I'm sure everyone got this one book in the shelf you were never able to play with your group, but you would absolutely love to do so. May it be due to innate bias towards the system (lol DW), a lack of time or other fickle reasons.
In my case, this would be Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok (FotN:R).
The system is somewhat interesting and serves its purpose (end time mythical viking stuff - decently good researched), the artwork is beautiful (you either love or hate it, I think) but it is mostly due to the combat and task resolving system why it’s so interesting for me.
Instead of throwing die around, you’ll draw runes out of a pouch which you must assign on a special sheet.
So, there is a little less randomness involved, and more resource management. The system requires a hex map and figures to be played as intended and is therefore bretty gamistic.
I fear that it could turn out to be too clunky for my taste, but then again - I didn’t get the opportunity to test it.
Aight, whats your untested gem of a game, user?
ITT: Your favorite p&p you never got to play
I've been interested in this for a while as well.
To answer your question, there are just too many dream games I doubt I'll ever get a good shot at.
I wanna give Cryptomancer a shot.
It's just so delightfully different from what I usually play.
FoTN is one of mine, there's also Legends of the Wulin. It's the only rules-heavy narrativist game I've found, and it has great combat once you understand it. The problem is that because the book is such a mess, and it requires a fair bit of player involvement, it's impossible to get my group interested.
>May it be due to innate bias towards the system (lol DW)
I don't think you can call being informed of a system's shortcoming beforehand a bias.
for me its Eclipse Phase. i LOVE that setting but i dont even know where to start.
>in fact i've only played one session of PF IRL and one of 5e on roll20, that's my only experience in RPG's. where do i live there isn't any interested, and the PF group lives too far so i couldn't continue with them
Someday I want to play Continuum.
I want to play FATAL.
BattleTech, actually.
> i dont even know where to start
care to elaborate?
I also own EP, run a few sessions and it's ok-ish. The system is a bit unwieldy, but the setting is great - if u can manage to get your group invested into the fluff. Otherwise, just run it as lmaoDeusEx with a bit of GitS sprinkled on top to ease ya group into it.