Humblebundle Mistborn, Dresden & ASOIAF

>>50110657
The Mistborn one doesn't require you to read the books for the basic setting, if I remember right. But the Alloy of Law one will spoil the shit out of the first trilogy just because of setting details.

>>50110657
The Dresden Files books spoil a lot of details, but if you weren't planning on reading them it still serves as a good primer for what's going on and how magic works in the setting.

>>50110657
so this is from someone who loves table top games like DnD, World of Darkness, and Exalted (thematically more than mechnically). heres a quick what I think:
Dresden Files - Lots of cool lore and some interesting story themed mechanics but holy fucking hell are the rest of the mechanics imbalanced as fuck. Like dear lord are spellcasters op as shit (mechanically). like we are talking 3.5 dnd bad/worse. However there are some cool ideas. Personally I found the game plays better at a low "refresh" (the games version of level) because then spell casters and monsters cant be broken as fuck and run over all the people that don't want to play those things. Source: roughly 3 campaigns and approx a year of play regularly.
Mistborn- Mistborn is a pretty rockin system that i don't really ever see anyone talk about. It has balanced spell casting (spell casters have to sacrifice other things like being rich/popular to get magic and in the setting/game it punishes you. plus magic isn't super retartedly strong, more focused one trick pony type of stuff), interesting thematic spells and powers. The combat and resolution mechanic is fun and can be exciting when you smooth and cool take down a powerful enemy in some way. The dice mechanic is a bit wierd at times though. I don't really have much to go on beyond that, just felt wierd sometimes. Source, one long sessions worth of experience

There it is. Sorry for the wall of text. if you wanna know more let me know. Here's a tldr:
Dresden files, cool story mechanics but crunchy bits are super imbalanced in the favor of spellcasters.
Mistborn has interesting magic and is fun to play but the dice seem strange at times.

>>50110657
Dresden Files is an old version of Fate and not very well balanced but the setting book is solid. Atomic Robo is a newer and improved version of the same system.
The Laundry is literally modern Call of Cthulhu.
ASOIAF is not a bad system, but be careful that it won't work very well if you play it like D&D, different expectations.
Mistborn I never got into because I don't read the novels and it seemed kinda confusing.

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>>50111149
That pretty much gives me all the info I need. Thanks Anons!