RPGs that you Play

[Easy e]

Since this is the general RPG section, I thought it would be fun to find out who plays what and how often!

This will be necessity have a bit of abstractness to it, but I was curious what games you played and whether you played them a lot (More than 1 Campaign, or 20+ games), Sometimes (Between 5-19 sessions), Tried it out (between 1-4 sessions or such), read the rules but never played yet.

Here is me as an example:

A lot:
Dungeons and Dragons (Colored Boxes)
Shadowrun 2nd Edition
AD&D 2E
Shadowrun 3rd Edition
D&D 5E
Star Wars WEG 2nd Edition
Homebrews

Sometimes:
Robotech
Rifts
Monster of the Week
TSR Marvel Super Heroes

Tried It:
TMNT
Those Dark Places
Top Secret
Boot Hill
Gurps (Unknown Edition or Splat Book)
Hackmaster

Read Them:
Paleomythic
Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades
Legend 5 Rings (3rd, 4th and 5th edition)
Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Black Crusade, and Kill Team
Fudge
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

As you can see, I did a lot of RPGs in the past, and have only recently returned to the hobby in the past few years so there is big gaps. Much of the gap time was filled with Homebrew shenanigans with new RPGers.

I am sure there are others, and the list of ones I want to try out now is very, very long. However, that is what I can recall off the top of my head. I expect that this thread will get many interested in many, many more!

[gijoemike]

There are so many over the years

A Lot
AD&D
D&D 3.X
Pathfinder 1.0
D&D 4th
Legend of the Five Rings several editions ending with 4th
Star Wars FFG
Savage Worlds (so many variants I don't even remember)
FATE
FATE lite
Last Unicorn - Star Trek
SpyCraft v 1.0

Sometimes
GURPS
Star Wars WEG
Dead Lands

Tried it
Shadowrun 1st
Shadowrun 4th
Dungeon World
Star Wars D20
Schwa
Mutants and Masterminds
Paranoia

Read
D&D 5th
plus 4 or 5 others I cannot remember the name to

[Easy e]

Regarding your Username GIJOEMIKE- I sorely, sorely wish there was a GI Joe RPG!

[KillingTime]

A Lot:
Dark Heresy 2e
WFRP 3e
DnD 5e
Vampire 5e

Currently:
Symbaroum

A bit:
Star Wars
Deathwatch
Rogue Trader
The One Ring

[gijoemike]

Regarding your Username GIJOEMIKE- I sorely, sorely wish there was a GI Joe RPG!

Spycraft or Spycraft 2 from the early 2000s is a team based spy game. It is very very suited to do a Joe Team. In fact, they pushed it as James bond/Mission Impossible, but it was team based not just focused on Bond/Hunt. We actually had a local GM plan a low level game with the premise of GI Joe. Uses Vitality and Wounds instead of just HP. Had a amazing crit success/fail mechanic. Crit fail in this game doesn't mean what you think it means.

EDIT: Add Spycraft to my A LOT category. That game is fantastic. One of my favorite D20 variations. Haven't played it in at least 16 years. :(

[Eldan]

Current campaigns:
Degenesis
Fate Accelerated: Dresden Files (only campaign I currently GM)
Dungeons and Dragons 5
Old World of Darkness
Unknown Armies

Have played for longer campaigns:
D&D 3.5
pathfinder
Dark Heresy
Various FATEs

Have tried:
Shadowrun 3 to 5
Pathfinder
Rogue Trader
Splittermond
Das Schwarze Auge
Mutants and Mastermind
Paranoia (various)
Call of Cthulhu
Delta Green

I know there's more, but I can't remember any others right now.

Edit: Oh yeah. Have read Exalted, didn't play.

[Rakaydos]

Lately, I've been on a Lancer kick. No gming experience yet.
Have a hefty collection of FFG Star wars, always open to play, sometimes run.
Ironclaw 2nd edition- some play, some GM
D&D: started in second, played 3.0 but skipped 3.5, liked 4, didnt like 5 but still sometimes play because that's what's being played.
Ooh, I havnt thought about Alternety in ages.
have the books for the 5e based stargate RPG, the star trek rpg, and a few others. splatbooks for Urban Jungle (Noir) for Occult Horror and for campy early scifi.

