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List of Influential RPG Titles

Dungeons and Dragons - By TSR and WotC

Dungeons and Dragons 1st Edition - TSR

• Core Rulebooks
  
• Adventures (Keep on the Boarderlands, The Tomb of Horrors, The Temple of Elemental Evil)
  
  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition - TSR
  
  
• Core Books (PHB, DMG, MM)
  
• Unearthed Arcana
  
• Campaign Settings (Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun)
  
• Arms and Equipment Guide
  
  Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 - WotC
  
  
• Savage Species
  
• Deities and Demigods
  
• Stronghold Builder's Guidebook
  
  Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 - WotC
  
  
• Core Rulebooks (PHB, DMG, & MM)
  
• Expanded Core (PHB2, DMG2, MM2, 3, 4, 5)
  
• Psionics Handbook
  
• Unearthed Arcana
  
• Complete Series (Arcane, Adventurer, Warrior, Divine, Champion, Scoundrel, Mage, Psionics)
  
• Campaign Settings (Ebberon, Forgotten Realms)
  
• Adventures (Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil)
  
  Dungeons and Dragons 4e - WotC
  
  
• Core Rulebooks (PHB, PHB2, PHB3, DMG, DMG2, MM, MM2, MM3)
  
• Essentials (Heroes of Forgotten Kingdoms and Heroes of Fallen Lands, Rules Compendium)
  
• Settings (Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun)
  
• Adventures (Tomb of Horrors)
  
  Pathfinder - Paizo Publishing
  
  
• Core Rulebook
  
• Advanced Player's Guide
  
• Advanced Race Guide
  
• Ultimate Magic
  
• Ultimate Combat
  
• Ultimate Equipment
  
• Game Mastery Guide
  
• Ultimate Campaign
  
• Mythic Adventures
  
• NPC Codex
  
• Bestiaries 1-4
  
  Not Dungeons and Dragons
  
  World of Darkness - by White Wolf
  
  
• Vampire the Masquerade - Vampires are so mainstream now...
  
• Werewolf the Apocylypse - Where there are vampires there are werewolves.
  
• Mage the Ascention - and witches and wizards.
  
• Hunter the Reckoning - and someone to hunt them.
  
• Changeling the Dreaming
  
  "New" World of Darkness
  
  
• Core Book
  
• Expanded Core (Vampire, Mage, Werewolf)
  
  AEG
  
  
• Legend of the Five Rings 4th Edition Core Rulebook
  
• Legend of the Five Rings 1st Edition Core Rulebook
  
• 7th Sea
  
• Deadlands
  
  Other
  
  
• Shadowrun
  
• Savage Worlds
  
• Dungeon World
  
• FATE Core
  
• Call of Cthulhu
  
• RIFTS
  
• GURPS
  
• Paranoia - Super expensive on Amazon, not sure why.
  
• Elf Quest - Also a very popular graphic novel.
  
  Authors to Look for
  
  
• Gary Gygax - Role Playing Mastery and Master of the Game
  
• Monte Cook
  
• John Wick
  
• Dave Arneston
  
  RPG Related Non-Fiction
  
  
• Confessions of a Part Time Sorceress - Shelley Mazzinoble
  
• Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
  
  RPG Fiction, also essential
  
  
• Dragonlance - Chronicles Triligy by Weise and Hickman - Set in a D&D campaign Setting
  
• Drizzit's Series - By R. A. Salvatore. Icewind Dale Trilogy and The Dark Elf Trilogy
  
• The Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist - It's allegedly the story of the author's long running D&D game.
  
  Other Lists
  
  
• Good Reads Popular RPG titles.
  
• Wikipedia timeline of RPGs
  
  Honorable Mentions
  
  
• Star Wars - d6 Edition, d20 Edition, SAGA Edition, Star Wars RPG (Fantsy Flight)
  
• Star Trek - Various Incarnations
  
• Serenity the RPG
  
• D&D Comic Books
  
• Buffy the RPG
  
• Whatever the heck "Demon" is...
  
  *Please add suggestions below, I'll add to the list as I revisit this thread throughout the day. Adding Amazon links now.

Do you mean Elysium?

Actually, I built him as an immobile mage carry, like Ryze. Assassins all have abilities which let them jump on people and move around: see also Ahri, LeBlanc, Zed, Master Yi, etc. ASGORE is a close range mage like Annie, Ryze, and Brand, and I designed him that way because at least 80% of his fight with you is him using fire magic attacks. Sure he looks juggernautish in model, but I decided to go more based on translating the gameplay, so that playing against ASGORE in lane and team fights would feel like fighting him in Undertale.

Thanks for the compliment on my design! I'm actually a professional game designer in real life, having worked on three Vampire: the Requiem books freelance (these three: 1, 2, 3), and released two games of my own (Bad Decisions, Kitsune: of Foxes and Fools), and currently working on some other projects, both freelance and of my own. So I think seriously about these exercises!

Monte Cook actually wrote a good book called "Requiem for a God" which was about the death of a God. there was a TON of awesome stuff in it and you can usually find the pdf for cheap on some of the game sites.

http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-God-Monte-Cook/dp/1588461041/ref=pd_sim_b_1

this should give you a lot of stuff to work with. :)

$46 "new" listed at Amazon

$30 "Hardcover Color Book (Premium Heavyweight)" at RPGDriveThru

Here you go.

Are you looking for the kind of thing that uses examples to put power levels in perspective? Like, "One dot in Strength = average human, can lift a TV... Seven dots = Able to drop-kick a Hummer" kind of thing?

It's been long enough since I read any of those books that I can't remember if I ever saw one of those examples go past 5 or 6, but if I had to guess I'd say you might find something like that in a Storyteller's Handbook or (Google, Google) Elysium, which had rules for playing elder vampires.

Well - if you want to get super crazy - as in - I can set an entire campaign in this city and basically never have the players leave if they don't want to. Look no further than this:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1588467899

This is a link to the hard copy - I'm sure you can find a PDF somewhere for cheaper. But yeah basically this book is the single best book I've ever read about a city. You could adapt it to any fantasy or D&D style setting basically and it has hundreds of NPCs, rumors, and dungeons pre-mapped out. In my own mind this is the gold standard of cities.

If you're looking for a city with a more Asian flair I can recommend http://www.rpgnow.com/product/3566/City-of-Lies-Box-Set?it=1&filters=0_0_10109_0_0. Though it is heavily steeped in the Legend of the Five Rings setting - it too is very detailed and has a bunch of stuff going on with it.

If you're looking for something more modern I can recommend the city building book for Vampire the Requiem http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Damnation-City-Requiem/dp/1588462676 - I found this very helpful when I was playing world of darkness.

Girls in high school were carrying around the "Book of Nod" https://www.amazon.com/Book-of-Nod/dp/B000VEET4S

Its a fluff book for Vampire the masquerade. I say "I didnt know you played that game" Her/them "Its not a game". Was like a scene from coven.