- Labyrinth Lord: A solid 'core system' for retro-style roleplaying.
- Basic Fantasy: Like the above, but free and a bit easier for players more used to recent D&D editions.
- Lamentation of the Flame Princess: Like the above, but edgier. You're also no longer allowed to like this because politics or...something?
- Carcosa: The only thing out of LOTFP I really got into. Interesting and evocative if a bit derivative.
- Mazes & Minotaur: My first exposure to a retroclone. Charming in it's own way.
- Scarlet Heroes: Good system for more high powered OSR-related play.
- Exemplars & Eidolons: When you want Scarlet Heroes but smaller and free.
- Stars Without Numbers: OSR...IN SPAAAACE!!!
- Silent Legions: OSR Call of Cthulhu.
- Spears of the Dawn: The only time I ever saw someone write an RPG about Africa that wasn't about inbred cannibal tribes or about Yakub.
- Microlite: Short and to the point.
- Adventurer Conqueror King: Good Conan-esque game you're also apparently not allowed to talk about because politics or something.
- Black Hack: Unusual but not terrible OSR-like fantasy heartbreaker.
- GLOG: Another unusual but not terrible OSR-like fantasy heartbreaker.
- D&D 3e: Monte Cook masturbate to wizards for 300+ pages.
- D&D 3.5e: A 'patch' to the above that fixed nothing.
- Pathfinder: Like the above two but both better and worse in every way.
- Ponyfinder: WHY. IS THIS. A THING?!
- D&D 4e: I may like but it's still not D&D.
- D&D 5e: It's okay.
- Forgotten Realms: Fantasy Canada but with less snow.
- Dark Sun: Desert suck. City sucks. Everything suck except the setting itself, which is cool.
- Dragonlance: Mormons write a D&D setting.
- Eberron: I'm ashamed I used to like this.
- Al Quadim: Ain't getting an update any time soon, buddy.
- Numenera: Monte Cook is still a hack.
- The Strange: Interesting setting and game concept attached to a shitty system.
- Gods of the Fall: Exalted for Numenera or something.
- Pendragon: A cool game that isn't talked about enough. Then again I don't think people still give a crap about King Arthur.
- DoubleCross: A decent, if railroad-ey Japanese tabletop RPG which I ran a full game for.
- Kamigakari: Doublecross but with less X-Men and more Type-Moon.
- Maid RPG: A weird Japanese tabletop RPG.
- Nechronica: An even weirder Japanese tabletop RPG where you play a zombie loli.
- Tenra Bansho Zero: Its really, really Japanese.
- Dark Albion: A good book you're not going to read purely because of the name attached.
- MYFAROG: A bad book you're not going to read purely because of the name attached. Also has the worst font ever.
- FATAL: A punchline.
- FATE: GURPS for storygame hipsters. Not related to FATAL.
- Baroque Space Opera: An excellent setting book which is unfortunately for FATE. Use it with another system.
- Call of Cthulhu: A good game and a punchline but for different reasons. Roll for sanity.
- Godbound: What if Exalted...was good?
- Yoon-Suin the Purple Land: Made on drugs but pretty damn cool.
- GURPS: I suck at math so I read it for the information.
- GURPS Fantasy/Banestorm: A good fantasy setting that need more love.
- All Flesh Must Be Eaten: When you really, really REALLY like zombies. It's okay, I like zombies too.
- Nobilis: Jenna Moran is really pretentious.
- Vampire the Masquerade: This was 'edgy' in the 1990 and now it's dated and trite. Metaplot ruin everything.
- Werewolf the Apocalypse: Toilet paper, penicillin and electricity is BAD! Only magic native american furries can save us.
- Freak Legion: The worst fucking supplement to an already bad game. Risible and tasteless beyond words.
- Mage the Ascension: Toilet paper, penicillin and electricity is BAD! Again.
- Changeling the Dreaming: Science is boring, evil and BAD....yet again! Also created Otherkin.
- Wraith the Oblivion: Being dead sucks.
- Hunter the Reckoning: You're still fucked anyway.
