Is there an RPG that is awesome, but doesn't get enough credit?

Brendan · October 15, 2019, 11:35:17 AM

Quote from: Orphan81;1109493Honor and Intrigue

Which is basically 7th Sea done right.

I really wanted the second edition of 7th Sea to follow the ideas presented in Honor and Intrigue... but it decided to go it's own...very different, very storey gamey direction... Then also messed up a bunch of the cool lore and inserted worse lore.

So Honor and Intrigue stayed relevant for my swashbuckling interests, despite 7th Seas 2nd ed existing.

Ooo. Will have to check that out.

Nerzenjäger · October 16, 2019, 01:56:31 AM

Quote from: Brendan;1109542Ooo. Will have to check that out.

It's not at all like 7th Sea sadly. Still a fantastic game tho.

HappyDaze · October 16, 2019, 02:01:10 AM

Sadly, I've found some games that have awesome settings but half-assed systems. Notable among them is Polaris (the underseas sci-fi game). Others have systems I like (such as Cinematic Unisystem) but are hampered by being tied to limited & largely dead properties (like Buffy, Angel, and Army of Darkness).

RandyB · October 16, 2019, 08:21:50 AM

Quote from: HappyDaze;1109767Sadly, I've found some games that have awesome settings but half-assed systems. Notable among them is Polaris (the underseas sci-fi game). Others have systems I like (such as Cinematic Unisystem) but are hampered by being tied to limited & largely dead properties (like Buffy, Angel, and Army of Darkness).

Anything from FASA meets this description, IMO. Great settings, lousy game mechanics.

nope · October 16, 2019, 03:31:26 PM

I've long thought Heroquest 2 and HQ: Glorantha have been massively underrated as more narrative games, particularly for supers or the epic-style questing in Glorantha (which I've always thought felt kludgy and difficult to implement and match thematically in vanilla runequest). The rules are a bit like a more freeform Over the Edge/WaRP. The rules for Masteries are cool and scale really well.

tenbones · October 16, 2019, 03:38:05 PM

I'll suffer the slings and arrows -

I've become a pretty big fan of FFG's Star Wars. It's got some flaws. But it definitely captures the Star Wars I like to play. And it gives me room to use a lot of my d6 and even Saga books to round out the fluff and in-game material that they didn't think of.

Egyptoid · October 17, 2019, 06:05:55 PM

this question seems awfully subjective and personal.

which is best, merlot or moscato ?

Kael · October 17, 2019, 06:20:34 PM

I've gotten into minimalism lately. So:

OD&D (not well-known outside OSR online circles)
TWERPS
Fudge
SLUG
Ghostbusters
Star Wars 1E
Searchers of the Unknown

Xanador · October 18, 2019, 01:18:45 AM

Nightbane/spawn-Has the usual cludgy Palladium mechanics but is a blast to play if you ignore that.

AikiGhost · October 18, 2019, 07:30:22 AM

For me its Barbarians of Lemuria, basically a simple system that starts PC at low level heroic power scale and manages to remain fun for mid length campaigns. It's also incredibly easy to reskin for other genres, for example I use it for my current ongoing Cyberpunk/Military/Action manga game.

tenbones · October 18, 2019, 09:01:21 AM

Barbarians of Lemuria are on my list. I need a revisit.

Mankcam · October 19, 2019, 09:29:53 AM

I like 'The Hero's Journey' as a great little D20 OSR ruleset, it doesn't get much profile but it's a great purchase.
Very tight little digest-sized hardcover corebook, comphrensive and sucinct
(with a cool character sheet available online)

insubordinate polyhedral · October 19, 2019, 12:55:50 PM

Quote from: Mankcam;1110719I like 'The Hero's Journey' as a great little D20 OSR ruleset, it doesn't get much profile but it's a great purchase.
Very tight little digest-sized hardcover corebook, comphrensive and sucinct
(with a cool character sheet available online)

Do you have a link handy for this one?

I went a-searching and even after filtering out Joseph Campbell, I found multiple tabletop RPGs with this name (including one with a very glitzy website and no apparent link to their actual game??).

Cheers

Rhedyn · October 19, 2019, 01:03:12 PM

I got my copy of The Black Hack 2e well after release, and I still got one from one of the 1st printing of 2000 copies. I feel like that it makes it relatively obscure, while at the same time it is a great distilling of D&D into it's most basic parts while being a very robust system.

3rik · October 19, 2019, 01:11:56 PM

Quote from: insubordinate polyhedral;1110745Do you have a link handy for this one?

I went a-searching and even after filtering out Joseph Campbell, I found multiple tabletop RPGs with this name (including one with a very glitzy website and no apparent link to their actual game??).

Cheers

Print:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/barrelridergames?searchTerms=hero%27s+journey

PDF:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177622/The-Heros-Journey-Fantasy-Roleplaying-Swords--Wizardry