Which out-of-print RPGs do you still play?
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solomoncane
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Space Opera.
3catcircus
Adventurer
Twilight:2000
TORG
Paranoia!
Star Frontiers
AD&D
OD&D
Delta Force
Marvel Superheroes
DC Heroes
Mythus/Dangerous Journeys
Dark Conspiracy
Lords of Creation
Top Secret, Top Secret/S.I.
James Bond 007
WEG Star Wars
Gamma World (not the d20 version, which I consider to have lost the entire flavor of the original game)
Note that some of these are now in reprint or are going to be produced in an updated version... Show how good they were to begin with.
TORG
Paranoia!
Star Frontiers
AD&D
OD&D
Delta Force
Marvel Superheroes
DC Heroes
Mythus/Dangerous Journeys
Dark Conspiracy
Lords of Creation
Top Secret, Top Secret/S.I.
James Bond 007
WEG Star Wars
Gamma World (not the d20 version, which I consider to have lost the entire flavor of the original game)
Note that some of these are now in reprint or are going to be produced in an updated version... Show how good they were to begin with.
Aries_Omega
Explorer
Dead Games
I love running Cyberpunk 2020. I still run it and have been tinkering with doing a d20 version and getting the original company....R. Talsorian Games to pick it up...which I don't think they are interested in at all. My version.... which I dubbed "d20 CP 2020" has hit locations and the combat is still deadly and realistic even at higher levels which IMHO made CP 2020 such a great system.
I like playing Mechwarrior but never got to run it. I loved Battletech and the idea of RPing the mechwarriors, tech and infantry soldiers that make up a unit was a great idea, especially since at the time I discovered it I was in the Army and introduced it to guys in my platoon.
Lastly the White Wolf system. The setting was great and the convpets were inovated at the time but now seem overly cumbersome. I understand the reason why...to discourage "roll play" and encourage "role play". Why else would you have 4 rolls minimum to resolve combat....an attack roll....a dodge roll....a damage roll and a soak roll. What turned me off is it was getting like Palladium Games or 2E AD&D in the way books sprouted up like weeds. Not that source books were bad but most players were of the camp that you HAD to have everything in print just to play. In case you need info on a rare Vampire clan that only 8 people belong to at any given time. You may have to have them as a NPC or as a PC at any given time.
Other then that I don't do many other "dead games" anymore. If I do...I convert it to d20. Converting games is kinda my mutant power. I just can do it...I can't explain really how I do.
Aries Omega
I love running Cyberpunk 2020. I still run it and have been tinkering with doing a d20 version and getting the original company....R. Talsorian Games to pick it up...which I don't think they are interested in at all. My version.... which I dubbed "d20 CP 2020" has hit locations and the combat is still deadly and realistic even at higher levels which IMHO made CP 2020 such a great system.
I like playing Mechwarrior but never got to run it. I loved Battletech and the idea of RPing the mechwarriors, tech and infantry soldiers that make up a unit was a great idea, especially since at the time I discovered it I was in the Army and introduced it to guys in my platoon.
Lastly the White Wolf system. The setting was great and the convpets were inovated at the time but now seem overly cumbersome. I understand the reason why...to discourage "roll play" and encourage "role play". Why else would you have 4 rolls minimum to resolve combat....an attack roll....a dodge roll....a damage roll and a soak roll. What turned me off is it was getting like Palladium Games or 2E AD&D in the way books sprouted up like weeds. Not that source books were bad but most players were of the camp that you HAD to have everything in print just to play. In case you need info on a rare Vampire clan that only 8 people belong to at any given time. You may have to have them as a NPC or as a PC at any given time.
Other then that I don't do many other "dead games" anymore. If I do...I convert it to d20. Converting games is kinda my mutant power. I just can do it...I can't explain really how I do.
Aries Omega
TheAuldGrump
First Post
7th Sea (Only recently abandoned... sigh...)
Milenium's End
RQ 3e
Amazing Engine: For Faerie, Queen, & Country
AE: Tabloid
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (coming back into print, with a new edition from Green Ronin!)
A.D. 2300
Mage: the Sorcerer's Crusade
The Auld Grump
Milenium's End
RQ 3e
Amazing Engine: For Faerie, Queen, & Country
AE: Tabloid
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (coming back into print, with a new edition from Green Ronin!)
A.D. 2300
Mage: the Sorcerer's Crusade
The Auld Grump
Let's see, old/out of print games I am still playing include:
OD&D (going to play in my 20+ year old campaign world tonight)
DragonQuest 2nd Edition (I play that about 4 times a year)
MegaTraveller (a long running campaign that I joined last year plays a few times a year)
Villains & Vigilantes (new campaign starting soon)
Classic Traveller (campaign just ended, may start new game soon)
The Morrow Project (new campaignin planning stages)
Oh, and my D&D3.0 game is on hiatus until October. That one is technically out of print.
OD&D (going to play in my 20+ year old campaign world tonight)
DragonQuest 2nd Edition (I play that about 4 times a year)
MegaTraveller (a long running campaign that I joined last year plays a few times a year)
Villains & Vigilantes (new campaign starting soon)
Classic Traveller (campaign just ended, may start new game soon)
The Morrow Project (new campaignin planning stages)
Oh, and my D&D3.0 game is on hiatus until October. That one is technically out of print.
Jack of Shadows
First Post
Mekton Zeta
Worlds Beyond
Talislanta (though I guess that doesn't really count)
Worlds Beyond
Talislanta (though I guess that doesn't really count)
The_Universe
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WEG Star Wars, HeroQuest, WEG Star Wars, and MORE WEG Star Wars. *sniffle* Sometimes I miss playing games that lack enough rules to make even the simplest tasks easy to resolve. Oh well, if I ever want to go back, it looks like they're trying to re-start the D6 system as a multi-genre generic ruleset. It'd probably work ok for that, especially if you like rules light stuff.
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