#RPGaDay Day 01: What published RPG do you wish you were playing right now?

It’s August and that means that the annual #RPGaDAY celebration kicks off for its fourth year of a ‘question a day’ to celebrate “everything cool, memorable and amazing about our hobby.” Originally created by Dave Chapman (Doctor Who: Adventures in Time & Space; Conspiracy X) it’s now being caretakered by the crew over at RPGBrigade. This year we’ve decided to join in the fun and will be canvassing answers from the ENWorld crew, columnists and friends in the industry to bring you some of our answers. We hope you’ll join in, in the comments section, and share your thoughts with us too… So, without further ado, here’s Day 1 of #RPGaDAY 2017!

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Day 01: What published RPG do you wish you were playing right now?

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Angus Abranson: I'm really keen on giving Tales From The Loop by Free League Publishing a go. I haven't really got any excuse not to as I backed the Kickstarter so have a copy. A friend is running the game for his group and there is talk about a game starting at the local RPG club. So hopefully I'll be able to immerse myself in a 1980's that never was sooner rather than later...

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Christopher Helton: I want the complete Delta Green RPG to come out so that I can run it. I've been a fan of the setting since it first appeared as an adventure in an issue of The Unspeakable Oath and I've been waiting on an update of the setting since 2001. The Agent's Handbook was great, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with the full game.

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Darryl Mott: I've been dying to kick the tires on the new edition of Paranoia. The game has always been one that I've been fond of due to its setting, but the rules on previous editions felt clunky. Not that a game like this was ever about the rules. However, the new edition managed not only to update the rules, but even come up with new systems that perfectly reflect the absurdity of the setting. I'm also slightly curious how long I could manage to keep a campaign going in that setting.

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Morrus: I really like the idea of Tales From The Loop, too. I’m a sucker for the 80s, and the game looks gorgeous. Plus I love the idea of setting it in my home town. The setting development is all done for you!

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Alan Bahr (Gallant Knight Games; Nocturnal Media): Mage: The Ascension - I've never had a chance to play it, and I've always wanted to. Moreso now since Stewart Wiecks passing

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Stephanie Bryant (Threadbare RPG): Hmmm. TimeWatch, the adventure where we race to stop 2016 from happening.... But seriously, TimeWatch is hands down one of my favorite games,and I wish I could be playing it right now.

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Cam Banks (Atlas Games; Magic Vacuum Design Studio): Mutant Year Zero! I love all of the games produced by Fria Ligan out of Sweden. They're gorgeous and flavorful and seem ready to go. Perfect.

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Sean Tait Bircher (Savage Rifts freelancer): 7th Sea Second Edition. I'm trying to learn new systems and work through my Kickstarter backlog and I have yet to play Wick's new version of his classic world.

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Lynne Hardy (Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks; Achtung! Cthulhu):Tough one, when there are so many good games out there. I think I'd probably have to go with Monster Hearts. Even though I'm not normally into angsty, deeply emotional games, I've heard such good things about it, I'm intrigued to see what it's all about.

What game would you like to be playing right now? Let us know below!

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[SMHWorlds]

Unknown Armies 3rd

 

[Brodie]

Without a doubt: Shadow of the Demon Lord. I would LOVE another chance to actually play and not be the one running the game. I only got to play once, and I had the fortune of Robert Schwalb himself being the GM.

After that, I'd love to play L5R 4th edition again or a good game of Fate Core (or Dresden Files) run by someone - and as part of a group - that gets the systems. Fate is a system where I ran the game and made full use of the rules only to have a friend run it with me as a player and not utilize the system to it's potential.

 

[Jhaelen]

Alas, there's plenty. Lots of interesting RPGs I never played.

But my all-time favorite is Ars Magica, and I _always_ wish I'd play it. I also know it's really great since we played a (way too short) campaign, a (way too long) time ago.

 

[Symon Leech]

That is really handy!! Now if that person could find the time to knock something together, that would be grand!

 

[Bill Korsak]

call of cthulhu, deadlands and then dc heroes

 

[Randalthor]

Rolemaster. It is my favorite game and I would rather be playing it than anything else, almost all the time - I do get hankerings for other games from time-to-time. Specifically I would love to be running/playing it in the Dark Sun setting.

 

[Simon Brake]

I've run a couple of sessions of Tales From the Loop. I really loved it but, sadly, my players less so (possibly due to a mix of being too sandbox, not being keen on the mechanics and maybe being too young to have remembered the 80s fondly).

 

[Madmaxneo]

There are quite a few games out there that I have not had the chance to play yet but really do want to. But the game I miss the most and would really enjoy getting a group together and playing through a campaign and beyond is, Rolemaster (RM). I have been running HARP (the younger sibling of RM) for years now and there are some things I like about it better than RM but RM is a better system. Rolemaster was the game that grabbed my soul and has never let go. I did start with D&D then AD&D in 1981 but was introduced to Rolemaster in 84 (when a senior that was in my study hall gaming group gave them to me because he knew how much I liked RPGs). I opened the books and was enamored at the spells and magic items, then the most complete character generation system I have ever seen. Yes it was complex but I liked it very much so. It is hard to get others into RM because of the complex character generation (complex might not be the right word, maybe extensive) which is why I switched to HARP (High Adventure Role Playing) as it is an easier system to bring people into. In the 80's I played most of the systems that were published during those days (there were a lot), enjoying some but disliking others but it was RM that filled a sort of RPG void within me.

 

[Kite474]

Anything thats not D&D.

Though if I have to be more specific then probably Shadow of the Demon Lord, Shadowrun, Exalted, Vampire/Werewolf/Mage/Changeling, Mutants and Masterminds, Only War/Deathwatch/Dark Heresy... And a lot more.

.... *sigh* I really wish my group would spread out.

 

[R_Chance]

Traveller, Empire of the Petal Throne, D&D. Given that all my time is spent GMing these are the games I'd run and play in. EPT is always on my mind, I was just working on my Traveller game and D&D (either 2E or 5E for preference) is my go to game.