Genesys entered my life a year ago and now it’s basically my go to system! After years of lurking, something suddenly clicked. I love Universal toolkits; Genesys has a traditional feel that makes it easy to run with classicists and a narrative feel that makes it a huge deal for storytellers. It has even an edge over other toolkits I might like more: you can let those player type live together and the game won’t break. In FATE, my gamer changer, you really need a full group buy in, or it just doesn’t work… In Genesys, you can have a player merging Talents and skills for the perfect alter ego and a narrative gamer developing motivations and skills, with a few social talents… You can do it all. And more: I love the idea that, provided they are quite helpful, you don’t really need any table. Roll the dice, interpret it and set what next. I love how the way you read results can set the tone as well. I’m GMing a modern horror/thriller, gonna play Keyforge soon and planning some Terrinoth afterwards. I did a one shot using the Genesys Resident Evil porting and some adventuring in Katrthun; it just works. XD
I literally have everything ever published for Genesys. I fell in love with the system. But sadly I never played. I even considered sellinga the Star Wars books. Theorically I love the system- but I got hooked on Dungeon World, Symbaroum, Cortex Prime and Cypher, and just never came back to it. I knew it’s still being published. My LGS just got a restock of Star Wars just a month ago. It was great to come across your video.
Genesys is back! Following the release of the amazing Twilight Imperium setting book, genesys dice are now on preorder and supplemental materials for each of their settings are in the works. The transition from FFG to Edge took a while because Edge was merely an RPG translation company before. With COVID and the blocking of the suez canal also adding delays. But now that Embers of the Imperium is finally out of manufacturing/shipping hell, Genesys is back and just as alive as ever.
It is the best rpg that we have played. I have introduced it to the students at school (High School). There are around 12 students that play daily and we have done so for around 5 years now. The narrative dice system encourages creativity and the students love purchasing / upgrading skills and talents. Over time, we have made a huge amount of themed talents for bards, assassins, monks and necromancers. It is quite incredible what they have come up with. The main issue that we have is that here in Australia, we just can't get items anymore like dice! So many young people would love to take this game up, but we just can't get it here.
I've played and enjoyed a few one-shots with the Genesys system: a hellboy game, a kind of Hogwarts game but you are playing familiars of the wizards and a Star Wars one shot. In a few weeks we are going to start with a Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy campaign. something I'm really looking forward to. And I GM'd the Legend of the Five Rings starter set 2 times. The system is a lot of fun. It is very flexible beeing just a generic game mechanism to whom you have to provide a setting and adjust the ruleset - but that is either in pre-made settings like StarWars, L5R or Twilight Imperium (yes, there will be an RPG for the board game) or you can create your own setting. There are options shown for different settings like fantasy, scifi etc. Playing was a lot of fun. As you already mentioned the dice results are more than succeed / fail: Positive stuff happening at the same time, negative stuff or triumph / drastical negative events ("you shoot at your target but hit an explosive device, filling the whole room with hot flames and reducing the breathable air"). Regarding the current status of Genesys: as you mentioned Edge Studios is a new studio related to FFG and it is all about the RPGs. Currently you can't get any genesys dice (at least here in Europe), so my guess is, that due to the pandemic the dice are somewhere between China and their destinations. The pdf's should be available. But don't quote me on that. Have fun gaming. 🙂
As I understand it, Genesys reprints had issues due to Covid, same with the Star Wars game. And they are just now sorting those things out. They are about to release (seen pictures of the book surfacing) a "new" setting for Genesys Embers of the Imperium, similar to Realms of Terrinoth it is based on one of Fantasy Flight Games board games, Twilight Imperium. I have played it and I am currently running a fantasy campaign in our own setting. It is a really good system for telling stories, it might seem complex at first but it is rather easy ones you get the basics down. The hardest thing for players seem to be what they can accomplish with advantages or threats.
@@RevKev Miniature Market had some in stock a couple of weeks ago, and I was able to snag a copy. It's branded EDGE so I believe it's the latest printing. Twilight Imperium book has been spotted in EU, so should be over in the states soon.
I agree a tough barrier to get into it but very fun when in it. I think any generic setting role playing game is harder to character Create - learn the mechanics. The popularity of 5e is the simplicity to get players into it. 5e is very hard on a dungeon master to balance every single encounter. Genesis, however, is basically a system all about game master tools. It’s also all about customization so when a player says, can I player… You just say yes and tweak something. Genesis is perfectly modular for tweaking things. And the best part is that the counters do not have to be balanced. So when you take a unexpected left, turn, the GM can quickly throw down something appropriate and not have to worry about the nitty-gritty of finally tuned balance. There’s also no fudging of dice.
The thing with narrative dice is you have: boost/set back - which is luck Ability/difficulty - this is about a characteristic Proficiency/ Challenge - this is about skill When you roll a dice pool and the only success left is from a boost dice - success comes from luck When you roll a dice pool and the success comes from an ability dice then the narrative is formed around an ability When the only success is from a proficiency dice then the story comes from effective use of a skill. This is what separates the dice system from a target number system and also it is separate from a gimmick dice set to milk you for money.
@@AceneDean Poor communication from the company, covid, company reshuffle to EDGE, general incompetence such as shutting down the active forums where it was discussed.
