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
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)
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
1. Exalted
2. Atlantis: The Second Age
3. Double Cross
4. Cthulhutech
5. WFRP
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.
And honorable mention . . .H.O.L. Who remembers that one from Dirt Merchant Games?!?
At the moment:
1) Pendragon.
2) Call of Cthulhu.
3) Paranoia.
4) D&D.
5) Traveller.
My current top 5, in no particular order.
GURPS 4e
AD&D 2e
CoC
L5R 1e
Pendragon
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
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
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
Well okay, but I'll only include one iteration of any system here because Traveller would have at least three slots otherwise.
1. Traveller 4th edition, I really want to love five more but fourth for all its faults is my favorite.
2. Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes. Really a beautiful, tight little game. I wish they'd integrated its improvements with Tunnels and Trolls.
3. GURPS 1st edition, I never liked the Speed / Range table third introduced and fourth kept. Indeed I don't think I've seen a feature on any other game that turns off new players so quickly. First had its faults but it wasn't as big and cumbersome as third and fourth. If they did a fourth edition medium book that cut maneuvers from the core it'd probably edge into first place. I'd "fix" the Speed Range table by adding four to all the chances and reinstating the snap shot penalty for not aiming. Yes it's the same thing but people wouldn't whine so much when they see the modifiers.
4. Rolemaster Standard System / Spacemaster Privateers. I'd have loved to have seen a cleaned up and evolved version of this that integrated Training Packages with levels a bit better and eliminated some of the redundant stuff. Bump the whole unskilled -30 to the Skill and remove the -15 from the Category while at it. Totally remove the sliding skill discount from races and cultures and training packages and replace it with an experience point penalty.
5. Wizard's Realm a tight little fantasy game that I've always found inspirational. It's got lots of stats and skills and spells but the core system is dead simple. Oh the rules could be a bit better but I have a deep love for the little, obscure games that were pure labors of love.
Adventurer Conqueror King
WFRP2e
Marvel Superheroes RPG (FASERIP for LIFE!)
Space 1889 (More for the setting though, I am really looking forward to the Ubiquity version)
This is really hard to choose a top 5... I cant think of what #5 would be. Dragon Age, GURPS, RuneQuest 6e, Hackmaster 5e, Swords & Wizardry Complete, and DCC are all games I like and really want to play.
EDIT: I'd have to through MERP in there somewhere as well. I loved that game so much. Maybe a Top 10 list would have been better lol
Preferred edition(s) in parentheses
BRP (Runequest 6e)
D&D (AD&D 1e)
Ubiquity (Hollow Earth Expedition)
Gamma World (2e)
GUMSHOE (Nights black agents)
Honourable mentions to: call of cthulhu, B/X, and Blood & treasure as variants of BRP and D&D. Also enjoying EABA and Edge of the Empire, but those games are on-going so I'm reserving judgement for now.
1. HERO System (edition doesn't matter as much with this as other games).
2. HERO System* (I'm giving this a 2nd entry to note my 2 favorite genres - supers/Champions & fantasy/Fantasy HERO)
3. Amber Diceless
4. Star Wars WEG
5. AD&D 1e
*HERO is notable that there are large numbers of fans that have never used it for supers (they instead focus on any of the other supported genres like Fantasy Hero or Star Hero). Of course the reverse is also true. There are large numbers of fans that have ONLY used HERO for supers.
No particular order after CoC:
Call of Cthulhu (and various other iterations of BRP)
WFRP
Classic Traveller
GURPS
Gamma World (original)
AD&D
Classic Traveller
Shadowrun 2e
Star Wars D6
Call of Cthulhu (4th edition is my favorite, thought it mostly doesn't matter)
Oh, jeez, ummmm...
RuneQuest 3
D6 system (prepping a Heaven's Shadow game)
WarpWorld
Blade of the Iron Throne
D&D
Traveller (Classic/Mongoose/4th/5th)
2300AD (both)
WEG d6 Star Wars (all)
Mekton (Zeta/II)
Basic D&D/Labyrinth Lord
ACKS
Savage Worlds
L5R 4e, used to be 1e, but 4e is a better game
Pendragon
WFRP
Call of Cthulhu
Traveller (Classic/Mega)
RuneQuest (2nd, 3rd, MRQ2)
B/X D&D
Heavy Gear (2nd)
Quote from: David Johansen;756691. If they did a fourth edition medium book that cut maneuvers from the core it'd probably edge into first place.
I've been begging SJgames to make a "GURPS Medium" for ages.
They and their fans are violently opposed to the notion :(
Basic D&D and its many iterations.
Marvel FASERIP
AD&D 1st ed.
Star Frontiers
Burning Wheel/WFRPG
pendragon
wfrp
call of cthulhu
ad&d
dungeon crawl classics
Too damn hard! So I'll cheat, of course.
1. TSR-era D&D and OSR variants. The D&D RC is my favorite TSR D&D. As far as OSR games are concerned it's usually DCC, ACKS and AS&SH vying for the spot.
2. BRP. CoC5e and RQ6e are my favorites, though I've got mad love for Stormbringer/Elric! and RQ3e. Also, does Aquelarre count?
3. Traveller. Classic and Mongoose.
4. WFRP. 1e for fluff, 2e for crunch.
5. WoD. Old and New. I've had tons of fun with OWoD and would play again in a heartbeat, but NWoD generally suits my GMing style better.
Runner-up: Savage Worlds. I know a #6 is extra cheating but I've played a hell of a lot of SW and I feel it should be here somewhere.
If you press me into choosing one game and one game only for each spot, without cheating, today, you'll get:
1. ACKS. B/X D&D reconstructed from the ground up for maximum BECMI/RC-like empire-building endgame awesomeness. I have half a dozen ideas on how I could run it, from the Hollow World Boxed Set sitting in my shelf to waiting for the Auran Empire Campaign Setting to come out. But when I run it I intend to stick to it for a looong time.
2. RQ6e. This is the game I want for every sword-and-sorcery scenario that D&D won't quite cover. When I get to run it I think I'll set the game in the 16th or 17th Century CE with players as Spanish conquistadors... on Monster Island. I foresee a lot of grisly deaths and dismemberments.
3. L'Appel de Cthulhu édition de 30ème Anniversaire. If you ask me to whip up a game in 10 minutes, I'll produce a copy of CoC and run you through some horrific monster-of-the-week thingie. And the French version of CoC, for some reason, has a bunch of subsystems and GMing tools missing from the English version. Fun fun fun.
4. Mongoose Traveller. I rank it right up there with the D&D RC and CoC in the "absolute goddamn best core rulebook ever." Also second most likely candidate to fly off the shelf when I have to run something with short notice.
5. WFRP 2e. Ordinarily it would be NWoD and/or Hunter: The Vigil here, but I've been reading some WFRP 1e adventures (Drachenfels, Lichemaster) and I'm in a huge WFRP kick right now. Also, last week the players commented on how much fun they had the last time I ran it.
Homebrew
Diceless - Amber setting or others
D&D
James Bond 007
Daredevils
Call out to Savage worlds as a great genetic system but my homebrew is now solid enough that I don't need SW any more although happy to play it whenever.
I find these sorts of questions funny when people answer with 4 versions of D&D and another d20 game which plays liek D&D in a non fantasy setting.
1)
GURPS2)
The Fantasy Trip3)
HERO4)
Empire of the Petal Throne5) Classic
TravellerQuote from: David Johansen;7566913. GURPS 1st edition, I never liked the Speed / Range table third introduced and fourth kept. Indeed I don't think I've seen a feature on any other game that turns off new players so quickly.
Me neither, and I had a very simple fix: I never stopped using BSII missile rules, PB/INC and snap shot penalties alike. Using those rules hasn't slowed me down in the least in the 25 years since BSIII was released.
Quote from: jibbajibba;756719I find these sorts of questions funny when people answer with 4 versions of D&D and another d20 game which plays liek D&D in a non fantasy setting.
:shrug: People like what they like, jibba. I admire and even envy, sometimes, the focus of guys like thedungeondelver and Black Vulmea, who have a "long-term relationship" with one game and maybe two or three other favorites they might come back to every now and then. I can see how a good game like AD&D 1e or Flashing Blades all by itself might give you a lifetime of great gaming, especially if you keep a couple of other good games when you vfeel like trying something different.
