Anything but D&D

[Wandering Beekeeper]

Seriously, does anyone here besides me play anything else? I've got four game stores where I live and can't find so much as one other player for anything that isn't D&D.

 

[Wandering Beekeeper]

Happy birthday to me. I'm 63. It's been six years since I've gamed either as a player or GM.

 

[aco175]

There are several threads on this over the last couple years. Some of it is time where I only have so many hours to play games and why would I take away from playing something I know I like. Some of it is cost in buying more books and such. Some is finding people to play with and DnD always has people to play. It is a circle thing to some extent. Why would I watch baseball when I know I like to watch football- that kind of thing.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The last session I was in was Monster of the Week (as a player; it's not really my kind of game). I also played Dungeon Crawl Classics recently, and the game I currently run (on holiday hiatus) uses the Level Up rules.

I guess my big question is: what games beyond WotC 5e/5.5 count as "D&D" to you? Everyone has a different answer.

 

[jdrakeh]

I've played some Monster of the Week and run my own games A Minimalist Fantasy Affair (Embellished Edition) and Black Aegis (Redacted Edition) last year (the former is available on Itch and the latter is currently in editing). I plan to run some Pulp Cthulhu this year.

[Edit: Happy birthday!]

 

[darjr]

Seriously, does anyone here besides me play anything else? I've got four game stores where I live and can't find so much as one other player for anything that isn't D&D.

Do what I did so many years ago and run a game at the store.

Early 2000s it was GURPS and Traveller. I got much more success with Traveller and the rest was history.

It can be a slow start and you will run a lot. But if you persist through the days of no shows and low numbers eventually folks will hear and show up and give it a try.

It helped to start a community that continues to grow now.

 

[darjr]

Oh! And def tell the stores you’d run stuff for Free RPGDay! That has been wildly successful for our local community.