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Posted September 12, 2015
I was just writing a post on the Wasteland forum about that game's mechanics and mentioned it being similar to Tunnels and Trolls in its mechanic, and I am curious what games are out there that are modeled after pencil and paper role-playing games that *aren't* Dungeons and Dragons.

From what I know about, there is:
Realms of Arkania (apparently based off some German game)
Some game based of Vampire: The Masquerade

Any others?
Posted September 12, 2015
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dtgreene: I was just writing a post on the Wasteland forum about that game's mechanics and mentioned it being similar to Tunnels and Trolls in its mechanic, and I am curious what games are out there that are modeled after pencil and paper role-playing games that *aren't* Dungeons and Dragons.

From what I know about, there is:
Realms of Arkania (apparently based off some German game)
Some game based of Vampire: The Masquerade

Any others?
That "some German game" is called "The Dark Eye" (German: "Das Schwarze Auge") and is apparently the most popular RPG system in Germany (more than D&D). Other games on GOG from the same system are Blackguards, Blackguards 2, Memoria, Chains of Satinav. Off GOG, there's Drakensang and Demonicon.

I can highly recommend Blackguards.
Post edited September 12, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted September 12, 2015
I do believe that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was one of those.

Sorry, you referred to the game, not its origin. I think I know of which game you speak. It is probably Darklands and they do have it here on GOG.
Post edited September 12, 2015 by JDelekto
Posted September 12, 2015
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dtgreene: Some game based of Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines are the ones I am aware of.
Posted September 12, 2015
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dtgreene: I was just writing a post on the Wasteland forum about that game's mechanics and mentioned it being similar to Tunnels and Trolls in its mechanic, and I am curious what games are out there that are modeled after pencil and paper role-playing games that *aren't* Dungeons and Dragons.

From what I know about, there is:
Realms of Arkania (apparently based off some German game)
Some game based of Vampire: The Masquerade

Any others?
do you know anything about the game play itself? is it a first person or third person perspective? could it be both?
Posted September 12, 2015
Fallout was supposedly based on GURPS early in its development and apparently isn't far-removed even now. Unfortunately I know nothing about GURPS' actual system.

While not roleplaying game systems, I should note the Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and Epic 40k games that were released here recently were designed to emulate the versions of the respective tabletop games out at the time, if in real-time.
Posted September 12, 2015
GURPS is kinda a funny beast as it stands for General Universal Role-Playing System and is a game system which tries to merge every other system into one universal one. So in other words, they have supplements to convert Vampire and D&D into the same system.

I don't know for sure which ones if any, but some of the Call of Cthulhu or Lovecraft games out there might use that game system as well.
Posted September 12, 2015
the F2P MMO called Champions is based on using the HeroSystem to my knowledge...
Posted September 12, 2015
The original Fallout games are based on a modified version of Steve Jackson's GURPS.

EDIT: Oops, looks like it's already been mentioned... I should probably read these threads before replying ;)
Post edited September 12, 2015 by Leucius
Posted September 12, 2015
There are a number of games based on shadowrun

Cdpr are doing cyberpunk (the prg was called cyberpunk 2020, 5 years till my neural jack :-) )

Mechwarrior is based on a wargame/rpg
Posted September 12, 2015
NVM, misread .
Post edited September 12, 2015 by Licurg
Posted September 12, 2015
I know it's kinda far removed from the actual setting, but there are a few Call of Cthulu games out there. And I believe Call of Cthulu was the RPG which introduced something like a sanity stat which has later been used in games like Eternal Darkness and to a degree Amnesia.

I believe there is at least one Warhammer RPG out there as well.
Posted September 12, 2015
Hmm, no-one mentioned Shadowrun yet?
Posted September 12, 2015
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Crispy78: Hmm, no-one mentioned Shadowrun yet?
Actually, I forgot about Shadowrun. I have only played the SNES game with that title, however, and I am unfamiliar with the p&p game, so I don't know how faithful that game is to the system.
Posted September 12, 2015
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Crispy78: Hmm, no-one mentioned Shadowrun yet?
Shadowrun Returns etc is only an adaptation of the setting, not an adaptation of the PnP rules.
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