If D&D didn't exist

[Mercutio01]

Without D&D (but assuming a still robust RPG industry minus the TSR influence), I think I'd be playing "The Price of Freedom." Still ranks among my favorite games.

 

[SkidAce]

Fantasy Hero and more Champions.

 

[Cor Azer]

If it never existed? Probably a wargame.

If it was somehow systematically just removed from existence? ASoIaF RPG, which, truth be told, is what I'm mostly playing these days anyway.

 

[Ahnehnois]

In all likelihood, I (and most of the D&D population) would never have been introduced to rpgs if not for D&D.

That said, I doubt I would play any other fantasy rpg, I know I wouldn't play anything associated with wargaming, but it's possible I might have gotten into CoC or one of the sci-fi rpgs.

More likely, I'd be playing more tennis or more Civilization.

 

[billd91]

IF there were RPGs without D&D, I'd probably play a lot more superhero games like Hero or Villains and Vigilantes (assuming Mutants and Masterminds as an OGL game wouldn't exist without 3e) and Call of Cthulhu.

 

[Janx]

Bunnies and Burrows?

 

[Stumblewyk]

I have to assume my friends and I would still be getting together. We'd just be playing a crap-ton more Dominion, Catan, Zombies!!!, and Killer Bunnies. =/

 

[Greg K]

Not much would change as I don't, currently, play D&D (a modified 3e falls behind Savage Worlds and True20 (in that order) for my running fantasy)

Savage Worlds
Cinematic Unisystem
Cortex (classic): Generic Rulebook, Serenity, Supernatural
Marvel Superhero Adventure Game using mods by Steve Kenson and the online community (assuming no D&D meant no Mutants and Masterminds)
Toon!

To try list
Icons
BASH
Barbarians of Lemuria
Bedrock Games: Crime Network, Horror Show, Terror Network
Cartoon Action Network: Season 2
Cortex +: Marvel Heroic RPG, Leverage, Smallville
Dread: The First Pandemonium
Little Fears: Nightmare Edition
Rogue Swords of the Empire (a.k.a, Conrad's Fantasy/Barony): If I could replace my stolen copy
Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade

 

[S'mon]

If D&D did not exist, RPGs as we know them would not exist. The computer games industry would look different, too - CRPGs might have taken years later to develop, they'd be called something else, and they wouldn't be based on the D&D template.

 

[Zhaleskra]

In all likelihood, I (and most of the D&D population) would never have been introduced to rpgs if not for D&D.

I'm strongly going to disagree as I feel that someone would have produced something that with our current knowledge we would call an RPG eventually. The big questions are: would it have been as popular, and might RPGs then be in their infancy even now?