Favorite RPGs you'd recommend

[Magic_Hat]

So a friend of mine just introduced me to D&D 3.5, and I like it. I want to get more into tabletop rpgs, but don't know where to go. I'm basically looking for recommendations. I've mentioned D&D which is medieval fantasy but I'm open to any genre. Just what games/editions do you like and what's the general world or genre. I've heard of Mutants & Masterminds (I think that's what it's called). Is it any good and what's it like.

Money is kind of tight for me now - I was able to find the core books in 3.5 for cheap so I might have to ask a stupid question: are there enough free source materials online for the systems you suggest that I don't have to buy the core books now?

[Draz74]

D&D 5e is the most popular system right now. You're sure to get it recommended (and for all its faults, it's the system I play most these days). It has free Basic Rules, although IMO they're pretty limiting compared to the full books.

Mutants and Masterminds 3e is a favorite of mine, but to be honest, a lot of what I like about it is the relatively complex character creation process. It almost requires a spreadsheet. That's fun for me, but not for a lot of (new) players. On the plus side, enough of its rules are free (d20herosrd.com) that you can definitely play it without the books. It's primarily intended for superhero-genre games.

Once suggestions start rolling in, you're going to find that there are a LOT more choices than you bargained for. If you can narrow down what genre and complexity level you'd like to find, you'll get a less overwhelming number of suggestions.

[zlefin]

one nice thing about pathfinder (which is basically dnd 3.75) is that the material is freely available online; though it's unclear how the future will shake out as pathfinder 2 is currently in testing with a playtest available. original pathfinder material will still be around, but it's unclear what the community size will be; but for now it's still medium-sized.

d20pfsrd.com is one site with a lot of the pathfinder stuff.

[Knaight]

I'll need to come back to this thread when I have a bit more time to write, but here's a couple of quick highlights before the inevitable list of 20 games - they'll get more detailed in a future edit. These have a bit of variety price wise, but I will say that "core books" is mostly a D&D thing. It's very rare for the rest of the industry to have more than one core volume, which has all the rules. There's a few other games which have two, and a lot that have expansions to their core books, but normally you just buy the one book and are done. They're often cheaper than D&D manuals too, mostly because glossy magazine pages, lots of full color art, etc. is rare.

Fudge: My preferred generic system. Core rules are available as a free .pdf file, core rules plus a bunch of expansion material is available in hardcover. Fudge does a lot of things right, but the core of it is that it has a very solid mechanical core. There's a short list of adjectives called the ladder which is used to rank skills, attributes, difficulties, and all sorts of other things, and a zero centered curve which allows for all of these to be used together. It also has the single best system for handling variation in size that I've seen. Plus there's 40 pages of example characters in a wide variety of genres, which is something Fudge did in 1995 and I've yet to see in other generic systems.

Microscope: A bit of an odd game. There's no GM, and the players are making the history of a setting, working at three different scales of detail and jumping all over the timeline. The rules are mostly structural, both in establishing how this timeline is detailed (which is really helpful) and in who does what when, what degree of direct cooperation is valid when, what people respond to and who makes that content, etc. One book, it's something like $9 in PDF and $20 printed, and that second figure includes shipping.

Hollow Earth Expedition: Sometimes you just want to play the pulpiest pulp game that ever was, and HEX (HEE is just a terrible acronym, so everyone uses HEX) is basically that. The system mostly gets out of the way, providing enough structure to run a game while not being well suited as the focus of the game. Instead the focus of the game is gonzo pulp content, and HEX delivers that in spades. There's the pulp archetype pregenerated characters, there's occult nazi groups to fight, there's dinosaurs, there's all the fun pulp vehicles (zeppelins, ornithopters), and there's even a setting if you want to use it, involving explorers on an expedition to the hollow earth. Print and .pdf, something like $40 for print, $15 for .pdf.

Warbirds: Warbirds hooked me on the promise of mechanics for WWI-WWII style dogfighting, to fill a niche I already liked (flying ace games can be a lot of fun). It had that to be sure, but it also has the honor of being the only premade setting I've ever considered running a game in, instead of just stealing parts of or ignoring while I use mechanics. The short version is that it's set in the Caribbean islands, after they've been spirited away by a freak storm to the eye of a gas giant. It has the whole floating islands and airships aesthetic, which is fun, but it's the alt-history influences and the thorough research on the Caribbean islands themselves that really sells it. Plus it has a fun system for playing celebrities and the implications therein, including an explicit scandal mechanic.

