Taking Nominees for Most Anticipated RPG of 2018

As we do every year, I'm taking nominees for the big public poll. A game will only be in the big poll if it is nominated here. What's your most anticipated RPG of 2018? Rules - as always - it must be a standalone RPG. NOT a supplement, adventure, sourcebook, expansion, or accessory. It must be scheduled for release in 2018. If they were coming out in 2018, Dungeons & Dragons would count; Xanathar's Guide would not. Taking nominations for one week. Post your nomination as a reply below.
Please don't nominate your own game or one you’re affiliated with.

Last year's winner was Trudvang Chronicles from RiotMinds (pictured above). You can see last year's top 10 here. The previous year it was Rifts for Savage Worlds. And yes, Conan appeared three years running.

#	2013	2015	2016	2017
1	13th Age	Star Wars Force & Destiny	Rifts for Savage Worlds	Trudvang Chronicles
2	Numenera	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition	Mutant Crawl Classics	Tales from the Loop
3	Star Wars Edge of the Empire	Unified Rolemaster	7th Sea 2nd Edition	Kult: Divinity Lost
4	Shadowrun 5th Edition	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of	Star Trek Adventures
5	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls	DCC Lankhmar	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
6	Firefly	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition	RuneQuest 4	Starfinder
7	Fate Core	Feng Shui 2	Torg: Eternity	Witcher
8	Hillfolk	Fantasy AGE	Blue Rose AGE	Coriolis
9	Torchbearer	Paranoia	Paranoia	Delta Green Roleplaying Game
10	-	Shadows of the Demon Lord	Delta Green	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E

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[ART!]

It's scheduled for this month, but that "news" is old, so assuming it comes out next year: Modiphius' John Carter - The Roleplaying Game.

The Kickstarter is over and the final products will be out in 2018, so Cortex Prime.

 

[BWP]

RuneQuest Glorantha

 

[HorusZA]

I'll get in line behind the "Please Queue Here For Woofrup 4th Ed." sign...

 

[Morrus]

OK, the new nominations have largely stopped coming and I'd guess we have a good list, so here's our preliminary nominee list. I haven't yet done the eligibility checking so it's not final. If I couldn't understand your nomination I just moved on, because I'm not an interpreter. I'll Google each of these this week to check their eligibility. If I can't figure out exactly what product you're talking about from the words you typed and I pasted below in a minute or so, I'll move on.

• Top Secret: The New World Order
• Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing 4E
• Dragons Conquer America
• Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD
• Numenera 2
• The Expanse
• Dark Conspiracy 4E
• Torg Eternity
• Kult: Divinity Lost
• Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory
• N.O.W.
• Trinity Continuum
• Invisible Sun
• Forbidden Lands
• LexOccultum
• Witcher
• Prince Valiant, the Storytelling Game
• Delta Green
• This Defiant Earth
• Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition
• Aquelarre
• Paladin
• Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary
• RuneQuest: Glorantha
• Legend of the Five Rings RPG 5th Edition
• Cortex Prime
• Flash Gordon: Savage Worlds
• Forbidden Lands
• Yellow King RPG
• Deviant the Renegades
• 7th Sea: Khitai
• Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse
• Mutant Crawl Classics
• Eclipse Phase 2e
• MCC
• City of Mist
• lternity
• Esper Genesis
• Tiny Dungeons 2e
• Capharnaum
• WFRP Age of Sigmar
• Lazarus RPG
• Spire RPG
• Sentinels Comics RPG
• John Carter of Mars
• RunequestuDisk City Outlaws

 

[CapnZapp]

Some of these are delayed Kickstarters.

That is, there was great excitement and discussion in a past year, but only in 2018 will delivery actually happen (or likely happen).

Are these projects eligible, even though they might have been nominated one (or three) years ago?

Can the same project win two years in a row, simply because its announced delivery year and its actual delivery year differ?

Regards

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[Rocksome]

Trinity Continuum by Onyx Path.

 

[Khaalis]

Cortex Prime
WFRP4

 

[Morrus]

Some of these are delayed Kickstarters.

That is, there was great excitement and discussion in a past year, but only in 2018 will delivery actually happen (or likely happen).

Are these projects eligible, even though they might have been nominated one (or three) years ago?

Can the same project win two years in a row, simply because its announced delivery year and its actual delivery year differ?

Regards

Sent from my C6603 using EN World mobile app

Conan made it into the top 10 three years running.

 

[Turin2]

For me that's the "Western" RPG from Åskfågeln (Kickstarter says December 2018) ...

I'm a Member since 2005 and that's the first time I cared to log in for a comment ...

