So, which is it?
In my case, its kind of cheating to say, but I'm going to go with Starblazer Adventures, which I very much want to play, but can't until the damn book comes out.
RPGPundit
Transhuman Space. Have gotten several books and like the background but have never played it.
Blue Planet.
I love the setting, like Seaquest meets Deadwood.
I'd love to run a Deadwood inspired game with it...called Driftwood.
Not exactly an RPG, but I have to say Universalis.
Hollow Earth Expedition by Exile Game Studio. I would like to check out the Ubiquity Roleplaying System.
Eclipse Phase.
Ars Magica
Quote from: brettmb;267264Not exactly an RPG, but I have to say Universalis.
ditto
Talislanta.
I'd also like to play Starblazer Adventures
Or Mongoose Traveller.
Harnmaster
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Wow, can't believe I forgot about this one... can I have two games? :p
Blue Planet.
Off the top of my head...Jovian Chronicles. Ask me tomorrow, I'll have another one.
Cthulhutech but I'm changing that tonight. So once tonight's game session is over it'll be Edge of Midnight again.
You've seen my shelves. There are just too, too many to name.
Seanchai
Cthulhutech.
Ars Magica
Quote from: Idinsinuation;267334Cthulhutech but I'm changing that tonight. So once tonight's game session is over it'll be Edge of Midnight again.
Cthulhutech is a setting that interests me, but not the system. It's something I'm working on doing with either
BRP or
Nemesis.
The one game that I've never had enough people seated in one room to get off the ground for more than the briefest of sessions is...and I realise that I may take shit over this...
Nobilis. No, really, I want to play in an extended campaign as a player-character, not the GM (though I have some nifty ideas for a campaign as GM).
!i!
I have the same problem with Cthulhutech. Is it me, or is that a concept that would have been perfect for the Palladium system?
For me, although I ran a Gurps Discworld game many years ago, I've never played Gurps 4 and I'd really like to :D
Ringworld
Got the books, just never had enough Niven fans together who were interested in playing.
Yeah, Ringworld sounds good to me, too.I love the idea of sailing across the giant ocean with the 1:1 scale maps, or trying to cross form one side of the ring to other. I want a flashlight lazer!
Rolemaster.
Also, what El said.
There's a lot I've not played, but if I had to choose just one I guess I have no idea. My wants change from day to day, with my moods. I'm going to have to really think on this one.
High Fantasy - seriously, with the right group this could be fun for a session or two.
Traveller 5 - hmmm...yes, actually I do have sufficient playtest notes to do this but if people started leaking to the internet Marc'd be pissed.
InNomine - this would be fun with the right group and the right attitude. Religion being what it is in these parts I have yet to see the group that could do it.
Quote from: jeff37923;267455Ringworld
Got the books, just never had enough Niven fans together who were interested in playing.
Holy crap, yes. That game has become so academic to my mind that I never seriously consider playing it anymore. I'd be tempted to play in the broader "Known Space" rather than just on the Ringworld itself.
!i!
[Edit: Whoops.]
Ringworld would be cool. Let me also add Talislanta to that list.
EDIT: And Spacemaster.
SAVAGE WORLDS - I have the books, but thats one I'd love to just 'be a player' for once.
HUNTER/new WORLD of DARKNESS - I want to play a "good guy" tht hunts monsters...with a group of allies. Got NO interest in GM-ing this - but as a player I'd like to try that angle and setting.
GURPS - I never get to just play, I'm always GM-ing. If I could find someone who has a GM-style similar to mine Id'd be very happy to be a player in his or her game.
- Ed C.
at the moment i'd be glad to play pretty much anything, if i could just find a group near me who actually plays rpg's and not those bloody warhammer wargames! :(
Quote from: David Johansen;267505High Fantasy - seriously, with the right group this could be fun for a session or two.
Indeed, I played it a bit sometime in the 70's, and it was if nothing else
mechanically a good deal of fun. How exactly I couldn't say, I just remember enjoying it and liking how the system worked out in practice for your basic dungeon-bash. Once I read it, I was also impressed with the streamlined rules for higher-level character development.
But since I did play it, it's not a candidate for me, in this thread. Now,
Fantasy Wargaming....
I'd like to try Buffy/Angel or maybe a little Mutant Future
Fly from Evil.
But with its progress to release so far, I'll need the tech from Transhuman Space to keep me alive until it comes out.
Quote from: Ian Absentia;267513Holy crap, yes. That game has become so academic to my mind that I never seriously consider playing it anymore. I'd be tempted to play in the broader "Known Space" rather than just on the Ringworld itself.
!i!
[Edit: Whoops.]
Hmmm - I've played StarBlazer Adventures and Ringworld, so they're out. Perhaps the one I would have to say would be Dying Earth. My group is totally intimidated by it.
