What's your favorite game that you've never played?

What makes it your favorite? Do you want to play it? If so, what’s keeping you from doing it?

For me, it’s Burning Wheel.

I bought it purely based on aesthetics back in 2008ish, then got the supplements, then Gold, then Gold Revised, with the Codex, and the anthology…

I blame it for my weakness for chunky, digest-sized, hardcover RPGs. :P I also like the graphic design, I like the prose (even if it’s divisive), and it has both interesting lessons you can plug into other games (like “let it ride,” letting success or failure stand instead of making lots of little rolls) and arcane systems that pique my interest (like the Artha cycle, which makes roleplay, metacurrency, skill rolls, and advancement all intersect). I genuinely like reading it for its own sake.

I haven’t played it because… well, since it’s not D&D, that immediately makes it harder to get people interested, sadly. It’s also a bit daunting, given its reputation as a crunchy system. But I have a group of players interested in trying new things, and fewer other games calling for my attention, so hopefully I’ll get a chance soon. :)

Yora,
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Dragonbane.

yet…

It looks like it should work perfectly fine for a campaign like B/X DandD, but without character levels, spell slots, the weird attack roll system, and with skills. All the rules for wandering monsters, reaction rolls, and morale that make B/X great can just be added to Dragonbane almost as is.

Lianodel,

I got the game, mostly for the things you mentioned. A lot if it is familiar D&D, in an old-school style, with some tweaks I like. It seems really flexible, and probably compatible with a lot of OSR stuff I already have. Plus the box set seems like it’d be a great kit for on-the-fly games.

So I’d also love to get it to the table sometime!

ZDL,
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Why is it so hard for people to read the blurb on the right?:

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rgalex,
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Alien, that’s a game that caught my attention.

And also Aquelarre, is a game set in medieval Spain, where legends and gods are real. The game describes itself as a “Demonic medieval rpg”, and their rules are based on BRP, so it’s quite familiar on the basics.

shabbyj,
@shabbyj@ttrpg.network avatar

I would like to give Scum & Villainy a go. Have the book, but not managed to get a game. Yet! I won’t give up. :)

PenPaperDice,
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@Lianodel Spire. We we're like 80% close twice to set up a group though.

Razzazzika, (edited )

Persona 5 looks amazing. So does dragon quest 11. I must play all games In a series in order. Its… and autistic thing I think but like, I really can’t bring myself to play a game if I haven’t played the previous… so persona itself was a spin off of the main shinmegami tensei series, which itself was a continuation of the megami tensei games. I played and beat megami tensei 1, megami tensei 2, and am currently playing shin megami tensei. The original persona was a bit hard to get into but now that I’ve played the predecessor I’m looking forward to playing it properly after I finish shin megami tensei 1 and 2, I think that’s about the time persona started. Shin megami tensei 3 nocturn also looked cool and I’ll be ready to play that one as well after SMT2. Soul Hackers 2 looks cool too but I have to play devil Summoner first which doesn’t have an English translation, so I’m having to play it with Google lens which is slow going cause my Japanese isn’t really that good.

I’m also a completionist… playing dragon quest 5 currently and I’m in the final dungeon and only have TWO monsters to catch but goddammit the Hyperanemon just WILL NOT JOIN ME. I’ve spent something like 12 hours trying to get him. Probably more. I sat on the entire plane ride from Baltimore to LA for 5 hours grinding the same battle over and over and didn’t get him, and also watched several marvel movies. Frustrating… but everything I think, just go beat the game and move on, I’m like, but this is the second to last monster and I’ll have them ALL.

Edit: God I wasted so much time. Thinking about it again, I did a search and found out you can’t catch the Hyperanemon on Mt. Zugzwang, only in the post game dungeon. Fml.

mightbejackie,

Cool, however this is a community for tabletop roleplaying games.

Razzazzika,

Whoops. My bad. Well my top board game pick is Gloomhaven. I even bought it, and my friend bought the stickers and we were gonna play it but instead she just played it with a different group and I never got to play it, even though I payed for it, and not too long after we had a falling out and I find it hard to justify spending another $100 on it.

Templa, (edited )

Last of Us (both) for me. I am extremely scared of playing it but watched someone playing on YT without commentary. The narrative is truly amazing.

Also my spouse is playing Silent Hill 3 after finishing 1 and 2 and I also loved him playing those!

gnuplusmatt,

pretty much a 3rd of my steam library…

If I had to pick one, maybe Kerbal Space Program

ZDL,
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From way back in the days, Valley of the Pharaohs. While not my first game that attempted to be historically accurate (that honour falls to Chivalry & Sorcery) it was the first such game I found that not only tried to be historically accurate but also supplied loads of supporting material for it. (This was more important pre-Internet than it is now because it was both time-consuming and hard to find good, solid historical information that was usable in play.)

But I could never interest anybody in playing it.

acockworkorange,

So there’s this Spanish rpg called The Door of Ishtar, which takes place in Mesopotamia after Zargon the Great defeats the Sumerians and founds Akkad. Such a rich world that I had to buy. I know I’ll never get to play it though.

Yora,
@Yora@dice.camp avatar

@acockworkorange @ZDL Not with that attitude.

acockworkorange,

My Spanish is limited, there’s no translation into any other language, the book uses its own game system… If I can’t find people to play Bulldogs Fate, what are my chances of finding people for this, even better good game master and players?

ZDL,
@ZDL@diyrpg.org avatar

I’m not sure what “attitude” you’re projecting onto me.

I owned Valley of the Pharaohs. I tried to get people to give it a shot. Nobody took me up on it.

Where’s the “attitude”?

