What's your back-up game?

[Crazy Jerome]

I don't know. After I get finished with my current Arcana Evolved campaign, the upcoming Ptolus (AE/3E) campaign, the Burning Wheel campaign, a Star Wars SE campaign, and maybe a trial of my latest homebrew--I'll be ready for 4E to really get cranking. I thought I'd make it by 2010, but this year has started slow. I should have a good backup lined up by then, though.

 

[Cadfan]

I don't have a backup in the sense of "a thing to play if 4e sucks." I know enough to be sure to a reasonable degree of certainty that it will not suck.

I do have other games I like (or would like) to run. Feng Shui is the one I'd do the most. I love making one shot adventures for that game. Done right, it really improves your DMing skill, because it encourages you to see the game as if each session were a movie- you need to set the setting, create rising action, lead to a climax, and then close the scene.

 

[Campbell]

Mutants and Masterminds

 

[Evilhalfling]

3.5 is my back-up game.
with House Rules : 4e skill changes, reserve hit points, and assorted changes to classes, demographics and magic item avalibilty.

I have been running the same world since 3.0, no sense in giving it up.

 

[Cam Banks]

King Arthur Pendragon (my favorite RPG) or any of MWP's Cortex System games (including Serenity, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Demon Hunters, or a homebrew campaign using the upcoming Cortex Core Rulebook).

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Rabbitbait]

No backup baby!

All or nothing
Both feet first
Never say die
A bird in the hand
Too many cooks
A fool and their money (hang on - I've gone too far again)

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Porn

 

[Pinotage]

Pathfinder/3.5e. In fact, anything OGL will do.

Pinotage

 

[Belorin]

Arduin, which really isn't a back-up game, it and D&D are about even as far as intrest goes, but Arduin is harder to find players for.
After that is;
Mutants & Masterminds
Call of Cthulhu
Shadowrun


Bel

 

[CubeKnight]

Our extremely houseruled DnD 3.75