I actively keep up to date on Genesys, and I'm part of several Genesys communities. Really looking forward to Twilight Imperium: Ashes of the Imperium coming on April 28. I actively promote this system through the standard gaming communities I'm a part of. I happily and sadly (😂) own all the Genesys content on DriveThruRPG, my group knows the system based off of Star Wars (which we alpha tested), and trying to promote it to them and trying to start an in-person community here in town of Genesys players. I've in metaphorically packed up all my other books to make Genesys my go to system. My folder of Genesys content is sitting at almost 60 GB of files (6,300 documents), from art to rules, to story ideas.
I’m actually about to run a campaign using Genesys in a couple months here (after the campaign I’m currently a player in ends since everyone in that group will become my players in the same weekly time slot). It’ll be my first time being a GM ever and I’m very excited and have lots of backup plans in case my inexperience causes an issue.
@@RevKev I actually have a friend in the same situation as me who is going to be live streaming their campaign and then uploading the recording on RUclips if you’re interested. The DND campaign they’re in right now is also being live streamed and the first two sessions are already posted on the DM’s RUclips channel. I understand completely if you’re not interested in watching amateur content, though. Most of the time I don’t find it as enjoyable to watch new creators, either. I’m just a little biased cuz one of them is my friend.
@@RevKev This guy is the DM for the ongoing campaign: www.RUclips.com/@thatoneguyjonny7529 And he’ll be live streaming Chapter 7 tonight at 3pm PST on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thatoneguyjonny?sr=a My friend is the bard in his campaign, PackWaifu. All members of this group are streamers, though. Specifically VTubers, if you know what that is. PackWaifu is actually the least experienced among them in terms of Tabletop, and I believe the most experienced streamer is Scouty, and the newest streamer there is Aurelius. I’m only friends with Pack, but they’re all fun to watch imho.
As a big fan of Terrinoth, I bought Genesys+Realms of Terrinoth and like what I read. I've played Genesys only once, though. The session went well but it was with a group of people who only got together once to test the system. Hope to see it get more love now that Covid seems to be over.
I’m still running it to this day. I have close to the entire library of it and have run everything from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to homebrew horror stuff, Fantasy, and even have a Godzilla game in the works. It’s an amazing game and deserves so much love and praise.
We've started playing it. Once we got the hang of it we found it to be pretty entertaining. We enjoyed the narrative dice model. It was more interactive.
I recently also discovered this while working on a starwars game. And intending to start my own genesys game in May using the android setting expansion as soo. As we finish streaming our blades in the dark campaign :)
I picked up Edge of the Empire day it dropped and our table has used Genesys for several campaigns over the years. Most recently as a deadlands style pastiche.
We started a new campaign last November. Its been so much fun. And its funny, i was introducing my buddy to Genesys two weeks ago and his first RPG game type experience was Descent.
Although I’ve never played the Genesys game, I have used the narrative dice system from it for solo play. It is one of the best narrative systems out there.
I ran a year long campaign with the Genesis in the terrinoth setting it's amazing anything you want to do in dragonlance you can. it died because when FFG sent all of their rpgs to edge studio it's also the same time COVID happened and there were no books being printed for a long time. However that period is over they just released a new book called twilight imperium and they're coming out with another book for that setting an adventure so I'm hoping to see more books more support but this is a system that has a big fan base but it's literal held up by the fans.
I've been playing Star Wars since 2015 and moved over to Genesys for a Fallout themed campaign like three years ago. I've enjoyed the hell out of running several campaigns with the system across several settings
FFG had their RPG department then Asmodee (parent company) closed it out of the blue. things were in limbo for a little while until it was announced that Edge Studio was taking over the RPG department and that some of the staff that were laid off were rehired under edge. then covid hit and cause numerous delays with getting new prints of the books and combination of reworking the star wars license with Lucasfilm that caused a huge number of delays on that. They are slowly getting back to producing stuff and getting the reprints out for existing products, the dice becoming available again finally (for Genesys) but the bad thing is because of all of the delays people started moving on to other systems that seemed like it was being actively supported. There are those of us that love the narrative dice system and you really have all you need to play using it (when you can actually get a hold of books that is in print), otherwise you have to get the PDF's.
Personally I have never heard of the game but since you brought it to my attention and the wonderful comments I see below, I am going to pick up the game. Thank you for this recommendation.
I love the system, it allows for so many different play styles and doesn't have as much power creep as systems like D&D IMO. The open-eneded magic and talents can be overwhelming for many people I found though. We found that either magic magic something you unlock parts of it works, or just basically having a spell list you mostly stick to. The talents in things like terrinoth are good but without a set progression it can be daunting for many so the GM may need to help players 'level up' a bit more or create skill trees for them.
I play it and love it. Currently run 2 games, 1 for kids and another or adults. It's a fantastic system perfect for my sci-fantasy homebrew world. I absolutely love the magic
I've only played the Star Wars game which is basically the same system. And it is probably in my top 2 or 3 systems, especially to GM. I could even go so far as to say it's probably my favourite to run. I just wish that Genesys had more dedicated books for each genre, and more World Books/Campaign Settings. I'd love to see a dedicated Pirate setting, and a Western. They could even have a range of options available for GM's to tweak how much magic, monsters, and "weirdness" is in the world, from extremely low/no fantasy, all the way to high fantasy. But yeah, that's really the only thing stopping me from going all in on Genesys (that, and they need to put out a bunch of "Monster Manuals", for a range of different Settings).
