What "other" games are you playing?

[Kiero]

This is titled the "d20 and General RPG" forum, yet there's precious little of anything besides d20 being discussed. So in the spirit of generating some alternative conversation, what other things are people playing?

Are you demigodding it up with Exalted? Riffing off Reign? Performing acts of derring-do with Spirit of the Century? Trading around the galaxy in Traveller? GURPS-ing your way through a setting or three? A spot of Savage WOrlds?

If you're looking for something non-d20 and haven't had a chance to get some suggestions, here's the thread to pitch your requirements. Maybe someone can match a system up to some or all of them.

If you're just looking to see what's out there, John H Kim's bigass list of RPGs is one potential starting point. There's about a thousand games on there.

So what have you got?

[Thinker]

I play Exalted as well, but what's there to say about that? No one ever has questions about Exalted, thus what is there to talk about? The majority of people play d20 systems because it is more mainstream and seems to have the greatest amount of support for the system.

[Kiero]

I play Exalted as well, but what's there to say about that? No one ever has questions about Exalted, thus what is there to talk about? The majority of people play d20 systems because it is more mainstream and seems to have the greatest amount of support for the system.

If no one's talking about games you want to talk about, you start threads about them. That said if you did want to talk lots about Exalted, there's always RPGnet for that.

[Leon]

WHFRP atm, ocasionally Space rat, True20, M&M, among a host of others

[Tengu]

I never played DND. I think it's an outdated system, good maybe for a computer game.

Games I play or played:
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (first edition)
Earthdawn
homebrew (my Final Fantasy game for example)

Games I really want to play one day:
Fading Suns
Exalted
non-emo White Wolf (Mage for example)
Deadlands

[Counterspin]

I'm playing in an Unknown Armies game, and running a game in Palladium's Nightbane setting using the Unknown Armies rules, because I'll throw myself down a staircase before I use the Palladium system, but they give good setting.

[ZeroNumerous]

non-emo White Wolf (Mage for example)

You have no idea what anything from World of Darkness is about if you think any of the games aren't 'emo', which in and of itself is a gross oversimplification.

Games I play:
Warhammer 40k(I have D&D for fantasy)
D&D (3.0+)
Star Wars d20
World of Darkness(Everything from new and old)
Exalted

Games I'd like to play:
Star Wars Saga.

Games I refuse to play:
Freakin' GURPS.

[Kiero]

You have no idea what anything from World of Darkness is about if you think any of the games aren't 'emo', which in and of itself is a gross oversimplification.

Even accepting that "emo" is an oversimplification, given one of the core themes in Mage: the Ascension was hope, it doesn't easily sit with the other lines.

[Morty]

Warhammer 40k(I have D&D for fantasy)

There is RPG system for W40k?

As for system I play: I once planned to play WFRPG 2nd edition, but potential players turned out to be jerks so I ended up playing D&D -that I like, BTW- with different people. Now I'll have to wait until it's my turn to DM and I'll run WFRPG. I prefer low-powered fantasy, and WFRPG represents it better. Also, I'm playing my homebrewed low-powered d20 system.

[Kiero]

There is RPG system for W40k?

Not an official one, yet, though Black Industries have one/three in the works. Plenty of fan-made conversions out there, though.

[ZeroNumerous]

Mage: The Ascension focused on re-designing the 'average' human's belief that magic existed. They existed to literally crush the existing concept of reality.

M0rt: Technically it's homebrew, but it's a Warhammer d20 system that our DM found online. It's floating around somewhere.

[Kiero]

Mage: The Ascension focused on re-designing the 'average' human's belief that magic existed. They existed to literally crush the existing concept of reality.

There was a big old grab-bag of themes in the corebook for both 1st and 2nd edition (less so Revised) which basically said pick the ones you're interested in. "Crushing existing reality" was by no means the only way in which it could be played, nor the only theme that could be explored.

[ZeroNumerous]

There was a big old grab-bag of themes in the corebook for both 1st and 2nd edition (less so Revised) which basically said pick the ones you're interested in. "Crushing existing reality" was by no means the only way in which it could be played, nor the only theme that could be explored.

Yet without doing so, your magic would be disbelieved rather easily.

[Morty]

M0rt: Technically it's homebrew, but it's a Warhammer d20 system that our DM found online. It's floating around somewhere.

