Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2020

As I do every year, I'm taking nominations for the MOST ANTICIPATED RPG poll for 2020. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Savage Worlds Adventure Edition). Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles (2017), and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2020?

We do this at the end of every year, and have done for several years now! Here's how it works:

We start with a nomination stage. That's this thread. You may nominate any standalone tabletop RPG due to be released to the general public in 2020. All nominated games will appear on the final ballot. A few rules:

1. It must be a standalone tabletop RPG, NOT a supplement, setting, adventure, sourcebook, expansion, or accessory. If there is a QuickStart version, or a preview, it’s the full release that counts.
2. It must be due out to the general public in 2020.
3. It must be nominated by at least one person in this thread. Simply post the name of the game and the name of the publisher below to nominate it.
4. Nominations will remain open for two weeks, until January 4th. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
5. Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with.

Last year's winner was Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (pictured above). You can see last year's top 10 here. Sometimes products make it into the list in more than one year; what can I say? Product schedules slip!

#	2013	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
1	13th Age	Star Wars Force & Destiny	Rifts for Savage Worlds	Trudvang Chronicles	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
2	Numenera	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition	Mutant Crawl Classics	Tales from the Loop	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition	Pathfinder 2nd Edition
3	Star Wars Edge of the Empire	Unified Rolemaster	7th Sea 2nd Edition	Kult: Divinity Lost	Kult: Divinity Lost	Lex Arcana
4	Shadowrun 5th Edition	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Star Trek Adventures	Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG	The Expanse
5	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls	DCC Lankhmar	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of	RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha	Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition
6	Firefly	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition	RuneQuest 4	Starfinder	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Dune RPG
7	Fate Core	Feng Shui 2	Torg: Eternity	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory	John Carter of Mars
8	Hillfolk	Fantasy AGE	Blue Rose AGE	Coriolis	The Expanse	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition
9	Torchbearer	Paranoia	Paranoia	Delta Green Roleplaying Game	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition	Things from the Flood
10	-	Shadows of the Demon Lord	Delta Green	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E	Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny	Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD

 

[dalisprime]

Bit of an optimistic nomination as they probably won't be released in 2020, but in case they are: Fading Suns from Ulisses Spiele and Werewolf The Apocalypse 5e from Paradox Entertainment.

 

[Philature]

Not including the above suggestion of Root (Magpie) and Sword of the Serpentine (Pelgrane Press):

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (Cubicle 7)
Sentinel Comic RPG (Greater than Games)

I really like this pool. It always exciting to learn about what hopefully coming out in the next year.

 

[Ulfgeir]

My nominations are (if acceptable):

• The Troubleshooters (Helmgast) https://helmgast.se/troubleshooters/
• Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying (Fria Ligan) Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying
• Call of Cthulhu: Sverige (Eloso förlag) - Swedish version of Call of Cthulhu 7e (not just translated, but also localized)
• Kopparhavets hjältar (Helmgast) Kopparhavets hjältar

At the moment I am one of the volunteer (and unpaid) proofreaders for both "Call of Cthulhu: Sverige" and "Kopparhavets hjältar". I work together with the guy that created The Troubleshooters, and have playtested it (and written a scenario that will end up in the coming quickstart rules). The game is currently in the illustration and layout-phase, with a kickstarter coming. Latest I heard was in February next year, so it will probably not come out to the annual convention Gothcon (always held during Easter in Gothenburg).

Always love these threads, because they tend to show some interesting games.

 

[Ollie Groß]

Vaesen by Fria Ligan
Swords of the Serpentine by Pelgrane Press
plus (Fingers crossed)
Cartel by Magpie Games
Nahual

 

[Jared Earle]

edit: ignore this

 

[Mikeythorn]

Heart: The City Beneath by Rowan, Rook and Decard. Spire was just brilliant, and I can’t imagine it’s dungeon-crawling cousin is going to be anything less.

 

[Dirk the Dice]

Hi

I’m very much looking forward to Mythras: Lyonesse from The Design Mechanism. I had the good fortune of running a demo game at UKGAMESexpo this year and it was a hit with the players. It captures Vance’s sensibilities perfectly.

Dirk

 

[Birmy]

Whispers in the Dark by me and M.T. Black published by Saturday Morning Scenarios

"A few rules:

1. It must be a standalone tabletop RPG, NOT a supplement, setting, adventure, sourcebook, expansion, or accessory. If there is a QuickStart version, or a preview, it’s the full release that counts.
2. It must be due out to the general public in 2020.
3. It must be nominated by at least one person in this thread. Simply post the name of the game and the name of the publisher below to nominate it.
4. Nominations will remain open for two weeks, until January 4th. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
5. Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with."

 

[Mercador]

Mandatory:
Cyberpunk 2077 - R. Talsorian Games
My pick:
Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition - Posthuman Studios

 

[BadEye]

Cortex Prime. Though its track record also indicates I may be voting for it in 2021, too.

The publisher WAS Magic Vacuum... now it's whatever the name is of the company that does D&D Beyond.

It will be published by Fandom Tabletop, and I assure you there is plenty of Cortex to look forward to in 2020.