Game: Exalted (first edition – White Wolf, 2001)
My Experience: I’ll admit that despite being in the White Wolf freelancer community while Exalted was in development, I kind of slept on it for a long time. I wasn’t really into fantasy gaming at the time, and the other influences cited for it weren’t particularly ones I’d liked on first exposure, either. I picked up a copy to support the folks I knew who worked on it, and then left it on my shelf for several years. Since then, I’ve run a couple of one-shots, but I still struggle to get my head around it. It is epic and majestic and exceptionally cool, but still not entirely congruent with me as a player or GM.