What's your back-up game?

[Serensius]

Draug (Fudge).

 

[duke_Qa]

Dark Heresy, nothing like a bit of grim-dark future in the middle of the summer.

On the non-rp side, i bet mario kart will be a easy game to get together for, and then Smash bros when it comes out (grumble, European release dates, grumble)

 

[Serendipity]

Traveller (pick a system), old WoD (if the players put me up to it), maybe some old school BECMI, 1/2e Gamma World (poss. x'd up with Metamorphosis Alpha), Call of Cthulhu, possibly GURPS, oh, and 3.5.

 

[The Little Raven]

My normal back-up game is a nWoD/Exalted2 hybrid that I use for fantasy, sci-fi, superhero, or action movie games. I've been wrenching on Storyteller-based monstrosities since 1998, so I'm pretty comfortable manipulating any variation of the system, and both nWoD and Exalted 2nd Edition have elements I really enjoy, so I grafted them together.

 

[reanjr]

World of Darkness or Alternity

 

[BigbyBear]

I'd love to pick up Wild Talents, I really like Godlike, but it's a bit too grim and gritty for my taste.
I'd also love to play a Savage Worlds, Mutants and Masterminds, or Exalted game.

meanwhile I'll be working on my 4e/Donjon cross breed system.

 

[Shades of Green]

Mongoose Traveller
Shadowrun 4E or 3E

 

[DrakkenKaiser]

If 4e falls down for me, I'll probably retreat back to Mutants & Masterminds and d6.

 

[danbuter1]

Castles and Crusades.
Call of Cthulhu.
Dark Ages Vampire.
Traveller.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Do you got a back up? What is it?

I have never been the kind of person who wants to play only one kind of game. I'm very confident that I will enjoy Fourth Edition D&D, but even in that case, I'm not looking at running or playing D&D as my only (or even my primary) game.

Case in point: sure, I'm running a revised Third Edition D&D game using the Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords adventures right now. The thing is, I'm thinking about running a World of Darkness game next, or a GURPS Infinite Worlds campaign, not another D&D game. I'm currently playing in a modern action-horror GURPS game, not another D&D campaign.

Even if I did want to run a D&D-style fantasy game next, and assuming Fourth Edition doesn't work for me, I'm open to sticking with the current edition, changing over to one of the lighter-but-non-retro d20 games like True20 or E6, or even trying something very different like GURPS (with or without Dungeon Fantasy).

There's a very small but non-zero chance that D&D won't be a game I want to run or play come June. Even in that case, there are still plenty of games I want to run and play . . . so it will hardly be the end of the world.