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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synicism" data-source="post: 380974" data-attributes="member: 489">OK, I happen to agree with a lot of the games that have been mentioned thus far.I love Mage, but damn it is hard to run. The mechanics are easy enough, but in every game I've tried to play, the GM and one or more players had incompatible ideas of just how magic worked and it fell apart.I never could get into changeling. To me it always struck me as a bunch of cute, furry types playing mass-make believe. I have been told that it can be otherwise, but I'll believe it when I see it.Planescape is a hard setting to run. It is so complex and so multidimensional, your average D&D GM just can't do it. It can be hard to play because a lot of things out there are, well, a lot bigger than the PC's and may just eat them.Also from the D&D front for "hard games to run" is Ravenloft. OK, it's easy to run. It's hard to terrify your players and instill the gut-wrenching feeling of horror. Mainly, I think, because quite frankly, it's too easy to lay waste to anything in one's path. It's hard to be scared when you're invincible.GURPS Goblins is pretty unplayable. The whole book is some kind of "Modest Proposal" satire on Dickens' England, except that the whole world is populated by, well... goblins. It's really, really bizarre.So far, the one game that I've found that really takes a one in a million GM to play is Little Fears (Key20 Games).So far the company has only realased one print book, but damn. It dubs itself "the roleplaying game of childhood horror." It starts with a scary premise - that all the things you feard as a kid are quite real and after your soul, and that adults can't help you because they're totally incapable of perceiving the world as you do. Then throw in everything from werewolves to body snatchers to fallen faeries to totally human terrors like bullies, child abuse, kidnapping, and guns.This is the one RPG I've played in years that really made me shiver.</blockquote>

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