Qin: The Warring States: This is wuxia in mythic China, set in a mythologized version of the Warring States period. It's by far my favorite wuxia game, mostly because it's dripping in flavor. For instance, it has five attributes: Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood, all of which have roughly the meaning you'd expect if you're familiar with the source material. It has a whole fun system for ridiculous wuxia stunts, it has a magic system that really feels like mythic China (technically it has several specialized ones running in parallel, including internal and external alchemy), and just everything about it furthers what it is.

Chronica Feudalis: A medieval history game, and through that alone surprisingly rare. Fantasy is a well covered genre, which CF neatly sidesteps. The game had three main points going for it - one is that it's just well written and a blast to read, compliments of actual good editing and a conceit where it's treated as if it were a document found in a monastery, written by a very chatty and completely hilarious monk. The other two are a design around four subsystems, combat, chases, parley, and subterfuge, each as detailed as the others; and a very nice system for tool use in the context of all four of these subsystems. One book, $15 in .pdf, something like $30 printed.

Nemesis: Nemesis is on this list less because I like it specifically (though I do), and more because it's part of a family of games that I like, and a good introduction to said family. It's a modern action horror game, available as a free .pdf only. It's also one of the One Roll Engine games. ORE is at its core a dice system, a slightly weird one that's very robust, can be fiddled with in a lot of cool ways, and which just tends to produce interesting design. ORE is also generally the work of one person (minus one game), who has a bit of a distinctive flair for settings and style.

[Epimethee]

You don't know what you bargained for. The possibilities are almost endless, not only in terms of setting but also on the types of rules you could find out there.

You will find almost any setting, adaptation of tv series, from Dallas (seriously) to Star Trek, and cutting edge science fiction like eclipse phase, medieval fantasy as if it rained, and almost any proposition, from Little Fears, play the nightmare of small children, to Cathulhu, what if Cthulhu was seen by cats... That's not even scratching the surface, at most looking the huge ball of stuff from a huge distance.

Then you go on the specific of the systems. Very roughly, you have the tactical systems, close to D&D, and more narrative propositions, were fighting is really less essential and telling a tale is more relevant.
In a way, D&D helped to fix a lot of tropes that some designer enjoy to distance themselves from, so really you have an awful lot of possibilities.

You will certainly find here a collection of long lists of games, and it may suit you. But really you should try the other way around: what did you like in the game? What were the parts of the rule that were less satisfactory? Then we could give you some suggestions of rules systems that will certainly also bring an amazing diversity of setting. They would help you consider the huge diversity of role-playing world and make some informed choices.

[Knaight]

You will certainly find here a collection of long lists of games, and it may suit you. But really you should try the other way around: what did you like in the game? What were the parts of the rule that were less satisfactory? Then we could give you some suggestions of rules systems that will certainly also bring an amazing diversity of setting. They would help you consider the huge diversity of role-playing world and make some informed choices.

If all you know is D&D the long lists are likely better - there's a certain level of personal experience needed to really assess your own tastes, and just trying multiple things to pick up that experience is really part of the process. Getting some idea of what's out there at all is the first step to understanding what's out there that you would like.

[Epimethee]

@Knaight: I never intended to criticize the list as a tool, it was my first intention to write one myself, and also I liked some of the game you have chosen.

I mostly intended to prepare the OP to the afflux of really different games and systems he would certainly receive after his question and to suggest he organise a bit his travel across the many possibilities peoples would surely be kind to offer.

[Knaight]

I mostly intended to prepare the OP to the afflux of really different games and systems he would certainly receive after his question and to suggest he organise a bit his travel across the many possibilities peoples would surely be kind to offer.

Fair enough. There's certainly room for the list to get intimidatingly large, assuming the nine games listed so far don't already hit that point.

[Thrawn4]

Vampire: the Masquerade is a Classic

I would also like to point out that drivethrurpg offers comparatively cheap PDFs.

[LordCdrMilitant]

I like Dark Heresy and Traveller.

I think the second edition of DH is better than the first.

[Anonymouswizard]

Qin: The Warring States: This is wuxia in mythic China, set in a mythologized version of the Warring States period. It's by far my favorite wuxia game, mostly because it's dripping in flavor. For instance, it has five attributes: Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood, all of which have roughly the meaning you'd expect if you're familiar with the source material. It has a whole fun system for ridiculous wuxia stunts, it has a magic system that really feels like mythic China (technically it has several specialized ones running in parallel, including internal and external alchemy), and just everything about it furthers what it is.

Seconding this, and pretty much anything the creators Le Septeme Cercle is a well researched mythic historical RPG (except Kuro, which is a mixture of Japanese mythology and cyberpunk). The rules aren't the best in the world (Qin is probably the best of the lot), but they're functional and the settings and treatment of magic and myth certainly make them worthwhile.


My own recommendations.

