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Favorite Pen and Paper RPGs that Aren't DnD

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Uber Ritter:
My personal faves:
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay-gritty, lethal, and good for running both call of Cthulu creepiness and fairly realistic medieval life stuff (now we're going to play a Jane Austen novel set in a fantasified 16th century Holy Roman Empire.  you get married, horay!).  Great fan support in the form of Warpstone Magazine, the Liber Fanantica and a bunch of other online stuff.  Really simple rules, and the career system, which beats levels any day of the week in my book.

Fading Suns-I've never played it (sadly), but I really, really like the setting.  Compared to other space fantasy settings (-cough- Warhammer 40K -cough-) all sectors of society are far more sympathetic and humane while simultaneously having a worldview much different from our own.  Particularly well done is the church.  Two of the main sourcebooks, Lords of the Known and Priests of the Celestial Sun, are probably the best setting books I've ever read for any game.

Fletch:
Legend of the Five Rings. Tournament-driven main story & a fairly wide range of possibilities. (within the asian/samurai setting)
One of the former lead story writers even wrote up a 26 part fic set in the year 2000. (current storyline is around 1150)

 I may even play the rpg one day. :roll:

thepugs:
GUURRRPPPPSSSSS!

Seriously, GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System) is amazing.  I have played a Call of Cthulu setting game and a tweaked Delta Green game with it thus far, and it has satisfied every need as well as been extraordinarily entertaining.  I plan to play in two more upcoming games; one a 1970s street criminal make-$100k-and-don't-get-caught campy action movie type game, and a Star Wars-set smuggler game. Regular swords-and-sorcery type stuff is easy with it too.  I seriously cannot get enough of the system.

Shadowrun looks kinda fun too, I might play that sometime.

benji:
I ran Fading Suns for about a year and a half. Love the setting. I have some problems with the actual game mechanics, but with some tweaking it's pretty good.

I also have much love for L5R. Though the tournament results = major changes in meta-plot drives me a bit nuts sometimes.

Right now I'm in/running an Ars Magica game, which is pretty awesome. Especially if you're a nerd (and I play with a bunch of nerds). When one of the major game mechanics you have learn is how to successfully do lab-research, you know it's a game for nerds.

My favorite game ever is probably Mage: the Ascension (old world of darkness). I did a world-ending game a few years ago, so I don't play anymore. Actually anything World of Darkness these days makes me think "didn't I already destroy this world?"

Other games I really enjoy: Deliria is awesome if you like rules-light character-driven stuff (I really recommend it for advanced groups mostly). I recently bought Unhallowed Metropolis, which seems pretty awesome if you're looking for a Gothic, post-apocalyptic, steam-punk horror game.

KvP:
I occasionally play an expanded version of SPECIAL for Fallout PnP. I'm also laboring on a simplified version of SPECIAL called, uh, SIMPLE, which was originally concieved by BIS Fallout 3 designer JE Sawyer but was left unfinished.

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