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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 8295074" data-attributes="member: 6803664">Ars Magica.This one I never got to play until 2014.  I like the setting & concept of play.  The people I played with when it was "new" though would never have given it a chance. Unfortunately the game I was finally in (as a player) largely ignored the setting, completely ignored the play style of rotating GMs & different types of characters/roles, and had several players who pretty much tried to avoid learning the magic system (hard when you're supposed to be a wizard).It ran like a crapy, more complex, more limited, version of D&D.And then they all complained that this game sucked....I'm still waiting to actually play a real Ars game.Metamorphosis Alpha.Ive almost always known about this one.  But as a kid had no access to it.A few years ago I picked up the deluxe cover reprint at GC.If I'd had this as a kid?  We'd have played it & had alot of fun.  Sadly it's not to the current groups tastes.I doubt I'll ever get to play it.Gamma World.In the mid-late 80s we had a copy of this (forget wich edition).Sadly the group of that time never got much beyond creating weird mutant characters & pitting them against each other in pvp style combat.  Campaign wise just a few short dungeon crawls vs some robots.Then a few years ago a guy at the shop ran a GW game.  It was such garbage (his fault) that it alienated people from trying it again.So like Ars I'm still waiting to play a real Gamma World game.</blockquote>

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