What's Your Favorite Tabletop RPG?

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Well i think there is not really a great difference between magic and psionics. If you have a world were science is the dominant paradigma you call magic psionics.

"Any sufficiently complex magic is indistinguishable from science"

FASA has my vote, been a BattleTech player since the early/mid-90s. Favorite mechs: Warhammer, Wyvern, Trebuchet, Vixen/Incubus, Grizzly, Pillager, Grand Titan, Cestus. Black Knight, Cauldron-Born . . . <snaps out of it>. Ahem, anyway . . . this game had my attention due to the amount of diversity in designs (both given or custom). Even got my bothers into it, playing a round or two every few weeks for at least a decade. There is even a free online turn-based strategy version . . . megamech i think its called.

"Life is cheap . . . only BattleMechs are expensive." I love that line.

'm learning how to play DnD right now but Duel Monsters(AKA Yu-Gi-Oh) is my favorite tabletop game. I play with my little bro.

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I'm still playing Traveller, with a campaign centered in the 3rd Imperium (c. 1105). I've also incorporated Stargate into the game, although the action takes place some 3500 years after the end of the SGC series.

Except for one family that meets at the local Knights of Columbus hall every Monday night, there seems to be not much AD&D action in the Orange County (Ca.) area.

How's it going for you?

Haven't been able to get out to a group lately, and my wife's been in too much pain to have a group over (finally got an actual doctor to look at her, not her usual LPN, and she might well have fibromyalgia; she sees a rheumatologist in a couple of weeks to verify). Accordingly, the Vampire: the Requiem chronicle she had been running with me and my cohusband is on hold until she gets good treatment.

I tried satisfying the itch with World of Warcraft, but there's not much RP implicit in the game mechanics, and the few people who say they want to RP really just want to talk like RenFaire rejects and have cybersex in Goldshire. Picked up on Champions Online, based on Hero Games' Champions, recently, and that's been a lot more fun for me - since you can solo just about any mission in there, it's easier to think about what you're doing in terms of what your character would do, rather than what holds aggro so the warlock can hit the target with DoTs. (Also, since everybody's superheroes, there's none of this "play your class" nonsense. What you do in a combat is dictated by your powers and your enemies' reactions. Behemoth-type characters get in there and punch, because that's what they do. Energy projectors, like the electrical Tempest or fire-based Inferno, try to damage targets as much as possible while they're still at range, because they can't take hits as well, unless the character has a close-in power that helps. My Tempest character, Lightning, likes to attract a group's attention, get them in close, then unleash Sparkstorm, a power that hits every target within 10 feet with electricity.)

Home made systems

My favourite RPG is Talisman. I only get to play it with my family. I spend the whole game collecting and hoarding points, objects, and followers

We used to play the 2nd edition which was published by Games Workshop. I own the Black Industries version of the 4th edition. The revised version of the 4th edition is published by Fantasy Flight Games. I chose 'Other' in the poll.

Other; None.

I like the White Wolf stuff like Exalted.

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I'm bumping this thread again because the topic really interests me, and I'd rather not start another thread on the same topic while this thread is still open.

Are there any other WP members who even play the paper-dice-pencil style of tabletop RPGs anymore? If so, what are your favorite games? What type of character? Do you prefer magic or psionics? Both? Neither?

I still play Traveller and Traveller: SGC, and I prefer playing brainy, sneaky characters who also know their way around an SMG.

I like Paizo, for Pathfinder.
And White Wolf for Vampire

Why do you like these games?

I was quite young when I first read books on RPG games and their mechanics. I used to enjoy drawing my own pen and paper games and writing rules for them, even though very few of these games were actually played by others. I also have enjoyed collecting the Warhammer figures. I feel as though I would like to get into commercially sold tabletop RPG, but I do not know if that would be an easy thing to do and I do not know where I would begin.