If you could try a RPG that ISN'T D&D...

[Piratecat]

...what would you want it to be?

In a different thread, I mentioned that we usually have friends over every year to play all the non-D&D RPGs that we would otherwise never get to try. I'd love to have suggestions of more games, and see the ones that other people are interested in but don't get to play.

For reference, my current list:

• Sidewinder: Recoiled (fantastic d20 wild west game, very similar to the old Boot Hill)
  
• Paranoia XP (new, good edition!)
  
• WotC's D&D Miniatures games. I've never played a miniatures battle, and would love to have this as an alternative to roleplaying for a slot.
  
• Redline (FFG's d20 post apocalyptic Mad-Max-esque game with car battles and radioactive mutants. Can't go wrong there.)
  
• Jack Vance's Dying Earth (the fantasy game involving much mellifluous and variegated elocution which then may actualize a Gentleman's aspirations. Really.)
  
• Feng Shui. There's nothing like good, old fashioned ass kicking.
  
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten. Zombies, zombies everywhere, and not a brain to eat!
  
• Redhurst: Academy of Magic. Technically D&D, but very much like Harry Potter in its setting and execution.
  
• Exalted. I've heard nothing but good things about this White Wolf game where you play Gods, or creatures pretty close in power to them.
  
• Spaceship Zero. Green Ronin's 1950's radio drama of space exploration, and one fantastic game.
  
• Testament. Green Ronin's game of roleplaying during biblical times. No, I don't think you can beat up Moses and take his stuff.
  
• Amber, the diceless RPG. Doing the characters and a four hour plot would be tricky, but this could make a fantastic con game.
  
• Grim Tales: d20 modern with a twist. Ideally, something Conan-like would be fun.
  
• Arcana Unearthed. Monte Cook's variant D&D, with different classes and races. Good stuff.
  
• Spycraft. I have a deep and abiding love for secret agents.
  
• d20 Future: It's out, it's great, and I'm dying to play. Someone run a game.
  
• A superhero game of some sort: Mutants & Masterminds, Marvel, Champions, Godlike, or what have you.
  
• Adventure!, Savage Worlds, or Adventure! d20. It's been a few years since I played a pulp adventure game. We could do with more albino gorillas.
  
• Call of Cthulhu (or some other horror game, but we need something scary. Preferably with tentacles.)
  
• Shadowrun (I haven't played in years. I still don't know the rules. But I love the game anyways.)
  
• GURPS. I've almost never played this, which seems like a shame.

What does your list look like?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I already play/run games for Star Wars d20, Call of Cthulhu, and Spycraft.

Yesterday, I came so very close to getting Paranoia XP(if only because of the funny comments about d20 on the back), but found that I just didn't have the money. *SIGH*

 

[Psion]

• Spellslinger (FFG mini-game)
• Spycraft (I've played one offs but would really like to run a campaign)
• Dragonstar (does that count?)
• A-state
• Slayers d20 (oddly enough, I would prefer such a game with players who WEREN'T big fans of the series. The game looks fun. Slayers' humor, OTOH, grates on me.)
• Mutants & Masterminds
• Arcana Unearthed
• Some Blood & Fists d20 modern action (the most I've managed is a few NPCs in my second world game.)
• Skull & Bones

 

[GlassJaw]

Shadowrun (I haven't played in years. I still don't know the rules. But I love the game anyways.)

SR is at the top of my list too. The cool thing is it actually looks like I have a group coming together! You're welcome to join if you're interested.

I would also like to try Grim Tales and Mutants & Masterminds too.

Oh, I almost forgot! I've always wanted to check out the old Ghostbusters from West End Games. That just seemed like it would be really fun.

 

[Crothian]

Noir:the only game I've seen that truely captures the genre

Slaine: Celtic fantasy in the land of Tir Na Og

Adenture/Abberant/Trinity: I've always wanted to run a game of the three that connects them with ancestors from previous games.

Changeling: One day we will figure out how to play this game. We just can't seem to get it down though.

Orpheus: The idea of ghostbusting in a horror setting, I really like it.

Exalted: LikePC I just keep hearing good things about it, and the few books I have are really well done.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Feng Shui. Shadowrun (if you're up for the rules). Cyberpunk2020 (if you play it Gibsonian instead of OOB/munchkin). Star Wars (WEG).

 

[shadowlight]

Of the currently published games, I'd like to play:

• HERO
• GURPS
• Palladium RPM (Rifts, etc.)

However, most of the alternate systems I want to try are not published anymore:

• Alternity (I'd really like to try out some Alternity-based Dark•Matter and Star Drive)
• Star Frontiers
• Gamma World 3E (yeah, the one with the Action Table!)

It's interesting, but even though I have all the source material to run a game from any of those systems, I never do... Do we (as gamers) have something agains games that are no longer published I wonder?

 

[SDragoon]

Hmm... let's see...

• Arcana Unearthed Actually, I'm DMing the module "Plague of Dreams" for this right now. I really like the alternate takes on standard DnD that Monte makes in this system.
• Call of Cthulhu I've been wanting to check this out, although I would rather play the non-d20 version.
• Exalted Everyone says it is tey great.
• the new WoD / Vampire I've never played any WoD before, so I would like to check this out.

 

[Henry]

Let's add Aetherco's Continuum to that list. It is a game from Aetherco/Dreamcatcher Studios, where the characters are time-travellers in training, and whose job is to ensure that the universe exists in the form it was given to them. I've NEVER played a game where the characters have believeable absolute strictures in which to play absolute gods.

Plus, how many games do YOU know that let you play the "Bill & Ted" plot trick as an expected tactic?

 

[Sejs]

Shadowrun, or if I could talk my group into it, the old Shadowrun/Cyberpunk hybrid we used to run (psi instead of magic, humanity instead of essence, some other changes. more or less SR mechanics though)

Star Wars, either d20 or the old West End Games version. Though, uh.. seriously in preference of d20, heh. The WEG engine was a bit on the painfully simple end of things.

Exalted. Never played it, always wanted to ever since I got one of those little promo pamphlets they distributed. Love the setting.

Redline - I'll admit, this thread is the first I've heard of it, but I've wanted a tabletop game with a Fallout-style setting for ages now and this sounds right up that alley.