Most Emotionally Charged RPG Product?

[Sir Elton]

Okay, this is open to any RPG product you have ever owned. Which RPG product (d20 or otherwise) has made you highly excited about playing it?

For me it was Feng Shui and Burning Shaolin.

I love the feel of this game, and how they ported the feel to the d20 System. Feng Shui never ever pretended to be something else than it is, a Roleplaying Game in the world of Hong Kong Action Movies. Ported to the d20 System, I felt excited about playing the d20 System.

High flying, wild crazy stunts, player characters, mooks, and evil bad dudes everywhere; melodramatic hooks; people too busy looking cool to rummage around for somebody's possessions; and High Octane. None of this "I need miniatures" crap. Because in the high flying stunt world of Feng Shui, you can't keep track of the action with miniatures and maintain the feel of a paced Action movie.

>sniff!< It's a glorious game and play style for the d20 System. >sniff!<

 

[Gorilla726]

The 1st. ed red box set. I got it for my birthday last year, and I've loved it ever since.

Gorilla

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

Actually, the red box set wasn't what most people think of as 1e.

1e usually refers to 1st edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. The good old red box (my first RPG product! ) was basic, or original, Dungeons and Dragons.

My most emotionally-charged RPG product, overall, would have to be the red box.

My most emotionally-charged d20 product was probably d20 Modern. 3e got me back in the hobby, but d20 Modern made me want to get *others* into the hobby again. I still love the crisp, smooth clarity of its basic rules, the handiness of action points, and the not outrageously overpowered firearms.

 

[Wombat]

Hmmm, difficult question.

Call of Cthuhlu is a potential. So is Agone. So are Blue Planet, Mechanical Dream, Pendragon and Over the Edge.

In the end, for me, it would probably be Nobilis. The microfiction alone gave me so many "Whaps To The Side Of The Head" that I had adventure ideas and character motivations for months from a single read! Intense, like the life of a Repo Man

 

[DM_Jeff]

Charged

Beleive it or not, that would be "Tales of the Infinite Staircase" for the old Planescape setting by Monte Cook & friends. I liked Planescape, but that product just swept a DM off his feet and screamed "play me, here, now!"

-DM Jeff

 

[TheBadElf]

For me it would be the old blue box Expert Set. The Basic Set got me excited, but I was really aching to see what my characters could do next! After that...there are several games coming up that I'm majorly charged for (The Authority, The Black Company, Game of Thrones), but it'll take a lot to beat the good old Expert Set ("Wow! Wilderness adventures! New spells! And what's this Isle of Dread?")...

 

[Crothian]

AState, now that'sa relaly cool setting and very high production values. I'll never get to play it but it's damn cool.

 

[Particle_Man]

Legends of Excalibur by RPGObjects, has me juiced to run it.

I also got a kick out of the old red box (Moldvay version) Basic and Blue box (Cook version) Expert D&D rules. And I am getting juiced about getting the Castles and Crusades Nostalgia Edition boxed set. But I haven't gotten it yet, so can't say for sure if the juice will remain juicy.

Elements of Magic, Revised Edition, by one of our own ENworlders, is pretty cool (it inspired me to house rule illusions the way I finally want them to be, so that is worth a lot in itself!)

But I gotta admit, the first book I ever got was the 1st ed. AD&D phb, with the demon statue with the big gemstone eyeballs that the thieves were stealing. I was 10. I was JUICED!!!!!!

 

[SpringPlum]

Exalted had me pretty excited. As well as the Last Unicorn Star Trek books, but that was because they were Star Trek, more than any excitement over the system. And I still wanna play in a Ravenloft game.

But I think that the biggest charge I got out of any books were the Planescape Monstrous Compendiums. Such good art and such good monsters

 

[Acid_crash]

Of all the games I've read, some of which I played, to actually remember which games got me all jazzed up about playing and wanting them...that's a really short list of games.

Exalted had me for a while, until I read about Weapons of the Gods coming out soon. WofG is going to be my new choice of kung fu roleplaying action set in a mythical china (I think) and the system sounds pretty cool.

A/state just sounds really cool, and I like the dice system. Very easy, percentile based game and the setting is good.

But, the game that's not out yet but soon that I am most excited about playing and running is Fireborn. Fireborn is a game that is giving me everything I have wanted to play for a long time, using a new dice system, and let's me be a dragon the way I've always wanted to be.