An old Yaquinto game recently crossed my path in a "generosity" mystery box "win" at a thread I regularly follow at rpggeek. It's a odd thing...

Pirates & Plunder

I don't know much. The character sheet pad is super odd, highly uncoventional.

Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 10:13:11 PM
An old Yaquinto game recently crossed my path in a "generosity" mystery box "win" at a thread I regularly follow at rpggeek. It's a odd thing...

Pirates & Plunder

I don't know much. The character sheet pad is super odd, highly uncoventional.

It's actually pretty good. I've been trying to bring it back like I did Man, Myth & Magic, but I can't track down the author (who knows if he's still with us).

Arcanum from 81 by Bard Games is the only TTRPG I know of under that title..
The Arcanum PC RPG from 2001 is the only other I know of. One of my players had it. Though apparently there is a fan made SAGA port of the PC game to tabletop back in 2011.

This excluding various product with arcanum as a secondary part of the title.

Quote from: brettmb on November 14, 2021, 10:25:50 PM

Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 10:13:11 PM
An old Yaquinto game recently crossed my path in a "generosity" mystery box "win" at a thread I regularly follow at rpggeek. It's a odd thing...

Pirates & Plunder

I don't know much. The character sheet pad is super odd, highly uncoventional.

It's actually pretty good. I've been trying to bring it back like I did Man, Myth & Magic, but I can't track down the author (who knows if he's still with us).

Pirates and Plunder was written by Michael S. Matheny if I recall right. Also did the John Carter of Mars wargame/RPG in 78.
And then seems to have up and vanished after doing a batch of wargames in 81 and then Pirates and Plunder in 82.

Yes, Don't know what happened to him.

There are so many obscure RPGs lost to time because copyright law prevents them from being preserved.

Quote from: brettmb on September 22, 2020, 06:44:01 PM
I've started a new series on my blog about forgotten RPGs. I kicked it off with 6 fantasy games that I bet most people never knew existed: Dawnfire, GateWar, Of Gods and Men, Quest of the Ancients, Shades of Heroes, and The Essential Fantasy Earth. I'll probably focus on sci-fi games for the next entry. Have you heard of these games? Have you ever played them? What did you think of them? Any favorites?

Well, a current forgotten RPG is FFG's Star Wars: Age of Rebellion.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on November 16, 2021, 10:25:41 PM
Well, a current forgotten RPG is FFG's Star Wars: Age of Rebellion.

I'm not so sure. I've seen lots of talk about it.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 16, 2021, 09:39:48 AM
There are so many obscure RPGs lost to time because copyright law prevents them from being preserved.

Well now, there was, ahem, a way to preserve their legacy but some douche got it put out of commission...

Quote from: brettmb on November 16, 2021, 11:35:28 PM

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on November 16, 2021, 10:25:41 PM
Well, a current forgotten RPG is FFG's Star Wars: Age of Rebellion.

I'm not so sure. I've seen lots of talk about it.

Its funny as I was tempted to mention it too. But really it is like a few other RPGs I've noted throughout this thread. They may be forgotten now. But at the time they were talked about sometimes quite a bit. Then poof - gone. Mechanoids and Recon are good examples.

Others like Immortel youd see alot of ads for. But little ever actually said about the game.

Depends on your circles, I imagine.

I got a lot of mileage out of the old Arcanum book (from the Atlantean trilogy), despite never having the money to buy the other two books, which weren't
easy to find.  It had a great deal i homebrewed into one of my old campaigns. 

Sadly i don't have it anymore, along with other things i'm missing (such as the old James Bond RPG). 

Though i do still have an old copy of "Hidden Kingdom" published back in 1983, a heavily Arthurian setting, which i mostly cribbed info from a different
old AD&D campaign, and the maps of the British Isles they came with were on my wall for years.  I'd forgotten i even had it until i stumbled on it looking
through old boxes looking for my Companion and Master sets...

Not sure how Forgotten it is though, seems a kickstarter funded campaign brought it back about 6 years ago, and it's on Drivethrurpg now...

Nice to remember Skyrealms of Journe and Villains and Vigilantes and Bushido and all the other games i saw advertised all the time in Dragon Magazine
but never actually saw... (i'd have probably bought all three given the chance back in the day)

Nice trip down memory lane...that.

Jorune was weird to us.

Bushido was awesome. Disorganized bliss.

This was a very amusing walk down memory lane and a reminder that I should probably sell my forgotten RPG collection. Everything from Bushido to RUS, from Reichstar to Neverworld.

My own RPGs were actually too obscure to be forgotten.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 16, 2021, 09:39:48 AM
There are so many obscure RPGs lost to time because copyright law prevents them from being preserved.

So true, feels like licenses lapsing will cause a lot of games to just get... Lost, for a sense. Curious to see how it'll impact FFG Star Wars, Mongoose Traveller, etc. in years to come. Granted, stuff like OGLs and SRDs make some of those games never truly lost.