Yeah, go ahead and ask me what roleplaying games that I can name!

[thewayne]

I belong to two survey services, a few times I week I'll receive an email about something they want to ask me about. One of them awards points that you can cash in on stuff, the other enters you into drawings that generally are awarded as Amazon gift cards. I've received at least four cards from the latter.

Well, tonight I get home and there's a survey waiting for me. They asked me what roleplaying games I could name. HAH!

Here's what I came up with. The sad things that I've probably played over half of them.
Champions, Deadlands, Heroic Fantasy, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, GURPs, FUDGE, AD&D, Spycraft, Judge Dredd, Dr. Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, Bushido, PSIWorld, Land of the Rising Sun, Chivalry & Sorcery, Furry Pirates, Albedo, the d20 System et al, Hackmaster, DC Heroes, Marvel Superheroes, Villains & Vigilantes, Vampire: The Masquerade, Wraith, Werewolf, TORG, Tunnels & Trolls, Mercenaries Spies and Private Eyes, Middle Earth Roleplaying Game, Harn, Tekumel, Runequest, Ringworld, Mutants & Masterminds, Twilight: 2000, Traveller, 7th Sea, Amber Diceless RPG, Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG, Angel RPG, Firefly RPG, Babylon 5 RPG, Farscape RPG, Stargate RPG, In Nominae, Space Opera, Battletech, Robotech RPG, Ninjas & Masterminds, Elf Quest, Legend of the Five Rings, Warhammer, Paranoia, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Chill, Toon, Teenagers From Outer Space, Kobolds Ate My Baby, Star Ace, Top Secret, Gamma World, Boot Hill

Turns out the quiz was for AD&D 3.5. Apparently WotC was looking for some marketing info. I told them that I played it but no longer do, but that was long before WotC existed. I'd love to see the face of the marketing wank who reads my survey response and sees all these games listed! It'll also be interesting to see what other games people list. (hint, hint)

Comments

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

Heroic Fantasy was a computer moderated PBM game; technically it's a RPG, but PC games as well as videogames use a slightly different definition of RPG than the others you listed. I'm not aware of a tabletop RPG using that title, and I'm sure that Herr Loomis would have known if there were.

Furry Pirates and Harn were both role-playing supplements IIRC; neither one contained an actual role-playing game system.

The RPG for Tekumel was Empire of the Petal Throne. I'm not aware of Prof. Barker releasing it as a game under any other title.

And I didn't want to yank your chain about other systems that you didn't mention (there are far too many), but you got all the other sci-fi media tie-ins except for Serenity. It's not the same as Firefly since the game company didn't have the rights to use any information that came directly from the series but wasn't mentioned in the movie.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Fantasy Hero when I wrote Heroic Fantasy, oh well. And you're right, I couldn't remember EPT, so I wrote Tekumel. I believe the Furry Pirates book that I have is a full game, not a supplement, but I could be mistaken. And I'm not really familiar with Harn, I thought it was a complete game. Actually, I didn't know they'd done a Serenity RPG, makes me wonder what the differences are (not that I'm terribly likely to buy either). Yeah, if I'd done a little more research I could have listed more, but I think it's a pretty good list.