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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7633052" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Heh. I play D&D because it's what other people want to play, mostly. My friends want to play heroic fantasy characters facing epic threats against the world, so we play 13th Age. The kids I run games for specifically want to play D&D because it's what they have access to and what their friends at school talk about, so they wanted to learn it specifically. Mostly what people want to play is some kind of D&D, so we play some kind of D&D.</p><p></p><p>When we play something else it's because we're looking for a change or because someone can't show up to our regular game and we don't want to play without them, so we'll do a one shot of something. We'll play Torg because I had a long-running Torg game in high school and have a lot of fond nostalgia for the game and my players like the mash-up idea of it, or we'll play Icons because the kids are interested in playing a superhero game and I can run Icons off the cuff pretty easily, or we'll play Timewatch because I enjoy running investigative games and we like Gumshoe as a system but my players don't really enjoy horror games all that much (though I can sometimes talk them into a Fear Itself horror one-shot around Halloween when folks are more in the mood).</p><p></p><p>When I go to cons I try to play whatever I can get into with friends. I used to try to play a lot of different systems because I had grand designs about being able to actually run lots of games. Now that I'm old and generally only get to play once a month with my main group, that's less important but I still like the novelty of trying different systems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7633052, member: 19857"] Heh. I play D&D because it's what other people want to play, mostly. My friends want to play heroic fantasy characters facing epic threats against the world, so we play 13th Age. The kids I run games for specifically want to play D&D because it's what they have access to and what their friends at school talk about, so they wanted to learn it specifically. Mostly what people want to play is some kind of D&D, so we play some kind of D&D. When we play something else it's because we're looking for a change or because someone can't show up to our regular game and we don't want to play without them, so we'll do a one shot of something. We'll play Torg because I had a long-running Torg game in high school and have a lot of fond nostalgia for the game and my players like the mash-up idea of it, or we'll play Icons because the kids are interested in playing a superhero game and I can run Icons off the cuff pretty easily, or we'll play Timewatch because I enjoy running investigative games and we like Gumshoe as a system but my players don't really enjoy horror games all that much (though I can sometimes talk them into a Fear Itself horror one-shot around Halloween when folks are more in the mood). When I go to cons I try to play whatever I can get into with friends. I used to try to play a lot of different systems because I had grand designs about being able to actually run lots of games. Now that I'm old and generally only get to play once a month with my main group, that's less important but I still like the novelty of trying different systems. [/QUOTE]
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