-clash
Quote from: Balbinus;267657Fly from Evil.
But with its progress to release so far, I'll need the tech from Transhuman Space to keep me alive until it comes out.
If we weren't talking about actually existing games, I'd be with you, but I'm far too old to make it to the FFE release...
-clash
Legend of the Five Rings RPG.
I've never had a chance to play this and I like Samurai epics.
Most of the RPGs I'd like to play are really RPGs that I'd like to play face-to-face, having dabbled with a PbP or IRC game etc. of them.
With that in mind, the two I'd most like to play are Burning Wheel and Dark Heresy, neither of which I've been able to find the right group to play with.
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes.
Never had a chance to play Gamma World. These days Mutant Future would fit the bill.
Quote from: Seanchai;267336You've seen my shelves. There are just too, too many to name.
Ditto. At the moment, if you forced me to choose, it'd probably be Pendragon, but ask me again tomorrow and it'd probably be something else.
Quote from: RPGPundit;267237So, which is it?
In my case, its kind of cheating to say, but I'm going to go with Starblazer Adventures, which I very much want to play, but can't until the damn book comes out.
RPGPundit
Carcosan Sorcerer campaign.
Quote from: Kyuss;268256Carcosan Sorcerer campaign.
This ought to be good.
!i!
I was just thinking that!
What's Caucasian Soccer?
American football
Damn I thought it was a nickname for Armenian holocaust. English is really a difficult language.
Wow, there are many, but I guess if I had to choose just one I'd say the Marvel Super Hero Adventure Game (Saga). I own it, including the additional promo cards for the deck, but never got to play it. It looked really cool, what I read I liked, and the supplements were full of characters I liked also. However, DC Heroes 2nd edition served me so well over the years that I never found a need to play it.
GURPS Cthulhupunk :( I so wanna play that...
Ars Magica, Blue Planet, Gurps, Seven Seas, L5R
Quote from: whiteyfats;268784GURPS Cthulhupunk :( I so wanna play that...
So move to Cincinnati ...buy me the book and I'll run it for you.
- Ed C.
Well the question is rpg so i am going to "cheat" and say a system that i always wanted to try out which is BESM/tristat.
For setting i would love to play but not sure with which system it would be Warhammer 40k and Mechwarrior/BattleTech.
Well the question is rpg so i am going to "cheat" and say a system that i always wanted to try out which is BESM/tristat.
For setting i would love to play but not sure with which system it would be Warhammer 40k and Mechwarrior/BattleTech.
GURPS - never played any iteration of it.
Call of Cthulu - straight up. I played some wierd dudes homebrew of it that sucked ass at a con once.
Traveller - any iteration.
Too many games, not enough time.
Top Five!
1. Dead Inside
2. SCION
3. Mage: the Awakening
4. Aletheia
5. Nephilim
Sorry, I just haven't played in soooo long!
I've been wanting to comment on this one, and this is as good of a reason to join the forum as any. Besides, it gives me more content for my blog.
I'm gonna divide it into a top 3 and do it as 3 sets. Top 3 RPGs I want to play and likewise run that I own already and have never gotten to play, and finally 3 I would like to buy someday.
TO PLAY:
Mekton 2. I love giant robots. I like what I remember of Mekton's system. Many people seem to prefer its sequel game Zeta, but it seems overly fiddly and complex compared to Mekton 2 and its 68000 series Macintosh desktop publishing format and lovely 80s artwork. I am letting someone borrow my full set of R Talsorian published books for the line in the hopes he will choose to run it. Being able to play a game where I can scream attacks and philosophies at my enemies in their equally big robots would rock on toast. Or if I can't yell at them, at the very least let the pop idol singer's song of hope fill my heart with fighting spirit as my transformable space jet is one of Earth's last hopes against an invading enemy fleet of 5 million capital ships, all crewed by 50 foot tall humanoids bred only for war.
Oh god yes.
Runequest. It was the first RPG I ever bought, back in the summer of 88 as I was not permitted to ever play D&D at that point. My mom was kinda stupid. But it was a complete game with everything in one massive box. And I got the Mongoose PHB for 3.33 recently too. I read the Avalon Hill box version of the rules a few months back and found it to be way too fiddly for my tastes. But I would love to play in a campaign, provided its not Glorantha, which like Greyhawk does jack squat for me and I just can't understand why. A fantasy Europe or a homebrew world would be preferred I guess. Actually fantasy Roman Empire would kick all sorts of booty.
