Hey Gauntleteers!

Hey Gauntleteers!

Hey Gauntleteers!

What’re your favourite RPGs that you’ve never played? Games that I’ve enjoyed reading and have daydreamed about how they would play. Games that have really interesting mechanics or evocative settings…

For me, this list includes:

1. Best Friends: a roleplaying game about girlfriends and all their petty hatreds [2006]

2. Underground: super powered veterans return home to find the dream is dead [1993]

3. Cold City: In the divided city of Berlin, the Reserve Police Agency hunts down monsters left over from sinister experiments and twisted technology [2007]

My gaming mission this year is to get one (1) of these to the gaming table (actual or virtual).

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  1. Ooof. Hard one.

    1) Lost in the Rain – a game about children living rough and how friendship protects them from sierens, things that steal children

    2) Poison’d – A game about pirates, but it’s a really horrible game. Rules for rape included. I wanna see how it plays and what it feels like.

    3) Broken Rooms – It’s about several realities where you use broken rooms to travel between apocalyptic realities. The game is dense but I love he premise.

  2. Ooof. Hard one.

    1) Lost in the Rain – a game about children living rough and how friendship protects them from sierens, things that steal children

    2) Poison’d – A game about pirates, but it’s a really horrible game. Rules for rape included. I wanna see how it plays and what it feels like.

    3) Broken Rooms – It’s about several realities where you use broken rooms to travel between apocalyptic realities. The game is dense but I love he premise.

  11. Prime Time Adventures… which seems like the Gauntlet’s white whale 😀

    I’ll second Kate’s choice of Broken Rooms.

    Also: Psi-Run

    Goblin Quest

    And Serial Homicide Unit

  12. Prime Time Adventures… which seems like the Gauntlet’s white whale 😀

    I’ll second Kate’s choice of Broken Rooms.

    Also: Psi-Run

    Goblin Quest

    And Serial Homicide Unit

  15. Swords Without Master, Goblin Quest/Havoc Brigade, Questlandia, Masks, Cheat Your Own Adventure, and World of Dreams. My list was even longer than that but thanks to the Gauntlet I’ve been able to chop it down 😊

  16. Swords Without Master, Goblin Quest/Havoc Brigade, Questlandia, Masks, Cheat Your Own Adventure, and World of Dreams. My list was even longer than that but thanks to the Gauntlet I’ve been able to chop it down 😊

  21. Michael G. Barford Thanks! Just started listening to that one! 😀 I have a backlog of 3 episodes and started listening in reverse order today…

  22. Michael G. Barford Thanks! Just started listening to that one! 😀 I have a backlog of 3 episodes and started listening in reverse order today…

  25. 1. The Name of God – A ritualized modern dark fantasy game about lost Gods…. ish.

    2. The Daughters of Verona – Shakespeare comedy RPG!

    3. The Clay that Woke – Mythical ancient stories of the Minotaur.

  26. 1. The Name of God – A ritualized modern dark fantasy game about lost Gods…. ish.

    2. The Daughters of Verona – Shakespeare comedy RPG!

    3. The Clay that Woke – Mythical ancient stories of the Minotaur.

  33. In no particular order:

    1) Pendragon – own almost everything for the game but never played.

    2) Zombie Cinema

    3) Dark Continent – “adventure and exploration in darkest Africa”

    4) Space 1889

    5) STALKER

    6) The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

    7) Sign in Stranger

    8) Monsterhearts (yeah, I know. Shame on me)

  34. In no particular order:

    1) Pendragon – own almost everything for the game but never played.

    2) Zombie Cinema

    3) Dark Continent – “adventure and exploration in darkest Africa”

    4) Space 1889

    5) STALKER

    6) The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

    7) Sign in Stranger

    8) Monsterhearts (yeah, I know. Shame on me)

  35. Easily a half dozen already mentioned and I’ll add in…

    Albedo Anthropomorphics (enjoyed the comic, the hard science, and the intrigue/mystery but never found a group interested in it)

    Jorune (interesting setting, got it back when everyone else was D&D or nothing.)

    Magicians (inspired by the novel, learn Korean and cast magic)

    Warbirds (the one by Outrider Studios, alt history Crimson Skies feel to it.)

    One of my resolutions this year is to play|run Albedo/Jorune/Sandman (Pacesetter).

  36. Easily a half dozen already mentioned and I’ll add in…

    Albedo Anthropomorphics (enjoyed the comic, the hard science, and the intrigue/mystery but never found a group interested in it)

    Jorune (interesting setting, got it back when everyone else was D&D or nothing.)

    Magicians (inspired by the novel, learn Korean and cast magic)

    Warbirds (the one by Outrider Studios, alt history Crimson Skies feel to it.)

    One of my resolutions this year is to play|run Albedo/Jorune/Sandman (Pacesetter).

  49. Wow! Thanks everyone – looks like this isn’t just me!

    A load of games here that I know and want to play, like Kagematsu, Night’s Black Agents, Primetime Adventures. But also loads of new games! Like Broken Rooms, The Name of God, Misspent Youth Well done brain, this exercise may have backfired! 🙂

    Anyone have any lessons from when they got these kinds of stuck-on-the-shelf games to the table?

    Usually for me, the challenge is where the effort to run the game, either in ‘selling’ the concept to the group or in learning how to play by yourself seem prohibitive.

  50. Wow! Thanks everyone – looks like this isn’t just me!

    A load of games here that I know and want to play, like Kagematsu, Night’s Black Agents, Primetime Adventures. But also loads of new games! Like Broken Rooms, The Name of God, Misspent Youth Well done brain, this exercise may have backfired! 🙂

    Anyone have any lessons from when they got these kinds of stuck-on-the-shelf games to the table?

    Usually for me, the challenge is where the effort to run the game, either in ‘selling’ the concept to the group or in learning how to play by yourself seem prohibitive.

  53. I’ll second that!  Burt over at Of Steam, Steel, and Murder has created the Bucket List crew.  He’s got a list of old games that he wants to play/run: Gangbusters, Star Frontiers, Marvel Superheroes (aka FASERIP), etc.  It’s been a hoot.

  54. I’ll second that!  Burt over at Of Steam, Steel, and Murder has created the Bucket List crew.  He’s got a list of old games that he wants to play/run: Gangbusters, Star Frontiers, Marvel Superheroes (aka FASERIP), etc.  It’s been a hoot.

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