Personal Top Eleven RPGS
Yeah, I know, what’s up with eleven? I basically started counting and stopped when I felt like I was grasping at straws.
This is in response to Zach’s poll for the Top 25 RPGS.
- AD&D 2e. All through high school and college. We truly created legendary tales that are still discussed at the gaming table.
- Savage Worlds. Hits all the sweet spots I want from a trad. game.
- Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Opened my eyes to a different way of doing things. I can sharply divide my gaming experreinces into pre and post WtA epochs. This was before the internet and I had no idea thath RPG mechanics could be so different from what I was used to.
- Deadlands Reloaded. Same as Savage Worlds plus the coolness of the setting. It may be my favorite published setting.
- Risus. For so many reasons this is a perfect game. Simple mechanics that disappear into the background, simple presentation (6 pages), and free! Influential on my own game design ambitions.
- Lacuna Part I. The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (second attempt). Perfect marriage of presentation, setting, game design, and damn fun to play. Our group usually has a fair amount of table talk and tangential banter. When I ran Lacuna, I don’t think the players breathed, much less bantered tangentially.
- WFRP 2e. Brought me back to the joy of a good fantasy game. I had pretty much given up.
- Weapons of the Gods. I have had so much playing this game. From the fairly siple basic mechanic to the transparency of spending Destiny (xp) I love it.
- nWoD. I have had a great time playing in a mortals game and I really it for a trad. system.
- Usagi Yojimbo (GRG edition) I have neither run nor played this, but read and reread it many times. It constatnly leers at me from the shelf and begs to played or run. Hopefully someday. For a very trad. game I like the combat options.
- Sengoku. Another game I have neither run nor played, but it is IMO the best historical RPG product ever, in terms of setting information (not interested in the Action! system). A vertibale cyclopedia of the Warring States period. Someday, I’ll run a samurai game and Sengoku and Usagi Yojimbo will be sitting next to me on the table.
Honorable Mention:
- Houses of the BloodedI haven’t played HotB yet, but I will at some point. There’s a lot I like about this game, from player author stance to fixed target number.
- Duty & Honour is my current darling. I am rereading it every chance I get. I am planning a game of this in May. I love the chargen rules and the whole mission rules.
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