Best PNP RPGs?

[DavidBVal]

WFRP 1st edition.

Rules -> flawed, unbalanced, brutal, unfair, yet somehow they work with a few tweaks. Fate points are the best: you can be a murderous and cruel DM, yet keep the game going.
Setting -> never again, in 25 years, I've seen a better combination of dark fantasy and twisted humor. Talking about the stuff from the first years, not the "Flame" supplements: Shadows Over Boghenhafen, Death on the Reik, etc.

I know technically there're "better games" out there, but if I could play PnP again, that'd be my choice, hands down.

 

[Neanderthal]

Oh fuck yeah, Enemy Within was perhaps the best take on the setting i've ever seen, had so much potential and richness.

 

[Rahdulan]

WFRP 1st edition.

Rules -> flawed, unbalanced, brutal, unfair, yet somehow they work with a few tweaks. Fate points are the best: you can be a murderous and cruel DM, yet keep the game going.
Setting -> never again, in 25 years, I've seen a better combination of dark fantasy and twisted humor. Talking about the stuff from the first years, not the "Flame" supplements: Shadows Over Boghenhafen, Death on the Reik, etc.

I know technically there're "better games" out there, but if I could play PnP again, that'd be my choice, hands down.

Nothing like rolling a Rat Catcher.

Speaking of games, has anyone had opportunity to try Earthdawn 4E or whatever they released so far? Player's Guide, I think? I wonder what major changes they're making besides advancing the metaplot a bit.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

WFRP 1st edition.

Rules -> flawed, unbalanced, brutal, unfair, yet somehow they work with a few tweaks. Fate points are the best: you can be a murderous and cruel DM, yet keep the game going.
Setting -> never again, in 25 years, I've seen a better combination of dark fantasy and twisted humor. Talking about the stuff from the first years, not the "Flame" supplements: Shadows Over Boghenhafen, Death on the Reik, etc.

I know technically there're "better games" out there, but if I could play PnP again, that'd be my choice, hands down.

Ah, WFRP. A game where your players think they're playing a D&D-like campaign but gradually the horror sets in that you are running them through Call of Cthulhu.

 

[DavidBVal]

Nothing like rolling a Rat Catcher.

Yeah and my view has evolved greatly regarding rolling that first career. If maybe circa 2005, influenced by VtM or 3.5, I could look at rolling *anything* during character creation as something archaic and silly... now looking back, it only adds to roleplaying. Characters had unique backgrounds and skills that would accompain them forever. And after all, it just costed 100XP(and the chance) to switch to another career. Plus the thrill of the roll.... "Bodyguard yay!!!! no... wait... that's Beggar"

Now, rolling Fate Points was maybe too much. But we did. Oh yes, we did :D

Ah, WFRP. A game where your players think they're playing a D&D-like campaign but gradually the horror sets in that you are running them through Call of Cthulhu.

Absolutely, with some unsuspectingly deep dilemmas, at least for the time. All the mutants in the empire, which people abandoned in the forest and eventually became an horde. And how everything changes if a player becomes a mutant...

 

[hoverdog]

Speaking of games, has anyone had opportunity to try Earthdawn 4E or whatever they released so far? Player's Guide, I think? I wonder what major changes they're making besides advancing the metaplot a bit.

I would be interested in hearing this as well. Earthdawn was great.

 

[sakekosan]

My personal favorites that i play for years and still come back to: Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

At the moment i read GURPS, solid system i like the realism. If i convince my group we may try it.