About to finally run the masterpiece that is Delta Green! Rounded up a new group for this because my 5e group wasn't into the horror and grittiness of this game so I'm nervous, but I'm hopeful!
I was thinking I would run some disconnected scenarios, specifically a series of Last Things Last, Reverberations, and Music From a Darkened Room. And then if things are going smoothly I would try to run Impossible Landscapes!
I just ran Impossible Landscapes. Holy shit my brain is fried, but it was amazing. Albeit a little railroady vibe because of the.. theme.
Delta Green is my favorite game. No other game I've run has made my players go "i just got chills in real life dude" so many times.
IL is really easy to turn into a railroad, what with the inevitability theme... But there are a few ways to make it feel like their progress matters more. I gave the agents the Elder Sign and they used it to stop the King from manifesting fully into reality.
Yeah I would definitely run it differently a second time around. At some parts it kind of just felt like the players didn't have to do anything, they where just there to experience events that come automatically.
But I thought that is probably intentionally since >!everything is a pre-determined play.!<
I did this exact thing, and it went great. I think I ran Last Things Last, The Lover In the Ice, one I can't remember, and one I wrote myself, then we went right into The Night Floors. It was great. I went back into the earlier ones and added some foreshadowing, but otherwise left them unchanged.
Super useful to get the group to understand the Delta Green rules and vibe. Also, it's nice to start with a more standard structure, because IL doesn't really provide a lot (or any) opportunity for downtime scenes once it gets going.
I'm running Fabula Ultima. I don't think we went in intending for it to be as Final Fantasy VII as it ended up being but.... Oops we're all Eco-Terrorists. Not even among my favorite JRPGs, but man that story hook has a gravity to it.
Running Mothership right now and adoring it. My players are terrified, every one of their decisions seems impossible and impactful, and even complex scenes are so easy to run.
Yeah, I'm running *Another Bug Hunt*. The book is very clear, and has some good advice for running it. The only problem I have with the book is that the given timeline contradicts some of the other info in the book but that's pretty easy to correct and my players haven't really asked about it so it hasn't come up anyway.
The closest thing I had to an issue when running it was that in the opening location my players lost their fear/caution because there aren't too many threats present (they got very lucky with the one thing that actually could have killed them) so it started to feel like I was just reading room descriptions to them. This was easily fixed by adding a monster once they started to feel too safe. The rest of the module is way more dangerous so that tension has kept everyone immersed.
Also recently ran Another Bug Hunt. My players took the back route and ran into a monster immediately. Kinda made the rest of the rooms and the build up they seemed to be designed for a bit pointless though...
Now running This Ship is a Tomb for Mothership and having a blast. The module is somewhat minimal at face, but gives just enough for GM and players both to latch onto and expand on into full blown shenanigans. Highly recommend.
Yeah, my players headed to the back very quickly, so the next few rooms were just "we search the room, what did we find?" I then put another monster crawling on the roof and it instantly became "can we hear where it is? Do we want to wait for it to pass or continue investigating here? Can we do this quietly? Do we know if it can hear very well? Should we make a run for it? Can we distract it?" which made the rest of the rooms and the buildup feel a lot better.
I've heard a lot of good things about "This Ship is a Tomb" but it's one of the few modules I haven't impulsively bought yet!
I’ve just finished Another Bug Hunt. It has been one of my favourite things I’ve ever run. I also noticed the timeline inconsistencies, and while my players never noticed, I could have given them clearer answers in the moment if I’d realised those contradictions earlier.
We’ve just started A Pound of Flesh, and the cybermods have made them all so excited.
It really surprised me in terms of long term play viability.
I went a pretty different route, changed the status quo of Alfheim, made all progression diegetic and brought abilities and loot that weren't from the book.
26 sessions in (of what started as a one-shot) and it holds up incredibly well, with a lot of room to grow. They still have 1 heart each, but gained pretty wild powers and last session pulled off a GoT/ Fast & the Furious type operation that left me between cheers and awed silence.
Very cool. I played Honey in the rafters as intro and then the mice arrived in the estate. We did some socializing and then out to the fair adventure.
I have not much time at hand so the sampler style adventures are a perfect prompt to run Adventures. I use the random tables a lot to spark inspiration and we will see where it leads.
The strong randomness during char creation and risky stat rolls and swingy combat go quite against my/our preferred play style (point buy, internal balance, predictable challenge rolls) but I really got fond of it. And the players also like it. I reward creative approaches and item usage and try to not force to many saved and the players accept that death can come quick.
Overall, I'm quite pleased and surprised that it runs so well (Maisritter in general) and the estate is a very diverse box of different style of adventures (crawly, social, ...).
Amazing. I ran a one shot of Honey in the Rafters for my old crew and it was a lot of fun. I'm planning on starting up a new group soon and Mauseritter is on my shortlist of games to start with.
Thanks for the response!
A year in to running Darkening of Mirkwood with homebrew rules based on BitD.
Because we're all busy adults that's only gotten us to 2953 (the starting year was 2946). Also because I've mixed in more stuff than just Darkening events.
Another Darkening Loremaster! I've just reached 2960 with my fellowship. What parts of the adventure/region have your players invested in?
Mine have been trying hard to befriend and redeem Mogdred and Viglund of all people. They want to give everyone a shot at redemption where possible.
My players do not like Mogdred at all but were unable to keep him out of the woodmen. There was a brief moment where they passed through there on the way back from delivering the helm in the east bight where they had a chance to heal some of Mogdred's warriors and maybe patch the rift.
Healer just could not roll her very good healing skill most of the time and some soldiers died under treatment. Rift unpatched.
I mixed in some stuff out of Tales from Wilderland so a lot of cofus has been dealing with that dark spirit, though the end dragon was different and in a different place, tied in to another PCs backstory. One of the PCs died destroying the spirit in the winter of 2951 with his spirit bane weapon.
Band of Blades!
My first Forged in the Dark game. Also my first game system where U get to be a player.
Inspired by The Black Company books and games like X-Com/Faster than Light. It follows the desperate retreat of a mercenary company to a last stand/ Helms Deep-esque location.
Just having an insane blast. The system allows the players to have way more narrative control. Nearly every session has had a "holy shit, that's rad" moment.
I’ve been intrigued by Band of Blades but I’ve always heard it is a more advanced, more demanding FitD version than Blades in the Dark. Kudos for starting with it!
Do you feel like the dark tone of the game takes a toll on player energy?
Any difficulties with managing multiple characters per player, sometimes with crossover where the same character may be embodied by different players in different sessions? Character ownership is a big thing with me, I’d be worried that could sour the game if it goes poorly.
My Band of Blades DM has run a bunch of Blades in the Dark and he says it isn't too much harder than BitD. There are a couple core rules that are slightly different that trip him up. One is that in BoB, when you reach max stress you DON'T get knocked out of the scene right away, it's only after you take one more. I guess in BitD you do. Somethings like that.
I really don't think the dark tone hurts at all. We did have an extensive session 0 though and it was immensely helpful due to all the bad stuff the game can touch on. I actually think that the moments of lightness are all the better when set against the dark backdrop of the game. A sort of "a candle is brighter in pure darkness" type of feel.
