D&D General Poll: How many Role Playing Games do you play besides D&D?

[Umbran]

I've just never played with people that play the wide variety of games indicated here so I was curious as to motivation and how it came about I guess.

Well, for my group, it's about genre.

I tend to mostly run long campaigns (3+ years has been typical), and after playing one genre for a while, my players want to switch it up. D&D simply isn't that great outside its own genre, so unless we are doing High Fantasy, we are probably using some other system that's more suited to the desired genre.

I also take part in a goodly amount of one-shot play, and that adds a stack of games to the yearly tally.

 

[DemonSlayer]

This year/last I've played 5E D&D, Fate (Dresden Files), Call of Cthulhu, Mothership, Lancer, and Pathfinder 2.

Kind of staggering that so many are JUST D&D here.

They are going to be a decent chunk, but I think the majority of players are very willing to try other systems and do so.

 

[TwoSix]

This year/last I've played 5E D&D, Fate (Dresden Files), Call of Cthulhu, Mothership, Lancer, and Pathfinder 2.

Kind of staggering that so many are JUST D&D here.

I think quite a few players have either 0 or 1 table, and D&D is by far the easiest game to find a whole table for.

Playing a stack of other games requires a table that is willing to be flexible and try new things; there are plenty of gamers like that, but it's definitely not everyone. Sticking to D&D doesn't generate as much friction with those players.

 

[Mort]

Let's see:

Savage RIFTS
Lowlife
Pathfinder 2 (is that D&D)

That's about it recently, and mostly one shots other than D&D. Lots more of we go back a ways.

 

[SlyFlourish]

Recently:

• D&D 2024
• Level Up Advanced 5e
• Tales of the Valiant
• Dragonbane
• Pirate Borg
• Shadowdark
• Shadow of the Weird Wizard

Others in the past few years:

• Numenera
• Blades in the Dark

Other noteworthy ones from a while back but within 10 years:

• 13th Age
• Shadow of the Demon Lord

 

[BenjaminPey]

Since 2023 or 2024 (2025 is a bit of an outlier for me, less games played, 4th child born):

DnD 5E, multiple campaigns: Descent into Avernus (DM), Rime of the Frostmaiden (DM), Dragon Heist in reverse (DM), home made campaign in Ptolus (PC), home made campaign in Krynn/Spelljammer (Player), home made campaign in a home made world (player), some one shots (DM)

13th Age, The Stone Thief (player)

Shadow of the Demon Lord, home made campaign (player)

Coureurs d'orage, a french spin-off of Basic DnD, home made campaign (player)

Vampire 5th ed, home made campaign in New Orleans circa 2005 (DM)

City of Mist, Nights of Payne Town + home made (DM)

The Between, one of the case in the core book (player)

Pulp Cthulhu, La Broma Macabra (player), the (really big) scenario written by Alex de la Iglesia

Not the End, home made campaign in a cyberpunk setting (player)

Night Witches, standard campaign (player)

Apocalypse World, home made campaign in a frozen chinese steppe (DM)

Lady Blackbird, multiple times, standard scenario (DM)

Monster of the Week, home made case (DM)

Eclipse Phase (propulsed by Fate accelerated), home made campaign (player)

Delta Green, one-shot (player)

Some solo plays, mainly with my own DM emulator: DnD 5E (Tomb of Annihiliation), City of mist, Legend in the Mist.

I... think that's all (but I certainly forgot something).

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

I think quite a few players have either 0 or 1 table, and D&D is by far the easiest game to find a whole table for.

Playing a stack of other games requires a table that is willing to be flexible and try new things; there are plenty of gamers like that, but it's definitely not everyone. Sticking to D&D doesn't generate as much friction with those players.

Yeah, I'm in an online group with some friends who moved around the country and we rotate who is running, so get in a lot of different games as people want to try out new things. Games in this group tend to be shorter, either one offs, or a contained series of linked adventures.

In person, I mainly run D&D/Cthulhu, my wife runs Cthulhu sometimes, another friend will run Fate. I've been running Abomination vaults for a couple years off and on as rotate who is feeling like running and who has time to join.

It helps that we've known and gamed together for almost 25+ years now, so long that the kids of players are now starting to join us, and run games for their own friends. Its weird to see them steal house rules or NPC's lol.

 

[bsss]

Uh, let's see, recent history + con games...

• Cypher System
• 13th Age
• Savage Worlds
• FATE
• RuneQuest
• Stealing Stories for the Devil
• The Devil's Dandy Dogs

I guess that's 5+.

 

[Draegn]

Homebrew fantasy game, Shadowrun, Traveller, occasional one shot.

 

[Stormonu]

They are going to be a decent chunk, but I think the majority of players are very willing to try other systems and do so.

In my experience, in older days people were a lot more willing to try other systems than I've seen of late. Nowadays I see a lot of people push back against playing anything other than D&D, or if they want to do a different genre they'll just use D&D for it with a couple custom tweaks.