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Just one great game, system, edition, etc. Which one is closest to your heart?

Started by Razor 007, July 13, 2020, 11:30:11 PM

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Steven Mitchell

#30
July 15, 2020, 05:42:12 PM
Quote from: David Johansen;1140013Great to see some love for Hero 6th and Gamma World 1st.  

For myself, it's Rolemaster Standard System.  Sadly, it's hard to get people to give it a chance.

RMSS is a game that by all rights ought to be very attractive to me but for some reason I can't put my finger on why it doesn't click.  Might be one of those deals where I'd enjoy playing it if someone else was running it.

Philotomy Jurament

#31
July 16, 2020, 05:40:56 PM
I'm torn between picking original D&D and 1e AD&D, but if I had to take one set of rules with me to an island, or something, it would be the 1e AD&D rules.

(And a thread-cheating honorable mention to the Basic Roleplaying "gold book"...)
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SavageSchemer

#32
July 16, 2020, 05:53:55 PM
Classic Traveller played fast and loose in the proto-Traveller mode.

No, Wait! The old WEG D6 system. Yeah. Totally.

No. Wait! Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies based on how much fun we've had with it at my table over the years.

No. Wait! Runequest 2e, before Glorantha piled on 40 years of canon and lore.

No. Wait! Fuck! I'm back to Classic Traveller.

Ok. Fine. I'll go with Classic Traveller.

I hate this thread. Making me pick just one game. Evil, evil, evil!
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Razor 007

#33
July 16, 2020, 10:18:14 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1140253Classic Traveller played fast and loose in the proto-Traveller mode.

No, Wait! The old WEG D6 system. Yeah. Totally.

No. Wait! Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies based on how much fun we've had with it at my table over the years.

No. Wait! Runequest 2e, before Glorantha piled on 40 years of canon and lore.

No. Wait! Fuck! I'm back to Classic Traveller.

Ok. Fine. I'll go with Classic Traveller.

I hate this thread. Making me pick just one game. Evil, evil, evil!


Muhuwahaha!!!!!  We have ways of making you choose.....
I need you to roll a perception check.....

Aglondir

#34
July 19, 2020, 01:47:27 AM
Right now I'm really into Spycraft First Edition. Its the perfect amount of crunch with some great changes to the d20 mechanics:

  • Action points
  • VP and WP
  • Awesome feats
  • Half and full actions
  • Chase mechanics

If I could alter the past, I'd engineer it so 2nd edition was a cleaned up version of 1E:

  • Incorporate some 3.5 revisions
  • Rethink some of the classes and departments
  • Simplify the budget points/gadget points system
  • Some sort of psi system
  • Appendix for sci-fi genres

One of my dream projects is to use SC 1.0 as a base for a fantasy game. Sort of a Fantasy Craft Lite.

Mishihari

#35
July 19, 2020, 02:09:38 AM
There are several games I really like, but if I _have_ to pick just one, it's going to be AD&D.

Dropkicker

#36
July 21, 2020, 05:03:10 PM
If I was on a desert island and could pick only one game to have with me it would be Marvel Heroic.

I've got a lot of honorable mentions though . . .
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Shawn Driscoll

#37
July 21, 2020, 10:44:21 PM
Quote from: Razor 007;1139634Just one great game, system, edition, etc. Which one is closest to your heart?

Mongoose Traveller. Either edition.

Lord Dynel

#38
July 23, 2020, 06:59:49 AM
This question has a different answer, depending on my current mood. But there is always the same 3-4 games that are on the list. Today, if I had to pick that one system to play for the rest of my days it would probably be 2nd Edition AD&D. It was the first edition, and maybe only since, that had everything I wanted in a D&D game.

The Exploited.

#39
July 23, 2020, 07:22:26 AM
These threads are lethal. How can I answer such a question?? :)

I'll name one for the moment - but it's never going to be just one.

I've just finished - The Heroes Journey 2e. It's a work of art.

High Lord of the rings fantasy but played low.
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S'mon

#40
July 23, 2020, 11:32:42 AM
Quote from: Lord Dynel;1141369This question has a different answer, depending on my current mood. But there is always the same 3-4 games that are on the list.

Yeah, at times I'd have said 5e D&D, Mini Six RPG, and 1e AD&D/OSRIC. A few years ago I might have said BECMI D&D or RC. A few years before that I might have said 3e (*shudder*)! And I love 4e D&D for what it does. And I loved Call of Cthulu, 34-35 years ago. And D6 Star Wars. And PARANOIA. And before all that, Fighting Fantasy.

But if I had to get by with one forever, 1e AD&D is the obvious choice.
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tenbones

#41
July 23, 2020, 12:35:47 PM
I don't believe in One system. But right now Savage Worlds is doing it for me. MSH (FASERIP) is a close second.
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