We just used races and the magic system from Terrinoth and used tech and gear from Beanstalk. We had a blast. Luckily, no one was playing a decker so I didn't need to dive into the hacking rules too deep. The Crocodile Shaman used Primal for spellcasting and and a homebrew skill "Summoning" to call spirts. Anything else you want to know about? @@gavinmcclements1200
Genesys is a great game, I was there from the beginning as a player of the Star Wars RPG. I even started the largest Facebook fan group for it, then they stopped supporting it, and I stopped, good luck getting dice for it, and I want physical for it, not just for myself but for my players because I do not allow phones at the game table. It's really sad because that game had so much potential.
Genesys and the other games that run off the system are definitely still around. The company just released a new book for the system recently that hasn't made it to the US yet. (I am thinking Edge is not based in the US). The issue atm is that when the games changed hands from Fantasy Flight to this company Edge (which I am guessing is a much smaller company) they have been slow to get things rolling. Books and especially dice are very hard to find atm because the company isn't printing atm, or at least that's the sense I get from correspondence.
IIRC right before 2020 the parent company did some reorganizing after the head of Fantasy Flight Games left. This left some stuff in limbo for a while (most notably the RPG branch of FFG); eventually the RPG lines got transferred over to EDGE after presumably negotiations over the Star Wars RPG license, which FFG acquired before being acquired by Asmodee, with the final products released being the Keyforge source book and Expanded Players Guide. While corporate was figuring out and legal stuff it seems like the RPG staff pushed out some other stuff, which is why you have the L5R and Midnight games for D&D 5e. Dice is still in short supply as of writing this comment, the current head manager at EDGE is saying it'll be coming "hopefully soon" as their manufacturing (for both books and dice) was in chaos during much of the last couple years as they switched manufacturing and printing from China to the EU.
I recently heard about the Genesys and the Twilight Imperium RPG expansion for the game. I have put in an order for the TI book, but willl likely just get a PDF of the main Genesys RPG. My biggest issues is that I dabbled with the Star Wars RPG from FFG, but did not care for the system. Not sure if it is still the same or not with straight Genesys. If it is, I may just have to mine the TI book for the info and use another system.
Reprints & dice should be coming September / October. I visited my FLGS today and bought a copy of Genesys. Going to get Realms of Terrinoth and dice packs when they become available :)
Got the Edge of Empire starter set when it was rather new, run it a few times. Just finished the followup adventure with a group and need to make a new adventure. I know when it came to Star Wars Edge did not get the licence when they bought the system so they needed to apply, that took time. As other said Genesys got out of print because of covid. I am looking forward to more Star Wars stuff.
@@RevKev Tabeltop Empire did interview two from Edge Studios and they heavily implied more Star Wars would come. For now I will look at the amazing treasure trove that is fan made modules. Hopefully I am soon enough comfortable to homebrew a story. :)
Genesys is an amazing game and, as far I am concerned, the perfect game. Most "modern" games still miss the mark in skill resolution by 50% (except maybe 2d20), and most games that have made it to a 4th or 5th edition are still bogged down in their high combat, low RP, binary skill/combat resolution roots (though they have made small strides). If dynamic RP is your thing, Genesys should be your go-to. I yet to find a game this dynamic (though 2d20 gets close). Its the only game I run and, likely, the only game I will play.
It's just out of print, it will come back. people are talking about It a lot on the internet but I guess most of them are not playing it. I think (at least here in France) there's still a lot of people playing star star wars though
I hear you when it comes to the proprietary dice. For me the problem was all the bizarre symbols - having to decipher them was something I knew would be a problem at the table, I could see us taking a while to get used to them.
Thanks for this video! I've been looking for years in search of a "good" system regarding to my expectations, I was first struck by warhammer 3e with its narrative dice system (NDS), then I found Star Wars RPG by FFG, and there were fantasy adaptations from this one which I started playing with (Sky Wars: Edge of the Kingdom). Finally FFG released Genesys and I was so happy. I'm in France, to my knowledge Edge Studio is based in France and there is another studio in Spain. Covid has delayed many printings, but finally Genesys in french has arrived in France stores something like 6 months ago. This is my favorite system by far because of its story first paradigm, and because it is not designed firstly as a combat simulator (even if very good combats are possible). It is efficient and hides a lot of mathematics, I think it is elegant, and can be used by non-geek people as well as geek people. I also like the toolbox approach. I'm pleased to hear of people loving this system. Here are a few resources with fan made settings: ffg-forum-archive.entropicdreams.com/topic/303120-genesys-master-resource-list-revamped/ There are valuable PDFs in Drivethrough too, in the Genesys Foundry: the www.drivethrurpg.com/cc/27/genesys-foundry I would like to see more books and more complete settings. I'm about to write my own fantasy setting, somewhat inspired by The Dark Eye universe (Aventuria).
