Is D&D Your Favorite RPG?

[Sanguinemetaldawn]

No

No.

The core design philosophy emphasizes rules mastery over creative thinking, problem solving, and inventiveness.

Scenario design emphasizes a schedule of CRs (usually combat) tailored to the party, rather than a dangerous and exciting enviroment where certain death awaits the unwary, and great reward awaits the clever and cautious.


As a DM, I feel like I am constantly fighting the system to run a fun game. And the people in my playing groups say I am their favorite DM. This puts me in the bizarre position of being the favorite DM of everyone who plays 3E D&D as I run a game for them that I hate.


As a player, all I feel are restrictions. "You can't do this because you don't have Y feat", etc.

I honestly fear for the generation of DMs being created now. The kind of thinking described above stunts innovation, creativity, and improvisation.

Thats not to say that 3E is not without its virtues, but they are overshadowed by the flaws.

 

[jdrakeh]

I voted no. In the past, I think that I could have said that AD&D 1e was my favorite RPG (and it's still pretty close to the top of my list), but D&D in all of its incarnations is pretty limited in what kinds of fantasy it can emulate and even more limited in what it can emulate well. That pretty much knocks it out of the number one slot for me.

If I was satisfied with playing only one kind of fantasy (i.e., high, magic-rich, fantasy), I could still say that AD&D 1e was my favorite system, but I like many different kinds of fantasy and other genres entirely, many of which are poorly represented by D&D in all of its incarnations (even Ravenloft for all of its horror is still high fantasy, for example).

Currently, there is a three way tug of war between True20, The Fantasy Trip, and the Ghostbusters RPG (not GBI) for the title of "Favorite RPG" in my heart.

 

[Drowbane]

Yep, sure is!

I've played alot of RPGs and nothing else comes close to D&D. If given the chance to play D&D or anything else... I'll take D&D 9/10s of the time (sometimes even I get burnt out a bit on D&D ).

2nd: M&M (before M&M came out it would've been Champions 3e...)
3rd: Star Wars d20 (heavily modified)

 

[I'm A Banana]

Nothin's quite like it.

I guess you could say I have a hard time suspending my disbelief when some people (say, level 10 fighters) can 'safely' fall 30 feet onto solid rock five times in a row and then get up swinging, while one such fall could be reasonably expected to kill any average peasant...

Or, any mortal (for example, a ~15th level barbarian) can stand swimming in boiling water for half a minute (10d6 per round [35 average], 5 rounds, 175 damage...and the average barbarian that level has maybe 200 HP when he's not raging).

Frenzied Berserker Gnome. Fell at terminal velocity into a lake of lava. Swam to shore. Then fell down.

Some stuff just screams "cool" to me, and that's one of those scenes that definately does.

 

[jbuck]

yes
but that been said i have VERY limited experence with other RPGs i once played rifts but droped out after 2 weeks (3 gaming sessions) because of trully DYSMAL DMing. i once riged a plane that i was flying to fly strait into an enemy squad of soldiers, thus blowing them all to hell. the DM gave the exp for the encounter to the bits of the plane cuase it was "too easy an encounter the way you did it"
after that i haven't tried any other RPGs.

 

[DMH]

Or, any mortal (for example, a ~15th level barbarian) can stand swimming in boiling water for half a minute (10d6 per round [35 average], 5 rounds, 175 damage...and the average barbarian that level has maybe 200 HP when he's not raging).

That is why Alternity keeps being number 1 for me. Even a pumped up combat specialist needs heavy powered armor to survive large aliens. And now that I found a way to convert feats into optional skill rank benefits, d20 becomes even more of a GURPS like resource to mine from.

 

[The Cardinal]

1. GURPS4e
2. Unisystem / AFMBE
3. Unknown Armies 2e
4. nWoD / Storyteller
5. WHFRP 2e
6. C&C
7. D&D 3.5 / d20
8. BESM / TriStat dX
9. HERO 5e
10. CoC / BRP

 

[diaglo]

Yes. OD&D(1974) is the only true game.

 

[DragonLancer]

Is D&D Your Favorite RPG?

Yes it is, but it shares 1st place with Vampire (both versions).

 

[francisca]

Basic/Expert D&D is my favorite, with 1e AD&D nipping at it's heels.

After that, it's probably Conan d20, Gamma World 1e, 3e, and True 20, in that order.

I recently became familiar with the BRP family of systems. I found I was reinventing the wheel for a lot of my houserule mechanics. I'd really like to find someone with experience running a BRP based game sit down at their table for a while.