1. Dungeon & Dragons (from B/X and AD&D onward)Honorable mentions to a bunch of new games and retro clones that have inspired me as of late: Apocalypse World, Sword & Wizardry, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Old School Hack, and PDQ.
2. Gurps (every edition)
3. Risus: The Anything RPG
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: RPG
5. Vampire: The Masquerade
6. MERP (and to a lesser degree, Rolemaster)
7. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1e)
8. Castle Falkenstein
9. The Mythic Game Master Emulator
10. Traveller
11. Gamma World
12. FUDGE (and it's new-school cousin FATE)
13. Star Wars (WEG)
14. Myth: The Fallen Lords & Myth II: Soulblighter
15. Zork
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Here's my list:
1. Dungeons & Dragons (from "red box" Basic Set, c. 1982, through D&D4e and Pathfinder) -- high fantasy
2. Star Frontiers -- space opera
3. Top Secret S.I. -- espionage
4. Shadowrun -- cyberpunk/fantasy (Editions 1 through 4)
5. Storyteller: World of Darkness (particularly Vampire: the Masquerade 2nd Ed.) -- supernatural melodrama
6. Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS; primarily Third Edition) -- numerous genres
7. Star Wars (including D6, D20, and Saga Edition) -- space opera
8. Star Trek (including FASA, Last Unicorn, Decipher, and GURPS and D20 Prime Directive versions) -- space opera
9. RoleMaster (including Harn and Middle Earth Role-Playing) -- fantasy
10. Doctor Who (FASA, Time Lord, and Cubicle 7 versions) -- time travel
11. Castle Falkenstein (both original and GURPS versions) -- steampunk/fantasy
12. D20 Mutants & Masterminds (1st through 3rd editions) -- superheroes
13. Boot Hill -- Westerns
14. DC Heroes/Marvel Superheroes (various editions) -- comic book superheroes
15. Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (FATE) 3rd Ed.: currently using Starblazer Adventures/Mindjammer and Diaspora/Limitless Horizons (see also Spirit of the Century, Legends of Anglerre, and Dresden Files) -- multigenre, space opera
Addendum to my previous post, honorable mentions:
Fantasy: Zork, Palladium, Warhammer
Comedy: Paranoia, Toon
Superheroes: Hero/Champions, Silver Age Sentinels
Science fiction: Big Eyes Small Mouth, Jovian Chronicles, Gamma World, Rifts, Traveller
Multigenre: D20, Savage Worlds
Ah, we both love lists, don't we? :)
Why doesn't FATAL gets any love on these lists? ;)
@Christian: Wow, I had to google FATAL. I had no idea... :o
Seeing all these 15 lists the past few days made me finally bring my blog out of hibernation.
Not even near 15. Ones that really mattered. More filler to come.
1) D&D B/X – did more and better gaming with B/X than anything else – no matter which dice mechanic we used.
2) Risus – after a long dry spell, Risus reminded me that gaming is supposed to be fun: aggressively silly, deliriously loopy, fun. The Companion is the funniest read I’ve had in a long time.
3) Space: 1889 – the game that never was. Gamed bits and parts in fits and starts – and dreamt of what might have been.
4) Arabian Adventure. A personal quest to run a setting based on The Nights rather than the Pop Culture take on the Arabian Nights.
5) WEG D6 – my first build from scratch system. Star Wars/Traveller, Cliffhangers, etc...
Honorable mention:
Fudge
Cthuhlu by Gaslight
PDQ
Honorable Filler:
Dice Chucker
Sketch
5X5
@CL: I saw! You have something in mind for future posts?
@Nero: Love that Space 1889. If I'd actually played the game, it would have made the list.
@RM-yeah, I plan on keeping it going. I have 5 posts started, just need to find the time to finish them. But given my past track record, we'll see what I come up with...
@Nero: Love that Space 1889. If I'd actually played the game, it would have made the lis7.
High Fantasy gamers didn't transition well to Pulp; although they thought they wanted to.
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