But this mindset is alien to me; hell, five games was not nearly enough for me to list the games I've played, enjoyed and want to play again. If you factor in the ones I own and read and have yet to play, "your ten favorite games" might still fail to cover them all. ;)
Not saying anyone's right or wrong. I don't really think of myself as an ADHD flavor-of-the-month whore, but I'll gladly admit that I relish the sheer variety of options I have on my shelf and on my hard drive, and wish I had the time to do all of these games justice.
Quote from: Piestrio;756711I've been begging SJgames to make a "GURPS Medium" for ages.
They and their fans are violently opposed to the notion :(
I lean towards a few GURPS Lite supplements to make it more approachable / accessible. As a store owner I find SJG's failure to promote and support GURPS extremely annoying.
No order:
1st ed AD&D
Classic Traveller
Chaosium RQ2
Call of Cthulhu (not 7th)
Gamma World 1 or 2
Quote from: David Johansen;756725I lean towards a few GURPS Lite supplements to make it more approachable / accessible. As a store owner I find SJG's failure to promote and support GURPS extremely annoying.
They saw that
Munchkin was taking off and dumped everything into that. I can't say it was a winning strategy, but it has kept them financially afloat.
I get that Munchkin makes them money hand over foot. I get that rpgs are pretty played out in the marketplace. Heck I'm a store owner and rpgs are my worst seller.
On the other hand WotC has pretty much gift wrapped opportunities to put GURPS in the spot light and SJG has totally missed them each time.
The first would be D&D 3.5. What a great time to have a complete in one package fantasy game out there for the disgruntled 3.0 fans. D&D 4.0, D&D 4.5, D&D 5e, it's a list that goes on and on.
And what do they have in the pipe for such an opportunity? GURPS Discworld! A parody of the fantasy genre.
Not a fan of the Dungeon Fantasy line either so don't point to it please. What GURPS doesn't need is another layer of complex data overlaying the core. It needs stripped down not built up.
Quote from: Vic99;756678And honorable mention . . .H.O.L. Who remembers that one from Dirt Merchant Games?!?
H.O.L. was never in the contention for running or playing by me, but it was a blast to (try to at times*) read.
* For anyone unfamiliar, H.O.L. was written longhand/by hand and published that way. It was certainly part of the charm.
In no order:
Classic Traveller (Mongoose can count, though I actually own most of the LBBs)
BESM (1 & 2)
Gurps (1-4th)
Mekton (2-Zeta)
Corps
Quote from: David Johansen;756729I get that Munchkin makes them money hand over foot. I get that rpgs are pretty played out in the marketplace. Heck I'm a store owner and rpgs are my worst seller.
On the other hand WotC has pretty much gift wrapped opportunities to put GURPS in the spot light and SJG has totally missed them each time.
The first would be D&D 3.5. What a great time to have a complete in one package fantasy game out there for the disgruntled 3.0 fans. D&D 4.0, D&D 4.5, D&D 5e, it's a list that goes on and on.
And what do they have in the pipe for such an opportunity? GURPS Discworld! A parody of the fantasy genre.
Not a fan of the Dungeon Fantasy line either so don't point to it please. What GURPS doesn't need is another layer of complex data overlaying the core. It needs stripped down not built up.
I'm not a big fan of Dungeon Fantasy either, and SJG does make you want to tear your hair out at times.
Quote from: jibbajibba;756719I find these sorts of questions funny when people answer with 4 versions of D&D and another d20 game which plays liek D&D in a non fantasy setting.
Yeah, well...
My favourite games these days are all variants of BRP and TSR D&D. The latter I find easy to tweak depending on my mood (e.g., pulpy swords-and-sorcery (http://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/07/swords-sorcery-house-rules-index.html)), the former includes variants that I enjoy (Mythos horror and ... gritty swords-and-sorcery). And I still like the classic D&D tropes, though not all the time.
I just don't have the time or energy to learn new systems these days, unless a GM is willing to do the heavy lifting for me.
In no particular order.
- Original, 'classic' Traveller
- 2e box set Boot Hill
- Top Secret
- Flashing Blades
- Metamorphosis Alpha
Honorable mention:
Marvel Super Heroes, d20
Modern,
Mutants and MastermindsQuote from: David Johansen;7566912. Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes. Really a beautiful, tight little game.
It doesn't crack my top five, but I agree that
MS&PE is a great game,
Quote from: Akrasia;756739Yeah, well...
My favourite games these days are all variants of BRP and TSR D&D. The latter I find easy to tweak depending on my mood (e.g., pulpy swords-and-sorcery (http://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2009/07/swords-sorcery-house-rules-index.html)), the former includes variants that I enjoy (Mythos horror and ... gritty swords-and-sorcery). And I still like the classic D&D tropes, though not all the time.
I just don't have the time or energy to learn new systems these days, unless a GM is willing to do the heavy lifting for me.
I have no issue with someone saying "I realy only play D&D so my list of 5 games is just D&D 5 times" no problme with that its the division of say 1eAD&D and 2eAD&d into 2 discrete options and having OD&D and 2 OD&D clones and AD&D which are all as far as I can tell the same fucking game:)
I mean if you add feats to a game or make swords do 1d8 rather than 1d6 but you still have the same combat engine, the same level engine etc etc its just the same game.
I can see that 4e was different enough from say 1e to be discrete but really is there enough differentiation between you and your mates playing OSRIC or AD&D for anyone watching to actually be abel to tell the difference? And I don't mean general public as my wife can't tell us playing a diceless Fables game from us playing D&D or Sci fi or whatever (us playing Arkham horror would be much the same to be honest...) I mean can't be told apart by a reasonably experienced gamer.
D&D
Marvel FASERIP
Call of Cthulhu
Boot Hill
Spycraft
Honorable mention: Feng Shui, Vampire
1) Traveller (Classic and Mongoose). I have already published material for it.
2) Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS). I am currently writing stuff for a commercial supplement for it.
3) Stars Without Number.
4) Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG).
5) Other Dust.
Other contenders who were left out of the list:
- D&D 3.5E - I enjoy playing it, but will never run it. Prep is too much of a chore to my taste.
- Shadowrun - I love the setting but dislike the over-complex (IMHO) rules.
- D&D 2E - I have very fond memories of it from my adolescence (late 1990's), but I'm not in the mood for THAC0 and descending AC - and other clunky bits - at the moment.
- Barbarians of Lemuria/Barbarians of the Aftermath - looks cool, I own both books, haven't played them yet.
In no real order;
SLA Industries
Anything Gumshoe-based (Although Night's Black Agents characters are the coolest)
Marvel Super Heroes
Dungeon World
3:16
Quote from: The Butcher;756722I admire and even envy, sometimes, the focus of guys like thedungeondelver and Black Vulmea, who have a "long-term relationship" with one game and maybe two or three other favorites they might come back to every now and then.
But this mindset is alien to me; hell, five games was not nearly enough (...)
I don't really think of myself as an ADHD flavor-of-the-month whore, but I'll gladly admit that I relish the sheer variety of options I have on my shelf and on my hard drive, and wish I had the time to do all of these games justice.
I'm fully with Butcher on this. Given that, here's my "favourite five" in no particular order:
- Call of Cthulhu / BRP (including The Laundry)
- Renaissance / OpenQuest
- genreDiversion
- (Cinematic) Unisystem
- Fifth is a tough one: Atomic Highway or Barbarians of Lemuria or d00Lite or Hollow Earth Expedition or Two-Fisted Tales or Vortex... :o
I'm arguably cheating by picking systems rather than games in most cases... I'll just say I often mix and match several settings or system variants into one actual game.
No particular order:
Savage Worlds
Fate Core
FFG Star Wars (Edge of the Empire/Age of Rebellion)
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Numenera
Honorable Mentions:
Cyberpunk 2020 (Love the setting, not so in love with the rules)
Legend of the Five Rings 4e (Love the game and setting, still one of the hardest games to run and not have the players kill each other)
Mutants and Masterminds (I really like this game, but if I'm going to run a superhero game I'm using Marvel Heroic. I totally don't mind playing in M&M games though).
I've been playing for a lot longer than my list would probably indicate, but despite the amount I played D&D, 2e just feels clunky nowadays to me, 3e is just a horrific mess to run. I played a ton of WoD in the 90s but... yeah, I really don't like WoD.
