What non-4e would you play if there was no OGL at all?

[Turanil]

Well, this for those who are not interested in 4e, and will instead choose Pathfinder, True20, C&C, whatever. The thing is, that such OGL games do exist solely because the guy who first wrote the d20 OGL license, didn't do his job very well. He left a bad-wording / loophole that let publishers use the OGL to write their own independent systems that can now exist on their own without any concern for GSL and such. However, if the original lawyer had done his job properly, there wouldn't be any True20, C&C, Pathfinder, etc. available. The only available thing reminding of D&D would be 4e.

As such, my question is: for those who opted for such OGL games, rather than any 4e, if you didn't have them, what would you do?

-- Reluctantly go 4e?
-- Go used books from previous editions?
-- Go GURPS?
-- Go Savage Worlds?
-- Go HARP?
-- Go BRP Cthulhu?
-- Go Runequest?
-- Go WHFRP?
-- Go another game (explain)?
-- Abandon gaming altogether?

Myself, next game I am a player in, is BRP Call of Cthulhu. I am really enthusiast about it...

 

[naturaltwenty]

I've always been a game whore and spent way too much on RPG's over the years. I have different game systems that I use depending on what mood I'm in.

Pick-up games - Savage Worlds because it's easy to put a scenario/adventure together with some D&D or MageKnight minis.

Getting exactly what I want - GURPS 4th or HERO

Looking for some gritty fantasy - WFRP 2nd

Those 4 games pretty much can satisfy my itch for gaming (now you're making me feel all guilty and that I should get rid of alot of the stuff in my basement - the problem is, every time I go down there and start to pull stuff off the shelves I start reading it and getting ideas for a new game to run!

Later

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

It's hard to say, but I assume it would be
- Shadowrun
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
- Torg

Older editions before 3E I would most likely not play.

 

[lutecius]

WFRP - it's mentioned in the OP but i don't see it in the poll options.
(or maybe i'm still drunk from last night's parties. yay pride!)

HARP - heard lots of good things about it, so i may give it a try.

 

[Arawn76]

Ok I love 4E, but if I didn't then

Alternity

or

WHFRP.

Possibly go back to 2nd edition 3.x really doesn't float my boat anymore.

 

[danbuter1]

Castles and Cruades.

 

[Psion]

The thing is, that such OGL games do exist solely because the guy who first wrote the d20 OGL license, didn't do his job very well. He left a bad-wording / loophole that let publishers use the OGL to write their own independent systems that can now exist on their own without any concern for GSL and such. However, if the original lawyer had done his job properly, there wouldn't be any True20, C&C, Pathfinder, etc. available. The only available thing reminding of D&D would be 4e.

I don't know why you assume it was a mistake.

Go back and look at Ryan Dancey's discussions of the OGL at the time. The mode of thought then was that it's not rules that drive game editions, but groups. Network Externalities. The validity of this theory might be in question (but I'm hearing lots of people rave about 4e sales, so that remains to be demonstrated), but a mistake it wasn't.

 

[Psion]

Castles and Cruades.

OGL. Per the OP, need not apply.

 

[xechnao]

From those among the list Runequest. OGL or not. That is still with whatever OGL is out there I still prefer Runequest.

 

[Wormwood]

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