Unknown Armies: an urban fantasy/horror/Stolze game by John Tynes and Greg Stolze (primarily Stolze as of 3e). Magick is real and postmodern, most magic users are either crazy and obsessed with something (the city, movie cliches, clothing...) or intentionally acting in accordance with an archetypal role. The rest have relatively little magickal power. But magick isn't all powerful, and even the most powerful Occult organisations are in danger of being wiped out if the authorities catch wind of them. Just be prepared for weird, while you're unlikely to be invading Yggdrassil at the head of an army of blood hounds there's quite a few interesting artefacts and situations, and we're not even talking about the Glorious Pumpkin yet (it's an platonically beautiful pumpkin and many people want to eat it, but nobody's managed to cut it yet).

Shadowrun: it's fairly well known, essentially cyberpunk plus D&D races and wizards. Manages to blend it together fairly well, but netrunning is a pain.

Victoriana: take Steampunk, add a cosmological Order/Chaos duality, throw in D&D races (plus Beastfolk) and magic, swap out most real world religions for expies, and change history just a tad. It's something that should be a mess but comes together, and there's more than enough room for multiple magicians or technologists in the party. Plus no netrunning. On the downside it's a somewhat crunchy system, and you need two easily distinguisable sets of dice (modifiers only ever increase your dice pool, never decrease it), but it boils down to roll stat+skill+modifiers in d6, count the 1s and 6s, reroll any 6s, and subtract your 'black' successes from your normal ones to see if you've passed. Plus you can play an orcish train engineer. Why wouldn't you want to play an orcish train engineer?


...Yes, I did include Shadowrun entirely to make a joke in my description of another game. It's worth checking out, but I definitely recommend Unknown Armies and Victoriana over it.

[Faily]

Star Wars (by Fantasy Flight Games): Like Star Wars? Try this game! I've personally tried West End Games' old Star Wars RPG, as well as d20 Star Wars, and in the end, I found FFG's system to be the most fun system to run with Star Wars. The custom dice might look a bit intimidating at first, but I ran a 3-session long one-shot adventure with 4 players completely new to the system and already by session 2 things were going very smoothly, and most important of all: everyone had fun with the system and enjoyed it (to the point where they want me to GM it more! Agh! What have I done, roping myself into GMing more like this?!)

[Magic_Hat]

Mutants and Masterminds 3e is a favorite of mine, but to be honest, a lot of what I like about it is the relatively complex character creation process. It almost requires a spreadsheet. That's fun for me, but not for a lot of (new) players. On the plus side, enough of its rules are free (d20herosrd.com) that you can definitely play it without the books. It's primarily intended for superhero-genre games.

I'm not sure if I want anything complex at this point. I guess I should say games that are easy to pick up for people who are still new to tabletop RPGs.

You don't know what you bargained for. The possibilities are almost endless, not only in terms of setting but also on the types of rules you could find out there.

You will find almost any setting, adaptation of tv series, from Dallas (seriously) to Star Trek, and cutting edge science fiction like eclipse phase, medieval fantasy as if it rained, and almost any proposition, from Little Fears, play the nightmare of small children, to Cathulhu, what if Cthulhu was seen by cats... That's not even scratching the surface, at most looking the huge ball of stuff from a huge distance.

Then you go on the specific of the systems. Very roughly, you have the tactical systems, close to D&D, and more narrative propositions, were fighting is really less essential and telling a tale is more relevant.
In a way, D&D helped to fix a lot of tropes that some designer enjoy to distance themselves from, so really you have an awful lot of possibilities.

You will certainly find here a collection of long lists of games, and it may suit you. But really you should try the other way around: what did you like in the game? What were the parts of the rule that were less satisfactory? Then we could give you some suggestions of rules systems that will certainly also bring an amazing diversity of setting. They would help you consider the huge diversity of role-playing world and make some informed choices.

Well part of this thread is just suggesting your personal favorite it. If you love it there's a chance I might and I can go from there. If you want me to narrow it down than simplicity at this point is a plus. In terms of genres I willing to try any (sub)genre: fantasy, medieval, sci-fi, horror, modern setting, superheroes. Sorry, I know that doesn't help.

Vampire: the Masquerade is a Classic

I would also like to point out that drivethrurpg offers comparatively cheap PDFs.

Yeah I've heard of Vampire. I'm willing to check it out. I'll also check out drivethrurpg.

[Mr Beer]

I play D&D settings because I like pseudo-mediaeval fantasy but use GURPS rules because the combat system is far superior to D&D.

[Max_Killjoy]

HERO 4th and 5th edition.