- Demon the Fallen: Monotheism suck, is evil and BAD! But also true.
- Mummy the Resurrection: Nobody played this.
- Kindred of the East: White Wolf cannot into Asia.
- Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom: White Wolf cannot into Africa.
- World of Darkness Gypsies: White Wolf would like to pretend they never wrote this...
- World of Darkness Corebook: The New World of Darkness is an example of a reboot done right. Doesn't mean the system ain't shit, it's just less shit now.
- Vampire the Requiem: Vampire reboot without the metaplot, stupid and with way less stupid clans.
- Werewolf the Forsaken: A better but less (ironically) funny game than it's predecessor.
- Mage the Awakening: Another good reboot which is also sadly less playable and evocative than it's preachy predecessor.
- Promethean the Created: Alchemy, transhumanism existentialism and frankenstein's monster. Sadly no one ever played this game.
- Changeling the Lost: Show me on the doll where the Fae touched you.
- Mummy the Curse: Still has no one playing it.
- Demon the Descent: The one in all this that's actually cool and unique.
- Beast the Primordial: Internet drama simulator where you play a trust fun drama queen with Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Genius the Transgression: The one fangame that should have been a mainline game.
- Hunter the Vigil: See all those supernatural things above in the list? Go kill them.
- Exalted: Interesting concept ruined by being written by people who hate humanity, hate heroism, hate you and hate everything. Also the rules suck.
- Exalted 2nd Edition: Rule sucks ever more and it's even more pretentious now.
- Exalted 3rd Edition: The setting is both improved and ruined. Rules suck even more.
- Manual of Exalted Power Infernals: A book full of rape which is, somehow, RPG.net's favorite thing about Exalted...for some reason.
- Graceful Wicked Masque: Jenna Moran is still so fucking pretentious.
- Scion: White Wolf tries to do Exalted again but in the modern time.
- Kult: If the World of Darkness was good.
- Dark Heresy: Call of Cthulhu meet Warhammer 40 000.
- Rogue Trader: Grimdark Star Trek.
- Deathwatch: The book is so poorly edited you can barely play it.
- Black Crusade: Ruin more friendship than Mario Party.
- Only War: You're dead. And so is this game line.
- In Nomine: Heaven and Hell are more like your sucky job than you realize.
- In Nomine Anime: Yes. This existed.
- Paranoia: You don't have the clearance to know about Paranoia.
- Adeptus Evangelion: Somehow it turns out Neon Genesis Evangelion make for good RPG material. Who knew?
- Mutants & Masterminds: It's not exactly good but that won't stop me from using it as my default system for game centered on super powered beings.
- Mekton Zeta: Because we never got an official Gundam RPG in the west.
- Eclipse Phase: According to the creators, certain people are banned from playing this game.
- FASA Star Trek The Klingons: A fascinating look at Klingons before their lore was truly fleshed out in TNG and onward, giving us a unique take on the race.
- Star Trek Adventures: Not sure about the system but at least they're handling the license well. Certainly better than CBS/Paramount right now!
- Dungeons the Dragoning: /tg/ the rpg!
- Feng Shui: Conceptually very cool. Haven't gotten to play/run it yet.
- Legend of the Five Rings: Do people still play this?
- Shadowrun: A pretty okay RPG which aged pretty badly and it shows. Also piss off cyberpunk purists to no end.
- Talislanta: Claim to have no elves but has a dozen variety of elves.
- Unknown Armies: Say it with me: cosmic bum fights! Also a lot of postmodern nonsense, some cool and some bad.
- Traveller: You died at character creation, didn't you?
- Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: Jenna Moran is so pre- oh I made that joke already. Twice.
- Any Doctor Who RPG: The only setting sold upon the idea that people will like the GMPC?
- Any Star Wars RPG: People only play this to be Jedi and maybe retcon things they didn't like out of continuity. Namely any movie not part of the original trilogy.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
One hundred RPG books "review" in one or two sentences! (Not very serious)
Just something for shit and giggles, a few OSR-related and others are pretty random. In the order I feel like:
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