Quote from: rgrove0172;1024074How the hell could any gamer only play D&D?

The same type of person that only plays Call of Duty or Solitaire or any other person who focuses on one hobby.  A lot more than you'd think.

I really like d20 based systems. They're fun and familiar. I can pick up any OSR game, or any 5e variant, and I'll instantly know how to use it. Sure there might be setting or game specific rules, but most of the time you're going to be rolling that d20 and everyone knows how that works. Enough that Natural 1s and 20s have become memes. I don't think it's the best system, but it is the most accessible system. Almost everyone who has played RPGs has played some kind of D&D. These days I prefer to play something 5eish, with something BECMI/RCish coming in a close second.

I certainly like other stuff. I like d100 games, like Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, BRP, Hawkmoon and more. The mechanics are nice and one day I may once again find people who would want to play it. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

I like Fate. On paper. Rather, I like how I can hack the mechanics into other games, particularly hacks of Cortex Plus Heroic. I like Cortex Plus and it is bar none, the easiest system I have used to run play by post games. The system totally borrows a lot from Fate, but I like the dice mechanic a lot more. Cortex Plus does have Narrative elements, but those are totally ultimately controlled by the Narrator. And you don't have to use that. I'm waiting for Cam Banks to release the Cortex Prime material so I can write up the hack I've been sitting on for four years. Even if I never use it. And no I don't use that Smallville relationship enneagram thing. I use that system when I want to run something text based and I don't want to spend a lot of time waiting for people to post. The addition of the Time Dice mechanic means that players can post in a nonlinear fashion and then I do recap posts assembled sequentially. It's much easier than it sounds. Also, assets can be treated like stuff. Meaning it can be acquired and it can be lost.

I like Savage Worlds when someone else is running it. I suppose I could run it with Fantasy Grounds, even with a live group because it has an option for manual input, letting players roll their own dice. For some reason though, I enjoy Savage Worlds as a player much more than as a GM.

I have about 2000 pages of material for WEG d6 Star Wars that I got off of d6 Holocron and had printed in three volumes on Lulu. It has the Re-Up material so I can run Star Wars in any era I like. I still prefer d20 RCR as a system though, even though I am mostly likely to run Saga Edition because Saga is really good, and might even be the best iteration of 3.xe type mechanics period.

While I have not run much Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space, the times that I have were very fun and enjoyable. Everything is super easy to resolve and matching abilities and skills can be a fun dialogue with players as they take creative approaches to things. Not to mention the unique initiative system which encouraged thinking outside of the box.

For the last 5 years? Mainly sporadic L5R and some Shadowrun.

Recently played/playing: D&D5E, Shadows of Esteren, DCC, Changeling (!), Black Code (friend's system, check it out!), Star Wars Heroquest, Mage

Running: D&D5E, Call of Cthulhu, Duty & Honour (homebrew reskin to 40K)

So ... quite a lot really and not just D&D! :-)

Quote from: rgrove0172;1024074How the hell could any gamer only play D&D?

I wonder as well:).

And I suspect I should reintroduce my "no D&D-derived games" rule as well.

Quote from: spon;1024128Black Code (friend's system, check it out!)

Do you mean "Code: Black" for EABA;)?

I started running D&D in the last 6 months, only other games before that.

Quote from: rgrove0172;1024074How the hell could any gamer only play D&D?

Pretty easy for those RPG players who never visit an RPG forum, attend a con, or collect RPG rules as a side hobby. In other words the vast majority of the people in the world who have ever played an RPG.

Quote from: rgrove0172;1024074How the hell could any gamer only play D&D?

Outside of the type of gamers who go to forums like this one, the vast majority of all gamers only play D&D.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1024872Outside of the type of gamers who go to forums like this one, the vast majority of all gamers only play D&D.

Pure BS, Pundit, much as you might want it to be true.
I know quite a few players who refuse to register on a forum, and yet have never even bothered trying out D&D. Most of those usually have some experience with BRP, though;)!

At Sentry Box you'll mostly see players of 5e or Pathfinder. Well... That's when you encounter roleplayers. Most of the time these days it's just card games.

Haven't played D&D in 25 years

My group almost exclusively plays Earthdawn though occasionally we try something different just to see if we can get a consensus on a new game, but we can't. So in the last 5 years we have tried:

Shadowrun 5e
Fate
Savage Worlds
Warhammer 1e
Ingenero

I went through periods where I only played D&D and periods where I would not play D&D at all, especially around the time of 3.5 and 4th edition. I've always been in search of that one magical system that provides me everything I need, but after years of searching, I realize that it doesn't exist. I enjoy rolling lots of dice and d20 games don't always give me that tactile pleasure I get from other games.

I am currently playing or running:

DCC
Burning Wheel
SWON
Mutant: Year Zero

And have played:

Ars Magica
Shadowrun
Call of Cthulhu
Warhammer 1st edition
Marvel (FASERIP)
Apocalypse World
Feng Shui
Traveller
Dragon Age
Hackmaster
WoD (Mage and Vampire)
FASA Star Trek
D&D (all Editions) 4th turned me against it for years.

I think it's well worth the effort to play lots of different games, as a GM. There is almost always at least one good idea that can be borrowed for whatever game you're currently playing.

After re-discovering RPGs a few years ago, I've played...

Call of Cthulhu, 7th edition (running now)
Warhammer Fantasy Role-Playing (GM)
FATE fantasy (player)
D&D 5e (player)
Torg (player)
Fiasco
Microscope
Kingdom
Ten Candles
Lovecraftesque

What stands out to me from this list is how lukewarm I feel about D&D 5e as a system. We had a terrific DM, but the rules were pretty meh. I played a dwarf cleric, and I never felt the system rewarded me for role-playing as the adherent of a religion. Instead, I was a walking set of combat options, as were other PCs.

In contrast, Call of Cthulhu impresses me with how well it works after all these decades. The new rules added over the years provide interesting options at the fringes (for instance, spending Luck on failed rolls), but the core system is still the same.

My least favorite of the batch? Undoubtedly FATE. The mix of story-telling and simulationist ideas doesn't work for me. Not that a mix couldn't work, just not this one. Especially since the rules made me work (Here are aspects, figure out how to use them!) in ways that just weren't fun.

I'll give anything a fair rub up against the leg, but prefer OSR-styled D&D & Mythras/BRP vs modern fantasy games, any edition of Call of Cthulhu vs a whole Trail of Gumshoes, and rules-medium supers systems (ha! the mythical unicorn of superhero gaming) vs handwavy rules-lite stuff or the granola-crunch of games like HERO or Gurps.

Playing in a 5e D&D game right now that sort of makes my teeth itch at times, but it's fun and I'm a lizard-man, so all good.

Over the last few years i've run lots of Fate, Fate-derivates and Apocalypse*World stuff in addition to what's already been mentioned. Me and my guys, we know where the line is when we storygame. None of us cross that line. And we could totally stop any time we wanted to.

Quote from: AsenRG;1024886Pure BS, Pundit, much as you might want it to be true.
I know quite a few players who refuse to register on a forum, and yet have never even bothered trying out D&D. Most of those usually have some experience with BRP, though;)!

Well sorry, but your anecdotal experiences are not an accurate register of the hobby. The huge majority of gamers out there, past and present, have only ever played D&D in one of its variations (including Pathfinder, etc).