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Favorite Systems

Started by Gabriel, November 21, 2006, 10:15:01 AM

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Quasar

#45
November 25, 2006, 07:32:42 AM
Hmmm...lots of things.

- Rolemaster and its children
- Unisystem
- AD&D (1st or 2nd), Rules Cyclopedia D&D
- Shadowrun (2nd Edition)
- Earthdawn
- Adventure! (original)
- Marvel Superheroes (classic)
- GURPS
 

TonyLB

#46
November 25, 2006, 07:58:47 AM
Mmmm ... yummy gaming love.  I love many games.  Picking favorites is hard.

Capes, of course.  D&D, of course.  Primetime Adventures, Dogs in the Vineyard, The Shadow of Yesterday, almost of course.  I like me some Polaris and Breaking the Ice (and, lately, playtests of Misery Bubblegum) for making fun roleplay without a long time commitment.  I love Castle Falkenstein from way back for long campaigns.  I have great affection for Amber, tempered only by the fact that it is exactly the wrong game for almost all of my current instincts, and therefore (unfortunately) hard for me to get good nostalgia-play value from.  Gotta lotta love for World of Darkness games ... particularly Mage, which I had plenty of fun gaming with people for a long time.  Oh, and Champions, Paranoia, Toon and TFOS get huge props.  And then ...

This is silly.  I love almost every game I've ever played, and I've played a lot.  You don't really want to hear me gushing about Lace and Steel, do you?  (Cool game though!)

While I'm all in favor of this thread, I'll also say that it'd be way easier for me (personally) to name a sane number of "favorite systems" if it were "favorite systems for purpose/setting X."
Superheroes with heart:  Capes!

laffingboy

#47
November 25, 2006, 08:19:06 AM
I really like the Mayfair Exponential Gaming System, the rules from DC Heroes and Blood of Heroes. Someone once described it as having 'complex simplicity'; I think that describes it perfectly. And it's so complete, I feel that I could run any idea I ever have with it.

For slightly lower-powered, pulpy stuff, I like D6 Adventure mixed with D6 Powers. And I just found a shitload of great fan-made Star Wars D6 supplements on the 'net, which go great with WEG's Star Wars 2nd: Revised and Epanded. So D6 is a big hit. It made a huge impression on me when I was younger. It was pretty radical for it's time.

I guess the last one would be the obscure Action Results Table, from Joe and Kathleen Williams' Legendary Lives and Lost Souls games. I've always liked chart-based games. This one's simple, flexible, and the players roll all the dice, so I needn't sulley my soft GM hands.
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jrients

#48
November 25, 2006, 11:10:37 AM
Quote from: TonyLBYou don't really want to hear me gushing about Lace and Steel, do you?

Yes.  That would be awesome.
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Caesar Slaad

#49
November 26, 2006, 11:17:25 AM
D20, some variants. Dungeons and Dragons and Spycraft 2.0 being chief among them, but Traveller d20 and D20 modern also rating highly. I never got into light/stripped down versions of d20, as I think they miss the point of d20.

If I wanted to run a quick, light game, I'd probably use FUDGE.

For SF gaming, I dig MegaTraveller and Alternity.

For supers gaming, I find DC Heroes to be the game to beat. Yes, still. No, not that D6 thingy.

Hero has a certain amount of charm to me as being a toolkit with which I can craft anything. But I find that lots of players don't get it, and I rarely have the time to do that much crafting anymore.
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flyingmice

#50
November 26, 2006, 07:41:55 PM
StarCluster System games of course...

Hearts and Souls

D4-D4

Impresa and GDi

BRP

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RedFox

#51
November 26, 2006, 08:03:51 PM
Ooo, fun thread!
  • Unisystem (both flavours)
  • Big Eyes, Small Mouth 2eR's version of Tri-Stat
  • Savage Worlds
  • D6
  • The "classic Deadlands" system used in Deadlands and Hell on Earth
  • D20, mainly in its Star Wars iteration
 

Balbinus

#52
November 27, 2006, 10:29:10 AM
Quote from: TonyLBYou don't really want to hear me gushing about Lace and
Steel, do you?  (Cool game though!)

Um, yes actually.

Garry G

#53
November 27, 2006, 11:30:21 AM
WFRP which I'm haveing the time of my life running at the moment and Cinematic Unisystem is the first system that comes to mind whenever I want to run something a bit different. I'm really tempted to do Torchwood with it at the moment.

Hastur T. Fannon

#54
November 27, 2006, 12:55:15 PM
nWoD, Feng Shui, Unisystem (both sorts), BESM
 

Imperator

#55
November 27, 2006, 03:15:06 PM
I feel more or less the same that TonyLB: I love too much games. But I have the first and biggest piece of my heart for RuneQuest / BRP. Man, I become like unto an hysteric adolescent fan of some music group when I start talking about it. I don't want to bore people with that :)

Other cool systems I like: RC D&D, WoD, Sorcerer, TSoY, James Bond 007, CODA, RM/MERP, Pendragon, HeroQuest... Too much.
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Mcrow

#56
November 27, 2006, 03:33:20 PM
I have a new one:

Cartoon Action Hour: if you ever wanted to do 80s cartoons (GI Joe,Transformers, Robotech, and others) this is the system for you. Really great, simple, and flexible system. Seems to me this could be the best system for mecha games.
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