Quote from: Vic99;756678And honorable mention . . .H.O.L. Who remembers that one from Dirt Merchant Games?!?
I even have the supplement, Buttery Goodness.
Quote from: Emperor Norton;756775I played a ton of WoD in the 90s but... yeah, I really don't like WoD.
I know what you mean.
In no order:
1) Pathfinder/Radiance. I waffle between the two as my preferred version of D&D.
2) Gamma World (1992).
3) Mutants & Masterminds/DC Adventures.
4) After the Bomb (2E). For the mutant animal creation rules.
5) Star Frontiers.
Honorable mentions: Star Wars D20 and Stars Without Numbers.
Gee, I'm boring.
1. Current edition DnD, which atm means Pathfinder, but used to be 3.5 and so on, and might well be 5e rather soon
2. GURPS
... and that's the two big ones.
There are many, many other games I like but don't love, among them Call of Cthulhu, pendragon, and the new Hackmaster, but I might as well have said Ars Magica, Savage Worlds and Harn, or given a choice list of OGL D20 variants.
1. Mage the Awakening
2. FantasyCraft
3. Shadowrun
4. Dnd 2e
5. Kult
Honorable mention Warhammer Fantasy 2e and Warhammer 40k (Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader).
In somewhat an order that may change day to day
1) AMBER - will not change always on top
2) D&D - most editions
3) Gamma world (4th but really any after that)
4) Dc Heroes
5) Cyberpunk 2020
6) 7th Sea
7) Stormbringer 1-2nd edition
Sorry can't count but couldn't Stop
1) Amber Diceless
2) King Arthur Pendragon
3) Marvel Superheroes "Faserip"
4) Various homebrew games of my own
5) Dungeons & Dragons
//Panjumanju
1. GURPS
2. D&D 2nd Ed.
3. Barebones Fantasy RPG
That's really it, I haven't played many of the more obscure rpgs and I just couldn't get into the Dice Pool systems that WW and Shadowrun used. Those three really cover it for me though (Though I'm liking what I see of 5th Ed. D&D)
1. Champions 3rd/4th. Played/Ran a lot of games during that time frame.
2. Call of Cthulhu. First horror game I ever ran. Still love playing it
3. AFMBE.
4. Basic D&D. First rpg I ever played. Always had fun with the basic set
5. V:TM. Not something I'd be into now, but ran a fun chronicle for a few years
1. Stars Without Number
2. Buffy/Angel
3. New World of Darkness (core)
4. Mutant Future
5. ICONS
1. D&D (especially RC, 2nd and 4th)
2. Mage: The Ascension
3. Shadowrun
4. Traveller
5. Gurps(Transhuman Space and Traveller)
Runner ups:
Mage: The Awakening
Star Wars
Kindred of the East(Vampire supplement)
40k Roleplaying
Quote from: jibbajibba;756719I find these sorts of questions funny when people answer with 4 versions of D&D and another d20 game which plays liek D&D in a non fantasy setting.
It could very easily be argued that OD&D, AD&D and 4th edition differ far more heavily from one another than many another three RPGs.
Anyway ... I've sympathy for the people whose lists are rather short. The games on my list are ones I've played and liked. But beyond my number One? I haven't GMed the second game on my list since 1998 and haven't played it since the mid-80s. The last time I touched the third game on my list as a player or as a GM was around 1992. The fourth game on my list I haven't played in thirty years, and the fifth game in my list I haven't played since 1979.
Quote from: Brander;756734In no order:
Classic Traveller (Mongoose can count, though I actually own most of the LBBs)
BESM (1 & 2)
Gurps (1-4th)
Mekton (2-Zeta)
Corps
I forgot, honorable mention goes to:
Savage Worlds (which might make it up there in time)
Shadowrun (1-3rd, setting mostly as I now prefer to run it in Savage Worlds...)
In no particular order,
Rules Cyclopedia
GURPS
Call of Cthulhu
Microlite 20
Savage Worlds
AD&D 2e with all the settings
Mongoose Traveller
Call of Cthulhu
Shadowrun 3e
Changeling: The Lost or Werewolf: The Apocalypse - played both a lot and loved them.
I will put these in to categories.
Science fiction
1. Stars without Number this is my favorite
2. Traveller4th edition or any other for that matter.
3.Shadowrun.
4. Starships and spacemen
5. FTL:2448
Fantasy
1. Swords & Wizardry Complete.
2. wizards World. If you have not tried this one do so.
3. Labyrinth Lord.
4.D&D rulescyclopedia.
5. D&D Next.
The only universal system I like is FATE
Post apocalypse
1. Other Dust
2. Mutant Future
3. Aftermath
4. Numenara
5. Atomic Highway.
Thses are in order depending on my mood and the will of the group.
Quote from: dungeon crawler;757058I will put these in to categories.
Science fiction
1. Stars without Number this is my favorite
2. Traveller4th edition or any other for that matter.
3.Shadowrun.
4. Starships and spacemen
5. FTL:2448
Fantasy
1. Swords & Wizardry Complete.
2. wizards World. If you have not tried this one do so.
3. Labyrinth Lord.
4.D&D rulescyclopedia.
5. D&D Next.
The only universal system I like is FATE
Post apocalypse
1. Other Dust
2. Mutant Future
3. Aftermath
4. Numenara
5. Atomic Highway.
Thses are in order depending on my mood and the will of the group.
You cheated.:)
Quote from: Emperor Norton;756775Cyberpunk 2020
God damnit
I forgot about CP2020. Now I have to revise.
Quote from: Raven;756747D&D
Marvel FASERIP
Call of Cthulhu
Boot Hill
Cyberpunk 2020
Honorable mention: Feng Shui, Vampire, Spycraft
There we go.
At least until some other asshole comes along and posts another game I forgot about.
If you forget a game can it really be a favorite?
Fading Suns
WFRP
Call of Cthulhu
Classic D&D
GURPS
Hero System
Harnmaster
Classic Traveller
Quote from: David Johansen;757074If you forget a game can it really be a favorite?
I can't speak for anyone else (and I only forgot my honorable mentions) but in my case its because until recently ~90% of my gaming is/was Gurps, so even my other favorites might be games I haven't played or run in ages.
A little off the beaten path...
- Amber Diceless / Lords of Olymus / Lords of Gossamer & Shadow.
- Genrediversion / Active Exploits.
- EABA.
I listed the three diceless games togther, given they run on the same engine. Of the three I'm tied between LoO and LoG&S.
As a player, I'll play almost anything, but as a GM I prefer generic/toolkit systems. I used to love me some GURPS, but not so much these days. I use Genrediversion if I want rules light, and EABA if I want rules medium. AE if I want a diceless mechanic for a low powered game.
I don't have a #4 or #5 yet. I'm hoping to fill those soon.
1. TMNT/After the Bomb
2. Lamentations of the Flame Princess
3. Savage Worlds
4. Rifts
5. James Bond 007 (first rpg I ever played)
1. HERO SYSTEM
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2. GURPS
3. Classic Traveller/MegaTraveller
4. Deadlands
5. Feng Shui
Quote from: David Johansen;757074If you forget a game can it really be a favorite?
Yes.
1. FASERIP
2. Call of Cthulhu
3. Paranoia
iv. RQ 6th
5. Pendragon
Funnily, 3 of those all use variations of the basic system, which by itself Im not actually the biggest fan of. Its more the non-rules or unique implementations that Im particularly a fan of. But, if we go solely by system, my list is more like:
1. FASERIP
2. Cineflex
3. BESM 2e
iv. The Window (watch that cause some flames around here. Sure, the author may be a bigger "Swine" than Ron Edwards, but the system still represents to me a pinnacle of roleplaying over rules design that hasnt been topped -not that anyone's trying these days).
5. DWAiTaS
Ah well, this is as good a place as any to pop my posting cherry.
1. Pokemon Tabletop United
2. Legend (Rule of Cool)
3. Radiance
4. Mutants & Masterminds 3e
5. Mage (Ascension or Awakening, both are awesome)
That's a very very short list of the games i love to pieces, and i had to make some hard choices there.
I think these sorts of lists are mostly interesting if they steer people toward games they have forgotten or never knew about, but would likely appreciate, and that haven't been done to death by every other post in the thread. So, in that spirit, mine is:
1. The Fantasy Trip: horrendously edited GURPS-lite, ca. 1980...but with an awesome vibe and perfectly engineered to satisfy your hex crawling blood lust. Amazingly enjoyable tactical combat and magic - has to be played to be understood.
