The One Ring RPG

[Havard]

I'd like to a see bigger review by him, though!

But on the game, yeah, he's right, it's a goddamn shame.

C7 is pretty much a good company, with Victoriana being a de-facto Ravenloft successor, so my hopes were pretty high.

But what motivated them to publish this lame duck of an RPG, I do not know...

I too really like the work they have done with Victoriana. Didnt really see the Ravenloft connection untill you mentioned it now though 8)

Frankly, for me, I have this problem:

All RPGs I truly like are from the 80s or 90s, or clones and reeditions (Dragon Warriors, for example).

There are some good games coming out these days too. Savage Worlds and ASoIFRP (A Song of Ice & Fire) are two games of more recent date that I really enjoy.

To start a new group with people that all have access to the same bunch of books is getting increasingly difficult,
the last time that happened being my New World of Darkness campaign.

But now, apart from some really obscure stuff, there is no generic RPG system that I can tell my players to buy.

For face-to-face type games I tend to just buy two copies of the rulebook so the players can borrow one from me. Thats trickier with online games of course.

Pathfinder doesn't really catch my interest (something that led to really awkward moments between me an Mr Mona at Ropecon, btw),

Pathfinder is pretty much 3E with some add-ons. What is cool about it, and what I told Eric is their style and type of products.

the WOD games are all naaah, and the new Warhammer, both FRP and 40k requires you pretty much to play in the canonical setting.

I am ofcourse a "published setting" type of guy, but we have had great success usng NWOD for homebrew games. I could also see using WHFRP 2nd edition for homebrew. From what I have seen of 3rd ed WH, I am staying away from that one. 40K could be cool to play, especially Rogue Trader.

But a rather generic fantasy RPG, usable for conventional or homebrew settings, there's simply none.

How about these:

• Savage Worlds
  
• D6 Fantasy (Check out the MiniSix variant if you havent already done so).
  
• BRP/RuneQuest (Any edition, I am waiting for the version Jeff Richard & Co are working on)
  
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten (with the Dungeons & Zombies supplement by the very cool Jason Vey).
  
• WHFRP 2nd Edition
  
• A Song of Ice & Fire

-Havard