[farothel]

current campaigns:
-Alien
-L5R (4th edition)
-Vampire Dark Ages
-Pendragon

online:
-Pathfinder (1E and 2E)
-D&D3.5

played in the past:
-Star Trek (GM)
-Alternity (GM and player)
-Spycraft
-Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1E and 2E)
-Mage the Awakening
-Exalted (2E)
-Game of Thrones
-Pathfinder (1E and 2E)
-D&D3.5

[dafrca]

Since this is the general RPG section, I thought it would be fun to find out who plays what and how often!

I went through a period where I was working a ton of overtime before I was married and had kids. I could not play much but I began to buy and read rulesets and other RPG books. One day a friend forced me to sit down and document the list. When I last updated it the list had 129 line items. Now to be fair some were different editions of the same rules. Seven different Traveller rule editions or five different D&D editions (I had not read 4e or 5e at that point so they would now be on the read list).

The played list would be much much smaller, maybe 40 or so have I played more than one intro game.

In your play a lot category it drops even more to about 8 (Traveller LBB, AD&D 1e, D&D 3.5, Morrow Project, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, 4AD, and Twilight 2000 2e).

[Tarmor]

Currently:
Pathfinder 1

Have played a lot in the past, and still play occasionally
Gamma World (d20 homebrew)
Call of Cthulhu

Used to play a lot:
AD&D (and some 2nd)
D&D 3.x
Star Wars (WEG d6)
M.E.R.P.
WHFRP 1e

Have played in the past:
Shadowrun (1st & 2nd)
Champions 1e
Bughunters (Amazing Engine)
D&D (B,X)
Gamma World (2e, 3ed)
Runequest
Cyberpunk

[Satinavian]

A Lot

TDE3
TDE4
SR3
SR5
V:TM
V:DA
Ars Magica
Mechwarrior RPG
D&D3
Pathfinder
SIFRP

Sometimes

AD&D2
SR4
Earthdawn
Degenesys
Dungeonslayer
WHF RPG 2nd
Star Wars D20

Tried it

Ilaris
GURPS
CoC
Star Trek Adventures
Star Wars D6
D&D 4
TDE 5

[Mastikator]

Once every 2 months:
D&D 5e

Once ever 3 months:
Infinite Darkness

Used to play:
World of Darkness
Call of Chutulu
Drakar och Demoner
Trudvagn
Dark Heresy
Exalted
D&D 3.5e

[Mordante]

Currently Play
D&D 3.5

Have Played for a sometime
Talislanta

Have Played but not much
Rolemaster
GURPS Cyberpunk
AD&D
D&D

Would like to play
Vampire WoD 5th


I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

[Satinavian]

Currently Play
I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

A) by being old and having played for a long time. The OP didn't ask for recent expereiences. You might notice that many entries are quite old and many played games over several editions.
B) by playing a lot. I have had at one point 5 weekly groups going and while that only lasted a short time, i still have 5 gaming sessions sceduled for this very week (but only two for the next).
C) For "Having tried" it is often the result of having been to conventions where enthusiasts present their favorite, if obscure game for one shots. Not true for my case though.

[Eldan]

I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

Necessity more than anything? Like, I play five or so campaigns at the moment and they all share like half the people. Most of those groups meet every six weeks or so. We all work, many of us on the weekends too, we have a lot of scheduling conflicts.

So we just start new campaigns all the time. Every few months, one of us will write to the others "Hey, I really want to run Degenesis, who's free this friday?" at which point we'll start a campaign, then try to find a new time slot, which is often over a month away.

And in that time, we'll probably have two other campaigns.

On average, I play maybe every other week, it's just always with a different subset of the same people.

[KorvinStarmast]

Currently Play: D&D 5e. It's the only game our group will do.