The fact that you need specials dices for this set of rule is a big no for me. I already possess Savage Worlds ( that is the best generic system) , BRP ( for more OSR classic gaming) and Gurps... So it is sad but except if someone that I know own that game... There is sooo many good generic games nowadays that's it is hard to pick just one..
Have a love hate with it. If I'm playing Star Wars it's my go to. But outside of Star Wars I'd rather play other games. Primarily my love hate comes down to the die system. It's just all over the place and can be really swingy. I like that they provide narrative, but then at the same time they also provide charts for what the results mean which has caused a good divide in a few groups I've played this with. Others are fully on board with the narrative and some are hardcore that if there is a chart the results must adhere to the chart. Also the fail factor seems to be really high for starting characters, or maybe we just have bad luck, but it just feels unbalancing. As you get better it also just ads more dice which doesn't really improve your odds just increases the spread of results. So this has been largely relegated to playing Star Wars for us and that's it. To play other settings I'll either pull out Fate if I want a more narrative game or more recently I've been really drawn to Cypher System. It still handles good narrative play but also has more meat on the bones for the system in general and unlike Fate and their very broad setting books Cypher settings are well produced, more strongly designed and perhaps even more useful have pre-written adventures.
Genesys is great. But...the magic system as written is a bit too open eneded for most tables. I would recomend using it for non magical settings. Terranoth is fine. Its pretty generic and that book has a lot of fluff without a lot of mechanics. Would have liked tonsee a more generic fantasy supplement with more crunch.
Still playing? It's pretty much the only thing I'm interested in playing. Level-based, D20 task resolution mechanics games are boring. They're for lazy players, and D&D has become a wargame where you only control one unit. Which is exactly how it started out.
@@RevKev I hope you get a chance. I'm GMing for a setting I created that's a blend of sci-fi, cyberpunk, and Cowboy Bebop. My players seem to be enjoying it (they haven't advocated for moving on to a different game and system yet, at least). The hardest part, I think, is getting D&D players to change their mindset. They have to actually put in some work, it's not just "I rolled a 22", "You failed", and "I gained a level, I get 2 skill points, a feat, and I roll a d8/10/whatever and gain that many HP". I love this system. It's not perfect, and there's a lot of wiggle room, but if I want a simulationist level of realism I'll play Twilight: 2013 or a computer game. If I want a tabletop wargame I'll play Battletech or one of those WW2 games or something in that vein. Good luck!
Genesys entered my life a year ago and now it’s basically my go to system! After years of lurking, something suddenly clicked. I love Universal toolkits; Genesys has a traditional feel that makes it easy to run with classicists and a narrative feel that makes it a huge deal for storytellers.
It has even an edge over other toolkits I might like more: you can let those player type live together and the game won’t break. In FATE, my gamer changer, you really need a full group buy in, or it just doesn’t work… In Genesys, you can have a player merging Talents and skills for the perfect alter ego and a narrative gamer developing motivations and skills, with a few social talents… You can do it all.
And more: I love the idea that, provided they are quite helpful, you don’t really need any table. Roll the dice, interpret it and set what next. I love how the way you read results can set the tone as well.
I’m GMing a modern horror/thriller, gonna play Keyforge soon and planning some Terrinoth afterwards. I did a one shot using the Genesys Resident Evil porting and some adventuring in Katrthun; it just works. XD
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing!
I literally have everything ever published for Genesys. I fell in love with the system. But sadly I never played. I even considered sellinga the Star Wars books. Theorically I love the system- but I got hooked on Dungeon World, Symbaroum, Cortex Prime and Cypher, and just never came back to it. I knew it’s still being published. My LGS just got a restock of Star Wars just a month ago.
It was great to come across your video.
Why would anyone consider selling any rpg book
Save your books for no reason
Genesys is back!
Following the release of the amazing Twilight Imperium setting book, genesys dice are now on preorder and supplemental materials for each of their settings are in the works.
The transition from FFG to Edge took a while because Edge was merely an RPG translation company before. With COVID and the blocking of the suez canal also adding delays. But now that Embers of the Imperium is finally out of manufacturing/shipping hell, Genesys is back and just as alive as ever.
That's awesome. Thanks for letting me know.
There's so many rpg games on my want to play list, I hope we can play in heaven
Every good thing is inspired of God. Because many of his children love playing rpgs, I imagine that He'd allow them in heaven
It is the best rpg that we have played. I have introduced it to the students at school (High School). There are around 12 students that play daily and we have done so for around 5 years now. The narrative dice system encourages creativity and the students love purchasing / upgrading skills and talents. Over time, we have made a huge amount of themed talents for bards, assassins, monks and necromancers. It is quite incredible what they have come up with. The main issue that we have is that here in Australia, we just can't get items anymore like dice! So many young people would love to take this game up, but we just can't get it here.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! Here in Canada we don't get the items either ): Hope that turns around for both of us!
Genesys is by far my favorite system to run. I have been a GM for over 3 decades, and it the best system I have found.
Thanks for sharing.
I've played and enjoyed a few one-shots with the Genesys system: a hellboy game, a kind of Hogwarts game but you are playing familiars of the wizards and a Star Wars one shot. In a few weeks we are going to start with a Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy campaign. something I'm really looking forward to. And I GM'd the Legend of the Five Rings starter set 2 times.
