Games you like but no one else plays?

I'm partial to the Crafty Games line of RPGs - Spycraft (particularly version 2.0) and most recently FantasyCraft. They both are incredible systems but definitely seem to be a niche.

What I like in particular is that you can pretty much make the 'exact' character you want and no character will be the same even within the same class(es) selected.

Seuss

Quite a few Amber communities out there if you know where to look. I've been in a play by email game of Amber that's been going on for years now and the Ambercons have all gone virtual during COVID so I've gotten to attend them for the first time in a long time.

For me, it is the Burning Wheel family of games. The fact that games of them sporadically show up here is what drew me here originally.

Always great to see other BW fans!
I know personally the name itself puts me off. The fact that it seems to be diceless makes me completely uninterested. Also never heard of REMINES so I think your assessment of that is accurate lol.

I'd still be interested in trying out a dice less/ no-randomizer game, but Amber lost me with its setting, I think.
I would like to try out Chuubo's at some point

@bowlofspinach, are you familiar with Avery Alder's Dream Askew / Dream Apart, and the follow-on Belonging Outside Belonging games? You might dig.

I have not. But I do think a shovel would be more useful for digging than even the dreamiest RPG book. (Will check them out, though)

Pardon my ancient slang, whipper-snapper. =]

I find that interesting as the setting is "literally any world you can imagine plus a medieval castle sometimes". Most people who play it have moved quite far away from the 70's mindset it was written in and the tone ranges widely from cuthroat infighting throne war to close family against the universe.

If it is the setting that bothers you but the general ruleset is OK, I suggest Lords of Gossamer and Shadow. It is Amber 2.0 with the serial numbers filed off. The game I play in is technically Amberway, which to say Amber setting, Everway rules. Everway is also a granddaddy diceless system worth taking a look at. It has some randomness in the form of picking a Tarot-like card to influence how your actions go.

I seem to be in be in the minority in that I enjoy both ends of the spectrum, diceless and super crunchy. Both are good depending on what it is you are trying to do.

Maybe I'm mixing up Amber and some other game then 🤔 I'll take another look at it

It is, indeed. When my gaming schedule opens again ...

How on earth did you... unearth... this thread?

Maybe he's a secret necromancer.

I think for forums, it's actually called a necrothreadcer

Not a threadomance? No, that is all of us, really: Reading signs and portents in the threads. :)

Funnily enough, I own BoL but haven't even read it yet lol.

Sounds like someone is running Feng Shui. :) I'm in. Haven't been in long enough to know what people avoid, but I've heard good things about it.

Does it seem like something that would work well on PbP?

I really liked the original, short version of BoL, before it got long and rather complicated. The original had many flaws, but I often wonder if others are also feeling nostalgic about it and transferring that to the Legendary or Mythic (can't remember which is latest) version.

The latest fixed most of the actual problems, but lost part of its soul in the process. :9

I really liked the way all versions handled 'Professions', and try to capture some of that ideology wherever I can, but the rest was... merely OK.

I do love Feng Shui (at least the first edition, which is the only one I ran), but I do worry about the initiative system in PbP play. Very structured. Lots of decisions to be made, lots of ability for people to monkey with their 'shots,' and lots of waiting by folks for those who are up next.

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Generally disagree on BoL, VagueGM, but I know what you mean to a degree. My favorite version is Legendary (the game needs black and white art, I think), but Mythic really is pretty much the same game, just with one attribute change, a bunch more settings and art I don't dig as much. But we already know we differ on this game. =]

Ooh I want to see an edition fight that's not D&D or Shadowrun! Haha :P

I've thoroughly enjoyed Kamigakari for the nine session I ran it to my friends, but after that we switched systems and I never touched it again. Never saw anyone talking about it either, which is a shame, such a great system.