Have you decided to change systems?

[sjmiller]

When I started running a D&D3.0 campaign I had to give up running GURPS, because I couldn't get anyone to play it. Even though I find it to be a better game system for my gaming style, most of the people wanted a system they had at least a passing familiarity with. So, I changed systems, but not by my choice. If I could get them to switch to GURPS, I would gladly give up D&D and never look back.

 

[Kafkonia]

Changed systems? Not really, but I have rediscovered my love for GURPS and am about to launch a campaign using their system. It was originally going to be Masque of the Red Death d20, but I decided I'd rather use a more open system.

We're theoretically playing Shackled City, but with the DM having gone down to Seattle for an interview two weeks ago, and then me being out of town on the weekend, we're more than a month removed from the last session.

He's expressed interest in running a Shadowrun game, perhaps a SW game, and I'd like to try out my freshly acquired Feng Shui and Kult books (not at the same time! ) Maybe I'll put together a holiday-themed one shot.

 

[S'mon]

I am currently running two D&D 3.5 games (Ptolus and The Red Hand of Doom) and I play in another (The Savage Tide). However, I recently picked up the C&C player’s handbook and flat out feel in love with it. I am still planning on continuing with my current 3.5 games but given the chance, I might switch to C&C. A lot of it depends on whether or not I can find anyone to play it with. Maybe I can convert some of my friends...

How would they react to being told you're converting one or both of your 3.5 games to C&C at an appropriate juncture? That's what I did, combined with moving the timeline forward a couple of years. The PCs effectively got a pretty big power boost since C&C monsters are generally weaker than in 3.5, which the players liked.

 

[NanocTheCivilized]

My group and I decided awhile ago to go back to AD&D 2nd because that was the system we had fun with, knew well, and could run adventures the way we want to run adventures.

I still come here to browse and post. I still like the community here but 3.5 and d20 is not my system anymore.

Same here - after 9 months of running 3.5 I gave up and went back to 2e. I took some ideas from 3.5, but much simplified. Like others here, I'd happily play 3.5, but I'll never run it again.

In fact, for the last year or so we've not been playing fantasy at all. I've been using Savage Worlds to run a pulp era game, and more recently a SF game set in the Firefly 'verse.

Nanoc

 

[thedungeondelver]

I have time to DM once a week, twice every other week. While I enjoy playing other systems, as a DM/GM/Referee or whatever, I really only have time to devote to one set of game rules. This particular set of rules is, of course AD&D. When someone else takes the reins I'm more than happy to play whatever. But I'm pretty set in my ways as to what system I'll run, personally.


(And I apologize to the OP because this isn't a very on-topic answer to his question...)

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

I have time to DM once a week, twice every other week. While I enjoy playing other systems, as a DM/GM/Referee or whatever, I really only have time to devote to one set of game rules. This particular set of rules is, of course AD&D. When someone else takes the reins I'm more than happy to play whatever. But I'm pretty set in my ways as to what system I'll run, personally.


(And I apologize to the OP because this isn't a very on-topic answer to his question...)

No, it's ok, I hear ya about having time for only one set of rules. Thanks for the reply.

 

[mhensley]

I change systems almost as often as I change my underwear.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

You make it sound like a switch - either all you play is 3.x D&D, or you play a single specific something else.

I currently run a 3.xE D&D game. I play in a GURPS game. I the past I've played/ran three or four different systems in overlapping campaigns. I haven't been married to a single system in decades.

So, did I switch? No. Do I play other things? Yes.

I think the issue is how busy you are in "real life". Some of us have wives, children, jobs, etc. And thus realistically have time to only really play one system in any great depth. Others here at enworld, I suspect, have such an enormous amount of free time on their hands (no pesky "human relationships" or "jobs" to get in the way ) that they can easily bury themselves in multiple RPGs.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

I agree. I'd be happy to play it as well. But when it comes to running I don't have time for 3.5 anymore.

THAT is the key issue here, friends. We need to clarify:

Do you mean change systems that we *GM*?

Or change systems that we *play*?

Playing an RPG is easy. Just show up and roll dice when the other players tell you to.

GMing, on the other hand, is an enormous committment. Just leafing through the corebook of most systems gives me a hernia if I imagine *GMing* them.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

Then there is also the fact that for me, D20 is a pain to prepapre for- its like a chore to me

Bingo. DMing 3.5 is like having an office job. Playing it is cool, though.