Yeah I talked to an acquaintance that said he just made up encounters as he went along but I just don't have much experience with any ttrpg and didn't feel confident in pulling something like that off.
You're just fucking around with your friends. You will all be messy playing the game to start. Just go for it. You'll be helped a lot if you pick a mechanically simple system that lends itself to narrative improvisation. Check out a Powered by the Apocalypse system.
Yeah I talked to an acquaintance that said he just made up encounters as he went along but I just don't have much experience with any ttrpg and didn't feel confident in pulling something like that off.
You're just fucking around with your friends. You will all be messy playing the game to start. Just go for it. You'll be helped a lot if you pick a mechanically simple system that lends itself to narrative improvisation. Check out a Powered by the Apocalypse system.