Sleeper RPG's

[kitsune9]

I have discovered many fine RPG's that never ever made an impression on the community. Either due to budget or company failure these great RPGs have faded from most table tops.

Do you have a favorite game that you wish had a larger following or could "come back from the dead" so that others could enjoy it? Tell us about these great 'sleeper' games!

I played a RPGA mod version of Marvel Super Heroes SAGA version which used cards instead of dice. That was a real blast.

Dark Matter was also fun for me.

 

[jdrakeh]

I played a RPGA mod version of Marvel Super Heroes SAGA version which used cards instead of dice.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Super-Heroes-Adventure-System/dp/0786912278/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238170207&sr=1-3"]The Marvel Super Heroes SAGA game[/ame] used cards by default. It wasn't a mod.

 

[pogre]

I was a big fan of Millennium's End. Charles would have to comment on whether it really qualifies as a "sleeper" or not.

 

[Umbran]

Dark Matter was also fun for me.

Also note that Dark Matter is not a game, it is a setting. Designed for the unfortunately out or print Alternity game, the Dark Matter book is widely regarded as one of the finest setting supplements ever written (and I agree with that estimation). It is rather easy to aply the setting to your choice of game engines...

 

[fruitbane]

It Came From The Late Late Late Show.

This game is a hoot. It really allows players to show off thier (bad) acting chops. The (hopefully) ever increasing Fame stat allows for whole silly campaigns with meaningful (less) rise in stardom for the actors (PC's)

I love this game, too. I like it so much that I'm attempting to recreate the feel of it in a new game that should be completed by the end of the summer. Late Show is still for sale, but only in PDF and from a company that basically bought it from the authors and hasn't done anything with it but sell it. So I'm attempting to, effectively, revive it as something new but still familiar.

To stay on topic, I'm going to say that I really love a lot of R. Talsorian's Fuzion games, like Bubblegum Crisis and Votoms. I also really like Artesia. And some of GoO's later D20 products were quite nice, too, like Deus Ex Machina and Dreaming Cities, yet nobody plays any of this stuff any longer. DP9's Jovian Chronicles is also an interesting system and great setting nobody seems to play. Then there's 2E's Al Qadim. The core book is so interesting to read. I always wondered how the setting would play because nobody was actually playing it.

 

[darjr]

Jorune.

does it count? I would certainly like a Jorune renaissance.

 

[Treebore]

Recently? Aces and Eights by Kenzer, first Western RPG to be exciting to play, for me.

L5R never seems to get as much love as I think it deserves, same for Shadowrun and Traveller.

Hopefully Twilight 2013 will get a lot of interest, I know I like it based on my reading the PDF. The book should be in my hands within 3 weeks.

 

[thedungeondelver]

MEKTON and MEKTON:MTS along with OPERATION: RIMFIRE was a fantastic RPG. Yes, I'm saying the O:R module/adventure/sourcebook counts as part of the game itself. It was that good.

 

[jeffh]

Aces and Eights, new? Isn't that a really, really old game? Or is there a new one with the same name?

Speaking of quite old games (though not quite that old), I would once have put Mayfair's DC Heroes into this category. It seemed to belatedly get the recognition it had long been due around the time it went out of print, though.

 

[Ariosto]

Aces and Eights, new? Isn't that a really, really old game?

That's not quite as clueless as the response to an inquiry at my local games shop, which lost a sale it apparently can do without!

I might still have a first-edition Mekton book around, but I'll bet it's not compatible with later versions. It had a brief vogue in my circle, which judged it basically as a war-game and went back to Star Guard and Warbots and Death Machines.

YMMV, but role-playing mecha pilots much seemed to call for getting them out of the cockpit ... which in turn left it feeling less like a mecha game.