Your gaming experience...

[Ariosto]

Lately, I have been limiting myself to just one group that was meeting just once a month (now moved up to twice).

We have gone from Original D&D to (nominally) 2nd Ed. AD&D to 3.5e D&D, each a different DM's game.

We have also played a number of other games together, from Monopoly to Chez Geek.

It's vastly easier to specify games we almost certainly will not play (e.g., Champions and 4e D&D) than to list all the possibilities.

We are gamers, not devotees only of a single game.

 

[NiTessine]

1. Around 15 years.

2. Of D&D and its close relatives, I've played Red Box, AD&D 1E, AD&D 2E (ran a two-year campaign), 3E (several campaigns), Pathfinder RPG (three campaigns), 4E, Spycraft, Sláine D20, D20 Modern, Star Wars D20 Revised, Star Wars Saga (one campaign), Babylon 5 D20, Labyrinth Lord and Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Other games: Dark Heresy, Dresden Files RPG, Pendragon, RuneQuest (2E), Middle Earth Role-Play (one campaign), Delta Green, Godlike (two campaigns), Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1E and 2E), Maid RPG, In a Wicked Age, Praedor, Paranoia (one campaign) (2E), Vampire: The Masquerade, World of Darkness (one campaign), HeroQuest, Heavy Gear (one campaign), Exalted, Feng Shui, Zombeja! Ovella! and probably some that I'm forgetting.

3. All sorts of things. Most of the above have only been one or two sessions. I like to try out new games, but I also like to run campaigns. So, I have one campaign that's ongoing and I run whenever I can get the whole group together (currently, that's Pathfinder RPG), and then I run one-shots of games I want to try out every now and then in between. I also sometimes try out new games at conventions. I'm a collector, so I accumulate loads of games. If you think the list of games I've played or run is long, the list of games that I own but have neither played nor run is about twice that.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I played a larger variety of games in Uni than I ahve played here in Japan. One reason being availablility and the other my group, which is more fantasy oriented. I like fantasy so it is not a problem, but occasional superheroes or future would be nice.

 

[Haltherrion]

1. How long have you been playing RPGs?

33 years
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2. What systems, editions, and different campaigns did you play in?

I've played D&D since the original books moving to the next version of D&D as it came out.

Early on I dabbled in Traveller as well. (And maybe once again now that my son seems interested in it).

I played a bit of Deadlands and enjoyed it. A friend really wanted to try it.

I've dabbled with "rules-light" homebrew systems for contemporary and science fiction settings for one shot side games at times. Although now that I have the Traveller rules again, I will probably just use it. It's pretty rules light.

My campaigns have never lasted more than 3 years. They run their course, we start something new.
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3. What made you switch from one to another?

I've switched to the next generation of D&D as it becomes available because I see the new editions as improvements, on the whole. Fun to try something new yet in the same vein as well.

The non-D&D systems have been simultaneous rather than a switch so can't say I've ever really switched, yet.

It might change after the current campaign runs its course though. The jury is out on whether the full group likes 4E but several of us can't see going back to 3.5E or Pathfinder so we might try something completely different.





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[alms66]

1. How long have you been playing RPGs?
17 years.

2. What systems, editions, and different campaigns did you play in?
I was almost always the GM for my group, with that noted, I started with AD&D 2E and played that for about 6 years straight. Then I grew tired of the system and switched to GURPS for about 6 years - to be my one and only RPG forever (or so I wished). Eventually I tired of GURPS as well though, so I took a real look at myself, took a small hiatus from gaming, and have now come back. I know now that, like everything else in my life, I love variety and I can't stick to one thing and one thing only, regardless of what aspect of my life that is. So now I switch systems every campaign. It's a bit tough on the players sometimes, buy my players love me as a GM (or so they tell me), so they put up with my love of variety.

3. What made you switch from one to another?
Yeah, kind of answered that one in the above ramble...

 

[john112364]

1. How long have you been playing RPGs?

Since November of 1978. I remember this because it was close to my birthday. (Guess what I asked for?)