Yora,
@Yora@dice.camp avatar

@ZDL Not you. Mastodon just @ you by default.

pikasaurX4,

I have so many that I’ve come across over the years but never had a chance to try. Many of them have been mentioned by others so I’ll just throw in a fresh one: Mouseguard.

The setting just feels so cozy but also heroic. Something akin to a video game like Tunic. The rules are actually quite dense though, so I’ve never gotten buy-in from any players. But it’s one of those golden egg games that I’d really love to play some day

Lianodel,

I actually want to check that out too, since it’s in the Burning Wheel orbit. :P

That and Torchbearer, but as much as I loved the books, I think it’s the last among the three. (Though I still really want to play it.)

pikasaurX4,

Yeah, Burning Wheel is high up on my list as well. I know the games are related, but I don’t know enough about either of them to know exactly how similar they are

Lianodel,

I’m not an expert on the three either, but here’s my understanding:

  • Burning Wheel is the oldest of the three, the most complicated, and geared towards dramatic fantasy stories. It’s replicating classic fantasy novels and the like.
  • Mouseguard came out next, is significantly simpler, and obviously made to evoke the feeling of the comics it’s based on.
  • Torchbearer is the newest of the three, is an intermediate level of complexity, and geared towards dungeon crawling and the like. Think old-school RPG with a Burning Wheel chassis.

I still haven’t got my hands on Mouseguard, and I’d love to try all of them at some point. It just breaks towards Burning Wheel for me, to begin at the beginning—but they all have a unique appeal. :)

elStiko,
@elStiko@dice.camp avatar

@Lianodel @pikasaurX4 I own all three and have played one con slot of Torchbearer of which I remember none of the interactions with the mechanics, and pretty much none of the story.

dialectical_analysis_of_gock,
@dialectical_analysis_of_gock@hexbear.net avatar

You can actually do some really cool low-magic / low-power games with Burning Wheel there is a pretty good let’s play channel (can’t recall the name, think it’s Patronage) that uses Burning Wheel to explore the players as artisans in a Renaissance analog.

From what I understand, a big difference of BW compared to a lot of fantasy is that it is fantastic at character forward play, with the game looking like a series of vignettes with each character as opposed to a singular scene of the adventuring party. Which can be great when you want to do a political intrigue a la GoT where one player is a magically inclined daughter of a farmer, one player is the bastard son of the corrupt and ailing king, and the third is a veteran captain of the guard to the king. With BW, you can have each character’s Beliefs / Instincts help guide the game towards the ascent of the bastard to the throne, but for a good chunk of the game each player’s “scenes” may not connect the other players. Some good advice I’ve seen on this is to have the players whose characters are not in the scene actually RP the NPCs, which I’ve yet to do but sounds great in theory.

Lianodel,

I did find a Burning Wheel LP with that name, so I’ll have to check it out!

There’s also a podcast I loved called Campaign, and since a lot (all?) of the cast were improvisers, they would hop into scenes as NPCs quite often. (I’m pretty over that podcast, but when I liked it, that was one of my favorite parts.) I tried that in other games, but it was a bit hard to get non-improvisers to get into it. I’ll have to try again!

neocamel,

I bought Factorio like four years ago. I’m just waiting for a six-month period in my life where I can do nothing but play that game, because I know that as soon as I start it, that’s what the next six months of my life will be.

mozzribo,

Shadowrun. I love the idea and most of the mechanics. But all of these editions, all of them confusing and too crunchy for the lack of competent editing… Except Anarchy. I’ll probably get around playing that one. Now if I could only get my hands on a physical copy…

Also Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game. I love the source novels, while the mechanics of the game seem like a lot of fun. But physical copies are worth a fortune and it’s not easy finding a group who would be down with the setting. I might be able to give Lords of Gossamer & Shadow (Diceless) a go, though.

Lianodel,

Shadowrun really has been mishandled by Catalyst. :/ You also get big Shadowrun fans who genuinely love the setting actively discouraging people from using the rules sometimes. “Shadowrun is great, but it sucks, so if you want to play Shadowrun (which you should!) avoid using Shadowrun.” :P

I’ve also heard Amber come up a bunch over the years. I keep meaning to check it out.

phase,
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Anarchy is the only version I play now. I can recommend to read it.

VelvetStorm,

Starwars 1313. The fact that Disney cancled it after saying they wouldn’t is why I’m not playing it.

And baldur’s gate 3. I just don’t have the money cuz I got a lot of dentist bills coming real soon.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Minecraft.

I enjoy a good builder game and ‘Minecraft’ seems to be among the best of them. But I reached a point of being fed up with having to sign-up for various things and creating accounts, just to be able to play a silly game, years ago. And ‘Minecraft’ is still, for some reason, locked behind Microsoft Account Creation.

It’s the same with Obsidians ‘Grounded’ and X-Com 2.

And I simply refuse it.

Even more so if it requires a separate storefront launcher than the one I’m using to pop-up and launch the game. (Looking at you, ‘Origins’…) That’s an instant refund.

bionicjoey,

I’ve watched people play MOTW and Paranoia. Both look plenty fun.

I’d also love to try one of the WH40K RPGs, but they seem like a big commitment. And like you said, it’s a lot harder to find people who want to go beyond D&D

Lianodel,

I’ve had the change to play Paranoia, actually! It was a ton of fun, and one of my favorite gaming memories. It ran great as a fun one shot.

acockworkorange,

I’ve had ambivalent feelings about Paranoia for a long time. I love the setting and it’s inspirations (especially Terry Gilligan’s Brazil). I have the XP edition, and the rules were confusing to the point of causing me drowsiness. I think they just put a rules section because they had to, and the GM is supposed to fly by the seat of their pants based on what is the most fun.

That said, I’d love to try it.

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