Original Dungeons & Dragons. Honestly its more to say I have played the grand daddy of RPGs as opposed to because of any feel of game system (BECMI or Castles & Crusades are the realization of D&D IMHO.) or game world. I'm not a huge fan of the whole pulp tradition thing most of the retrogame blogs seem to harp on about. I got into fantasy with He Man, Thundercats, the Hobbit cartoon, and the Endless Quest books which were usually full of lovely Larry Elmore artwork. But learning one's history is important. And even better you can actually PLAY the history. And since I have most of the books and the Dragon Archive CDROM, a lot of options are all there too.
WANT TO RUN
AT-43 Tactics. Its more of a Braunstein mode for a fantastic miniatures wargame (AT-43), but I like running minis RPG games, and I love AT-43's universe. Its basically 1950s Communism vs Capitalism in space. Except it adds in post human nanotech super Internet users, and giant sentient gorillas in power armor. So its the Korean War. In space. ONLY AWESOME. It would be fun to run a gritty "deep in the spit" sort of game, or a Fallout like one mocking 50s American and Soviet propaganda.
Paranoia. My GMing is at its best when I am gleefully screwing over players and hosing them in fair but cruel ways. Paranoia is based around this, except its accepted that the game's setting is not based around fairness. Plus as far as I can tell Alpha Complex is basically a conservative's wet dream and it would allow me to make fun of douchebags in government while happily watching players try to BS their way out of whatever Catch 22 FRIEND COMPUTER has put them into this week. Oh well, there are more clones where that one came from!
Promethean the Created. While its sort of a cheat as I have run New World of Darkness, its really its own game using the same system as the other, more popular White Wolf games. The way I see it, Promethean is the quest for humanity in a world where there is little humanity to be found, where one's very existence amplifies violence and hatred already present. Its pretty much The Incredible Hulk (Bill Bixby TV show) the RPG. People cannot stay in one place for long, merely try to help out where they can and learn what needs to be learned and leaving before the Created's existence causes harm, or reinforces man's basic selfishness and inhumanity. Its a sad, dark game and I understand why your average White Wolf player hates it. For exactly the same reason I adore it.
WOULD LIKE TO BUY
Godlike. Its gritty superheroes in World War 2. Do I really need to say more?
Basic Roleplaying. Ok, its kind of a cheat again. But its the core system of Call of Cthulhu and Runequest hopefully streamlined, made perfect, and totally universal. Sounds like a must buy to me!
Cthulhutech. Take giant robots, mix in a holocaust, and add in Lovecraft's mythos. Giant Robot pilots whose machines are made of the stuff of nightmares and it eventually drives them insane as they fight off unspeakable horrors in mankind's last valiant stand against total extinction? Cmon that's just awesome. Too bad its a 50 dollar book because people insist on full color hardback coffee table books instead of, GAME BOOKS.
Welcome, Captain Rufus!
Hi. I am brand new to this site so apologies if this is in the incorrect thread. I am interested in running Runequest 2e and have been reading the rules. I came across something today I cannot figure out. When you look at the chart for skills, (attributes per Runequest? I'm an AD&D 1e guy) say attacking, there are numbers from 1-20 that denote your percentage increase or decrease based on your characteristic stats. At first I was confused by the 1-20 until I read the optional rules for the point buy character creation. Seems like this chart was streamlined for that? (As in normal creation is 3D6, allowing possible scores only from 3-18, and the optional rule allowing you to roll a D20) Also, my real question...on that same chart at the end it reads "each +4" does this mean that if during the optional point buy for character creation, if you add four or more points to each of these particular characteristics, you get the percentage bonus listed? I looked all through the book for a clear explanation. Same question goes for body part h.p. table. I thought I had figured out that all these tables with "each + x" were based on the point buy, but the h.p. body part location table throws my theory away. That table has the same 1-20 chart for characteristics roll and the each +4 but having a point buy for this table does not make sense to me. So I must have totally interpreted all this wrong. Does anyone know what I am missing? Thanks for any help.
Kult.
DragonQuest.
Quote from: I on March 03, 2022, 08:10:04 AM
DragonQuest.
Quote from: Reckall on March 03, 2022, 07:23:02 AM
Kult.
Thanks guys. I realized either my post is futile because I erroneously posted a question about a 40 year old game on a 24 year dead forum, or, like the RQ2e rules these answers are just as esoteric and I spend countless hours scouring the internet only to arrive at dead ends.. Duly noted and I have since asked the moderators at BRP lol.
Quote from: Megalodonjuan on March 03, 2022, 08:24:01 AM
Quote from: I on March 03, 2022, 08:10:04 AM
DragonQuest.
Quote from: Reckall on March 03, 2022, 07:23:02 AM
Kult.
Thanks guys. I realized either my post is futile because I erroneously posted a question about a 40 year old game on a 24 year dead forum, or, like the RQ2e rules these answers are just as esoteric and I spend countless hours scouring the internet only to arrive at dead ends.. Duly noted and I have since asked the moderators at BRP lol.
