Best RPG buys of 2010?

[JeffB]

Just wanted to update re: my earlier post-Unknown to me at the time- Bill kindly sent out my S&W softcover, without charging me for shipping (just received it!). That is what I call good Customer Service!!

BUT, though certainly appreciated, I want to ensure we continue get more S&W goodness from FGG, so I'll be sending him a PayPal to cover the cost of shipping.

Bottom line- buy the book-money well spent.

 

[jaerdaph]

I'm adding Shadow, Sword & Spell from Rogue Games to my list, which I bought yesterday at RPGNow as part of RG's sale in honor of Fritz Lieber's 100th Birthday today.

 

[carmachu]

For me it has to be Slumbering Tsar, the subscription mega-adventure from Frog God Games. We're six parts into it, with another eight to come, and already it has blown me away. A huge, sprawling, site-based campaign based around the ruined city of Tsar, overrun by followers of Orcus in years past. Adventure hooks just dripping off the pages, some really terrifying locations and foes, and fantastically well-written to top it all off. Eagerly awaiting the next installment - and the huge hardback compilation at the end of it all

I got the first 2 on PDF and now see I can get them softcover. Thats the way I'll get teh first 6 and teh rest of them.

 

[jbear]

The Monster Vault.

No doubt.

Best buy ever.

 

[Aegeri]

The Dark Sun Campaign Guide and the Rules Compendium were my two best purchases by a long way this year.

Gamma World as well: Just for being purely great.

 

[jaerdaph]

I have one more to add before the year ends: Stars Without Number. This is really a well-crafted sci fi RPG with old school roots, and best of all, it's FREE!

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Advanced Players Guide from Paizo
Trailblazer from Bad Axe Games
The Kingmaker AP

also

Castle Ravenloft, which is the first time that I've given WOTC any of my money in about 2 years. I picked it up cheap ($40) from Amazon and learned to play it a friends house here in NYC. Then the real fun came after I taught my 8 year old son how to play and we've played through the first few missions. He loves the Dragonborn Fighter and I usually play the Dwarven Cleric.

Even though I have the 4E core books it's unlikely that his first RPG will be 4E. It'll probably be Red Box Basic or something else, but for now the seed is planted in his 8 year old mind that there might be something out there as fun or more fun that video games...

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I would say that Gamma World and the Ravenloft boardgame are tied for my "best" buys of the year. Gamma World for it's out-of-the-box playability (and campaign-ability) and Ravenloft for it's physical components and ingenuity as a 4e board game.

 

[freyar]

I only got it a week ago, and it's not exclusively for RPGs, but my eReader is already my best RPG purchase of 2010. Might just help me catch up on all those RPG PDFs finally!

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

This makes me realize how few RPG products I purchased this year.

Mongoose's Runequest II is probably the stand-out. Honorable mention goes to Rome: the Life and Death of the Republic (Alephtar Games supplement for Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying). Also, while it's miniatures warfare, rather than an RPG, I also I'm pleased with Osprey's Field of Glory.