[anotherJack]

Agone, I have. Can't say I have heard about Metabarons though.

Oh yeah ! nicely surprised  

Metabarons is a space opera based on severall comics series (well, I don't know if "comics" really apply, but let's say yes), which were developped around the "Incal" serie by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Moebius.
It's an epic game based on the old star wars D6 system (which I always found completely unbalanced but so much fun, somewhere the complete opposite of Agone's system, which I found very well balanced, but miss some fun), plus a really well rounded system of honor codes, to be honest the best I've ever seen in games.
The universe could be seen as a mix of Dune and Hyperion, but taken on the secondth degree, a lot of things are "too much", incredibly epic and so - when I talk of this game I'd like to have the same vocabulary I have in french

Was Agone translated ? I didn't know.

[mortonstromgal]

1. Vampire the Dark Ages
2. Shadowrun
3. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
4. Desolation
5. Witchhunter

I think All for One may knock someone off the list once I play it.

[Juxtamon]

My favorite setting besides Shadowrun is the world of Kult. Sadly, the rulesystem it uses sucks so badly, noone wants to play it. So I am now in the process of converting the Shadowrun rules to fit the Kult setting...

HAH!
  I've been playing in the occasional Kult campaign for yeeeeeears now!  First Ed, with the terrible skills and awesome wounds...the system is just about totally secondary to the gameplay for us, though.  Stuff is winged (wung) to fit, and it doesn't really matter, since horrible things always happen to us in these campaigns.  Horrible things that we SOMEtimes don't even bring upon ourselves!

Fave systems at this time (other than SR4a):
   Pathfinder.  Like like like.  And it's not 4E.
   SW Saga Ed.  Despite that the vehicle stuff was dumbed down a bit, I liked it overall.  We didn't have a lot of Force-using munchkinism, however.
   Gamma World.  More for setting than system.  Hell, I even bought that HC set of the d20 green books when I discovered them.  Not sure what I think about this upcoming edition, however.  I actually agree that the 4E ruleset is not bad for the mutations, I don't like the CCG aspect as hinted.
   GURPS.  Played some coolio Supers games, and I even did up a GURPS Kult scenario for a local con one year.  Very satisfying.

(That's all I got for 60sec thought...gotta go.)

[Lord Scythican]

Hmm...let me see if I can get you a list of my favorites...


1.Star Wars D6 (I love it so much, I am making a 3rd Edition book to be printed...)
2.Pathfinder (Best Incarnation of D&D)
3.Shadowrun (Its great for something different.)
4.Call of Cthulhu (Ran during October every year.)
5.Deadlands (Can't really say why. I always want to play it after seeing Once Upon a Time in the West. Red Dead Redemption also got me playing it again).

[Krypter]

I'm enjoying CthulhuTech immensely at the moment. Some of the rules are wonky, and the writing is a bit uneven in the game line, but the art is beautiful (same art director who did SR4A), the ideas are gold and and the setting is just so full of creative and cool juice that it oozes fun. Who doesn't want to take on EOD Deep Ones in Powered Armor and pump them full of Plasma blasts from your Techno-Organic 40" tall mecha?

[Frostriese]

Steiners seem to think so. 

Steiner FTW!
Well, the 3025 setting Steiners. Afterwards, they became generic villains with no attention being paid of what was written in the original sourcebooks :p

Yeah, Battletech and DSA (*hears howls from other Germans*). That was the time when all three (those two and SR) were united in the hand of FanPro

[PeterSmith]

Well, the 3025 setting Steiners. Afterwards, they became generic villains with no attention being paid of what was written in the original sourcebooks

I never felt the Steiners were the villians, rather the main villian was somebody who had Steiner as part of her last name.

[Frostriese]

Well, the 3025 setting Steiners. Afterwards, they became generic villains with no attention being paid of what was written in the original sourcebooks

I never felt the Steiners were the villians, rather the main villian was somebody who had Steiner as part of her last name.

Well, the Lyrans were to a degree. Units did mostly align according to nationality, except for the Free Skye thing in the LA, and the militias in the FC. And so many Lyrans were presented as greey, stuck-up nobles - it completly conrtadicted the 3025 sourcebook, which stated that the LC was the successor state with the most social mobility and the nobility least removed from the populace (you could become noble by being a successful CEO, after all). Also, all the social liberties the Lyrans enjoyed according to thats ourcebook, or the lead in education and technology - all that was conviniently forgotten so as to have a rather black-white war, and boost the Davions.

[Usda Beph]

Heck I have a character who's dad was knighted for throwing the Archon to the ground and jumping on her!

For Valorous performance for the in the face of danger!

Joe snickers everytime he hears the story, and his dad is to proud to understand why its funny!

[Mystic]

Steiners seem to think so. 

Steiner FTW!
Well, the 3025 setting Steiners. Afterwards, they became generic villains with no attention being paid of what was written in the original sourcebooks :p

Yeah, Battletech and DSA (*hears howls from other Germans*). That was the time when all three (those two and SR) were united in the hand of FanPro

Like any faction in BT, there are verying degrees of "good and evil". I became a Steiner fan after I read about the character Roderick Frost, aka *SPOILER* Roderick Steiner and found out his grandfather was Adam Steiner. Both honorable men who buck the whole "Social General" thing.

That and assault mechs, what's NOT to like?

[FastJack]

I still think it's terrific that a one-season Saturday Morning Cartoon is the basis of the new Steiner empire...

Me? I've been a Buckaroo Banzai fan since the movie came out. BattleTech hooked me with Team Banzai and the Hatchetman. After that, Michael Stackpole, Kai Allard-Liao and Virtual Realities locked me in.

[Mystic]

Hey, dont knock the 1st Summerset Strikers...OK, go ahead, I do it all the time.  Still, as cheezy as it was, I still like how it was incorporated into BT canon, sort of. A low budget holo-cocumentary was it?

Speaking of, has anyone else read Battlerun? I downloaded it to my then-roomie's comp because mine was down...and because I COULD, and actually hurt myself from laughing so damn hard. The best Shadowrun/Battletech parody out there...or is it the ONLY one out there?

Every time I think of the Legion of the Bat-Sh** Insane, I start chuckling, like I am right now.

[Chaotic Insane]

WE HAVE BATTLERUN. I AM MAKING DAD RUN IT FOR SOME SPECIAL OCCASION! That and Castle Greyhawk. It must be done. Preferably on one of our birthdays or something.

And yes. There's only one. It was an April Fool's joke.

[FastJack]

Available for download for free at BattleCorps.

[Caine Hazen]

If you were at GenCon in 09, there were print copies too!  Which I have of course.