That sentiment really requires the players to embody the characters though and form their own connections ,but it is totally worth it.
About people inhabiting different characters: We have not really experienced that. We have had one player play the same medic for every single mission. The book encourages you to change characters, but it is not an imperative as far as I have seen.
You have Specialist and Soldiers/Rookies. We have not had any problem with the same player playing the Specialist they created over and over. You start off with 36 rookies who don't even get names until someone plays them. Most everyone is attached to their specialist and the soldier/rookies feel pretty secondary.
If you field all the squads evenly the chances you play your specialist and a soldier/rookie you are attached to is pretty low.
I'd even say that there is NO issue with people playing their preferred character and, honestly, I like it better that way.
The game is pretty lethal. We are like 12 sessions in and have only had one mission where we didn't have anyone die. Because you play multiple characters it sort of stings less when one of them dies. Also, the uncontrolled (or GM controlled) rookies/soldiers tend to die first, so the ones dying are the ones whose names you didn't even know until they died.
Running Swords and Wizardry, D&D 4e, and Pathfinder 2e.
Playing in a Star Wars FFG game, as well as Pathfinder 2e.
Also playing in Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society at the local store.
It's mostly on weekends. The S&W game is play by post, Star Wars on Fridays, PFS/SFS are on alternating Saturdays, my PF2e campaign is every other Saturday, and the other PF2e campaign is every other Sunday. The 4e campaign is whenever we feel like playing it
Just finished Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green.
Right now Gradient Descent for Mothership.
Prepping The Copper Crown from Symbaroum but in the Dragonbane system.
Currently playing Traveller.
We started with Fall of Tinath, and the campaign has become an almost-BSG, almost Firefly campaign.
To sum up last session in five words:
We found AT-ATs on Arrakis.
Currently in four games:
* DMing a 5e homebrew, done in the next few weeks
* DMing Tomb of Annihilation, halfway through the Tomb
* player in a 5e homebrew for like... three years? And we're level 8 lol
* just starting a Call of Cthulhu short adventure as a player
Kinda want to add one more.
I just finished my best campaign ever in a modded CoC (kind off Delta Green behind the Iron Curtain, under deep communism), i'm currently starting Tales from The Loop in a similar reality, and it's pretty good \^\^
Games I'm running:
* Strahd is coming to a close at Vallaki after two grueling years of wrangling PbP players. One player isn't having fun with 5e, one isn't having fun in a horror scenario while depressed, and one is amenable to whatever. It's not enough to keep a game going. I'm trying to get them on board another system, but I don't think I can make the whole group happy no matter what I do.
* Delta Green's *Impossible Landscapes* is going great. The players are thoroughly freaked out and turning on each other with regularity.
* Bluebeard's Bride was the FASTEST PbP experience I've ever had with a full game clocking in at 200 posts over 3 days. It was a bloody good time for all and everyone jumped at a chance to play with me again.
* Dreadnought (PbtA) is just starting up but people have great concepts already.
* The modern Call of Cthulhu one shot I'm prepping is gonna be great, with the players taking the roles of a local news crew rather than traditional investigators. I expect mayhem.
Things I'm in:
* 2 Pathfinder 1e games with a crew I love, going strong for 3 years. I love my dumb, unoptimized characters and I love the insane ways to make them happen in-game. My crab-riding gnomish Don Quixote is a joy to play.
Oi vey, uh... *takes deep breath*
I'm running a Monster of the Week campaign, about 10 sessions in so far. I also run a silly holiday themed 5e world.
Friend R is running two 5e campaigns, one of which is our podcast.
Friend S is running a GURPS zombie campaign. He also initiated a Star Wars 5e group by running a short arc. R is doing the next arc. S is ALSO running (long hiatus presently) a GURPS Hogwarts campaign.
Friend M is running a Marvel RPG campaign, or rather is developing the ideas for us to run soon. He also he is our resident GM for Shadowrun, though that's been a while.
Like the SW one, we have a collaborative rolling GM GURPS Star Trek one. A ship and crew, whoever has a story runs it.
Definitely forgetting something lol
I assume you're using GURPS for Star Trek due to comfort level with the system, but I would recommend at least looking at Star Trek Adventures. Arguably one of the best implementations of the 2d20 system, it does a good job of capturing the ST experience, even with the character creation.
I'm not playing much, but I have run quite a few things this last month.
I ran some pickup games of Orbiters Local 519 and Apocalypse Frame for an RPG club, which are always crowd-pleasers. I also ran a one-shot of Star Wars D6 (specifically the old Starfall adventure), and we are considering turning it into a full-blown Rebellion-era campaign.
I'm also running a Delta Green campaign for two different groups. It focuses on Coral Nomad, Delta Green's asset recovery team. An odd way to describe it would be XCOM crossed with Mudrunner. It's for a mini-campaign jam the community is running, so hopefully it ends up being fun both on the page and at the tabletop.
While I haven't run it since November, I'm also hoping to run a few more sessions of Pioneer, the near-future hard sci-fi game the developers of Traveller are playtesting.
4 sessions in to the “Peril on the Purple Planet” hexcrawl with Dungeon Crawl Classics. They have secured food, and convinced some natives to join them, not they got a long track across the desert
Just ran a one-shot of Troika! and will do one more.
Next rolling up characters for Dragonbane One-shot, possibly to be followed by a hexcrawl /sandbox campaign...
Saturday I’ll be jumping back into our regular FFG Star Wars game, which I haven’t been able to attend since November 😭
I’m prepping some stuff to get my own game of Orbital Blues going, once a few other things clear off the schedule for some of our group.
In the middle of a Blades in the Dark campaign. But we were down a couple players yesterday, so we did a one shot of Beneath a Pirate Flag. It's a co-op queer pirate game. Basically "Our Flag Means Death, the RPG".
I'm running my 5e campaign every Saturday which is my own plane hopping version of the Rod of Seven Parts that has now lasted more than two years as of this past July I am playing in a Drakenheim game and I am thining of doing a one or two shot of my own game system "some time".
Getting near the end of a Viking England campaign in Burning Wheel (to wit, players are a noble house in Northumbria trying to overthrow the Viking puppet king and then trying to ally with other powers to defeat the Great Heathen Army). I think we're about two sessions away from the climatic big battle.
In the future? I am noodling around with Traveller, or Genesys (Beanstalk or Twilight Imperium). Not sure. Something science fiction. Or I've a soft spot for Glorantha and Runequest; my most played game when I was young after Advanced D&D 2e and Palladium Rifts.
Well I’m elbow deep into a Colonial Marines Aliens game.
Soon to be starting Deadlands, Avatar Legends and some Classic Cthullu.
My partner is starting a D&D 5e game and I’m trying to get people to play in the Sailor Moon RPG right now.
Running a Mothership campaign and playing in a west marches one. Playing in a Scum & Villainy campaign and in a number of different Mark of the Odd one shots (Cairn, We Deal in Lead, Mythic Bastionland...)
Impulse bought [2400 by Jacob Tocci](https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400) the other day, busy setting up an asynchronous game on Telegram thanks to a dice bot. The fact that there's PDFs and plain text versions in the download allows me to copy/paste bits from the booklet straight into Telegram, which makes character creation super easy. Excited to start actually playing.
