Warhammer Fantasy RPG

Football.

Spycraft

Mancala.

For me, it's gotta Promethean: the Created.

This game is really only good in one scenario: one player, one ST. A long campaign individually tailored to the player. Deep, intense, tough, and soul-searching, but in the end this is the closest RPGs get to art.

/my best campaign ever

In Nomine

Burning Wheel

An obscure indie title or generally unpopular alternative to a more widely accepted game of the same kind.

And then somebody shows up and starts shit talking, the original poster of the obscure title gets put in a defensive position and starts arguing its merits. The shit-talker then feels as though his more mainstream version of the game is being insulted and starts attacking even harder.

And then, then the muscle women images start showing up.

It's kinda fanmade but I'm a big fan of Genius: the Transgression

>>16068340

>closest RPGs get to art.
>implying RPGs aren't already art
>implying damn near everything isn't art

Eclipse Phase

>>16068355
>muscle girl thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VyMWk6Gb4&NR=1

>>16068363
YOU'RE art!

Chess

Dominion.

Legend of the Five Rings. I know we talk about it some, but not nearly enough.

Also Rogue Trader/Dark Heresy, we don't talk about either of these as much as we should.

>>16068380

In the quoted, and in this precise instance, yes.

Tekumel. No one ever talks about Tekumel.

Cards. I love me some informal 500.

I like it better when it aint so pompous and non-obvious tabletalk is allowed (but not code...). Makes it kinda like poker with shit-talking.

I love shit-talking.

Paranoia

Poker

>>16068488
Also: Paranoia High Programmers.

Puerto Rico, Agricola, Twilight Strugger, Imperial, Bootleggers, Dominion, Stone Age, Small World

Basically the top 100 of boardgamegeek's rank

>>16068526
Ops, Twilight Struggle

Struggers would be nice too

>>16068488
>>16068498
>>16068398
>>16068331
Yes to all of these. L5R especially. For my part, i think Reign could get some more love, given how rad it is and how rad it's publishing system is.

Anything that isn't D&D, GW, and a little WW and Warmahordes.

Feels batman. And his parents are dead, so you know how he feels.

Classic Deadlands

>>16068576
And Hell on Earth.

Fuck, even the Reloaded edition ain't too bad if you keep the cardgen.

>>16068363

I like you.

HERO

As much as /tg/ likes to take jibes of the crunchiness, it's really fun to play and unless you failed 5th grade math you should have no problems with making a character.

Di I mention it is fun to play? Because good god it is fun to play.

In Spaaace! is a good game, and free. I'm playing that shit right now.

Monopoly
Also, those Lego games.

Twilight Imperium?

I'd call it a good game but I understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea. Now that I think of it, I suppose there's not really too much that would warrant protracted discussions.

>>16068600
We had a good thread or two about the lego games recently, but yeah I wouldn't mind more.

Also there's that Legoquest guy.

>>16068656
We could probably play a game of it on /tg/ some night.

Paranoia
Paranoia: High Programmers
Simple d6
Descent
Robo Rally
HoL

>>16068666
"it" meaning TI3.

>>16068703
Also Aye Dark Overlord - but the Overlord has to shift and everyone has to agree being Gentlemanly and fair when playing as the Overlord. Also everyone has to have roughly the same amount of rpg experience. If those parameters can be in order you got your self an awesome game

>>16068742
>Aye, Dark Overlord
My rpg group is a bunch of theater people. This game is a fucking blast.

>>16068742
Also, you have excellent taste.

Deadlands.

Shadows Over Camelot

>>16068759
Thanks. I forgot to add in Frag unfortunately but holy crap, never have I played a better beer and prentzles games than Frag. For non-serious games it has got to be one of my favourite games of all time

Blue Planet. More for the setting, than the mechanics.

We've been playing this for a couple of months now, hands down my favorite RPG I've played. Sure, it's really rules heavy and there's mechanics for every minuta, but with a good story things are REALLY fleshed out with the rules. Gunfights are intense as fuck.

>>16068776
explainy.

Chivalry. and. motherfucking. Sorcery.
FTW.

Legends of Anglerre. It's like someone made Wakfu: the RPG, but for some reason nobody's talking about it.

Reign
Pendragon
Weapons of the Gods
Qin, the Warring States
Houses of the Blooded
Tribe 8
Prime-time Adventures
Burning Wheel (and Mouse Guard)
Delta Green
Unknown Armies

Take your fucking pick. If it's a good game, we probably don't talk about it.

>>16069118
>>16069003
Shit, there's another one. Aces & Eights, maybe the best Western game ever printed. Fuck talking about that. Let's throw in Dogs in the Vineyard while we're at it.

