Running games with unintended systems. . .

[jdrakeh]

I intend to run Eberron using Savage Worlds soon... They seem like they'd fit well, the mood of Eberron matches the implied mood of Savage Worlds pretty well.

Yep, that does seem like a good fit. Are you using the Fantasy PDF plug-ins for SW?

 

[Scurvy_Platypus]

[Edit: The free edition of Paladin seems to have been pulled but it's essentially the same game that was released for pay a few years back. If you're interested, I'll ask Clinton if he can't dredge up a copy for you.]

Actually, if you just go to the "Store" portion of his website, you can download Paladin there, as well as a couple of other bits. The free version of Donjon that he had up on his website long ago is gone however.

So... intentional mismatches eh? Hmmm. Well, a few of the ones I've considered:

World of Synnibarr, using Truth & Justice (although M&M 1e and Blood of Heroes are still possiblities).
Exalted, using Marvel SAGA or Marvel Universe or Fireborn.
Dark Sun, using Spirit of the Century. (Not that big a stretch, more the 2E D&D vs small press game)
Battlelords of the 23rd Century using either a chopped down version of the Anime SRD, d20 Modern, or possibly Modern20.
Delta Green using Feng Shui.
Star Wars using Zorcerer of Zo (which is a stripped down version of Truth & Justice).

I'd say D&D using Donjon, but there's already something kind of like that in the form of Questors of the Middle Realms, which is yet another PDQ game.

I admit though, my tendency is to go for rules-lighter games in general. I'll go all the way up to Unisystem (which I think is rules-medium), but that's where I usually draw the line. I waffle quite a bit on d20 implementations liking some and disliking others.

 

[Odhanan]

Running Ptolus with RuneQuest/Basic RP could be really interesting. Especially if you go the whole nine yards in the Galchutt = Great Old Ones association.

 

[Engilbrand]

I'm playing in an Underdark game using the New World of Darkness system. It's very low magic, but I chose just the right things to make it interesting. The basic idea is that the surface has had an apocalypse and humans went underground. There's only 1 human city and a couple of dwarven cities. Our group consists of a Drow Tracker whose sole interest is money, a Human Fighter who is geared like a Spartan and my little Gnome Telekinetic with enough points in animal related abilities to have a Horned Riding Lizard. It's been a great mix so far. The nWOD system makes it easy to make different races. The DM has also done a great job making the Underdark spooky and dangerous.

 

[Asmor]

Yep, that does seem like a good fit. Are you using the Fantasy PDF plug-ins for SW?

I've used some of the spells from the Fantasy Toolkit in recreating the dragonmarks. You can see the work I've done so far at Savage Eberron.

 

[jdrakeh]

Actually, if you just go to the "Store" portion of his website, you can download Paladin there, as well as a couple of other bits. The free version of Donjon that he had up on his website long ago is gone however.

My bad. It has been moved since I last checked up on it (I have three printed copies of Paladin).

I'd say D&D using Donjon, but there's already something kind of like that in the form of Questors of the Middle Realms, which is yet another PDQ game.

Yep. I Have Questors (is that spelled right?) and think it's by far the best (or at least the best for fantasy) version of PDQ out there. I really wanted to like Zo but so much of the book is dedicated to recapping the author's home campaign that it felt like Questors did more in less space, insofar as system presentation was concerned.

 

[jdrakeh]

I've used some of the spells from the Fantasy Toolkit in recreating the dragonmarks. You can see the work I've done so far at Savage Eberron.

Very cool! Thanks for the link

 

[sjmiller]

Back in the 1980s and 1990s I ran a Doctow Who game using the original Traveller rules. That was a lot of fun. I've run Keep on the Borderlands using AD&D, DragonQuest, and GURPS rules at different times. All have worked out quite fun, actually.

 

[jdrakeh]

In example back in HS when I first had this idea was playing in the Star Wars universe using DnD (2nd edition essentially back then first PHB, DMG, MM) so it would be a fantasy style SW.

Oh, no, that totally qualifies -- it's not the intent that matters, really, just that you took two things not intended to work together by design, put them together, and made the awesome.

 

[Asmor]

Oh, no, that totally qualifies -- it's not the intent that matters, really, just that you took two things not intended to work together by design, put them together, and made the awesome.

[Insert "you got your chocolate in my peanut butter" gag here]