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This subforum is distressingly empty, so I will help fix if allowed >_> I tend to be a setting freak. A lot about what I like the most about some games - L5R, Exalted, Fading Suns - beautiful settings. I own nearly every L5R book ever published for Legend of the Five Rings by Alderac, though I don't have some of the newer ones yet. The pre-Clan War era is my absolute favorite setting of all time, and I have converted people who have despised oriental settings by convincing people to read Bearers of Jade. I'm not the only one who believes it to be the finest RPG supplement ever written. Too bad it's out of print : / My second favorite RPG of all time has to go to Exalted by White Wolf. Have most of these books, as well. I have a thing for epic, as a general rule, and Exalted is that plus the kitchen sink. My third favorite is probably Shadowrun. The metaplot is beginning to date itself a bit like CP 2020 has, but that's hard to avoid when you are writing about the near future. Dark heroism and wicked fun. Big Eyes Small Mouth for #4 for me. I'm not an anime fan per se, but I can enjoy it and it's a good simple game for introducing people into roleplaying with. I think it's main flaw is that it can be difficult to get around the anime mindset some people have when playing it, when you want to be more realistic. I of course have played my share of Dungeons and Dragons from the red-blue-green-black-gold box sets to 3.5. I suppose 3.5 would be #5, I was thinking about starting up an OD&D game but was left scratching my head at some of the rules. A bit dated... I also have way too many 7th Sea, GURPS (3rd & 4th) and World of Darkness books, and a bunch of one offs - Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, Feng Shui ("Geomantically trained ninja interior decorating squad!"), Fading Suns (Brilliant setting, and some clever mechanics), In Nomine, a bunch of others I forget >_> Err. And I'm new. Hi : )

I played the Star Trek Sims for quite a few years on-line. I almost always played the Captain or Co-Captain or Cheif Medical Officer. I haven't played any now for about 2 years. I'm kind of Star Trekked OUT I think.

Welcome! Interesting that you mention Shadowrun, a friend of mine has a homebrewed system that has a lot of similarities to the Shadowrun setting (if you replace magic with a matrix like overlay on reality and genetic engineering).

I haven't played BESM, but did play Silver Age Sentinels (superhero game using the same system). It didn't work so well for superheroes, unfortunately...different power levels didn't mix well in the game.

Star Trek's a nice setting, and I've enjoyed playing a lot of it over the years. It does have fairly rigid roles if you're playing a crew on a Federation starship, though.

More generic space opera can be a lot of fun, too.

Joined up to a star trek game once, but never got off the ground. Was quite sad about that : /

Hi all!

I played DnD for YEARS (in fact that's how I met my husband, I DM'd and a friend brought him to a game). After many years out of RPG's, some friends in a new city wanted to try playing. I picked up the newest (at the time) set of rulebooks and was overwhelmed at the sheer volume of rules to learn! Then, one of my friends picked up this Shadowrun rulebook (at the time it was the only one) and, with much trepidation, I sat down to learn the rules...

Well, that was the beginning of YEARS of fun. Not only did I game master for years, but ended up writing a very popular humour column for the old Shadowrun Archive, co-creating and running a three-day game at CanGames (Ottawa Canada gaming convention) to meeting Mike Mulvihil at GenCon.

It's been about nine years since I've played, mostly because I burned out at GM, and I could never find another GM who played my kind of game (valuing character development over slash n'smash).

Anyway, SR is my game, although I love DnD as well. If only...

I agree, the switch from old DnD to the newer versions is a bit of a shock. I haven't played Shadowrun, although I've heard lots of great things about it.

Don't give up looking for a like-minded GM, they're out there...