L5R is better because it's more popular. Popular things are better, that's why they're popular.

Qin is awesome. It gets talked about all the time on other sites.

4chan has a pretty narrow focus, TBH, which is why this thread should be awesome.

I'm going to throw up some props for Agon. Rules-lite, beer n pretzel competitive RPG set in ancient Greece. When players take rests and other things to recover, the GM gets more points to spend on encounters/difficulties for the players, and so it creates this really nice ebb and flow of gameplay to keep things moving, and it's all very simple. You can have characters, scenarios, and everything generated in a half hour and start playing right away.

>>6710842
The point of this thread is to talk about LESS popular games.

And L5R is more Japanese than Chinese

Because your childhood demands it.

The system's playable, if not the greatest thing ever. I highly recommend the random character gen, because it can lead to some truly amusing things. Bonus points if you play with a group that doesn't take things too seriously.

What other game can you play a escaped Circus Bear that was mutated by getting exposed to toxic waste, and then was trained in Ninjutsu by a Psionic Box Turtle, all while looking like a fucking Ewok, but capable of using a motorcycle as a melee weapon and taking sustained automatic fire from heavy machine guns?

>>6710880
>What other game can you play a escaped Circus Bear that was mutated by getting exposed to toxic waste, and then was trained in Ninjutsu by a Psionic Box Turtle, all while looking like a fucking Ewok, but capable of using a motorcycle as a melee weapon and taking sustained automatic fire from heavy machine guns?

Rifts? I mean it uses the same system.

>>6710880
Also, it had some of the greatest splat book covers ever. And Time travel that made sense, while still addressing all of the 'Why can't you just go back 20 second and not set off that trap?' things.

Heck, character gen for Transdimensional was fun as hell.

>>6710842

ohwow.gif

>>What other game can you play a escaped Circus Bear that was mutated by getting exposed to toxic waste, and then was trained in Ninjutsu by a Psionic Box Turtle, all while looking like a fucking Ewok, but capable of using a motorcycle as a melee weapon and taking sustained automatic fire from heavy machine guns?

GURPS, but with a shitton of splatbooks.

>>6710896
Yes, but in Rifts he'd also be a mech pilot, and friends with a mutant dinosaur from an alternate reality where Ankylosaurus is the dominant species on the planet, and they'd go out to judo throw Dragons together.

>>6710880
I sent in the coupon off of the back of my TMNT: the movie comic, because my first copy of it disintegrated. Unfortunately, I got my check returned because they stopped honoring that coupon by the time they got it in the mail. damn stupid US mail....

I always talk about Aces and Eights, but no one cares. No one wants to roleplay as cowboys, I must be weird.

Anywho Aces and Eights is hands down the best Western RPG out there if you're looking for realism. No Weird West like Deadlands, but actual western fun.

The book itself is beautiful, the rules are fantastic (albeit heavy) including the "Shot Clock" system for shooting your gun. You place a target down on a sillouette of what you're shooting, and where you want to shoot it. Then you roll a die to see how accurate you are, and draw a poker card to see where the bullet deviates. A shot to the arm might go in his head! Not to mention the combat is BRUTALLY painful, and measured in heart beats. Having your gun in a holster as opposed to your pant's pocket can mean life or death.

What's nice is that gunslinging isn't all the game offers, it offers a great series of mini-games using their own unique ruleset to represent aspects of the western life, from gold-panning to cattle-wrangling even to court trials. The game will let you do whatever you want. Want to own a General Store? There are rules and rewards for doing so. Wanna hunt bandits? Sure! Wanna BE a bandit? Go ahead. You can even, with some history tweaking (they did an alternate history as to avoid history nerds) even partake in the Civil War.

Very good presentation, and a great game for those interested in story heavy games that let them do whatever.

>>6710962
I spent a couple years roleplaying as a cowboy. Then I hit first grade

No game master (everyone is one)

No preparated story

No stats (well, practically none)

Can you handle it, /tg/?

>>6710978
Well even in college I still watch cowboy movies like mad.

It's just instead of spaghetti westerns I'm watching movies like Assassination of Jesse James and The Proposition

>>6710983
Do you have to play in black turtlenecks and berets?

>>6710962
Can I be a Pinkerton?

>>6710978
I doubt the RPGs you play seem any more mature.

>>6710962
I got a good look at that at Gencon last year. It looked really interesting, but VERY detailed, almost to a fault.

>>6710998

Not anymore than you'd have to play DND in a basement.

Pie Shop.

