I want to go on adventures with my kid. I'm not an experienced GM so something or things that are relatively simple to run and also levelled for a 5 or 6 year old. Could be campaigns or one pages

I’m DMing a 5e game and I really don’t like how tacked-on social encounters feel. I could certainly use some homebrew systems, but tracking them is still fairly arbitrary since 5e just doesn’t have good underlying mechanics for them.

I really like the implementation in Modiphius’ Infinity 2d20 system, where you have separate “wound” trackers for combat, social encounters, and hacking. Combat of all 3 types works basically the same too; there’s no need to learn wildly different rules. I played the Song of Ice & Fire RPG a while ago and remember liking its implementation too, though I don’t remember the rules.

What are some other systems that treat social encounters with the same importance as combat?

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Hi,

I recently had the idea that it would be funny to play a mini campaign or oneshot where the players are the builders of the dungeon some big bad evil wants to build. They would have to put up with the silly wishes of the client and traverse the dangers of trap building without hurting themselves.

My question now is: do you know of a system or game where this kind of play would be doable. Or maybe someone else already had the same idea and wrote something exactly like this. I could imagine some easy rules lite game like laser & feelings but written with the new scenario in mind.

Thanks in advance

Just a little idea I had, think it would be fun. Comment your favourite systems and the rest of us will give you recommendations for something that could possibly fit your interests.

There's a thing about D&D - it's actually a wargame. Big share of its rules is tailored to tactical combat. "I go forward for 3 squares, use this ability, use that ability, end of turn" - that kind of stuff. You can play without it (system is a tool, yes) - but in that case you throw off half of the game rules, so what's the point? Anyway, there's nothing wrong with it and there're many people who seek for just that gameplay style.

D&D is the most famous game system due to enormous amount of money spent on it by publisher / copyright owner, and it lasted for decades. But TTRPG is much more that that.

There's TTRPG design framework, called "Powered by the Apocalypse", or PbtA, as the first game made with it was "Apocalypse World". Here's a short list of PbtA features and principles:

• it's narrative, which leads to making and telling interesting stories
• "Fiction first" principle - player don't use character abilities like pressing button in videogame, they describe what they want to do, and that description (possibly) triggers a move
• Moves system. Moves are NOT abilities. Their goal is to make emphasis on key game aspects. When you trigger a move - it matters!
• "Fail forward" principle. When player fails a roll - GM makes a move, and story takes a turn. Player gets XP for failing,
• "Play to find out" principle. GM doesn't know what will happen. Players make the story together.

Dungeon World is a PbtA game with strong D&D flavour. That means, it has kinda familiar character classes, races, and atmosphere - full of dungeons, taverns, orcs, goblins et cetera. But it plays vastly different. It's rules-light system, easy for new players, but somewhat demanding for the GMs skills.

As for me personally, I was using reddit for its DW sub mostly, but now it's still in blackout.

Help an injured restauteur prep a 5 course meal while avoiding the health inspector! Rules light, but easy to learn, with a variety of rats, meals, and things that could go wrong to make each game fresh and interesting!