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Just curious to see what other sorts of games folks are playing these days that aren't based around ye ol' d20. Which pretty much includes all versions of D&D and their cousin games, including the WotC versions of Star Wars and the TSR D&D style spin-offs.

Personally, I've been playing Dresden Files, which has been more of a series of one-shots than any kind of coherent campaign (was supposed to play tonight, but the GM's got a bad summer cold), as well as getting back into Legend of the Five Rings, which went on a very extended hiatus due to that GM needing to get several aspects of his life back in order (a steady job being one of them). Also might be joining a local group to delve back into 7th Sea, AEG's old swashbuckling RPG after talking at length with a couple guys in the RPG section at of a local B&N.

So how about it Gamer Nation, what non-d20 games are you currently playing?

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Well at the moment I’m currently playing in a Stargate Serenity game (that is a game set in the Stargate universe using the Serenity rule set) for about half a year now, and that’s been quite fun with my gun-wielding archaeologist/linguist.

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I'm sure I've said before that I vastly prefer non-level-based games, so I play non-d20 more often than d20. Dresden/FATE is probably my favorite pen and paper system of all time. The games I have logged the most total hours in (both as player and GM) are White Wolf's New World of Darkness lines. I've also played Exalted, Scion, Savage Worlds, the Serenity RPG, Warhammer Fantasy (2nd Edition), WH40K: Dark Heresy and Deathwatch... I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but a lot of systems.

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I have a bunch of them on my shelf that I've never gotten the chance to play, but aside from my current Saga game I'm GMing, I'm playing in Kalylia's Changeling: The Lost game twice a month. And then about a week and a half ago my buddy and I finally got Greg Stolze's Reign (individual and company level fantasy based roleplaying using the One Roll Engine) after at least half a decade of both of us owning the book. The best news from that one shot is the group voted to have to turned into a campaign. I'll be looking forward to playing some more of that.

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If PbP counts, I'm playing in a nWoD community set in SF where I play a Gangrel Kindred and a Fairest Changling.

[hype]If any of you all would be interested, I can send/post the link to it.[/hype]

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Dragon Age RPG: Rather fun. The stunt mechanic is nice and adds a lot of flavor to the game. Not sold yet on the class system, we'll see what set 2 has to offer.

Savage Worlds: Rather liking this one, but I need to learn some of the random mechanics a bit more. The Deadlands setting is awesome. Currently working on my own magic and kingdom building enhancements for the game system.

Bounty Head Bebop: It isn't d20, its inverted 20 (i20)! Rather fun game. Deadly as hell though. Almost had one of my players taken out with two shots. Only thing I don't like about the system is the "magic", as it is very linear.

Dark Heresy / Deathwatch: The wh40k system is a lot of fun and I really like the setting.

I'm really getting more and more into classless systems. I especially like systems that allow you to get bonuses and flaws to your character. As a GM, the flaws have helped me push my players to RP more and helped me develop some better story lines. I'm going more classless because I find that I (as a player and GM), build the characters I want to build, instead of figuring out how to game the system to build the character I want to build.

Of course I still thing SWSE still has some of the best mechanics for things like spaceship and mass battles.

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I play SHadowrun from time to time but that is a really crunchy game that can make you go crazy with number crunches and random rules that need to me burned into you cerebral cortex. But the world is just so farking cool I keep going.

Im looking at starting up an ICON game with the hope that they've figured out how to do a supers system right. The only other system that spewed awesome all over the carpet was the Mayfair DC Heroes game but that system, while amazing, is lacking in a couple areas- in particular you gotta chart chase too much and needs a reboot after a decade of ignore.

I...actually haven't played any d20 games. Actually, I haven't played any RPGs, technically. Yes, I'm that guy who is always the GM.
I've ran, or in some cases wanted to run, Savage Worlds, Lord of the Rings, MnM, and some other more obscure games. I've only been doing this a couple years, folks.
Of course, most of the games I run are homebrews. Yah, I'm also that guy.

Sadly I haven't played recently...

Non-d20 games I've played:
Legend of the Five Rings
Heavy Gear
Champions (5th edition I think)
Shadowrun (2nd Edition)
Star Wars Roleplaying Game (D6 by West End Games)

L5R and Heavy gear I truly dig and SW D6 was my first SW RPG experience and played tons of in the 90s. In my group I believe I was the only one who embraced d20 Star Wars along with my friend John at Game Towne.

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Always in Motion, the future is...

I'm not currently in a game of it, but I've played alot of Rifts in the past.

If you look past the massive power creep (and the imbalance that it causes) and the rules not being indexed or sorted very coherently, its a very interesting game/campaign setting.

If they had better playtesting and editing (which is not always an option for all game designers), I think it would be a much more popular RPG.

- Zaknaefin

Well, my D20 Modern and Stargate SG1 won't count 'cause they are...well, d20 games.

Other categories for me include:

Cyberpunk (2013 & 2020)
Mekton (I, II, Zeta, Empire, Roadstriker)
Heavy Gear
WEG SWRPG D6
WEG Tank Girl RPG
Batman RPG
Shadowrun
WFRP 3E
Serenity
Toon
BESM (and spinoffs)
Teenagers From Outer Space
Caddilacs and Dinosaurs
Mechwarrior
Human Occupied Landfill
Macho Women With Guns
Car Wars
Battlelords of the 23rd Century
Dr. Who
Star Trek (by FASA)
Traveller
Traveller 2300
MegaTraveller
Villians and Vigilantes
WoD (et. al)
Palladium (et. al)
Paranoia
Torg
Aliens (produced by Phoenix pub)
Talislantia
Middle Earth Roleplaying System
Rolemaster
Marvel Superheroes
007
Twilight 2000

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As I mentioned in an episode of Geek Fatale, I'm running a game of Changeling: The Lost, which is a World of Darkness system. D10 dice pools. It's a pretty easy system to grasp, and I've really been enjoying it as my first foray into GMing. :3

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Okay, but how many of those are you actively playing?

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Well, if ya wanna be picky, none at the moment because I'm currently still away from Group, in Balad Iraq.

But I'll play anything, anytime, with anyone, and have the archive of characters to pull at as moment's notice to do it with. And the GMs work is never done, so I'm always fiddling with something or other or chiming in on a forum somewhere to help out others.

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THIS is my LIGHT-Stick!, The next one of you Furry Tree-Hugger Yub-Yub Primitives EVEN TOUCHES me...//FZOOOK!//

When he says full on, he means full on.