RPG purchases you use(ed) regularly

[Sammael99]

Some people here have an amazingly broad range of experience in role playing games. For most of you have had experience in a wide range of games, were they generall played with the same group of people? Or did each game (or genre of game) have their own gaming group?

The people I have played with over the years were all basically D&D and Battletech people.

We played different games with the same people, but of course, over the years, as I moved places, I had different groups of players...

 

[thegolem]

Let's see...

OD&D (one off sessions with friends back in the late eighties before getting into 2e)

AD&D 2E (at least one campaign I ran in Ravenloft, one I played in Al-Qadim, and another two in homebrew worlds. Currently waiting for a friend to return from co-op in Montreal before continuing our Night Below campaign)

D&D3E (a few demo sessions at my brother's comic store)

Star Wars WEG (one off sessions I've GMed, and about half the DarkStryder campaign before we all lost interest)

Toon (multiple one-offs throughout the years!)

Alternity (playtested the system with friends in my own setting)

Traveller (one off adventure and a Pocket Empires campaign)

Paranoia (a few mini-campaigns...will still buy anything I see for this game!)

Cthultu (our group's current game, where I finally get a chance to play...unfortunately, my character just got killed by a Crimson Horror :-(

De Profundis (excellent, Hogshead New Styleg game. I currently play with another member of my Cthultu group)

Peter

 

[thegolem]

Some people here have an amazingly broad range of experience in role playing games. For most of you have had experience in a wide range of games, were they generall played with the same group of people? Or did each game (or genre of game) have their own gaming group?


My playing groups have varied from my brother's friends and I when I was just getting into it, to a group of four core players over a period of roughly six years.

After high school though, I lost my group, and have only got a group back together this past fall.

Peter

 

[thegolem]

Oops!

Forgot to add these to my list above:

Darksword (the trade paperback RPG from Weis\Hickman...the rules were absolute garbage, but the setting was great. We expanded this game with so many house rules and additions to the setting it was hardly recognizable. However, we had three campaigns spanning fifty years of game time over seven years of once or twice weekly game play. It was great!)

Marvel Superheroes (the first RPG I ever played!)

Peter

 

[HellHound]

LcKedovan mentioned Car Wars.

I forgot about that, which is strange. I was just at a duel Saturday night.

 

[Alchemist]

Alrighty, in no particular order there has been;

D&D, in all varieties (16 years, some breaks)
Rifts
TMNT
Robotech
Heroes Unlimited
Nightspawn
Ninjas & Superspies
Star Frontiers
Gamma World
Car Wars
Marvel Superheroes
Battletech
Vampire
Vampire: Dark Ages
Werewolf
Mage
Wraith
Changeling
Cinnibar (sp? I barely remember this monstrosity)

And probaby more. My teen years were a blur of dice and paper.

As an answer to BeanFruit: The majority of these were played by me with the same group, or close permutations of the same group. The later games of my life (World of Darkness, Battletech) were after I moved from my home town. And now, after a long stretch of RPG-lesness, I have formed up a group of relative newbies to play 3E with me! Joy!

Now if only one of them would have the guts to take the DM reins from my hands so I could play for once in my life.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Wow, my list won't be as extensive but I am getting LOTS of ideas for new games I want to try

D&D Basic/Expert Started with these books running my cousin and a couple of friends through the 'B' series of modules (notably B1 to 5). Later we went to..


AD&D 1st & 2nd Edition Played both for about 2 years each but 2E drove me from RPGs for almost 3 years.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Ran several comapigns in this system the longest lasted over 2 years. Still my all time favourite RPG (but 3E has come awful close to unseating it)

D&D 3E Well it brought me back to D&D after a 7 year absence. Have been playing and DMing it almost constantly since it was released. Recently took a break after my campaign wrapped up a the beginning of summer to play....

d20 Star Wars Revised An excellent Star Wars adaptation. Far superior to the old WEG version IMO. Been playing a Wookiee Jedi Guardian and having a blast! Would love to GM my own game soon.

Call of Cthulhu (3rd, 4th & 5th eds) While I haven't tried the d20 version (but would like too) I have played this game on and off for 12 years. Most often as one night games and at tournaments. Oddly I have only been a player maybe twice but have GMed it dozens of time - I love the horror aspects of this game and have always been a big fan of Lovecraft.

Traveller (Classic only) I haven't played this in over 10 years but it was the second RPG I ever played (Basic D&D was first). I have a large collection of the classic Traveller booklets as well as the hardback version of the main rules. Never got into Megatraveller or the Traveller re-release Marc Miller put out in 1997(?). I am very excited about T20 however and will probably pick it up and try jumping back into the Imperium!

Shadowrun While I don't own the main rulebook I have played it enough that I have to include it here. Besides my FLGS now has a copy on hold for me some I will probably pick it up this month. I mainly played this during tournaments and 'one-off' sessions.


That's about it for games that I play or have played on anything resembling a regular basis. Now for games that I own that I plan to use in the future I would include;

Feng Shui Just got a used copy of this last month and it looks fantastic. Can't wait to give it a try.

Hero 5th edition Also picked this up used last month and am very axious to try it out with a Supers campaign. Don't know whether to go silly or serious with it though.

Hackmaster bought the PHB for this some time ago and have played it once but a dearly want to give it a serious go once I get a hold of the GMG and DM Screen.

and for games that i have seen in this thread that I now want to try lets just add

Exalted, BESM, Gamma World (or Omega World), Deadlands and 7th Sea

*whew* that was a bigger list than I thought it would be.

 

[S'mon]

PHB 1st ed
Unearthed Arcana 1st ed (fell apart, of course)
DMG 1st ed (a LOT!)
MM 1st ed
MM2 1st ed
Legends and Lore 1st ed (not as much)
PHB 2nd ed

Dawn of the Emperors by Aaron Allston
World of Greyhawk Boxed Set 1983

PARANOIA - hardback, Games Workshop (WEG)
Star Wars 1st ed (WEG)

 

[paqman]

.... were they generall played with the same group of people? Or did each game (or genre of game) have their own gaming group?

Always the same group of 4 to 6 for my entire RPG life. From 13 years old in 85 to now.

So lets say that we know each other a lot and we usually know how the players will react when we create events and encounters.

Sometime, though, we get surprised, when someone decides to really roleplay something unusuall for that particualr player.

 

[toberane]

Amber Diceless Roleplaying - three years of playing this, taught me a lot about how to roleplay and the pitfalls of not having a clearly defined conflict-resolution system. I love the game, though.

I couldn't have said it any better. We had hours upon hours of fun playing this game, and all of our roleplaying skills improved.