u/FroDude258

Preface. I LOVED Arcanum Of Steam and Magick Obscura.

A CRPG where technology reinforced the natural laws, while magic exploited loopholes or bent those rules to work. Meaning in lore AND gameplay sufficient quality/quantity of technology nullified or caused magic to backfire. And a strong enough arch mage would be banned from using steam trains since their existence could cause the act of boiling water to move gears sometimes cease to follow the laws of physics. Mages throttle the heavens. Technologists tend to turn into dumpster diving mad scientists that build spiderbots and throw grenades in the face of dragons.

Meanwhile martials just become super human. Sure they can't teleport/heal/whatever. But being able to tank/dodge most anything and bludgeon flaming elementals to death does the trick half the time.

Are there any TTRPGs that treat the "split" between archetypes in interesting ways like that without 1 style suffering irrelevance? Or toolkit systems that "could" do something like that?

Edit: Loving the answers so far, and more of similar will be appreciated. But I am really curious about systems that make these archetypes "feel" different in play. Like how in arcanum Mages mainly focus on their mana use and squishy-ness, while technologists are often reliant on crafting and consumables.

CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 1736/569/4968 MHz
Kernel: 7.0.3-arch1-2 x86_64 Up: 18m Mem: 3.82/31.26 GiB (12.2%)
Storage: 931.51 GiB (25.6% used) Procs: 378 Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.40

As mentioned the printer is a Brother HL-L2405W printer I purchased yesterday, after googling and seeing mentions that Brother printers are fairly reliable driverless on linux.

In the process of getting this set up I have:

• plugged it into the computer

• installed cups and enabled/started the service

• enabled and started the avahi-daemon

• installed ipp-usb which allowed me to add the printer with everywhere and driverless options via lpadmin, the web cups interface, and the kde printer manager while connected to USB.

• installed ghostscript to fix an error due to it being missing when first attempting to test print

• powered off both the computer and the printer multiple times

• unplugged the printer from USB and connected it to wifi via the lcd interface

• installed the nss-mdns package

• installed the aur drivers for my printer but when they did not work I uninstalled them.

While using a usb connection I could add the printer, but any attempts to print would hang forever stating that "the printer was in use".

And when connecting to the network I could not add the printer at all, stating "Unable to connect to BRW44F79FE2954E.local:631: Name or service not known"

I even tried to use the android app, and it... wouldn't connect. This is a fresh out of the box printer.

I admit that I am close to pulling my hair out feeling I am missing something incredibly simple. Any advice at all would be appreciated.

CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 1736/569/4968 MHz
Kernel: 7.0.3-arch1-2 x86_64 Up: 18m Mem: 3.82/31.26 GiB (12.2%)
Storage: 931.51 GiB (25.6% used) Procs: 378 Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.40

As mentioned the printer is a Brother HL-L2405W printer I purchased today, after googling and seeing mentions that Brother printers are fairly reliable driverless on linux

In the process of getting this set up I have:

• plugged it into the computer

• installed cups and enabled/started the service

• installed ipp-usb which seemed to solve the issue of not finding the brother drivers oddly enough

• installed ghostscript to fix an error due to it being missing when first attempting to test print

• tried to set up the printer using the driverless and ipp everywhere options for the model via system-config-printer

• powered off both the computer and the printer multiple times

• read the arch wiki cups troubleshooting pages, but since the printer is connected it seemed none of them were relevant (this could in fact be me misunderstanding something so badly that I missed something important).

I admit that I am pulling my hair out feeling I am missing something incredibly simple.

I want to get into both solo RPGs and dming. But my experience in "structured" play is just being a player in 5e (no real attachments to that game outside of the awesome friend group I played with), and my 'dming' experience is couple of silly one shots where each player was given a random single word power and a d20 was rolled compared to off the cuff difficulties ratings for what they were trying.

I would love to play through a bunch of games alone, see what clicks, and then bring it out for friends to enjoy.

Obviously using an oracle like mythic gme you can solo anything, but I would prefer games that have official solo procedures so it is easier to learn than learning a completely new system THEN how to make it work solo.

Games I already plan on picking up:

• ironsworn starforged

• riftbreakers 2e (and maybe other games by blackoath)

• coriolis (my local game shop has a copy and I heard it has solo rules)

• tricube tales

• scarlet heroes

• between the skies

Any other suggestions would be amazing!