The system is a lot of fun. It is very flexible beeing just a generic game mechanism to whom you have to provide a setting and adjust the ruleset - but that is either in pre-made settings like StarWars, L5R or Twilight Imperium (yes, there will be an RPG for the board game) or you can create your own setting. There are options shown for different settings like fantasy, scifi etc.
Playing was a lot of fun. As you already mentioned the dice results are more than succeed / fail: Positive stuff happening at the same time, negative stuff or triumph / drastical negative events ("you shoot at your target but hit an explosive device, filling the whole room with hot flames and reducing the breathable air").
Regarding the current status of Genesys: as you mentioned Edge Studios is a new studio related to FFG and it is all about the RPGs. Currently you can't get any genesys dice (at least here in Europe), so my guess is, that due to the pandemic the dice are somewhere between China and their destinations. The pdf's should be available. But don't quote me on that.
Have fun gaming. 🙂
Thanks for the comment.
YES!! I'm running a Deadlands Campaign in Genesys! Keep on the Broadlands is NEXT!!
As I understand it, Genesys reprints had issues due to Covid, same with the Star Wars game. And they are just now sorting those things out. They are about to release (seen pictures of the book surfacing) a "new" setting for Genesys Embers of the Imperium, similar to Realms of Terrinoth it is based on one of Fantasy Flight Games board games, Twilight Imperium.
I have played it and I am currently running a fantasy campaign in our own setting. It is a really good system for telling stories, it might seem complex at first but it is rather easy ones you get the basics down. The hardest thing for players seem to be what they can accomplish with advantages or threats.
Thanks for the comment! I hope it comes back out in print. I'd really live to get my hands on a copy.
@@RevKev Miniature Market had some in stock a couple of weeks ago, and I was able to snag a copy. It's branded EDGE so I believe it's the latest printing. Twilight Imperium book has been spotted in EU, so should be over in the states soon.
I agree a tough barrier to get into it but very fun when in it. I think any generic setting role playing game is harder to character Create - learn the mechanics. The popularity of 5e is the simplicity to get players into it. 5e is very hard on a dungeon master to balance every single encounter. Genesis, however, is basically a system all about game master tools. It’s also all about customization so when a player says, can I player… You just say yes and tweak something. Genesis is perfectly modular for tweaking things. And the best part is that the counters do not have to be balanced. So when you take a unexpected left, turn, the GM can quickly throw down something appropriate and not have to worry about the nitty-gritty of finally tuned balance. There’s also no fudging of dice.
The thing with narrative dice is you have:
boost/set back - which is luck
Ability/difficulty - this is about a characteristic
Proficiency/ Challenge - this is about skill
When you roll a dice pool and the only success left is from a boost dice - success comes from luck
When you roll a dice pool and the success comes from an ability dice then the narrative is formed around an ability
When the only success is from a proficiency dice then the story comes from effective use of a skill.
This is what separates the dice system from a target number system and also it is separate from a gimmick dice set to milk you for money.
It's been my favorite system ever since I switched to it, but a number of issues have stifled it from becoming more widespread.
What issues? I'm hoping to get into it for solo play, but I'm a bit hesitant.
@@AceneDean Poor communication from the company, covid, company reshuffle to EDGE, general incompetence such as shutting down the active forums where it was discussed.
I just bought the set for Genesys RPG. Can not wait to try it.
Cool. Let me know what you think of it!
I actively keep up to date on Genesys, and I'm part of several Genesys communities. Really looking forward to Twilight Imperium: Ashes of the Imperium coming on April 28. I actively promote this system through the standard gaming communities I'm a part of. I happily and sadly (😂) own all the Genesys content on DriveThruRPG, my group knows the system based off of Star Wars (which we alpha tested), and trying to promote it to them and trying to start an in-person community here in town of Genesys players. I've in metaphorically packed up all my other books to make Genesys my go to system. My folder of Genesys content is sitting at almost 60 GB of files (6,300 documents), from art to rules, to story ideas.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
I’m actually about to run a campaign using Genesys in a couple months here (after the campaign I’m currently a player in ends since everyone in that group will become my players in the same weekly time slot). It’ll be my first time being a GM ever and I’m very excited and have lots of backup plans in case my inexperience causes an issue.
That's awesome! Hope you enjoy it!
@@RevKev I actually have a friend in the same situation as me who is going to be live streaming their campaign and then uploading the recording on RUclips if you’re interested. The DND campaign they’re in right now is also being live streamed and the first two sessions are already posted on the DM’s RUclips channel. I understand completely if you’re not interested in watching amateur content, though. Most of the time I don’t find it as enjoyable to watch new creators, either. I’m just a little biased cuz one of them is my friend.
@@jessicawoods1864 I actually prefer amateur content LOL!!! Share the link to the channel here. I'd love to see it!
