RPG Gems: Your favorite "little known" RPG.

[Jib]

Do you have a RPG that you love to play or GM? Perhaps something out of print or little known... How about introducing us to your "GEM"?

Mine is a little game entitled "Roanoke", by Clint Krause. Fun little RPG that takes the lost colony into the wire-fu action cinema world. Very simple yet wonderful! Of course you already know how the story ends...

 

[jdrakeh]

TWERPS (The World's Easiest Role Playing System). Like GURPS meets Toon with sourcebooks for all genres and dice by Lou Zocchi. That said, it has some stiff competition from The Fantasy Trip.

 

[Treebore]

My fav's are all probably somewhat known. Castles and Crusades, Traveller, Legend of the 5 Rings, Shadowrun.

 

[Riley]

Little Fears.

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[Poison Idea]

Little Fears.

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Wow!

 

[grodog]

Blue Planet.

 

[CleverNickName]

Y'know, I might be off my rocker, but I've been loving Mouse Guard lately.

EDIT: But now that I have read Riley's recommendation, I'm heading over to Amazon/Ebay to grab some of that. Holy crap that looks awesome!

 

[Vegepygmy]

SPI's DragonQuest (2nd edition)

 

[Fallen Seraph]

It isn't that unknown, but certainly isn't D&D or World of Darkness level of being known and I think it deserves to get lots of notice: Cthulhutech

CthulhuTech

 

[Riley]

now that I have read Riley's recommendation, I'm heading over to Amazon/Ebay to grab some of that. Holy crap that looks awesome!

It's a fantastic read - so it's worth picking up even if you never play it. There's no lack of material there for adding horror to any other RPG. I've mostly used it for inspiration.

It was also a lot of fun (very, very creepy fun) the couple times I played it. I'm not sure it would hold up for an extended campaign - at any rate, it would require a game master who's a far better story spinner than I - but it's a great game to pull out now and again when someone can't make it to the regular D&D game.