Game suggestions for our 2013 Gaming Calendar

Posted on January 2, 2013 by RupertG

Podcast-Logo-New-SQ-SMOnce again we are looking at a blank calendar with lots and lots of empty gaming slots to fill. About this time every year we ask our readers (and listeners) to recommend games that they think we should play. These games become part of our podcast and website through reviews and discussions, so suggestions from our community are very helpful in collating our calendar.

Many of you will be familiar with the games that we have played through our reviews on the podcast and through the site. For those of you who aren’t, we have included a list below.

A couple of games already on our 2013 radar include:

  • Traveller
  • Ars Magica
  • A non-Deadlands Savage Worlds setting (suggestions welcome)
  • A Gumshoe game (let us know which one it should be)
  • Legend of the Five Rings

If there is something we should be playing, please let us know!!!

Also, Happy New Year and stuff…

  • All flavours of DnD (we will play betas as they are released…)
  • Call of Cthulhu
  • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (all three editions)
  • Dragon Age
  • Rolemaster
  • Star Wars Roleplay (Saga Edition)
  • Gamma World
  • Vampire: The Masquerade
  • Shadowrun
  • Lady Blackbird
  • All Flesh Must Be Eaten
  • Mutants & Masterminds
  • Eclipse Phase
  • Spirit of the Century
  • Dragon Warriors
  • Mouse Guard
  • Fabled Lands
  • The One Ring
  • GURPS
  • Deadlands
  • The One Ring

If you are interested in why we are doing this, you can read about it here.

As always, we look forward to your feedback.

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About RupertG

RupertG has been playing roleplaying games ever since he discovered Dragon Warriors at the age of 12. Since those days he has played many different RPG's, collected not insignificant Dwarf and Tomb Kings armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battles and even worked as a games designer in the heady days of the late 90's building a CCG. Now he runs a gaming blog and is a participant in the Grand Gaming Experiment
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  • Symatt

    The One Ring is a must. Also, go Japanese with Legend of the Five Rings. Then there is Noblis.
    What about the Steampunk game Wulsung.

    • http://diceofdoom.com RupertG

      I missed TOR (it is our current game). Dwayne is keen to run Lo5R, so I’ve added that to the list (he had already said he was keen and I had forgotten).

      We really need to play a Steampunk game at some point…

    • Eric Paquette

      A fun Steampunk fantasy game is Victorianna.

  • Chris Seal

    Can i suggest High Adventure Role Playing (HARP) as a generic fantasy game. Its kind of like a streamlined Rolemaster without the three hour character generation and a single roll for combat.

    Looking forward to another year of excellent entertainment.

    Cheers
    Chris

  • Eric Paquette

    Fiasco, Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Cosmic Patrol are interesting in their approach.

    For a Gumshoe game, you should do Trail of Cthulhu due your enjoyment of the Cthulhu myths.

    Over the Edge is a fun game with a strange setting.
    A Song of Ice & Fire RPG does political games in a good way.
    Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is a great superhero with a refreshing open GMing concept.
    I keep hearing good stuff of Dungeon World.

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  • jrronimo

    My group is currently playing L5R and… I just can’t get into it. I know how to act in a medieval-esque fantasy world. I do not know how to act in Feudal Japan. :/

    I say give something like Battletech a try! Sure character generation is like 7 hours but hey, you can pilot a giant robot full of missiles!

    • Dwayne

      Re: L5R, Unfortunately I know how you feel and am in a bit if the same boat myself.

      I think Mechwarrior would be interesting to try sometime actually.

  • http://twitter.com/turingmachine Turing Eret

    CthulhuTech, Cosmic Patrol, A Time Of War (The Battletech RP), Dungeon World. There’s a Traveller setting by the guys who made CthulhuTech called Cthonian Stars which might be fun. :)

  • Juhan Voolaid

    Totally looking forward to your coverage of Savage Worlds with non-deadlands setting. I made some suggestion about it on the FB already, but I explain my recommendations again in order of prefernce:

    – Beasts and Barbarians – this is pure Conan style sword and sorcery setting. I think there is not much new/modern games in such setting. If you read the first 60 pages, you will be hooked – I promise.

    – Interface Zero – cyberpunk. Even though IZ2.0 is in the works, the first edition for savage worlds is really really good. It is a massive tome and it covers all that good stuff I like about sci-fi. No fleet combat though, but for that the core SW rules are for.

    – Hellfrost – the most traditional fantasy for SW. It is the SW’s dnd (meant in the best possible way). It is very well written and by standard fantasy I mean, there is no any major twist going on, other than it is a winter/northern/ice-age setting. I also mean, it does not lack originality and coolness.

  • Juhan Voolaid

    One more. It seems you have never heard of RuneQuest, that’s because you left it out from the last RPG canon show. It is d100 system, fantasy (s&s), and that is the game that preceded to CoC – very important game in RPG history. It is the game that gave us d100 system.

    Now, 30yrs later there has some great innovation been done with RuneQuest. At first by Mongoose publishing with their RuneQuest2 in 2010 (MRQ2). After losing the Glorantha licence, they relesed the same rules in OGL and called the game Legend. Shortly after this, the authors of MRQ2 left Mongoose and made their own company and polished the new rules even more, thus RuneQuest6 was born – that is the best version of it. One book, that includes everything. Legend is good product too (pdf costs 1$), but does not contain bestiary. Really recommend RuneQuest for gritty “realistic” historic/fantasy.

    • Dwayne

      We have heard of Runequest. We have played our fair share of Call of Cthulhu but I have personally never played it. Can’t speak for the rest of the group.

      When it comes down to it however, Call of Cthulhu has had a much greater impact on the hobby and so we picked that instead. And besides, there are far too many Lovecraft fans in our group to have left it out.

      My guess is that you would get a different canon for just about everybody you asked so it’s interesting hearing everybody else’s suggestions.

    • Juhan Voolaid

      Yeah, of course CoC is bigger game today and I am a Lovecraft fan as well. I bought Realms of Cthulhu for Savage Worlds which I hope to get to the table one day. With RQ though, they have taken it to the next level with the latest editions. It is not just regular d100, but it has very exciting new combat rules – the combat maneuvers. It spices the medieval combat up quite a bit.

      Not only it is dangerous to fail a parry roll, but it is dangerous to fail a attack too – just like in real sword fight. In the game, failing an attack and success in parry grants a tactical option (a combat maneuver) for defender – for example disarm opponent. These are very good rules if you want a gritty, detailed and realistic fantasy game. RQ is too much in the shadows these days. Even in the shadows of his younger brother.

  • Dale Everett

    Take a look at Dungeon Dice for a 2013 release! Currently going through Kickstarter funding now.

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293287047/dungeon-dice-roll-dice-bash-monsters-grab-treasure

    It has a very Munchkin feel to it, but obviously all dice!

  • Peter Rabinowitz

    You should check out Dragon Dice, a fun and casual dungeon crawl with nothing but piles of dice. Players can ask each other to help… and then starts the negotiations! Check out the Kickstarter, especially the game-play video.

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