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PC Gamer
Harvey Randall

I love D&D, but I'm so much better at DMing after playing other systems

A sorcerer casting a complicated spell.

Dungeons & Dragons. Just those three words (well, two and an ampersand) are enough to conjure feelings of heroic adventure. Rolling dice, trying to tame a dog, realising the dog is a bulette, being eaten by the bulette—good times. If you've been in the TTRPG hobby for a while, chances are you've played D&D, and if you're a Dungeon Master yourself, it might be the only game you've run.

For some of those people, the mere suggestion of running another system is daunting to the point of frustration. PC Gamer's own Robin Valentine put together a list of alternate systems to try from his 20 years of rolling dice, and even a list of innocuous suggestions ruffled some feathers.

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