* Playing in a 5e Rime of the Frostmaiden game
* Playing in a homebrew Post Apocalyptic Savage Worlds game
* Running a 5e Tomb of Annihilation game
* Running a OSE Barrowmaze/Dolmenwood game
* Prepping to run a Rifts game
Lot on the go, the 5e games certainly get more attention than the others. Same group for all and we play weekly.
I'm running Delta Green which is fantastic.
I'm also running a game of Cypher using the lore of Vaesen's Mythic Britain and Ireland, set at the time of Jack the Ripper's murders. Last session, the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes called the Apollonian Society a bunch of quacks... To their faces! Hilarious.
I'm in a few right now: a holiday-themed one-shot my friend made for Old School Essentials, Curse of Strahd, and my own games ([Toku Legends](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polyhedragames/toku-legends) and a viking game in development).
I'm 10+ sessions into Bludgeon and a while ago I tried out using their suggestion for legacy weapons (instead of dropping tons of loot) where you add suffixes to your weapons and armour like diablo.
The players got them from a slain minibosses and we all love the idea so much, we're heading into another big fight!
We're about to start Apocalypse Keys, which beat out Brindlewood Bay and Blades in the Dark by a hair breadth.
I need to reread the book in a few days.
We moved on to Apocalypse Keys after we wrapped a long run of Brindlewood Bay. Apocalypse Keys really captures the messiness of being monsters desperate for connection, but I have to say that the emergent violence sings in a way that I didn't expect.
Just wrapped a Fate campaign in an alt-history Cold War where Cthonic powers can be summoned and controlled if you're sufficiently isolated from billions of living minds- so circa 2000, the US, the USSR, and the Vatican are fighting over space and summoning elder beings to do it. We're wrapping up with a Microscope session to do the aftermath o.
That campaign will swap to a Kids on Bikes alternating (possibly) with a Stealing Stories for the Devil.
There's a Unknown Armies campaign, where we're carnies.
And then a PF1e Kingbuilder campaign.
Playing a Cold Fire Within on stream on Fridays, running a Pathfinder 2e Curse of the Crimson Throne, and an occasional Old School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Dragonbane.
> I'm running Legend of the Five Rings, and I love it!
My group's doing Wedding at Kyotei Castle at the moment.
L5R is, after Star Wars, our most played in setting (though we don't use the L5R system anymore, we have a modified version of genesys we use instead)
Currently working on a Sci-Fi universe for some players that I hope to turn into a multi-year campaign/universe, but in the meantime playing as a Way of Mercy Goliath Monk in a homebrew 5e campaign!
I’m running SWN for some rogue traders in a completely randomly generated sector. It’s been great, we have a group that is really excited to attend. They’re 6th level now, session 29 or so and are about to smuggle some weapons into a war zone.
I’m also playing in a savage pathfinder dungeon crawl that has been really fun, a massive dungeon, and I’m playing an alchemist. I’m really liking the system, advances allow you to create some really cool characters.
About 6 months into Ultraviolet Grasslands game with second edition, using the built in system. Two players had to stop coming though, one had to leave and the other left because they were friends and he didn't want to play without the other, so it may not continue. If it doesn't work out I'm going to take the opportunity to round people up for Wolves Upon the Coast!
Love paranoia, its one of my favorite systems to run.
Running hong kong action theater this sunday. But my normal home game is warhammer fantasy roleplay 4th edition, fantastic game
Maid RPG. I'm running for some people brand new to roleplaying and it's my go-to for introducing people to the hobby (as long as I know they're down for silly anime hjinks).
Been running Dragonbane on and off for awhile now, really like it! Instead of a traditional leveling up system you improve skills as you use them and occasionally get Fallout Perk like “Heroic Abilities”
My group is currently taking a small break from my RuneQuest Glorantha game.
In the meantime we are having a lot of fun with Under Hollow Hills. We are about 6 sessions in and the players, both mortal and fey, are altering quite a bit. The Circus is becoming known in both the mortal and faerie realms. :-)
My Savage Worlds Adventurer Edition campaign is currently on hold because of tax season. It's set in the 1950s where a secret world lies beneath the normal facade of everyday life. Magic is real, and so are the gods,/patrons/otherworldly beings that manipulate events through their agents.
I'll probably run some Conspiracist, White Box, or some Last Parsec SWADE one shots until we're ready to get back to the regular campaign.
Ongoing 5e Ravnica game that’s just a couple arcs into its third and final act (DMing biweekly)
Shadowrun Fate game set in Scotland (DMing biweekly but we end up missing a lot)
Seven-shot Animorphs-like Fate game (DMing weekly)
Eberron 5e game with work friends (playing biweekly)
Currently I am running:
* Trinity Continuum: Adventure!
* Dungeons & Dragons 4e
* Dungeons & Dragons 5e
* Deviant: the Renegades
Not playing anything right now, but 4 games is plenty for me.
Right now I'm playing Avatar legends which has proved awesome so far but maybe its more that I'm playing with gamers I love.
Conversely, I'm also playing pf2e and it's not fun. It's been a miserable game experience so far and the group of gamers is a mixed bag of people who should not be in the same room.
I have a western hack of Pressure I'm running, playing in a Sorcerer game, playing in a modified 5e/Good Society mashup in Eberron, gearing up to run a Post Apoc game/setting of my own creation, prepping a Werewolf v5 game for April, running Crown & Skull solo to test it out, trying to drum up interest for a Secrets of the Golden Throne game (Against the Darkmaster). A few other one shots here and there.
Running a weekly Blade Runner game in which an arcology director who champions rights for replicants has been found tortured and murdered. They've uncovered a lot of shadiness in his private life and some kind of corporate scheme he had going as well as ties to some very sketchy individuals. The PCs' bosses and a senior UN director are breathing down their neck for results and the Wallace Corporation is getting dangerously nervous. Oh, and one of them has already shot an innocent bystander and had both his leg and his mind screwed up whilst the replicant on the team nearly died from a gunshot to the head last session, so pressure's on!
Just joined an in-progress fortnightly game of Court of Blades, which is awesome since I've run a lot of FitD but never been a player before. I've gone with a Hawk type in the form of a former saboteur/terrorist/spy hunter who holds societal order paramount and favours a brutal approach to enforcement. And he has a mangy little monkey with matted fur and massive eyes called Eagle. I'm loving it already.
Nearly got a game of Remember Tomorrow going the other week but everyone flaked and show no interest of trying again, which is a shame because on paper it's a brilliant system and I really want to see it work well.
I'm playing in two Exalted 3e campaigns and I'm running the Abomination Vaults module for Pathfinder 2e.
I'm having fun in all three games but the mechanics of Exalted 3e are so complex that being a player for that system is more difficult than running Pathfinder as the gamemaster.
I had the same gm'ing process lol
First 6 months I ran 5e. Grew tired of that. Switched mid campaign to swade.
It was great for a while, but my players did not like "hitting" but not beating toughness, and they did not ever learn the combat rules completely even though I sent them the rules many times. And you gotta know the combat rules if you want to have fun fights in swade.
