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

RunningLaser · January 27, 2018, 11:49:57 AM

I briefly ran Castles & Crusades, Basic Fantasy and Swords & Wizardry. Kinda close to OSR, I ran Hackmaster 5th with as many bells and whistles turned on as possible. Played in an AD&D 1st game a few years back. Ran D&D 5th for a little bit recently, now playing in a D&D 5th game:) I will say that 5th is hitting a sweet spot for us.

kobayashi · January 27, 2018, 12:51:40 PM

In the past 5 years, as a GM:
_A D&D5e Campaign, a LotFP campaign, a Chroniques Oubliées campaign (a french simplification of the D20 system)
_The Laundry (ongoing campaign)
_A Society of Unlikely Gentlemen
_Into the Dark
_Index Card RPG (which basically replaced any D&D or D20 based game for me).

As a player:
_Deadlands
_Dungeon World
_Yggdrasil
_Paranoïa

joriandrake · January 27, 2018, 01:55:10 PM

Considering that I came back after a long hiatus, I play... or something like that, currently house ruled 5th Edition D&D, plus the one Lords of Olympus here.

Even before that we played mostly D&D versions, M.A.G.U.S./Cyberpunk/Shadowrun/VTM in addition, with 2 campaigns also in 7th Sea

edit: I might add the game with Chirine, an FTF/C&S one, not actually playing yet just at preparation phase.

AsenRG · January 27, 2018, 01:56:07 PM

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.

It's a popular perception, but no less erroneous.
What surprised me most was that I could actually report having played D&D-variants;).

soltakss · January 27, 2018, 06:02:22 PM

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?

Last time I played D&D was when it was AD&D, probably in 1985 or 1986.

RQ all the way for me, with some HQ thrown in.

Gorilla_Zod · January 27, 2018, 06:43:08 PM

On the OSR front, in the last five years I've ran Labyrinth Lord & Lamentations of the Flame Princess and played DCC. Other flavours of D&D have included 13th Age and Fifth Edition. Fate, Mythras, some Apoc*World stuff and various superhero systems have been the side-dishes.

Vargold · January 27, 2018, 07:34:42 PM

On the D&D side, mostly 13th Age but a little 5E and a little Basic Fantasy.

On the non-D&D side, mostly Supers! Revised, but a little PbtA as well (Uncharted Worlds and Monster of the Week).

Gronan of Simmerya · January 27, 2018, 07:49:31 PM

In the last five years I've run more CHAINMAIL historical battles than I have D&D.

The only pseudomedievalish fantasy RPG I'll run is OD&D, but I have yet to look at Lion & Dragon. Well, not counting "Kobolds Ate My Baby."

I'll play damn near anything. I'm in a weekly Pathfinder game because it's that or nothing and the rest of the crew is fun to hang out with.

At GaryCon I play almost nothing but historical miniatures wargames, but I was in one of Dave Wesley's "Braunstein" games two years ago.

RPGPundit · January 30, 2018, 12:42:04 AM

I felt fairly confident, actually, that while the vast VAST majority will have played D&D, and the majority will play D&D most often, the significant majority would still also play other stuff.

Gronan of Simmerya · January 30, 2018, 01:52:22 AM

That matches my experience; few people will actually refuse to play in something.

Now, what I will BUY as opposed to PLAY is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Zalman · January 30, 2018, 12:01:27 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1022659I felt fairly confident, actually, that while the vast VAST majority will have played D&D, and the majority will play D&D most often, the significant majority would still also play other stuff.

I'm one that would play other stuff, but haven't recently. One Pathfinder campaign that broke the camel's back for me on complex systems, and the rest OSR (S&W, LL, and my own homebrewed game). All fantasy as opposed to sci-fi -- I get more than enough sci-fi out of real life and my day job.

Mike the Mage · January 31, 2018, 03:29:47 AM

For the last two years I have been playing Beyond the Wall.

Previous to that, Ars Magica 5th edition and Savage Worlds.

Back in the day it was D&D B/X, Dragon Warriors, AD&D (mostly 1st and some 2nd), some old RQ 2nd and 3rd and a lot of MERP, Rolemaster and Spacemaster from the old box sets.

More or less in that order, but there was a brief period of VtM and MtA

Purchases-with-intention-to -play include:

Fantastic Heroes & Witchery (great! possible the best set of OSR "clone" rules )
Dungeon Crawl Classics (wow! - and not a clone)
Runequest 6 (picked this up from ebay and love it!)
Torchbearer (I really wanyed to like this but- well- dunno)
Dragon Warriors new edition (great nostalgia stuff)

nope · January 31, 2018, 10:23:53 AM

These days I pretty much exclusively play and run GURPS. The few exceptions would be WaRP/OtE, ORE/Reign/WT, HeroQuest 2, a bit of BRP/Mythras as well as a splash of FUDGE; Risus or Shotgun Diaries or similar for casual pickups and that's pretty much it. I don't play or run any D20 products at all anymore (unless you count HQ2), let alone D&D specifically or any of its OSR variations.

Piratecat · February 06, 2018, 05:29:26 PM

I'm running two 5e D&D campaigns, each about 8 years old (started them in 4e). I run a lot of GUMSHOE, too, nowadays either TimeWatch or Swords of the Serpentine, a Fafhrd-and-the-Gray-Mouser-style sword & sorcery game I'm writing. I'm in one other group that plays a different one-shot every other week: recently I've played Hollowpoint, Masks, Ten Candles, Honey Heist, and a couple of other games I'm forgetting.

darthfozzywig · February 06, 2018, 07:06:01 PM

I'm currently running a B/X game, but in the past five years I've run...

Savage Worlds
Call of Cthulhu
Rogue Trader
Pendragon
The One Ring
Faery's Tale
Fiasco