@@RevKev This guy is the DM for the ongoing campaign: www.RUclips.com/@thatoneguyjonny7529
And he’ll be live streaming Chapter 7 tonight at 3pm PST on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thatoneguyjonny?sr=a
My friend is the bard in his campaign, PackWaifu. All members of this group are streamers, though. Specifically VTubers, if you know what that is. PackWaifu is actually the least experienced among them in terms of Tabletop, and I believe the most experienced streamer is Scouty, and the newest streamer there is Aurelius. I’m only friends with Pack, but they’re all fun to watch imho.
As a big fan of Terrinoth, I bought Genesys+Realms of Terrinoth and like what I read.
I've played Genesys only once, though. The session went well but it was with a group of people who only got together once to test the system.
Hope to see it get more love now that Covid seems to be over.
Thanks for sharing.
I’m still running it to this day. I have close to the entire library of it and have run everything from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to homebrew horror stuff, Fantasy, and even have a Godzilla game in the works.
It’s an amazing game and deserves so much love and praise.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
We've started playing it. Once we got the hang of it we found it to be pretty entertaining. We enjoyed the narrative dice model. It was more interactive.
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
HEY! I've been playing it. You keep that shade off my shiny shiny boy!
I recently also discovered this while working on a starwars game. And intending to start my own genesys game in May using the android setting expansion as soo. As we finish streaming our blades in the dark campaign :)
Cool!
I picked up Edge of the Empire day it dropped and our table has used Genesys for several campaigns over the years. Most recently as a deadlands style pastiche.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
Standing in my local shop holding a copy. Thanks for the overview. I love L5R.
Cool!
Curious... what part of the world are you in? Here in Canada I can't find it anywhere....
I've been making a cyberpunk / Jim butcher style game for Genesys. I think it's a fantastic system.
Cool!
We started a new campaign last November. Its been so much fun. And its funny, i was introducing my buddy to Genesys two weeks ago and his first RPG game type experience was Descent.
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
Although I’ve never played the Genesys game, I have used the narrative dice system from it for solo play. It is one of the best narrative systems out there.
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I ran a year long campaign with the Genesis in the terrinoth setting it's amazing anything you want to do in dragonlance you can. it died because when FFG sent all of their rpgs to edge studio it's also the same time COVID happened and there were no books being printed for a long time. However that period is over they just released a new book called twilight imperium and they're coming out with another book for that setting an adventure so I'm hoping to see more books more support but this is a system that has a big fan base but it's literal held up by the fans.
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I've been playing Star Wars since 2015 and moved over to Genesys for a Fallout themed campaign like three years ago. I've enjoyed the hell out of running several campaigns with the system across several settings
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FFG had their RPG department then Asmodee (parent company) closed it out of the blue. things were in limbo for a little while until it was announced that Edge Studio was taking over the RPG department and that some of the staff that were laid off were rehired under edge. then covid hit and cause numerous delays with getting new prints of the books and combination of reworking the star wars license with Lucasfilm that caused a huge number of delays on that. They are slowly getting back to producing stuff and getting the reprints out for existing products, the dice becoming available again finally (for Genesys) but the bad thing is because of all of the delays people started moving on to other systems that seemed like it was being actively supported.
There are those of us that love the narrative dice system and you really have all you need to play using it (when you can actually get a hold of books that is in print), otherwise you have to get the PDF's.
Personally I have never heard of the game but since you brought it to my attention and the wonderful comments I see below, I am going to pick up the game. Thank you for this recommendation.
When you get it, let us know what you think!
@@RevKev Will do. Thank you for responding, it really shows you care about those who follow you.
@@tallaaron1115 I try my best. Don't always get to all the comments :(
I play Genesys and Star Wars using that system. It's awesome!
I love the system, it allows for so many different play styles and doesn't have as much power creep as systems like D&D IMO. The open-eneded magic and talents can be overwhelming for many people I found though. We found that either magic magic something you unlock parts of it works, or just basically having a spell list you mostly stick to. The talents in things like terrinoth are good but without a set progression it can be daunting for many so the GM may need to help players 'level up' a bit more or create skill trees for them.
That's great! Thanks fir sharing!
We are. It's a lot easier with the dice roller app. Definitely considering it for some one-shot adventures too.
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Loved it, and trying to find a new copy with dice but having no luck...
Star Wars Edge of Empire is how I first found it :-)
I had found dice online, but they were way too expensive.
I play it and love it. Currently run 2 games, 1 for kids and another or adults. It's a fantastic system perfect for my sci-fantasy homebrew world. I absolutely love the magic
Thanks for sharing! That's great to hear.
I've only played the Star Wars game which is basically the same system. And it is probably in my top 2 or 3 systems, especially to GM. I could even go so far as to say it's probably my favourite to run. I just wish that Genesys had more dedicated books for each genre, and more World Books/Campaign Settings.
I'd love to see a dedicated Pirate setting, and a Western. They could even have a range of options available for GM's to tweak how much magic, monsters, and "weirdness" is in the world, from extremely low/no fantasy, all the way to high fantasy.
But yeah, that's really the only thing stopping me from going all in on Genesys (that, and they need to put out a bunch of "Monster Manuals", for a range of different Settings).
That would be great if they did that!
I love the system! I've only ever ran it once. I used rules from both Terrinoth and Shadow of the Beanstalk to run a game in the Shadowrun setting.
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oooh, interesting. Anything you can share?
