[Tonatiuh]

I look at D&D 4e as the Dungeons & Dragons PnP MMO. I prefer my dnd aged and served with yellowed paper (1st or 2nd ed).

Yep. I'm a 3.5 lover myself. 4 is too simple, and it involves a lot of suspending disbelief, because of awkward statistics changes. And since when does force of will heal wounds? Because that's really what Second Wind is. You get sliced through the hamstring by a bastard sword, and you breath deep, get some mojo flowin, and you're all better? Sorry, I like my clerics to be "healer bitches", and for my characters to be completely beholden to them. It's a love-hate, mostly love thing.

Btw, I'm starting Warhammer 40k soon (Tyranids), and have always loved Final Fantasy, particularly I, II, IV, VII, and X.

[Onion Man]

I look at D&D 4e as the Dungeons & Dragons PnP MMO. I prefer my dnd aged and served with yellowed paper (1st or 2nd ed).

Yep. I'm a 3.5 lover myself. 4 is too simple, and it involves a lot of suspending disbelief, because of awkward statistics changes. And since when does force of will heal wounds? Because that's really what Second Wind is. You get sliced through the hamstring by a bastard sword, and you breath deep, get some mojo flowin, and you're all better? Sorry, I like my clerics to be "healer bitches", and for my characters to be completely beholden to them. It's a love-hate, mostly love thing.

Btw, I'm starting Warhammer 40k soon (Tyranids), and have always loved Final Fantasy, particularly I, II, IV, VII, and X.

D&D peaked in 2E, after the class kit-books came out but before the race and region kit-books.  3.x was the low point.  Pure competitive algebra.  If you'd ever seen a Pun-pun or Clezilla in action, you'd know all about it, and if you'd ever seen a Clezilla go you'd know that healing is the last thing on a competitive cleric's mind.

[Tonatiuh]

I never played 3.5 as power gaming until this last campaign (my 6th-level wizard, alienist-to-be has 24 INT).

I just love all the OPTIONS!!!

Never played before 3. I'm 16.

[Onion Man]

I started playing D&D in 1e, "Challenger Series".  To be fair, there were some outrageous abuses in 2E and 4E (18/00 Dart specialist and Caiphon Starlocks come to mind... oh yeah, and the Illusio-fireballist and the Astral Paladin destructo-elf... or any dual-class human with multiple kits and any hybrid class jack {I think you can get up to 4 effective classes now in 4E})...

There are many good reasons why I've left D&D in my past.  3.x is most of them (Pathfinder included).

[FastJack]

Show me a rules system that hasn't been abused (Clezilla, etc.) and I'll show you gamers that aren't trying hard enough.

[Cantor]

Also, I've recently gotten into Battletech; I'd rather play the RPG but the guys I found online for it never showed up for the game day we tried to have a few months ago and there's only one other player at my store, aside from the owner (he wrote for Mechwarrior, but he's also very f--king busy).

I have had that problem so many times now that I quit putting the word out for Battletch... So sad

Has anyone played CthulhuTech (I just came across a physical copy and it intrigued me)?

I have the books for CthulhuTech.  Never played it though.  It is interesting just kinda depressing.  Would like to see mechs versus the big C.  Probably be a bit like watching a Gozilla movie:-)

Play it. It's awesome.

[Tonatiuh]

Show me a rules system that hasn't been abused (Clezilla, etc.) and I'll show you gamers that aren't trying hard enough.

Very wise.

[Trenchknife]

Let's see....

BattleTech
Pathfinder
Star Wars d20

[freddieflatline]

Let's see....

BattleTech
Pathfinder
Star Wars d20

I really like Pathfinder.  The rules are well thought out and the campaign setting is beginning to grow on me:-)

[Insomniac]

Aside from Shadowrun, I GM 7th Sea and CthulhuTech.  I love the old d10 Alderac 7th Sea system and the setting is just simply too fun.  My campaign's been running for at least 5 years now and I think it's hilarious that people remember plot points by the cinematic nonsense they pulled off during that part of the story...

CthulhuTech is still pretty new for us (I've run maybe half a dozen adventures), but it's gaining traction.  The dice system takes a little getting used to, but I'm slowly getting a grip on what blend of anime and Cthulhu mu players are after.

I also love All Flesh and Dark Heresy at the moment, with Paranoia not far off.  These I typically only get to play at conventions, but with a disposable character I have no qualms about playing balls-to-wall with them and if they get eaten/disintegrated/labeled a commie-mutant-traitor at least I took some of them with me.

Play WarMachine and 40K as well... my time is at a bit of premium, but thankfully my wife likes the games too, so I don't get in too much trouble for my past times. 

Insomniac

[CanRay]

My old GM back home just combined Star Wars D6 and Paranoia (Don't know which edition.).  No, I don't know how he did it.

[freddieflatline]

Also, I've recently gotten into Battletech; I'd rather play the RPG but the guys I found online for it never showed up for the game day we tried to have a few months ago and there's only one other player at my store, aside from the owner (he wrote for Mechwarrior, but he's also very f--king busy).

I have had that problem so many times now that I quit putting the word out for Battletch... So sad

Has anyone played CthulhuTech (I just came across a physical copy and it intrigued me)?

I have the books for CthulhuTech.  Never played it though.  It is interesting just kinda depressing.  Would like to see mechs versus the big C.  Probably be a bit like watching a Gozilla movie:-)

Play it. It's awesome.

I will try it.  Right now we are fooling around with Star Wars which ever the latest configuration is called.  Not bad but not D6 Star Wars.  Probably pull out CthulhuTech sometime in the Fall.

[Mystic]

Wow, is it me or are there STILL a metric frag-ton of SW D6 fans out there? The game has been out of print for at least what, ten years now?

[Onion Man]

Wow, is it me or are there STILL a metric frag-ton of SW D6 fans out there? The game has been out of print for at least what, ten years now?

West End Star Wars for life.

West End Star Wars = teh awesome
d20 Star Wars = teh cancer

[Mystic]

d20 Star Wars = "This is not the Star Wars game you are looking for" *waves hand*