 

[Aldarc]

1) Invisible Sun
2) Numenera 2 or Numenera Destiny/Discovery (really just a minor update of an older system)

 

[Morrus]

Going through the list checking eligibility and correct names. Correct me if I'm wrong. Bear in mind I don't follow all these games, so I'm going from a quick Google search.

Paladin appears to be out already.
Delta Green appears to be out already (it featured in the top 10 list for both 2016 and 2017).
City of Mist appears to be out already.
Lazarus, I think, is a setting called World of Lazarus for Modern AGE not a core rulebook?
Sentinel Comics RPG looks like it's already out?

I plan to post the poll very soon, so let me know if my google-fu was weak with any of those above.


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That gives us this final list in alphabetical order:

7th Sea: Khitai
Alternity 2017 - A Science Fiction Roleplaying Game
Aquelarre: the dark & mature medieval RPG
Capharnaum - The Roleplaying Game
Cortex Prime
Dark Conspiracy
Deluxe Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition
Deviant: the Renegades
Dragons Conquer America
Dusk City Outlaws
Eclipse Phase, Second Edition RPG
Esper Genesis: Heroic Sci-Fi Role-Playing for 5E
Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds
Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG
Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse
Invisible Sun
John Carter - The Roleplaying Game
Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD
Kult: Divinity Lost
Legend of the Five Rings RPG 5th Edition
LexOccultum
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG
N.O.W. The Modern Action Roleplaying Game
Numenera 2: Discovery and Destiny
Prince Valiant, the Storytelling Game
RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
Spire RPG
The Expanse
The Witcher Roleplaying Game
The Yellow King Roleplaying Game
This Defiant Earth: 1950s Sci-Fi Movie Roleplaying!
Tiny Dungeon 2e - Minimalist fantasy roleplaying is back!
Top Secret: The New World Order
Torg Eternity
Trinity Continuum
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition
Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Roleplaying Game
Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing Fourth Edition

 

[schoon]

Infinity the RPG
Wrath & Glory (Warhammer 40,000 RPG)

 

[Gryphon04]

Forbidden Lands and Witcher for me.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

Lazarus RPG from Green Ronin...

Wow! I missed the announcement for this one! I love Greg Rucka's stuff. Such a good comic.

Sentinel Comics RPG looks like it's already out?

As I understand it there's a starter kit for it with the full game coming out at some point in the future. I'll leave it up to you whether the stater kit counts or not.

 

[Aldarc]

Invisible Sun
Numenera 2

 

[makurre]

I reckon FAITH by Burning Games counts in here as it’s going to be released into stores in ‘18. So yeah, that’s my first nomination! And now that we are talking about them, Dragons Conquer America should be out before the year is over if they get the Kickstarter right second time around. So that’s my second nomination. The third would be Warhammer. Keep’em coming!

 

[CapnZapp]

Conan made it into the top 10 three years running.

I'll take that as a "yes" and a "yes", then.

 

[Ghal Maraz]

[MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION]:
Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne, is not out yet, not even for the backers, as far as I can tell.
Delta Green has the Handler's Guide out in PDF.
City of Mist has the Starter Set out in both psysical and PDF form and the Core Rulebook out in PDF.
Correct about World of Lazarus being a setting for Modern AGE.
Sentinel Comics RPG has only the starter set out. The rulebook is due out in 2018. Don't know if it counts.

Regarding the Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds: it's not a fully-independent game, but it needs the Savage Worlds rules which aren't included in neither of the books, so it shouldn't count for the purpose of this poll (unless for some reason this rule doesn't apply to SW products... in fact, Savage Rifts made the top of the poll two years ago and it wasn't an independent ruleset too).

 

[Morrus]

[MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION]:
Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne, is not out yet, not even for the backers, as far as I can tell.
Delta Green has the Handler's Guide out in PDF.
City of Mist has the Starter Set out in both psysical and PDF form and the Core Rulebook out in PDF.
Correct about World of Lazarus being a setting for Modern AGE.
Sentinel Comics RPG has only the starter set out. The rulebook is due out in 2018. Don't know if it counts.


Regarding the Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds: it's not a fully-independent game, but it needs the Savage Worlds rules which aren't included in neither of the books, so it shouldn't count for the purpose of this poll (unless for some reason this rule doesn't apply to SW products... in fact, Savage Rifts made the top of the poll two years ago and it wasn't an independent ruleset too).

Thanks!

Also to note, Dragons Conquer America has been cancelled with no current release date (I understand it's coming back, but right now there's no 2018 release date).

Nominations are now closed! Poll is live!

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