Have also played in the last 5 years:
Dungeon World, Honey Heist, Golden Sky Stories, Great Orc Gods, 13th Age

Have an anticipation to play, but RL will not cooperate:
Star Trek RPG (A friend found it and we have it loaded in r20, but RL has intervened and he can't run it
13th Age. Our group began and the it wasn't too long before RL killed the game.
Lady Blackbird: still hasn't happened.

Have played:
Runequest, Traveller, Chivalry and Sorcery, Paranoia, Tunnels and Trolls, Boot Hill, Gama World, Metamorphisis Alpha, Empire of the Petal Throne, all editions of D&D and AD&D except for 4th.

There are probably others but right now my memory isn't picking up on them.

[hifidelity2]

There are so many over the years

A Lot
AD&D
D&D 3.X
D&D 5th
GURPS - lots of settings
Star Wars WEG
RuneQuest I, II, RQG, Land of Nijas
HomeBrew
BRP
Rolemaster
Spacemaster

Tried it
Shadowrun 4th (I think)
Paranoia
Elrick
CoC
Traveller
Cyberpunk
MERP
T.M.N.T
Vampire
Dragon warriors
Dark Conspiracy
Wild West
Bushido



At conventions - lots of one shots

plus I am sure a number of ones I cannot remember the name to

[Grod_The_Giant]

Played a lot:

• D&D 3.5e
• Pathfinder
• D&D 4e (at least back in high school)
• D&D 5e
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Fate (Legends of Anglerre, Dresden Files, Core)
• STaRS
• Exalted 2e (though I wouldn't say I ever got a proper handle on the mechanics)
• Exalted 3e
• Savage Worlds (Deadlands, specifically)

3.5e, 5e, M&M, and Exalted 3e are probably my most played, though.

Tried at Least Once:

• Unknown Armies (enjoyed)
• Fiasco (enjoyed, but arguably not an RPG)
• Apocalypse World (not a fan)
• World Wide Wrestling RPG (not a fan)
• Sentinel Comics RPG (not a fan)
• Mork Borg (fun flavor, crude mechanics)
• Doctor Who RPG (not a fan)
• Traveler (okay)
• Homebrew systems of various levels of completeness
• Pretty sure there are at least a few one-shots I'm forgetting, but eh.

Read (if not necessarily well-remembered):

• Star Wars Saga Edition
• Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
• True20
• Warbirds
• Trail of Cthulu
• Deadlands Classic
• Assorted super-short games like BADASS and Honey Heist

Unread, but physically sitting on my shelf

• REIGN
• Mistborn RPG
• Mage: The Awakening (I started to read, but couldn't understand without a copy of the nWoD rules I didn't have)
• Adventurer Conqueror King
• Trinity
• Microscope (status as RPG also questionable)
• Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (well, a pdf, but I paid for it)
• Continuum: Roleplaying in the Yet (so, so curious, but shelved until my brain is less broken)
• The Official Chuck Tingle RPG (a friend's idea of a funny gift, though it actually looks like a decent fantasy heartbreaker under the jokes)

...I feel mildly ashamed, I need more non-fantasy and non-mainstream RPGs. Oh well... <wanders off to start bugging friends>

I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

College, mostly-- I played a lot of RPGs in lieu of things like dates and parties. I've also got a decade-old group of friends from said college who enjoy trying out weird one-shots between campaigns. And one of them is a serial new-RPG-reader.

[Faily]

A lot that I still play:
Pathfinder 1e
FFG Star Wars (Age of Rebellion, Edge of the Empire, Force and Destiny)
Legend of the Five Rings 4e

A lot that I have played:
D&D 3.5
Legend of the Five Rings 3e + Revised
Star Wars d20

Sometimes:
Ars Magica 5e (started with 4e)
D&D 5e
Laundry Files
Scion 1e
Vampire: The Masquerade
KULT
Legend of the Burning Sands
Star Wars WEG

Tried it:
Changeling: The Lost
Paranoia 2e
Dogs In The Vineyard
World of Darkness
Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Game
Warhammer Fantasy (can't remember which edition)

Read the rules:
Legend of the Five Rings 5e
Nobilis
Symbaroum
Overlight
Thirsty Sword Lesbians
Lancer
Pendragon
KULT (PBtA-edition)
Scion 2e
Starfinder
Pathfinder 2e