>>16069118
Reign is a damn good game that doesn't get talked about enough... I remember it was big for a couple days while I was brainstorming a brief campaign in which all of the players would play royalty in charge of bee-themed hive-nations, but since then it's only been mentioned occasionally.

As for Unknown Armies, UA rumor threads were HUGE for the first couple months of /tg/'s existence... and then the newfags showed up and thought the point was "HERP DERP, NORMAL THING IS REALLY ABNORMAL LOLRANDUM" and drove the threads into the ground.

LARP
Mortons List
eat poop you cat!
the game of life
sim

Mouseguard
HEROS
All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Brikwars

The Spoils

>>16069118

I don't really like Burning Wheel as much, but I don't regret purchasing it.

Mainly because of the really weird way that you level up abilities, especially to different shades.

I like the character building, though, and the fluff. Reading through it was educational on what to do with a system in terms of personalizing your characters.

But the dumbest thing in that game is having to pay 3 points to play a character with one arm.

>>16069154
I'm looking to run a Reign game online, but takeup has been pretty limited.

Age of Wonders.

>>16069267
Y'know, I don't see it working particularly well online. Part of its charm is simultaneous resolution, and that becomes much less relevant when you have to wait for everyone to type shit up anyways.

Have you tried browbeating people in meatspace into trying it?

Culdcept.

Monopoly + Magic: The Gathering is how it's typically described.

>>16069195

/tg/ loves the spoils. It just doesn't know it yet.

I mean, everything about it is made of awesome.

>>16069281
This a thousand times over.... Steam tanks ftw

>>16069292
Yeah, that isn't an option.

>>16069304
Fuckin loved this game when my roommate had it. Matches were as long as it sounds but it was a ton of fun.

>>16068703
What is Simple D6? I don't know that one.

>>16069392
Ah. Well, I'm sorry to hear it.

Not a single mention of Earthdawn.
It truly is the lost gem of fantasy roleplaying. Much more so than that of other games.

You have failed yourself /tg/

Amber Diceless.

>>16072005

Abso-fucking-lutely this.

The system may have quirks (of various sizes, depending on how anal you are about system quirks, anyway) but the setting is incredible and the way the system and setting mesh? BEYOND perfect.

You'd be completely in character saying something like, "My wizard is 6th Circle but I've tied a 3rd Rank thread from my Spellcasting Talent to our Group Pattern so I'm more effective than average."

Usually, in a D&D (or similar) game, if you dared utter something like, "I am 4th level and I have 4 Ranks in Spellcraft...", your DM will have a shit-fit.

>>16072864
>(of various sizes, depending on how anal you are about system quirks, anyway)
Depends on your roll for circumference.

Force on Force

AK47 Republic (distinct lack of threads since the scan was finally gotten)

Necromunda

Impetus (and a lot of other historical games at that)

Stargrunt II

Maid

They get mentioned time to time, but Eclipse Phase and Transhuman Space give me intense nerdgasms.

World of Darkness (usually only shows up in thatguy threads and then just V:tM)

Corporation

Delta Green

Star Wars Saga edition

Call of Cthulhu

Runequest

Lone Wolf - Im fairly sure no one outside my group has ever played this.

Kult.
Over the Edge.
Tribe 8.
Any BRP setting outside of Call of Cthulhu.
Underground.
Phoenix Command (on second though it aint good)
Adventure!
Aberrant
Trinity
SLA Industries.

>>16068331
Good god, this!

Amazing chase rules!
Super Spyan!
Action-packan!
Laser Wristwatchan!
Sex up the girlsan!

From what I've seen, Ars Magica sounds really interesting but no one really talks about it here.

On the wargame side, pretty much anything other than Warhammer, Warmachine, and Infinity never gets mentioned. Except occasional BattleTech threads.

Oh and Chess or the really traditional games, poker, or board games never get mentioned.

7th Sea. Great system, loved it the moment I played it. /tg/ never talks about it, though, and I heard the rulebooks are out of print.

>>16073441
>World of Darkness (usually only shows up in thatguy threads and then just V:tM)

But they're not good games.

>>16073484
well as long as you don't have idiots at your group they are

>>16073459
Ars Magica.

>>16073495
Just like roleplaying monopoly, it does not change that they're objectively flawed games.

Dune
Engel
Tribe 8
Degenesis
Ars Magica
The Dark Eye
Bubblegum Crisis

I've never seen /tg/ talk about rolemaster, too

>>16073512
>Just like roleplaying monopoly
please go troll /v/ instead, please.

