What TTRPG Is Perfect and Complete In One Volume?

[Reynard]

My "desert island" RPG is hands down Ironsworn: Starforged. It's the first game I think of in terms of "perfect and complete in one volume."

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It is a very good game. The Ironsworn system is one of my favorites. I need to investigate running it as a more traditional GM guided RPG.

 

[stormwriter]

My "desert island" RPG is hands down Ironsworn: Starforged. It's the first game I think of in terms of "perfect and complete in one volume."

This is a very good one indeed. It’s very well written as well.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It is a very good game. The Ironsworn system is one of my favorites. I need to investigate running it as a more traditional GM guided RPG.

I really have to give that a look at some point, though I don't think the current way the game is set up to be run would suit my players; I vaguely remember reading it has some discussion of using it the way you're referring to, if I'm not conflating it with a different game.

 

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

Starforged is excellent but I'd never play it without my handy spiral-bound reference book

 

[pete284]

If I could come only keep three books they would be: ICRPG (contains excellent GM advice and you can run any genre). EZD6 (great for one shots and conventions) finally Whitebox: Fantasy Medieval Adventure Game (a clean simple D&D).

 

[Professor Murder]

So "perfect" is a very high hurdle.
For my answer, I guess it would have to be a game that had no supplements or if it did, they either added nothing or just were so inferior it just made more clear that all you needed was the main book. Furthermore, said book would have to leave no real ideas needing exploration for the game to work.

Adventure! from White Wolf is the one that springs to mind.

 

[Autumnal]

Adventure! from White Wolf is the one that springs to mind.

Made my day. Thanks, from all of us perpetrators!

 

[MichaelSomething]

The Maid RPG. It has everything you need to play a Maid.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Made my day. Thanks, from all of us perpetrators!

Adventure was, at the end of the day, probably the best put together and the least appreciated of the Aeon games.

 

[Professor Murder]

Adventure was, at the end of the day, probably the best put together and the least appreciated of the Aeon games.

It was, imho, the best use of the Storyteller system that White Wolf ever produced.