5 rpgs I would take to a deserted island.

[Maggan]

If you bring the original Castle Falkenstein, cards instead dice... After all, Victorian gentlemen did not like dice

Wait, wait! I'd devise a cunning system where I crossreference the page numbers of the rulebooks not in use at the moment!

And then I'd use coconuts ... don't know what for, but there has to be coconuts!

/M

 

[jdrakeh]

EDIT: but the real question is, what would I use instead of dice?

The knucklebones of those who didn't make it?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

1) HERO 5th

2) 3.5 D&D

3) Traveller

4) Deadlands

5) Paranoia

Note: Lots of games got left off, of course. The ones I listed either have a system I particularly enjoy, or just simulate their settings better than anyone else on some level.

I'd love to have my 2nd favorite game, M&M, but HERO (my fave) covers the same ground...well, really, it covers everything in some sense. CoC and Shadowrun are absent as well, despite my love for them. I'd love to have games like MechWarrior, Godlike, Space: 1889, Mayfair's Underground, the WoD games, the extremely creative RIFTS setting or any of the Chaosium "Eternal Champion" RPGs, but mainly as sourcebooks.

EDIT: but the real question is, what would I use instead of dice?

Well, Gilligan, what about woven reed bags filled with number chits carved from coconut husks?

 

[Woas]

In no particular order.

1. Traveller
2. Kobolds Ate My Baby
3. Savage Worlds
4. Dogs in the Vineyard
5. Paranoia

 

[Eridanis]

Not sure what single-volume flavor of D&D I'd want (probably OSRIC or Rules Compendium or PFRPG), but I'd have to have the Baron Munchausen 'RPG' with me. And probably games I want to play, but never have had time to, like Babylon 5.

 

[The Little Raven]

1. D&D 4th Edition
2. Exalted 2nd Edition
3. 7th Sea (R&K)
4. Vampire: The Masquerade
5. Nobilis (the white one; 'cause it's so pretty)

 

[Logan_Bonner]

We talked this over in the office and agree that 5 RPGs is too generous. The real question is "What 5 RPG books would you take?"

 

[WhatGravitas]

We talked this over in the office and agree that 5 RPGs is too generous. The real question is "What 5 RPG books would you take?"

Well, I think most people have, indeed, listed single books - probably with the exception of D&D, because of the multibook approach (a lot of other RPGs can be played with one book alone pretty well, D&D less so). Also: Get these lists from the office and post them here!

Cheers, LT.

 

[scruffygrognard]

In no particular order:
1] DC Heroes, 3rd Edition (Mayfair Games) - for superhero games
2] Pendragon, 4th Edition (Chaosium) - for low-fantasy games
3] D&D 3.5 (WotC) - for high-fantasy games
4] Castles & Crusades (Troll Lord Games) - for less rules-intensive high-fantasy games
5] Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium) - for horror games

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I am assuming that each "book" takes up a RPG slot, otherwise my choices would be different.

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