Top 5 RPGs every roleplayer should try at least once:
1. D&D (any edition)
2. World of Darkness
3. Warhammer
4. Shadowrun
5. Call of Cthulhu
Your Top 5?
Top 5 RPGs every roleplayer should try at least once:
Logan Sanders
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Jose Gutierrez
Shadowrun
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Chronicles of Darkness
FFG's Star Wars RPGs
Legend of the Five Rings
Samuel Cox
1. RuneQuest 6
2. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd edition
3. Call of Cthulhu
4. The One Ring RPG
5. The Burning Wheel
Grayson Flores
Shadowrun
Ars Magica
Eclipse Phase
Call of Cthulhu
Then Pathfinder or any other D20 so you know why the above list was important
Dominic Miller
Honestly, every roleplayer just trying 5 decent, genuinely different systems is enough. I don't think there are must-play systems, really, but people shouldn't just stick to one system without eve trying out others. That sais, if I was to come up with a list of five systems...
DnD, to know what the hell people are talking about.
World of Darkness, or maybe preferrably Chronices of Darkness.
WHFRP, second edition.
Pendragon, which, while it is clunky and thmatically kind of limited by its basic premise, has some cool things in it.
Let's say Nobilis, just to see what roleplaying without dice is like.
Charles Lopez
Runequest, in any of its editions, is so skippable that I'm sad that you didn't even bother to hide how poor your tastes are by putting it in at #1.
Ryder Morris
>Let's say Nobilis, just to see what roleplaying without dice is like.
Amber is probably much better and more comprehensible than Nobilis for a diceless experience.
Hudson Russell
I think you pretty much nailed, it OP. Let me just change order:
1. D&D (preferably AD&D, also this is just to get D&D out of your system
2. CoC (for me probably the best RPG)
3. Vampire the Masquerade (classic)
4. Shadowrun (I am partial to 2E because oldschool but I accept that time has moved on)
5. Not sure if WFRP 1E/2E or Dark Heresy 1E
Obviously different user here. Care to elaborate? It's a BRP-variant and BRP is basically bretty gud.
Asher Taylor
Fair enough. I said Nobilis because I'm familair with it and no with Amber, but the point is having a diceless game on the list. Guess I should try out Amber myself, though, since Zelazny's books were pretty damn good.