A friend and I love in depth games but want to include our families, some younger and some not super drawn to scifi or fantasy.
Pandemic has been a great game for us but its nice to have some other options.
Are there any interesting RPG (DnD style) or stategy games that you would suggest?
The system itself is less important (you can go with D&D, pathfinder 2e, or one of the other ones).
My suggestion is to look at possible adventures you might be interesting in doing, then pick the system that goes for it.
D&D has the largest offering in terms of official adventures, from traditional fantasy stuff, to detective work or dungeon crawl.
I’ve never played D&D and always assumed it was all mostly dungeon crawl and travel to the next dungeon. I was taking a look at pathfinder. I’ll look at some adventures to see if there is one that would fit our group.
I would suggest camping out on https://www.boardgamegeek.com/ and seeing whether anything tickles your fancy in the suitable genre and weight category. Advanced search, or the genre-specific rankings are very helpful.
Many folks make geeklists that address questions such as yours as well.
Such a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you’re looking for a tabletop RPG system that doesn’t lean heavily into sci-fi or fantasy that anyone can play, I’d recommend looking into Monster Of The Week. It’s more like a Scooby-Doo or Supernatural style RPG where you’re solving mysteries rather than fighting dragons, and it’s basically designed for one-shots or short campaigns so you don’t have to worry about getting everyone together at the same time every couple weeks for months; as long as the DM has a story planned you can pretty much roll up characters and finish your campaign in 1 to 3 sessions.
Root is not RPG but very much strategy - it’s a war game set in a forest where the competing factions are Cats, Birds, a rebel alliance of assorted critters and a solo Racoon. It is a fantastic game!
The cons would be - the rules are quite hard to pick up straight away and it’s 4 players only, so it depends how many of your family you want to involve.
Woah! Root looks like the type of game I was hoping to find out about. Thanks for the suggestion!
