Your Second Love

[WayneLigon]

I've had a lot of them over the years. RuneQuest was probably my first 'second love'. The detail of the world, the way magic worked, the more detailed skills.. that fed right into Call of Cthulhu later on.

Champions was my biggest second love, but that's been totally overturned by Mutants and Masterminds.

Right now, Savage Worlds is the current 'second love'.

 

[Rolflyn]

Torg is my true love. But lately D&D has slipped to third or fourth.

 

[Drowbane]

Interesting question. For my sanity, I had to split this into "now and then"

Now~ (since 3e's release, more or less)
1) D&D 3.75 (3.5 + house rules)
2) Starwars d20 (SAGA ed)
3) Mutants & Masterminds
4) Malls & Morons (d20 version... I don't fully grok the new version)
5) d20 Modern

Then~ (1989 when I rolled up by first D&D character to the release of D&D 3e)
1) D&D 2e (we used everything)
2) Starwars d6 (WEG)
3) CHAMPIONS (2e or 3e, I don't recall. Actually, might've been the 4e book (HERO was 5e, and before HERO there was a weak attempt at a new system called FUSION or some such... it sucked. hard).
4) WoD
5) Shadowrun (1e, then 2e)

 

[Demongirl]

My first love is actually Palladium Fantasy, as that is what is got me into gaming.

D&D 3.X is my second loves.

Traveller (Mongoose) is my third love.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

oWoD... specifically Werewolf and then Mage. I remember picking up Werewolf 1e on a whim and by the time I finished reading it that night I was so totally hyped for it that I immediately filled out the customer reply card in the book and put it in the mail even though it wouldn't get picked up till the next day. I was so pumped for the system that I couldn't stop thinking about it and had an extremely hard time falling asleep that night. A couple weeks later I picked up Vampire 1e as a source of antagonists for Werewolf but was likewise blown away by it too. The real kicker for me was when Mage came out with it's totally fluid magic system. I was in love! Finally a system where magic is like cooking... you add a little of this sphere to a little of that sphere and you get an effect. No more spells... just a description of what you can do that can be mixed up into whatever combination you can dream up. I'm still in love with the White Wolf system and would be playing it if I could find an interested group.

My current loves in order are:
1) Changeling the Lost
2) Mage the Awakening
3) Hunter the Vigil
4) Palladium FRPG
5) Twilight: 2000
6) Dark Heresy

D&D in any of it's forms comes in somewhere down toward the bottom. I play it because in my area that is pretty much all anyone ever plays.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

Runequest would have been my second love, had not circumstance conspired to keep us a part. It was this lovely new game system, and I was this poor GM from the wrong side of the tracks ...

Fantasy Hero caught me off the rebound, when I was flush with some cash, and ready for a fling--a 13 year fling.

Now, I shamelessly keep a harem, and no game can lay full claim to the "first" spot, though certainly one can be a favorite for a time.

 

[DeusExMachina]

The first RP I played was actually Shadowrun. So technically D&D is my second love and Shadowrun my first. I don't actually play SR anymore these days though and we do occasionally play nWoD, so I'll name that one my second love...

 

[Set]

My first love after D&D was Villains & Vigilantes. A role-playing game about *superheroes!* It was the best thing, ever.

Since then, I've had lots of loves. Vampire: the Masquerade, Mage: the Ascension, Aberrant, Trinity, Adventure! and Mutants & Masterminds are all in my absolute favorites list.

 

[EricNoah]

I never fully branched out to other games. I dabbled in Gamma World, and much later, Alternity.

 

[dmccoy1693]

I would love to run a Changeling or Promethean game (if I was writing for either system and if I could run such a game at someone's home, I wouldn't run one of those two at a store, much to personal a game for being done in public). So I'm runing my #3 (Mongoose Traveller) since I am writing for that ATM.