Do you/have you played any non-D&D/d20 Fantasy RPGs?

[buzz]

Where do you guys find all the time to play so many games? I've heard of some people playing five different kinds of rpgs on a regular basis. Don't you ever get confused and mix up the rules?

Geez, I wish I had enough time (and players who were interested) to play all the games I've listed. Unfortunately, I've only really played maybe nine of the 40-50 games I've owned over the last 22 years, and out of that nine, only a couple have ever been played with any consistency (i.e., more than once or twice).

Unfortunately, it's hard (for me at least) to find people who are interested in playing RPGs other than D&D, or at least people who are willing to learn a new game on a regular basis. Thankfully, with d20, it's easier for a group to expand into other genres without having such a steep learning curve.

 

[Golem Joe]

Sticking strictly to fantasy...

I'm currently wrapping up a three year long 7th Sea campaign. I'm also running a somewhat irregular Lejendary Adventure campaign that I and the players are enjoying a great deal.

Prior to these, I spent plenty of time running both TSR's SAGA (ala Dragonlance 5th Age) and Darkurthe Legends adapted to the World of Greyhawk setting. And before that quite some time running Dangerous Journeys.

In addition to these, I've had a good time playing Earthdawn, which I still get a craving for now and then. Castle Falkenstein is one of my favorite games that I absolutely refuse to run (for years, a good friend has tried to get me to move to Austin with bribes of running a campaign).

Of course, I do play in a couple of DnD campaigns, but mostly because those DMs won't run anything else.

 

[Agback]

Where do you guys find all the time to play so many games? I've heard of some people playing five different kinds of rpgs on a regular basis. Don't you ever get confused and mix up the rules?

Well, in the first place I started playing RPGs in 1980. In the second place, I spent seven years as a University student, with nothing much to do but show up at the occasional examination. In the third place, I don't waste my time by watching hours of television every day.

That leaves plenty of time to have played three version of D&D, Tunnels & Trolls, The Fantasy Trip, Traveler, Universe, two versions of RuneQuest, three versions of Chivalry & Sorcery, RoleMaster, MERP, Champions, Hero System, 'Justice, Inc.', 'Danger International', Fantasy Hero, James Bond 007, 'Top Secret', Flashing Blades, Privateers & Gentlemen, Hunter Planet, two versions of ForeSight, HindSight, Age of Reason, Pendragon, 'In Nomine', 'Call of Cthulhu', GURPS, Fading Suns, Passion Play, two versions of Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, CyberPunk, CyberPunk 2020, Space: 1889, Legend of the Five Rings, Bushido, the D6 Star Wars RPG, two version of the D20 Star Wars RPG, the Star Trek RPG, Castel Falkenstein, Feng Shui, a number of different homebrews, and a few games I can't remember the names of. It only come to about two new games a year.

Occasionally someone will slip up and confuse in an obscure rule from the wrong game, but mostly it turns out that the game systems work so completely differently that this is no more possible than forgetfully chipping out of a sand trap in a game of water polo. The danger is greatest between games that are fundamentally similar, such as various d20 games, or Vampire and Werewolf. It is little changes that can trip you up.

Regards,


Agback

 

[sword-dancer]

Follw this link.
it is a Webpage who informations of a lot of RPGS and related tabletopas are stored.
If it comes in German, click on the English flagg.

http://drosi.tuts.nu/

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Re: Sticking strictly to fantasy...

I'm currently wrapping up a three year long 7th Sea campaign. I'm also running a somewhat irregular Lejendary Adventure campaign that I and the players are enjoying a great deal.

Prior to these, I spent plenty of time running both TSR's SAGA (ala Dragonlance 5th Age) and Darkurthe Legends adapted to the World of Greyhawk setting. And before that quite some time running Dangerous Journeys.

Wow. You mean that you played Dangerous Journeys... and then proceeded to play another RPG written by Gary Gygax?

You are a braver man than I am. After playing a mage (er, "dweomercrafter") in Dangerous Journeys, I dropped it, and never looked back...

 

[Thanee]

I voted that significant thing.

In our group we have played several dozen different RPG's (including weird stuff like Time Lords; The Morrow Project; KULT; In Nomine Satanis; Plüsch, Power & Plunder; Mutant Chronicles; etc), but only some were actually played for a longer period, including but not limited to:

AD&D 2nd, Midgard, Shadowrun, HERO/Champions, Amber DRPG and now mostly D&D 3rd.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Golem Joe]

Re: Sticking strictly to fantasy...

Wow. You mean that you played Dangerous Journeys... and then proceeded to play another RPG written by Gary Gygax?

You are a braver man than I am. After playing a mage (er, "dweomercrafter") in Dangerous Journeys, I dropped it, and never looked back...

Heh. Not all too different from yourself, I suppose. Actually, this would be the third Gygax RPG I've played. ADnD, then DJ and now Lejendary Adventure. I thought the concept of magic was one of the best parts of DJ -- the myriad of magical abilities, the diversity of spells, Vows and Pacts, the whole laws of magic -- all of it. In fact, its many of those hold overs that I enjoy in LA.

Now, rules wise, we took Mythus Prime and added those parts of Advanced Mythus we liked. 4 hours to create a mage character and then another 2-3 to pick spells didn't suit me very well either. The system worked great however, and fit my style of game far better than ADnD 2nd edition did. The game did have some editing problems, but much of that was cleaned up in later support material.

I looked into LA because I enjoyed DJ. But the games are very different. If anything, LA falls somewhere between old Dungeons and Dragons and Mythus Prime, which is just about the level of complexity I want. And the players (who never played DJ but have played ADnD/3e) like it.

 

[HellHound]

I didn't list it because it's not Fantasy... but if we are going to talk Gygax Games...

it's ALL about

CYBORG COMMANDO

The first game he did after being pushed out of TSR. First game I ever played where the actual all new die-rolling mechanic of the game takes centre stage, even ahead of the game theme itself.

It's all about the d10x

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