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<blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 4888440" data-attributes="member: 1613">My &quot;wow&quot; systems:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Amber Diceless (by Phage; wonderful free-form stuff; pits you against other players by design and intent; great specific-setting emulation)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ars Magica (2e by Lion Rampant; for the magic system, troupe style role-playing, the covenant as a &quot;group&quot; character/unifying element, and the Mythic Europe paradigm)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blue Planet, 1st edition (Biohazard Games; more for the setting than the game system:&nbsp; it was a cyberpunk-ish world that I actually wanted to play in)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Call of Cthulhu (3rd edition hc was the first I owned, by Chaosium/GW)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fading Suns, 1st edition (Holistic Design's attempt to create a non-epic-heroic RPG, based instead on the Passion Play as a model)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heaven &amp; Earth (1e from Event Horizon Production; despite the late '90s metaplot baked into the game, it's the only book we published that I'm still particularly proud of---a diceless RPG system grounded firmly in the game's Twin-Peaks-meets-XFiles-meets-The Book of Revelation setting, with some pretty interesting game mechanics firmly grounded in the looming apocalypse; H&amp;E 3e is still in print from <a href="http://www.abstractnova.com/heavenearth.php" target="_blank">Abstract Nova</a>)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kult, 1st edition (Metropolis:&nbsp; what MtA should have been)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paranoia (1st and 2nd editions, from West End Games:&nbsp; dystopian black humor as the best beer and pretzels RPG ever!)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vampire: The Masquerade, 1st edition (White Wolf; a large element of the games we played featured variations on dramatic strutures [campaign as TV episodes, campaign as a literary tragedy, etc.] and with vicious inter-party politicking/allying/betraying/etc.)</li>
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[QUOTE="grodog, post: 4888440, member: 1613"] My "wow" systems: [list] [*]Amber Diceless (by Phage; wonderful free-form stuff; pits you against other players by design and intent; great specific-setting emulation) [*]Ars Magica (2e by Lion Rampant; for the magic system, troupe style role-playing, the covenant as a "group" character/unifying element, and the Mythic Europe paradigm) [*]Blue Planet, 1st edition (Biohazard Games; more for the setting than the game system: it was a cyberpunk-ish world that I actually wanted to play in) [*]Call of Cthulhu (3rd edition hc was the first I owned, by Chaosium/GW) [*]Fading Suns, 1st edition (Holistic Design's attempt to create a non-epic-heroic RPG, based instead on the Passion Play as a model) [*]Heaven & Earth (1e from Event Horizon Production; despite the late '90s metaplot baked into the game, it's the only book we published that I'm still particularly proud of---a diceless RPG system grounded firmly in the game's Twin-Peaks-meets-XFiles-meets-The Book of Revelation setting, with some pretty interesting game mechanics firmly grounded in the looming apocalypse; H&E 3e is still in print from [URL="http://www.abstractnova.com/heavenearth.php"]Abstract Nova[/URL]) [*]Kult, 1st edition (Metropolis: what MtA should have been) [*]Paranoia (1st and 2nd editions, from West End Games: dystopian black humor as the best beer and pretzels RPG ever!) [*]Vampire: The Masquerade, 1st edition (White Wolf; a large element of the games we played featured variations on dramatic strutures [campaign as TV episodes, campaign as a literary tragedy, etc.] and with vicious inter-party politicking/allying/betraying/etc.) [/list] [/QUOTE]

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