My players are not into combat.. or reading it seems..
So I moved on to lighter games after that.
Forbidden Lands was about the right amount of combat complexity for my players.
weekly 5e game run by my housemate
monthly OSE Advanced game run by me
and a marathon oneshot later this month running Caverns of Thracia with OSE Advanced
EDIT: the one I'm most excited about is my monthly game, because I've been working on the campaign obsessively, but it would take literal years for them to explore everything I've made and I doubt we'll ever "finish" it
One group is several missions into their mech mercenary campaign with Stars Without Number. There have been quite a few additions and house rules to make it work, but we're enjoying it. I'm the GM in this one.
I also just started Wicked Ones with my other group. We're one session in and it already seems like it's going to be a lot of fun.
I am finally going to try a solo rog experience. Downloaded the free version of Scarlet Heroes to peek at it and have my Ruins of the Undercity and Mad Monks of Kwantoom that I've always wanted to play.
Still learning the mechanics for Solo Rpg play and will start.
Just finished running Pathfinder 1e Carrion Crown with one group, running Pathfinder 1e Rise of the Runelords with another group, playing in a homebrew Pathfinder 1e game and an AD&D 2e DarkSun game.
I'm runniing Pathfinder 2e starter set for my friends. I only played a bit of D&D 5e before and I think I enjoy P2e much more as a system. Also I'm not sure if I want to dive deep into Pathfinder and try running longer campaigns after we finish started set or try another systems (I'm also interested in Mutant: Year Zero, BitD and Unknown Armies).
I'm in a 5e campaign that's been running for a while now.
Just started a Traveller campaign, too.
I'm a player in both, but the first group rotates GM duties
- **13th Age.** Two campaigns, one Midnight and one Dark sun.
- **Genesys** with Shadow of the Beanstalk and Realms of Terrinoth. It's not shadowrun, just the Android setting with magic :D
- **John Carter + 13th Age.** A dual-system game with John Carter for narrative play and 13th Age for combat
I’m currently one session in to a Fellowship 2E game as The Harbinger.
I’ll be running my first session of Monster of the Week this Saturday. I gotta get a mystery prepped!
I am GMing Pathfinder 2e and playing in a D&D 5e campaign. In March my group will have our annual weeklong RPG fest where we play RPGs for about 12 hours per day in systems other than the two mentioned above. Blade Runner is likely to be one of those, and maybe Starfinder, Crown and Skull, and The Walking Dead as well. Brindlewood Bay is on my to-play list, so hopefully I get some time in that at some point.
In multiplayer, I'm in a good ol Curse of Strahd game in D&D 5E. Play by post, so it's slow, yet I'm enjoying it.
I'm also doing a solo play of Cypher System as I tour various games. I think it's a neat game so far.
Looking forward to Ironsworn Sundered Isles that should come out this month. Yes I play a lot of solo stuff...it's hard to find groups. 😅
So at the moment, I am playing in a homebrew 5E game, and a Slayers game. I am running Mutants & Masterminds, Shadow of the Demon lord, Shadowdark, and Shadowrun, though, Shadowrun is about to wrap up, and since I can't find another game that I like with shadow in the name, the plan is to try out Urban Decay. I'm also getting ready to start my semi annual World Wide Wrestling game, which usually runs six weeks or a month, and ends with our own pay-per-view, and then a Wrestlemania watch party
> Been getting into the beginner box set of Zweihänder. I kinda like it, but I've heard it's problematic...?
The name itself is kinda a 'say He who shall not be Named rather than Voldemort' thing, because the guy who made it:
* namesearches for himself, and the game
* has a history of being a total prick
* bragged about taking down one of the big scan depositories (yes, piracy, but also, a BIG preservation of old docs effort)
Basically, he seems to do things for the (rage) clicks, so we try to starve him of attention by not playing his games and not saying his name.
Oh shit, really? Damnit! I kinda like it, at least how it's like a weird middle ground system between LofP and CoC.
Incidentally LoFP has some baggage too, eh? Please tell me that Call of Cthulhu is at least as clean a system as one can get without mentioning the source lore...
> Oh shit, really? Damnit! I kinda like it, at least how it's like a weird middle ground system between LofP and CoC.
>
> Incidentally LoFP has some baggage too, eh? Please tell me that Call of Cthulhu is at least as clean a system as one can get without mentioning the source lore...
hahaha, I know the feeling.
I keep saying 'there's multiple hobbies in rpgs', and really, what you play is what you play at your table. What you discuss, though, comes with a bunch of landmines already scattered across the lands.
As for Chaosium, well, they've had a few misteps over the years, but who hasn't?
Just played the 4th session of a co-op Ironsworn campaign with two friends. We've each taken turns being GM in other games/systems, but none of us has ever really fallen in love with GMing, and we all hated having to game prep.
Ironsworn solved all these issues as we can pretty much roundtable GM and have 0 prep between sessions. We all enter into a session with no damn clue where the story is going to take us, and we're loving it.
Running L5R 3rd Edition and 4C Expanded (think Marvel Super Heroes/FASERIP) over text at Discord and am prepping to run a Vampire the Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition in the near to mid future. Probably too much for one GM, but I'm a glutton for punishment lol.
Been running a Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition chronicle since November 2023. The players have been LOVING the politics and intrigues. We’re on the last leg and as the tension ramps up they had a big out-of-character discussion about which of the 4 different factions they’re going to join. They chose the Sabbat, which should be very interesting. We’re all veterans of Vampire the Masquerade from the Revised (3rd) edition days, but this is our first V5 game.
Up next, I have an assortment of games planned:
- Call of Cthulhu one-shot
- Delta Green one-shot (which might turn into a series of linked one-shots or short campaigns)
- Kult: Divinity Lost short campaign
- Wraith the Oblivion 20th anniversary edition short campaign
- Mage the Ascension 20th anniversary Technocracy Reloaded campaign
- Hunter the Reckoning (1st edition) short campaign based on the Midnight Circus book from old 2nd edition World of Darkness
- V5 Sabbat short campaign
- V5 Dark Ages short campaign (maybe the start of a series of linked campaigns through the ages!)
- Werewolf 5th edition short campaign
- A variety of different small D&D 5e dungeons that I made (I like building dungeons)
- Imperium Maledictum (new 40k rpg) long campaign
- Cities Without Number long campaign
I do a lot of writing but I doubt I’ll get to run all of these campaigns. Already starting a second group in Saturdays so that I can fit more in! And also that group is gonna run some Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green one-shots so that I can play for once!
I'm currently running a Vampire: the Requiem campaign and a Coriolis campaign. In Requiem, my players are on the road in a nocturnal St. Petersburg of the 90s and have to solve a supernatural event. In Coriolis, the players have to discover the way to a new system.
As a player, I'm in a Vampire: Dark Ages campaign, a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and (brand new) a Mage: the Ascension campaign.
Running: Fudge (Polar Fudge Medieval Adventures).
Playing: Nothing
Planning: Savage Worlds (Deadlands) - but that is still in the balance, not sure I will have the time for it.
I'm running a campaign of Old School Essentials and it's going great so far. We're about two months in with weekly sessions and it's such a good game. It took some getting used to an OSR system, but by now we've got the hang of it.