Full thrust
Uncharted Seas

JOIN THE NAVY, FUCKERS!

warzone. i know some o you older fatguys musta played it.

Settlers of Catan
Descent: Journeys Into the Dark
Citadels
Warlords: Saga of the Storm (nice, simply strategy CCG)

>saying a game and not making any comment along with it
seriouslycostanza.jpg

>>16073524
To be fair, the most available version of Engel, the d20 one, is shit.

>>16073484
1/10. Shape up.

>>16073479
7Th sea looks amazing, I have scans of all the books on my comp, but Ive yet to play it. i imagine it would run rather like Rogue Trader, but in the ocean of water, not space.

scrabble

>>16068323
My dick.

>>16073540
>To be fair, the most available version of Engel, the d20 one, is shit.

sad but true and i thing a big reason why it died (english speaking).

>>16073534
>Citadels
love citadels, a brilliantly well done card game, that and carcassonne is two game sthat i just love how well they work and still retains replayability with such simple but brilliant mechanics.

The Dresden Files needs moar love.

Osprey Force on Force.
The game is a blast and you only need 1 box of 1:72 minis to start.

>DON'T GET TALKED ABOUT
My favorite game no one has heard of is called "English Grammar."

Das Schwarze Auge, you may know it as the dark eye.
low fantasy setting (like), nice rules, 3d20 talents composed of three stats relevant to the talent, setting is a pretty cool world imho.. too bad its largely unknown outside of germany

RPG's I could understand the wish and need to bring up more often but Boardgames rarely have much to be talked about (there's exceptions, though not many), just play them.

Now talking about how to play the boardgames online and making some collective project to make that possible, that I could see.

>>16073441
> Star Wars Saga Edition
You've clearly made a typographical error. Allow me to mend it for you.
*ahem*
West End Games' Star Wars: Revised Edition

There. I've fixed it for you.

Warhammer Quest

>>16073596
I like it, even though the rules are a bit more complex than necessary.
And I love norbards.

This game is a good free print-and play. WW2, squad level, hex-and-counter.
http://www.valorandvictory.com/

>>16073612
Star Wars d6 is utter shit compared to Saga. I think /tg/ must be the only corner of the internet where people still actually think d6 is better. Then again, people on /tg/ still play Rifts...

Drakar och Demoner (not dungeons and dragons, it uses Basic Roleplaying as a system): Trudvang.

Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare (Gamma World inspired version of scandinavia, with a system inspired by Basic Roleplaying)

Kult (well, atleast this one actually exist in English and French, system, as much use as it is in Call of Cthulhu, inspired by Basic Roleplaying).

Götterdämmerung (18th century occult conspiracies and monsters, system inspired by Basic Roleplaying).

Yes, Sweden loves BRP.

I'll let some one else rant and rave about Gemini, Neotech, Eon and the rest.

>>16072864
>>16072005

I went into this thread hoping to see a mention of Earthdawn.

And hell, not only is it basically a meta-setting/system based on 80's fantasy cliches, a lot of the mechanics are really great. I really dig that you can weave experience into your magical items to improve its power, i think it's a great way alternative to having magic items of scaling power all over the place.

Earthdawn was the first RPG i ever played, and damn it do i still love it.

>>16073615
>Warhammer Quest
WHQ needs a rerelease, FFG should have made WFRP 3rd ed full out WHQ instead, though I know they cant make miniature games with GW's IPs, still..

>>16073626
My playgroup doesn't browse /tg/

They think D6 is better.

>>16068705
>>16068666

Playing TI3 on /tg/?

Are you mad, sir? Have you taken leave of your senses?

>>16069154

>As for Unknown Armies, UA rumor threads were HUGE for the first couple months of /tg/'s existence... and then the newfags showed up and thought the point was "HERP DERP, NORMAL THING IS REALLY ABNORMAL LOLRANDUM" and drove the threads into the ground.

We had a pretty good UA Rumours thread a few days ago. Not that I'm against more UA discussion in any way whatsoever.

>>16073633
eeh
I looked at it but it didn't seem too interesting
though the air pirate trolls and vulture- and stone people seem interesting

pic is from the japanese version btw

heavy gear blitz. it's strange seeing that older 40k players that don't like the current edition haven't picked this up.

>>16073626
I can't hear you over the sound of all those ducks you're sicking.
Or something.

Seriously, I play D&D, and the d20 has its place. That place is not Star Wars. Not when the WEG system is so fucking fun and feels so fucking natural.