[Peelee]

Knighte of the Old Republic. Not pen and paper, but it's a d20 system and knowing how that game worked was how I was able to get into 3.5. It's a fantastic game, and arguably the best Star Wars game ever, even if it's not exactly what you were asking for.

[LibraryOgre]

Hackmaster is something of my go-to, and it has a free basic game that covers 4 races, 4 classes (more, if you count each priesthood as a separate class), and the first 5 levels of the game. It is a crunchy and fairly gritty lowish-fantasy setting in the style of D&D. A well-integrated skill system, roundless combat system, active defenses... it hits a lot of my happy buttons. There's also Basic Plus, which is only $10, but adds more mechanics and 5 more levels to the game.

d6 is an older system, with Fantasy , Space, Adventure, and a few other options fairly cheap. A skill-driven, classless, system, it's a good introduction to the ideas. There's also a lot of old Star Wars stuff under a very similar rule system, so if you're a Star Wars fan, it provides some accessibility to it... and it's about $3 for PDFs of one of the systems. Bill Coffin, a friend of mine from his Palladium days, also produced Septimus, just before old West End Games went belly-up, and it's still free, AND includes the d6 system rules.

I'm also a fan of Savage Worlds. It is another generic system, and one I find easy to teach people, and with a lot of flexibility. Like a lot of generic systems, it may not be the best for any given scenario, but it is usually an adequate one. I often use it to to make hacks applicable to specific settings... Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, and Dragonlance, for example.

And there's my own ODE, which is completely free and REALLY basic, but all it requires is a deck of cards.

[Thrudd]

For general use, I like the D6 system from West End Games it's a generic that has books for fantasy, science fiction and modern adventures, and originated with the first Star Wars RPG. It's also available free. http://opend6.wikidot.com/

For D&D-likes, I like the retro-inspired games "Adventurer, Conqueror, King" and "Dungeon Crawl Classics" (and it's sibling "Mutant Crawl Classics").

I have warm feelings for "Feng Shui (and now Feng Shui 2): Action Movie Roleplaying"(particularly 80's/90's Hong Kong action movies, but crosses into Hollywood stuff from that period, too).
It's a totally cinematic game about playing out crazy action movie scenes and fights, with a default setting that describes how any and every sort of action movie character can end up in a group in the same place, fighting ninjas, robots, ninja robots, cyborg apes, mobsters, shaolin monks, cannibal mutants, a sorcerer, or all of them.

[Chad Hooper]

I'm going to ignore what the OP said about simplicity above and throw in my absolute favorite, Ars Magica.

::editorial comment::The core mechanics of the d20 system are essentially the core mechanic of Ars Magica converted to a 20 sider with the very cool magic system amputated.::editorial comment\::

The idea of "balancing" the game by hindering different skills/classes is thrown out, and balanced by, "everyone plays a Magus in rotation". Magi get super powerful but only over time. Much of their progress is in the lab or library, and one "adventure" per Season may annoy some of the "lab rats".

In a perfect group, full-on Troupe-style play, every one takes a turn in rotation as Storyguide. All of the group creates the Covenant, the mages' collective home and power-base, together, along with the "grogs", the menials, guards, and other hangers-on that a settlement of wizards may need/attract.

Each player (and SG) also creates a Companion PC, a non-Magus character they play when between turns playing their Magus and being Storyguide. Here is where the rest of the "adventuring party" gets filled out, where you get your character types like the hunter, burglar, etc. There are also "shield grogs", personal bodyguards to the Magi, which a player may run for a session or two when needed/fitting.

The fact that the Magi have fifteen Arts to spend points on at creation, and that the names of those arts are in Latin () tends to intimidate new players. The fact that posters to Ars Magica forums tend to use Latin greetings and closings in their postings makes it even more so, but I guarantee you, the stereotype that you have to speak Latin to play Ars Magica (or that the game has to be played entirely in Latin!) is entirely untrue.

The default setting is, IIRC, 1220 Mythic Europe (Europe as it was believed the world worked then) but I've played/SG'd in enjoyable Sagas set in late Viking age Scandinavia and Briton both. (Think Dragonslayer the Movie as what a Covenant in it's Winter would look like).

All that said, the core rules for 4th edition are still available as a free PDF at atlasgames.com, and the sourcebooks for the setting are available through your local library or the internet, as the history of Europe is a very rich source indeed.

[Nifft]

If you've got budgetary concerns...

Eclipse Phase is effectively free, in that you can either buy the book or download the book free -- the torrent was seeded by the authors, so unlike many "free"-by-stealing books, this one is morally unencumbered as well. Also the setting is great and the game is fun.

