Top Five Unplayed Games

[Karl]

What are your Top Five Unplayed Games (that you want to play)?

There's a thread like this on story-games.com, but I figured we could do with our own.

There's a kind of implied question about whether this is a wish-list or a task-list, you can choose your own interpretation.

Also, it's fun to update over time and see other people update theirs.

[Karl]

1. Burning Wheel (multi-session)
2. Sorcerer (complete a multi-session game!)
3. Polaris/Thou Art But A Warrior
4. Montsegur 1244 - sounds more interesting the more AP I read
5. My Life With Master (either a one off or complete a multi-session game)

I found limiting myself to 5 is hard!

Plus, more of a wish-list, although the top couple might qualify as having spent actual effort trying.

Of course next week my Top Five might be different.

[watergoesred]

Nice idea.

1. In a Wicked Age (multisession)
2. Annalise
3. Mortal Coil
4. Fiasco
5. A Flower for Mara

[Steve]

I will bite.

1. Grey Ranks
2. Prime Time Adventures
3. Umläut
4. Fiasco
5. Sorcerer

[Trithemius]

1. shock: social science fiction
2. Mouse Guard (for at least a year)
3. Trail of Cthulhu (some kind of arc)
4. Sorcerer
5. Universalis

And many more - these are just one's that I have/have access to that I wanna play.

[Steve]

...2. Mouse Guard (for at least a year)...

I had MG (Campaign) on my list too but removed it because technically I had played MG, just not in its standard campaign mode. So consider it number 6.

[lexifab]

Out of games that I own, here are the top few:

1. Mouse Guard (more than a one-shot)

2. FreeMarket (although since the boxed set hasn't arrived yet this probably doesn't count)

3. The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

4. Sorceror (any flavour)

5. My Life with Master (I added this when I noticed it on someone else's list and realised that despite having bought the pdf like 5 or 6 years ago, I have still never played it)

Other games I'm keen on but don't have the means or time for the sorts of campaign play they are designed for:

- Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space - I don't have it, but I'm such a Who goob that I would love to play a half-decent time-travel game.
- Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies - Own it. I find the setting tropes compelling, but something about the system fries my comprehension circuits. I should really hassle luminoustedium or someone for a one-shot session so i can figure the rules out.
- Dresden Files. Like the setting, love the collaborative city and character creation process, intimidated by the size of the book. Would play but would not run.

I would also like to give Fiasco, multi-session In a Wicked Age and Apocalypse World a shot.

[Narayan]

1. Burning Wheel: I've played about two sessions of the Blossoms Are Falling expansion, which was interesting, but I'd really like to play/run an ongoing game using the generic fantasy system. I've got the four main books, just haven't had the time to start another game. I am encouraged by the AP posts of the Emperor Must Die!

2. Starblazer Adventures: Just received my copy of this FATE 3.0-based system today. While it is the size of a phone-book, the majority of that is optional mechanics that can be bolted on to model various space opera elements, like starships and massive space monsters. I've been toying with the idea of using it to run a Mass Effect game, or to run a module from White Wolf's Aeon Trinity game.

3. Dogs in the Vineyard: I've played a conflict scene using this system, but I'd really like to play a full campaign. I've heard it can be challenging to run, though.

4. Burning Empires: I have heard plenty of good things about this system. Would love to play it one day. I'm a bit daunted by the size of the corebook, but if it is anything like Burning Wheel (and Starblazer Adventures) most of that will be tasty, optional extras.

5. D&D4: Yeah, I went there. Despite my (irrational?) dislike of all things D&D, I find that whenever I have played one-shots of this system I have enjoyed them. Apart from that one time. You know the one. I'd like to try it out over an extended period of play and see how I like it.

[watergoesred]

I've burned to run a campaign of Dogs in the Vineyard for years. I didn't add it to the list because I've played. And though I've played IAWA, I'm not so sure I've played it according to how the Rules As Written.

I've heard good things of Fiasco and I've kinda of made a deal with a mate to make a Heist rpg with him. I'm hoping Fiasco might save me.

Shock was also on my short list. As was Sorcerer, which I've only heard faint whispers in the dark about.

Narayan, from my experience Burning Empires is bulky because has lots of facets and breadth. Burning Empires has plenty optional rules but I think they take but a small slice of the tome. But I'm not familiar with any other Burning * books so I judge your comparison well.

