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Your Five Favorite RPGs

Started by Apparition, June 08, 2014, 08:03:25 PM

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Apparition

June 08, 2014, 08:03:25 PM
I've done some Googling to see if this or something similar has been asked here recently (within the past three years or so), and nothing came up, so...

What are your five favorite role-playing games?  Edition doesn't matter.  If you don't have five favorites, just list as many as you have.

My five favorite RPGs would be BASH!, Buck Rogers XXVC, DC Heroes / Blood of Heroes, ICONS, and Shadowrun.

Granted I very much doubt I'll ever play Buck Rogers XXVC nor DC Heroes again, but those two games will always have a special place in my heart. :P

Endless Flight

#1
June 08, 2014, 08:07:40 PM
My five favorite in order:

1. DC Heroes (Mayfair)
2. Star Wars (West End)
3. Marvel Super Heroes (TSR)
4. d20 Modern (WotC)
5. D&D (TSR/WotC)

Silverlion

#2
June 08, 2014, 08:12:41 PM
Top:
Hearts & Souls
High Valor

5 Not Written by me I adore:
1) MSH/Faserip
2) Icons
3) Star Wars D6
4) Qin
5)Waste World


Honorable Mentions:
FATE, Truth & Justice, Marvel Saga, Rocket Age/Dr. Who (Vortex System), Golden Sky Stories.


Not an uncommon question but my interests do change.
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Zachary The First

#3
June 08, 2014, 08:15:38 PM
That's a tough question. My answers change, depending on my mood--I find it really hard to pick just 5. I'd say the games I've enjoy the most would be as follows (in no particular order):


1) Megaversal System games (including Rifts and Palladium Fantasy)
2) Traveller (Classic/Mongoose)
3) Castles & Crusades (with lots of stuff pulled from various D&D versions)
4) Rolemaster (2e/Classic)
5) All of the In Harm's Way Games, especially the first...
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dragoner

#4
June 08, 2014, 08:24:41 PM
1. Traveller (Classic/Mongoose)
2. Call of Cthulhu
3. AD&D
4. Gamma World
5. Paranoia

Honorable mention: The Fantasy Trip

Traveller at the top, the others order isn't that important.
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Akrasia

#5
June 08, 2014, 08:31:38 PM
The exact order of my top five change regularly, but for the past few years they've been:

Call of Cthulhu
RuneQuest (esp. 6th edition and MRQII)
0e D&D (and related 'clones' like S&W and especially Crypts and Things)
B/X D&D
AD&D (1e)

(And an 'honourable mention' to OpenQuest!)

Those are all games that I've played at least once over the past 6 years (in some cases, like RQ, CoC, AD&D, and S&W, campaigns of varying lengths).

I should also mention Elric/Stormbringer, MERP, and Rolemaster (2e/Classic), though they have not seen any action on my tables in a long, long time.
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#6
June 08, 2014, 08:31:52 PM
1) Werewolf: The Apocalypse
2) Shadowrun 2e
3) Exalted 1e
4) Unknown Armies
5) Fading Suns

The proof is in the pudding - I may want to run other systems more right now, these are the systems I've run my best games most consistently with.

Skywalker

#7
June 08, 2014, 08:33:18 PM
1. Exalted
2. Atlantis: The Second Age
3. Double Cross
4. Cthulhutech
5. WFRP

Vic99

#8
June 08, 2014, 08:46:48 PM
1) Shadowrun
2) Call of Cthulhu
3) D&D
4) Star Frontiers/Nighthawks
5) Star Wars (d20)

Haven't played Shadowrun or Star Frontiers in 12+ years.

Vic99

#9
June 08, 2014, 08:50:09 PM
And honorable mention . . .H.O.L.  Who remembers that one from Dirt Merchant Games?!?

Warthur

#10
June 08, 2014, 08:51:13 PM
At the moment:

1) Pendragon.
2) Call of Cthulhu.
3) Paranoia.
4) D&D.
5) Traveller.
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Piestrio

#11
June 08, 2014, 08:54:42 PM
My current top 5, in no particular order.

GURPS 4e
AD&D 2e
CoC
L5R 1e
Pendragon
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Dave

#12
June 08, 2014, 09:17:42 PM
The top five I've run:

1) GURPS 4E
2) Risus
3) Pendragon
4) Swords & Wizardry / 0E D&D
5) Classic Spycraft

The top five I haven't run yet, but really liked in reading:

1) Classic Traveller
2) Barbarians of Lemuria
3) Stars Without Number
4) Coyote Trail / Mean Streets
5) Flashing Blades

Joey2k

#13
June 08, 2014, 09:17:58 PM
1. WEG Star Wars (or D6 in general)
2. Beyond the Wall (best iteration of D&D I have played)
3. Barbarians of Lemuria (or Legends of Steel, actually)
4. X-plorers
5. Dungeonslayers

These answers will probably be different a week from now, and the week after, etc
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cranebump

#14
June 08, 2014, 09:19:47 PM Last Edit: June 08, 2014, 09:31:24 PM by cranebump
No order:

D&D B/X (Moldvay and clones)
Microlite d20 (Purest Essence and M81)
Supers!
Bughunters (which I haven't played in years, but sooo much fun)
AD&D 2E

And, actually: D&D 5th
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