What RPGs do you own but haven't played?

[John Morrow]

Because I'm sure a lot of us have books just lying on our shelves unused. Here's a partial list of mine, including campaign settings:

Probably haven't played about 90%-95% of the role-playing books that I own, which would take up more than two bookcases. Notable games that I own (or even own a lot of material for) but haven't played include GURPS, In Nominae, BESM, Heavy Gear, and the new OGL Conan game. I've got plenty of old and oddball games like Star Patrol, Tales of Gargenthir, Star Ace, Midnight at the Well of Souls, Pirates of Darkwater, Noir, Other Suns, Aftermath, the TSR Conan game, Dream Park, Ringworld, Elfquest, etc. that I've never played. I also have plenty of main rulebooks for games that I just purchased to see what they were all about including L5R, Fading Suns, Exalted, Shadowrun, and the original VTM.

My group does a lot of games with homebrew rules and settings so a lot of these books were never purchased with the intent to play them. They were purchased more as idea books and vague source material.

 

[reveal]

I try to be a little picky about what I buy but I did purchase Lejendary Adventures off of ebay.

 

[thud13x]

Let's see...

Call of Cthulhu (both the d20 edition and the BRP edition)
Star Wars RPG
d20 Modern (with both the d20 Future and Past supplements)

Nik

 

[WayneLigon]

Never Played:
As in: never, ever, not even once at a con --
Big Eyes, Small Mouth (Any Edition, nor any varient like Demon City Shnijuku))
Planescape (AD&D)
In Nomine
GURPS Discworld
Iron Claw
Furry Pirates
Mekton
Cybergeneration
Jorune
Traveller: The New Era
DC Heroes (1 + 2E)
Dragonlance 5th Age
Universe
Striker
Aberrant
Eberon
Alternity
Amazing Engine
Bloodshadows
Castle Falkenstien
Champions: New Millenium
Changeling
Mage
CORPS
Witchcraft (1 or 2E)
Fading Suns
Ringworld
Elfquest
Feng Shui
Hong Kong Action Theater
Tribe 8
Jovian Chronicles
Nephilhim
Twilight 2000
Traveller: 2300 aka 2300AD
Pendragon
Red Star
Swords of the Middle Kingdom
Teenagers from Outer Space
Space: 1889
Night Life
7th Sea

Things I've played a mere handful of times (less than a couple dozen session)
GURPS
Everway
Bushido
Chivalry and Sorcery (first edition)
Amber
Harn
Torg
Earthdawn
Star Trek (FASA)
Sidewinder for d20 Modern

All this and more appearing at an eBay listing near you in the not so distant future.

Edit: Forgot some:

Providence. The only avian-humanoid fantasy superhero game/setting ever made

 

[diaglo]

4ed Hackmaster

i own a boatload of stuff for it. but could never bring myself to play it.

 

[Narfellus]

Grimm, Conan, Slavelords of Cydonia, Mutants and Masterminds.

I like to collect books too. There's so much great stuff out there, i almost can't stand it. It gets so expensive and i'll never get to use it all. Still looks good on a shelf though.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

RPGs Gathering Dust:
Conan
Lone Wolf

D&D settings:
Midnight
Blackmoor
Oriental Adventures
Snarfquest d20. This actually has some neat hints on running a fun, not so serious, campaign.

Misc:
Snits
One of WotC's puzzles, this one of the cover of the original Unearthed Arcana. I am not a jigsaw puzzle fan.

 

[skinnydwarf]

Because I'm sure a lot of us have books just lying on our shelves unused. <SNIP>

How about you?

Oh god, don't get me started. Ok, not counting games that I've played only once, and this is just off the top of my head (I am at work in Cambridge and most of my RPG books are at my parents house in NJ):

Runequest
Riddle of Steel
Gatecrasher
2300 AD
Pendragon
Tunnels & Trolls
Mechwarrior 3rd edition (though I played some fun 2nd edition games, not sure if this counts)
Battleforce 2
Aerotech 2
Deadlands d20
Heroes & Heroines (comic book game)
Marvel Superheroes
Advanced Heroquest (though the miniatures are occassionally used)
Cave Troll
Elric! Dark Fantasy Roleplaying
Blood Dawn (post apocalyptic RPG)
GURPS
Caslte Falkenstein
Mutant Chronicles (the RPG, not the boardgame. the boardgame is pretty fun)
Wizards (based on the Ralph Bakashi flick of the same name)
Babylon 5 (the old one)
Manhunter
Everway
Amber (though I lost my copy, or lent it to someone who forgot about it )
Ogre
Hercules & Xena (looked like fun, though)
Indiana Jones by WeG
Star Wars Miniatures Battles
Legacy: War of The Ages (Highlander ripoff RPG)
All Flesh Must be Eaten
Hackmaster
Cybergeneration (though I did play one game of Cyberpunk)
Blood Berets
Blue Planet

[Edited to add a couple I remembered that others had mentioned, and to add this disclaimer: Not counting D&D stuff (all editions) that I haven't used]

 

[skinnydwarf]

Skyrealms of Jorune
Empire of the Petal Throne
Kult

... but I've borrowed a lot of fluff from those books for other campaigns.

Oh man, Skyrealms is such a good game! You should go play it.

 

[Galethorn]

HARP, MERP, GURPS (don't remember what edition), 1st and 2nd Ed. AD&D, and...I think that's it. All of the above are in (legitimate!) PDF versions, too, so that probably contributed to it; if I ever really wanted to play one of them, I'd buy the print version.