{"id":251,"date":"2009-07-31T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:42:17","slug":"an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"An A-to-Z List of Lesser-Known Roleplaying Games: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the first part of a list of 26 lesser-known roleplaying games, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some of these you&#8217;ve probably heard of, others\u00a0 you may not. Many of these are out of print, but can frequently be found from used game outlets or on PDF reprint sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/index.php?affiliate_id=252612\">Drive-Thru RPG<\/a>. Maybe you&#8217;ll find something new that sounds fun to try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aria_(role-playing_game)\"><strong>Aria<\/strong><\/a>: Really a game more about making a world than playing a character. Based on the idea of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monomyth\">monomyth<\/a>&#8220;, Aria drew on ideas popularized by Joseph Campbell in <cite>The Power of Myth<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bunnies_and_Burrows\">Bunnies and Burrows<\/a>:<\/strong> No, I&#8217;m not making this one up. Yes, it is a game where you play a rabbit. Inspired by the novel, <cite>Watership Down<\/cite>, the game (published in 1976) is known for being the first (to the best of my knowledge) to introduce martial-arts and skill systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chill_(role-playing_game)\">Chill<\/a>:<\/strong> A horror RPG system. Though never as popular as <cite>Call of Cthulhu<\/cite>, it did have a loyal following in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s (including myself).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doctor_Who_Role_Playing_Game\">Dr. Who<\/a>:<\/strong> Published by FASA in 1985, and based on the British television series, players played renegade Time Lords and their companions working for the CIA &#8212; that&#8217;s the Celestial Intervention Agency, an illegal Gallifreyan organization set up to protect the universe from threats such as the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Master.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empire_of_the_Petal_Throne\">Empire of the Petal Throne (T\u00e9kumel)<\/a>:<\/strong> Originally published in 1976, T\u00e9kumel outshone the other games of its day when it came to sheer detail of a fantasy world. It&#8217;s creator, Professor M.A.R. Barker created a world of astonishing complexity, including an actual language and written alphabet.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FUDGE\">FUDGE (Free Universal Donated Gaming Engine)<\/a>:<\/strong> The first (to the best of my knowledge) widely-available free game system, Fudge offers a universal, rules-light system designed to be adapted to any setting the GM desires to run. It&#8217;s still available and still free. You can download it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudgerpg.com\/fudge.html\">Grey Ghost Press, Inc<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Monday, I&#8217;ll post part 2 of this series: G-K. Until then, happy gaming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the first part of a list of 26 lesser-known roleplaying games, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some of these you&#8217;ve probably heard of, others\u00a0 you may not. Many of these are out of print, but can frequently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-game-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}