2. Behind Enemy Lines: The only game I've seen that makes you want to role play classic WW2 movies and historical scenarios. Sometimes described as more war gamey than role playey. This is inaccurate; it is just as much a role playing game as D&D or Traveller; it is just built around a situation where all the characters are at war! The combat hits exactly the sweet spot between outrageously lethal and fun. Player choices completely control outcome. Characters who survive long mostly spend fights curled up in a ball at the bottom of a drainage ditch, hoping a mortar round doesn't get them.
3. Dragonquest: best fantasy roleplaying game you never played. All the fantasy and dungeon-crawly fun of D&D, but characters are flexible and classless... but it isn't the skill system you are imagining. Magic is flavorful, interesting and powerful.
4. Traveller. The real one. Like, from 1977. A simple game that really feels boundless. One of the first games I ever saw that empowers players to take control of the campaign (the other is En Garde!).
5. Flashing Blades. Perfectly re-creates 17th century paris. Makes dueling fun. Social climbing is a major part of the game.
My own personal liste :
- D&D (AD&D 1 et 2, LOTFP, Scarlet Heroes, 13th Age) ;
- Rifts ;
- World of Darkness (both old and new) ;
- Numenera ;
- Kult.
1. Champions/Hero System
2. Star Frontiers
3 WEG Star Wars
4. GURPS
5. Marvel FASERIP
Honorable mention awards:
Part of me wanted to say Palladium (TMNT, Ninja and Superspies, Robotech, Beyond the Supernatural, etc). Its a cumbersome mess that drove you crazy after awhile but somehow we did have allot of fun struggling through it though you'd have to pay me to play it now. Same goes for the various classic White Wolf/WoD games.
I have an odd fondness for Marvel Heroic Role play that I can't explain. It's not my typical cup of tea at all but for some reason I kind of like though I don't think it will ever by my go to supers rpg. Shadowrun has allot of fond memories but our GM was a tool. Prime Directive was fun but short lived.
And a shout out to the countless one shots and aborted games that were fun but never got off the ground: Aliens, Conspiracy X, Twilight Conspiracy, Kult and many others I've forgotten.
various versions:
1. D&D
2. Mutants & Masterminds
3. Gamma World
4. Call of Cthulhu
5. Tie: Pendragon / Paranoia
Underground
Over The Edge
WasteWorld
D&D
Hero System
Hero
Gurps
Runequest
AD&D
Call of Cthulhu
1. James Bond 007
2. BRP - Call of Cthulhu / RuneQuest / Stormbringer / ElfQuest
3. Deadlands (original & SW)
4. WEG Star Wars
5. D&D 4E
Order subject to change, except CORPS.
1. CORPS
2. HarnMaster
3. Torg
4. Classic Unisystem
5. Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium
Ones that might bump their way onto the list if I ever got the chance to actually play them:
-Basic Roleplaying (I've played CoC...it almost made the top 5, haven't tried the new generic edition.)
-Thousand Suns
-Runequest 6e
-Over the Edge
Quote from: Tom B;757803Order subject to change, except CORPS.
1. CORPS
2. HarnMaster
3. Torg
4. Classic Unisystem
5. Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium
Ones that might bump their way onto the list if I ever got the chance to actually play them:
-Basic Roleplaying (I've played CoC...it almost made the top 5, haven't tried the new generic edition.)
-Thousand Suns
-Runequest 6e
-Over the Edge
Which edition of CORPS?
1. HarnMaster.
2. Werewolf: The Apocalypse (in "dark superhero" mode, not so much as "oh woe is me" exercise in navel gazing)
3. Midgard (a probably mostly unknown German RPG)
4. Artesia: Adventures in the Known World
5. Gurps or Runequest/BRP, in a purely historical setting (or "Call of Cthulhu, without all that Lovecraft nonsense")
1. GURPS
2. Champions (not the overall Hero System. See 1.)
3. TSR's Marvel Super Heroes
4. Rolemaster
5. Runequest/Elric!/BRP
GURPS, AD&D2e, oWoD games, MERP and Pathfinder
D&D (1e if pressed)
Original Traveller
2300ad
Call of Cthulhu
Dungeon World
Quote from: Vic99;756678And honorable mention . . .H.O.L. Who remembers that one from Dirt Merchant Games?!?
Say what you like about Brother Aristotle Studbasket, but the game's solution to money hoarding was solid.
I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.
Quote from: Piestrio;759966I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.
I mine it, mercilessly like some guy that is trying to get inside my pants for inspiration and ideas like he does.:)
2014 Most Popular RPGs @ the RPGSite
Game Votes
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Call of Cthulhu 20
Traveller (Classic/Mongoose) 18
GURPS 4e 14
AD&D 1e 13
D&D (BX) 10
Marvel Superheroes (Faserip) 9
AD&D 2e 8
D&D (TSR/WOTC) 8
Star Wars (West End) 8
Hero System 7
Pendragon 7
0D&D 6
Savage Worlds 6
Shadowrun 6
WFRP 6
Amber Diceless RPG 5
Basic Roleplaying BRP 5
Adventurer, Conqueror, King 4
Gamma World 4
Paranoia 4
Runequest 6th ed 4
Star Frontiers / Nighthawks 4
DC Heroes 3
Gamma World 2e 3
HarnMaster 3
ICONS 3
James Bond 007 3
Mutants & Masterminds 3
Pathfinder 3
Spycraft (Classic) 3
Stars without Number 3
TFT The Fantasy Trip 3
Werewolf: The Apocalypse 3
WoD 3
2300 AD 2
AD&D 4e 2
Castles & Crusades 2
Corps 2
D&D 5th 2
Deadlands 2
Dungeon World 2
Exalted 1e 2
Fading Suns 2
Flashing Blades 2
genreDivision 2
Gumshoe (Nights Black Agent) 2
GURPS 1e 2
Homebrew 2
Kult 2
L5R 4ed 2
Mage the Awakening 2
Marvel Super Heroes (TSR) 2
Mekton Zeta II 2
MERP 2
Microlight d20 2
Numenara 2
RIFTS 2
RMSS 2
Runequest 3rd ed 2
Shadowrun 2e 2
Traveller 4th ed 2
Waste World 2
3:16 Carnage Beyond the stars
7th Sea
Aces & Eights
AD&D 3e
AFMBE
Artesia
Atlantis: The Second Age
Atomic Highway
Barbarians of Lemuria
Barebones fantasy RPG
Bash!
Behind Enemy Lines
BESM (&2)
Beyond the Wall
Blade of the Iron Throne
Blood of Heroes
Boot Hill
Boot Hill 2e
Buck Rogers XXVC
Buffy/Angel
Bughunters
Burning Wheel/WFRPG
Champions
Champions 3rd/4th
Changeling: The Lost
Cinematic (Unisystem)
Cthulutech
Cyberpunk 2020
d20 Modern (Wotc)
D6 System
Daredevils
DCC Dungeon Crawl Classics
Double Cross
Dragonquest
Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium
Dungeonslayers
EABA
Empire of the Petal Throne
FantasyCraft
Fate Core
Feng Shui
FTL:2448
Gamma World 4e
H.O.L.
Heavy Gear 2nd ed
Hero System (Fantasy Hero)
In Harm's Way
Labyrinth Lord
Lamentation of the Flame Princess
Legend (Rule of Cool)
Mage: The Ascension
Megaversal (Palladium Fantasy)
Megaversal (Rifts)
Mercenaries Spies, & Private Eyes
Metamorphosis Alpha
Midgard
Mutant Future
Mutants & Masterminds 3e
New WoD (core)
OpenQuest
Other Dust
Over the Edge
Pokemon Tabletop United
Qin
radiance
Renaissance
Risus
Runequest 2e (Chaosium)
Shadowrun 3e
SLA Industries
Space: 889
Star Wars (FFG) Edge of the Empire)
Star Wars d20
Starships & Spacemen
Stormbringer 2ed
Supers!
