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Your Five Favorite RPGs

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

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The Butcher

Yay for revisiting one's old posts.

Quote from: The Butcher;756717Too damn hard! So I'll cheat, of course.

1. TSR-era D&D and OSR variants.

2. BRP.

3. Traveller.

4. WFRP.

5. WoD.

Runner-up: Savage Worlds.

Sounds about right. Palladium should be up there somewhere but I admittedly haven't played it in a while.

Quote from: The Butcher;756717If you press me into choosing one game and one game only for each spot, without cheating, today, you'll get:

1. ACKS.

2. RQ6e.

No change there. Two insanely beautiful games.

Quote from: The Butcher;7567173. L'Appel de Cthulhu édition de 30ème Anniversaire.

Great ruleset but I've since fallen back to English-language 5e. I like its simplicity. Though I've since consulted both L'AoC and RQ6 for situations not covered by CoC5 core.

Quote from: The Butcher;7567174. Mongoose Traveller.

Haven't checked out MgT2, not sure I want to. T5 is beautiful but too much for me. So MgT1 it is.

Quote from: The Butcher;7567175. WFRP 2e.

I still think this is a fantastic game but this spot is probably best reserved for "whatever I'm running ATM." Right now it's Godbound. When I wrap that up, who knows?

Tod13

1. The RPG I'm writing
2. DwD Studios, BareBones Fantasy
3. Classic Traveller
4. Ryuutama
5. Living Steel (based on Phoenix Command)

GameDaddy

#167
I can only pick five? That's lame.

I'll pick the five I have played or run the most over the last year, in the order and frequency they have been run/played;

1. D&D - Original Dungeons & Dragons - TSR
2. Star Wars - WOTC Saga Edition
3. Traveller Classic - GDW
4. Gamma World 1st edition - TSR
5. Empire of the Petal Throne - The Tekumel Foundation Newest Edition

First four I GMed, last one I sat in on one of Victor Raymonds games this year at UCon

What I'm Currently Running: 0D&D, Gamma World, and a Dawn of World PBeM Game.
What I'm Currently Playing: 5th Edition D&D, in a gameworld created using Dawn of Worlds.
Games or Campaigns I want to run in this next year: 0D&D, Star Wars, Traveller, Fudge/Fate, Empire of the Petal Throne, Gamma World. I also want to run a one-shot or a few sessions of Arrows of Indra, as well as my Spycraft: Walking Dead adventure set in Chicago.Maybe Runequest and some Fudge/Fate as well, if I can make the time for these games.
I will be playing in 2017: 5th edition D&D homebrew campaign. Interesting things I find at conventions, planning on attending several.

Also, I seem to remember doing up a version of this favorites list back in 2010 or so. Be interesting to see how many ppl have changed over the last decade. Before 2010, I was running alot more Spycraft, GURPS and C&C games and fewer Traveller, Star Wars, and 0D&D Games, not so much of these now (...Because of what my players want to play).
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Madprofessor

In the particular order of none....

WFRP - Much nostalgia for 1e, but I prefer 2e
BRP and all its kin, especially Stormbringer, Pendragon and CoC.
RQ - 2, 3, 6, Mythras.  I also like OpenQuest.  For me RQ really counts as BRP as I blend them all together.
Classic D&D in its many colors - Currently enjoying Fantastic Heroes and Witchery
Barbarians of Lemuria - My go-to rules-light engine.

Honorable mention to TFT, Harnmaster, and MERP.

Weru

#169
1) Tunnels & Trolls 5th ed
2) B/X D&D
3) Runequest 2nd ed
4) GURPS 3rd ed
5) Golden Heroes

Honourable mentions for Savage Worlds, Bushido, Into the Odd, The Riddle of Steel, DCC, and Traveller.

Tod13

Can I pick BREAK!! even though it isn't out yet? LOL http://www.breakrpg.com/

Necrozius

ooh tough. These are not in order, just my five favorite:

1. Dungeon World (and its spin-offs, especially the Perilous Wilds)

2. Savage Worlds (for supers, modern and sci fi)

3. Numenéra (for the sheer possibilities of strangeness that I can pull from my favourite sources)

4. D&D 5e (with my specific calibration of DMG rules and house rules and using plenty of OSR modules and settings)

5. Zweihander (my favorite version of d100 rules: more so than WFRP 1 and 2e)

Ulairi

1. GURPS 4E
2. Palladium Megaversal (specifically Rifts and Nightbane)
3. AD&D 1E/2E
4. Aces & Eights
5. HackMaster 5E.

Xanther

1. My Homebrew
2. Atomic Highway
3. The Fantasy Trip
4. D&D, anything pre 1981 :)
5. Traveller
6. Dragon Warriors
 

Ronin

Quote from: Ronin;756952In no particular order,

Rules Cyclopedia
GURPS
Call of Cthulhu
Microlite 20
Savage Worlds

Lets see how I feel now

(In no real particular order)
Onedice
Black Hack
D&D 5e
Rules Cyclopedia
Twilight 2000 2nd ed
Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacré mercenaire

Ronin\'s Fortress, my blog of RPG\'s, and stuff

AsenRG

Quote from: Tod13;934025Can I pick BREAK!! even though it isn't out yet? LOL http://www.breakrpg.com/
How dare you:D!
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Tod13

Quote from: AsenRG;934160How dare you:D!

LOL. I expect to purchase all the BREAK!! PDFs because I like Grey Wiz (Google Plus name) so much.

AsenRG

Quote from: Tod13;934164LOL. I expect to purchase all the BREAK!! PDFs because I like Grey Wiz (Google Plus name) so much.

Well, that's something in your defence. But still, how dare you cheat like that:p!

Thus spoketh the guy who answered the same question by adding essentially a line for three different kinds of systems in his own answer;).
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Callous

1. HERO.  Any edition.  Prefer 5th.
2. Runebearer.  Homebrew Fantasy RPG.
3. D&D 5th ed.  
4. Star Wars, WEG.
5. MERP.  For nostalgia reasons...
 

Eric Diaz

Top 3, no order...

1. D&D (BX and 5e).
2. GURPS (4e).
3. My own (Days of the Damned).

This is a bit harder than I thought.

4. Unknown Armies.
5. Kult.

But also Castle Falkenstein, CoC, Pendragon, DW, d6 star wars...
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