Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2021

As I do every year, I'm taking nominations for the MOST ANTICIPATED RPG poll for the coming year. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was the Dune RPG, which hasn't actually made it out yet). Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles , and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), and Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2021?

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 2021. All nominated games will appear on the final ballot. To nominate a game, simply make a reply in this thread. 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 2021. The important date is the date the general public can purchase the book. That's not Kickstarter fulfillment dates or pre-orders.
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 December 22nd. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
5. Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with.
6. Include a link. Don't make me Google to try guess what you mean! No linky, no nommy.

Last year's winner was Dune (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	2020
1	13th Age	Star Wars Force & Destiny	Rifts for Savage Worlds	Trudvang Chronicles	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition	Dune
2	Numenera	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition	Mutant Crawl Classics	Tales from the Loop	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition	Pathfinder 2nd Edition	Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying
3	Star Wars Edge of the Empire	Unified Rolemaster	7th Sea 2nd Edition	Kult: Divinity Lost	Kult: Divinity Lost	Lex Arcana	Cyberpunk Red
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	Fallout
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	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound
6	Firefly	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition	RuneQuest 4	Starfinder	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Dune RPG	Swords of the Serpentine
7	Fate Core	Feng Shui 2	Torg: Eternity	The Witcher Roleplaying Game	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory	John Carter of Mars	Rivers of London
8	Hillfolk	Fantasy AGE	Blue Rose AGE	Coriolis	The Expanse	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition	Stargate
9	Torchbearer	Paranoia	Paranoia	Delta Green Roleplaying Game	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition	Things from the Flood	Fading Suns 4E
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	Cortex Prime

 

[TrippyHippy]

Thank you, TrippyHippy, for notifying me of the Luther Arkwright RPG. I must have missed the news so will research it now. Never played any earlier versions either if such existed, but enjoyed the collected omnibus graphic novel and own it in my collection of great comic books.

All good. I’ve been requesting a stand-alone edition of this setting for a few years now. Apparently they are waiting on new material from Bryan Talbot, and they have renewed the license in order to make it so. Not totally sure on the dates again, but I can hope before then end of 2021 at least. There was a version of the game that came out way back in 1990, IIRC, but The Design Mechanism have a very good writing crew, so this could be a great game for me - like Doctor Who for grown ups.

 

[Superchunk77]

Savage Pathfinder

 

[darjr]

Everway 2nd Edition - The Everway Company The Everway Company

OK this caught my attention. I sec9nd this. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Skywalker]

Not sure. The Kickstarter sign up is on - the rest of the details I’m not sure if they’ve been announced or not. Do you have more info? I mean the 'Silver Anniversary Edition’ implies it is coming out soon.

None, hence my question.

It would seem unlikely to be released in 2021 even with the Silver Anniversary Edition tagline, which I would expect to refer to when the KS goes up rather the release date.

 

[Mortus]

The Terminator RPG Press Release -

Nightfall Games are very pleased to announce we have acquired the licence for the The Terminator RPG (roleplaying game) from STUDIOCANAL S.A.S.. The licence includes [...]

nightfall.games

Terminator RPG!

There is no Fate but what you make!

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Here be dragons' stand alone Cyper System game - Diamond Throne
Kickstarter successeful, due Sept '21

 

[herb_ferman]

I, Jason McCracken, nominate
Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall
by Game and a Curry

Banana Chan also worked on Dune.

 

[TrippyHippy]

None, hence my question.

It would seem unlikely to be released in 2021 even with the Silver Anniversary Edition tagline, which I would expect to refer to when the KS goes up rather the release date.

Well, if we are not sure then how can we speculate either way? I’m not in the know, but there has been a development blog of some sort, and people who have followed it say that the books themselves are nearing completion and that would imply a quick turnaround from when the Kickstarter gets announced. I know some Kickstarters take ages to deliver, but a number of companies are now looking at doing the development of the game before the campaign gets going - so this is possibly what may be happening with Everway. So nothing official as an announcement but some pictures below of the what the developed product is looking like:

 

[Birmy]

Last year I just went through my backed Kickstarters and nominated those (including future ENnie darling Thousand-Year-Old Vampire), but most of the ones I would have put forward, including Urban Shadows 2e and Deviant: The Renegades, have already been nominated, so I'll just throw out a couple that remain from my backed list: Mummy: The Curse, Second Edition (Onyx Path Publishing) and Unspeakable: Sigil & Sign (Cubicle 7) ...which is bound to come out one of these years!

 

[Gabe Berger]

Root the RPG by Magpie Games.

Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game

A tabletop roleplaying game based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game.

www.kickstarter.com

Probably my Most Anticipated RPG of 2021.