Solved! I think! And edit, 14 year dead forum...I'm obviously not a crack shot at mathematics.
All Flesh Must be Eaten.
Ars Magica, Blue Planet. I have them both on the bookshelf next to my desk here, read 'em both all the way through, and they look great. Unfortunately I have a long list of things I'd love to do but just don't have time to. I dunno if they'll ever rise to the top of the list.
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Not just borrow from it, but actually play it.
Aftermath, Blue Planet, FantasyCraft, Metamorphosis Alpha, Castles and Crusades, Diaspora, Talislanta, Nephilim, In Nomine, Psi-World, Bushido, Wraith The Oblivion, Mage The Ascension, Geist The Sin-eater, Demon The Descent, Werewolf The Forsaken, Nightbane, Splicers, Part Time Gods 2e, Apocalypse Prevention Inc 2e, Ankur Kingdom of The Gods, Dark Places & Demogorgons, Ascendant, Stars without Number, Other Dust, Spears of The Dawn, Lion & Dragon, Machinations of the Space Princess, LotFP, Sword Chronicle, Ars Magica... Honestly I could keep going but I should stop now.
Quote from: Jam The MF on March 03, 2022, 04:52:35 PM
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Not just borrow from it, but actually play it.
It's fun if you have the right group and they get into the proper frame of mind. There are tons of charts to roll on, but if you grab their little pamphlet with all the tables for $10 from the website, it speeds things up considerably. It definitely feels a bit different than traditional versions of D&D at the table despite the lineage & mechanical similarities. A lot of the innovations like the way they do clerical healing, thief skills, and the whole dice chain thing, are pretty cool. And, most of the published adventures are actually pretty short and can be completed in 1-2 sessions. So that keeps things fairly fresh. But they definitely lean towards the weird fiction & Sci-fi sides of Appendix N.
Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade. Would kill to have a good adventure with mages in the Wars of the Roses.
Paranoia...but it depends who is running it...
I feel a little sad for you guys who have never played Talislanta.
I have to throw my support in for Blue Planet here as the game I'd like to play. The Recontact quick start isn't really my cup of tea, I would rather play V2.0. I've run a game of it, and it was a blast, but I'd so like to play it.
My top games in order of my current of enthusiasm that I have never run.
1) Mythras/Runequest - I own it. Haven't sold my group on it, yet.
2) Warhammer Fantasy - This may never happen. It suffers from Jan Brady Syndrome
3) Aliens - I own it, still haven't had the chance to run it.
4) The Witcher - Novelty value. I disliked CPRed. But I can get down with Witcher.
5) GURPS - Dunno if this will ever rise to the top without my players pushing for it.
Quote from: Megalodonjuan on March 03, 2022, 07:10:02 AM
Hi. I am brand new to this site so apologies if this is in the incorrect thread. I am interested in running Runequest 2e and have been reading the rules. I came across something today I cannot figure out. When you look at the chart for skills, (attributes per Runequest? I'm an AD&D 1e guy) say attacking, there are numbers from 1-20 that denote your percentage increase or decrease based on your characteristic stats. At first I was confused by the 1-20 until I read the optional rules for the point buy character creation. Seems like this chart was streamlined for that? (As in normal creation is 3D6, allowing possible scores only from 3-18, and the optional rule allowing you to roll a D20) Also, my real question...on that same chart at the end it reads "each +4" does this mean that if during the optional point buy for character creation, if you add four or more points to each of these particular characteristics, you get the percentage bonus listed? I looked all through the book for a clear explanation. Same question goes for body part h.p. table. I thought I had figured out that all these tables with "each + x" were based on the point buy, but the h.p. body part location table throws my theory away. That table has the same 1-20 chart for characteristics roll and the each +4 but having a point buy for this table does not make sense to me. So I must have totally interpreted all this wrong. Does anyone know what I am missing? Thanks for any help.
I could be wrong as I haven't played RQ2 in decades but I do not believe it has anything to do with point buys.
In RQ2, you can pay to have your attributes increased between games. By doing this you can increase attributes to the max rolled (18) plus the number of die rolled (3) so a human can get a 21 STR. The 1-20 covers this span as it is the most likely scenario.
Also the game rules are designed so that the rules apply to humans and monsters equally. The +4 applies if you are trying to figure things out for a Giant or if a spell brings an attribute above 20.
Quote from: tenbones on March 09, 2022, 10:58:39 AM
2) Warhammer Fantasy - This may never happen. It suffers from Jan Brady Syndrome
Jan Brady Syndrome?
Quote from: I on March 09, 2022, 07:20:21 PM
Quote from: tenbones on March 09, 2022, 10:58:39 AM
2) Warhammer Fantasy - This may never happen. It suffers from Jan Brady Syndrome
Jan Brady Syndrome?