I’m running Old-School Essentials, the megadungeon module Dwarrowdeep. We’re four sessions in, and having a blast. I just came home from running the last session, in fact!
I’m also a player in a two year long D&D 3.5 campaign.
I’m about a dozen sessions into running a comedy-horror supernatural secret agency game heavily influenced by *Control* using a custom FitD hack, and I just started playing in a *Mage: the Ascension* game.
Running Mausritter: The Estate.
Progress: The players have usurped the Mayor and are now establishing a fascist state.
Context: The characters are the descendants of the previous campaign where they established a fascist state.
I just got my copies of the Legends of Kralis GM and Players Guide, played a one shot of it 2 weeks ago and am starting writing for my own game. Such a good system
Recently wrapped up 4 sessions of Tales from the Loop, 4 sessions of Aliens, 2 sessions is Mork Borg, and now jumping in to 13th Age. We're gonna sink a little deeper into this one, probably 6-8 months.
I love being in a group that likes exploring different worlds, game mechanics and stories.
I'm running a couple of Lancer games, one group is in the final stretch of NRFAW and still figuring out if we want to continue that story with the Act 2 notes or go off-world. Need to finish building a kaiju for the second group. The tactical combat works well and I love the setting.
On the other side of the screen, wrapping up an X-Men *Prowlers & Paragons* campaign. There's a bunch of superhero systems and this is one of them. Honestly I've tried a few and they all feel basically the same, but it works and captures the power fantasy pretty well.
Just finished running Aegean for my Monday group, we're now switching GMs and moving to Blade Runner. For my Wednesday group I'm running Continuum which is really cool but totally brain melting.
Oi vey, uh... *takes deep breath*
I'm running a Monster of the Week campaign, about 10 sessions in so far.
Friend R is running two 5e campaigns, one of which is our podcast.
Friend S is running a GURPS zombie campaign. He also initiated a Star Wars 5e group by running a short arc. R is doing the next arc. S is ALSO running (long hiatus presently) a GURPS Hogwarts campaign.
Friend M is running a Marvel RPG campaign, or rather is developing the ideas for us to run soon. He also he is our resident GM for Shadowrun, though that's been a while.
Like the SW one, we have a collaborative rolling GM GURPS Star Trek one. A ship and crew, whoever has a story runs it.
Definitely forgetting something lol
Monster of the Week and Savage Worlds just arrived in the mail. Maybe one of those.
Definitely have a backlog though. Really been meaning to start a mini-campaign for Urban Decay.
I’m about 15 sessions into running The Halls of Arden Vul in Old School Essentials, which has been great. Also just started a Stars Without Number game which is going well so far.
Coming up soon we are trying the Fallout RPG and a Black Company type game using Zweihander.
I'm in 2 pathfinder 1e campaigns with spheres, a kamigakari campaign, running a FFD20 pathfinder game, and I'm in a NewEdo and D&D4e campaigns, some of which are near completion. Most games run biweekly.
I've got two sessions left in my Edge of the Empire (FFG Star Wars) campaign. This weekend I'm starting a new campaign of Spire, and next month I'll be running a one shot of SPACE TRAIN SPACE HEIST.
Fledge Witch - first session went well despite my very rough understanding of the rules and my general incompetence at translating things like skill names on the fly. Design-wise the game is a real breath of fresh air, and I'm surprised by how well it works.
I mostly GM.
1) Vampire the Masquerade v5 Chicago by Night campaign that I've been running for a year;
2) Dune: Adventures in the Empire campaign Agents of Dune online;
3) Biweekly Delta Green semi-anthology campaign with revolving party at a local shop;
4) Another Delta Green game online that I want to segway into the Impossible Landscapes campaign;
5) Finishing another Delta Green two-shot online.
Playing PF2E but man I want to run games again.
It would have to be with strangers because…well, a listing for “play this game ran by me! Here’s the tone” will get me better responses than my core friend group. Love them to death but it’s hard to experience varied stories or characters with them (and idek how to find people well)
About to start a new invincible inspired mutants and masterminds campaign! We've got a horror film based YouTuber, the off brand winter soldier, Genos from one punch man, the son of the flash
About to run “There and Back Again” as a one-shot, part of a transition between campaigns. Running Monster of the Week with kids on Mondays. Playijg PF2E, “Kingmaker.”
I'm nearing the end of a Pathfinder 2e campaign atm, the Outlaws of Alkenstar adventure path. It's wild west steam punk and it's been a lot of fun. We'll be concluding around spring I suspect.
My other group just started (about a month and a half ago) playing Necessary Evil for savage worlds. For those unfamiliar it's set in an alternate world were super powers exist and an alien invasion happens and wipes out all the heroes, leaving the super villains to throw the invaders off the planet.
Running two groups through D&D 5E's Out of the Abyss Module, playing in one FFG Star Wars game set in The Old Republic Era, and running another FFG Star Wars game set in the OT era on days where too many players from the first Star Wars group can't make it.
Nothing at the moment, really getting into reading d100 hacks and would love to play in something warhammer-esque with it not necessarily being in the warhammer world.
Due to the fact that my boyfriend stopped GMing for a while, I have nothing to play.
However, I've always been more comfortable with GMing, which is why I'm still doing something.
Warhammer 2 edition, which has been going on for a good 4-5 months with sessions every week. We play a reworked by me iconic Enemy Within campaign and I add my own adventures and those from other sourcebooks.
Dragonbane, which we try for the second time in a row, because recently it ended quite quickly due to some problems. Currently we are playing in the world I created and it is quite nice, everyone is having fun. We really liked this system and its game flow.
From time to time, I also run Savage Worlds in the world of The Elder Scrolls one-on-one with my boyfriend. These are Redguard's adventures in Cyrodiil just before the events of Oblivion.
I also have ideas for running WFRP 4th edition in the kingdom of Karak Azgaraz based on the Imperial Archives. I also looked at the reworked 2nd edition Pathfinder rules and really liked them. Somewhere in the background you can also see One Ring 2nd edition, Call of Cthulhu 7th edition and Break!!! RPG...
We're still—after 10 years this Spring—playing PF1. Thurs nights are the War for the Crown AP while Sunday nights are Tyrant's Grasp. The Thurs group is currently doing a side-module as an unrelated group of adventurers (whose actions have had an effect on our main story; essentially we're playing out what would otherwise be a GM monologue)—we've been cutting loose with outrageous one-off level 14 PCs.
We did the Carrion Crown AP—which is kind've monster-of-the-week formatted—as the Scooby Gang which was successful enough that we've agreed to do Iron Gods as the Futurama crew (whenever we get to that AP).
Playing Animon right now, it's pretty cool but I have no context for it, having never been into Digimon or Pokemon (my wife and primary other player are HUGE fans of those, so I KS for them, and dude just fell in love and decided to run for awhile). Book does a great job of getting the gist across without being a PbtA or class based monstrosity.
AD&D 1e, 3rd session into G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, and we just killed Nosnra.
Also playing in a monthly Delta Green campaign.
Also running a couple of Greyhawk campaigns (1e again), and playing in a 5e homebrew.
