Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2021

As I do every year, I'm taking nominations for the MOST ANTICIPATED RPG poll for the coming year. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was the Dune RPG, which hasn't actually made it out yet). Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles , and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), and Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2021?

We do this at the end of every year, and have done for several years now! Here's how it works:

We start with a nomination stage. That's this thread. You may nominate any standalone tabletop RPG due to be released to the general public in 2021. All nominated games will appear on the final ballot. To nominate a game, simply make a reply in this thread. A few rules:

1. It must be a standalone tabletop RPG, NOT a supplement, setting, adventure, sourcebook, expansion, or accessory. If there is a QuickStart version, or a preview, it’s the full release that counts.
2. It must be due out to the general public in 2021. The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.
3. It must be nominated by at least one person in this thread. Simply post the name of the game and the name of the publisher below to nominate it.
4. Nominations will remain open for two weeks, until December 22nd. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
5. Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with.
6. Include a link. Don't make me Google to try guess what you mean! No linky, no nommy.

Last year's winner was Dune (pictured above). You can see last year's top 10 here. Sometimes products make it into the list in more than one year; what can I say? Product schedules slip!

#	2013	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
1	13th Age	Star Wars Force & Destiny	Rifts for Savage Worlds	Trudvang Chronicles	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition	Dune
2	Numenera	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition	Mutant Crawl Classics	Tales from the Loop	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition	Pathfinder 2nd Edition	Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying
3	Star Wars Edge of the Empire	Unified Rolemaster	7th Sea 2nd Edition	Kult: Divinity Lost	Kult: Divinity Lost	Lex Arcana	Cyberpunk Red
4	Shadowrun 5th Edition	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Star Trek Adventures	Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG	The Expanse	Fallout
5	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls	DCC Lankhmar	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of	RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha	Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound
6	Firefly	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition	RuneQuest 4	Starfinder	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Dune RPG	Swords of the Serpentine
7	Fate Core	Feng Shui 2	Torg: Eternity	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory	John Carter of Mars	Rivers of London
8	Hillfolk	Fantasy AGE	Blue Rose AGE	Coriolis	The Expanse	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition	Stargate
9	Torchbearer	Paranoia	Paranoia	Delta Green Roleplaying Game	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition	Things from the Flood	Fading Suns 4E
10	-	Shadows of the Demon Lord	Delta Green	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E	Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny	Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD	Cortex Prime

 

[theoysterking]

The One Ring RPG is a “proper 2E” releasing in 2021, with new Moria adventure planned - Free League

D&D 5E-compatible version to follow release of standalone Lord of the Rings game.

www.dicebreaker.com

The One Ring, 2d Edition, Free League

 

[Egg Embry]

This is not an exhaustive list, just some of the RPGs that are on my mind. If your game is not included, it is not intended as a slight, just an oversight on my end.

Opera House from Corone Design - KS Link: Opera House

• Interview Link: Opera House, an RPG: An Interview With One-Person Show, Andrew Peregrine – d20 Radio

Urban Shadows 2e from Magpie Games - KS Link: Urban Shadows: Second Edition

• Interview Link: Urban Shadows 2e: An Interview With Mark Diaz Truman (Magpie Games)

Twilight: 2000 4e from Free League - KS Link: Twilight: 2000 – Roleplaying in the WWIII That Never Was

• Interview Link: Twilight: 2000 4E: An Interview With Free League

Thirsty Sword Lesbians from Evil Hat Productions - KS Link: Thirsty Sword Lesbians

• Interview Link: Thirsty Sword Lesbians: An Interview With April Kit Walsh (Evil Hat Productions)

Rivers of London RPG from Chaosium - PR Link: Chaosium Announces Rivers of London Roleplaying Game

• Interview Link: Rivers of London and Chaosium – Talking to Michael O'Brien
• Interview Link: Meet Ben Aaronovitch, Author of Rivers of London

Deviant: The Renegades from Onyx Path Publishing - KS Link: Deviant: The Renegades - a tabletop roleplaying game

• Manuscript Preview Review Link: Deviant: The Renegade Kickstarter Manuscript Preview Review – d20 Radio

Good Strong Hands RPG from Nerdburger Games - KS Link: Good Strong Hands RPG

• Interview Link: Good Strong Hands: An Interview With Craig Campbell (Nerdburger Games) – d20 Radio