Swords & Wizardry
TMNT: After the Bomb 2e
TMNT/After the Bomb
Top Secret
Torg
Traveller (Mongoose)
Ubiquity (Hollow Earth Expedition)
Underground
Unisystem (Classic)
Unknown Armies
V:TM
Warpworld
WFRP 2e
Wizard's Realm
X-plorers
My favorite games are like 40 and below. Works for me!:)
Woot; three of my fav's are in the top four. :)
Thanks for collating that GameDaddy, that's cool.
I think this is a good example of how the hobby has splintered the customer base. In order to get more fans, a product has to get a lot of traction. Is the hobby, as a viable industry, worse for the plethora of choices? As long as we can make do with small, indie labor of love games, and we can recruit and train our own limited pools of players, then maybe it doesn't matter. But if you want a hobby with the reach and power of, say, video games, we've screwed up.
Quote from: Piestrio;759966I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.
I own more GURPs books than books for any other single game line, but I have zero interest in playing GURPs. For years it produced the best sourcebooks for the hobby. Granted, it also published its fair share of crap, but so far the only game thats come close was AD&D 2nd ed, and it doesnt really come that close, as nice as those green-cover & grey-cover books were. Its a shame no company has stepped up to the plate to fill the hole left by GURPs 3rd.
why is Marvel Superheroes (Faserip) & Marvel Superheroes (TSR) counted seperately? Does that mean FASERIP really should be at (11) just under AD&D 1e?
Quote from: TristramEvans;760031why is Marvel Superheroes (Faserip) & Marvel Superheroes (TSR) counted seperately? Does that mean FASERIP really should be at (11) just under AD&D 1e?
I'm thinking the one with 2 votes may have supposed to have been Marvel Heroic Roleplaying? I know I put that on my five favorite and it isn't on the list.
Quote from: Emperor Norton;760037I'm thinking the one with 2 votes may have supposed to have been Marvel Heroic Roleplaying? I know I put that on my five favorite and it isn't on the list.
Is that Marvel (Saga)?
I think it goes:
Marvel Superheroes (TSR) aka "FASERIP"
Marvel Superheroes Adventure Game (TSR) aka "Marvel (Saga)"
Marvel Universe (Marvel) aka "Marvel (Stones"
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MWP) aka "Marvel Storygame"
Great job putting the list together, GameDaddy. Thanks.
The 5 games that gave me my best campaigns so far :
Warhammer 1e
Legend of the five rings 1e
Savage Worlds
The Laundry
Waste World
1) Call Of Cthulhu
2) Unknown Armies
3) Earthdawn
4) SLA Industries
5) Unhallowed Metropolis
Quote from: Piestrio;759966I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.
I'll add an honorable mention for GURPS 3E (Revised) - I
played 3E and
ran 3E Revised - because I probably played it more often than any other game and always had fun doing it. It was a long time ago, though. My top 5 reflects more recent gaming.
1: Gamma World 2nd Ed: Pretty much every edition after that has been increasingly a dissapointment.
2: Star Frontiers and Knight Hawks: Love the game. Came to be more and more disillusioned with the so called "Fans".
3: AD&D: Probably DMed this more than I've played it.
3.2: SpellJammer: Great setting with all sorts of crazy fun potential.
3.5: BX Basic D&D: Played this extensively with my siblings and still a very solid system on its own.
4: Marvel Superheroes: (FASERIP version) Great system with alot of flexibility for either role acting the bazillion pregens, or role playing your own character.
5: Call of Cthulhu: Forget what edition I have. Great game with its own style and approach.
Honourable Mention
6: Dragon Storm: Really innovative idea with a unique setting and premise. Too bad things went to hell.
7: After the Bomb: The big book remake of TMNT after the license was lost. Interesting setting that was along with Beyond the Supernatural the prototype for Rifts.
8: Torg: This was a really great setting with its wild idea to mix genre into invading cosms. Nile Empire was probably my favorite of the cosm books.
9: Albedo: The original Box and reprint. NOT the garbage "platinum edition". Paul did a very good job of translating the comic into a viable RPG setting.
10: Aberrant. Interesting superhero setting.
X: various others.
BRP (particularly Stormbringer and CoC)
WFRP 1st/2nd Edition
Shadowrun
BECMI D&D
Mage the Ascension
- Call of Cthulhu / Basic Role-Play / Legend / Renaissance
- Basic D&D / AD&D 2nd Edition / Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game / Fantastic Heroes & Witchery / Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea / Labrynth Lord
- Vampire: The Dark Ages
- Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1st or 2nd edition)
- Blood & Iron
Quote from: TristramEvans;760039Is that Marvel (Saga)?
I think it goes:
Marvel Superheroes (TSR) aka "FASERIP"
Marvel Superheroes Adventure Game (TSR) aka "Marvel (Saga)"
Marvel Universe (Marvel) aka "Marvel (Stones"
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MWP) aka "Marvel Storygame"
My vote was for FASERIP. I really did not like the SAGA version.
and added honourable mention for Aberrant.
The Order of No Particulars
FASERIP
Fantasycraft
D&D 2e
Vampire The Masquerade
Talislanta 3e
AD&D 1e
Original D&D
Twilight:2000
Anything Hero System (genres don't matter that much, I just like the system and have a good friend who's a great Hero System GM regardless)
Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (tie) Call of Cthulhu 4e.
And now the sequence of games in no particular order:
Adventurer, Conqueror, King System (ACKS)
ICONS
Heavy Gear/Silhouette generally, particularly as a system for the TSR Bughunters setting
Call of Cthulhu (5th, if I had to choose)
Warhammer Fantasy RPG 1e
I'm extremely fond of AD&D 2nd edition, too, but these days I find myself converting any D&D material I want to use from other editions to ACKS.
In no particular order:
- Cyberspace
- (A)D&D/Pathfinder
- Warhammer
- Call of Cthulhu
- (Cinematic) Unisystem (esp. AFMBE)
Quote from: Vonn;761213In no particular order:
- Cyberspace
- (A)D&D/Pathfinder
- Warhammer
- Call of Cthulhu
- (Cinematic) Unisystem (esp. AFMBE)
Warhammer 1E or 2E?
Quote from: 3rik;761248Warhammer 1E or 2E?
Both! I enjoyed playing 1E as much as GMing 2E.
But I don't dare to touch 3E...
Quote from: Vonn;761213- (Cinematic) Unisystem (esp. AFMBE)
Isn't AFMBE Classic Unisystem? Or is it AFMBE played as if Cinematic. Or I could be wrong.
Quote from: languagegeek;761267Isn't AFMBE Classic Unisystem? Or is it AFMBE played as if Cinematic. Or I could be wrong.
I like both Cinematic and Classic, hence the parentheses, but I'm particularly fond of AFMBE.
We did btw a Cinematic mini campaign based on the Supernatural series! Worked out pretty well!
Quote from: Vonn;761291I like both Cinematic and Classic, hence the parentheses, but I'm particularly fond of AFMBE.
We did btw a Cinematic mini campaign based on the Supernatural series! Worked out pretty well!
Cool. I'm a fan of the Unisystem games (didn't make my list 'cause I don't GM them). The Supernatural minicampaign sounds like fun!
1) Over The Edge
2) Call of Cthulhu
3) Ars Magica
4) D&D (Classic red box, a spin off (lotfp), AD&D 2nd or 3.5 - I'm not that picky)
5) Apocalypse World
Runners up: Unknown Armies, the local version of Stormbringer/RuneQuest, WFRP (1ed) and Atomic Highway.
Quote from: Vonn;761258Both! I enjoyed playing 1E as much as GMing 2E.
But I don't dare to touch 3E...
3E is not an option.
Chaosium's Basic Role Playing framework: Back in the day, I had most of the line except for Elfquest, and it's still my personal all around favorite .
Traveller (Classic) : Nothing else has come close IME in the SF department, although I find the heavier TNE system intriguing.
Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) : Won me over from Villains & Vigilantes, where, e. g., Champions just got flings.
The Fantasy Trip: Whether just tactics, or full RPG, a very sweet design.
Flashing Blades
Empire of the Petal Throne
Bunnies & Burrows
Gangbusters
Aces and Eights
Let's see, the order probably shifts around a bit depending on the day, but:
Burning Wheel
Apocalypse World
Dogs in the Vinyard
Fate Core
Mouse Guard
With shout outs to Smallville, Dungeon World and In A Wicked Age.