[pwykersotz]

Play a lot:
Cypher System
D&D5e

Used to play a lot:
D&D 3.5

Tried it out:
Savage Worlds
Dungeon World

Read:
GURPS 4e
AD&D
D&D 4e
Pathfinder
FATE
Mutants and Masterminds
Tri-Stat DX
Mystic Empyrean

Cypher system is my technical favorite, but after having played it for about 3 years, I have noticed that while it is simple, elegant, and supports emergent gameplay, I find myself sometimes missing the robustness of a heavier system like 5e. D&D 3.5 is one that I will always love, but never go back to again. Making a 12-page spreadsheet for my Psion broke me.

[Catullus64]

A Lot:
Dungeons & Dragons 5e (Many campaigns & one-offs; probably more of this than all other systems combined)
Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 (One very long campaign)
Warhammer & Warhammer 40k RPGs (Numerous, but emphasis on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2e, and both editions of Dark Heresy; several campaigns)

Sometimes:
Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition, One campaign and a few one-offs)
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2e (One campaign and a few one-offs)

Tried It:
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
OD&D (One-off)
Mouse Guard
Shadowrun (Numerous editions, all of them very awkwardly designed)
Ars Magica, which edition escapes me.
Blades in the Dark
Stars without Number

Read but Not Played:
Pathfinder, Both editions.
Conan RPG by Mophidius
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
Lancer
Microscope
Paranoia

[Telwar]

Currently Play:
D&D 5e (...sigh...)

Have Played at Least Once (* designates lengthy campaign(s))
AD&D 2e
D&D 3/.5*
D&D 4e*
Shadowrun 2e*
Shadowrun 3e
Shadowrun 4e*
Earthdawn 1e
SWd20*
SW FFG*
13th Age*
Vampire Dark Ages
Iron Kingdoms RPG*
Castles and Crusades

Want to Play (possibly again)
D&D 4e
13th Age
Shadowrun 4e
Shadowrun 6e
Exalted 3e
Pathfinder 2e
SW FFG

On the Shelf:
Feng Shui
Earthdawn 1e and 4e
Shadowrun 1e - 6e
Iron Kingdoms RPG
Laundry Files RPG
Dresden Files Fate RPG
Paleomythic
Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
AD&D 1e and 2e
D&D 3.5e, 4e, 5e
GURPS 3e
Hackmaster
SW FFG
Genesys system
Pathfinder 2e
Exalted 1e, 2e, and 3e
Werewolf the Apocalypse 2e
Scion 2e
Deadlands Hell on Earth
Starfinder
SWd20
SW Saga Edition
Monster Hunter Incorporated RPG (HERO)
Millennium's End
Lex Arcanum
Warhammer Fantasy (newest edition)

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[HumanFighter]

D&D (3rd edition, 4th edition, 5th edition) Pathfinder (1st edition, only, NO 2e) and Homebrew systems, lots of homebrew (my friends and I love to experiment).

[Quertus]

Well, I'm far too senile to answer this one completely. But here's… some of my experience (cheats and reads other posts to help jar memory):

Lots
D&D 1e
D&D 2e
D&D 3e
Warhammer Fantasy
Warhammer (various)
Various homebrew (especially Paradox (think Rifts but good))
Rifts
ShadowRun (various editions)
WoD (especially Mage) (various editions)
Marvel facerip
Hero / Champions
Mutants and Masterminds
Heroes and Heroines

Sometimes
Scion (2 editions)
DtD40k7e
Naruto (homebrew)

Tried it out
Harry Potter (homebrew)
Battletech (yes, it had an RPG)
Street Fighter
Call of Cthulhu
Marvel (other)
Gurps
Deadlands
Paranoia
Exalted
CP2020
Earthdawn
D&D 4e
Mouse guard

Read the rules (ish?)
Star Wars (various)
Start Trek (???)
Naruto (homebrew?)
Fate?
Dresden?
Apocalypse World?
Pathfinder
Gamma World
Ars Magica
Dr. Who
Aeon Trinity
Eclipse phase
Chuubo's?
Monster hearts?
Iron… kingdoms?
Slayers
DC…

Doubtless there's more, and some are probably in the wrong place. Oh… what system had… I.C.E. tables? Or… what game used I.C.E. system?