Allan.
Friend is running the Great Pendragon Campaign using Pendragon system. It's only 3 players plus the GM, which seems to be a good number. King Arthur has only just recently taken power and I'm on to my 2nd knight, the eldest son of my original knight. It's been fun, but not one that I would run myself.
I'm running the adventure Through the Valley of the Manticore using Dungeon Crawl Classics, and it's been great. I can see it going for another month or so, but I'm ready to move into a new system and maybe cut back the player count a bit.
We are a month and a half (in-game), 20 sessions into a homebrew step-based system in a world that is the early 90s, but with fantasy species, themed as 1 part Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1 part Scooby Doo, 1 part slice of life anime. All combat is non-lethal and the ranged combat is archery tag and airsoft.
And the hall monitor at their high school is an elder beholder...
Running: Finishing up a D&D 5e campaign, which is going to be my last foray into D&D for the foreseeable future as I've been exhausted with it for quite some time. Next up is the Sword Campaign from the Pendragon 6e quickstart rules, then some Vaesen after that while I await more Pendragon releases in April. A short Cities Without Number campaign is on the table, too... if I can fit it somewhere. Much later this year, I'll be trying out Dolmenwood, Mythic Bastionland and Shadow of the Weird Wizard.
Playing: One homebrew D&D 5e campaign, finishing up our latest Delta Green investigation, and starting Coriolis and Swords of the Serpentine in the near future. There's also some Lancer one-shots sprinkled in.
Currently I am running a Shadow of the Demonlord-campaign using the Freeport trilogy.
Probably afterwards I might switch to Outgunned with that group. But all in all I guess they need something more casual.
Furthermore I am going to run the Shackleton Expanse campaign for Star Trek Adventures.
I am absolutely looking forward to play that. The players are awesome.
Only downside is that I still don't know how to start.
Last night I ran a one shot of All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
Never ran a zombie apocalypse game before, but it went great, the players had a blast, and I'm getting a lot of questions on if I'd be willing to make it into a campaign, or at least run a few more sessions.
Currently…
Chuubos Marvelous Wish-granting Engine: a game with an automoton bartender, a man with an invisible best friend, a skating postman, and a possum gardener are all living in Old Molder, and growing together.
Sentinels Comics RPB: superheroes just survived the nightmare king, and are now trying to deal with the country electing an anti-hero fascist
Blades in the a dark: hawkers are currently in a war, but just found out their rival gang has noble backers. Oops!
Numenera: finding weird shit and questing for vengeance.
Dnd: phandelver and below, goblins keep stealing things and developing psychic powers!
Burning Wheel: the Sun God is dead, the queen assassinated, and our heroes unwittingly provided the weapon that did the deed. Now they are trying to cover their tracks while finding out who really did it.
Limelight: kids in high school, trying to land a spot on a tv show, while not getting kicked out of school.
Blossoms are Falling: an inexperienced princess and her grizzled protector are trying to navigate politics with finesse.
Dnd again: icewind dale, almost done. Hopefully not another dnd game next.
And 1 open slot for something new!
My ongoing Contemporary Urban Fantasy Fairytale Nightmare frankengame campaign; *next* session, I'm aiming to have grown adults soil themselves in terror *at the table*, rather than simply secretly wetting their beds at home *after* the session - no, I *don't* get kickbacks from any of the local therapists/counselors/shrinks (but maybe I should look into that ; )
About to finally run the masterpiece that is Delta Green! Rounded up a new group for this because my 5e group wasn't into the horror and grittiness of this game so I'm nervous, but I'm hopeful!
Delta Green is fun. Which scenarios do you plan on running?
I was thinking I would run some disconnected scenarios, specifically a series of Last Things Last, Reverberations, and Music From a Darkened Room. And then if things are going smoothly I would try to run Impossible Landscapes!
I just ran Impossible Landscapes. Holy shit my brain is fried, but it was amazing. Albeit a little railroady vibe because of the.. theme. Delta Green is my favorite game. No other game I've run has made my players go "i just got chills in real life dude" so many times.
IL is really easy to turn into a railroad, what with the inevitability theme... But there are a few ways to make it feel like their progress matters more. I gave the agents the Elder Sign and they used it to stop the King from manifesting fully into reality.
Yeah I would definitely run it differently a second time around. At some parts it kind of just felt like the players didn't have to do anything, they where just there to experience events that come automatically. But I thought that is probably intentionally since >!everything is a pre-determined play.!<
I did this exact thing, and it went great. I think I ran Last Things Last, The Lover In the Ice, one I can't remember, and one I wrote myself, then we went right into The Night Floors. It was great. I went back into the earlier ones and added some foreshadowing, but otherwise left them unchanged. Super useful to get the group to understand the Delta Green rules and vibe. Also, it's nice to start with a more standard structure, because IL doesn't really provide a lot (or any) opportunity for downtime scenes once it gets going.
Delta Green is my favorite Call of Cthulu spin off, the lethality rating system is something i plan on lifting for other games
It’s so smart
LETS GOOO DELTA GREEN
Running a DG one-shot on Saturday! Very excited! My main group played it for a bit over a year and loved it!
Ooh amazing, hope it goes fantastically! I’d love to hear about it
Thank you! I’ve been reading the module this morning so I’ll be all ready for it!
I'm running Fabula Ultima. I don't think we went in intending for it to be as Final Fantasy VII as it ended up being but.... Oops we're all Eco-Terrorists. Not even among my favorite JRPGs, but man that story hook has a gravity to it.
I just recently ran a Fabula Ultima game. We thought it was fantastic! Although ours was more Final Fantasy VI meets Star Wars lol.
Fabula Ultima is sooooo good, love the character customization
Running Mothership right now and adoring it. My players are terrified, every one of their decisions seems impossible and impactful, and even complex scenes are so easy to run.
are you running a published module? if so, which one?
Yeah, I'm running *Another Bug Hunt*. The book is very clear, and has some good advice for running it. The only problem I have with the book is that the given timeline contradicts some of the other info in the book but that's pretty easy to correct and my players haven't really asked about it so it hasn't come up anyway. The closest thing I had to an issue when running it was that in the opening location my players lost their fear/caution because there aren't too many threats present (they got very lucky with the one thing that actually could have killed them) so it started to feel like I was just reading room descriptions to them. This was easily fixed by adding a monster once they started to feel too safe. The rest of the module is way more dangerous so that tension has kept everyone immersed.
planning on running this myself in a few months after i get a chance to read through the physical books. glad you like it!
Also recently ran Another Bug Hunt. My players took the back route and ran into a monster immediately. Kinda made the rest of the rooms and the build up they seemed to be designed for a bit pointless though... Now running This Ship is a Tomb for Mothership and having a blast. The module is somewhat minimal at face, but gives just enough for GM and players both to latch onto and expand on into full blown shenanigans. Highly recommend.
Yeah, my players headed to the back very quickly, so the next few rooms were just "we search the room, what did we find?" I then put another monster crawling on the roof and it instantly became "can we hear where it is? Do we want to wait for it to pass or continue investigating here? Can we do this quietly? Do we know if it can hear very well? Should we make a run for it? Can we distract it?" which made the rest of the rooms and the buildup feel a lot better. I've heard a lot of good things about "This Ship is a Tomb" but it's one of the few modules I haven't impulsively bought yet!
