What system did you never get to play even though you wanted to?

[Derren]

I guess nearly everyone has at one point found a interesting and slightly obscure RPG he wanted to try but never got the chance because lack if players or other circumstances.

So, whats you list?

Mine:

1. Council of Wyrms
Looked interesting, playing D&D from the other perspective. But I only found it after 3E was out for quite a while and no one wanted to go back to 2E

2. Fireborn
A short lived setting from FFG. Too unknown and small so that the other people in my group took any interest in it

3. Shadowrun
Not really unkown, but my group was too much in "D&D" mode so that DMing for this game was rather impossible. Trying to set up adventures for SR the same way as you do for D&D will result in failure and no one wanted to take the extra effort to read through the background stuff etc. And I didn't want to DM but to play. (Small example, when the DM wanted to capture a PC for story reasons he did not use gas or poison but went, true to D&D style" the subdual damage way by emptying a full clip of stun rounds into him while he slept..."

4. Ars Magica
Here the problem was simply the lack of DM. Everyone wanted to play and when no DM was found the idea was dropped.

 

[Whimsical]

Amazing Engine's Magitech.

 

[faith1806]

i want to play much more games,such as shadowrun, but i have no time for me to play.

 

[Shades of Green]

Earthdawn. I love the setting, but the rules are a bit too clunky for my taste.

 

[Joker]

Alternity.

I bought nearly every book because I loved the system so much but my friends didn't like it.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

7th Sea
Dread
Midnight
Dawnforge

 

[jaerdaph]

• GURPS - I own a ton of GURPS sourcebooks, but I've never played a game with the actual system.
• d6 System - never played d6 Star Wars (or any Star Wars RPG), but I was impressed with the Fantasy/Modern/SciFi hardcover series when they came out. Would love to try running/playing it someday.
• Cyberpunk 2020 - always thought it looked cool back in the day but never got a chance to try it.

 

[Guillaume]

I always wanted to play:

• In Nomine Satanis/Magna Vertias, the original French version.
• MERP
• Star Trek (FASA version
• 7th Sea

 

[tyrlaan]

7th Sea

Also:

Earthdawn. I love the setting, but the rules are a bit too clunky for my taste.

I did my fair share of GMing Earthdawn. At the time I thought the rules were just fine. However, now I just can't bring myself to feel the same way. Personally, I think the 4e ruleset could do Earthdawn solid justice. But until either (a) someone does a conversion or (b) I inherit copious amounts of free time, I'll have to settle for what it is.

 

[Dark Mistress]

Call of Cthulhu
In Nomina - have GMed but not played.

Those are the two big ones i always wanted to play but never got to.