[ngilop]

Spycraft or Spycraft 2 from the early 2000s is a team based spy game. It is very very suited to do a Joe Team. In fact, they pushed it as James bond/Mission Impossible, but it was team based not just focused on Bond/Hunt. We actually had a local GM plan a low level game with the premise of GI Joe. Uses Vitality and Wounds instead of just HP. Had a amazing crit success/fail mechanic. Crit fail in this game doesn't mean what you think it means.

EDIT: Add Spycraft to my A LOT category. That game is fantastic. One of my favorite D20 variations. Haven't played it in at least 16 years. :(

Just wanna add in that SPycraft 2 is an awesome game, never played it but have read it and it seems awesome.

They have a lot of supplemental PDFs that can turn the game into transmechs (transformers), real american heroes (G i Joe)spookbusters (ghostbusters) stone sentinels (gargoyles) and I think there is another 80s/90s baller cartoon supplemental that I am forgetting.

DO not ask me why, but i have like 6 core rulebooks.

[Drakeburn]

Games I've Played:
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition
Masks: A New Generation
My Little Pony: Roleplaying is Magic
Lasers & Feelings

Currently Trying Out:
Star Wars Saga Edition

Games That I Own:
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition

Games That Never Took Off:
Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Monster of the Week

Games I Want To Try:
City of Mist
Shadowrun 5e

Spoiler: "Games That Never Took Off" meaning

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When I say "Games That Never Took Off", by that I mean where I applied as a player for one game (Monster of the Week), and where I made an attempt at setting up a game to run as a GM (Call of Cthulhu 7e), but both died very briefly. With COC 7e, it was because I had a plan to run the adventure that came with the quickstart rules, and just post the rules on the recruitment thread. But when somebody actually posted a link to the quickstart rules, I panicked and decided to run a published beginner-friendly adventure as well as try to cram the rules from the rulebooks to get the gist of how the game is played (as the rules from the quickstart rules aren't the same as the rules from the rulebooks). And as you may of guessed, that lead to me burning out really quickly.

[Tarmor]

I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

Lol. I've been playing RPG's for just over 40 years. For most of my life the only way to do so was in person, around a table. In High School and University, this meant every day during lunch break! When you get together regularly, over years, you can try a lot of different games!

[dafrca]

Currently Play
I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

Lol. I've been playing RPG's for just over 40 years. For most of my life the only way to do so was in person, around a table. In High School and University, this meant every day during lunch break! When you get together regularly, over years, you can try a lot of different games!

This could be my story as well. Attending the regional convention and selecting various rule sets to try, later joining CompUServe and playing forum based games. The local FLGS hosting "game nights" where folks offered to GM various games for people to try them out. Couple of th egroups over time I was a member of would buy and try core games just for fun. All things done over the 40+ years I have been playing.

[Drakeburn]

I am amazed so many people are playing so many tabletop RPGs. How do you manage that?

Well, I've started playing tabletop RPGs on play by post forums back in November 2012. I think I may have started playing tabletop RPGs before then around the same year when I tried my very first time DMing a D&D 4e game for my little sister and her friend, who were also playing D&D for the first time. I think they both didn't like how slow the game ran because they never played 4e ever again after that.

[HidesHisEyes]

I’ve adjusted the ordering of them in a way that makes more sense for me.

More than one campaign:
D&D 5E
Dungeon World

One full campaign:
Vampire: The Masquerade (V5)
Blades in the Dark
Uncharted Worlds
FATE

One-shots, tiny mini-campaigns and campaigns that fell apart:
Apocalypse World
Offworlders
Risus
D&D 3.5
Maze Rats
Scum and Villainy
Microscope (if it counts as an RPG)
Fiasco
Serenity RPG
City of Mist
Various homebrew games and hacks designed by me and others

I’m really envious of everyone who has actually played a lot of different RPGs for a decent length of time. But that will be me one day!