There are a decent number of high-quality Retroclones (which might also bear the label "OSR" => Old School Renaissance), many of which are available as single complete volumes for cheap. One that I have enjoyed is Dark Dungeons, which might have a 2nd edition by now.

[Anonymouswizard]

There are a decent number of high-quality Retroclones (which might also bear the label "OSR" => Old School Renaissance), many of which are available as single complete volumes for cheap. One that I have enjoyed is Dark Dungeons, which might have a 2nd edition by now.

My personal favourite is Lamentations of the Flame Princess, there's an artless version for free, and the codebook is only £20 in hardback.

I personally didn't like Dark Dungeons. It was going okay but then Black Leaf died, our cleric started practicing witchcraft, and we all got saved by a missionary and had to burn our books.

[Faily]

I'm going to ignore what the OP said about simplicity above and throw in my absolute favorite, Ars Magica.

::editorial comment::The core mechanics of the d20 system are essentially the core mechanic of Ars Magica converted to a 20 sider with the very cool magic system amputated.::editorial comment\::

The idea of "balancing" the game by hindering different skills/classes is thrown out, and balanced by, "everyone plays a Magus in rotation". Magi get super powerful but only over time. Much of their progress is in the lab or library, and one "adventure" per Season may annoy some of the "lab rats".

In a perfect group, full-on Troupe-style play, every one takes a turn in rotation as Storyguide. All of the group creates the Covenant, the mages' collective home and power-base, together, along with the "grogs", the menials, guards, and other hangers-on that a settlement of wizards may need/attract.

Each player (and SG) also creates a Companion PC, a non-Magus character they play when between turns playing their Magus and being Storyguide. Here is where the rest of the "adventuring party" gets filled out, where you get your character types like the hunter, burglar, etc. There are also "shield grogs", personal bodyguards to the Magi, which a player may run for a session or two when needed/fitting.

The fact that the Magi have fifteen Arts to spend points on at creation, and that the names of those arts are in Latin () tends to intimidate new players. The fact that posters to Ars Magica forums tend to use Latin greetings and closings in their postings makes it even more so, but I guarantee you, the stereotype that you have to speak Latin to play Ars Magica (or that the game has to be played entirely in Latin!) is entirely untrue.

The default setting is, IIRC, 1220 Mythic Europe (Europe as it was believed the world worked then) but I've played/SG'd in enjoyable Sagas set in late Viking age Scandinavia and Briton both. (Think Dragonslayer the Movie as what a Covenant in it's Winter would look like).

All that said, the core rules for 4th edition are still available as a free PDF at atlasgames.com, and the sourcebooks for the setting are available through your local library or the internet, as the history of Europe is a very rich source indeed.

Gonna toss in a +1 to Ars Magica as a recommendation. It's a fun game.

[Yora]

I am supporting the opinion that for non-tactical fantasy campaigns, the only game you ever need is Barbarians of Lemuria. You have four attributes and four combat skills and you roll 2d6 and at your appropriate attribute or combat number to the result.
Skills and classes are covered together as careers. If a roll is not fighting, then you add your careers to every roll you can justify your career is useful for. Putting more points into Thief makes you better at thief stuff. And even points in farmer or slave get added to rolls to interact with farmers or slaves. There's also a super simple magic system that needs the GM to say what spells are possible or not, and that's pretty much it.

Very easy to learn, fast to play, and quick to set up.

Knighte of the Old Republic. Not pen and paper, but it's a d20 system and knowing how that game worked was how I was able to get into 3.5. It's a fantastic game, and arguably the best Star Wars game ever, even if it's not exactly what you were asking for.

That's Star Wars d20 Revised Edition. Though it was followed by Saga Edition that did some considerable streamlining and is generally regarded much higher.

[LibraryOgre]

Since Ars Magica has been mentioned, I'll endorse it, too, but with a couple notes.

1) It is not a simple game, as mentioned, but you should probably get it to reference for ideas and mechanics.
2) This goes double because Atlas offers the 4th edition core rulebook for free as a PDF. It's not the current edition, but it is a very good edition.

If you want to get experience with lots of games, playing them is best... but reading well-crafted games is another good start. Ars Magica is a very intentionally crafted game... they have a specific setting they are emulating, the rules go towards that setting. It can make it hard to use that game for another setting, but it also provides a really good look at rule design as an art form designed to evoke certain themes and consequences, rather than 3.x and their attempts at mechanical balance.

[avalkauskas]

If money's tight, go to DriveThruRPG and you can get a bunch of great RPGs on the cheap (and some completely free). Many have a model of pay what you think is far for the PDFs.

