Out of Print games You Miss...

[Siberys]

Do TCGs count?

Magi-Nation Duel, though there are rumors of a new version coming out this year. I'm trying to collect a full playset of all of the old sets.

 

[Scurvy_Platypus]

Earthdawn and Warhammer Fantasy are still in print.

Fantasy Flight Games is handling Warhammer Fantasy:
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/wfrp/

Earthdawn is handled by RedBrick Limited:
http://www.earthdawn.com/

With Earthdawn you can buy PDFs (drivethru/rpgnow) or you can buy Print on Demand from Lulu (hard and soft cover).

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, if you ask him, he'll probably come up with some ridiculous claims about incomprehensible mechanics, silly tables, and weird cardplay or something like that. But you are closer to the truth with your initial guess

I am not a Torg expert, despite all my highlighting the few game mechanics I know in various game design threads here, but I remember there was a rule where you rolled your Toughness score against your Toughness score... Some might say this is a precursor to the 4E "Save" mechanic, others might say this might be what you're alluding to...

 

[Agamon]

While I really didn't like Alternity, boy, Dark*Matter was the Best. Setting. Evar.

 

[Aus_Snow]

The versions I had in mind, of those things I mentioned, are the precise things I miss. And, just as importantly (actually, no, more importantly) the circumstances at those times.

Sure, they might not all be out of print, but I guess they're also not things I'll probably ever go back to.

I don't 'miss' any game that I might intend to play or GM. Those, I either own, or will buy, and there's no 'missing' anything involved. And truly, a game system doesn't need something coming out every month for it to be playable - this is a thing I just don't understand about some folks' views on RPGs.

Nostalgia rules when it comes to games I wouldn't go anywhere near these days, but have that kind of pang about. Sort of like, 'gee I miss those games. . . oh well anyway, what is it we're doing later today? M&M, you say? Awesome!'

 

[Darrin Drader]

Alternity
Star Frontiers
Gamma World (though Darwin's World is a good replacement.
Pokemon RPG







What?

 

[Staffan]

MERP, CP20xx, WFRP, Trinity, early [A]D&D, Earthdawn, Pendragon.

WFRP is still in print, in its second edition. Though I guess that if you can count AD&D as OOP, you can count WFRP1 as well.

Pretty sure White Wolf is doing Pendragon these days.

And Earthdawn is being published by two different companies: Living Room Games created a 2nd edition and moved the timeline forward a bit, whereas RedBrick Games created more of a "revised" edition and kept the timeline where it was.

I am not a Torg expert, despite all my highlighting the few game mechanics I know in various game design threads here, but I remember there was a rule where you rolled your Toughness score against your Toughness score...

That was for healing, showing that recovering from being (e.g.) Heavily Wounded took the same amount of time regardless of Toughness. It's just that it took a lot more damage to bring the high-TOU guy to heavily wounded in the first place.

 

[Mark Hope]

Hmm. Maybe Torg is the Kevin Bacon of RPGs?

It so is. Bill Slaviscek was a Torg designer as well, iirc. We could make a huge chart of all the connections between Torg and other games. How much fun would that be?



(For the record, I quite liked Baruk Kaah...)

I am not a Torg expert, despite all my highlighting the few game mechanics I know in various game design threads here, but I remember there was a rule where you rolled your Toughness score against your Toughness score... Some might say this is a precursor to the 4E "Save" mechanic, others might say this might be what you're alluding to...

Heh heh, no, our game never reached those levels of intricacy Things kinda stalled around the "add the same bonus to both rolls" stage of things. Oh well. On the upside, crazy_cat makes great tea

 

[Storminator]

I have a crappy copy of the 1st edition. I'd like to get a copy of the revised 2nd someday.

Email me

pete (dot) storm (at) gmail (dot) com

PS

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Also, though not RPGs, does anyone remember the old TSR minigames, like "Revolt on Antares"?

Yeah...my RoA is missing some counters though. Saga was pretty good, too.

Still, the MicroGames were pretty much the best bang for the buck, though. Stalin's Tanks, Helltank...Ogre/G.E.V., HotSpot...the list goes on.