No one is going to play it. I own a copy. I just don't expect anyone to play it. My players are either horrified or far too willing to play, which is even worse.

>>6711022
Oh it's detailed.

The "shop" is the best chapter, which includes the prices of guns in their real dollar value. Most pistols cost you 22 dollars, a real fancy hunting rifle will fetch 150, etc.

>>6710983
I don't usually throw this word a lot. But that does sound mighty pretentious.

Human Occupied Landfill

or

d02

Both are equally dumb and hilarious

>>6710961
Friend of mine's dad had it from the original days. I shortly thereafter found it on sale on my LGS's 'miscellanea' rack, where all the oddball systems hang out.

I proceeded to buy a ton of related crap on ebay for cheap. I have all of After the Bomb through Avalon.

TMNT is still the most fun out of any of them though, After the Bomb just has the advantage of cool new species. Oh, and Avalon has rules for a joust where you don't ride the horse, you ARE the horse.

Also, an Anti-Human Horse NPC that is Anti-Human because, before he mutated, he was Gelded.

It's just really really good.

>>6711051

I'd say fluff is not more pretentious than usual CoC shit. If given another angle, sure.

>>6710826
I'm an Early Chinese History major, how have I not heard of this? Can you give me more details?

Nyambe.

It's D&D, but in Africa. So you get to be Witch Doctors and Mask Wearers fighting Dire Lions and Skeletal Elephants

>>6711099
Character advancement revolves around 6 (I believe) virtures, or paths. you can advance on each path and perform amazing feats of wuxia

Like someone who has walked the path of wind can run along spearpoints

>>6711100
Look at that fucking lion

>>6711100

Too many people hated on it, but it was fucking awesome, especially given the way they worked around the whole 'less armor' thing.

Also, combining rings and rods to create magical 'life' in the resulting union? FUCK YEAH.

What I'd always wanted along those lines was a Native America + Aztec + Olmec etc tribal splatbook of sorts, an improvement on what Maztica was not unlike the improvement Nyambe was over Chult, That, and a 3E Al-Qadim, since the netbooks were only sorta-okay.

And yes, secretly, also a Rig Veda setting with the serial numbers filed off.

>>6711057
>>d02

u see a house in teh distan do u wan go inzide?

okay u r insied now

>>6711131

Dire lion, motherfucker, BIG time bad news.

>>6711161
It has WARPAINT

Hollow Earth Expedition

A true labor of love, and the creator has such an infectious enthusiasm for the game. It has a pulp setting, and is one of the few systems I've seen that is very solid with rewarding roleplaying. All player characters have a Motivation and a Flaw. If the player acts in accordance with either one, they get a Style point, which is kind of like an Action Point or Willpower, but in much higher supply.

It's also built for fast gameplay. All abilities for PCs and NPCs alike have the averages figured, and if the average would meet what they need, they never have to roll a die if they don't want to.

>Qin
>Agon
>Polaris
This thread is the best thread.

OP: I tried Qin once, briefly, and would like to do it again. It's sort of a low-fantasy game to Weapons of the Gods' high fantasy, seems to me. If you've played WotG, how do you think they compare?

>>6710998
Probably. If I play Polaris, I'd want to play it in a candlelit room on a full moon (or moonless) night, eating chilled grapes, or something.

>>6711176
>Hollow Earth Expedition
More like Spirit of the Century Jr., amirite?!

>>6711099
I uploaded it for Anon at one point, IIRC. Let me check /rs/...

Yeah, it seems to still work. Here, check it out: http://rs105.rapidshare.com/files/145307194/Qin_-_The_Warring_States.pdf

Good like finding someone to play it.

Free and a riot to read. I wouldn't recommend playing it though.

http://www.costik.com/Violence%20RPG1.pdf

>>6711212
Violence: the RPG
Sigh. Yet another D&D clone.

>>6710998
>Do you have to play in black turtlenecks and berets?

Art majors play strip D&D because they think it's deep.

Inteligent people play Polaris or strip D&D because it's fun.

>>6711221
>strip D&D
Hey there, Scott. How's the game?

>>6711219
Haha. You don't know the half of it. Read it.

>>6711234
PRO TIP: I know. I was making a joke.

Nicotine Girls. Teh best gaem evar!

http://www.halfmeme.com/nicotinegirls.html

>>6711246
If by "best" you mean "most soul-crushing".

>>6711187
WotG is pretty much 80's anime as a game.

Qin feels like a a quiet martial arts film. One where the combat is only filled with the sounds of wind, leaves, and fabric rustling.

