Fat Irish wrote on Dec 17th, 2008 at 4:59pm:I'd also like to introduce my wife to RPG's in something like a "newbies game" if one ever were to come up.
D&D 4E may be the thing for her then. Not really heavy on the RP side of things (but that is what the GM and players are there for), but fairly easy and (I think) a bit more simplistic than D&D 3.x.
Another good game that can be played solo, a group without a gm, or a group with a gm is called Mythic. Pretty simple on the rules side of things and if you like a different system you can still use the Game Master Emulator portion of the system to run/play dynamic games on the fly.
Here is a review of Mythic on the RPG forums.
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