Your favourite non-D&D game?

[Morrus]

And by non- D&D I include D&D versions which don't use the brand name (Pathfinder, 13th Age, a billion OSR games).

So what game which is clearly nothing to do with D&D do you keep going back to? Not "what did you play once and quite liked" but "what game calls you over and over again?" Which isn't a D&D under a different name.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

HERO is my favorite RPG, bar none. (D&D 3.5Ed is second.) I've had great enjoyment with others like RIFTS and Space:1889 because their settings are so kewl.

 

[Richards]

I've run three Champions campaigns, each about 15 years apart in real time.

Johnathan

 

[Stormonu]

Savage Worlds

 

[3catcircus]

Twilight:2000 / Twilight:2013

 

[innerdude]

+1 to Stormonu for Savage Worlds. Seriously, I know the game has a decent following already . . . but I'm still surprised it's not more popular than it is. In my mind it's a case of a game being penalized by D&D players for "not being D&D," when it's a fantastic game in its own right. Once you drop your old d20 / OGL habits and accept Savage Worlds on its own terms, it's mind-blowingly elegant, smooth, and surprisingly robust for being as rules-moderate as it is.

(If I can manage to rope my group into trying it out, I suspect The One Ring will quickly enter this conversation as well.)

 

[amerigoV]

+1 to Stormonu for Savage Worlds. Seriously, I know the game has a decent following already . . . but I'm still surprised it's not more popular than it is. In my mind it's a case of a game being penalized by D&D players for "not being D&D," when it's a fantastic game in its own right. Once you drop your old d20 / OGL habits and accept Savage Worlds on its own terms, it's mind-blowingly elegant, smooth, and surprisingly robust for being as rules-moderate as it is.

QFT. Its my number one game as a player and GM, hands down.

(If I can manage to rope my group into trying it out, I suspect The One Ring will quickly enter this conversation as well.)

I played One Ring for the first time today at Origins. A very interesting system. The GM was very knowledgeable of Tolkien lore - between that and the system I felt like I was in a Tolkien story.

 

[edemaitre]

FATE, GURPS, and rules-light retro-clones that allow me to run homebrew sandbox games.

 

[Storminator]

Does Mutants and Masterminds count? That's my go to non-D&D game. I do enjoy Savage Worlds tho.

PS

 

[Morrus]

Does Mutants and Masterminds count? That's my go to non-D&D game. I do enjoy Savage Worlds tho.

Well. It's not so much as whether it counts as me wanting to try something different and looking for reasons try various things.