I've been playing RPGs since the early 80s and played a LOT of RPGs over the years.

Of them, there's a few that are just old favourites and would love to give a go again, perhaps only for old times sake, who knows I might hate it now.

But some of these RPGs were pretty obscure or quite complicated.

For example, Id love to get a game of Rolemaster SS or Rolemaster FRP going again for a bit.
I know the character gen takes AGES and the rules look pretty formidable with all the tables. but really the character gen is by far the most complicated part.
Still, I think it'd be pretty much impossible to find players for Rolemaster these days. I'm not even sure I'd have time to run such a game. I'd be spending ages just teaching people to generate a character.
I did love the combat tables and crit charts though and there's nothing out there with character gen as rich and deep as Rolemaster.
TBh, I don't even know if I could be bothered anyway, it was a faff sometimes and it'd be especially hard if I was the only one who knew the rules.


I'd also like to run one of the early editions of Stormbringer, when you could summon demons into weapons and stuff.
The rules were really simple really, sort of an early Runequest rules set.
But it seems to be easy to get Pathfinder and 5E players, but not much room for other stuff.

How about you?  What would you like to run, but probably won't get the chance to?

Anima: Beyond Fantasy. Only me and people like me would enjoy the crazy love child of Rolemaster and BESM that is Anima. Unfortunately, I only know one of me

I give you two!  First up, The Palladium Role-Playing Game 1st Edition Revised!  Man, the game is just an awesome read from beginning to end, and a lot more manageable than their later offerings.  

Second up is Metal, Magic and Lore.  A fantasy game that goes for the realism angle.  Highly detailed hit charts, one of the most in depth armor systems I've ever seen and a has it's own book on travel.  I keep toying with the idea of doing a "Let's Read!" for it.  I don't think my group would go for it- a bit more complex than they'd care for, but it pulls at me:)

Call of Cthulthu. Nobody in my circle cares about winning battles if they know they'll never be able to win the war.

That's why most games I run are secretly CoC games anyway, if nothing else than for my own amusement.

Quote from: Skywalker;821831Anima: Beyond Fantasy. Only me and people like me would enjoy the crazy love child of Rolemaster and BESM that is Anima. Unfortunately, I only know one of me

This. I actually ran a campaign several years ago, but there's no way my current group would go for it. The official character sheet alone is enough to scare off most players.

Palladium.  Which I guess includes TMNT?

Quote from: Werekoala;821860Call of Cthulthu. Nobody in my circle cares about winning battles if they know they'll never be able to win the war.

That's why most games I run are secretly CoC games anyway, if nothing else than for my own amusement.

I'm currently playing in a CoC 7th Edition campaign.
good fun too.
We finished a sort of mini adventure/investigation and came out more or less unharmed, although it was close.
We're only slightly less sane by about 7 SAN points.. Muhahahah!!!!

I'd like to give Tribe 8 a go, but I doubt anyone is either a) interested, or b) has the staying power to make it worthwhile. I will add TORG (full-ass campaign using lots of setting options) also as a game I'd love to run but it's unlikely the guys would do the reading to take advantage of all those options.

I've got such a backlog of campaigns our group wants me to GM, that I will probably never get around to Tribe 8 and TORG.

Barbarians of Lemuria and its cousin, Dicey Tales. Actually, I can get a few to try it, but not my core group, I don't think. At least one of the major players is a cruncher.

Another one I know I'll definitely never get to use is Low Life. It's a Savage Worlds setting and it is hilariously unique. No other game that I know of has mutated, sentient Twinkies (the Cremefillians) as one of the possible playable races. Unfortunately, that crazy uniqueness makes it hard to find people who want to play it, at least from what I've experienced.

Quote from: languagegeek;821869I'd like to give Tribe 8 a go, but I doubt anyone is either a) interested, or b) has the staying power to make it worthwhile.

Oh, dude, that's a shame! I remember once buying all of the Tribe8 PDFs on a lark once, and then reading through them and being totally captivated by its particular take on the post-apocalypse. The 2e core book(apparently the only 2e product before the line was cancelled) even had a run-down of the entire intended metaplot(this was the 90s; what do you expect), and . . . well, it was a mixed bag. I found some of the revelations to be all kinds of awesome, but some of them to be more "wth?" It was still a fun read, and seeing as the metaplot thing was well established by that point it's nice to know they at least had a destination in mind and weren't just advancing said plot aimlessly.

Anyway, I should answer the question. Are there any RPGs that I love, yet will never get players for? Nope! I have a fairly sizable pool from which I could draw players for almost anything. Traditional, storygame, whatever. Finding players is easy peasy.

Someday I'm going to have the time, inclination and desire to custom out my ideal GURPS 4e game. Then I will find 6 GURPS fanatics to play it with me. We will retire to a mountain top lavished upon by 77 virgins eating cherry pie and coke zero till we expire at the game table in a pile of books, sheets human detritus and 6-sided dice.  *sniff*

Of course, we will then be devoured by the virgins, who will gain not only our powers but the powers of all the characters, thereby taking over the world under a reign of pent-up sexual frustrations and rage at their treatment at the hands of "those GURPS people".

Do you NOT see how complicated this is?!?!?!?!?!

Quote from: Werekoala;821860That's why most games I run are secretly CoC games anyway, if nothing else than for my own amusement.

Same here... no matter what I run the Mythos is out there, somewhere, waiting.

Similarly, Tribe 8 would be high on my list but I pretty much subsumed it into my homebrew fantasy setting... changed the names but all the elements are there and active.

Now that I'm playing online a bunch it seems like most any game can find an audience, at least for a short run. I'm slowly building up the courage to try posting on Roll 20 for a group to play The Whispering Vault... which might best be served by short episodic play anyway.

Quote from: danskmacabre;821867I'm currently playing in a CoC 7th Edition campaign.
good fun too.
We finished a sort of mini adventure/investigation and came out more or less unharmed, although it was close.
We're only slightly less sane by about 7 SAN points.. Muhahahah!!!!

Oh, you poor, poor fool. Yes, for that one brief moment, you succeeded in whatever fleeting task was lain before you. You survived, perhaps even overcame some pitiful subset of the lesser whole, which was a subset of the unfathomable darkness beyond even your logical and oh-so-civilized façade. But your mind, once a firm and solid bastion of impervious, logical granite, was slightly eroded. Tendrils of doubt, smaller than the roots of a blade of grass, have found purchase in the walls of your redoubt.

Your ultimate defeat is easy to ignore as you laugh hollowly in the dancing light and unexplainably discomfiting warmth of the great fire in the hearth of the Gentleman's Club, recounting your grand success with your compatriots. But brandy, not crackling oak fire, gives you more warmth as the darkness of night closes in.

For now.

I don't see my Toon books being used any time in the foreseeable future.