My Best RPG Games of All Time
I’ve created lists that other people put together. Here is my list of the best RPG games of all time in the pen and paper genre.
1. Dungeon & Dragons – The granddaddy of all roleplaying games. If someone only knows one pen and paper roleplaying game, this is the one they know about.
2. Shadowrun – The game has spawned for editions over decades of creation. It has several video games that were created for it and even a movie was in talks for the game.
3. Star Wars (D6) – I love Star Wars and I really prefer the simplicity of the D6 system over D20. Things flowed so much faster. We’ll see if the release of Septimus using D6 captures some old Star Wars fans.
4. Call of Cthulhu – The only roleplaying game that I’ve ever actually been scared during gameplay. I love the game. I love how your characters go crazy. And I love how they die instantly when they run into the wrong thing.
5. Delta Green – An offshoot of Call of Cthulhu and also one of most completely underrated roleplaying games ever, in my opinion. I highly suggest that anyone who hasn’t picked it up get it now.
6. Deadlands – Came out with an award-winning system and a unique setting. It spawned the Savage Worlds system and became their flag bearer.
7. Mechwarrior (Battletech) – I have a personal bias with this one as it was the first game I started on. It does have great miniature combat and the ability to roleplay, so it had all of the essentials that I like with gaming.
8. Palladium FRPG – The rules for all editions are horrible, but the settings are magnificent. If they could only tie in some good rules with the great setting, they’d have a real winner of a game.
9. Marvel Superheroes – Even though their dice mechanic system was funky, I still really liked the game. I loved just creating random heroes in that game. It was so fun to see what you could come up with.
10. Rifts – Holy overpowered random classes! The idea of game balance goes out the window in this game. If it looks powerful, it probably is. If it looks weak, it probably is. The world was super fun though. Too bad the system and balance sucked.
Honorable Mentions: Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Paranoia, Spycraft, Gamma World, Cyberpunk 2020, Warhammer FRPG, Earthdawn, Hackmaster, Talislanta, Legionnaire (Renegade Legion), Twilight 2000, TORG, Beyond the Supernatural.
I only put games that I’ve played on this list. So if you see an absence of popular games from the list just bear in mind, this is my list of the best RPG games of all time.