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Hey, thanks so much to everyone. Havent really had the time to try out many of the suggestions (still havent found a way to get english orig Gothic2 or Vampires), and I cant get SystemShock2 to run (argh), but I did look (way too briefly) at the spiderweb and the KOTDP suggestions -- the latter seemed most enticing but not my cup of tea (at the moment -- it is certainly a novel idea, but I didnt quick get the knack of clan-RPG), and the former seems interesting, albeit *very* old-school (I had expected something more innovative from the indies), and definately worth more time. I have yet to find Betrayal in Krondor, Knights of E-Evil, and Knights of the Old Republic.
Thank you all very much for your help (I read *all* the Posts and made mental notes of all opionions -- thanks!).

As a parting shot: I think I know what you mean by "more adventure than RPG", regarding PS:T, but I think it is because of the battle system and its fairly inflexible, never-really-fleshed-out character progression system. But I think this is inherent to the "RP" aspect of the RPG; you really *can't* just be anyone in that game, you really have to be the Nameless One. God, was I in RPG heaven. And for someone who spent 3 years researching socio-onomastics and the philosophy of singular terms, the whole name/lack-of-name business was just godly.