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Well playing 3.5 and pathfinder. Running pathfinder and shadowrun 4
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I have, sort of, done something similar in the past when trying to diversify a set of roleplaying game-based trivia questions for SUTEKH. My writing partner and I didn't want to have all our questions be drawn from D&D and the World of Darkness! We also had to balance "challenging" against "obscure" and "too old-school for younger members to know about", of course.
Still . . . Amber Diceless, Tunnels & Trolls, and Cthulhutech, but not Call of Cthulhu and GURPS? That's some epic absent-mindedness.
Amber Diceless is my 2nd favourite RPG. I played it for 3 years, and it taught me a lot about how to DM.
Tunnels and Trolls? Well, remember all those solo gamebooks they produced back in the eighties?
Cthulhutech was a game suggested by someone in my first attempt at this poll - that's how a few games I forgot got added. I just forgot about Warhammer and GURPS and CoC.
I find the numbers very interesting indeed - just above 50% playing 4E, a solid whack (38%) still playing 3E, and then diminishing numbers elsewhere.
I do not now, nor have I ever played a wide variety of rpgs. Mostly D&D (in most incarnations) Deadlands, M&M and a bit of star wars and the like.
It's interesting how many different RPGs people play. I mean, I play a wide variety of boardgames (I've played over 200), but RPGs? Well, I've played over twenty different ones, but I've only really played campaigns with about five (D&D, Star Wars, Amber, Marvel Super Heroes and James Bond), and currently - and for the foreseeable future - I play only two RPGs: D&D and Star Wars.
That's counting all editions of D&D as one, of course!
Most of the RPGs came in the days I was at School and Uni. After that... Star Wars and D&D. Mostly D&D.
Currently running an over-the-top four-color Mutants & Masterminds campaign and beginning a TOS Movie Era Star Trek campaign next month (LUG/ICON System).
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It's interesting how many different RPGs people play. I mean, I play a wide variety of boardgames (I've played over 200), but RPGs? Well, I've played over twenty different ones, but I've only really played campaigns with about five (D&D, Star Wars, Amber, Marvel Super Heroes and James Bond), and currently - and for the foreseeable future - I play only two RPGs: D&D and Star Wars.
I think I'm quite the exception to the standard - I've played at least five to ten sessions (so short campaigns if you will) of at least 80 different RPGs.
I'm currently running two Pathfinder Beta campaigns: Rise of the Runelords (about to end #4, paused because of RL scheduling problems) and Legacy of Fire (just 2 sessions).
We also have a randomly scheduled game of Labyrinth Lord with rotating DMs, and I'm about to start playing in a 4e game, but our main game has consisted of Paizo Adventure Paths since I started DMing.
I'm running Swords & Wizardry, the 0e D&D 'retro-clone'.
Recently I've run Basic D&D (Moldvay rules), Labyrinth Lord, and C&C.
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Now running (2) 4e campaigns, and playing in (2) 4e campaigns at this point (madness!) - I'm basically involved (as DM or Player) in 4e games 2 days a week (and 3 in some rare instances)
With that said, I WISH I had more people who wanted to run games other than 4e - I would love to try some new stuff - SoTC and FantasyCraft come to mind as things I would love to try asap.
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4e...that's all I'm running and playing these days...and there is a lot of it going on. I've got my eye on an opportunity to run or play Shadowrun 4e or Eclipse Phase for a change of pace.
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Running two biweekly 4e campaigns (5th & 4th level.) Playing in Sagiro's biweekly 3.5 campaign (19th lvl, about 15 years and running.) Playing in a monthly Golden Age MnM game run by Storminator.
I'm also running playtests for Robin Law's game Skulduggery (five games since GenCon.) In May I ran a Paranoia game 4-5 times, and at GenCon I played in a 1e AD&D game, a 3.5e D&D game, a Dread game, and a game of Mouse Guard. Next weekend I'm getting together with my original gaming group to play 1e again for the first time since high school.
Phew!
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