Quote from: Noclue;762518Let's see, the order probably shifts around a bit depending on the day, but:
Burning Wheel
Apocalypse World
Dogs in the Vinyard
Fate Core
Mouse Guard
With shout outs to Smallville, Dungeon World and In A Wicked Age.
I see what you did there.
1 Mongoose Traveller
2 Trail of Cthulhu (or just about any Gumshoe game)
3 Adventurer, Conqueror, King
4 Call of Cthulhu (or just about any BRP derivative)
5 Not sure what else.....perhaps FATE
Top 5:
Adventurer Conqueror King System
Cyberpunk 2020
Ars Magica
Mutants & Masterminds
Classic/Mongoose Traveller
Runners-Up:
DC Heroes
Elric/Stomrbringer
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying 1e/2e
D6 Star Wars
Car Wars
MSH (FASERIP)
TORG
AD&D 2e
Everway
Skyrealms of Jorune (setting only)
Quote from: CRKrueger;762559I see what you did there.
Who me? What? :idunno:
Posting for no reason...
1) Star Wars, WEG 1st edition by a country mile
2) Chivalry & Sorcery (1st/2nd)
3) DC Heroes
4) Mentzer D&D and/or Cyclopedia
5) Toss up between TMNT and Rifts
There's too many for me to narrow it down to five, honestly.
Quote from: RPGPundit;762935There's too many for me to narrow it down to five, honestly.
$20 says Amber is in your top 5.
Quote from: Brad;762947$20 says Amber is in your top 5.
Well yes, obviously.
Quote from: Bunch;757905Which edition of CORPS?
2nd edition.
Quote from: Celestial;756656I'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
Savage Worlds (which covers a LOT of ground, actually)
Marvel SAGA
Deadlands Classic
Star Wars Saga Edition
Fiasco
Those would have to be my current favorites, anyway.
Resuscitation, why not, it's fun:
Flashing Blades
(Classic) Traveller
Pendragon
Bushido
Golden Heroes
or maybe swap out two with WEG Star Wars & Ghostbusters but only 1st editions
1 Earthdawn 1ed
2 Feng Shui
3 13th Age
4 Cyberpunk 2020
5 Call of Cthulhu 6ed
In no particular order:
1. Runequest
2. Warhammer
3. Cyberpunk 2020
4. SLA Industries
5. Iron Kindoms
That last one is my latest whim, but I don't like the mechanics (the D&D 3.5 version or the later ruleset that resembles a complex miniatures skirmish game). I don't like some aspects of Runequest's setting, and now I have come to despice what Warhammer world has become. C-punk 2020 is an outdated, but servicable game. SLA Industries I like, but has problems in both setting and system.
- Marvel Super Heroes
- Shadowrun 3rd
- TMNT & Other Strangeness
- D&D 3 (not 3.5)
- Vampire: The Masquerade 3rd
That last was based on time spent playing it. I was young and stupid. I have a lot of love for D20 Modern, too.
Hmm, I'll answer from the POV of RPGs I had the most fun with at the time, rather than necessarily what I like the most at this time.
Stormbringer 1st Edition (and most later editions, but 1st ed was the most fun)
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Rolemaster (1st/2nd Ed) / Spacemaster (1st 2nd Ed)
Vampire (Masquerade, Sabbat)
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Although honorary mentions to Sine Nomine's:
Stars without Number
Other Dust
Scarlett Heroes
I would have put these games on my top 5, but I didn't run them as often as I liked.
I did run SWN on rpol.net and ran it for about a year though and I enjoyed it a lot. It's just I ran and played the others on my list a lot more.
Interesting I didn't put Call of Cthulhu on that list. I do love the game, but I didn't play it all that often, but enjoyed what I DID play of it. Well, most of the time anyway.
It's more GM dependent on being a good game than other RPGs.
I guess we're not eligible to vote for our own products ;) so I'd say maybe these five, in alphabetical (not ranked) order.
Cyberpunk 2020
D&D (various)
Deadlands (classic)
Dungeon World
Vampire
They're not what I'd consider 'the best five', but they have a special place in my heart for one reason or another.
Owwwww....
In no particular order
D&D (1e, 2e or RC)
Gamma World 2e
FASERIP
Cyberpunk 2020
Basic RPG (this means RQ, COC or Stormbringer)
Of those I've actually played:
1) Cyberpunk 2020
2) D&D 2e
3) Vampire The Masquerade
4) GURPS: I would put this on the top of the list just for how much fun I had building shit with the rules, but I never actually played a campaign with it, so it goes last.
Those I've only read:
1) Solipsist because I love the elegant resource management mechanic, on paper least
2) Silent Legions
3) Amber
4) Millenium's End
5) My Life With Master (interesting concept of adding end game conditions to an RPG)
In no particular order...
Runequest (6th, MRQII)
Shadowrun (2nd, 3rd)
D&D (1st Ed, Basic, 5th Ed, D20 Conan)
Rolemaster (MERP, RM2, RMSS)
WFRP1
Rifts
Those are the systems I've played the most and got the most enjoyment out of (as I currently remember it :D).
Honorable Mentions: Traveller, FASA Trek, Earthdawn, OpenQuest/Renaissance, DCC, ACKS, AS&SH, Dragon Age, 2nd Ed, Gamma World, Top Secret, Aces & Eights, Mythus, oWoD, Hackmaster 5th, Cyberpunk 2020, Star Frontiers.
1. WFRP 2nd
2. Deadlands Reloaded
3. Hellfrost
4. Anima: Beyond Fantasy
5. Realms of Cthulhu
There are a number of games that I suspect would make the list (such as Stars Without Number) but I haven't had a chance to play or run them yet.
In alphabetical order.
- Call of Cthulhu editions 1-5
- Honor+Intrigue
- Pendragon
- Star Wars D6 2E or 2ER&E
- Runequest 2 or 3
Honorable mention: Star Wars D6 for its great system.
Maybe I am too old, but I only want to play D&D-based games. And then, my preferences in the following order:
1) Fantastic Heroes & Witchery (of course, since I wrote the game I wanted to play... Perfect for Moorcock style and Swords & Planets, but also more regular fantasy)
2) Crypts and Things (perfect for a Lankhmar-based game)
3) Astonishing Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AD&D 1e done right, as far as I am concerned)
4) Beyond the Wall (in case I would want to play in a Earthsea-based game).
5) DCC or Castles & Crusades...
1. GURPS (w. house rules, advanced low-tech tactical combat w. maps)
2. The Fantasy Trip (sentimental favorite)
3. Legends of the Ancient World
4. Ars Magica
5. Aftermath
Quote from: Turanil;837921Maybe I am too old, but I only want to play D&D-based games.
I think your age is less likely to be an explanation than that you just like D&D-based games.
Aside from games I've written, which otherwise occupy at least 3 slots:
1) Amber
2) D&D (editions prior to 4th)
3) Call of Cthulhu
4) Flashing Blades
5) Traveller
Quote from: Turanil;8379213) Astonishing Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AD&D 1e done right, as far as I am concerned)
You and I, brother, you and I.
Quote from: Simon W;8379644) Flashing Blades
Lots of Flashing Blades love in this thread. I feel like I should check it out.
1. 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
2. Cyberpunk 2020
3. Earthdawn 1st Edition
4. Dungeon Crawl Classics
5. Stars Without Number
I'll skip the honorable mentions, as I think that's cheating. But I will say that I had to cut some very good games out of that list to just make 5.
Top Secret/S.I.
Spycraft
True20
Edge of the Empire
Pathfinder
I'm amazed at how much love FASERIP got. Got me looking at that game again!
Mage: The Ascension - Not, perhaps, as popular with others as for me, but I played this regularly for years as my go-to system. The writing and tone is unapologetically polemical, but it bristles with ideas and speaks to me. I do like Vampire and the others too, but Mage is the best. It also tends to be a system I can run Supers with, incidentally, in a Doctor Strange type of way.
Traveller - Either Classic, which I respect immensely, or Mongoose Traveller which is immensely playable with simple-as-they-get mechanics and a literally universal application to sci-fi. Probably my go-to system these days.
Dungeons and Dragons - The 5th edition simply works. Not too complex as with some previous editions, and now has enough options and loopholes to be able to adapt to most fantasy settings easily. I like that it is mainly supported with setting and campaign material, rather than crunchy splatbooks. With a Warlock, I can now play Elric too.
