Do you like D&D or do you like RPGs?

[steenan]

I like RPGs in general.

There are several systems and settings I love, and I'm willing to try new ones when possible. I run and play many one-shots. We also do some campaigns, but they typically take a few months to year and a half, not several years.

D&D is not high on my list of preferences. 4e is fun, but definitely not as much as Fate Core, MHR, Dungeon World or DitV. Other editions I'd rather avoid.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

D&D player.

In my current group, the only games I've really enjoyed are D&D (3e, 4e, or variants such as d20 Modern, Pathfinder or Gamma World 7th) and FATE (and only Spirit of the Century/Diaspora). I've also been in enjoyable Warhammer 2e/40K campaigns, but that was in spite of the rules. (I hate random character generation.)

I feel like I'm getting old, and have little interest in learning new systems. (I'm only in my thirties.)

 

[Agamon]

Well, looking at my RPG shelf, it's about half D&D, of every edition, so I must like D&D. But the other half isn't D&D. The games I'm currently running, playing and planning, while not literally D&D, are mostly D&D-esque, from a new coat of paint to similar in spirit (Pathfinder, Adventurer Conqueror King, 13th Age, DCC RPG, Dragon Age).

So I guess the answer the question is, yes.

 

[Sunseeker]

I've never seen a game presented via the medium of a cartoon. What was it?

The last one that comes to mind was Ironclaw(I think that was the name). You basically played as anime-styled furries.

 

[Ratskinner]

What about yourself and your group?

I like hanging out with a bunch of guys goofing off in a manner consistent with rpgs. My personal favorites amongst those are not D&D, but some of the guys I game with are more particular and loyal to D&D. We are currently experimenting with different systems to see what we want to continue to play...so ::shrug::

D&D has a lot of quirks and problems, but its what everyone knows.

 

[RevTurkey]

I love old B/X and Advanced (1&2) ...D&D. My favourite game ever.

Played a lot of that for about 10 years. Very happy with it.

Then...Rolemaster. 10 years of that. Great. Done that...moving on.

What i have noticed is that now we play shorter mini campaigns.

We also try out new games and systems more.

In past 10 years these have been dabbled with:

Castles & Crusades
DCC RPG
Pathfinder
4e D&D
Call of Cthulhu
Warhammer 2nd Ed
Savage Worlds
All For One
Mutants and Masterminds
Hero System
GURPS
Eclipse Phase
Alternity
Edge of the Empire
Hackmaster
Dark Heresy
Deadlands
.....and more

the point being - that it now seems much more acceptable to our group to play with a greater variety.

 

[Dice4Hire]

To me, RPG and D&D are both the same things and different.

I do both, but my first love is fantasy RPG and that, to me, means D&D. I also play other genres on occasion, and other rule systems, but in my gaming history, D&D (or various editions) has been 98% or more of my playing and DMing.

And I am very happy with that number.

 

[ThirdWizard]

My group is pretty heavily into D&D-only. I've gotten them to play some other things, but D&D is what they always want to play. After 20 years of D&D, I don't really like D&D that much anymore. It's like if you could only eat lasagna for years and years. Lasagna is good, but you'd get sick of it.

But, I absolutely love boardgames. I've got a giant collection, two closets full, and I spend far more times with boardgames than RPGs nowadays.

So, I'd say I like games. Roleplaying. Board. Video. Collectable Card. Living Card. Party. Whatever. Any kind of game, I'm there.

 

[Zhaleskra]

D&D got me into RPGs. I am a former D&D supremacist. Over the years, I have enjoyed D&D.

It's only over the past year or so, and while avoiding 4e, that I realized that other games can do the same thing D&D can in a way I find easier.

Sometimes it's not the system, it's the GM's style. Although with GURPS, I'm thinking I quit because of both.

Without D&D I probably would not be in the RPG hobby. That said, I thought the game was showing its age around the time of the announcement of 4e.

 

[gamerprinter]

I live in a rural hole in northcentral Illinois, although it's the largest county, it has the smallest population per square mile of anywhere in Illinois, which means there are only so many players available. Most local gaming groups are very insular - unless new players are friends with existing ones, we don't get too many new players to our table, let alone to our knowledge. Me, I've got experience playing a dozen or more different gaming systems (most of the non-D&D systems were played in the 1980's). Recently I even downloaded the Campaign Guide and Players Options for Santiago, however, I already know for certain that my players only play D&D/Pathfinder, and they only want to play in a standard fantasy environment. Other than the one shots, I can't even get my players to play in my own published setting - Kaidan the setting of Japanese horror. So I can expect that they won't want to play in the world of Santiago either. The older players are stuck in their preferred mindset of standard fantasy, while the younger players lack the initiative to want to try anything else.

I like a variety of types and genres of RPG gaming and my players do not. So its standard D&D/Pathfinder for my table, whether I like that or not.

And as stated, due to the lack of RPG gamers in general, it's not probable to find another group easily, and even then, other groups are just as insular as ours, and I'm likely to run into the same problem. I know of one other group that only play GURPS or their DMs private designed game which is a lot like GURPS.

So that's my situation. Also I don't care to play online using VT apps, so that's not a solution for me either.