Maybe the middle child problem? Not the first game (likely D&D of some sort) but also not some hot new game doing something totally different either.
I skipped over 1e for that reason and had a tough time getting players interested in 2e for a long time (but they loved once they tried it). Let's skip 3e for this discussion. I'm now thinking 4e might be pretty cool, but the players I had for 2e now live clear across the continent, and with my current local group it's the same difficulty getting them to try it I faced with 2e and the old group. Difference is, I have other games I'd rather do at this moment so I haven't pushed 4e nearly as much as I did 2e a decade ago.
Not an RPG, but a setting.
I /really/ want to play Dark Sun. The main thing preventing me from running it is the fact I'm not particularly familiar with any of the systems it is designed for as well as the fact I'm not sure if the systems would really work.
Multiclassing (which is important in Dark Sun) is kinda clunky, so there's that.
Quote from: PsyXypher on March 09, 2022, 08:36:49 PM
Not an RPG, but a setting.
I /really/ want to play Dark Sun. The main thing preventing me from running it is the fact I'm not particularly familiar with any of the systems it is designed for as well as the fact I'm not sure if the systems would really work.
Multiclassing (which is important in Dark Sun) is kinda clunky, so there's that.
And then there's the fact it used one of several psionics systems, most of which were utter garbage.
Quote from: HappyDaze on March 09, 2022, 08:38:35 PM
Quote from: PsyXypher on March 09, 2022, 08:36:49 PM
Not an RPG, but a setting.
I /really/ want to play Dark Sun. The main thing preventing me from running it is the fact I'm not particularly familiar with any of the systems it is designed for as well as the fact I'm not sure if the systems would really work.
Multiclassing (which is important in Dark Sun) is kinda clunky, so there's that.
And then there's the fact it used one of several psionics systems, most of which were utter garbage.
Eh, I thought the 2nd Edition Psionics fit well. But still, there needs to be work.
Not a fan of how 3.5 did it. It's just reskinned magic there.
Quote from: I on March 09, 2022, 07:20:21 PM
Quote from: tenbones on March 09, 2022, 10:58:39 AM
2) Warhammer Fantasy - This may never happen. It suffers from Jan Brady Syndrome
Jan Brady Syndrome?
It's of interest - but not as interesting as other games that take more priority for me personally, and not shiny and new enough to attract the attention of my players to push to play it, raising it's priority for the group.
I was desperately hoping that Jan Brady Syndrome referred to an episode I'd somehow missed. Something along the lines of, "In this week's episode, Peter adopts a Humphrey Bogart accent to comment on pork chops and applesauce, while Jan becomes a Khorne cultist in an attempt to garner attention."
Man i really would like to play Runequest 2e instead of running it once in a while.
Quote from: I on March 11, 2022, 06:21:36 AM
I was desperately hoping that Jan Brady Syndrome referred to an episode I'd somehow missed. Something along the lines of, "In this week's episode, Peter adopts a Humphrey Bogart accent to comment on pork chops and applesauce, while Jan becomes a Khorne cultist in an attempt to garner attention."
And she realizes that the "Hotdog in the Flashlight" trick isn't what she thought it was...
Quote from: Zalman on March 11, 2022, 10:17:30 AM
Man, I love where this thread is going.
My friend, when one sets out on the open road to seek adventure, surprises wait around every bend. Some of 'em maybe shaped like Jan Brady.
To try to get back on topic: FGU's
Aftermath! and
Bushido. Both games have great things about them (especially
Bushido) but they always struck me as far too unnecessarily complicated. I've plundered them both relentlessly for ideas, though, and don't regret buying them or the supplements for them. I'd love to play in a campaign for either, provided someone else did the heavy lifting by GM'ing the games.
I'm cheating and I'm going to mention a few...
Star Adventurer
Lancer
The One Ring
Weapons of the Gods/Art of Wuxia
The Witcher rpg
Ascendant
Werewolf: the Apocalypse
Mutant Year Zero
Runequest
Basically I'm sick to fuck of D&D and all of its retroclones.
Also cheating a bit with multiple games
OSRIC
OSE
Low Fantasy Gaming (I have run the game before multiple times, but have never had the opportunity to be a player)
Harnmaster
Not play, but running Pendragon has been my rpg holy grail for years now.
TORG....
I have always wanted to be a player in a good session of the game 'TORG'...
-Edmund C.
Quote from: Koltar on March 23, 2022, 10:41:37 AM
TORG....
I have always wanted to be a player in a good session of the game 'TORG'...
I'll second this.
