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Your Three Desert Island RPGs
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Scott Christian
Hero
5e (Great for general purpose fun and surprising moments)
Vampire: The Masquerade (Great for RP)
The Adventurer's Arts (Mine; Great for giving me a creative outlet
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Daggerheart (A fourth would be nice. Haven't played yet, but we start a new campaign with it in a few weeks! Read the rulebook. It seems fun.)
Vampire: The Masquerade (Great for RP)
The Adventurer's Arts (Mine; Great for giving me a creative outlet
)Daggerheart (A fourth would be nice. Haven't played yet, but we start a new campaign with it in a few weeks! Read the rulebook. It seems fun.)
Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
- Burning Wheel -- it could cover the same areas and some of the same concerns as The One Ring, Warhammer, Pendragon, Thousand Arrows, and Ars Magica, even if it felt different.
- D&D 4th Edition -- so I'd have a version of D&D.
- Traveller or maybe Starforged -- for my science fiction needs.
Campbell
Relaxed Intensity
Legend of the Five Rings (Fifth Edition)
@RenleyRenfield 's Vampire Hack
Apocalypse Keys
Hoping Fabula Ultima adds itself to contention.
@RenleyRenfield 's Vampire Hack
Apocalypse Keys
Hoping Fabula Ultima adds itself to contention.
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Hmm, I'd want three very different types of RPGs. I'd want to cover my main genre loves, and have at least one be a universal system. I'd also like it to be games I'd both want to run and play as I enjoy both parts.
Now, do I go by the title of desert isle or the post which is just a limit for the rest of time. The main difference here is the internet -- am I able to look things up, see others house rules, (use VTTs), get new supplements as they come out, etc.
For example, Fate is likely going to be my universal system. But really it's best supported in that role with the plentiful fan creations on the internet, just to give variety as opposed being stuck with how I (and the others on the island) would design.
I'm torn on PbtA - I really like bespoke games, and one of my genre loves is supers and my favorite supers game is currently Masks: A New Generation. However, it's super tight to one concept, and I think that is too tight for one of my three forever games. Generally, what I most love about PbtAs also makes them poor choices for a forever game, that they are very tightly tied to a concept.
Ooof, having to be forever games really cuts a bunch of my favorite RPGs out, because they are tightly mechanically tied to a concept that makes them superior for me, but not inferior when they are 1/3 of your total games you get to play. This really skews what I pick in an interesting way.
The question about supplements comes up for covering another genre love, heroic fantasy. My favorite currently is 13th Age, so I could take 13th Age 2nd ed with me. But D&D just has so much more published for it regularly that would give me more variety in a forever game. Those two exceed any of the other big tent fantasy RPGs I've tried, and no matter how good I've heard it to be I wouldn't risk a choice on a system I hadn't played or run.
I'm really torn on Supers. I played countless hours of Champions (now Hero System), and it's technically a good generic system as well. But I have no patience for such a heavy, crunchy game anymore. But here I have a list of systems I want to try, a bunch of systems I've tried and wouldn't make the list, and Masks: A New Generation which we already described the issue with. Funny, this is one where "on a desert island" is a benefit. If we have enough leisure time to play RPGs, maybe a crunchy and honestly a bit slow system will be fine. If I need to pick not just an RPG but an edition, I'd probably go with FRed (Fifth Revised) instead of 6th, though the BBB (Big Blue Book) was the one I spent the most time with and I might fall back to that. If I did I'd still leave Fate in there as a very different feeling generic system.
Now, do I go by the title of desert isle or the post which is just a limit for the rest of time. The main difference here is the internet -- am I able to look things up, see others house rules, (use VTTs), get new supplements as they come out, etc.
For example, Fate is likely going to be my universal system. But really it's best supported in that role with the plentiful fan creations on the internet, just to give variety as opposed being stuck with how I (and the others on the island) would design.
I'm torn on PbtA - I really like bespoke games, and one of my genre loves is supers and my favorite supers game is currently Masks: A New Generation. However, it's super tight to one concept, and I think that is too tight for one of my three forever games. Generally, what I most love about PbtAs also makes them poor choices for a forever game, that they are very tightly tied to a concept.
Ooof, having to be forever games really cuts a bunch of my favorite RPGs out, because they are tightly mechanically tied to a concept that makes them superior for me, but not inferior when they are 1/3 of your total games you get to play. This really skews what I pick in an interesting way.
The question about supplements comes up for covering another genre love, heroic fantasy. My favorite currently is 13th Age, so I could take 13th Age 2nd ed with me. But D&D just has so much more published for it regularly that would give me more variety in a forever game. Those two exceed any of the other big tent fantasy RPGs I've tried, and no matter how good I've heard it to be I wouldn't risk a choice on a system I hadn't played or run.
I'm really torn on Supers. I played countless hours of Champions (now Hero System), and it's technically a good generic system as well. But I have no patience for such a heavy, crunchy game anymore. But here I have a list of systems I want to try, a bunch of systems I've tried and wouldn't make the list, and Masks: A New Generation which we already described the issue with. Funny, this is one where "on a desert island" is a benefit. If we have enough leisure time to play RPGs, maybe a crunchy and honestly a bit slow system will be fine. If I need to pick not just an RPG but an edition, I'd probably go with FRed (Fifth Revised) instead of 6th, though the BBB (Big Blue Book) was the one I spent the most time with and I might fall back to that. If I did I'd still leave Fate in there as a very different feeling generic system.
RenleyRenfield
Adventurer
Dawww... yeah, our Vampire rules is sooooo good!
Honestly, Draw Steel was sooo close.
As a GM, I think Apocalypse World is likely #2 spot, maybe.... L5R 5th ed is killer too... And after some more refinement I think our Wraith the Oblivion hack its near the top as well...
Spellslinging Sellsword
Adventurer
Most likely:
D&D (Any but 4th I could easily mod to mimic any edition)
D100 (Probably BRP UGE or Mythras)
Maybe one of these:
HERO, WEG Star Wars, Pendragon, Prince Valiant
D&D (Any but 4th I could easily mod to mimic any edition)
D100 (Probably BRP UGE or Mythras)
Maybe one of these:
HERO, WEG Star Wars, Pendragon, Prince Valiant
Ulfgeir
Hero
I think I would go with the following:
The Troubleshooters (pulpy modern adventures, and I have seen a hack letting it handle Cthulhu-stories)
Fate Core (My generic system of choice)
The third one is hard.
The Troubleshooters (pulpy modern adventures, and I have seen a hack letting it handle Cthulhu-stories)
Fate Core (My generic system of choice)
The third one is hard.
- If it is to maximize the amount of availible material for it: Either D&D 3.5 or Pathfinder 1e. The systems are similar enough.
- If it is to get something very different in style than my other choices, probably Good Society, or GURPS 4e
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