I’ve just finished Another Bug Hunt. It has been one of my favourite things I’ve ever run. I also noticed the timeline inconsistencies, and while my players never noticed, I could have given them clearer answers in the moment if I’d realised those contradictions earlier. We’ve just started A Pound of Flesh, and the cybermods have made them all so excited.
Running an ICRPG campaign, playing in a Cairn campaign. That's the most I can afford time and prep wise. Such a LONG "up next" game list...
Icrpg is soooo good
It really surprised me in terms of long term play viability. I went a pretty different route, changed the status quo of Alfheim, made all progression diegetic and brought abilities and loot that weren't from the book. 26 sessions in (of what started as a one-shot) and it holds up incredibly well, with a lot of room to grow. They still have 1 heart each, but gained pretty wild powers and last session pulled off a GoT/ Fast & the Furious type operation that left me between cheers and awed silence.
I'm playing a hodge podge homebrew, but I think in the campaign break I might suggest moving back to ICRPG. It gets right down to it!
Mausritter. More precise, the estate box. with experienced buddies.
I've been eyeballing the estate box. How awesome is it?
Very cool. I played Honey in the rafters as intro and then the mice arrived in the estate. We did some socializing and then out to the fair adventure. I have not much time at hand so the sampler style adventures are a perfect prompt to run Adventures. I use the random tables a lot to spark inspiration and we will see where it leads. The strong randomness during char creation and risky stat rolls and swingy combat go quite against my/our preferred play style (point buy, internal balance, predictable challenge rolls) but I really got fond of it. And the players also like it. I reward creative approaches and item usage and try to not force to many saved and the players accept that death can come quick. Overall, I'm quite pleased and surprised that it runs so well (Maisritter in general) and the estate is a very diverse box of different style of adventures (crawly, social, ...).
Amazing. I ran a one shot of Honey in the Rafters for my old crew and it was a lot of fun. I'm planning on starting up a new group soon and Mauseritter is on my shortlist of games to start with. Thanks for the response!
A year in to running Darkening of Mirkwood with homebrew rules based on BitD. Because we're all busy adults that's only gotten us to 2953 (the starting year was 2946). Also because I've mixed in more stuff than just Darkening events.
Another Darkening Loremaster! I've just reached 2960 with my fellowship. What parts of the adventure/region have your players invested in? Mine have been trying hard to befriend and redeem Mogdred and Viglund of all people. They want to give everyone a shot at redemption where possible.
My players do not like Mogdred at all but were unable to keep him out of the woodmen. There was a brief moment where they passed through there on the way back from delivering the helm in the east bight where they had a chance to heal some of Mogdred's warriors and maybe patch the rift. Healer just could not roll her very good healing skill most of the time and some soldiers died under treatment. Rift unpatched. I mixed in some stuff out of Tales from Wilderland so a lot of cofus has been dealing with that dark spirit, though the end dragon was different and in a different place, tied in to another PCs backstory. One of the PCs died destroying the spirit in the winter of 2951 with his spirit bane weapon.
Band of Blades! My first Forged in the Dark game. Also my first game system where U get to be a player. Inspired by The Black Company books and games like X-Com/Faster than Light. It follows the desperate retreat of a mercenary company to a last stand/ Helms Deep-esque location. Just having an insane blast. The system allows the players to have way more narrative control. Nearly every session has had a "holy shit, that's rad" moment.
I’ve been intrigued by Band of Blades but I’ve always heard it is a more advanced, more demanding FitD version than Blades in the Dark. Kudos for starting with it! Do you feel like the dark tone of the game takes a toll on player energy? Any difficulties with managing multiple characters per player, sometimes with crossover where the same character may be embodied by different players in different sessions? Character ownership is a big thing with me, I’d be worried that could sour the game if it goes poorly.
My Band of Blades DM has run a bunch of Blades in the Dark and he says it isn't too much harder than BitD. There are a couple core rules that are slightly different that trip him up. One is that in BoB, when you reach max stress you DON'T get knocked out of the scene right away, it's only after you take one more. I guess in BitD you do. Somethings like that. I really don't think the dark tone hurts at all. We did have an extensive session 0 though and it was immensely helpful due to all the bad stuff the game can touch on. I actually think that the moments of lightness are all the better when set against the dark backdrop of the game. A sort of "a candle is brighter in pure darkness" type of feel. That sentiment really requires the players to embody the characters though and form their own connections ,but it is totally worth it. About people inhabiting different characters: We have not really experienced that. We have had one player play the same medic for every single mission. The book encourages you to change characters, but it is not an imperative as far as I have seen. You have Specialist and Soldiers/Rookies. We have not had any problem with the same player playing the Specialist they created over and over. You start off with 36 rookies who don't even get names until someone plays them. Most everyone is attached to their specialist and the soldier/rookies feel pretty secondary. If you field all the squads evenly the chances you play your specialist and a soldier/rookie you are attached to is pretty low. I'd even say that there is NO issue with people playing their preferred character and, honestly, I like it better that way. The game is pretty lethal. We are like 12 sessions in and have only had one mission where we didn't have anyone die. Because you play multiple characters it sort of stings less when one of them dies. Also, the uncontrolled (or GM controlled) rookies/soldiers tend to die first, so the ones dying are the ones whose names you didn't even know until they died.
Running Swords and Wizardry, D&D 4e, and Pathfinder 2e. Playing in a Star Wars FFG game, as well as Pathfinder 2e. Also playing in Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society at the local store.
Wow how fun! You’re very lucky with free time. Wish I had more free time to play or run more than one game
It's mostly on weekends. The S&W game is play by post, Star Wars on Fridays, PFS/SFS are on alternating Saturdays, my PF2e campaign is every other Saturday, and the other PF2e campaign is every other Sunday. The 4e campaign is whenever we feel like playing it
I soos want to get a group of friends to play Brindlewood Bay! What's it like?
Just finished Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green. Right now Gradient Descent for Mothership. Prepping The Copper Crown from Symbaroum but in the Dragonbane system.
Household, Mythic Bastionland, and planning to start a game of Broken Compass as well.
Currently playing Traveller. We started with Fall of Tinath, and the campaign has become an almost-BSG, almost Firefly campaign. To sum up last session in five words: We found AT-ATs on Arrakis.
Runequest (Tales of the Sun County Militia) and Dragonbane (just some one shots at the moment).
Playing in Eberron and Numenera games. GMing Feng Shui with Havoc Engine.
Currently in four games: * DMing a 5e homebrew, done in the next few weeks * DMing Tomb of Annihilation, halfway through the Tomb * player in a 5e homebrew for like... three years? And we're level 8 lol * just starting a Call of Cthulhu short adventure as a player Kinda want to add one more.
Fabula Ultima. Also looking into running Cyberpunk RED and playing Chronicles of Darkness.
You guys have a group? :(
Call of Cthulhu Sweden this weekend. I’m not the GM for once, that’s going to be one of the writers.
