What are Your Five Favourite Small Press Regular RPGs?

jrients · November 28, 2007, 01:19:42 PM

Quote from: AnemoneGunslingers and Gamblers is an oh-so-trad game of historical and quasi-historical Wild West adventure, yet manages to be informative, engaging, exciting, and streamlined. It has lots of random-roll tables in the best old skool tradition, without shackling the story to them. Lots of good advice, good insight on the genre, decent-to-good production values.

Well, I'm off to google...

JohnnyWannabe · November 28, 2007, 01:21:16 PM

Quote from: stu2000I can't believe I'm saying this . . .

[SNIP]

I'm such a nerd.

Yes. Yes you are.

But you're in good company.

I never realized there was only one blank face on each HS die until you pointed it out. I'll still keep using the HS dice though.

pspahn · November 28, 2007, 02:09:04 PM

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Encounter Critical, Risus, Broadsword, Hollow Earth Expedition, Fudge.

No love for the Vice?

I'm partial to a lot of PIG's titles. I like the concept and a lot of the ideas presented in Little Fears. Tales From the Wood is also high on my list, and every product I've seen from Hinterwelt and Flying Mice is top notch. Looking over the list, the PIG games are the only ones I've gotten a chance to play for more than a one-shot or two, though (Coyote Trail, HardNova II, Iron Gauntlets, Active Exploits diceless).

Pete

Skyrock · November 28, 2007, 06:44:54 PM

Among the regular RPGs:
Forward... to Adventure! - I like the attitude to put the tactics into the actual play rather than "pimp my build" via 30+ supplements, as well as some smaller nifty ideas as stunts and the dungeon creator.
Mazes&Minotaurs - Good, clean old school fun from an unusual angle.
Risus - It's a classic for pick-up games and quick&dirty setting conversions without much thought.

As more hippie stuff I'd fill this list up with The Shadow of Yesterday and InSpectres.
There's also the one or another regular German small press RPG I like, but I won't list them as nobody knows them here anyway.

Roman · November 28, 2007, 08:16:27 PM

1. Cold City, by Contested Ground
2. Truth & Justice, by Atomic Sock Monkey
3. Iron Gauntlets, by Precis Intermedia Gaming
4. Earth A.D. 2, by Precis Intermedia Gaming
5. Risus

Dr Rotwang! · November 28, 2007, 10:06:14 PM

Quote from: pspahnNo love for the Vice?

Nothin' but. But I was listing rules, not expansions.

I heart you, Pete, and you know it.

Anemone · November 29, 2007, 01:07:18 AM

Quote from: jrientsWell, I'm off to google...

Oh, sorry, I should have linked these games. Here goes:

Truth & Justice
The Zorcerer of Zo
Full Light, Full Steam
Hollow Earth Expedition
Gunslingers and Gamblers (I went for the full edition, not the Streamline edition because I don't typically like percentile-based systems.) Note that on RPGNow and DrivethruRPG, you need to look up "Fat Jonny Games", not FJ Gaming. Go figure. They sell the print copies directly from Lulu.

Haffrung · November 29, 2007, 07:41:05 AM

The Dying Earth
Talislanta (4E)
Ars Magica (5E)
Mazes and Minotaurs

Simon W · November 29, 2007, 09:15:11 AM

Quote from: pspahnTales From the Wood is also high on my list,

Pete

That is fantastic.

It's one of my favourites (along with It's a Dog's Life) but since I wrote them, I don't really get to include them. Apart from D&D it its various incarnations, these two are amongst the most-played rpgs in a couple of the groups I game with.

pspahn · November 29, 2007, 12:48:41 PM

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Nothin' but. But I was listing rules, not expansions.

I heart you, Pete, and you know it.

Heh, heh.

Quote from: Simon Wthese two are amongst the most-played rpgs in a couple of the groups I game with.

That's really cool. I almost never get to play the games I write--everyone wants me to GM them.

Pete

Cold Blooded Games · November 30, 2007, 10:41:35 AM

Inspectres by Momento Mori is fun. I'm playing a pbp game at the minute and I'm really digging its streamlined supernatural goodness.