I am part of (usually host) of a regular Sunday game night that has included over the past year or so: FFG Star Wars RPG, Imperial Assault, a lot of board games (including Game of Thrones and X-COM), Battletech (including pick up games, connected campaign games, and a full-blown A Time of War RPG campaign), and even Palladium Fantasy RPG. Over the years I've been GM for a LOT of games from a LOT of systems, and played in roughly a metric crap-ton more.

For those of you who don't want to read a list, the ones that "stuck" over the years in no particular order have been: Battletech (the board/minis game), Palladium's multiverse of games (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness was a gateway game), and WEG's D6 Star Wars game. FFG's take on Star Wars feels like home to a guy who played and ran D6 SW for yeeeeearrrs, so I think we can add it to the list soon.

Currently Running - SW:EotE, RuneQuest 6
Currently Playing - L5R 5e, D&D 5e, D&D 3e, SW:Saga, Traveller (Mongoose)

My RPG History

80's - D&D 1e, Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, RuneQuest 3, Pendragon, Hunter Planet, many more besides....
90's onwards - I worked in my FLGS & got involved in running local Conventions... I played almost everything I could get my hands on, developed a love for Indie RPGs, Helped playtest lots of games, scenarios and Freeforms(LARP) with local groups. Always regretted not finding a seat at a TORG game table.

SW - Played every iteration of various rules sets, including my own rules set based of 7th Sea. - I like FFG's rules best, even though I have some problems with some of it's execution.

I have a stack of boardgames and wargames too.

So, does my past gaming colour my playing/GMing. Hell yeah.

I very quickly drifted away from Character Level based games as a kid, more interested in skill based systems like RQ and CoC. In the last few years I've drifted more towards narrative and cinematic gameplay, lots of the lndie stuff like Dogs in the Vineyard, Fate RPG, Fiasco and Dungeon World changed the way I think about games.

Most particularly the way I think about character drives has been permanently altered by playing Burning Wheel. It took four sessions of play, but one day I had an epiphany during play and finally grokked what it was about. Game Changing moment. I highly recommend everyone download the free primer about the game.

Honestly, I'm probably more of a collector/dabbler of RPGs, as most of my friends have always vastly preferred tabletop wargames (e.g., Axis & Allies, Fortress America, Shogun/Samurai Swords, Star Fleet Battles, Star Trek III: Starship Combat Simulator, Battletech, and X-Wing) than roleplaying.

That said, I've played the following:

- FASA Star Trek - so fun!

- MERP (Middle-Earth Roleplaying)

- TMNT/After the Bomb - we really had more fun with character creations

- Robotech

- original D6 WEG Star Wars

- AD&D (2nd edition) - dragged into sessions with terrible GM/DMs

- LUG Star Trek: DS9

But my collection also includes a bunch of D&D 3.5, several GURPS books, various Star Wars editions, Red Dwarf (would LOVE to play this some day!), PsiWorld, and Bushido.

The only FFG Star Wars books I've been purchasing are the EotE ones, as I grew up adoring the Brian Daley Han Solo trilogy. Once life decides to hand me some more free time, I plan on working up a campaign for some friends. These past few years have just been super-busy...

Honestly I think Star Trek FASA has the best combat system for a party crewed single capital ship I have ever seen

My List, (so far):

D&D 1st Edition and Advanced D&D

Gary Gygax's Mythus (anyone else try this?)

Twillight 2000

Merc 2000

Dark Conspiracy

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Traveller

Rifts

Palladium

Robotech

TMNT

Ninjas and Superspys

Heroes Unlimited

Toon!

HoL (The Human Occupied Landfill)

Iron Claw

Jade Claw

The Firefly RPG

The LOTR RPG

Heavy Gear

Gear Krieg

Core Command

Vampire, the Masquerade and Dark Ages

Werewolf, the Apocalypse, Dark Ages and Wild West

Changeling

Wraith

Mage

WEG Star Wars

Brave New World (Best Superhero Game EVER)

And of course, FFG Star Wars

There may have been more but these are what jump to mind...

Knew I had forgotten some. To my earlier list add Heavy Gear, TMNT, Vampire the Masquerade, Gear Krieg, Core Command, and Eclipse Phase plus a couple of editions of Shadowrun. Oh and Pathfinder. And when our current Firefly campaign is done we're planning to start out first Rogue Trader campaign

Edit: And I somehow forgot to put Riftspace on the RPGs I've played list .

At the age of 12, started with Cyberpunk then shifted to ADnD. After that was Earthdawn, Shadowrun, Millenniums End, and a bunch of random rpgs from the 80s and 90s. Later in life it was Star Wars D20/Revised then Saga Edition, with some DnD 4th edition (Love minis and grid combat).

Is it a sign of a mental illness that I have probably 80% of the games mentioned in this thread on shelves in my basement, but have probably actually played less then half of them?

Is it a sign of a mental illness that I have probably 80% of the games mentioned in this thread on shelves in my basement, but have probably actually played less then half of them?

Depends... do you consider it better or worse that of the ≥80% of games mentioned above, I not only have them, but have played them? And my name appears in a few?

My wall of games.

Without zooming I think I see some Dark Sun stuff over on the left side second shelf down? Awesome, original, campaign world.

My wall of games.

I’ve gotten rid of most of my old gaming material. Otherwise, if it was out of the box and on the shelf, I would have a lot more bookcases than that. But we just don’t have the space for that in this house.

At this stage, I think the only gaming material I’ve got that I’m interested in keeping is the Star Wars stuff. And I imagine that once I get it all unboxed and shelved, I’ll probably take up most or all of one shelf. Maybe more, if I decide that I want to properly display all the Deluxe/Vault editions I have of the various Daniel Wallace books.

Without zooming I think I see some Dark Sun stuff over on the left side second shelf down? Awesome, original, campaign world.

Yes. Dark Sun is one of my favorite settings. I have all of it except one stand alone adventure.