Quote from: ggroy;348444Played it once back in the day.  Even with a lot of crunch, it was manageable.

We used to play it back it school and a lot of other FGU stuff especially Daredevils and the FGU mechanics certainly influenced my own house games which is generally all that gets played now.

Quote from: ggroy;348321The one I have is in three books published on rather low quality paper with a copyright date of 1980 by SPI.

That's Dragonquest  first edition. SPI's 2nd ed from 1982 largely replaced the combat system and made a few other changes, and was published in a single volume. I think there was a Bantam Books printing as well, but it was the same as 2nd ed just with a different imprint for wider distribution. You could find these all over the place for a while.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;348312Tales fromt the Floating Vagabond is another.

A friend of mine ran a few sessions of that recently.

Quote from: KrakaJak;348490Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet: UnderGround (or maybe it was Under Ground, I forget exactly). I remember it being mildly popular enough at my flgs when it came out. Tons of guns and a ridiculous setting(where McDonalds was called Happy Ghoul and served former characters as food.).

I've actually run this, with my own somewhat altered setting on several occasions. I play up the science fiction and down the parody. Sure the super soldiers are engineered and built and have problems dealing with society from the tools used to adapt them to their engineered forms.

The guns weren't all that big a deal with my group. I played a character nicknamed "Cat" in a game someone else ran, wore an actual leapord skin "headress" created with taxidermy. As well.

There were things I still think were brilliant and useable for the time. (The system is a variant of DC Heroes, pared down, which is a good thing.) The system to adjust the the local environment by PC choosing what to improve in their area, and the delicate balance that was? Awesome.


We had an Urban Primitive who ended up with the tribal name "Screams like a Girl.." for falling into a pit filled with the corpses of people killed by a supersoldier gone mad (wasn't sane to begin with, but ah well.) Called the White Spider, he was a NASTY NASTY person.

I picked up a game called Immortal sometime in the 90's.  I don't think it was even playable as-is, so I'd bank that nobody is playing it now, either.

It used multicolored dice and had unusual names for everything.  It had some interesting art, but that's about all I'll say for it.

-O

I doubt the Wizards RPG (based on Ralph Bakshi's film) is played anymore.
The talk around Microlite20 has died down so I am unsure this is getting any play.

Aberrant d20. Apart from the complete mismatch between flavor and mechanics ("What would you do with the power of... a fairly above average person?") it manages to poop on both the original Aberrant setting conceit (high power) and d20 (by doing everything in a d20 culturally incorrect way). It's remotely possible, I guess, that someone plays this, but to me it is the very definition of unloved and unlovable, a cynical hack job cobbled together from the corpses of the dying d20 glut and a fun but decidedly peculier White Wolf superhero game.

Quote from: pawsplay;348568Aberrant d20. Apart from the complete mismatch between flavor and mechanics ("What would you do with the power of... a fairly above average person?") it manages to poop on both the original Aberrant setting conceit (high power) and d20 (by doing everything in a d20 culturally incorrect way). It's remotely possible, I guess, that someone plays this, but to me it is the very definition of unloved and unlovable, a cynical hack job cobbled together from the corpses of the dying d20 glut and a fun but decidedly peculier White Wolf superhero game.

Data point: a while back, after the Savage Worlds/Necessary Evil campaign I was in imploded, my GM's boyfriend suggested that she try running an Aberrant campaign instead. We ran with the Storyteller version of the rules.

Other games nobody plays... I do wonder sometimes whether I was the only person ever to run an A|State campaign, aside from the original designer. Doesn't help that the game seems to have been abandoned for all intents and purposes - or at least, nothing new is being made for it, despite only a tiny fraction of the originally-promised supplements ever seeing the light of day.

Secrets of Zir'An. The game came and went so quick that I wonder if anyone ever got a chance to play it at all.

Quote from: jeff37923;348581Secrets of Zir'An. The game came and went so quick that I wonder if anyone ever got a chance to play it at all.

Seconded.

The two most-visited game stores locally never even saw a copy of it or had regular customer/gamers mention having tried it.

It did seem to have a heck of hype & promo campaign for awhile.


- Ed C.

I hope that 7th Sea is still being played somewhere

Quote from: Alaxk;348614I hope that 7th Sea is still being played somewhere

It seemed like such a neat idea, until I found out what it was really about.

!i!

Quote from: jeff37923;348581Secrets of Zir'An. The game came and went so quick that I wonder if anyone ever got a chance to play it at all.

Well, earlier this year I ran a test scenario with SoZ, set in a kind of fantasy version of early Hollywood, complete with foreign spies and an elven Valentino. I wouldn't mind trying to get the game going again at some later point if time allows.

Hmm. What was it that I mentioned in another thread like this... Ah, yes: I recently picked up a cheap used copy of A.C.E. Agents!, a "super spy science fiction adventure parody" RPG published by Stellar Games in 1992. That one probably doesn't see much action these days, if it ever did in the first place.

Quote from: GrimGent;348618Hmm. What was it that I mentioned in another thread like this... Ah, yes: I recently picked up a cheap used copy of A.C.E. Agents!, a "super spy science fiction adventure parody" RPG published by Stellar Games in 1992. That one probably doesn't see much action these days, if it ever did in the first place.

I was just going to mention ACE Agents! It wasn't too bad a game (although I don't have it any more). As you say, I doubt it got much play - we only ever got as far as creating characters.

Simon W

Quote from: Ian Absentia;348616It seemed like such a neat idea, until I found out what it was really about.

Do tell.