Most unusual system / setting

[MonsterMash]

Probably Bunnies and Burrows though the actual system is pretty good for a game that came out in 1976.

 

[Sir Elton]

A Chance World RPG.

total chaos. Anything can happen.

 

[Khairn]

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

 

[Wombat]

Weirdest setting? Over the Edge, no question. By the end of the game all of our players were totally terrified of short, fat, balding Vietnamese men who explode.

Gotta love the Tranhs

Our group had more problem with illegal clowns crossing the border (given away by their feet) and with D'Aubainneland, but each group has their own madness

 

[CarlZog]

I've never played it, but the most ...er, unusual setting I've ever heard of is probably Wraeththu. Urg. No thanks.

I never heard of this one before....<checks website...>

Good Grief! Yeah, that pretty much takes the prize. Anything else I was going to mention would be a VERY distant second place!

Little Fears
"The role-playing game of childhood terror"

Never heard of this either, but this looks hysterically fun! Did you ever see the movie Parents, where the kid is convinced his parents are cannibals? Of course, it turns out he's right...

zog

 

[d4]

Nobilis takes the prize for most unusual game setting, i think. i can't even begin to describe how weird that game is. (kinda like the bastard child of In Nomine and World of Darkness, after they'd been living next to a nuclear power plant during the pregnancy.)

honorable mention to Nexus: The Infinite City. Nexus is the city Sigil wishes it could be.

 

[Henry]

An obscure game called Continuum (I think that is what is it called). Basically a RPG about time travel with a very weird premise - namely, making changes to the past or future (even minor) has consequences if you set up paradoxes.

And one of my favorite games of all time, to boot!

One of these days, I'll start demoing the thing at cons, just to raise awareness of this quirky little game.


The most unusual game to me was without doubt Bunnies and Burrows - You're playing Watership Down, essentially. No Joke.

 

[maddman75]

Most unusual? How about Kill Puppies for Satan?

 

[MonsterMash]

Most unusual? How about Kill Puppies for Satan?

Now how did Jack Chick ever get the impression that Roleplayers are satanists?

 

[CarlZog]

The most unusual game to me was without doubt Bunnies and Burrows - You're playing Watership Down, essentially. No Joke.

Exactly true. Having been forced to suffer through Watership Down in high school, I could not run far enough or fast enough away from B&B! As I recall, it was just about the only FGU game I did not embrace.

zog