Heroic Dark from Will Power Games - KS Link: Death Divers: A Heroic Dark Setting

• Interview Link: Death Divers: A Heroic Dark Setting Interview With Dustin DePenning (Will Power Games) – d20 Radio

Perilous Roleplaying Game from Murder Publishing - KS Link: Perilous Roleplaying Game

• Interview Link: Perilous Roleplaying Game: An Interview With Jordan Palmer (Murder Publishing) – d20 Radio

Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall from Game and a Curry and Wet Ink Games - KS Link: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall

• Interview Link: Blood In The Banquet Hall- An Interview With Banana Chan And Sen-Foong Lim (Game And A Curry And Wet Ink Games)

Dune: Adventures in the Imperium from Modiphius - DUNE

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) from EN Publishing - Link: Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

 

[Ulfgeir]

I would like to nominate Brancalonia - The Spaghetti fantasy rpg. Made by Acheron books.
Kickstarter link: BRANCALONIA - THE SPAGHETTI FANTASY RPG

There is another game I would really like to nominate, but since I helped proofread it and wrote the first quickstart-scenario for it, I guess that counts as being affiliated with it, so thus I cannot nominate it...

 

[schneeland]

Two things I'd nominate have already been mentioned (TOR 2e, Rivers of London, Twilight 2K).

Additionally:
Old-School Essentials - Advanced Fantasy, Necrotic Gnome
Publisher Website, Kickstarter Page

Open Quest, 3rd Edition, D101 Games
System Website, Kickstarter Page

Trophy RPG, The Gauntlet Gaming Community
System Website, Kickstarter Page

All three scheduled to come out in print in 2021.

 

[Hurin70]

I would like to nominate:
Rolemaster (Unified): Iron Crown Enterprises

Director's Briefing - November 2020

Director's Briefing - November 2020

www.ironcrown.com

(The link is to the latest update on the game. Arms Law and Character Law, Spell Law, and Treasure Law have passed through editing and are going to layout and art. Creature Law is lagging a bit behind, but 2021 is going to be the year).

 

[TrippyHippy]

King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition - Chaosium King Arthur Pendragon 6th edition announced with free preview

Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition - Hunter’s Entertainment Werewolf: The Apocalypse - 5th Edition

Rivers of London - Chaosium Chaosium Announces Rivers of London Roleplaying Game

Everway 2nd Edition - The Everway Company The Everway Company

Absolute Power (Silver Age Sentinels 2nd Edition for TriStat) - Dyskami Publishing Absolute Power: Silver Age Sentinels 2e

Luther Arkwright RPG - as a standalone RPG in a new edition - The Design Mechanism
I’d also mention Dune, The One Ring (new edition by Free League), and Twilight: 2000, but these have been mentioned already. Has anybody mentioned Hasbro’s Power Rangers, GI Joe, My Little Pony and Transformers for 5E, yet? Wasn’t there meant to be new games for Batman and The Terminator too?

 

[Skywalker]

This is not an exhaustive list, just some of the RPGs that are on my mind. If your game is not included, it is not intended as a slight, just an oversight on my end.

Urban Shadows 2e from Magpie Games - KS Link: Urban Shadows: Second Edition

• Interview Link: Urban Shadows 2e: An Interview With Mark Diaz Truman (Magpie Games)

I am looking forward to US 2e but its slated for a November 2021 release for KS and retail usually follows at least a few months thereafter.

Also, Magpie, whilst a great publisher, are almost always a few months late on fulfillment. As such, I think this is much more likely to be a 2022 release.

 

[Skywalker]

Everway 2nd Edition - The Everway Company The Everway Company

Is this staled for a 2021 retail release? They haven't even slated a KS date for it yet.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Is this staled for a 2021 retail release? They haven't even slated a KS date for it yet.

Not sure. The Kickstarter sign up is on - the rest of the details I’m not sure if they’ve been announced or not. Do you have more info? I mean the 'Silver Anniversary Edition’ implies it is coming out soon.

 

[imagineGod]

Thank you, TrippyHippy, for notifying me of the Luther Arkwright RPG. I must have missed the news so will research it now. Never played any earlier versions either if such existed, but enjoyed the collected omnibus graphic novel and own it in my collection of great comic books.