I would be interested to hear your thoughts as well.

Quote from: obryn;348520I 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.

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I did run it under the original rules which, well sorta worked. Not great though. It fell flat with the horribly produced quality book, Claudia Christenson IIRC digitially "painted" over and the book fell apart because of the binding quality.

  It DID get 3 editions, the last one was given away as a PDF. The original one as odd dice thing, that if it could have been worked on might have produced something brilliant. The new mechanic didn't do anything special, but was at least solid.

The game suffered mechanically and thematically because it seemed tied to a WOD type setup, with strange crossbreed of Highlander. It had some really neat aspects. (An immortal had to be able to use their vocal chords to resurrect. so beheading killed them.) It's back story was at least as good as WOD, just different.

Quote from: Akrasia;348343Yeah, I forgot about V&V.  I can imagine that it's still being played.

Some friends of mine started a campaign at V&V a couple of weeks ago. I was never really into it, but it was played a lot in my gaming club during the '80s.

Quote from: Ronin;348654I would be interested to hear your thoughts as well.

You mean 7th Sea?  Sure.

When it was first announced, I was still into 1st ed. Legend of the Five Rings.  This advertisement was released that was so very, very vague, the title seemed to suggest that the game would be a L5R-like game of swashbuckling on the high seas -- maybe with pirates!  It turned out to be a largely land-bound game of political intrigue, albeit with some nifty mechanics for schools of fencing.  In the end, very little of it was what anyone who had an interest in the teasers expected (and wanted) it to be.

Hey, and while we're talking about Immortal, from that same period and essentially same genre there was Chaosium's Nephilim.  Hell, I loved that game and am currently cannibalising it for a campaign to run for my kids, but even I won't bother playing the game as it's written anymore.

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I, too, have a copy of Immoral on the shelf. Not sure I ever even read it all the way through the first time. And I always thought 7th Sea was a swashbuckling game too, but never even cracked a cover.

7th Sea also had cthulhuesque aliens and everyone including your mother were members of world spanning secret societies. Not to mention your magic user was unknowingly killing the world with magic.

Ah, I forgot about the secret societies and magicians.  See what I mean?  And not much in the way of sailing adventure as I recall.

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This thread reminds me of the Island of Misfit Toys.  We need an Island of Misfit RPGs.

Shatterzone.
The RPG based on Bakshi's Wizards movie.
Dream Park.
GDW's Dark Conspiracy.

What kills me is that I've owned and/or played about 85% of these games...

I'm certain that there are people somewhere playing D20 Modern, but it sure seemed to fade away without notice.

Quote from: ticopelp;348777Dream Park.

I've had this game for awhile, but I've used it more as a resource for other games than ever actually played it.

I'd almost bet my immortal soul that no one is currently playing Cyborg Commando.

Much as I hate to say it:  DC Heroes.

As much as I love it, for all the talk on the mailing list, it doesn't seem like any of them actually play the game anymore.  It's more about the writeups.org thing, and monkeying around with the character system, than anything that has the slightest thing to do with actual play.

Quote from: J Arcane;348800Much as I hate to say it:  DC Heroes.

As much as I love it, for all the talk on the mailing list, it doesn't seem like any of them actually play the game anymore.  It's more about the writeups.org thing, and monkeying around with the character system, than anything that has the slightest thing to do with actual play.

Wasnt their someone around here that was looking to start a DC Heroes game?