/tg/ should get more Full Thrust in it's diet. Srsly. Fleet-level skirmish games that don't feel like MS-Excel spreadsheets.

it's a pity opus anima is german only
/tg/ would be all over it

obscure steam technology, original races and the player characters are lost souls on the edge of death cursed by eldritch godlike beeings
and everyone wears top hats and sports a mustache

at least there's finally an english version of degenesis

>>16073891
and the core book is free even

Universal Fighting System. It was never a huge game, but it was a lot of fun while it was around.

And Heroclix as well. Whatever happened to that?

FantasyCraft

Seriously.
Shut the fuck up about Pathfinder and all the dumb shit it does that makes it worse than 3.5. No more 4e bullshit.

You want a game that does every you need a d20 fantasy RPG to do with options to do even more? Play fucking FantasyCraft and stop getting into these stupid arguments over bullshit systems like Pathfinder that just copy-pasted 3.5

>>16073935
Heroclix are still around.
They just released a Captain America set, they're gearing up for a Blackest Night set, I believe, and they announced Street Fighter clix not too long ago.

>>16073946
> FantasyCraft doesn't get talked about.

Only gets evangelized in every PF thread since the dawn of time.

It's not a very popular game, but certainly not for lack of exposure.

>at least there's finally an english version of degenesis
Full version or that "preview" demo splatbook?

>>16068526
Boardgames in general really, unless it's an incredibly terrible "Family" board game.

>>16073935
I think what happened to heroclix was just that it never really grew for the longest time, and essentially kept going just to appease diehard comic fans.
I was into that for a good long while. Still have all mine. I love it.

There's plenty:

- Wargods of Aegyptus
- Heavy Gear(Both Blitz and Arena)
- Mouse Guard
- Spirit of the Century
- Kings of War

Just a few off the top of my head.

>>16073968
Nearly every review I've read for the system usually has a "It's fantastic, I love it!.. But I'm not going to shelve D&D/pathfinder or my other weekly games to play it."

Ars Magica

>>16069195
This.

Pic related. I hate that guy (although once I get four of him, I won't)

Talisman.
We are loving how basic the game is in addition to how varied every play is. I am really close to just making a bunch of new characters and unique monsters.

Stars Without Number rocks.

>>16073992
That, and it's kind of pricey for a collectible hobby game.

I picked up a bunch at Chicago comic con for a dollar a box and got some awesome figures, but I also got quadruples of the same shitty clix over and over. Hell, a friend of mine got a box that had two of the same exact figure in it.

Imagine paying 10$ for a box and getting 4 dinky, 15 points, no name minion clix. That would suck hard and probably drive me away from ever buying again

>>16073971
full core rules
the first ones were sold at gen con 2011
posthuman studios took over from fanpro/catalyst

the remainder of the prerelease is sold here

http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17816

one copy left

>>16073729
This looks fairly similar to Battlefleet Gothic. Anything in particular that sets it apart, or am I essentially correct?

>>16074029
That's nothing. Earlier on you ran the risk of not even getting 4 figures in a box. I bought a number of them that only had three in them, and a number of those also had dupe figures.

>>16074080
At the same Comic con I bought those 1$ boxes, there were a couple guys who bought an entire shipment case and sat on the ground opening every box. 48 individual boxes for 20$ was a phenomenal deal for them, but they didn't get any of the rare or unique figures they wanted, just lots of duplicates and low rank (worthless) versions that they didn't need.

Mean while, I got rare versions of both of the characters they wanted from one box. They were kind of pissed when I told them that.

>>16074108
I had a big sack of garbage figures. Duplicates and low rank crap minis.
A big sack.

Stargrunt II
Dark Conspiracy
WFRP (excluding 3rd ed)

rolled 20 = 20

>Good games that never get mentioned.
Clolonial Gothic and Aces and Eights.

Very good games, particuarly Aces and Eights for their combat system.

No Cyberpunk 2020? You guys disappoint me.

A while ago we had regular 200+ post Mordheim threads.
Interest appears to have vanished, unfortunately.

Gamma World. It is the funnest, craziest game you will ever play. Even the version using 4E rules. Also, I second Deadlands/

>>16074168
3rd edition is interesting. I had played Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader before, and I picked up the 3rd edition WFRP core box at a pretty massive discount because I liked and was familiar with Fantasy Flight. I've read through it a few times, and I still have no real idea of how I feel about it. It's like a cross between a board game and a traditional pen-and-paper RPG, and the reviews I've read about it after the fact either hail it as the second coming of Jesus or the antichrist, depending. I just have no real idea of how it plays in real time. The tokens and cards might be a chore, but they might also speed the game up considerably.

Has anyone here played WFRP 3rd edition? How does it run?

