Sunday Nonsense: Which TTRPG Systems Survive

[TheHand]

I used to love games like HERO and GURPS, crunching character points for the fun of it. But as I got older I lost the taste for it and started preferring lighter games. That being said I’ve never managed to play in a FATE game I’ve much loved. SWADE does a good job of threading that needle between too crunchy and too light.

 

[VHawkwinter]

Pick your top 3 TTRPG systems (not games, which might be why you see some stuff missing) to determine the TOP 5 systems EN World allows going forward. All other systems will be erased forever.

Sure!

Note that some are broader than others because some systems only seem to have one game (i.e. Shadowrun). If you believe I should carve out a specific edition of something, let me know and I will add it.

I picked 3.x; GURPS; and Rolemaster. I don't know whether GURPS or 3.x would be first. Probably 3.x, but it's close.

Some of your items are lumped together but I would only play specific editions, which your poll doesn't capture.

Like I would play Shadowrun 4-5, but not the newer ones, and I would prefer 4th or 4th (20th anniversary). I would try SR 1-3 but haven't played them before. It was a contender for third place.

And I would play Rolemaster, but it's the one from ~2000, not the new one.

And you don't have The Dark Eye / Das Schwarz Auge - but it wouldn't have been in my top three.

And I didn't see Runequest in the list, though I would probably only consider the Mongoose ones or the Design Mechanism RQ6 / Mythras. Some of the stuff I saw cut from the "new" RQ. where they rolled back to basing it on an old version make a big nope from me.

Though yes, I'm weird.