RuneQuest/Mythras - Probably shouldn't be bunching these together anymore, but the jury awaits what Chaosium puts out for it ultimately, and Mythras is indeed an inheritor of the Classic Runequest legacy in one degree or another. I like RuneQuest for the spirituality, the depth of research and the sheer class of it. It's more authentic and mature, as a game, than what I get from D&D. That's why I like it, although given the right group, I might like Pendragon even better, and Stormbringer always holds a soft spot for me.
Call of Cthulhu - Just about, although the 7E could have been better for me in the way they managed the rules. That said, the game seems to attract some wonderful scenario writers and, as such, it will always have something to offer. Maybe Delta Green, Unknown Armies and Kult could surpass CoC's hold on my horror tastes with their new, upcoming editions.
Honestly, I like lots of games - so I'm still going to mention Toon, Ghostbusters, and Paranoia anyway......and Ars Magica, HoL, Cyberpunk, Amber, Fiasco, Mutant: Year Zero, Over The Edge, Feng Shui, Warhammer Fantasy......
My idea of what "a system" means might well be more broad than other people's...:)
If you wonder, it's based on the degree to which I'm prone to mix and match them while running them.
1. Runequest/Mythras, Pendragon and all the d100 systems like Maelstrom, Haunts and Horrors and Unknown Armies (and possibly the upcoming RuneQuest, but we'll see about that).
2. BoL, Traveller, Fabled Lands and the Chainmail-inspired OSR games (Spellcraft and Swordplay, Crimson Blades, Dungeon Questing, Five Ancient Kingdoms, Tales and Legends, possibly others that I'm missing), along with Fantasy Age.
3. Pocket Universe games and games based on the same engine (Bethorm very much included) have taken the place of GURPS for me.
4. Spellbound Kingdoms really is its own system, but it's fun and makes sure that even the included narrative elements make IC sense.
5. The setting/genre-based OSR, like Tunnels and Trolls, Earthdawn and the OSR of the 3rd wave, like Crypts and Things, DCC, The Nightmares Underneath, Low Fantasy, Scarlet Heroes, ACKS (the last one is between the 2nd and the 3rd wave, but whatever).
Yeah, it's a surprisingly lengthy list, I know;)!
Quote from: Black Vulmea;756743In no particular order.
- Original, 'classic' Traveller
- 2e box set Boot Hill
- Top Secret
- Flashing Blades
- Metamorphosis Alpha
Honorable mention: Marvel Super Heroes, d20 Modern, Mutants and Masterminds
Aaaaaaand two-and-a-half years later? No change.
Quote from: Simlasa;756702No particular order after CoC:
Call of Cthulhu (and various other iterations of BRP)
WFRP
Classic Traveller
GURPS
Gamma World (original)
Nowadays DCC would edge out GURPS for me, and Magic World is my primary source of BRP goodness over CoC.
Quote from: jeff37923;756707Traveller (Classic/Mongoose/4th/5th)
2300AD (both)
WEG d6 Star Wars (all)
Mekton (Zeta/II)
Basic D&D/Labyrinth Lord
2300AD (both) has dropped to last place, but everything else is still the same 2.5 years later.
1- Dark Heresy
2- Deathwatch
3- D20 Modern
4- Pathfinder
5- D&D 5e
Yeah, I know. I'm not an OSR guy. I might get DCC soon, though.
Lamentations of the Flame Princes (B/X D&D)
Classic Traveller
King Arthur Pendragon
Sorcerer and Sorcerer & Sword
Hero Wars in Glorantha
There's a spread of distinctly differently kinds of gaming across the list. I like each one for what it offers that the others can't.
Damn, this is hard. I own and enjoy too much shiznack.
1st - Whatever I am writing at the moment (whether house ruled versions of Game X or my own stuff)
2nd - My version of OD&D (very much akin to S&W: WB)
3rd - Classic Traveller (including my 40k crossovers and houseruled whatevers)
4th - Gamma World (either classic or the 4e boardgame version, both heavily houseruled)
5th - Call of Cthulhu (getting juiced these days by both Silent Legions and Amazing Adventures)
Of course, I gotta caveat that I'd toss aside my list if a GM I trust is running whatever else. If I know somebody brings the kickass to the table, I will play pretty much anything outside my pet peeves (I can't do 3e anymore and I don't enjoy narrative RPGs) and I may even set aside those if I know the GM well enough.
1. Fighting Fantasy Books (I started with these)
2. Shadowrun (love the universe)
3. Warhammer 40K (love the universe)
4. D&D (all versions), honourable mentions: 13th Age, DCC
5. Dragon Warriors (simple and awesome)
6. sorry! Low Fantasy Gaming RPG ;D
Quote from: kobayashi;760120The 5 games that gave me my best campaigns so far :
Warhammer 1e
Legend of the five rings 1e
Savage Worlds
The Laundry
Waste World
So two years later...
Waste World is still here because it rocks. Stills feels like the best unofficial 2000AD comics rpg.
Chroniques Oubliées: a french OGL fantasy game that is a perfect fit for me and my players. Light but with enough toys for the players to play with. A bit like
Radiance.
The Laundry is still here as well, a very refreshing take on the Mythos, mixing horror and humor perfectly.
D20/OGL : I know it's a bit vast but from
Star Wars to
Call of Cthulhu,
Mutants & Masterminds,
Grim Tales,
Fantasy Craft,
Microlite games... Not any game that I would play as is, but there's a lot to plunder for my own creations.
Lamentations of the Flame Princess : kinda replaced Warhammer 1e as my
go to gritty fantasy game.
Why ?Warhammer 1e : own almost all the books, but I wouldn't play the game with its original rules now.
Savage Worlds : shaken status, wounds, bennies, railroady campaigns... I had a ton of fun with it but it was time to let go.
Legend of the Five Rings 1e : no game group interested in it.
In no particular order,
Basic Fantasy RPG
RIFTS
Stars Without Number
Exalted 1e
B/X D&D
Honorable mention: Mutant Chronicles
Blades in the Dark
Star Wars (FFG)
Cypher System
The Sprawl
Fading Suns
Quote from: CRKrueger;837826In no particular order...
Runequest (6th, MRQII)
Shadowrun (2nd, 3rd)
D&D (1st Ed, Basic, 5th Ed, D20 Conan)
Rolemaster (MERP, RM2, RMSS)
WFRP1
Rifts
Those are the systems I've played the most and got the most enjoyment out of (as I currently remember it :D).
Honorable Mentions: Traveller, FASA Trek, Earthdawn, OpenQuest/Renaissance, DCC, ACKS, AS&SH, Dragon Age, 2nd Ed, Gamma World, Top Secret, Aces & Eights, Mythus, oWoD, Hackmaster 5th, Cyberpunk 2020, Star Frontiers.
Yep pretty much the same. You twist my arm to get to 5 and don't allow ties...
Mythras
Shadowrun
AD&D
Rolemaster
WFRP1
Pathfinder/D&D 3.5
Fate
Gumshoe/Nights Black Agents
Traveller (Mongoose and Mega being my favorite Varieties)
Fantasy Craft
1. D&D (Original D&D or 1e AD&D)
2. BRP/Call of Cthulhu
3. BRP/Runequest or Stormbringer
4. Rolemaster (2)
5. Behind Enemy Lines (Fasa)
The ones that gave me more hours of fun, in no order of preference:
Vampire the Masquerade
Shadowrun 2e/3e
Apocalypse World
The ones I appreciate from reading (or playing a little) and would like to play much more:
Runequest 2e/6e
Pendragon
Unknown Armies
Sagas of the Icelanders
Shinobigami
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?
1. The RPG I'm writing
2. DwD Studios, BareBones Fantasy
3. Classic Traveller
4. Ryuutama
5. Living Steel (based on Phoenix Command)
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).
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.
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.
Can I pick BREAK!! even though it isn't out yet? LOL http://www.breakrpg.com/
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)
1. GURPS 4E
2. Palladium Megaversal (specifically Rifts and Nightbane)
3. AD&D 1E/2E
4. Aces & Eights
5. HackMaster 5E.
1. My Homebrew
2. Atomic Highway
3. The Fantasy Trip
4. D&D, anything pre 1981 :)
5. Traveller
6. Dragon Warriors
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
Quote from: Tod13;934025Can I pick BREAK!! even though it isn't out yet? LOL http://www.breakrpg.com/
How dare you:D!
