Your Three Desert Island RPGs

[stormwriter]

D&D Rules Cyclopedia
Basic Roleplaying
Storypath Ultra

Not necessarily my favorite games, but games I would choose if they were the only ones left in the world to play forever.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Are we talking just core rules, or with lots of supplements/setting material? I'll assume the latter....

Shadowdark
Dragonbane
MERP (not to play, just to read. I'm on a desert island, right?)

 

[Vael]

Daggerheart - it's my system of choice and offers a lot of what DnD can do but lighter.
FATE - This is my go-to for any franchise I would want to run. Star Trek? Use some Atomic Robo elements like brainstorming for technobabble and batching together skills for a science officer. Star Wars, Cyberpunk, Fate is flexible like that.
unknown - The third slot is reserved for the first Superhero game that really sings for me. Which I haven't found yet. Superhero games I've tried are either too crunchy or too light for me. I've tried Superheros in FATE, and ... it works, but I'd like something more, but doesn't need app support.

So, Daggerheart for traditional DnD, a Superhero game for Superheros and FATE for everything else, lol

 

[LordEntrails]

2014 D&D
FrontierSpace
Then I'm torn between Cyberpunk (Red) and RuneQuest 1E, so I guess both

 

[billd91]

D&D 5e
Call of Cthulhu 7e
Mutants and Masterminds 3e or Traveller - tough choice

 

[GrimCo]

nWoD (not CoD) - it covers pretty much all genres set in modern day setting. While i love V:tM more than Requiem, i like rest of the game lines better in nWoD.

D&D 5e - for fantasy in all flavors. If LotR 5e counts as separate game, i can recreate it with houserules.

Cyberpunk, but it's toss up between 2020 and RED.

Honorable mention: Window 1ed. That system is so rules light (and i mean light) that's almost freeform roleplay with barley any dice involved.

 

[coyote6]

Probably:

• GURPS 4e
• Mutants & Masterminds (probably 2e, maybe 4e)
• D&D 5e or SWADE or a 2d20 game, probably

 

[Jasperak]

1. AD&D 2e for the absolute gold mine of materials to kitbash with #3.
2. Classic Traveller for solo play when everyone else is out hunting for food and stuff
3. B/X D&D for when everyone just wants to sit down and drink fermented coconut water and have fun

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

1. Cyberpunk Red
2. BECMI (provided I can get fresh shiny new versions to replace my original, much-loved copies)
3. Shadowdark or DCC RPG

 

[SlyFlourish]

• D&D 5e (probably D&D 2024). Lots of subclasses, lots of options with multiclassing, easily hackable into new stuff for the foreseeable future.
• Shadow of the Weird Wizard (I haven't played it yet). Thousands of character options in a single volume for a lot of replayabiliy.
• FATE Acccelerated. Super hackable RPG I can focus on any genre and customize.

I love Shadowdark but I think I could hack Shadowdark with D&D 2024 rules if I wanted to (no feats, only one subclass, keep it low level, etc).

I'd mostly go for RPGs I can run over and over with new flavors and hack easily to support other methods of play.