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!