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.
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;).
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...
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...
1. Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D 1e, BECMI/RC, Some AD&D 2.5e and 5e) being what I've always played. If I were to run an old school D&D game, I'd probably use RC D&D combined with the Labyrinth Lord and other compatible OSR books I have. I still play in an AD&D campaign I joined in '86, which makes 1e the RPG I have played the most. 5e I enjoy because it's elegant and versatile. Sure it's different from old school D&D but it feels pretty darn close. First game I ran using 5e was set in Karameikos.
2. Cortex Plus Heroic particularly Marvel Heroic coupled with the Hacker's Guide and skills from Firefly. Use Time Dice in place of Initiative and you have the fastest combat resolution for play by post games I have ever seen. This is my go to system for running games on forums. I borrowed and adapted the Approaches from Fate Accelerated and used them in place of Affiliations. Since Approaches are verbs which can easily become adverbs, I also swap out Specialties for Firefly Skills which are verbs, and can be combined to form sentences like,
"I ly the with my ". This let a player not only declare what they were going to to but it also let them build their dice pool right from the sentence. When Cam gets licencing sorted I may be very happy.
3. d20 Star Wars Revised Core Rules is the most fun I have ever had running a d20 system. I infuriated my players, using dungeon dice to map out the ventilation system of an Imperial Star Destroyer, made a joke about how air ducts are always clean then chased them down with the droids that clean the air ducts. Good times. I know that Saga Edition is cleaner and easier to run, but at the time it didn't exist. I liberally borrowed from d20 Modern/Future and I did horrid things like send them to Planet Ravenloft in one adventure and Planet Granbretan in another. When a certain player got all canony at me, I'd pull out the 3.5e Monster Manual. They did not appreciate my swapping out Quarren for Mind Flayers. I liked 3.5e but I liked this d20 game a lot more.
4. Mutants and Masterminds 2e/True20 A long time ago, there were forums for the True20 game which I got into because I thought Blue Rose was neat. I liked True 20 more, and I also liked Mutants and Masterminds since 2001. A fellow on those forums named Shadow took True20 and applied it to the Mutants and Masterminds point system used in 2e. The two games were pretty close in any case. You could pull the Vampire from the True20 Bestiary and it was really close to the one in the M+M rulebook. Other creatures in both books had similar stats which let me say "good enough" and use the Bestiary wholesale in M+M. I do like Mutants and Masterminds 3e and have probably played more of it than 2e, but as a GM the 2e/True20 mashup was really fun for Pulp/Street level mystery horror games.
5. Pinning down a 5th is hard. It could be
Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space, or
FASA Star Trek or
Aliens (Phoenix Command Lite) or
Battletech/Mechwarrior or
Marvel Superheroes. I'm surprised I got to number four to be honest.
Quote from: Celestial;756656My 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
I really enjoyed the Buck Rogers XXVc RPG. I used it in combination with 1e Battlesystem so I could do fleet vs fleet battles. Some good times there. I read all the novels too and I still have most of them. I really like the idea of a solar system centric game, and I've used that setting in a Mutants and Masterminds 3e game.
Five Favorite RPG's
1 Mine
2 Torg
3 Shadowrun 2nd ed
4 D&D 3e
5 Savage Worlds
6 GURPS 3e supplements / Rifts (tie)
Tough, but lemme see...
1.) Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game (http://sfrpg.com/2015/09/08/sf20-release-street-fighter-the-storytelling-game-20th-anniversary-edition/) - It feels like modern adventure and the fighting system is enjoyable.
2.) The Fantasy Trip - Deceptively deep and clever with its magic and being built as a combat/vs. game, it feels solid there as well. Has some odd game-ness, but I can live with it.
3.) ACKS (to choose a D&D) - Keeps many of the benefits of Basic D&D, but with tools to add complexity if you want. I do prefer turns, combat phase and "initiative by side" in my D&D though.
4.) Runequest 6/Mythras? - Kinda dry, but satisfyingly emulative. Tools to build the kind of world you want are nice.
5.) Castle Falkenstein? Heavy Gear 2nd ed.? (I don't know what goes in #5) - I can't decide. It could even be something other than the 2 games listed as contenders. They both have charm, though.
Here are my picks, I've played each game in the top five at least once, usually more. The Honorable Mentions are a mix of games I have played and games I find interesting and have read.
1. Big Eyes Small Mouth First Edition/The Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book
2. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Both 1E and 2E)
3. Vampire: The Masquerade First Edition
4. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
5. Mage: The Ascension Second Edition
Honorable Mentions: Original Dungeons & Dragons, Werewolf: The Apocalypse 1E and 2E, Vampire: The Requiem 1E, Changeling: The Lost 1E, Pathfinder, GURPS 3E, D&D 5E, D&D 3.5, BESM D20, Only War, HERO System 5e Sidekick, Recon, Black Tokyo
I have to answer this in two parts:
SYSTEMS
I.FASERIP
II. Cineflex
III. Runequest 6th Ed
IV. Star Wars (WEG)
V. Outlaws of the Water Margin
SETTINGS
I. Warhammer Fantasy Role-play 1st Edition
II. Paranoia
III. Planescape
IV. Changeling: The Dreaming
V. Shadowrun 2nd Edition
AD&D 1st ed/Moldvay D&D and to be honest, all modern OSR retro-clones
Call of Cthulhu
d6 Star Wars
Hackmaster 4E
Marvel Super Heroes (FACERIP system)
In no particular order: L5R, D&D, specifically ACKS, and Traveller ... and that's it for the top rank, really. I like Savage Worlds well enough, but I don't go looking to play a SW game for the rule set so much as I may get enthused about a setting. And I have fond memories of Rolemaster, but it's not a system I'm trying to get back into.
These are the games that I've had the most fun with, they're not the best, nor will I ever say that they are 'good', just that I had a blast, or found them most useful. And I am not ranking them, despite numbering them.
1. Mutants and Masterminds (all editions, but mostly 3rd now)
2. FFG's Star Wars Edge of Empire
3. Feng Shui (both editions)
4. Palladium's Rifts
5. Runeslayer (A Runequest game that was never officially published)
These are the ones I've had the most fun with, but there's about thirty or so I've had fun with as well, not to mention that I'm willing to try anything at least once.
1) Lejendary Adventure
2) AD&D 1st Edition
3) Dangerous Journeys
4) Dark Conspiracy
5) WEG Star Wars
We revisiting our posts? Cool.
Quote from: Ratman_tf;8380091. 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Still a solid #1. I sucessfully broke in my house rules a while ago, and things ran smoothy. I prefer 2nd to 3rd, but did change AC and THACO to be ascending.
I also made the proficiencies ascending versus difficulty number, and rolled the thief abilities into the proficiency system. Worked great, and rogue types actually have a chance at using their abilities at low levels now.
Quote2. Cyberpunk 2020
I'm going to bump CP2020, and give credit where credit is due.
Rifts.The Palladium system is like a broken down jalopy, but the world is crazy fun, and I do enjoy tinkering with that old jalopy. Gets the #2 spot because we played a ton of Rifts.
Quote3. Earthdawn 1st Edition
A solid #3. One of my best campaigns was run in Earthdawn, and I'd love to get a chance to GM it again.
Quote4. Dungeon Crawl Classics
I love DCC, but I'm going to put
Mekton 2nd edition here. Interlock is a solid system, and I used Mekton for a ton of mecha games. Even kitbashed it for a Wing Commander campaign.
Quote5. Stars Without Number
Can stay at #5. The few times I've gotten to run it, the system is great. I feel it just needs the right published setting to catapult it up into a higher slot.
My top five:
1. D&D Red Box, first played in 1977, the game that started it all
2. AD&D (1st Edition)
3. Star Frontiers
4. Twilight 2000
5. Villains & Vigilantes
Yeah I know those are all old school. Honorable mentions: Call of Cthulhu, Swordbearer, Bushido
As for what I'm playing now: REH's Conan RPG (2D20 Modiphius); MYFAROG
1. Basic Roleplaying
2. Artesia
3. The One Ring
4. Houses of the Blooded
5. Rolemaster (with lots of house rules)
Honorable mentions that I played, but never ran: GURPS, FATE
Pendragon looks fantastic in theory, but I never tried it