>>16075105
its okay, not amazing but it works. Once you get into it though you lose the charm of story and it quickly becomes a numbers game. You're just adding up symbols and playing your cards. Its certainly playable and makes for great one off scenarios but overall I prefer 2nd ed.

>>16075324
Ah, alright. Thank you. I looked at second edition, and it seems a lot closer to Dark Heresy than anything else.

>>16075613

That would be because Dark Heresy was based on WFRP, at least before third edition.

I've really got no idea why FFG did that. There were more than enough supplements for 2nd Edition still to be written, the system worked well enough that they kept it going for Dark Heresy. The only reason I can think of is that they wanted to establish their own control over it by radically changing it.

>>16069334
Was talking about the original. The second set was pretty decent too, though.

Savage Worlds

Then again, it can run anything, and as such all threads are related.

Heavy Gear

Traveller. Great scifi game with awesome lifepath style character generation (as well as random generators for everything else, like planets and creatures). The only time we ever talk about it is the occasional thread in which someone rolls up a character for /tg/'s amusement.

>>16075702
BattleTech.

CoC, and most of BRP.

Pretty much any GUMSHOE game, from Esoterrorists to Trail of Cthulhu. I've kinda got a love/hate thing going on with the system, but the fluff is always fucking magnificent.

Pic Related, since I've just bought Ashen Stars to read through, and I fucking love the Kch-Thk. Hunger Tourism, fuck yeah.

Cthulhutech
Blue Rose
FATAL

Advanced Fighting Fantasy
Mouse Guard (never played)
Dresden Files
Transhuman Space
Eclipse Phase (never played)

>>16075724
I prefer the feel of HG, personally. Instead of "Battlemechs are the bomb, everything in war is subservient to battlemechs", in HG a tank is a big fucking deal. They give a reasonable excuse why Aircraft aren't a big part of warfare, and the Gears fill in a niche between infantry and heavy armour.

>They give a reasonable excuse why Aircraft aren't a big part of warfare,
What is the reason, just out of curiosity?

>>16075927
Most fighting happens in the huge desert area around the equator, which has two impacts.

Limited clouds means not much cloud-cover, and the invention of laser weaponry means the moment you CAN see/detect something, you can hit it. In addition, because the planet itself is much larger, there isn't the concern about planes that can fire around the curvature of the earth avoiding being seen. Planes are great when they can avoid return fire. Hard to dodge return fire that moves at the speed of light and has computers pinpointing the exact location and time to fire.

Secondly the unstable weather in the area means a hugeass sandstorm could appear at a moment's notice, making air travel or combat fairly unreliable.

I want to say Riddle of Steel, but I'd be a liar as of like a week ago.

>>16076113
are there any other systems like that?
I mean, very crunchy, with character developement integrated in the system.
not necessarily that gory or combat focused.

I'll throw my vote in for Eclipse Phase as well. Honorable mention would go to... Unknown Armies (It's talked about more than EP from what I've noticed, but not nearly as much as it deserves).

>>16076135
I can't think of any. Some of the White Wolf games do similar things, but the whole Spiritual Attribute deal remains unique as far as I know.

>>16068323
FATAL.
Best system ever.

TALISLANTA. One of the best exotic fantasy settings ever made. It had custom race and class creation in the 1980s, beautiful artwork by PD Breeding-Black, flexible and creative magic rules and a setting that was the richest at the time without being anthropological like Tekumel.

I believe you can get all the books now for FREE on their website www.talislanta.com. Check it out.

>>16076159
my WW-fu is so weak, I just remember the 'morality mechanic', like humanity, being a sort of power limiter - is there more to it?

>>16074230
We've had several CP2020 threads here over the last 2 weeks. It doesn't get much attention, but lately it got some love.

The Monster Island games, the rules are fairly simple, you can make a monster in minutes, each of the three books (the other two being escape from MI & Invasion of MI) comes with more to add to the game, with battles in cities against the military, against the attacking aliens, in a 3 way battle or even wargames with monsters.

There's extra monster ideas from the website (they give you a lot of pre-made ones, like Godzilla re-named, Mothra re-named and even Dr Manhattan!) and there's enough powers to make just about anything, I could run an Evangelion game with it in theory...

Was tempted to make a board-game spin on it with changing weather, events (power crystals, changes to game mechanics, excuse to create a monster from an area) and happenings from staying in certain areas.

>>16076135
Burning Wheel, probably.

>>16076328

I'll second Talislanta. I loved that game. Played it so much.

>>16076607
FATE as well

Anyone one ever tried Awesome Adventures, the Spirit of the Century variant? If so, how does it play?