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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 3660613" data-attributes="member: 2673">Buffy the Vampire Slayer - This game has seriously made me rethink how I look at RPGs, and has gotten me from thinking in terms of sessions, encounters, and campaigns to episodes, scenes, and seasons.  I find these far more useful.  It also has the best metagame mechanics, an excellent balancing of high and low power characters, and is wonderfully written.Exalted, 2nd Edition - Exalted also informed my thinking on cinematic gaming and the way mechanics can influence play.  The stunt system not only encourages exciting fights but makes BBEG battles extremely interesting.  And the full color comics in place of fiction are the icing on the cake.Unknown Armies - They say once you begin to play UA you can never stop.  The Madness Meters show how personality mechanics can work without being a straightjacket.  And the setting is just fascinating - the game had me at pornomancers.All Flesh Must Be Eaten - This is a simple game, but really gets down to the basics of gaming.  It remains one of the few modern games that you can be playing in five minutes.  Hand everyone an archetype and put them in a city full of zombies.  Instant fun!Sorry, only got 4.  If it hadn't been stolen I'd add HOL, just to remind me not to take gaming so seriously.</blockquote>