I brought this awesome rpg to my dnd group a few weeks ago and it’s essentially warmed them all up to revolutionary idealology. They called their party “Breadbasket” and their goal is to seize the means of food production on the ice mines of Callisto. Everyone is always so hyped to play! Would love to hear if anyone else has played this game. [if anyone needs a copy dm me, i have a pdf i can lend you ;) ]
I’ve never tried my hand at rpg other than in a video game. I’ve always wanted to try something like Dn’D but I’m pretty shy and anxious when it comes to acting and pretending. (which is odd because I used to want to be an actor years ago) Would you say that the ease of getting into this kind of thing is dependent on the game?
I think its much less dependent on the game than the people you play with (though the game can certainly be a factor if it’s intimidatingly complex). That being said, more simple/streamlined games can be easier to sell to friends who don’t normally play tabletop games. Comrades is one such example, but there’s a pretty large subset of tabletop games that exist to fill that niche (see Dungeon World as a D&D alternative).
Tabletop games are interesting because they’ve seen a large renaissance in part due to very acting/performance heavy livestream or podcasted productions (things like Critical Role, for example) and so our instinct is that they should center acting/performance. The reality is, that kind of thing appeals to some people and not others. Most of the games I play involve very little roleplay, and are more about collective storytelling/gameplay/rolling dice.
tl;dr, people bring what they want to tabletop games, and while some are conducive to more/less roleplay, the important thing is to find people who want the same thing out of the game as you do.