the greatest RPGs you have never played

Amber is supposedly neat but I never played that.
I kind of wish the Rifts campaign had lasted a bit longer, but finals + summer put that one to bed.

Jesus christ I was a dork.

I have played:

D&D
AD&D
Shadowrun
Paranoia
Traveller
Top Secret
Mage/Vampire/Werewolf
Ars Magica
Doctor Who RPG
James Bond RPG
Gangbusters
Bushido
Call Of Cthulhu
Champions
DC Heroes
Golden Heroes
En Garde!
various GURPS
Runequest
Gamma World
Boot Hill
MERP
WFRP
2300AD
C&S
Chill
Skyrealms of Jorune
Judge Dredd
Twilight 2000
Pendragon
Stormbringer

TOMBOT, I trump your dorkiness. I AM NOT PROUD.

heh, balance, yeah... in places. house rules are necessary in places.
pace... no, that was 2nd Ed AD&D.

Later, I would attend my senior prom, with a girl.

We did something like this with from ages 8 till 14

what's up w/ pathfinder? seems like everyone loves it?

It's a logarithmic evolution of D&D 3.5. For those who thought the number crunching nerdiness hadn't reached it's proper apogee. I got lost just reading the rulebook.

the best RPG ever was my free-form intergalactic anything-goes-but-magic one where nobody had any dice or character sheets or anything written down, I just sat there in the school cafeteria and GM'd as my friends came up with ridiculous shit for their characters to do, probabilistic issues were solved by having people guess numbers between one and ten.
We did something like this with from ages 8 till 14

ditto
although i had a mini notebook which held all the initial details of various locations and inhabitants on the world map, we didn't really use it much as I'd memorised it all being the creator and all.

My friend kept all our work at his house, and then he moved to America abrubtly and I never saw him again. I would love to know that he kept that little book as I know he loved it.

the pathfinder people are making a space opera game

http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/11/17/13625140/starfinder-rpg-pathfinder

August is a long way off though

Would be more inclined to play a space opera setting than trad fantasy, due to genre preferences.

Ditto. So is Pathfinder as fun as sales figures would suggest? Anybody know?

No love for Car Wars itt...?

Car Wars was pretty all right.
Mechwarrior 2nd Edition was better though.

I kinda want to see if I can use this starfinder thing to build a sort of airtight garage/ jodoverse campaign setting

omg lol wtf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metabarons_Roleplaying_Game
https://rpggeek.com/rpg/1449/metabarons-roleplaying-game

The Metabarons Roleplaying Game is a mystical space opera role-playing game which uses the D6 system. The players play characters who are not the Metabarons, but common people who are affected by the Metabarons.

Character progress depends upon adhering to an honor code. Heroes also have "NecroDream points" which, when they outnumber their "Amarax" (heroism) points, strip them of their heroic quality and throws them back into idleness and decadence.

This game actually re-implemented Star Wars, since West End Games had been bought by a French company but could not keep rights. Therefore they chose to adapt another sci-fi universe.

The players play characters who are not the Metabarons, but common people who are affected by the Metabarons.

thank god for escapism

tbf being a Metabaron would be pretty boring and terrible too. You could probably make a Cards Against Humanity style character-creation system, but after that it's like okay you're an unstoppable warrior whose main motivation is to have children so you can mutilate them and then they grow up and murder you. OTOH making a game based on The Incal also belongs in the your terrible ideas thread

didn't realize metabarons used the old west end games d6 system ... was going to pop on the thread earlier to say that i thought that the old d6 star wars was the perfect sci fi RPG

i have a soft spot for star frontiers, as that was the first RPG i ever bought (1983 iirc)

although i could never get a game going! so i suppose that is my favorite RPG i never played

my group was actually playing d6 star wars for a few months but we just switched to d&d 5E which is awesome

Paranoia

i have owned old editions of paranoia and currently have a copy of paranoia XP chilling on the game shelf. played a few times. reading the books is very entertaining, i found it hard to run a game that lived up to that level of funny

Toon

used to own, played a few times. again, found it hard to be as creative and funny as, say, warner bros cartoons. also makes you realize how much cartoons depend on visual humor / mood setting which is difficult to convey in an RPG

Car Wars

good board game. i had car wars / boat wars / air wars. i believe there was an RPG called "autoduel" but i never owned that. didn't play a whole lot of this or battletech. the paper pieces were just too flimsy and the rules too fidgety. we always ended up playing WH40K instead. the pieces had a reassuring solidity.

also FYI they made all of the star frontiers stuff public domain

http://www.starfrontiers.com

so the Traveler page on Wikipedia has this awesome table of scenario types. Poll material imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_%28role-playing_game%29#Adventures