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I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.

Quote from: palaeomerus on March 31, 2022, 04:18:34 PM
I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.

You came close to describing my mid '90s Vampire campaign, except Strahd the redneck vampire was a PC and the werewolf was a werelion.

I own a copy of the 1E book and have read it. I've even ran part of The Enemy Within campaign converting it to D&D for one of my groups. However, I've never actually played WFRP. I'd absolutely love to play (not GM) in a game of it someday.

Does it have to be only one?  Sigh.  OK, Ironically: Realm of Yolmi.

Unironically: Palladium's Robotech.

Rifts. I love the idea of Rifts, love the flavor, love the monsters, and I want to play the game, just never had a chance to.

Definitely my #1.

I've been thinking about this topic since it was posted, but didn't have a good answer until now.

I've never played in a shared campaign like the Gygaxian campaign, I just posted about, and would really like to. So it's not any specific RPG, but a style of play.

Quote from: palaeomerus on March 31, 2022, 04:18:34 PM
I want a modern rural version of D&D horror called Ravenloft, AR and neighbor Strahd is pissing down on the party's new truck from the top of the water tower because he is drunk on the blood shine that the devil gave him and the party is threatening to mosey on up thur and beat his ass with they flashlights and tire change tools while the werewolf sheriff tells everyone they better calm down or they'll spend 90 in the chiller and a doctor will have to pull his boots out of their rear ends. Players should go in thinking it's some kind of a grim comedy and come out shocked, sad, and full of revulsion that people live like that even though it is a game and they don't. Also they should never want to roll the meth die ever again and feel an intrinsic dread when they see a truck covered in magnetic CB antennae.

Greetings!

Great stuff, Palaeomerus!

I think the whole "Sparkly, sexy Vampire" that's just so romantic and *Hawt*--is ok now and then for variety, but it has become the dominant paradigm for vampires everywhere. Yeah, Anne Rice and her books, the Twilight movies--they all have become pathetic.

Most, if not ALL, vampires should be crazed, evil villains. Add in the modern "Redneck" motif you have here for modern campaign settings. Good stuff! Encountering vampires, their minions, and the twisted, fucked up surrounding communities that the vampires have come to dominate and otherwise rule, should be a dreaded, terrifying experience for player characters, even if such encounters may not always be entirely dangerous and lethal.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.

D&D

Seriously.  I've yet to play it.  Even an OSR. 

The closest I've gotten is a single session of Dungeons and Delvers Dice Pool Edition, but that game is modified enough that I don't consider it an OSR. 

Quote from: RPGPundit on November 17, 2008, 10:54:28 AM
One RPG you've never played, but you'd like to?

DayTrippers.

Quote from: Trond on April 21, 2022, 11:14:28 AM
Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.

Same here. However if rumors are true about the woke changes for 6th Edition, I will probably not.

I've been a huge Chaosium fanboy since I discovered RQ as a teen. It's getting harder and harder to remain so.

Quote from: weirdguy564 on April 21, 2022, 05:41:19 PM
D&D

Seriously.  I've yet to play it.  Even an OSR. 

The closest I've gotten is a single session of Dungeons and Delvers Dice Pool Edition, but that game is modified enough that I don't consider it an OSR.

It's quite a Longshot, but if you're in NW Oregon, I'm running a 2e D&D game. Wednesdays, midday.

Anyway, my list would include:
Paranoia (played once, never laughed so hard in a RPG!)
Werewolf the Apocolypse
Mage the....Ascension? Awakening?
The One Ring
Dune. (I have a copy coming in the mail, so that might happen)

Edit: I plan on running Castles and Crusades eventually.

Quote from: Godsmonkey on April 22, 2022, 10:26:38 AM

Quote from: Trond on April 21, 2022, 11:14:28 AM
Pendragon, hands down. I have 1st and 4th ed, which I got for a decent price. Love the idea of it, but I never got around to it, and now I don't even have an RPG group.

Same here. However if rumors are true about the woke changes for 6th Edition, I will probably not.

I've been a huge Chaosium fanboy since I discovered RQ as a teen. It's getting harder and harder to remain so.

Greg Stafford also died, sadly. So I think I would stick with the older editions. BTW 1st edition has some of the finest internal art I have seen in RPGs.  Maybe I'll watch some videos on how the game is run, since I always scratch my head a bit about how to go about it.

Weird as it was, I actually wish I'd gotten a chance to play Dragonlance: Fifth Age at some point. Now I don't think I even still have all the cards.