[Steve]

4. Burning Empires: I have heard plenty of good things about this system. Would love to play it one day. I'm a bit daunted by the size of the corebook, but if it is anything like Burning Wheel (and Starblazer Adventures) most of that will be tasty, optional extras.

I have read that if Burning Empires were laid out in a form factor similar to D&D and WoD games it would end up being less than 200 pages long.

[andrewthotep]

Nice concept!

1. Kult
2. Don't Rest Your Head (and I would be prepared to run this one... sometime...)
3. Ars Magica
4. An actual tabletop 'Vampire: The Masquerade' campaign that starts in the Dark Ages and goes onwards.
5. Eclipse Phase (I want to be a post-singularity-trans-human space cuttlefish more than anything in the world!)

[Narayan]

I've burned to run a campaign of Dogs in the Vineyard for years. I didn't add it to the list because I've played. And though I've played IAWA, I'm not so sure I've played it according to how the Rules As Written.

Run DitV! I'll play it!

I think you made a good attempt to run IaWA as the designer intended.

I've heard good things of Fiasco and I've kinda of made a deal with a mate to make a Heist rpg with him. I'm hoping Fiasco might save me.

I haven't heard anything about Fiasco, other than that it is a Jason Morningstar game. Which is really enough for me to want to play it, actually.

Shock was also on my short list. As was Sorcerer, which I've only heard faint whispers in the dark about.

I haven't heard much about Shock, but it sounds interesting. I have the PDF.

I've played in Karl's Dictionary of Mu game, which used Sorcerer and was fun. I'm not sure about Sorcerer as a system - it is very minimalist and I tend to like systems with a fair degree of crunch. But I'd like to try the default setting of Sorcerer.

Narayan, from my experience Burning Empires is bulky because has lots of facets and breadth. Burning Empires has plenty optional rules but I think they take but a small slice of the tome. But I'm not familiar with any other Burning * books so I judge your comparison well.

Ah I see. It would be great to get stuck into a system like that. I've run Mouse Guard, which is sort of "Burning Wheel Lite" and was caught off guard (haha!) by the depth of the system. I wonder if Burning Wheel is similar in that respect?

I have read that if Burning Empires were laid out in a form factor similar to D&D and WoD games it would end up being less than 200 pages long.

I can't speak for D&D, but I'm not sure if it would be so concise if it was a World of Darkness game line. While the core books tend to be about 300 pages or so, they sure like spinning out sourcebooks. Or, at least they did - they haven't published much material in ages.

1. Kult
2. Don't Rest Your Head (and I would be prepared to run this one... sometime...)
3. Ars Magica
4. An actual tabletop 'Vampire: The Masquerade' campaign that starts in the Dark Ages and goes onwards.
5. Eclipse Phase (I want to be a post-singularity-trans-human space cuttlefish more than anything in the world!)

1. Darker than the World of Darkness! Nice. I think you and The_Exile would have a lot to chat about!
2. Yeah, I want to play this as well. Luminous Tedium is another one who has this game on standby - I think.
3. You really should talk to Trithemius.
4. Yeah, that's a good idea. I don't care much for the system, but a Vampire game where you played through various stages of history would be awesome. Armydan's Vampire game was like this, but he kicked his off in the Napoleonic Age.
5. I find the setting intriguing. I think a few folks have played this here.

[Armydan]

1. Grey Ranks (if only I could just figure it out properly in my head)
2. Cold/Hot War
3. Rogue Trader Campaign
4. errr.... I don't have a 4 or 5... tend to play lots...

I have played (and run many of the games on others lists) - including My Life with Master, Fiasco, kult, Mouseguard, Freemarket (<- thats wierd game), and Shab-al-Hiri Roach...

Go to 'cons people... Go to lots and lots of conventions. (and have a mate who buys lots and lots of PDFs... like one a week)

[Trithemius]

2. Cold/Hot War

Cold City?

Freemarket (<- thats wierd game)

Yay! I am pleased to hear this as I am waiting for mine to arrive!

[Steve]

I will bite.

1. Grey Ranks
2. Prime Time Adventures
3. Umläut
4. Fiasco
5. Sorcerer

oh FFS! How could I skip Hot War?