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.

 

[GrimCo]

put GURPS the system at the bottom of my list of what I've played. It's just too much for me. I like their setting/genre books though.

Same here. GURPS had ton of great supplements books that are gold mines for farming ideas and concepts. To this day, i still use them for that purpose. On the other hand, i haven't run GURPS in over 15 years and today, you couldn't pay me to play it, let alone run it.

 

[dbm]

Could Gumshoe be added, please? (Games like Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents, Swords of the Serpentine etc.)

 

[Aldarc]

SWADE is my go-to for anything i don't necessarily have a bespoke game for.

That for me tends to be Fate, though I would potentially consider the underlying system of Legend in the Mist, as it looks like a good mix of Fate and PbtA. I want to get it to the game table as soon as I can (he says as he eyes the backlog of other games to play) to see how it would manage that.

 

[SlyFlourish]

It is interesting that those are all fantasy games. Do you play other genres?

Rarely. I like fantasy