Sunday, April 17, 2011

Genre Mash-Up Games

I posted this question on the Dragonsfoot forums, but it went over like wet toast there. How many multi-genre RPGs are out there? I don't mean generic RPGs like GURPS or Hero System, but games that have dedicated backgrounds or concepts behind them, like LoC.
Here are the ones I can think of-
  • Torg (yay!)
  • Rifts (meh)
  • Tales from the Floating Vagabond (the heir to the Lords of Creation throne, in my humble opinion)
  • Man, Myth & Magic
  • Fringeworthy
  • Stargate SG-1
  • Dr. Who
  • Encounter Critical 
  • Timeship
  • Shadowrun
  • Timemaster
There are probably some other really obvious ones, but I'm literally sneaking this in at the eleventh hour before I hit the hay.

6 comments:

  1. Timeship (by Yaquinto Games) circa 1984
    -Otto von G.

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  2. Oh, I just remembered Shadowrun.

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  3. Good call on Timeship, another one I've never heard of. It did make me think to add Timemaster from Pacesetter. For some reason Shadowrun never registered in my mind as a cross-genre game, but I guess it is, isn't it?

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  4. I like my fantasy with some sci-fi, and my sci-fi with some fantasy. I just bought LoC, Horn of Roland, Yeti Sanction, and Omegakron on Ebay! I'm glad to see there are other fans out there.

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