What Lost, Abandoned or Short Lived TTRPG would you like to see get a re-issue and new support?

[dbolack]

Though it's mainly a tactical game with an RPG supplement rather than an RPG first and foremost, as someone who ran the RenLeg mailing list for years and e-published supplements for it I gotta second the call for Renegade Legion!

I was on that list.

 

[jdrakeh]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness game by Palladium Books that came out in the late 1980s.

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A new edition of this was somewhat recently successfully Kickstarted by Palladium.

 

[dbolack]

Age of Empire by Epitaph Studios. I'm not a fan of the designer, but I love Victorian Age adventure and the system is great (very fluid, very simple).

Gareth is a bit prickley and an acquired taste but it's hard to argue he does bad work.

 

[jdrakeh]

Gareth is a bit prickley and an acquired taste but it's hard to argue he does bad work.

Eh. He put out a lot of d20 shovelware that was, I think, pretty mediocre. But he was hardly alone in that regard, in fairness. Everybody was clamoring to get onboard that d20 gravy train for several years. His original designs are, I'll admit, much better.

 

[dbolack]

Technically Immortal: the Invisible War got 3 editions, but the last two were pretty much abortive after initial publication and none of it got much support, so I'm considering it a valid option. This would be mostly for curiosity purposes, but I'd love to see what someone could do with the basic premise, but less convolution and complexity for its own sake.

Battlelords of the 23rd Century?

 

[dbolack]

Honestly, I'm not sure that the lack of success for Immortal had much to do with complexity; it was less complex in most ways than most of the White Wolf games (which it was pretty clearly inspired by) and plenty of them did well. It had two big problems a few little ones.

It was also organized in a way that seemed like chunks of text had be rearranged in a blender.

And I'm a fan.

 

[dbolack]

Human, Satyr, Centaur and Harpy, IIRC. A Pauli Kidd design with Donna Barr art, to my recollection. Pretty sure the rules included card-based systems for dueling, for magic, and for social repartee.

This is all correct.

 

[dbolack]

Eh. He put out a lot of d20 shovelware that was, I think, pretty mediocre. But he was hardly alone in that regard, in fairness. Everybody was clamoring to get onboard that d20 gravy train for several years. His original designs are, I'll admit, much better.

Fair enough. Though my memory of that period was everyone was still trying to figure things out...

Agreed on the original stuff. Shame about Periphery.

 

[jdrakeh]

Fair enough. Though my memory of that period was everyone was still trying to figure things out...

Agreed on the original stuff. Shame about Periphery.

Periphery was, I think, the first science fiction RPG I bought with my own money. Purchased because some local yokels published it (I lived one town over from Lawrence and wanted to support local creators even back then). Age of Empires, though, is probably my favorite RPG system (I also like the game as a whole, but I've used a generic version of the system for many other settings over the years).

 

[Reynard]

A new edition of this was somewhat recently successfully Kickstarted by Palladium.

Was it anew edition or just a reprint.