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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1576063" data-attributes="member: 16077">Well - Diaglo beat me to the punch...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (1) Fact is - I play in one D&D game and DM another, and GC a Spycraft game.  The game I play in, they are D&D snobs - only 3.x, only Forgotten Realms...  We've tried OA 3.0 (Rokugan) and it lasted 2 games.  We've discussed d20 Call of Cthulhu, Twilight:2000 and Star Wars d20 - those never got past the discussion stage.  We play this game at a private home - but no one else is willing to play anything else.  The play schedule is arbitrary and not consistent.(2) The guys that play in the D&D and Spycraft Games I GM are less D&D snobbish - we've played Twilight:2000 one-shots, and they generally play in multiple games besides mine (various RPGs, Warhammer, card games, etc.)  The problem with those two games is that I GM them at my FLGS - and they prefer that current games are played - obviously - since that means sales, which means we have a place to play - I definitely do not begrudge them that.  So - no OOP games are played there.  Additionally, because it is a FLGS - the "quality control" of the players is not as good as at a private gathering (i.e. people with less than perfect hygiene and/or budding serial killers may express an interest in playing - and you gotta shoo them away...)  Also, due to the FLGS environment, you do not know the players as well - in the games I GM, we don't communicate every day like I do with the guys from the D&D game I am a player in.Ideally - I'd chose to play with the guys from (1), with the attitude towards other games that the guys in (2) have, in a private home, rotating amongst 2 different kinds of games every other week.  Ideally, the games would be Rules Cyclopedia D&D and something from the following list:  Harn, Rolemaster, Mythus, TORG, CoC, TW2K, Traveller.</blockquote>

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