What's your back-up game?

[Philotomy Jurament]

Well, technically I don't have a backup for 4E, since I won't be adopting 4E for my game (although I'll happily play it if someone else is running it), but my "short list" of games I like to run is:

OD&D 1974
Call of Cthulhu BRP (1920s or Delta Green)

I've been thinking about running 1e Gamma World or Encouter Critical, too. And I'm also thinking about looking into Aces & Eights.

 

[BASHMAN]

Castles & Crusades if I can convince the group, if not, 3.5 or Pathfinder. All but one of us (The DM) have decided to boycott 4e, so it will likely be one of the back-up games.

 

[Stogoe]

Wait---the one with the stones?

Because that's my favorite system ever.

Yeah, that's the one. The one thing I don't like about it is how Magic is a separate and wonky subsystem instead of working just like mutant powers. Oh, and how Powered Armor allows you to short-circuit the action economy. I don't know what they were thinking with that one. Otherwise it's quite the robust and adaptable diceless system.

 

[Xethreau]

If 4e sucks, I'll probably continue to play 3.5 with the new rules that I like from 4e. I don't see that happening, though.

 

[TroyXavier]

M and M or Rifts most likely.

 

[Incenjucar]

hmmm 4e or porn?

4e or porn?

4e or porn?

4e or porn?

Can't decide!!!!!!

FATAL?

 

[Lucius Drake]

For the last year or two I've been playing in an RPG of some kind on Saturday evenings and I have been DMing a D&D game on Sunday afternoons.

Saturday will continue to be In Nomine, GURPS, d6 Star Wars, Star Trek, or the occasional Exalted or Shadowrun game, while Sunday will also continue to be D&D, just switching to 4e.

If somehow 4e turns out to be not our cup o' tea then I imagine I will move to Iron Heroes and keep running 3.5. I can't see it happening though, as I've liked just about everything I've seen about 4th Edition so far.

 

[Imaro]

For me D&D isn't necessarily the primary game. Right now my group is playing Scion, I will probably give D&D 4e a try, but for S&S fantasy it is competing with Elric by Mongoose and Reign by Greg Stolze. Honestly I don't think it will match up to Reign.

 

[small pumpkin man]

Dark Heresy or Mutants and Masterminds are the current "backup games" for when we get bored of 3.x in our group. If 4e doesn't pan out, I'll probably be pushing for using either Warriors and Warlocks or just a converteding M&M into fantasy for the "primary" game.

 

[El Mahdi]

A heavily house-ruled 3.5E/Saga/Unearthed Arcana rules system with stolen elements from 4E in a non-standard, house-ruled Forgotten Realms campaign setting.