If you are getting into RPGs a few entry level suggestions would be:
- Tiny Dungeon
- Fate Core
- Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok
- Dungeon World
- Fiasco

[Arbane]

Here's a few. Free, fun, and rules-lite, at least compared to D&D3.5

RISUS, the Anything RPG
Danger Patrol! (Buck Rogers-style pulp Sci-Fi)
Dungeons the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition (Maybe save this until you've read more RPGs so you'll recognize the things it's parodying.)
Roll for Shoes (Silly)
Godbound (An 'OSR' fantasy game: 'What if Exalted was based on OD&D instead of Vampire?')

And I just found this. It's free, but I'm including it purely as a curiosity, as it's decidedly not rule-lite.
Glyphs RPG Blueprint

[JeenLeen]

Mutants & Masterminds is fun and pretty simple, as others have noted. And has a free online source. Just be aware that it is very easy to make a brokenly powerful character: players should work with DM to make a fair and balanced PC.
Your experience with D&D should translate well. There's some big differences, especially with how health works, but all-in-all it's similar mechanically.

I'm not sure of the cost, but I've found In Nomine to be one of the most elegant mechanics I've ever encountered. It's also potentially very offensive to religious sensibilities (you play as angels or demons), but I think it's foreign enough to actual real world religion that a devout theist can play it without offense. (But I can see those who fear games as diabolical having a field day with that one.)

[KillingTime]

Dark Heresy, and the other FFG 40k RPGs have all been a lot of fun.
1st Ed was great fun, but they perfected the system through the release of the other games, so that by the time they got back to 2nd Ed it was really very good.
If you like grimdark sci-fi you should definitely give it a go.

[Ratter]

Ok so an RPG I fell in love with at first sight with recently was Legend, by Rule of Cool, the character creation was customizable while still being relatively easy (excluding choice paralysis). It seems balanced (though I dont know how true that is), the levelling system with tracks is unique and the best part? ITS ALL FREE

http://www.ruleofcool.com/wp-content...Legend-1.1.pdf

a sheet: http://www.ruleofcool.com/wp-content...nteractive.pdf

there are also printable sheets on their website.

SO IN RECAP:

PROS:
Customizable,
reasonably balanced,
unique characters,
simple character creation,
that 3.5e feel,
can be high or low magic,
ITS FREE

NEUTRAL: Monsters and characters work on the same Level system
GMs discretion on item costs and how money works

CONS: Can't find a DM for it so you need friends to learn it

[Cluedrew]

Fair enough. There's certainly room for the list to get intimidatingly large, assuming the nine games listed so far don't already hit that point.