2. What systems, editions, and different campaigns did you play in?
Wow. Lets just do the highlights:

• AD&D 1e
• AD&D 2e
• D&D 3e
• AD&D 4e
• Champions (The original version. I haven't had much luck with supers since)
• Fantasy Hero
• Gurps (My favorite skill system! Not so much with the combat system.)
• Traveler (The original small books. We never had a long campaign with this, but we ran a lot of short ones.)
• Gamma world 1e (Same as with Traveller, but the random mutaions made character generation soo much more fun.)
• Alernity (And yes I actually liked this system)

I have also play a multitude of one or two shots of more games than I can remember (including a number of homebrew games from one paticularly creative fellow)
3. What made you switch from one to another?
Mostly because someone wanted to try a cool new system that they just got. Or because some things cannot be done with D&D, like supers or science fiction. Some have lasted longer than others. Some have been more fun than others. But we always come back to D&D!

 

[steenan]

1. I've been playing RPGs for about 16 years. Mostly, but not only, as a GM.

2. I think I played more than a hundred games over the years; I definitely don't remember each and every of them now. But I can surely list at least:
* Warhammer
* Cyberpunk
* Earthdawn
* Shadowrun
* World of Darkness (old Vampire, Werewolf, Mage; new Werewolf)
* Call of Cthulhu
* Kult
* Star Wars (d6)
* D&D (3e, Pathfinder)
* Dogs in the Vineyard
* Exalted
* Mouseguard
* Wolsung
Other than that, there were many homebrews, many freeform games in various settings and some small-scale LARPs.

3. I switch games for several reasons:

- I have many different roleplaying needs that no single game can satisfy. Sometimes I want optimization and tactical play, sometimes I want immersion and detailed setting, sometimes I want intense acting, sometimes I want cinematic action, sometimes I want to focus on moral choices. I like to have the system support the play instead of distracting from it, so I choose a game that fits how I want to play.

- My group of friends is stable as a group of friends, but not as a gaming group. Different subsets have time to play together at different points; it's hard to schedule a long campaign. For this reason, we prefer one-shots and short (3 to 10 sessions) campaigns.

- Peoples' gaming preferences change as the time flows. Being stuck in a game one no longer likes is not fun. Switching games quite often allows us to avoid burn out - and we may return to a game a few years later with new ideas and new energy.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

1. How long have you been playing RPGs?

I was introduced to D&D by my Year 8 home group teacher in higher school back in 1994. So I have been playing RPG's for 17 years now. Having said that, there was a gap of several years after I finished high school where I wasn't playing any RPG's.

2. What systems, editions, and different campaigns did you play in?

I started off with (I think) 1E D&D. From there I played a few short White Wolf campaigns (Mummy and Werewolf from memory). After that I joined a 2E AD&D campaign that lasted for several years, as well as a Birthright campaign.

After that I played a couple of homebrewed systems, as well as some Harn and Ars Magica. From there I ran a 3.0E D&D campaign as well as playing in Feng Shui, Paranoia and Call of Cthulhu one shots at a gaming convention.

For over 5 years now I have run a 3.5E D&D campaign (well, 2 campaigns over that period). However I have also run one shot adventures of XCrawl, Feng Shui, Call of Cthulhu and 4E Gamma World, just to break things up a little.

3. What made you switch from one to another?

When I was a player I switched from one game to another almost solely because that is what the person DM'ing had decided we would play. As a DM I have run the one shot adventures of the various systems because they all grabbed my interest and I wanted to give them a go and see what they were like. So far I have enjoyed every different system I have played for one reason or another.

Olaf the Stout

 

[karlindel]

1. If you count solo games, I started around 1993 with Tunnels and Trolls and the Lone Wolf books. Otherwise, I started playing in 1998 with A&D 2nd Edition in the Forgotten Realms, later expanding into other settings.

2. In addition to those games, I started running a Shadowrun Campaign, then moved on to 3rd Edition D&D, sprinkling in Fading Suns, Deadlands, and a number of one shot and short term games. When 4e came out, I started playing it, and also joined a Wild Talents campaign. I recently started running a Legend of the Five Rings 4th Edition campaign.

3. I enjoy playing games, trying out different systems and discovering the strengths of those systems. Also, I like playing in different genres, and prefer games designed to fit the genre I want to play. In addition, I play in the games people are interested in running.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

1) Since 1991, at nerd camp between sophomore and junior years (the Cullowhee Experience if anyone knows of it);

2) AD&D 2e, D&D 3/.5, Shadowrun 2/3/4e, SWd20, Vampire: The Dark Ages, Aberrant d20, and (I'm trying to forget this) Amber;

3) Campaigns ended. Right now we switch between D&D one weekend and SR (which I run) the other weekends.

And Amber sucked, and it didn't help that the GM was an ass. Only game I've ever really quit.

Brad