Well, I've once seen rules for 40K set in D20 Modern. Is that it?

[ZeroNumerous]

Yes. Ten character limit..

[new1965]

So what have you got?

Use to play the non d20 Call of Cthulhu

The most dreaded two words to players - "Sanity Check"
Do NOT get attached to your characters because if you play long enough. your character will go insane

[clockwork warrior]

how is arcana unearthed / evolved not on the list?

HOW!?!?

[Pronounceable]

I almost always play homebrew. Every gameplay issue aside, DnD is just too much paperwork.

What I'd love to play (in spite of DnD) however, is Planescape. And White Wolf Mage, primarily because I want to see that in action.

[Tharivol123]

Outside of D&D, the only games I've played more than once are the old Star Wars D6 (I like it better than the D20 Star Wars) and Metabarons.

[psychoticbarber]

Use to play the non d20 Call of Cthulhu

I very much want to try that. Very very much. Anybody in SW Ontario with the original Call of Cthulhu game?

[Tzekan]

I have never played DnD. Ever.

Our group is totally and solely interested in GURPS, they find the classes of DnD make it too linear and uninteresting to play, and make character stereotyped.

It's served us well, we play rather rules-lite sometimes, storyline first (didn't used to be that way, long story [shudders]) and rules serve it. Despite this GURPS always seems to contain the rules for what we need, and caters well to whatever we seem to want to run, which is pretty much everything you can think of!

[mikeejimbo]

My group has played Mage and GURPS. Apparently we're eventually going to play some Exalted, too.

[Omniplex]

I play GURPS. I bought GURPS 4th edition early this summer, and now I'm running a Sci-Fi adventure with a couple friends. I don't own any other books (having deleted all of the illegally downloaded D&D books, for ethical reasons), though I played in a couple of really weird and short lived D&D campains, and one Star Wars D6. I liked that system, because it was simple, but I do like GURPS, on account of it's versatility, and more freedom with characters than D&D. (though maybe my players would complain less about not having enough character points.)

[Renx]

Old WoD, 7th sea, Exalted, Cyberpunk, FL4... thought that's in the past, mostly. Nowadays just War of the Ring and some MUDs ;)

[Indon]

You have no idea what anything from World of Darkness is about if you think any of the games aren't 'emo', which in and of itself is a gross oversimplification.

I'd say the Technocracy material isn't the least bit emo. You could play it a bit dystopically, I guess, but that's not the same thing.

That said, I'm presently running an Exalted (1ed) campaign, I'm in a D10 zombie-survival campaign (don't remember the ruleset name) and I've played Old WoD in the past, as well as a few other excellent games such as Kobolds Ate My Baby! and Ninja Burger.

Edit: Oh! And Mechwarrior and Shadowrun. I could never forget you, FASA.

[mostlyharmful]

our lot is having fun in the dark ages mage (WoD) game, same general themes as DnD with about a gazzillionth of the paperwork, plus a magic system that makes some kind of intergrated sense.

have also played WoD most games, Serenity, Angel/Buffy (not anywhere near as bad as some people on this forum seem to think) and Shadowrun (yay working for Dragons!!!!!)

[Dizlag]

ALL HAIL KING TORG!

Yes, from Kobolds Ate My Baby ... a very good tongue in cheek roleplaying game. =) Has anyone played Land of Og before? Fun times, fun times!

I've been playing the following RPGs:

• Savage Worlds' 50 Fathoms campaign - we just killed Blackbeard, my character died but we're going after the Sea Hags anyways!
• d20 D&D - just finished DMing the Red Hand of Doom module (excellent, btw!) and playing in a Rappen Athuk campaign
• Hackmaster - just dropped out of this group, but it was a blast!

Dizlag

[Nevar]

I've played

Rolemaster
Most of White Wolf setting
Harn
WHFRPG
Deadlands
Gurps
Palladium Heros

[selfcritical]

how is arcana unearthed / evolved not on the list?

HOW!?!?

It's a d20 game, and is for all intents and purposes, a reskinned dnd. It's a good game, but when asked what non d20 games i play, I would have no reason to mention it.

[talsine]

mostly GURPS, though i'll be running a Shadowrun 4th ED gaem soon, and we have an Arcanis game that we play twice a month.