{"id":16,"date":"2008-11-20T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-11-20T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T08:45:44","slug":"story-games-for-everybody-12-rpgs-to-play-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/story-games-for-everybody-12-rpgs-to-play-before-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Games for Everybody &#8211; 12 RPGs to play before you die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.story-games.com\/forums\/comments.php?DiscussionID=8148&#038;page=1#Item_28\">The meme starts here<\/a>.  (Note: I&#8217;ve played every game on the OP&#8217;s list, except for Burning Wheel, which I would very much like to do.)<br \/>\nOkay, so here&#8217;s my list of 12 RPGs that everyone should play before they die.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dungeons and Dragons, for at least 10 levels\n<li>In a Wicked Age, to break your DnD habits while leaving you in a comfort zone\n<li>You have to have <i>participated<\/i> (not just had it done for you) in making up a character for either Hero System or GURPS\n<li>Heroquest for at least five sessions, preferably 10, to show you that you don&#8217;t need to have great power in your character to have great flexibility\n<li>Sorcerer, until someone reaches 0 Humanity, to play a game about relationships.  If not that, Breaking the Ice\n<li>Inspectres, to play a game with true, full-blown player authorship\n<li>Either The Shadow of Yesterday until someone Transcends, or Spirit of the Century until someone becomes one of the Spirits\n<li>Dogs in the Vineyard, for no less than three towns with the same characters\n<li><strong>Diceless done well:<\/strong> Nobilis, Mortal Coil , or Marvel Universe (the one with the glass stones) &#8212; for six solid sessions.  If you have to, Amber Diceless, but there are far better rules out there these days\n<li>Either a complete game of My Life with Master or Galactic, to experience a defined end-game\n<li>Either a complete game of The Mountain Witch or The Roach, for well-handled player vs. player\n<li>Finally, make your own game and play it until it works\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike the original poster&#8217;s list, I have not done many of these, even as a GM.  DnD, Amber, &#8220;Diceless done right&#8221;, Sorcerer, and Heroquest.  Kinda-sorta a full game of Mountain Witch, though I&#8217;d like to do it again, and I&#8217;ve done single sessions of many of the other games, but never had a chance to play things all the way through to realization.<br \/>\nMy personal list also includes the desire to play a full season of Primetime Adventures until the damned system makes sense to me without hours of talking about it, and Burning Wheel, because I actually like crunchy stuff.<br \/>\nI also love Jason&#8217;s version of the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A game that isn&#8217;t supposed to be, but becomes a roleplaying game anyway (Bang, Catan, Are you a Werewolf?)\n<li>An homebrew\/heartbreaker, played with the creator, who is the only who really knows all the rules.\n<li>A stupid-long marathon session (I remembered the THREE-DAY DnD session in college with great, great fondness.)\n<li>A session that becomes part of your social group&#8217;s vernacular forever (Dave G&#8217;s &#8220;I got this&#8230;&#8221; might make that list&#8230;)\n<li>A game that challenges everyone&#8217;s boundaries in a meaningful way\n<li>The first game you ever played, played again in a new light (I still have that original pink-box DnD set in my closet, if anyone&#8217;s game&#8230;)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meme starts here. 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