After Tuesday’s D&D game I had a simple question for the other players and the GM. See, our campaign’s end is just over the horizon—the GM’s confirmed that we’ll be playing into early epic levels, and we’re all around level 18 now. (We started more than two years ago at level 1, so just keeping the campaign going to this point is an accomplishment for all of us!) I’d been talking to my wife about changing my entertainment investments a bit, too—RPG books seem to offer a lot more value in terms of dollars per hour of play than, say, a modern video game (where 20 hours is considered long.) So I asked the group what I thought was a fairly simple question: If I were to pick up a game or two, what would people be interested in playing?
Fifteen minutes later we’d listed more than twenty games.
So I’m extremely excited by the thought of branching out to other games. However, I’m certain that in the vast collection of RPGs out there, there’s a large number we just don’t know about. So if you’ve got suggestions about one genre or another, or a ‘better’ version of one game or another, please leave a note about it in the comments! I’d love to add to the list, if nothing else!
Storytelling Games
- Deliria from the apparently-defunct Laughing Pan Productions
- Vampire from White Wolf’s New World of Darkness series
- Mage from White Wolf’s New World of Darkness series
Paranormal Games
Superhero Games
- Heroes Unlimited by Palladium Books
- Adventure!, Aberrant, and Trinity by White Wolf
- Necessary Evil (a Savage Worlds setting) from Pinnacle Entertainment Group
- Champions by Hero Games
Classic Fantasy
Show-Based Games
- Serenity
- Girl Genius GURPS from Steve Jackson Games
- Farscape Roleplaying Game from Alderac Entertainment
Cyberpunk
- Shadowrun (4th Edition setting using Savage World rules) by Catalyst Game Labs
Everything Else
Naturally, if you’ve got other suggestions, mention them in the comments. I really want to expand our RPG “reach” as much as possible.
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Barbarians of Lemuria
I highly recommend:
Spirit of the Century, mad pulp adventure using the FATE system.
Dogs in the Vineyard, playing religious law enforcers in a west that never was.
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Awesome suggestions – thanks!
I would run a 1-shot Toon game for the group any time. This game is great as a break between more serious games to let players blow off some steam, and its most basic rules are rules that I feel all RPGs should follow, like “Know the rules. Checking rules is slow. Slow is bad. If you don’t know the rules, make something up. If you can’t make it up, cheat.” It helps remind folks that even in a high drama game, they should be having fun.
Engel would be interesting, but would require quite a few Toon games to cheer everyone up afterward.
Scion would be really outstanding as well, especially taking characters and storyline from Hero to God.
There’s also that Hunter game from New World of Darkness that I’d like to run at some point. While cheesy, there are some interesting ideas for antagonists in the Slasher splatbook I’m itching to use.
You also forgot to put HOL on that list. A shameful oversight, indeed!
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