We just used races and the magic system from Terrinoth and used tech and gear from Beanstalk. We had a blast. Luckily, no one was playing a decker so I didn't need to dive into the hacking rules too deep. The Crocodile Shaman used Primal for spellcasting and and a homebrew skill "Summoning" to call spirts. Anything else you want to know about? @@gavinmcclements1200
I love the system. I am playing a Twilight Imperium campaign right now.
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Genesys is a great game, I was there from the beginning as a player of the Star Wars RPG. I even started the largest Facebook fan group for it, then they stopped supporting it, and I stopped, good luck getting dice for it, and I want physical for it, not just for myself but for my players because I do not allow phones at the game table. It's really sad because that game had so much potential.
Part of me wonders about simply using the Star Wars dice for Genesys... are they equivalent with just different symbols?
Genesys and the other games that run off the system are definitely still around. The company just released a new book for the system recently that hasn't made it to the US yet. (I am thinking Edge is not based in the US). The issue atm is that when the games changed hands from Fantasy Flight to this company Edge (which I am guessing is a much smaller company) they have been slow to get things rolling. Books and especially dice are very hard to find atm because the company isn't printing atm, or at least that's the sense I get from correspondence.
Thanks for the update!
IIRC right before 2020 the parent company did some reorganizing after the head of Fantasy Flight Games left. This left some stuff in limbo for a while (most notably the RPG branch of FFG); eventually the RPG lines got transferred over to EDGE after presumably negotiations over the Star Wars RPG license, which FFG acquired before being acquired by Asmodee, with the final products released being the Keyforge source book and Expanded Players Guide. While corporate was figuring out and legal stuff it seems like the RPG staff pushed out some other stuff, which is why you have the L5R and Midnight games for D&D 5e. Dice is still in short supply as of writing this comment, the current head manager at EDGE is saying it'll be coming "hopefully soon" as their manufacturing (for both books and dice) was in chaos during much of the last couple years as they switched manufacturing and printing from China to the EU.
Thanks for the information!
as a matter of fact yes! We are starting a new Terrinoth game this week!!!!
Very cool. I'm playing the new Descent game these days. Peeked my interest in Terrinoth!
I run a Star Wars campaign in the system all the time. I have all the Genysis books and want to run others sometime.
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It’s a great system and we’re still playing and streaming our Genesys wierd west game and Sundays the Salvage setting for Genesys rpg
Thanks for sharing.
@@RevKev if you ever want to jump in for a one shot let me know ;)
Thanks for the invite!
I recently heard about the Genesys and the Twilight Imperium RPG expansion for the game. I have put in an order for the TI book, but willl likely just get a PDF of the main Genesys RPG.
My biggest issues is that I dabbled with the Star Wars RPG from FFG, but did not care for the system. Not sure if it is still the same or not with straight Genesys. If it is, I may just have to mine the TI book for the info and use another system.
I believe Genesys is the same as the FFG Star Wars game...
Reprints & dice should be coming September / October. I visited my FLGS today and bought a copy of Genesys. Going to get Realms of Terrinoth and dice packs when they become available :)
I really hope I'll be able to get a copy!
Got the Edge of Empire starter set when it was rather new, run it a few times. Just finished the followup adventure with a group and need to make a new adventure.
I know when it came to Star Wars Edge did not get the licence when they bought the system so they needed to apply, that took time. As other said Genesys got out of print because of covid.
I am looking forward to more Star Wars stuff.
I have a bunch of the Star Wars books. Really liked them a lot and hope they start it up again.
@@RevKev Tabeltop Empire did interview two from Edge Studios and they heavily implied more Star Wars would come.
For now I will look at the amazing treasure trove that is fan made modules. Hopefully I am soon enough comfortable to homebrew a story. :)
I remember now, it was when FFG spun-pout their RPG assets. Same time they sent Xwing to AMG I think! Covid seems to have killed alot of this stuff...
Stupid covid!
Genesys is my favorite game. It's not perfect by any measure, but the narrative dice put it ahead of any other game.
Thanks for sharing!
This is the only RPG I run personally now.
Obviously yes. At least EDGE is producing new content and recently released the sourcebook for the TWILIGHT IMPERIUM setting.
I hope to get my hands on a physical copy of the core rules!
Love Genesys, but its hard to get a game together, especially since i recently started running for a Pf2e server that converted from a 5e server
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Genesys is an amazing game and, as far I am concerned, the perfect game. Most "modern" games still miss the mark in skill resolution by 50% (except maybe 2d20), and most games that have made it to a 4th or 5th edition are still bogged down in their high combat, low RP, binary skill/combat resolution roots (though they have made small strides). If dynamic RP is your thing, Genesys should be your go-to. I yet to find a game this dynamic (though 2d20 gets close). Its the only game I run and, likely, the only game I will play.
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It's just out of print, it will come back. people are talking about It a lot on the internet but I guess most of them are not playing it. I think (at least here in France) there's still a lot of people playing star star wars though
I hope they reprint it soon. It's been nearly 3 years here in Canada since we've gotten it.
How can I play when the bloody dice are out of print? MY FLGS owner has product he can't move due to the lack of dice.
There is a dice app... but that is just not the same!