Spoiler: Intimidatingly Large List of Role-Playing Games

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Dungeons and Dragons (Family of Games)
Pathfinder
d20 Modern
World of Darkness (Family of Games)
Call of Cthulhu
Traveller
ShadowRun
Microscope
Mutants and Masterminds
Paranoia
Mouse Guard
BESM
Roll for Shoes
Burning Empires
FATE
GURPS
Monsters and Other Childish Things
Earthdawn
Eclipse Phase
Exalted
HackMaster
RuneScape
Rifts
FEAR
PTA
Legend
Apocalypse World
Don't Rest Your Head
STaRS
Questlandia
FATAL (Don't play)
• Savage Worlds
o Super Powers Companion
• Scion
• Star Wars
o Star Wars Saga Edition
o Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
o Star Wars: The Role Playing Game
o ? Age of Rebellion
o Star Wars d6
• Iron Kingdoms
• War Hammer 40 000
o Dark Heresy
o Rouge Trader
o Deathwatch
o Black Crusade
• Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG
• All Flesh Must be Eaten -> The Walking Dead
• Fiasco
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Everyone is Luke
• Hero(es?) System
• Champions
• Continuum System (related: Narcisist)
• Spycraft
• Serenity RPG
• Gamma World
• Top Secret
• Bunnies and Burrows
• Kill Puppies for Satan
• Maid
• FU
• Delta Green
• Doctor Who: Adventures in Space and Time
• Gumshoe
• Adeptus Evangelion
• Fallout Games
o Fallout PnP, Exodus & SPECIAL RPG
• mmortails
• Kingdom Hearts
• cthulhutech
• Toon
• HERO
• Torchbearer
• Violence
• RISUS
• Witchcraft
• Armageddon
• Das schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) German
• Dungeons: The Dragoning
• Anima/Anima: Beyond Fantasy
• Numenera
• Bliss Stage (X)
• Dread
• Paladium (Rifts?)
• REIGN
• [Fantasy Heart Breakers]
o Fifth Cycle
o Hahlmabrea
o Of Gods and Men
o Darkurthe: Lengends
o Legendary Lives
o Neverworld
o Pelicar
o Forge: Out of Chaos
o Dawnfire
• TORG RPG
• Kobolds ate my baby
• Legends of Five Rings
• Riddle of Steel
• Blade of the Iron Throne
• One Roll Engine
• Flashing Blades / En Garde
• Chivalry and Sorcery
• Nobilis
• Magical Burst
• Tenra Bansho ZERO
• Ironclaw
• Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game
• Burning Wheel
• Monster Hearts
• Mythender
• Fantasy Craft
• CORPS
• Twilight Imperium: The Roleplaying Game
• Montsegeur 1244
• Prime Directive
• True20 System
• Engle
• Cyberpunk {2020, ???, 3rd, 2077}
• Midnight (D&D setting?)
• Wrestling
o WWE - Know Your Role
o WWF Basic Adventuring Game
o World Wide Wrestling (PbtA)
• Mermaid Adventures
• Palladium's Heroes Unlimited
• Champions Hero System
• Mayfair's DC Heroes RPG -> Blood of Heroes
• Squadron UK (formally: Golden Heroes)
• Wild Talents
• Supers & Supers, Accelerated
• Villains & Vigilantes
• Marvel Superheroes
• Marvel FASERIP
• Marvel SAGA
• Truth & Justice [Trait modifier system]
• Triumphant
• Aberrant
• Brave New World
• My Life with Master
• Smallville
• Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine
• Little Terrors
• Laminations of the Flame Princess
• Dynasty
• AGE
• RemiNES
• Alea Iacta Est
• Stars without Number
• Atomic Highway
• Alternity (+Star*Drive?)
• Spirit of the Century
• Basic Role Playing (BRP)
• WaRP (?)
• Crimson Exodus
• Boot Hill
• Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier/Showdown
• Clockwork Dominion
• OGL Wild West
• Sidewinder Recoiled
• 13th Age
• Renaissance
• Dune
• Rivers and Lakes
• Trials of the Magi
• Engine Heart
• Valiant Universe
• Song of Ice and Fire RPG
• Derby Day: Ghosts of Albian -Golf
• Domains of War
• Adventures in the East Murk
• Alpha Chronicles
• Atlas Adventure
• Angry Flowers
• Battle Tech: A Time of War (Mech Warrior)
• Calvin Ball
• City of Heroes
• Conspiracy X
• Corporia
• Cosmic Patrol the Igre Agenda
• Dark Nova DC Adventures
• Dragon Age RPG
• Drama (Experimental)
• Giest
• Promethean
• God Like
• Macho Women with Guns (+Batwinged Bimbos From Hell +Renegade Nuns on Wheels)
• Unity Harbinger
• Mental RPG
• Monkeys on Juice
• Tunnels and Trolls
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
• Feng Shui (d6-d6)
• One Ring (d10 + Eye of Sauron & Rune of Gandalf)
• Night Shift
• Black Earth
• Clockwork Symphony
• Call of Cattulhu
• Secret of Cats
• CORTEX
• Kenshin
• Legends of the Wulin
• Silhouette
• Rolemaster (var. Spacemaster)
• Stage RPG
• ACKS/Adventurer Conqueror King
• Banner Saga
• Kult
• Danger Squadron
• Twilight 2000
• Tephra
• Space: 1889
• Swashbuckler of Seven Seas
• Warbirds
• Monte Cook Presents Bruce Cordell's The Strange RPG (or just The Strange)
• Harvesters
• Warrior Rogue and Mage
• Shadows
