AGE Catching Up With Me

With a second edition of Green Ronin's FantasyAGE RPG and the AGE-based Fifth Season RPG coming up (the latter being an adaptation of N.K. Jemisin's excellent postapocalyptic sfnal fantasy trilogy), I've been drawn back to this very nice and simple system. Year's ago, I used FantasyAGE for a lot of one-shots at the open gaming nights in our bookshop and came away from it kind of ambivalent. The pros outhweighed the cons, but I could never get my regular gaming table invested in it, and it kind of faded into the background of my gaming interests for quite some time; but right now, I feel like dusting off my (limited) expertise on all things AGE.

Don't put me in a box yet!

Recently, I've taken another look at a couple of systems to find out which one might be best suited for fantasy one shots. I do these a lot at the open gaming nights at our bookshop, and mostly, I've been using FantasyAGE and DungeonWorld for these, depending on how free-form I want things to be and how I feel about one or the other of these system on that particular day. However, one thing I don't like about these two systems is their pretty rigid character classes (yeah, I know, "playbooks" - they're still basically classes). So I startet looking around for something new ...