For me, since I love fantasy rpgs. I want to try Dungeon Fantasy, powered by GURPS. Not the Dungeon Fantasy Club line of 'smut' novels that has shown up in my ebay search queue....thank you very much :D
Quote from: Koltar on March 23, 2022, 10:41:37 AM
TORG....
I have always wanted to be a player in a good session of the game 'TORG'...
-Edmund C.
Yeah, me too. And me and my group played Torg for about a year... :o
I really need to give Savage Worlds and the HERO System a try, after all the stuff I've picked up for them. :)
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Looking back on this thread, I realize that I've been a GM for the past 14 years, I'd kinda like to be a player for awhile.
Before you ask, I came to the understanding that there are some great games out there that I will never get to play unless I run the games myself. So I've been doing that.
Quote from: Thorn Drumheller on March 23, 2022, 03:09:41 PM
For me, since I love fantasy rpgs. I want to try Dungeon Fantasy, powered by GURPS. Not the Dungeon Fantasy Club line of 'smut' novels that has shown up in my ebay search queue....thank you very much :D
Our group enjoyed this quite a bit, here is a blog of a guy who runs a Dungeon Fantasy campaign. https://dungeonfantastic.blogspot.com/p/my-df-campaign.html
Characters come out of the gate being quite competent, a little hard to gauge threats for honestly. 250 pt characters were able to survive (at least the first 20 percent or so) and do well out of the gate in the adaption of G1 I made and they went into (Competent melee fighters are ROUGH on giant's knee caps and groins).
Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 23, 2022, 06:59:47 PM
I really need to give Savage Worlds and the HERO System a try, after all the stuff I've picked up for them. :)
Hero is on my list as well, Savage Worlds I can not recommend strongly enough. I did not think I would like it given all the "doo dads" it seemed to use in play, but it plays very smoothly and very fast (and FUN!!) compared to my perception from reading. I like GURPS a lot, and I enjoy DCC, but both of those (especially GURPS) start to slow down when it comes to bigger fights with more than 4 players (really with more than 4 characters). SW burns along pretty fast, and is a big strength IMO. I have some nitpicks with it, but none really around the game system itself (more along some odd abstractions with firearms).
D6 Star Wars. Sort of. I'll explain.
I've played it solo. More specifically the free, rules lite version called Mini-6 Bare Bones Edition using the built-in Imperium in Revolt setting.
Overall, my group played Palladium Books RPGs, and only Palladium Books. Switching to a new system was asking a bit too much.
Classic Paranoia
I've never played it, and every chance I had something happened and whatever that something was it wasn't playing Paranoia.
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Quote from: HappyDaze on March 09, 2022, 08:38:35 PM
Quote from: PsyXypher on March 09, 2022, 08:36:49 PM
Not an RPG, but a setting.
I /really/ want to play Dark Sun. The main thing preventing me from running it is the fact I'm not particularly familiar with any of the systems it is designed for as well as the fact I'm not sure if the systems would really work.
Multiclassing (which is important in Dark Sun) is kinda clunky, so there's that.
And then there's the fact it used one of several psionics systems, most of which were utter garbage.
Eh, I thought the 2nd Edition Psionics fit well. But still, there needs to be work.
Not a fan of how 3.5 did it. It's just reskinned magic there.
2e Psionics was a huge improvement over 1e, but it did require some regulating. As a DM you needed to ban some powers and kits. Remembering back 30 years ago, Animal Affinity was an improved Wildshape power available way too soon. The problem was a matter of scale. You could adopt aspects of multiple animal forms simultaneously, like a shark's bite attack AND an eagle's wings. At low levels this is way too much power and flexibility for a single character.
I have so many games that I have never played and want to, but there is just no time to fit them into my busy life.
First choice would be Stars Without Number.
Second would be Lion & Dragon, or some other Fantasy system that was set in Dark Albion.
List without specific order
1. Alien RPG
2. Dungeon Crawl Classics
3. Mage: the Ascencion
4. Vampire: the Masquerade
5. Band of Blades
6. The One Ring
7. Monster of the Week
8. Conan 2d20
9. Unknown Armies
10. Dark Heresy
11. Traveller
12. Beasts and Barbarians
13. Genesys
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Not an RPG, but a setting.
I /really/ want to play Dark Sun. The main thing preventing me from running it is the fact I'm not particularly familiar with any of the systems it is designed for as well as the fact I'm not sure if the systems would really work.
Multiclassing (which is important in Dark Sun) is kinda clunky, so there's that.
And then there's the fact it used one of several psionics systems, most of which were utter garbage.
Eh, I thought the 2nd Edition Psionics fit well. But still, there needs to be work.
Not a fan of how 3.5 did it. It's just reskinned magic there.