I heard reprints & dice were coming in september/october.. I'm hopeful =)
The dice system of FFG star wars is the best part of the game.
Agreed!
Heard of it. But never tried it. I’m also not a fan of rpgs that have proprietary dice. Means I have to invest a decent chunk before I try them.
I hear you when it comes to the proprietary dice. For me the problem was all the bizarre symbols - having to decipher them was something I knew would be a problem at the table, I could see us taking a while to get used to them.
There’s the free dice app, at least.
Btw I did mean to ask whereabouts u live in Canada? I’m on the west coast.
Frozen Ontario
@@RevKev lol. I didn’t even have to wear a coat today.
@@theblindjedi41 We had more freezing rain here today. Pretty mild but very icy!
@@RevKev maybe I’m missing it but do you have a discord or Facebook social group?
@@theblindjedi41 I don't.
Thanks for this video!
I've been looking for years in search of a "good" system regarding to my expectations, I was first struck by warhammer 3e with its narrative dice system (NDS), then I found Star Wars RPG by FFG, and there were fantasy adaptations from this one which I started playing with (Sky Wars: Edge of the Kingdom). Finally FFG released Genesys and I was so happy.
I'm in France, to my knowledge Edge Studio is based in France and there is another studio in Spain. Covid has delayed many printings, but finally Genesys in french has arrived in France stores something like 6 months ago.
This is my favorite system by far because of its story first paradigm, and because it is not designed firstly as a combat simulator (even if very good combats are possible). It is efficient and hides a lot of mathematics, I think it is elegant, and can be used by non-geek people as well as geek people. I also like the toolbox approach.
I'm pleased to hear of people loving this system.
Here are a few resources with fan made settings:
ffg-forum-archive.entropicdreams.com/topic/303120-genesys-master-resource-list-revamped/
There are valuable PDFs in Drivethrough too, in the Genesys Foundry: the www.drivethrurpg.com/cc/27/genesys-foundry
I would like to see more books and more complete settings.
I'm about to write my own fantasy setting, somewhat inspired by The Dark Eye universe (Aventuria).
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully we get new books here in Canada.
The fact that you need specials dices for this set of rule is a big no for me. I already possess Savage Worlds ( that is the best generic system) , BRP ( for more OSR classic gaming) and Gurps... So it is sad but except if someone that I know own that game... There is sooo many good generic games nowadays that's it is hard to pick just one..
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Have a love hate with it. If I'm playing Star Wars it's my go to. But outside of Star Wars I'd rather play other games. Primarily my love hate comes down to the die system. It's just all over the place and can be really swingy. I like that they provide narrative, but then at the same time they also provide charts for what the results mean which has caused a good divide in a few groups I've played this with. Others are fully on board with the narrative and some are hardcore that if there is a chart the results must adhere to the chart. Also the fail factor seems to be really high for starting characters, or maybe we just have bad luck, but it just feels unbalancing. As you get better it also just ads more dice which doesn't really improve your odds just increases the spread of results. So this has been largely relegated to playing Star Wars for us and that's it.
To play other settings I'll either pull out Fate if I want a more narrative game or more recently I've been really drawn to Cypher System. It still handles good narrative play but also has more meat on the bones for the system in general and unlike Fate and their very broad setting books Cypher settings are well produced, more strongly designed and perhaps even more useful have pre-written adventures.
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I have the PDF , but haven’t played it.
Before today I’d never even heard of it.
What made you get turned off about Star Wars? Is it the game or the recent Disney Plus content and movies?
I just haven't enjoyed the modern direction of Star Wars.
Never heard of it
Most people haven't :)
@@RevKev indeed :)
Genesys is great.
But...the magic system as written is a bit too open eneded for most tables. I would recomend using it for non magical settings.
Terranoth is fine. Its pretty generic and that book has a lot of fluff without a lot of mechanics. Would have liked tonsee a more generic fantasy supplement with more crunch.
Thanks for the comment! That's good to know as I've been looking at converting Dragonlance to Genesys!
I always felt the point of the system is it doesn't have a lot of crunch
Still playing? It's pretty much the only thing I'm interested in playing. Level-based, D20 task resolution mechanics games are boring. They're for lazy players, and D&D has become a wargame where you only control one unit. Which is exactly how it started out.
Thanks for the comment! I haven't had much chance to play lately but I'm hoping to start back up.
@@RevKev I hope you get a chance. I'm GMing for a setting I created that's a blend of sci-fi, cyberpunk, and Cowboy Bebop. My players seem to be enjoying it (they haven't advocated for moving on to a different game and system yet, at least).
The hardest part, I think, is getting D&D players to change their mindset. They have to actually put in some work, it's not just "I rolled a 22", "You failed", and "I gained a level, I get 2 skill points, a feat, and I roll a d8/10/whatever and gain that many HP".
I love this system. It's not perfect, and there's a lot of wiggle room, but if I want a simulationist level of realism I'll play Twilight: 2013 or a computer game. If I want a tabletop wargame I'll play Battletech or one of those WW2 games or something in that vein.
Good luck!
Not heard of the system, seems way to complex for the rules-light style of games I like to play.
I would guess lots of people felt that way.