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Currently Fudge and OD&D (B/X), with an occasional diversion into Fantasy Hero. I personally like Savage Worlds too but the group is not familiar with it.
The system question is a hard one nowadays. I personally hate choosing one.
Sinister Adventures plans to adapt its Dark Vistas mega-adventures to as many systems as possible. We'll be doing True 20 versions, Savage Worlds versions, etc, and anyone who buys one version gets PDFs of the others for free.
Has anyone every played Runequest? I've never given it a dance personally, but I know its Open Source and want to know whether doing adaptations of Sinister Adventures stuff for it is something a lot of people would be interested in.
I am DMing Iron Heroes and we're having fun! The other DM has been doing 3.0 before he switched us to 2nd Edition in his game (which isn't too bad, I've had great times playing 2E and look forward to lots more!). We haven't switched to 3.5 or "upgraded" to it either. Only taken a few parts that were of interest to a few players. When I get done, I'm not sure what we will play in my DM slot, maybe a modified version on 3E (using several 2E ideas).
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One of my main groups has switched over to 4th Ed, and we've really enjoyed it so far; fast-paced action, tricky tactics, and lots of teamwork.
Also have another group that is running a heavily-modified 3.5 Faerun game, and a converted 4E Midnight game.
Just started running the Scales of War adventure path with the caveat that almost everything produced for 4E is good to go. Interesting stuff out of that one so far!
So yeah, a pretty big conversion to 4th Ed, but still sticking with some tried-and-true...I'd like to get out of the box a little more (a friend owns the Reign system and I really want to give that a try), but eh, what can you do?
We're sticking with 3.5 ... although we play it classless. All the 3.5 mechanics and options with none of the character building restrictions of multiclassing, caster level depreciation from multiclassing, fractional BAB, weird save progression starts, etc. You can see the classless/pointbuy thread in the General RPG Rules Discussion forum for more info on the system itself.
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Since my D&D players still hate 4E like the plague we're sticking with 3.5 - after that it's gonna be Pathfinder or GURPS Dungeon Fantasy
Ask me again when 5e arrives...
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You know, I keep asking myself the exact same question. I'm part of a fairly large circle of local gamers (age: 18-46; male/female ratio about 5:4; almost all with college-level education or better; a total of more than 60 gamers) - and not *one* of them is even a bit interested in buying (or playing) 4e.
They play D&D3.5, Star Wars SAGA, GURPS4e, Warhammer Fantasy RP2e, Savage Worlds, nWoD/Storyteller, CoC, Unknown Armies, Fate3.0/SotC, AFMBE, etc. etc. - but not 4e (and we have quite a few WoW players among us)...
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I shouldn't doomsay, but if the previous target group doesn't like it... and the current target group doesn't like it... Who are they selling it to?
Don't worry about it too much. According to what I heard, D&D 4 is still a success. (It's now in the third print run, and they already achieved their expectations for this year, with still 3 full months to go.)
Someone is buying the game. Moreover, someone is playing it.
For the EN World community, I posted a poll on the topic of who is playing D&D 4 and who isn't. Not everyone is (or at least owns the books), but it appears as if 22 % of those that own the books are not interested in playing it further. If we assume it doesn't get worse in the "real world", that should mean that there will still be enough players. Who they are (aside from those I know personally, like my group, or those on EN World) - no idea. But they exist. Either it are gamers that ignored 3E (or D&D) in general, or it are new gamers.
But even if it's all doom and gloom - no need to worry. It wouldn't be "your" edition that is failing, and with Pathfinder and other 3rd party support for 3E games, D&D and role-playing in general doesn't look like it will die out soon.
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Has anyone every played Runequest? I've never given it a dance personally, but I know its Open Source and want to know whether doing adaptations of Sinister Adventures stuff for it is something a lot of people would be interested in.
I haven't played the new Mongoose version, but it is very similar to the old versions. RQ is a very good game. It's quite gritty and deadly.
What did you guys switch to? Did your group go to 3.xe, 2e, 1e, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, True20, or what?
Still haven't played 4E yet and likely won't in the forseeable future, but I'm planning to run a campaign of Hybrids & Headaches. That is, it's based on 1E but with a lot of house rules and varying bits from other editions.
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My group is currently happy playing a modified version of 3e and has no real plans to change editions any time soon. I would like to get them to try a lot of different games, most especially Silver Age Sentinels (Tri-Stat Edition) or GURPS 4th Ed. Sadly, I don't see this happening any time soon. They are sort of set in their ways.
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The groups that I am involved with are sticking with 3.5 for the time being. In one of the groups we tried out 4th Edition for a couple of sessions. We generally thought it was OK but none of us liked it enough to switch. If any of my groups were going to switch to something else, it would likely be Savage Worlds, Pathfinder or Castles and Crusades instead of 4th Edition.
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