Beyond Dungeons & Dragons - MAGFest X

Rym and Scott of GeekNights (www.frontrowcrew.com) appeared on two panels at MagFest X, and also performed this lecture: Beyond Dungeons & Dragons. Herein, they discuss the nature of role playing games, what their mechanics really mean, how they affect play, and why D&D is probably not the best system for the kinds of games you're trying to play.

There is a huge catalog of "indie" tabletop RPGs just as there is for videogames. Burning Wheel, Dogs in the Vineyard, Inspectres, Lacuna, A Thousand and One Nights, Mouse Guard, Prime Time Adventures, Pendragon, Freemarket, Dread, Kagematsu, Apocalypse World, these are a TINY smattering of the possibilities. Play the game that affords the play style best suited to your story, not the one everyone just happens to know the rules for.

If you enjoy this, many more of our lectures from other conventions are available on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD03FB084B11A0454

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• rpgs
• tabletop
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Role-playing Game
• Games
• geeknights
• magfest
• magfestx
• game design
• indie

[KornmanUNstoppable]

lol I played Spot It and I think Jungle Speed with Rym on that last night of Mag this year it was quite dirty (the game of spot it)

[GeekNightsRym]

@KornmanUNstoppable Spot it is rough, not not as rough as Jungle Speed. Be warned: we'll have to play it similarly late at night.

[williamnelsonful]

i discovered you at NYCC i was wondering whether or not you guys will do panels there again?

[GeekNightsRym]

@williamnelsonful This past year was actually the first time we didn't do any panels or lectures at NYCC/NYAF. They weren't interested in our gaming content, and anime-related programming was relegated to the "anime stage" which was not something we were willing to deal with.

We'll be at PAX East and PAX Prime, MAGFest, and other cons of that ilk mostly!

[Tatsurou83]

Fantastic stuff as always. I love your guys' podcast and I thoroughly enjoy these lectures you do as well. Keep up the good work! :D

[SHADOWFOX136]

A whole hour of my life gone and it was entertaining to say the least. Right after I watched it I looked up action castle and now i really want to buy that book with the names of female Elves and the like. It opened up my eyes to different ways of role playing that i honestly wasn't expecting or evened imagined a new way was even possible. Wish i could come see you guys in person for your lectures someday. It would be a real honor to talk to nerds of such high caliber such as yourselves.

[JoeWDye]

Awesome, so does this mean we are going to get the Gekiga lecture ? 

[micronoid]

When you guys have a new board game to talk about you should save it for video and post it on youtube rather than for the podcast. It would be much more interesting if you had the board and pieces out in front of you while talking about. I haven’t really played board games that much but I’m still interested in what people have to say about them. I don't listen to your board game podcasts now because most of the time I’d no idea what you where talk about, if i could see it that would be better.

[XiphiasThree]

THANK YOU!