RPGs you own but have never played

[Remathilis]

Decipher Lord of the Rings
Tri-Stat Demon City Shinjuku.
Star Wars d20 ORIGINAL edition
AD&D First Edition

Played everything else (WEG Star Wars 2nd/2nd revised, Vampire 3rd ed, 2nd ed, 3.0, 3.5 and the Cyclopedia) got played/DMed AT LEAST once...

 

[lyle.spade]

Let me cheat on this one....a bit

Funny.. I saw 'Fading Suns' on someone's list. Years ago I bought it, read it, was mildly interested by it, tried to play it with some buddies, and we unanimously renamed it 'Fading Interest,' and the poor thing ended up on eBay.

Okay, so that's a little cheating; now here's to the dust-gatherers I own:

Dragonstar (what was I thinking?)
Traveller d20 (loved the little black books..can't seem to rekindle the flame)
Call of Cthulhu
Chill (by Pacesetter! does it count that I bought it on eBay and have yet to play it, even though I did 20 years ago?)
Star Frontiers (see comment for Chill...damn those players who won't take a nostalgia trip!)
Hunter Planet (dubbed as "The All-Australian RPG" it's a tongue-in-cheek take on Predator, in which PCs are the hunters...probably good when drunk, but I wouldn't know for sure)
Star Trek -- the LUG version...own WAY too many books for that, but damn those players who won't step out of fantasy worlds!
DC Universe RPG, by WEG
Advanced Marvel Superheroes
...and I once owned WEG's 'The Price of Freedom,' which was their take on that movie Red Dawn...had a great automatic fire mechanic in the combat system...but damn those players who didn't want to trade marauding goblins for invading communists...!

It's a bit scary, really, when we consider just how many games we own, how many we've owned, and how much money we've spent over the years on them all...and then to consider all the ones we've never played, or only did once because your friends decided to humor you and agree that MAYBE Palladium FRP was better than DnD (well, better than 2nd ed, right?).

Good gaming, all....

 

[Grimstaff]

I always stuck to D&D pretty much, but experimented with Gamma World, Traveller, MERP, and Star Frontiers back in the day.

Rolemaster is one I wish I could have played more, back before it got more complicated than quantum physics.

GURPS is a game for which I almost compulsively buy interesting-looking supplements from, but never, ever, ever, ever, have I played a single session of GURPS.

I'm much more likely these days to buy campaign settings I'll never play!

 

[scourger]

Luckily, the shelf only holds 1 stand-alone roleplaying game that I haven't played:

Conan RPG (TSR c. 1985, not the OGL version, which is on the shelf and in which I had an unfortunate experience playing). I would love to run CN 3 Conan Triumphant, using Savage Worlds. I would probably use some of the material from the boxed set RPG (like price lists), so it may not be total wash. Plus, I got them both as gifts; so it's a little easier to take not playing it. Well, that and the 20-year old clunky mechanics.

I do have many d20 games unplayed on the shelf, but I don't really count them since they are not stand-alone games. The list includes every d20 mini-game published on the Polyhedron side of Dungeon except Gamma World (which is brilliant and one of only 2 d20 games I would love to run right now!); maybe 8-10 games there.

Also, all the Horizons line except Spellslinger (a great western d20 variant) are unplayed; 4 games there. I would like to do Grimm & Redline, but Mechamorphosis & Virtual are too out there for me. FFG has put them all on slae as a bundle which is a good deal for anyone reading this thread and thinking about picking up new games.

The shelf holds Alternity Gamma World, but I count it as run since I ran the adventures in that book using the aforementioned Omega World rules. That was a great little campaign.

Now, I do have a bag of RPG stuff I've been meaning to eliminate. It includes GURPS Prime Directive and the latest Star Trek game that I traded into when I was very excited about Prime Directive d20. I never intended to run those games, so I don't count them. I just read them for flavor. I skipped all the rules. The other people in my group are not interested in playing a Star Trrek game, so I never got PD20 either.

I can't remember how many games I've gotten rid of. The bookshlef still has more games than I'll ever run, and there are so many more out there.