So where are you now?

[Lindeloef]

Playing (or DMing) 4e and planing on staying with it. Once this campaign is wrapped up, our group will probably start another campaign in 4e as several players have announced interest in DMing a bit.

 

[adamc]

Now that 4th edition is gone, Next is coming up and Pathfinder is blazing the trails. Where are you now? Are you gearing up for D&D Next, or knee deep in Pathfinder, maybe still playing 4th edition with no plans of switching? Could you be pulling out all those old 1st and 2nd edition D&D books and giving them a go? Hell, maybe you are taking a step back from medieval style games and going to something else. Shadowrun perhaps?

Also, what are your reasons?

I'm fully entrenched in Pathfinder as we speak and I keep looking to Next, but I fell like I'm still waiting to feel the pull and I'm not getting it. I've even thought about trying some of the clones or even going back to the old skool stuff.

We've been playing 4e and are still playing it, but we're also gearing up to play a few games of 13th Age and see what we think. I guess when next comes out I'll see what extras they've added, but I'm not very sold on it so far. Zero chance we'll play Pathfinder (too complex and no current investment in that ruleset).

 

[Meatboy]

Honestly if given a chance I'd start up a 3.5 game. I never ran across a lot of the issues that seem to have cropped up for some groups and I know the system well. If I had interested players I'd even run my home brew stuff.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Do sci-fi games with FATE and getting a little frustrated with the lack of crunch. Sadly, there are no good crunchy sci-fi games so on the side I'm messing around with some homebrew ideas that I regularly subject my group to.

I only got to enjoy a FATE sci-fi game for a short period of time (we're doing a FATE superheroes game too, but it's not quite the same thing), and came to the conclusion that rules and sci-fi do not mix. FATE is rules-light, so the rules get out of the way.

I love 4e but would never try to run a 4e sci-fi game. I've run and played other crunchy sci-fi games and came to the conclusion that they all had serious problems. Only Alternity managed to avoid most of them, probably due to having a brand-new setting (Star*Drive).

 

[the Jester]

Deep in epic territory in my 4e game. I've already started doing system-neutral notes for the next starting point (we're going to do an urban campaign next), which will likely be 4e- I don't think 5e will be out by the time we start- but it's possible that it will be 5e.

I'm reluctant to start an actual 5e campaign before release, since everything will probably change a bunch by then.

 

[Evilhalfling]

playing pathfinder (rise of runelords) since late march.
I was working on a return to a previous 4e game (13th level) but I ran a 13th age trial and we are excited about that now.

So I am slowly forming up a 13th age game world figuring out what of the setting I want to keep or pitch.

 

[Oryan77]

I'm DMing a 3.5 game that uses Pathfinder core classes that I converted to the 3.5 system (along with a few other PF rules that I liked). The group is 4-5th level and the conversion seems to be work just fine.

I will probably only play 3.5 or Pathfinder until I'm an elderly man. Even if it means I'm DMing for myself.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm planning on buying some Numenara and at least the Core of 5Ed when it pops up on the shelves. But for right now, after not playing a single session of an RPG since Dec. 6, 2012, we will be playing a new 3.5Ed campaign starting in Nov. 12.

 

[Crothian]

We started the year with a playing in Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. After that we did a few months of d6 modern supernatural campaign that did not work at all and will go down as my worst campaign ever. Now we have moved over to Edge of the Empire.

 

[Kinak]

Running Rise of the Runelords, about to start book 6 (assuming the players don't get themselves killed).

After that, probably a short Shadowrun 5th edition or Numenara campaign. Then starting up Shattered Star.

Three out of my four players freaking love Pathfinder and the fourth is completely system neutral (to the point that she didn't know what system her last campaign was in and we had to figure it out from context clues). Those three also love Paizo. I'm more neutral on the system, but love Paizo.

So the odds of us replacing Pathfinder with something else are looking pretty small. Other games can certainly complement it, though.

Cheers!
Kinak