Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2022

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 joint winners were Dune and Twilight 2000). 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). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2022?

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 2022. 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 2022. 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. You can nominate up to two games. It's not a contest to see who can list the most games!
5. Nominations will remain open for two weeks, until December 23rd. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
6. Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with.
7. Include a link. Don't make me Google to try guess what you mean! No linky, no nommy.

Last year's joint winners were Dune and Twilight 2000 (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!

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#​	2013​	2015​	2016​	2017​	2018​	2019​	2020​	2021​
1​	13th Age​	Star Wars Force & Destiny​	Rifts for Savage Worlds​	Trudvang Chronicles​	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition​	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition​	Dune​	Dune/ Twilight2000​
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​	The One Ring (2nd Edition)​
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​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​
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​	Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)​
6​	Firefly​	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition​	RuneQuest 4​	Starfinder​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Dune RPG​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Rivers of London​
7​	Fate Core​	Feng Shui 2​	Torg: Eternity​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory​	John Carter of Mars​	Rivers of London​	Pathfinder for Savage Worlds​
8​	Hillfolk​	Fantasy AGE​	Blue Rose AGE​	Coriolis​	The Expanse​	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition​	Stargate​	Brancalonia - The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG​
9​	Torchbearer​	Paranoia​	Paranoia​	Delta Green Roleplaying Game​	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition​	Things from the Flood​	Fading Suns 4E​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition​
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​	SLA Industries, 2nd Edition​

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[reelo]

I'd like to nominate Hyperborea 3E:

NORTH WIND ADVENTURES

Hyperborea RPG is the premier tabletop game of swords, sorcery, and weird-science fantasy. Created by Jeffrey P. Talanian. Inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. Mechanics inspired by Gygax and Arneson.

www.hyperborea.tv

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

I linked the drivethru page of the pdf. Drivethru is not KS. It's an online store much like Amazon etc. Anyone can register with about a single click or filling out a form (much like in any online shop), and buy it. The general public can already purchase the book digitally. It's out now.

The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.

 

[Crusadius]

The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.

I think Dune being nominated for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (winning in 2020 and tying for first place 2021) means that it's the expected release date at the time of the nomination.

For clarification does this include PDF-only releases? Or if the PDF is released first in one year, and the physical book released the next then what year is it eligible for nomination?

 

[opacitizen]

The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.

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Do you mean you're incapable of accepting digital products for what they are? Or do the rules set out by @Morrus exclude pdf releases? Where?

Physical books are now just a version of the book, not the book, which, in this case, you can already buy.

Edit: Note also that even if you preorder the physical version of the book, you'll get a digital version of it immediately via drivethru (which you can, again, buy as a standalone item, a digital product over at drivethru.) So you'll practically have the book in either case. You can read it, you can print it (for yourself), you can play with it, even as a member of "the general public."

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Do you mean you're incapable of accepting digital products for what they are? Or do the rules set out by @Morrus exclude pdf releases? Where?

Physical books are now just a version of the book, not the book, which, in this case, you can already buy.

Edit: Note also that even if you preorder the physical version of the book, you'll get a digital version of it immediately via drivethru (which you can, again, buy as a standalone item, a digital product over at drivethru.) So you'll practically have the book in either case. You can read it, you can print it (for yourself), you can play with it, even as a member of "the general public."

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Honestly? I actually don't care. This is just supposed to be a fun list. I only responded because I thought the pre-order part was funny. Have a great day.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

I think Dune being nominated for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (winning in 2020 and tying for first place 2021) means that it's the expected release date at the time of the nomination.

For clarification does this include PDF-only releases? Or if the PDF is released first in one year, and the physical book released the next then what year is it eligible for nomination?

If you're asking me, sorry I have no idea. Whether it makes it to the list or not though, I'm still looking forward to TOR 2E. Have a good one.

 

[Aldarc]

If you're asking me, sorry I have no idea. Whether it makes it to the list or not though, I'm still looking forward to TOR 2E. Have a good one.

Thankfully then you can order it from DriveThruRPG and read the published version already.

 

[opacitizen]

Honestly? I actually don't care. This is just supposed to be a fun list. I only responded because I thought the pre-order part was funny. Have a great day.

You're right, this should be a fun list. Sorry if my answers came through as unfriendly — I just felt kinda baffled by your intense resistance to accepting digital products as valid items, and actually arguing against them on a digital, virtual platform.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Thankfully then you can order it from DriveThruRPG and read the published version already.

You can read the electronic version. Drivethrurpg won't have a published version (it won't be print on demand as Free League will be publishing a traditional print run).

 

[Aldarc]

You can read the electronic version. Drivethrurpg won't have a published version (it won't be print on demand as Free League will be publishing a traditional print run).

The electronic version is a published version.