Getting to know some of you

Casual conversation, what game systems have you played over the years? Do you have any that might be older but still playing or just into modern systems?

I played just about every edition of D&D except 4th. Pathfinder, Starfinder. I cut my teeth on 1st edition in 1982 and had my dad buy my first box set that weekend getting into AD&D. Since then I have enjoyed many years of playing and DMing games. I still enjoy it all these years later if that shows anything. Fantasy Grounds really helped me accomplish that. Thanks Smiteworks!

Played all iterations of D&D from redbox to 5E (haven't tried 5.5).
Pendragon (really wish they would add this to FG!!! I tried making a character sheet using XCore but it needs to be updated as there are errors that cause it fails. Has something to do with using arrays and a 0 being in the field it is calling.)
Call of Cthulhu
Runequest
Shadowdark
A couple of others back int he 80s and 90s I can't remember now.
Been looking into the Symbaroum ruleset and may try that in a bit.

I am old... I focus mostly on Ars Magica, BRP, Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Disaphora, Fate, Savage Worlds and Warhammer FRPG. Been GMing for a bit over 40 years by now.

Hi, also an old player here. I started in 1979 with D&D obviously. I tried, with my group, a lot of RPG. The most memorables are Runequest, Call of Cthulhu and James Bond RPG (very underrated system). Actually we are enjoying the Free League system with Alien, Vaesen, Blade Runner (in Foundry because no FGU) and Dragonbane (also Foundry). We are still playing a lot of CoC and we are going to play Traveller mongoose 2e.

I'm an old fogey too. Started playing in 1980 with Homes Basic edition of D&D. Played through school, then was lucky enough to go to a University with multiple thriving RPG societies ranging from traditional tabletop in the RPG society, through a wide range of self-written free forms and one-shots in the Science Fiction society, and a whole bunch of running around the local hills with rubber swords and costumes in the Treasure Trap society. Lucky enough to get together with a bunch of housemates who were all roleplayers, and still playing games with them almost 40 years later.

Favourite systems over the years - in University when we had time and energy used to love the hackability of Rolemaster and the background of RuneQuest. When time became tighter we appreciated the low-overhead prep of Saga Dragonlance (which we customised heavily). Had a run of enjoying D&D again with 3.5 ed Ptolus and a homebrew 4E campaign. As the group drifted apart in terms of where we lived, we lost the weekly games for a while but still had roleplaying weekends once a month and often a week-long roleplaying holiday as well. Amber Diceless was a big part of those. We've tried dozens and dozens of systems, homebrewed and hacked and made up system lite games and freeforms. Call of Cthulhu, Mage, Ars Magica, The One Ring, Deadlands/SWADE, Warhammer FRP, Dark Heresy, DCC, Band of Blades, Vaesen, Tales From The Loop, Star Wars, Pendragon, MYZ, Dragonbane, Space 1889 and those are just the ones I can remember campaigns for off the top of my head, we've played dozens more as one-shots to try.

We prefer medium crunch games - Pathfinder, 3.5E (and RoleMaster now) are too heavyweight for us to really enjoy. Anything where you need a spreadsheet to plan your levelling-up is out!

We tend to fantasy because that's my forte, and I'm the main GM for the group most of the time.

COVID lockdowns were a blessing in disguise for us because it made us try out VTT online play. I ran a couple of sessions of Mine of Phandelver for them in Roll20, got frustrated with the lack of GM tools, tried FGU and here we are, five years on, with weekly sessions again... and I've somehow acquired a second weekly group too! We did a series of 5E campaigns but have recently swapped over to SWADE for a lot of our games.

Cheers, Hywel

Also fairly old though no as old as err that fella. Been playing D&D since 1980. Still got the complete dice set that came in the red box.

I To have played many systems over the years, my personal favs are Becmi (love me some mystara) Traveller, Star wars, star trek, pathfinder 1e and 2e, starfinder, dcc, CoC, Conan, fate, Vampire, werewolf, M&M, paranoia, cyberpunk, shadowrun ect But on FG i mainly run Pathfinder 1e, Mongoose Traveller 2e and FFG Star wars though i have run lot's of one shots of other systems.

I also prefer Medium crunch games though in the last 10 years been finding the more narrative systems to my tastes like ffg star wars (i might be odd but i actually enjoy the weird dice)

Also as with Hywel Covid got me into the vvt space, luckily with my in person group (no more carrying around 2 rucksacks worth of pf1e books!) i did try roll20 but swapped other to here because of the pf1e support.

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Originally Posted by Jiminimonka

Also fairly old though no as old as err that fella. Been playing D&D since 1980. Still got the complete dice set that came in the red box.

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Funny I still have mine also. They are plain red with white numbers circa 1983 or so.

So many of you have played settings I have not. Very cool as I start thinking I missed out on these! Keep them coming, as I love to hear about your gaming adventures. Some of my best memories were from a gaming table.

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Originally Posted by HywelPhillips

I'm an old fogey too. Started playing in 1980 with Homes Basic edition of D&D. Played through school, then was lucky enough to go to a University with multiple thriving RPG societies ranging from traditional tabletop in the RPG society, through a wide range of self-written free forms and one-shots in the Science Fiction society, and a whole bunch of running around the local hills with rubber swords and costumes in the Treasure Trap society. Lucky enough to get together with a bunch of housemates who were all roleplayers, and still playing games with them almost 40 years later.

Favourite systems over the years - in University when we had time and energy used to love the hackability of Rolemaster and the background of RuneQuest. When time became tighter we appreciated the low-overhead prep of Saga Dragonlance (which we customised heavily). Had a run of enjoying D&D again with 3.5 ed Ptolus and a homebrew 4E campaign. As the group drifted apart in terms of where we lived, we lost the weekly games for a while but still had roleplaying weekends once a month and often a week-long roleplaying holiday as well. Amber Diceless was a big part of those. We've tried dozens and dozens of systems, homebrewed and hacked and made up system lite games and freeforms. Call of Cthulhu, Mage, Ars Magica, The One Ring, Deadlands/SWADE, Warhammer FRP, Dark Heresy, DCC, Band of Blades, Vaesen, Tales From The Loop, Star Wars, Pendragon, MYZ, Dragonbane, Space 1889 and those are just the ones I can remember campaigns for off the top of my head, we've played dozens more as one-shots to try.

We prefer medium crunch games - Pathfinder, 3.5E (and RoleMaster now) are too heavyweight for us to really enjoy. Anything where you need a spreadsheet to plan your levelling-up is out!

We tend to fantasy because that's my forte, and I'm the main GM for the group most of the time.

COVID lockdowns were a blessing in disguise for us because it made us try out VTT online play. I ran a couple of sessions of Mine of Phandelver for them in Roll20, got frustrated with the lack of GM tools, tried FGU and here we are, five years on, with weekly sessions again... and I've somehow acquired a second weekly group too! We did a series of 5E campaigns but have recently swapped over to SWADE for a lot of our games.

Cheers, Hywel

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Thats so crazy how invested you were into that. I thought I had experience. Compared to some of you here, I played generic crap. I am glad you picked Fantasy Grounds for all the gaming you do.