What are Your Favorite Out of Print RPGs?

[AFGNCAAP]

For me...

Star Wars Saga Ed. (d20). Really liked this iteration of a Star Wars RPG. The d6 version was nice, but the system was a real pain when Jedi were involved.

Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (card-based). Really, really easy to create stuff for this game. Easy to improvise, as well. The d% may seem Ok conceptually, but d% are not the most forgiving dice out there.

D&D Rules Cyclopedia (BECMI). The BECMI ed. was the 1st version of D&D I got into, & it still holds a special place in my heart. The all-in-one element with the Rules Cyclopedia really made it appealing. (To be honest, I kinda hoped for a similar thing with the Star Wars Saga Ed., in order to have all that info in 1 book.)

 

[Lord Captian Tobacco]

Masque of the Red Death.
Birthright.
Mechwarrior.
GDW Traveller.
Teenagers from Outer Space.

Can't even find people wanting to try these...

 

[Vicente]

There are several Birthright PBeM games active

Empire Twlight PBEM portal
Index for Dawn

I'm sure there are more you could join to play that great setting.

 

[Ampolitor]

Birthright

Birthright,
I loved that game, there was nothing more awesome than rallying your friends to take down a rival kingdom!! I would love to see that game world printed again, although not in 4E, I'm not a big fan of that system.

 

[grodog]

In no particular order:

• AD&D 1e (TSR)
• Amber Diceless (Phage)
• Ars Magica, 2nd edition (Lion Rampant)
• Blue Planet (Biohazard Games and FFG)
• Fading Suns, 2nd edition (Holistic Design)
• Kult, 1st edition (Metropolis)
• Paranoia (West End Games)
• Star Wars, 2nd edition Revised and Expanded (West End Games)
• Vampire: The Masquerade, 1st edition (White wolf)

 

[Odhanan]

OD&D
AD&D First Ed
Stormbringer/Hawkmoon
RuneQuest 3
Vampire the Masquerade, 2nd Edition
Nephilim, 2nd edition (French version)
In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas
Mythus
Lejendary Adventures
MERP
Cyberpunk 2020
WEG/d6 Star Wars
Iron Heroes
Arcana Evolved

Man. So many more. That'll do for now.

 

[The Shaman]

Boot Hill, Top Secret, The Fantasy Trip, and Traveller (the "classic" is superfluous).

I'm running a Top Secret play-by-post right now - we're just finishing up the briefing and then the agents will be off to Tangier to spy on a French-Algerian gun-runner dealing in stolen NATO weapons who may be connected to the assassination of a SWAPO cadre in Angola . . .

Flashing Blades is technically still in print, so it doesn't really qualify for this list, but with no new officially published material in twenty years or so, it's in the same relative situation. I'm looking to make FB my next face-to-face game sometime soon.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

WEG Star Wars
7th Sea
Ptolus

 

[ChaosEngine]

Oooohh...

Torg - loved the Drama Deck.
Ghostbusters - just FUN.
AD&D 2E - just because!
Alternity - I found out the other day I had downloaded the main Star*Drive book before WOTC stopped their PDFs. Happy days!
Vampire: TM 1st Ed - there was something magical about this first book - RPGs would never be the same. Suffered from a little bloat after that, though.
2300 AD - loved the hard science future but the system was meh. And the star map!
Star Trek FASA edition - creating characters was fun by itself.

 

[slwoyach]

D&D 3E (when combined with E6 philosophy)

Alternity (I'm joining a Dark Heresy game, and every time I get involved with Sci-Fi I start jonesing for Alternity. sigh.)

Conan D20 (far grittier and just plain better than 3E)

The original Star Wars D20, not Saga.

The old SAGA card game, it was poorly put together but had tons of potential.

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E. It kept casters in line with all the limitations they had that the geniuses at WotC decided to remove.