DFRPG Online Alternatives
 

Hi, I’m new to this game, and I would like to test it online. Maybe some simulator, like Fantasy Grounds, or maybe just Discord if that’s a good alternative.

Does anyone know about that?

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Roll20, Foundry or Maptools work great

Discord and IRC work great if not as interested in maps

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And VTT is getting Virtual Tokens from the Nordland Bestiary.

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Thanx!

How can I find a group to play with? Are there any groups looking for players around here?

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There is a GURPS discord but finding totally new players online is a pain...
You aren't allowed to share pdfs and there is no reference document anywhere, so your players are expected to shell out for the books themselves in order to play with you. The acronym DFRPG is shared with the Dresden files rpg, I've had more than one person ask me why I was trying to run dungeon crawls with that system! There's basically 0 english-language DF sessions or guides on YT (compare that to the hundreds of D&D) and the ones that say they are are usually running their own weird hybrid games, so there are no good examples to point to and say 'thats what this game is like' aside from Felltower (and people prefer audio content over actually having to read stuff).

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I always read PFRPG as "Palladium Fantasy RPG"...one day it dawned on me that the kids are playing something called PathFinder...

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Expy perhaps makes it sound a bit worse than it is.

Book sharing is forbidden. However, the PDFs aren't that expensive if you want them, and there are other ways to get playing without owning the books.

There are a few DF videos on YouTube, notably by the Olympus RPG Group. There are also a few other GURPS videos, and since the two systems are 98% identical, it's not so bad.

Finding new games IS a pain, but that's true anywhere, for any system, on any medium. I just recently added two players to my DFRPG game (sorry, we're now full). So, it's not impossible -- you just have to lurk until a game you want pops up. Or offer to run your own, of course. There are always more players than GMs.

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Gurps Lite is free. DFRPG is slightly different but the basic stuff from Lite is almost all the same. maybe all the same. I've seen lists of Gurps vs DFRPG is there one for Lite?

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It's not significantly different from DFRPG than it is from any other arbitrary tightly defined GURPS game (which is what DFRPG is essentially). I suspect the real obstacle here isn't "I need some rough familiarity with the mechanics " which Lite provides, but rather "I want to make my own character" which it can't.

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The free Gurps Character Sheet (https://gurpscharactersheet.com/) contains libraries for the DFRPG, including specific libraries of advantages, disadvantages, and skills for each character template ("classes" like Barbarian, Knight, Wizard, etc). If you'd like to make a DFRPG (or any Gurps) character without immediate access to a rulebook, GCS is a great way to do it.

It takes a couple of minutes to familiarize yourself with GCS. You have to find the specific libraries of advantages, disadvantages, skills, and equipment you'd like to use, and then drag and drop the features you want into your character. Using the DFRPG character templates cuts down on much of this work: create a new character, open the template you want, and drag the traits and equipment you choose into the new character's sheet. Of course, somebody with access to a rulebook will have to look at the character before play to make sure that all the choices fit the rules.

GCS allows you to customize a character's traits considerably, and its methods are flexible and fast enough once you've got the hang of it. GCS characters can be imported directly into Foundry, which is

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Isn't GCS like GCA in that there's no rules or descriptive text? You still need to know what traits are, and the names are often misleading.

I think the comparison with D&D or Pathfinder is that you can make a character completely with free resources, including knowing details about how class features, spells, skills and so on will work in play. You can't do this with DFRPG, unless GCS includes this stuff (which would. I think violate SJGames policy).

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GCS has page references and if you have them in PDF you can set it to open the right one I think. I haven't fiddled with that bit since I mostly know after all these years.

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If you have the pdfs then you logically have them.

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FWIW, I'm running a Tuesday night CST online DFRP game for teaching a newish player about GURPS melee combat. I tried to DM you about it but couldn't. Contact me if you are interested - same goes for anyone else.

We use MapTools for a VTT and Discord for voice chat.