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:
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!
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nominations will remain open for two weeks, until December 22nd. Voting will take place shortly thereafter.
- Not your own game or one you’re affiliated with.
- 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 |