2e Psionics was a huge improvement over 1e, but it did require some regulating. As a DM you needed to ban some powers and kits. Remembering back 30 years ago, Animal Affinity was an improved Wildshape power available way too soon. The problem was a matter of scale. You could adopt aspects of multiple animal forms simultaneously, like a shark's bite attack AND an eagle's wings. At low levels this is way too much power and flexibility for a single character.
I've often seen balance-related criticisms about 2e Psionics come up, but in many ways my experience of it was the complete opposite. Though, this may depend on what version you're talking about, since there was a later variant of psionics introduced later on around the time of "Expanded and Revised" Dark Sun boxed set, which I never really played around with very much, so can't say much about them. In the Complete Psionics Handbook at least, most powers seemed weak (sometimes extremely so) compared to spells covering similar functions, and/or had Initial and Maintenance Costs that made them too prohibitive to be useful or even usable sometimes by very low level characters. And you also needed to make an activation roll to even activate them, which often carried a heavy penalty to your score (particularly in the case of the stronger powers that people tend to bring up), and had negative consequences if you rolled a 20.
Disintegrate (one of the powers that most often comes up), for example, had a Power Score of Wis -4 to activate, and an Initial Cost of 40 PSP, which most characters can't even get till level 3, and that's just to use it once a day, then be left with few points to try anything else. Granted, the power was an instant death, Save or Die ability, but if your target made the save that's 40 PSP and one action wasted, since the power did nothing (not even a single point of damage) if the save was successful. So it may sound like too powerful an ability for a level 3 character to have, but that's basically the only thing they could do that whole day, and pray for their target to fail their save.
In the case of the Animal Affinity power, you only got affinity with one single animal, and couldn't shapeshift entirely, but rather adopt a single characteristic (two if you rolled your exact Power Score when activating it) from that animal, such as their movement rate and mode, their attacks and damage, or their AC. There are no details for getting traits from other animals beyond the one you got when you learned the power, and the animal type was determined randomly according to the RAW. The power also had a Power Score of Con -4, an Initial Cost of 15, and Maintenance Cost of 4/round, meaning you could only use it for 3 or 4 rounds tops at level 1.
For reference, Psionicist characters have a number of PSP based on their Wis, Con, Int and Level, with Wis providing their Base Score and a bonus per level, while Con and Int only provided a bonus at level 1. PSP per level (above 1) were 10 + Wis modifier. The Base Score and bonuses were as follows:
Ability Score | Base Score | Ability Modifier |
15 | 20 | 0 |
16 | 22 | +1 |
17 | 24 | +2 |
18 | 26 | +3 |
Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
I've converted games from LotFP but not played in one of those games.
I'd would have liked to play in a real game of Blackmoor, either by Arneson or someone directly from his game.
I know what you're thinking. With the comeback of the DeLorean that door may not be fully closed. I thought of that as well.
There's a bunch of games I never got around playing I would like to play, but know deep down I would never find the time or group for them. Mage: The Ascension comes to mind close to the top. But of the old school games Gamma World takes the lead as the game I've been wanting to play for the longest time, but never even got around finding a copy of it back in the day, when I would only find random supplements at most, but never the core rules.
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There's a bunch of games I never got around playing I would like to play, but know deep down I would never find the time or group for them. Mage: The Ascension comes to mind close to the top. But of the old school games Gamma World takes the lead as the game I've been wanting to play for the longest time, but never even got around finding a copy of it back in the day, when I would only find random supplements at most, but never the core rules.
The 1st, 3rd, and 4th editions of Gamma World are all available in POD format.
Edit: At least 1e is new. Last I checked, It wasn't available as POD.
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There's a bunch of games I never got around playing I would like to play, but know deep down I would never find the time or group for them. Mage: The Ascension comes to mind close to the top. But of the old school games Gamma World takes the lead as the game I've been wanting to play for the longest time, but never even got around finding a copy of it back in the day, when I would only find random supplements at most, but never the core rules.
The 1st, 3rd, and 4th editions of Gamma World are all available in POD format.
Edit: At least 1e is new. Last I checked, It wasn't available as POD.
Yeah, I figured as much. But I was speaking more from the PoV of being "back in the day" when I was still a kid in the 90s (before POD existed), with enough time and opportunity to try out a bunch of systems. And I would often run into a left over Gamma World supplement and think "Damn, this looks cool!" But they would never have the core book at the store, cuz apparently the game didn't have enough following where I live (or maybe it was out of print? IDK), so they didn't order more of them.
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There's a bunch of games I never got around playing I would like to play, but know deep down I would never find the time or group for them. Mage: The Ascension comes to mind close to the top. But of the old school games Gamma World takes the lead as the game I've been wanting to play for the longest time, but never even got around finding a copy of it back in the day, when I would only find random supplements at most, but never the core rules.
