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Roll Call: Who Plays ONLY D&D+Variants? Who Plays Other Systems?

Started by RPGPundit, January 21, 2018, 06:05:32 AM

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Catelf

Mainly played/GM'd other rpgs than D&D, of which the Swedish-created game called "MUTANT", variants of White Wolf's "Storytelling system", and variant homebrews heavily inspired by WW's rpgs are most noteable.
EDIT:
Last 5 years ?
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None .....
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Aglondir

Currently running: 3.5

Past 5 years: 4E, 5E, Hero System, Savage Worlds, Labyrinth Lord, Mongoose Traveller, Homebrew d100.

Joey2k

In the last 5 years I would say half my gaming has been D&D (Moldvay or Mentzer) or an OSR variant (mainly Swords and Wizardry WB or Beyond the Wall), and half other systems (D6, Barbarians of Lemuria, a few lesser known systems I can't recall right now).
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PoppySeed45

Last five years? Mostly Burning Wheel and Fate Core (though I'm getting tired of both massively). Ran some FFG Star Wars and now got Genesys so thinking about that. I've also run some GURPS, and a one shot of Classic Traveller. And I did three games of D&D 5e, and then that campaign fell apart because people are weird.
 

Llew ap Hywel

Despite my groups best efforts I won't run anything D&D derived if my life depended on it but I do play in a 5e game run by our junior player.
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Sable Wyvern

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Five years ago, I was running an AD&D 1E game that was in it's third year and winding down.

This has been followed by:

  • GURPS [X-Com] (about 18 months)
  • A brief Eclipse Phase game run by another player.
  • Hackmaster 4E (about 3 years)
  • Pendragon (briefly, and concurrent with Hackmaster)
  • Blades in the Dark (sporadic, ongoing, concurrent with HM and now RM)
  • Rolemaster (first session was this weekend past).

I had been planning at one point to run Mythras/RQ6, then changed to Godbound, and finally ended up settling on RM as my current game.

I grew up on MERP/RM mainly, after starting with Advanced Fighting Fantasy. There was a bit of BECMI and AD&D in the mix, but not very much, and I became fairly snobby for a while about how AD&D was simplistic low-brow hack and slash.

I only really jumped onto D&D with 3E, and proceeded to run Mongoose d20 Conan and Mongoose d20 Lone Wolf, both of which I consider far superior iterations of 3E. I also ran 4E for 12 - 18 months before reaching my limit for being able to stomach that version.

I've also run HERO (Fantasy), Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia (the "shitty" edition), Heavy Gear, Mage (the first version), Silhouette Traveller, Traveller (New Era), A|State, Rogue Trader, West End Star Wars, WHFRP 1E and AD&D 2E. There are probably a few I'm missing.

I've played (although not a great deal) but not run: DC Heroes, Vampire (the first version), Shadowrun (several versions), TMNT and probably a few others not coming to mind right now.

Edit: With reference to my group as a whole, for the most part I run whatever the fuck I want, and they play. We have one player who very occasionally runs a bit of Shadowrun, and another who does even less GMing, but occasionally wants to run something with a sci-fi bent. One player has run a bit of AD&D outside our main group.

One former player runs a bit of BECMI these days, I believe, and also DC Heroes from time-to-time.

Kiero

My group's main system is arguably nWoD, but we've played various editions of D&D (OSR and otherwise) and lots of other games besides.
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tenbones

Within 5-years? I ran 5e when it first came out. I don't play D&D anymore.

Philotomy Jurament

I mostly run D&D (original D&D and 1e AD&D, in my case). However, within the last few years I've also run Rolemaster (2e) and different types of BRP (RQ, CoC, custom stuff with the BRP gold book). And I've played WHFRP and Dark Heresy, as well as 1e AD&D. Maybe some others that aren't immediately coming to mind.
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fearsomepirate

I have only run or played D&D variants. I'm not against other RPGs in concept, but at least the way my life works, there aren't enough hours in the day to sample them all.
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Christopher Brady

Quote from: Christopher Brady;1020895Erf?  In the past 5 years?  Let's see, I ran 4e Essentials, was part of the 5e beta, and I run a game for the local Adventure League.  I also was in a Marvel Superhero Game before that folded, then when M&M 3e came out, I started running that.  I've also run Savage World's Pirates of The Spanish Main one shots for a local con several years in a row.

Right, forgot several short games of OVA and lot's of FFG's Star Wars games, like multiple Edge of Empire series, one Force and Destiny that fizzled (Players had a hang up with 'Canon'.)  Oh, right, a one on one Savage Worlds Rippers campaign that's on hiatus.  Oh, and a PBEM Feng Shui game.

And probably other games that I've forgotten.  My memory sucks, has always sucked.
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grodog

Quote from: RPGPundit;1020879As the question says, I want to get an idea of the composition of the group. Never mind how many games you may actually own.  In the present time (say, the last 5 years) how many of you have only played/run D&D/D20/OSR games? And how many have played/run games other than those?

Played and runs lots of AD&D 1e, and that's certainly accounted for most of my gaming time.  Have been playing Ars Magica since the fall.  Have also tried out an intro/one-shot for The Strange, and played some Amber and some homebrewed Amber-ish stuff too.  Have been working toward a Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign for about 25 years (most off, occasionally on, and back on again now).  But AD&D has remained my mainstay.  

At conventions, I've been able to branch out quite a bit more:  quite a bit of of ASSH, some RQ2, and lot of wargames/minis games (Leading Edge Aliens, Chainmail, Siege of Bodenburg, etc.).

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Teodrik

Over a period of 5 years I have mostly played red box D&D and Barbarians of Lemuria. I don't count in any one-shots, but only semi-regular groups. There was also some low level 4e adventures.  And two adventures of The One Ring.

EOTB

1E AD&D mostly, some OD&D.  

No other games outside of a con one-shot.  And I'm not really interested in other games, tbh.  I like D&D but I'm not a gamer.  (EDIT - also AS&SH, but I consider that "weird D&D".)
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CanBeOnlyOne

Color me surprised. Seems like quite a few people on this site play other games besides D&D. For some reason I was expecting D&D to be run more often by a massive majority.