Stubborn

[smartmonkey]

My group tends to be more willing to try a game the smaller it is. I had to fight pretty hard to get stuff like L4R and Rogue Trader on the menu - both of which are big, expansive settings my players have no experience with. I had an easier time with Shadowrun, which some of us were already collectively into, and an even easier time convincing them to play smaller games like Traveler (the pocket rulebook really sold them), Fiasco, Microscope, Burning Wheel, and Dungeonworld. The less heavy the initial buy-in, the easier it's been to sell folk on a particular system.

 

[Radiating Gnome]

I co-DM, and the other DM won't run anything but D&D -- he's nice about it, but just isn't interested. It makes sense -- of the two of us, he's the one with the better command of rules knowledge and game mechanics -- and that expertise is something that would be very difficult to recreate in a new system.

I run occasional side games to try out other systems, but they're few and far between.

-rg

 

[diaglo]

we play new stuff all the time. but we have a regular game too. the new stuff fits in when schedules conflict and not everyone can make it. or when we have a long weekend and we want to play new stuff.

 

[Campbell]

We actually tend to have the opposite problem. There are so many games we want to play that we have trouble sticking with a particular game for too long. In the last year between the 3 groups I've been involved in we've played:

• GURPS
• AD&D
• Legend/MRQ
• Legend of the 5 Rings
• Exalted 2e
• Edge of the Empire (One Shot)

Our Exalted/L5R group is currently considering

• Dresden Files
• Scion
• Vampire : The Requiem
• Exalted 3e

Add onto that I'm also really looking forward to possibly running a game of

• Edge of the Empire
• New World of Darkness: God Machine Chronicles
• Demon: The New Thing*
• Something FATE Core

* Subtitle Not Yet Revealed

That's what you get for having such a GM heavy group.