The second panel I was on, this one covered a lot of ground. Our purpose: to introduce a bunch of good, but obscure, RPGs.
We talked about so many games that I don’t have time to properly introduce all of them. But here they are, in the order we discussed them:
- Blade & Crown (of course)
- Microscope
- Amber Diceless Roleplaying (Lords of Gossamer & Shadow)
- Psychosis
- TORG
- Swordbearer
- Tekumel
- Breaking the Ice, Shooting the Moon, Mutual Decision (maybe It Was a Mutual Decision?)
- Elfquest
- Celestial Empire
- Weapons of the Gods
- Tenra Bansho Zero
- Continuum
- Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space
- Time & Temp
- Jorune
- Og
- Ugg-Tect (not an RPG, but on a theme similar to Og)
- The Whispering Vault
- Delta Green
- Danger Patrol
- Shadow World (not sure which one; perhaps the ICE campaign setting?)
- Unknown Armies
- Dogs in the Vineyard
- Fading Suns
- New Fire
- Heirs to the Lost World
- Don’t Rest Your Head
- Dread (we talked about the one just called Dread, not Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium)
- Nobilis
- Red Dwarf RPG
- Burning Wheel
Other resources mentioned in the panel:
- Thread on Story-Games about games with card-based mechanics
- Noble Knight
- Crazy Egor’s (seems that the eBay store is the only component still in business; they no longer do business as a standalone store.)
- The Source
- Minneapolis Roleplayers Meetup
- Walking Eye podcast
We certainly talked about a lot of games, but I occasionally felt a bit concerned that we were just telling people things they already knew. I occasionally checked how many people had heard of a given game; for the most part, it seems we managed to introduce games that were genuinely new to our audience. Whew!
Cool to see Crazy Egor’s come up. That was probably the best RPG store in my hometown in the 90s – one of the best, if not the best, in the country at that time.
When I was in Ohio, occasionally seeing their crates at a con was the closest equivalent to an FLGS that we had.
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