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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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Madprofessor

I run a lot of different games which occasionally includes D&D.  I most commonly run d100 games (BRP, Mythras, CoC, WFRP, etc).  For lighter fair I run BoL, Traveller, and TFT. I still like the idea of D&D, I just don't enjoy it in actual play like I used to. I'd say, over the past 5 years, D&D got about 25% of my table time including DCC, a little bit of 5e (not my cup of tea), and some 1e one offs. That's about it.  I'm not against it, but I have no plans to go back to it at the moment.

danskmacabre

Quote from: CanBeOnlyOne;1021407Color 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.

I like DnD (particularly 5e), but it's not my favourite RPG.
but it's one of my favourites.
Partially as it's simply lots of fun, easy to get into, everyone knows it and it's really easy to get players for.

But I prefer Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, Spacemaster/Rolemaster, Stars without number (and various other Sine Nomine games).  
Stormbringer as I really like the stories it's based on and generally the author's work.
I like how fast and gritty Stormbringer is and the fun magic system.
But it's a bit of a niche RPG

CoC as it's a great all night RP session type game. The rules aren't that important really.
When I play this, there's not a lot of dice rolling going on anyway.  I love the Lovecraft books.

Spacemaster/Rolemaster: I love the crits and rich character gen.
They're kind of monolith RPGs now though and hard to get players for, so I've kind of given up on that.
But I have some great memories from these.

TBH for the last few years, I've been running a lot of the Sine Nomine games such as SWN, Silent legions, Other dust and now Godbound, which I'm running next week.
It's just REALLY easy to run these RPGs, the GM tables make it really fun as a GM.
Once you get players past the "It's not DnD 5e" thing, they generally like it.

Tulpa Girl

Just AD&D at the moment, but that's my first bit of gaming in a decade and a half.  Would like to eventually run some DC Heroes/Batman and/or Gamma World, and maybe eventually some other stuff as well.  Open to playing other stuff, but at the moment options are limited.

ArrozConLeche

I've been playing AD&D 2nd Ed infrequently with an old group. We tried giving FATE a chance through JadePunk, but it didn't click.

oggsmash

Gurps and Savage Worlds.  I do own a lot of other stuff, mostly for idea mining (just bought Rappan athuk bundle on clearance - pathfinder version).  I was going to give pathfinder a try with my gaming group, but I figured two game systems at the time is one too many as it was.

WillInNewHaven

Past five years? D&D: I played in a 5e one-shot and might have played in the guy's campaign if I didn't retire and move to Florida. I have played a few sessions of my  friend Simon's campaign, a hybrid OD&D/AD&D1 campaign. I continue to play in it online after my move. He doesn't run it very often.

Non-D&D: I played in a local Dresden Files game once, Fate accelerated rules, in a store. I never made it back. Nice kids but didn't like the system and my character had an in-story exit that worked for me and for the GM. I play in a Myfarog campaign set in the Middle East, not Thule, that runs most weeks. I have two weekly campaigns running my Glory Road rules and I play in another campaign that is also GRR.

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slayride35

Let's see last 5 years...haven't played D&D or variants (Confession time: last game of D&D I played was around when 4th edition came out, so it has been awhile. Looks it up...wow 10 years!). I have GMed Earthdawn Third Edition and Revised in that time period at conventions and Cathay Quest at home. I have mostly played Savage Worlds. Specifically played 50 Fathoms and Deadlands: The Flood to campaign completion as a player and a session of Suzerain and Deadlands Noir at Con on the Cob. Gmed Shaintar: Rangers Riding Out the Storm to completion and currently running Necessary Evil and 50 Fathoms (for a new group of players to RPGs). Played a game of Metal Magic and Lore at Gencon.

Séadna

Although I had Moldvay when I was young (sold second hand with Traveller LBBs, only copies of any RPG I saw in rural Ireland until the 2010s), I basically only started playing D&D in mid-2017 when I found the OSR stuff. Wish I had found it earlier. I had been mostly a Traveller and Savage Worlds player prior to that.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;1022005Obviously, I've played quite a few other RPG games beside D&D. I'm actually doing so now.

Citation needed. :D
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trechriron

I play a mix.

Castles & Crusades (for my OSR fix)
Radiance d20 (for a simple, more modern take on Victorian Fantasy)
GURPS 4e (for everything else)
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Hermes Serpent

Last night I played Traveller (MGP2e). Wednesday evening DCC, Monday and Tuesday a GUMSHOE/Trail one shot, last Saturday Call of Cthulhu and last Friday I ran Blades in the Dark, Tomorrow I'll be playing 13th Age and GUMSHOE (again but a different  playtest game of Trail) on Monday.

That's a fairly typical couple of weeks gaming for me.

In between those games I shall be prepping for a Mythras campaign set in the period of the Successor Wars that starts later this Spring as well as a couple of games for various cons.

Ted

Last five years . . . Just home games with friends or my children, not including convention one-shots:

D&D variants: 4e, 5e, Basic
Other: Burning Wheel, FFG Star Wars, SAGA Star Wars, Stars without Number, Nights Black Agents (Gumshoe), Savage Worlds, The One Ring, Torchbearer, Eclipse Phase, Aces and Eights

christopherkubasik

In the last five years I've run Lamentations of the Flame Princess. (OSR/D&D)

I've also played or run... probably 20 other game systems -- either played in my Monday Night Group or at conventions, either in mini-campaigns lasting several weeks to months, or one shots.