>>6711246

ITT like two or three people talk about games no one else has played or even heard of. Fags.

/tg/ loevs SCIENCE!

But, would /tg/ have the balls to live with the one who makes the best SCIENCE! in the world, so good that the other dimwits don't aknoweldge the greatness of the Master?

>>6711246
>>6711278

Czegemind?

>>6711271
>WotG is pretty much 80's anime as a game.
I wouldn't put it that way at all. It's more like... Hero if Hero wasn't a tragedy, I guess? Something like that.

>Qin feels like a a quiet martial arts film
That reminds me, I saw Ashes of Time Redux recently.
Shit was trippy.

>>6711278
Fucking AWFUL. It has the end of every game ALREADY WRITTEN, you just get to roll to see which of the two pre-determined outcomes happens.

>>6711320
Sometimes, things are more about the journey than the destination.

>>6711327
The cry of railroading GMs everywhere.

>>6711334
You fucking dumbass. It's not railroading when that's the point of the game.

HURR DURR TRAGEDIES ARE BAD BECAUSE YOU KNOW EVERYTHING WILL END BADLY DURR

>>6711341
No meaningful choices, not an RPG. Enjoy your unscripted play.

>>6711334
What's it like being the worst namefag?

>>6711356
Mission accomplished.
Faggot should get a trip if he doesn't like this shit.

I'm going to take this opportunity right here to promote my RPG, Section 27, where you play shady government agents in a fantasy setting, trying to keep cults, creatures, and corruption from upsetting the delicate balance of peace. And it uses CCG mechanics for conflict resolution.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nozzgty5oom

>>6711354
>No meaningful choices, not an RPG.
What the fuck? First of all, choices that influence things are not the only meaningful choices. Secondly, your arbitrary and stupid definition of "RPG" is arbitrary and stupid.

>Enjoy your unscripted play.
Enjoy not being able to understand that there are multiple kinds of RPGs and they don't all do the same things, and that Hamlet isn't bad just because you know how it's going to end.

Unhallowed is a bit like Dark Heresy in Victorian London. The basic story is that hell broke out and now all of Britain is overrun by zombies and other ghoulish things, not to mention the "London Fog" has grown so toxic that it requires any living soul to wear a gas mask (cartridges are actually important in the game.)

Where you come in is that the government pays a high sum to anyone who can fight back the horde enough to reclaim cities. So you're part adventuring group, part military squad trying to hold positions.

Now the game itself isn't perfect, in fact some of the fluff is pretty gay. But our group has removed anything that makes it seem like a bad goth band and play it as a really grimdark Victorian RPG

I really hate all this retarded bullshit about games where the outcome is known are somehow railroading. You people have such a terrible attitude that you shouldn't even be playing games. The end result should never be the ending, it should be getting to the ending.

>>6711371
>LOL, I TROLL HIM!
Cool story, bro.

>>6711404
Might as well say that the Dark Fate flaw in WoD is railroading yourself.

>>6710962
I'm downloading this right now.

I'm not much of a fan of "real" wuxia, but Hero is my favorite movie. So you say WotG is like Hero, but not Qin?

also, download'n your RS link

>>6711371
>Implying that a tripcode would stop trolls from harassing someone

>>6711404
like WFRP, which is a terrible game because you know the game will end with your PC dead and the universe still being a horrible place.

or CoC. YOU ARE MAD OR DEAD OR BOTH.

>>6711356
I think you're forgetting that one tranny who samefags it up in any thread it joins.

>>6711100

It's kind of a hack. Really shoddy mechanics that try way too hard to fit the "D&D model" for things. Stupid races that try to be dwarf-in-africa, orc-in-africa, etc. "Fighter-but-in-africa" (because niggers have a higher hit dice and less bonus feats), "rogue but in africa", "sorcerer but in africa", etcetera.

I still enjoy (most of )the fluff very much. I might try to run a 4e game in Nyambe sometime.

>>6711027

Can you upload it somewhere? I don't want to play it, but I do want to read it. Just to see what it's about and why it was made.

>>6711455
>So you say WotG is like Hero, but not Qin?
The combat is, at any rate. And you can have Hero-style tragic plots in WotG too (enjoy your unresolvable conflict of Filial Piety and Duty To Your Leader, LOLOLOL I TROAL YEW).

WotG has very high-fantasy/powered Wuxia combat (moderately so, very much so when you get into Rare arts and ranks higher than the default), interesting Secret Arts like Daoist magic, Predictionism,and social-stuff Courtiers get, and is a ton of fun all around.