The 1st, 3rd, and 4th editions of Gamma World are all available in POD format.
Edit: At least 1e is new. Last I checked, It wasn't available as POD.
Yeah, I figured as much. But I was speaking more from the PoV of being "back in the day" when I was still a kid in the 90s (before POD existed), with enough time and opportunity to try out a bunch of systems. And I would often run into a left over Gamma World supplement and think "Damn, this looks cool!" But they would never have the core book at the store, cuz apparently the game didn't have enough following where I live (or maybe it was out of print? IDK), so they didn't order more of them.
It could still make a fun one-shot, especially if you lean into the craziness. It might be my favorite setting, though the rules can be a little odd. 1e for example has a matrix of armor types vs. weapon types for attacks, i.e. character skill doesn't factor in. Third edition tried to mix the original rules with a leveling system and the universal color-coded tables of MSH/Conan, and ended up with a buggy mess (later printings had to include a 16 page errata because they forgot basic things like the equipment list). 4th shifted to be more like D&D. I've heard good things about 2e, but we missed that edition.
Lords of Olympus
Mage the Ascension / the Awakening
Invisibile College
I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.
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I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.
You came close to describing my mid '90s Vampire campaign, except Strahd the redneck vampire was a PC and the werewolf was a werelion.
I own a copy of the 1E book and have read it. I've even ran part of The Enemy Within campaign converting it to D&D for one of my groups. However, I've never actually played WFRP. I'd absolutely love to play (not GM) in a game of it someday.
Does it have to be only one? Sigh. OK, Ironically: Realm of Yolmi.
Unironically: Palladium's Robotech.
Rifts. I love the idea of Rifts, love the flavor, love the monsters, and I want to play the game, just never had a chance to.
Definitely my #1.
I've been thinking about this topic since it was posted, but didn't have a good answer until now.
I've never played in a shared campaign like the Gygaxian campaign (https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/gygaxian-campaign/), I just posted about, and would really like to. So it's not any specific RPG, but a style of play.
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I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.
Greetings!
Great stuff, Palaeomerus!
I think the whole "Sparkly, sexy Vampire" that's just so romantic and *Hawt*--is ok now and then for variety, but it has become the dominant paradigm for vampires everywhere. Yeah, Anne Rice and her books, the Twilight movies--they all have become pathetic.
Most, if not ALL, vampires should be crazed, evil villains. Add in the modern "Redneck" motif you have here for modern campaign settings. Good stuff! Encountering vampires, their minions, and the twisted, fucked up surrounding communities that the vampires have come to dominate and otherwise rule, should be a dreaded, terrifying experience for player characters, even if such encounters may not always be entirely dangerous and lethal.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.
D&D
Seriously. I've yet to play it. Even an OSR.
The closest I've gotten is a single session of Dungeons and Delvers Dice Pool Edition, but that game is modified enough that I don't consider it an OSR.
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One RPG you've never played, but you'd like to?
DayTrippers.
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Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.
Same here. However if rumors are true about the woke changes for 6th Edition, I will probably not.
I've been a huge Chaosium fanboy since I discovered RQ as a teen. It's getting harder and harder to remain so.
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D&D
Seriously. I've yet to play it. Even an OSR.
The closest I've gotten is a single session of Dungeons and Delvers Dice Pool Edition, but that game is modified enough that I don't consider it an OSR.
It's quite a Longshot, but if you're in NW Oregon, I'm running a 2e D&D game. Wednesdays, midday.
Anyway, my list would include:
Paranoia (played once, never laughed so hard in a RPG!)
Werewolf the Apocolypse
Mage the....Ascension? Awakening?
The One Ring
Dune. (I have a copy coming in the mail, so that might happen)
Edit: I plan on running Castles and Crusades eventually.
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Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.
Same here. However if rumors are true about the woke changes for 6th Edition, I will probably not.
I've been a huge Chaosium fanboy since I discovered RQ as a teen. It's getting harder and harder to remain so.
Greg Stafford also died, sadly. So I think I would stick with the older editions. BTW 1st edition has some of the finest internal art I have seen in RPGs. Maybe I'll watch some videos on how the game is run, since I always scratch my head a bit about how to go about it.
Weird as it was, I actually wish I'd gotten a chance to play Dragonlance: Fifth Age at some point. Now I don't think I even still have all the cards.
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Weird as it was, I actually wish I'd gotten a chance to play Dragonlance: Fifth Age at some point. Now I don't think I even still have all the cards.
One of my favorites, and I used it several times--but never for Dragonlance. I ran a Ravenloft playtest using the Tarokka deck, and short-lived campaigns using the worlds of the
Dragon Quest and
Final Fantasy I video games.
Smallville. It's so different from anything I have played and I want to see how it works