Wish In One Hand

Autocratik's #RPGaDAY

August 16^th – Game you wish you owned

This might, for me, be the toughest question yet. The list of games I'd like to own in near infinite, unfortunately, space and money are not.

For simplicity's sake, I'll ignore the games I'm planning on getting soon, Numenera, and D&D 5e. I'll also leave out the hard to find Deleria supplements, Everyday Hero’s – Adventures for the Rest of Us, and Goblin Markets: The Glitter Trade. I'll also leave out Within the Ring of Fire, because I can't decide if I want the beautiful hardcover copies, or if the game line will be my first digital only game purchase. (Not entirely true, I just got the MOBI file of FAE, and I love it. I'm just not 100% on PDFs yet.)

                     

          



I'll also leave out all of the awesome things that are getting announced each day a GenCon, there are just too many to list, and honestly, I want them all. (Looking in your direction Onyx Path Publishing... I see many great things on the horizon.)

Now that I've managed to manipulate the topic into Every Game I wish I owned, I should probably get to the question at hand.

Nobilis. I wish I owned Nobilis. Not a PDF, but a nice, hardbound, beautiful copy. Ever since I read Deleria, I've been fascinated with resolution systems that were not standard dice rolling. I've also found myself attracted more and more to rich and detailed settings, rather than mechanically perfect, or sound even, systems.

Maybe I'm crossing over to “story gamer”, but I'd prefer not to label things, that really don't need it. I am a gamer, pure and simple. We all are, we all like games. Simulation, story, and hyper realistic, it's the games that bring us together, labeling them, or ourselves, just serves to inflate the importance of an artificial division.

To quote a space squid, “It's a trap!”