Vote For The Most Anticipated RPG of 2023!

As we do every year, it's time to vote for the most anticipated tabletop roleplaying game of the coming year! Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Free League's Blade Runner). Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles (2017), Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019), Dune (2020 & 2021), and Twilight 2000 (2021), and Blade Runner (2022). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2023?

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UPDATE -- VOTING IS NOW OVER!

We took nominations. Now it's time to vote. What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2022? You can vote for up to 3 games. Voting will be open for 2 weeks, until January 3rd.

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[aramis erak]

Is it sad that I find myself voting for three of the 5 I have any interest in at all, rather than being truly anticipatory? (the other two, I'm almost dreading what they're going to do...)

Maybe it's just I'm suffering a major depressive episode...

I picked 13th Age, DIE, and Pendragon, but I'm not super-interested in anything on this list. I feel badly about this!

So glad I'm not the only one.

I've always wanted to try Pendragon, but somehow have never gotten around to it.

Done well, it freaking rocks.
If the GM ignores the campaign advice, it can rapidly slog. Pendragon 6 is one of the ones I'm dreading what mayhem The Chaosium may wreak upon it sans the guiding hand of Mr. Stafford.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Done well, it freaking rocks.
If the GM ignores the campaign advice, it can rapidly slog. Pendragon 6 is one of the ones I'm dreading what mayhem The Chaosium may wreak upon it sans the guiding hand of Mr. Stafford.

Pendragon 6th is being written via Greg Stafford’s guidance. It was his notes and his plan to release a 6th edition. He began work on it a decade ago. It will be his name on the credits.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I only found two I would vote for, and one, Elden Ring, may not be released in English next year. With no word on the system, that's a very iffy pick. The other one is also very marginal at best. I doubt I'm going to making many, if any, RPG purchases in 2023.

 

[R_Chance]

Cities Without Number at the top of my list (more Kevin Crawford is always a good thing, Cowboy Be-Bop (as much for the art and interesting background bits), and Lords of the Middle Sea (I liked the board game). The one I'm guaranteed to buy is CWN. The other 2 are probable buys (as were several other titles in the list).

 

[TrippyHippy]

Honestly, I think the Monty Python game or maybe Pendragon will win it, but as others say, it looks a quieter year for new releases than for previous years, Notably Pendragon was a delayed release from 2022, and other games may also be holdovers too. I was surprised nobody mentioned the new licensed superhero games for Gotham City and Marvel Multiverse, but I guess superhero RPGs aren’t a big thing here.

My personal choices include the new Paranoia Perfect edition (which I have already seen as a PDF to backers last week), Pioneer which will bring real NASA experience to a sci-fi game, and Pendragon 6th which is billed as Greg Stafford’s Magnum Opus. Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Cthulhu by Gaslight (a stand-alone game, based on Call of Cthulhu 7E bu not listed here) will also be my highlights. The Monty Python game will be interesting, but I am a little skeptical about its viability.

Otherwise, I think 2023 is the quiet before the 2024 storm of the new D&D edition.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Just noticed the Gloomhaven RPG on this list, and that's kind of hysterical, given I always found Gloomhaven the board game took considerably more time and effort to play than most TTRPGs, so that too may well be a more straightforward thing to play!

 

[Ulfgeir]

One game which I am unsure of the availiability status of, is the Avatar rpg. Noone submitted it for consideration to the list, but given the amount of backers they had on the kickstarter, it seems a lot of people wanted it.

 

[mcmillan]

One game which I am unsure of the availiability status of, is the Avatar rpg. Noone submitted it for consideration to the list, but given the amount of backers they had on the kickstarter, it seems a lot of people wanted it.

it's been available a little while now DriveThruRPG.com

 

[Aldarc]

@Morrus, Jason Lutes (penny lantern) is producing Stonetop, but Jeremy Strandberg is the writer and game designer.

One game which I am unsure of the availiability status of, is the Avatar rpg. Noone submitted it for consideration to the list, but given the amount of backers they had on the kickstarter, it seems a lot of people wanted it.

People have begun receiving their hard copies in the UK earlier this month. I suspect mine is in the mail here in Austria.

 

[Mistwell]

Paranoia Perfect Edition? Oh, intriguing.

Gloomhaven RPG? I am going to want to read that!