Fishblade contemplations
The Fishblade tweet has me thinking about which of my games I'd recommend to someone asking for something vaguely D&D shaped so I figured I'd go down the list.
Underhills: In Underhills you play hotel staff in an alternate post-war Hollywood where magic is real and you keep stumbling across noir mysteries with magic in. Going room to room and murdering the guests is frowned on. This is not D&D shaped, would not recommend.
When we all lived in the Forest: In when we all lived in the forest you play folks travelling through an endless forest road in a world destroyed by a tree-pocalypse. Most of the time the action is going to be "you arrive at a new town protected from the Things in the Trees by the road, and investigate something weird there." D&D level: low. There's travelling and vague fantasy, and sometimes you have to shoot something, but a lot of the time it's just "Huh, those folks were weird, let's go. D&D level: Low. Probably not recommend unless someone was like "I want my D&D to be more Kino's Journey."
FIST: Agents of BOO. Is there a D&D niche about playing agents of an extremely underfunded supernatural investigation agency, to the point that your lack of funding is a key part of the mission creation? No, do not recommend.
FIST: Questing Beasts. Honestly "Post apocalyptic Arthuriana about people with weird powers doing knightly quests" is pretty close to the D&D use case. So sure.