• Witch Girl Adventures
• Qin: The Warring States
• Tribe 8
• Dog eat Dog
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Withering Heights
• Silver Age Sentinel
• Myriad Song (with Cardinal System)
• Freemarket
• Fall of Magic
• Sagas of the Icelanders
• Bulldogs!
• Diaspora
• Mindjammer
• Fate Worlds
• Star Blazer Adventures
• Nova Praxis
• Strange Stars
• Dawning Star
• Dark*Matter
• Amber /Amber Diceless
• Aira
• Continuum
• Emperor of the Fading Suns
• Fringeworthy
• Immortal
• Multiverser
• Nephilim
• Obsidian: The Age of Judgement
• Power Kill
• SenZar
• Sovereign Stone
• Unknown Armies
• The World of Synnibarr
• Zero
• Katanas and Trenchcoats
• Terra Incognito
• Danger Patrol
• Barbarians of Lemuria
• Reve: The Dream Ouroboros
• Magic World
• Mythic Iceland
• Tales of Gargenthir
• Empire of the Petal Throne (or Tekumel)
• Grimm
• Streetfighter
• Puppetland
• Valley of Eternity
• Maelstrom
• SLA Industries
• Nights of the Crusade
• A Wanderer's Romance
• The Fantasy Trip
• Top Secret S.I.
• Teenagers From Outer Space
• Star Frontiers
• Tales of the Floating Vagabond
• Fantasy Age
• Barbarians of Lemuria
• Venture City
• Dreamtime
• Dark Continent
• Legend of the Burning Sands
• Cube d3
• Mountain Witch RPG
• Lady Blackbird
• Spirit of 77
• Straight to VHS
• Extreme Vengence
• Three Days Until Retirement
• Action Movie Would
• Hong Kong Action Theater
• Theatrix
• Mage Knight
• Heroclix
• Synapse
• Stalker
• JAGS Wonderland
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (-> Heroes Unlimited)
• Primetime Adventures
• Lone Wolf
• Stormbringer!
• Low Fantasy Gaming
• Basic Fantasy
• Apes Victorious!
• Final Stand
• Cryptomancer
• DEGENESIS
• Over the Edge
• Singing Cowboys
• Dragonmech
• Castle Falkenstein
• Steven Universe RPG
• Fantasy d6
• Broadsword
• Labyrinth Lord
• Dungeon Squad
• Old School Hack
• Red Box Hack
• First Fable
• ? deadEarth ?
• Wasted: A Post-Apocalyptic Pub Crawler
• Mistborn Adventure Game
• Prowlers & Paragons
• Shadow of the Demon Lord
• Open Legend
• Dead Stars: Universal Decay
• Fragged Empire
• Chromestrike
• Splittermond
• Mythic Roleplaying, Word Mill's
• Schlock Mercenary's Planet Mercenary
• Starfrontiers
• MARS Space by FASA
• Chronica Feudalis
• Godbound
• OVA RPG
• Gatecrasher
• Ryuutama
• The Sprawl
• Leverage: The Roleplaying Game
• Blades in the Dark
• Hollowpoint
• Nemesis (I didn't already have that?)
• Eclipse: The Codex Persona
• Resolute, Adventurer & Genius
• Open d6 |d6 Open, d6 Fantasy, d6 Action, d6 Space
• Black Company RPG
• Masks: A New Generation
• Icons
• Godlike
• Capes
• Wearing the Cape
• Strange Synergy
• Jadeclaw
• Furry Pirates
• Black Hack
• Part-Time Gods
• Camp Myth
• Lasers And Feelings
• Ninja Burger: The RPG
• Gratuitous Anime Gimmick
• M.A.G.U.S.
• Last Word
• Victoriana
• Bleak World
• New Gods of Mankind
• The Witcher: A Game of Imagination / Wiedzmin: Gra Wyobrazni
• Space Dogs RPG
• ERA
• Bushido RPG
• The Morrow Project
• Afterman
• Runequest
• Lazers and Feelings / Swords and Scrolls
• Perfect Unrevised
• Castle Falkenstein (or was it just an adventure?)
• 7th Sea
• The Skeletons
• Microlite20
• Rocket Age
• De Profundis
• Uncharted Worlds (P.b.t.A.)
• C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet
• Cerulean Seas
• Tribe 8
• Heavy Gear
• On the Edge
• Animonde
• Mekton Zeta
• Chris Perrin's Mecha
• MechWarrior/Classic Battletech RPG/A Time of War
• Wield!
• One Last Job
• In Normine
• Palladium Robotech RPG
• Jovain Chronicles
• Aliens RPG
• Deadlands
• Albedo
• Iron Heroes
• Dragonstrike
• Remnants
• Mecha Aces
• Beat to Quarters
• Epyllion ("My Little Dragon")
• Forthright Open Roleplay
• Golden Sky Stories
• InSpectres
• MASHed
• Masks
• Motobushido
• Puppetland
• The Warren
• World of Dew
• Dawn of Worlds
• Desolation (Ubiquity)
• Follow
• Aftermath by "FGU"
• Blood Tide
• Fantasycraft
• Deliria
• The Skeletons
• Diana: Warrior Princess
• Bloodlust
• Legendary Realms
• Symbarum
• Double Dross
• HOL - Human Occupied Landfill
• Pokethulhu
• Abandon all Hope
• GateWar (rules heavy)
• Phoenix Command
• Hollow Earth Expedition (Ubiquity)
• Regime Diabolique (Ubiquity)
• 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars
• Ninjas and Superspies
• Starfinder
• Keltia
• The Laundry
• Fantasy Hero (Champions)
• Strike!
• Otherkind
• Zweihander
• Technoir/Mechnoir
• Genesys
• 9th Age
• Talislanta
• Munchausen
• Urban Shadows
• Urban Jungle
• Anima Prime
• Bhailadam
• Death Before Dishonor

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