4E, Swords and Wizardry. Pathfinder, Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Group Consensus (mainly driven by me and one other guy who owns lots of RPGs).
I only ever really enjoy tolkienesque fantasy. I'd quite like to enjoy scifi, scifantasy, steampunk and horror, but they've never really worked for me.
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- Horror/Modern I GMed a short Delta Green / Dark*Matter mesh, very much enjoyed by me and my players. It was a 'season break' for a regular 'Buffy' campaign (not sure the latter goes by Horror or Different, though). The Buffy campaign started as a short break from a regular D&D game but was so well liked we shifted some schedules to make it a regular game.
- sci fi - not so much in the last two years, but I have been planning a Babylon 5 campaign for a good deal of time (Players request, though I am well interested myself) that will start early next year. Personally I'd love to start a Star*Drive campaign (Players are interested in that as well), but that will porbably have to wait some time.
- Western - I ran a few Deadlands episodes that went well enough, but I am not interested at running a longer game atm.
- Fantasy - I have a regular Pathfinder game and had a regular D&D game before that. I find it easy to run (pre made modules, heavily modified while I am running them) - I have more players for this then for any other genre. I will soon run a couple of Warhammer Fantasy Adventures, because I am not done yet with the Babylon 5 game preparations.
When switching systems/genres, I (as I usually GM) present my players with a few options I would like to run (and have enough material and or ideas), then we talk about them and chose one (should it happen that none of the options would work for my players, I would probably look for something they might like more and postpone the start of the game for a few weeks).
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Which table top RPG games have you played in the last two years?
D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, D20 Modern, World of Darkness and one other of which I can't recall the name for some reason (I'll dig out the name when I get home).
When you've switched to a new table top RPG in the last two years, how did you decide which new game you switched to?
Usually by popular choice in my gaming circles, someone will simply suggest a game and ask if we want to play it for the next month or so.
Either that or one of us will advertise that we're going to run a specific game somewhere down the line, and then people who want to give it a go will register their interest.
Which table top RPG game genres do you enjoy;
Horror
I like roleplay systems with a dark theme, but prefer it not to be a full on murder-fest.
Sci-fi
I'm quite a huge fan of Science Fiction so love the whole culture, but am very picky about what I like when it comes to playing a game about it as I find most systems tend to use an old Fantasy game's system as a template.
Modern
Depending on the story, I quite enjoy something set in present day or not too far into the past. I find them quite good for immersion as you can build a story around something real so the players can visualise what they're doing.
Fantasy
The standard run or the mill, D&D style, adventure in a fantasy world is always a nice theme to fall back on when you want to play something simple that most anyone can find a part they enjoy.
Which table top RPG games have you played in the last two years?
Pathfinder predominantly, with forays into 4e, oWoD and very recently Shadows of Esteren. Made a CoC character for a game, but GM failed to get it off the ground. Oh, and two years ago was probably just about when our 3.5 Waterdeep campaign finished.
When you've switched to a new table top RPG in the last two years, how did you decide which new game you switched to?
Generally someone advocates for a different game - if they're not successful it's back to PF :) Usually, the advocate becomes the GM.
Which table top RPG game genres do you enjoy?
horror
modern
steampunk
sci fi
sci fantasy (sci fi with fantasy elements such as 'the force')
superheroes
Really, apart from totally toony ones, I like just about any style of game.
In the last two years:
D&D 4e, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest (and I'm sure I'm forgetting something else in there)
I switched from 4e to Pathfinder because I preferred 3.5 and had trouble finding story-oriented players for 4e, and have a huge library of 3.5 support material.
I enjoy pretty much every genre listed (and tend to have "taste swings" along with my mood swings), but usually don't like to mix genres in the same game. My favorites would be Fantasy, Horror, Superheroes, and Sci-Fi.
...but usually don't like to mix genres in the same game.
I'm the same.
Fantasy in last 2 years- Pathfinder, 4E, 13th Age, FATE, Dragon Age, Next playtest.
Steampunk - local FATE hack Tales of the Empire.
I intend to play Cthulhutech and Shadows of Esteren in near future, perhaps Trail of Cthulhu...