Obscure RPGs

[jdrakeh]

I think a new edition is coming out soon.

The revised, expanded, edition (a hardcover) is already out and available from WEG right now. A true 2nd edition is planned for later this year.

 

[Andor]

Predictably I'm going to say World Tree.

I have 5th cycle too, I even have the sex lives of the intelligent races supplement.

I've seen Albedo at a friends house. I found the combined fatigue/wound system interesting. I even found a second hand copy of it once, but didn't pick it up. :\

I've got a copy of the original Manhunter.

I've got stuff so nebish and obscure I can't remember whatthey're called right now....

 

[NiTessine]

I'd guess the most obscure game in my collection is Taiga, a postapocalyptic game about gangs of survivors in what used to be Russia. Distributed in USA by Rennaissance Ink. Allegedly, the writer owns a stockpile of the rulebooks but refuses to sell them, preferring to use them to warm up his sauna.

 

[CsonTep]

Majoko (Witchgirls) from Maximum CNG.

 

[MerricB]

Albedo was actually based on a comic book. A pretty good one, too.

The most obscure RPG I ever had was Super Squad, the Australian superhero game.

Its actual name was Super Squadron. I had a copy as well... I wonder where it is now?

Anyone remember Hunter Planet? That's another Australian RPG.

The "GM" was called the "CM" in that game, which could stand for many things, but the designers preferred "Certified Maniac".

Cheers!

 

[Fifth Element]

I've got a copy of Alma Mater in my collection. It claims to be a realistic game about life in high school. The only example of play they give involves throwing a loser out a second-floor window. It's pure garbage.

 

[Fifth Element]

Here's another one: Quest of the Ancients. Just another AD&D retread, but So. Much. Better. At least that's what the creator tells you.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Hmm. The most obscure ones in my collection:

Behind Enemy Lines - WWII roleplaying.

Expendables - a scifi RPG I got almost 20 years ago. PCs are scouts working for a corporation that runs everything in human space. The characters go to planets that are potential new colonies or which might have valuable resources, and explore them. Generally, they are given specific missions. It's a fairly short book, and looks like it'd be fun to play. Never got a chance to run it. I may have to scare up some players for it, though.

Rus - an Australian RPG that is set in a mythical/legendary Russia. I even have an adventure for it. Not a very inspiring book, unfortunately, so I was never motivated to run it.

I do have a copy of the "Kulp Edition" of Spawn of Fashan, though I wouldn't say it's all that obscure.

 

[jdrakeh]

I've got a copy of the original Manhunter.

I so wish I hadn't sold mine. This game has the best abstract starship combat ever (largely because it has the best abstract ship construction ever).

 

[cthulhu_duck]

Maelstrom: Published in the UK in paperback form. Set in 17th century England.

I have a copy at home.

I don't know if Amazing Engine/Bughunters counts as an 'obscure RPG' ?