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<blockquote data-quote="Professor Phobos" data-source="post: 4841452" data-attributes="member: 18883">For $10, you might as well try Savage Worlds. For $10, you could also go get the Wild Talents Essential Edition, though as it's nothing but the Wild Talents rules I'm not sure how good an introduction it would be. (It's a superhero game)My personal favorite RPG of all time is Call of Cthulhu- in some respects, it's the exact opposite of Dungeons and Dragons and as such could provide a nice contrast and change of pace. It's a horror game (the first horror RPG, in fact) based on the Cthulhu Mythos of HP Lovecraft and others. And, certainly the Mythos and Mythos-themed stuff shows up in a lot of games, so the CoC book is a fine idea mine. The easiest to acquire would be the only other RPG company that I ever see in mass market bookstores other than D&amp;D stuff- White Wolf. The trouble with the World of Darkness corebook is that it was designed as a &quot;bare bones rulebook&quot; to be complemented by one of the WoD game lines- Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Promethean, Changeling, Hunter or (in August) Geist. It was only after the rulebook by itself (which is just &quot;regular normal people investigate weirdness&quot;) became popular that they started heavily supporting the core line with stuff oriented around supporting &quot;regular people investigating weirdness.&quot; The bottom line is, the core WoD rulebook by itself is not all that worthwhile as an idea mine; I'd advise grabbing one of the main lines with it. Hunter is an excellent place to start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Professor Phobos, post: 4841452, member: 18883"] For $10, you might as well try Savage Worlds. For $10, you could also go get the Wild Talents Essential Edition, though as it's nothing but the Wild Talents rules I'm not sure how good an introduction it would be. (It's a superhero game) My personal favorite RPG of all time is Call of Cthulhu- in some respects, it's the exact opposite of Dungeons and Dragons and as such could provide a nice contrast and change of pace. It's a horror game (the first horror RPG, in fact) based on the Cthulhu Mythos of HP Lovecraft and others. And, certainly the Mythos and Mythos-themed stuff shows up in a lot of games, so the CoC book is a fine idea mine. The easiest to acquire would be the only other RPG company that I ever see in mass market bookstores other than D&D stuff- White Wolf. The trouble with the World of Darkness corebook is that it was designed as a "bare bones rulebook" to be complemented by one of the WoD game lines- Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Promethean, Changeling, Hunter or (in August) Geist. It was only after the rulebook by itself (which is just "regular normal people investigate weirdness") became popular that they started heavily supporting the core line with stuff oriented around supporting "regular people investigating weirdness." The bottom line is, the core WoD rulebook [I]by itself[/I] is not all that worthwhile as an idea mine; I'd advise grabbing one of the main lines with it. Hunter is an excellent place to start. [/QUOTE]

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