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What Books Would You Take?

Started by Zachary The First, April 04, 2007, 01:13:19 PM

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James McMurray

#45
April 08, 2007, 07:36:50 PM
Restricting it to a single book cuts some of my favorites (like Rolemaster and 3.x out, since their base rules require multiple books. Hmmm...

Fantasy: D&D Rules Cyclopedia. covers monsters, characters, and everything you need for all levels of play.

Sci-Fi/Space: Spacemaster

Conspiracy/Horror: Haven't played a lot in this genre, so don't know.

Superheroes: Marvel Superheroes (FASERIP version) Advanced Rules boxed set.

Wild Card: The complete Netbook of Books, a 5,000 gig file comprising all pdfed versions of all game systems. If that's not allowed, I'd probably pick a game that looks cool to me but I've never played before like Exalted, Amber, etc.

Pierce Inverarity

#46
April 08, 2007, 07:50:35 PM
Fantasy: D&D B/X
Scifi: Megatraveller (or CT with the UTP from Traveller's Digest pasted in, but that'd be a tad precious)
Conspiracy/Horror: Tribe 8 (If Wil says it's Horror, who am I to disagree :D)
Superheroes: Fantasy HERO (Funksaw once pitched a game on the HERO boards where the PCs are almost but not quite Superheroic-level. I don't play supers otherwise, but that one got me hooked.)
Wild Card: QuestWorlds (as if)
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

signoftheserpent

#47
April 12, 2007, 12:46:25 PM
Fantasy: Weapons of the Gods
SF: Castle Falkenstein (the way I play it; the way Verne and Wells would intend)
Conspiracy/Horror: AFMBE
Supers: Oh how i would love to say the original DC Heroes, what a box of delights that was, until some shitbag I knew 'borrowed' it. Or Golden Heroes.
Wild Card: Qin Warring states is pretty tasty.
 

The Yann Waters

#48
April 12, 2007, 03:27:44 PM
Books that I already have on the shelves, eh? Tricksy.

Fantasy: Praedor.
Sci-Fi/Space: Fading Suns.
Conspiracy/Horror: Call of Cthulhu.
Superheroes: The Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book.
Wild Card: Nobilis.
Previously known by the name of "GrimGent".

Anemone

#49
April 12, 2007, 05:08:58 PM
Fantasy: Mythic Russia
Sci-Fi/Space: Blue Planet
Conspiracy/Horror: Over The Edge
Superheroes: Truth & Justice
Wild Card: Everway

Which neatly lets me bring several of my favourite systems for reuse.  :)
Anemone

Caesar Slaad

#50
April 12, 2007, 06:06:35 PM
Fantasy:

D&D 3.5. This close to saying Grim Tales because of momentary burnout, but I'm sure I'd miss the magic. (Hmm... arcana evolved would be a fairly fresh replacement, gives me magic, and lets me avoid the gift set cop-out).

Sci-Fi/Space:

Traveller D20

Conspiracy/Horror:

Spycraft 2.0

Superheroes:

DC Heroes (2nd or 3rd edition)

Wild Card:

Hmph. Ptolus would give me some great one-book bang for the buck.
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Running: Pathfinder Scarred Lands, Mutants & Masterminds, Masks, Starfinder, Bulldogs!
Playing: Sigh. Nothing.
Planning: Some Cyberpunk thing, system TBD.

RockViper

#51
April 14, 2007, 11:11:54 PM
Fantasy: D&D Rules Cyclopedia

SciFi: D6 Star Wars

Horror: COC

Wildcard: GURPS core book
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)

droog

#52
April 14, 2007, 11:31:03 PM
Okay, I broke down (slow weekend). But I'm going to have to subvert most of the genres to do it.

Fantasy: Burning Wheel. A bona fide fantasy game.
Sci-Fi/Space: Primetime Adventures. People keep saying it's the perfect game for Firefly or BSG. I don't think much of those shows, but if you say so folks....
Conspiracy/Horror: Sorcerer. Not really a horror game, but you can push it in that direction.
Superheroes: HeroQuest. Not really a supers game, but it would be dead simple to use it.
Wild Card: This is a tough one. I'll probably still be scratching my head and looking at Trollbabe, My Life with Master and Dogs in the Vineyard when they break down the door.
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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Imperator

#53
April 18, 2007, 06:06:12 AM
Fantasy: RuneQuest 3rd
Sci-fi: Blue Planet
Horror: Call of Cthulhu 5.5
Supers: GODLIKE, but I don't usually play supers.
Wildcard: Pendragon or Vampire, I don't know. Fuck it, Pendragon wins.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).
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