Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2024

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 Pendragon 6th Edition). 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), Twilight 2000 (2021), Blade Runner (2022), and Pendragon 6E (2023). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2024?

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 2024. 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 2024. 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 28th. 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 winner was Pendragon 6E (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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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL EN WORLD MOST ANTICIPATED TABLETOP RPG OF THE YEAR

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#​	2013​	2015​	2016​	2017​	2018​	2019​	2020​	2021​	2022​	2023​
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 (joint)​	Blade Runner​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​
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​	-​	Broken Tales​	Dragonbane/Darkar och Demoner​
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)​	Pendragon 6E​	13th Age 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​	Avatar Legends​	Household​
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)​	Mothership 1E​	Mothership 1E​
6​	Firefly​	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition​	RuneQuest 4​	Starfinder​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Dune RPG​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Rivers of London​	Rivers of London​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​
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​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	The Walking Dead Universe​
8​	Hillfolk​	Fantasy AGE​	Blue Rose AGE​	Coriolis​	The Expanse​	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition​	Stargate​	Brancalonia - The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG​	Cy-Borg​	Warhammer 40K Imperium Maledictum​
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​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Old Gods of Appalachia​
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​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5e​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

These are in the same situation as Shadowdark and other games that we've been told don't count for this list.

Rule 2 says they are eligible for nomination if the only thing that has come out this year is stuff for backers, but the game will not be available to the general public until next year.

 

[Morrus]

These are in the same situation as Shadowdark and other games that we've been told don't count for this list.

It’s really simple. Is it going to be released on 2024?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It’s really simple. Is it going to be released on 2024?

Is it? The rule says if it's not available to the general public, it's not out, but you've said several times now that stuff that is available to backers only counts as already being released. Are the backers the general public or is that a limited release?

 

[mamba]

The rules seem to be tailored to exclude quite a few games, then.

games that are released already, yes. They would have qualified in the year before their release…

If you KS in Jan/Feb without already talking about it now, you are doing it wrong. If you KS later, it is not very likely that you deliver in 2024. There will be a few exceptions but how can you nominate something you haven’t even heard of yet…

 

[schneeland]

Is it? The rule says if it's not available to the general public, it's not out, but you've said several times now that stuff that is available to backers only counts as already being released. Are the backers the general public or is that a limited release?

I think Morrus needs to give the authoritative answer, but my interpretation was:

• If the general public can order it in any format this year, it does not count - e.g. Outgunned is out in PDF form on DriveThruRPG, so it would not qualify for the list
• If it's out to crowdfunding supporters only this year (but will be available to the general public next year), it can go to the list.

I'm not sure in which of the two buckets pre-orders would fall - probably #1.
It seems (see overgeeked's quote below) that pre-orders would fall into bucket #2.

 

[mamba]

Is it? The rule says if it's not available to the general public, it's not out, but you've said several times now that stuff that is available to backers only counts as already being released. Are the backers the general public or is that a limited release?

Has he? All I saw was ‘having a publicly available PDF is enough to not qualify, it does not take a printed book for that’

 

[overgeeked]

Has he? All I saw was ‘having a publicly available PDF is enough, it does not need to have a printed book out’

A preview PDF released to backers only is not publicly available.

 

[Morrus]

Is it?

Yes.

The rule says if it's not available to the general public, it's not out, but you've said several times now that stuff that is available to backers only counts as already being released. Are the backers the general public or is that a limited release?

It literally says right up there. It’s been clear to everybody for a decade. I feel it’s still clear.

 

[overgeeked]

2. It must be due out to the general public in 2024. The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.

According to this rule, a PDF released only to backers of a Kickstarter does not count as a release to the general public. So I'm not sure why anyone is saying a backers-only PDF somehow counts as out. Monty Python CMRP is not available to the general public. So qualifies. Eat the Reich is not available to the general public. So qualifies. Unless you were a backer of Shadowdark, you can't buy the PDF so that should qualify for this list as well.

 

[Nikosandros]

Unless you were a backer of Shadowdark, you can't buy the PDF so that should qualify for this list as well.

Shadowdark RPG (PDF)

Funded for $1.3 million on Kickstarter! In Shadowdark RPG, you and your group of crawlers use magic, steel, and wits to delve into mysterious ruins, lost cities, and monster-infested depths. Wondrous treasures and long-forgotten secrets await you! But don't let your torch burn out, or you could...

www.thearcanelibrary.com

You can buy the Shadowdark PDF from the above link. It is available to the general public.