorcery game that the Hex staff plays once every year or two when we can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2009],"tags":[74,1118,1719,2149,2150],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prompts-and-challenges","tag-qerth","tag-dd","tag-rpgaday","tag-tolkien","tag-forgotten-realms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}