The example I like to use is that you can shout something like "your Blue Flame Spear style is helpless against my Yin Ice Sword technique!" and have it be meaningful (Blue Flame Spear focuses on weapon-breaking, Yin Ice Sword makes weapons out of your Chi).

>>6711527
WotG should be on /rs/ too, BTW. It's one of my top three games.

Is there an available pdf of polaris?

>>6711320

So, like CoC? Hell, even like most comical RPGs.

>>6711525
I don't have any means to scan my book, but it's like 5 bucks on the official website for a download

>>6711527
>enjoy your unresolvable conflict of Filial Piety and Duty To Your Leader, LOLOLOL I TROAL YEW
I wouldn't be trolled by that.

That sounds awesome.

>>6711536
Indeed it is. I'll have to download that as well.

>>6711498
>>6711100

Does it have a school of magic for stealing people's penises?

>>6711527
love WotG. there's a program character builder for it, too.

>>6711559
Doesn't seem to be. Uploading.... and done.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z3TBY9UK

>>6711563
Yeah, it's actually pretty awesome when done right. Some of the Loresheets in WotG have examples.

>>6711580
Wait.
What?

FUCK YES GIVE IT TO ME NOW

>>WotG
>>Borgstrom

What is this feeling of dread, /tg/?

Because fuck you, that's why.

>>6711617
She actually does mechanics well. The fluff isn't numinous like Nobilis' or mind-twisting like the Fair Folk exalted splat's.

>>6711561

All right, that doesn't sound too expensive, especially for a game I'll probably never run.

>>6711580
So I go to look through the .pdf of WotG that I just downloaded and like, three pages in I find a bunch of anime scribbles. What the hell?

>>6711690

What were you expecting?

>>6711563
my WotG character got his from having a background of an older sister that knew kung fu, and ran off to join the quasi-lesbian secret society rather than be trapped in a loveless arranged marriage. He looked up to her, and ended up kind of fucked when he learned that she hadn't so much just disappeared, but ran off, which actually fucks him of conflicting his filial piety, both to his family and to his beloved sister once he learns about her new life.

He ended up dying in dishonor as he held off an army to allow his sister, her lover, and a band of the women to escape the mercenary forces hired by the jilted fiancee's family.

Shit was epic.

>>6711690
Weapons of the Gods is a manga thing. The game doesn't have much to do with it, though.

Give it a read-through.

>>6711632
Oh god no
Never speak of that.
If you want to play Street Fighter, use Feng Shui

>>6711714
>>6711690
Man Hua.

Chinese comic. produced in China, using a distinctly Chinese style, for a chinese audience.

Though not as good as Storm Riders, or the Crouching Tiger Man Hua.

>>6711697
Not anime, that's for sure. >>6711714, do you mean it's BASED on an anime? Hey, I like Evangelion as much as the next guy, but I don't want to base my game on it

>Chinese comic. produced in China, using a distinctly Chinese style, for a chinese audience.
Weaboo shitscribbles are weeaboo shitscribbles, weeaboo.

This.

Because it is about pirates. Who are furries.

>>6711740
>do you mean it's BASED on an anime?
No. Like I said, it's only very tangentially related to the comic. Some of the default NPCs, a little about the setting are from the comic. I flipped through a trade of the thing at some point; it wasn't so much my cup of tea--the game is awesome, though.

>I like Evangelion
No you don't.

>>6711749
>weeaboo.
>wordfilter for wapanese
>describing chinese products
>conflating china and japan

the world thanks you for your thoughtfulness.

>>6711814
LOL, I TROLL U?

>>6711763
hit squads should be sent to anyone who bought that ... and the fags who made it.

>>6711400

If you upload this I will love you forever and ever.

>>6711833
The guy ranting about how Chinese products is the weeaboo is the troll.

>>6711860
I know, I posted that. My intention was to TROL U.

>>6711763
I have yet to see anything of this book other than a tiny cover image.

This is the largest version of the cover I have ever seen.

>>6711864
I don't troll easily. I like grappling trolls.

>>6711893
Yeah, well, word meanings shift, and being obnoxiously obsessed with other Asian shit is no better than being obnoxiously obsessed with Jap shit.

>>6711763
For all the times this cover's been posted I have yet to see the real thing.

>>6712022
Why would you WANT to?

Reading weapons of the gods too. Shit looks pretty cash so far, anyone else like it?

>>6712065
it's good, though you need secret arts to make combat interesting. otherwise it's just high strike = victory.

