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Message: <blockquote data-quote="edemaitre" data-source="post: 4100548" data-attributes="member: 3372">Beyond D&DI've played and run lots of different games beyond Dungeons & Dragons over the past 25 years, but here are my favorites:-GURPS: The Fourth Edition of Steve Jackson Games' Generic Universal Role-Playing System is useful for any genre, and there are indeed numerous well-written sourcebooks for it. It's a bit less crunchy than Hero 5th Ed./Champions or RoleMaster, but still balanced.-Shadowrun: Now also in its 4th edition, the cyberpunk/fantasy game has fun flavor, just as White Wolf's Storyteller: World of Darkness or Call of Cthulu do for horror. Palladium Fantasy and Exalted can be described as darker D&D on steroids... In a similar vein are the interesting worlds of Talislanta and Tekumel. -Older non-D20 games: While there are some very good D20 and GURPS adaptations of these, depending on your preference of genre, you might want to look into Deadlands for Western/horror; Castle Falkenstein for steampunk/fantasy; or Traveller, Prime Directive (Star Trek), and Jovian Chronicles for space opera.-D20 variants: With the Open Game License changing for D&D4e, I also recommend at least considering True20 (and Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Ed. for superheroes), Spycraft 2.0 (for modern espionage), and the D20 licensed adaptations of various science fiction universes, such as Star Wars, Firefly/Serenity, Babylon 5, Farscape, and Stargate.-Rules-light systems: Savage Worlds is good for pulp adventures, and I've also tried Risus and FUDGE. In the other direction, I've been curious about Burning Wheel/Empires. I hope this helps, and good luck!</blockquote>

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