What Fantasy rpg's, other than D&D, do people enjoy?

[Staffan]

All sorts of stuff. Currently I'm visiting some friends out of town, where we've played a bit of Rolemaster. I'm not a big fan of that, though.

Other fantasy games I've played at least somewhat recently (last five years or so): Ars Magica, Drakar och Demoner (Swedish RPG that has about the same position here as D&D has in the US), Warhammer FRP, Exalted, and probably others I can't recall on account of being hungover. I'd like to get in a session of Exalted before I leave on Friday, too.

 

[Kichwas]

I used to go in for Fantasy Hero and GURPS. However Fantasy Hero has the same problems Champions has, though not as bad on speed of play, it is worse on variety of stats (only 8, 13, and 18 are viable stats in a majority of cases). GURPS on the other hand had a magic system I've never quite found to my tastes - plus for a 'generic' game it was the least generic system this side of DnD.

I've considered BESM, but a former player is running a game I'm not in and one of my current players who is has told me that it just doesn't have enough 'tactical detail' to make the system enjoyable.

I've got Everway, and I'm good for that, but it's a real hard sell and makes BESM look like a calculus exam.

I'm left not seeing an ideal fantasy RPG, so I just do DnD because in the 3rd edition it's playable enough that I don't get frustrated to extremes.

At some point, I may try BESM in play and see if I come away with the same conclusions as my player. I did not find the same problem when I used to run Silver Age Sentinels - it had other issues (balance) but not a lack of tactical options.

 

[Teflon Billy]

GURPS (Fantastic for grit)
Magic World (The fantasy bit from Chaosium's World's of Wonder)

 

[UniversalMonster]

Prior to D&D 3 I was a huge fan of Earthdawn. And before that Torg. I still own (nearly) complete collections of both lines. Recently, when I sacrificed a few pieces of my RPG collection to the Ebay Tiki, I put my Earthdawn and Torg stuff aside in a nice safe trunk (along with Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade, another fave). I still like it. It's still cool. I sold off plenty of 2nd edition AD&D stuff, including some precious Planescape stuff I knew I'd never use again, but I kept Earthdawn, Torg and Mage: Sorcerer's Crusade. So I guess I have to admit to liking those.

None of it compares to D&D 3, though! I just upgraded to 3.5 and I have to say that post-2000 I've had a much more consistent gaming lifestyle- at least one fantasy campaign a year, sometimes 2 or three since then. Prior to D&D 3rd I spent plenty of time training players on a rules system or explaining Barsaive for a few weeks. Most campaigns never even get a kickoff. Before D&D 3 I spent plenty of time talking about RPGs, not much time actually playing them.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Have to say...
Warhammer FRG - has issues the longer you play but who lives that long.
Earthdawn - just a sweet game, can you say balanced

 

[The Cardinal]

GURPS - I use it for 80-90% of my games (for fantasy I used mostly homebrewed settings but now I'm even GMing Midnight using GURPS)

BESM

Unknown Armies

 

[megamania]

Champions

Carwars

Go through spurts of playing Warhammer 40,000

Another gaming group has contacted me to play some Vampire which was fun
Brujah- Created to have fun- you got a problem with that?

 

[The Goblin King]

I like Exalted myself. I have tons of GURPS books but I havn't played it in years.

 

[Staffan]

Magic World (The fantasy bit from Chaosium's World's of Wonder)

The first edition of the Swedish RPG Drakar och Demoner was a translation of BRP + Magic World. It has since mutated quite a lot.

 

[thullgrim]

huge Rolemaster 2e Fan

Fantasy hero. I always wondered if there would be a good way to port over Fantasy Hero magic into D&D. It is very difficult to find non-D&D fantasy games though.

Thull