>>6712022
So you wish to engage in a profitable business of furry piracy? This little booklet woll help you.

http://ifile.it/swf01cb/Furry%20Pirates.pdf

>>6711763

>>6712497
About goddamn time. Now I can leaf through it lazily and let a copy rot in my HD.

>>6712533

I am an unabashed furfag, but it makes me sad that you are downloading this. It just looks so very awful.

I ctrl F'd and no Riddle of Steel? Riddle of Steel damnit! And I don't have time to explain myself because I'm studying, but someone else can take the mantle. In short

-nice combat if you like the whole simulationist approach
-interesting spiritual attribute system thingo

Darwin's World, anyone? Think Fallout.

Has anyone played this? I can never get people to play it. The closer analogy seems to be grimdark Dilbert. This is one of the tasks

"Kill Fluffy
Rationale: The Company owns the rights to fifteen separate breeds of dogs. Recently a kid out in the suburbs registered a mongrel of at least two of these breeds. It’s brand dilution. Fluffy has to die.
More stuff: Little Jimmy loves his dog. And Fluffy loves him. The kid’s dad is an executive in one of the more belligerent of the Parallel Market contractors.
Supporting cast: Little Jimmy, Fluffy the dog, the kid’s mum, the kid’s manager to whom the Reps must report, copyright lawyer with a gun.
Extras: Animal rights protestors,
What the Company wants: Duh. Kill Fluffy. And maybe sue the kid."

http://playthisthing.com/msg-game-professionals

>>6715145

*closest* not closer.

bempo

>>6710826
Chinese imperial setting?
If so I may have to check it out

Reign.

Torg...what a strange and wonderful game. The card/dice system made it an interesting mix. Cool character possibilities too. Plus: The Cyberpope!

Lovely system which tried to get away from some of the basic conventions of the mechanics of the genre.

I just loved the post apoc CoCian setting.

Never managed to convince my players on this one.

>>6718111

I've always wondered why RPG critics sang the utmost of highest praises for everything Dream Pod 9 has ever come out with...

...and yet absolutely nobody I know locally or on the internet actually plays any of them.

>>6718122

I did manage a two-years long Gear Krieg campaign, for what it's worth.

But yeah, I know the feeling.

I'll play dirty.

Here's a non-english one: Lex Arcana.

X-Files meets Imperial Rome.

Don't Rest Your Head by Evil Hat Productions is pretty awesome. Weird stuff in a mad, nightmarish city. Got to play a fucked up businessman, who lost his memory in the end.
Nine Worlds is one of the first "new school" rpgs I played, not bad at all.
Fading Suns has some nice space opera going on, but the system is old and clunky. The 2nd edition books also lack some finishing (the skill list, for example, doesn't have all the skills etc).
Eclipse Phase is pretty popular right now, but I still have to mention it, since it has awesome setting.

Playing dirty ?

My favorite find of the year thus far: Yuyake Koyake.

Changeling happy ray of sunshine style. Play children half-animal faeries in a small rural town trying to live along with humans and older spirits.

The supplement for playing monsters/ghosts is awesome too.

In japanese only sadly.

Also: the other Polaris, a weird French post apoc RPG with a hint of space opera flavor where humans have been forced to live under the sea.

Also +1 for Qin, it's a beautiful game (and I'm not only talking of the book).

Something I participated in last year and will again this year. I'm not going to tell you what in this book I actually did. Except the GMless WoD ripoff LARP was not me. Nice short games that use d6's. This year the guy who runs it is going to go with d10's.

Costs about 7$ so no I'm not uploading it. It costs more to watch a movie.

>>6718159

Sounds awesome by the way.

Also since we're talking obscure.

Probably moderately known here, but probably not in most gamer circles.

>>6718646
It's based on Cyberpunk, every gamer who even remotely likes the genre knows about BGC.

>>6718446

It is. While old and gamistic (written adventures in particular are badly smelling of DND) system is simple and fine, and I might add that while not very deep they get the gist of the imperial age (say 100-200 AC, but game has a moderate of ucronia).
"Classes"/roles are: warrior (cursus militum... of couse, ripe with latin), explorer (middle man), diplomatic, augur, the savant which is a kind of mcgyver character.

If I could read Polish... Ffffffuuuuuuuu. Given that there is a Witcher PnP...

>>6718453
Speaking of Greg Stafford and Pendragon. Do not forget about Runequest.

Myth and Legend amde everything and magic is everywhere

>>6720186
Which was, iirc, rather bland rules-wise. At least it didn't get best reviews back here and rules were mentioned a lot.