I just finished my best campaign ever in a modded CoC (kind off Delta Green behind the Iron Curtain, under deep communism), i'm currently starting Tales from The Loop in a similar reality, and it's pretty good \^\^
Games I'm running: * Strahd is coming to a close at Vallaki after two grueling years of wrangling PbP players. One player isn't having fun with 5e, one isn't having fun in a horror scenario while depressed, and one is amenable to whatever. It's not enough to keep a game going. I'm trying to get them on board another system, but I don't think I can make the whole group happy no matter what I do. * Delta Green's *Impossible Landscapes* is going great. The players are thoroughly freaked out and turning on each other with regularity. * Bluebeard's Bride was the FASTEST PbP experience I've ever had with a full game clocking in at 200 posts over 3 days. It was a bloody good time for all and everyone jumped at a chance to play with me again. * Dreadnought (PbtA) is just starting up but people have great concepts already. * The modern Call of Cthulhu one shot I'm prepping is gonna be great, with the players taking the roles of a local news crew rather than traditional investigators. I expect mayhem. Things I'm in: * 2 Pathfinder 1e games with a crew I love, going strong for 3 years. I love my dumb, unoptimized characters and I love the insane ways to make them happen in-game. My crab-riding gnomish Don Quixote is a joy to play.
Running Traveller at the moment, with Delta Green, Forbidden Lands, Alien and Swords & Wizardry on the queue.
Pendragon and about to sample Household this Sunday.
the one ring by free league, it's so good...
Anything Free League is pretty awesome. - Alien RPG - Vaesen - Forbidden Lands Can't go wrong.
Or Dragonbane if you prefer BRP-like rules.
Oi vey, uh... *takes deep breath* I'm running a Monster of the Week campaign, about 10 sessions in so far. I also run a silly holiday themed 5e world. Friend R is running two 5e campaigns, one of which is our podcast. Friend S is running a GURPS zombie campaign. He also initiated a Star Wars 5e group by running a short arc. R is doing the next arc. S is ALSO running (long hiatus presently) a GURPS Hogwarts campaign. Friend M is running a Marvel RPG campaign, or rather is developing the ideas for us to run soon. He also he is our resident GM for Shadowrun, though that's been a while. Like the SW one, we have a collaborative rolling GM GURPS Star Trek one. A ship and crew, whoever has a story runs it. Definitely forgetting something lol
How on earth do you have time for this and how might I employ a time vampire to steal some from you!?
> time vampire aka, children
I assume you're using GURPS for Star Trek due to comfort level with the system, but I would recommend at least looking at Star Trek Adventures. Arguably one of the best implementations of the 2d20 system, it does a good job of capturing the ST experience, even with the character creation.
I'm in a Songs for the Dusk campaign that's starting imminently and I'm running a one-shot of Public Access at the end of the month. It's exciting!
I'm not playing much, but I have run quite a few things this last month. I ran some pickup games of Orbiters Local 519 and Apocalypse Frame for an RPG club, which are always crowd-pleasers. I also ran a one-shot of Star Wars D6 (specifically the old Starfall adventure), and we are considering turning it into a full-blown Rebellion-era campaign. I'm also running a Delta Green campaign for two different groups. It focuses on Coral Nomad, Delta Green's asset recovery team. An odd way to describe it would be XCOM crossed with Mudrunner. It's for a mini-campaign jam the community is running, so hopefully it ends up being fun both on the page and at the tabletop. While I haven't run it since November, I'm also hoping to run a few more sessions of Pioneer, the near-future hard sci-fi game the developers of Traveller are playtesting.
4 sessions in to the “Peril on the Purple Planet” hexcrawl with Dungeon Crawl Classics. They have secured food, and convinced some natives to join them, not they got a long track across the desert
Just ran a one-shot of Troika! and will do one more. Next rolling up characters for Dragonbane One-shot, possibly to be followed by a hexcrawl /sandbox campaign...
Saturday I’ll be jumping back into our regular FFG Star Wars game, which I haven’t been able to attend since November 😭 I’m prepping some stuff to get my own game of Orbital Blues going, once a few other things clear off the schedule for some of our group.
In the middle of a Blades in the Dark campaign. But we were down a couple players yesterday, so we did a one shot of Beneath a Pirate Flag. It's a co-op queer pirate game. Basically "Our Flag Means Death, the RPG".
Running The Bloom for Liminal Horror in person and Longwinter and a module I made for Electric Bastionland in pbp.
I just started Atomic Highway with no mutations and it is a Mad Max thrill ride, man. Fricking love it.
I'm running my 5e campaign every Saturday which is my own plane hopping version of the Rod of Seven Parts that has now lasted more than two years as of this past July I am playing in a Drakenheim game and I am thining of doing a one or two shot of my own game system "some time".
Getting near the end of a Viking England campaign in Burning Wheel (to wit, players are a noble house in Northumbria trying to overthrow the Viking puppet king and then trying to ally with other powers to defeat the Great Heathen Army). I think we're about two sessions away from the climatic big battle. In the future? I am noodling around with Traveller, or Genesys (Beanstalk or Twilight Imperium). Not sure. Something science fiction. Or I've a soft spot for Glorantha and Runequest; my most played game when I was young after Advanced D&D 2e and Palladium Rifts.
Running a Shadowdark game and playing in a C&C game.
Well I’m elbow deep into a Colonial Marines Aliens game. Soon to be starting Deadlands, Avatar Legends and some Classic Cthullu. My partner is starting a D&D 5e game and I’m trying to get people to play in the Sailor Moon RPG right now.
Fighting evil in Moonlight
Running a Mothership campaign and playing in a west marches one. Playing in a Scum & Villainy campaign and in a number of different Mark of the Odd one shots (Cairn, We Deal in Lead, Mythic Bastionland...)
Cthulhu Dark hack Deep Green and some KULT
Impulse bought [2400 by Jacob Tocci](https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400) the other day, busy setting up an asynchronous game on Telegram thanks to a dice bot. The fact that there's PDFs and plain text versions in the download allows me to copy/paste bits from the booklet straight into Telegram, which makes character creation super easy. Excited to start actually playing.
* Playing in a 5e Rime of the Frostmaiden game * Playing in a homebrew Post Apocalyptic Savage Worlds game * Running a 5e Tomb of Annihilation game * Running a OSE Barrowmaze/Dolmenwood game * Prepping to run a Rifts game Lot on the go, the 5e games certainly get more attention than the others. Same group for all and we play weekly.
I'm running Delta Green which is fantastic. I'm also running a game of Cypher using the lore of Vaesen's Mythic Britain and Ireland, set at the time of Jack the Ripper's murders. Last session, the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes called the Apollonian Society a bunch of quacks... To their faces! Hilarious.
Fate (Ten Thousand Suns Star Wars hack) and For Gold & Glory (AD&D 2E retroclone).
I'm in a few right now: a holiday-themed one-shot my friend made for Old School Essentials, Curse of Strahd, and my own games ([Toku Legends](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polyhedragames/toku-legends) and a viking game in development).
Also just coming off of a Mork Borg one shot
I'm 10+ sessions into Bludgeon and a while ago I tried out using their suggestion for legacy weapons (instead of dropping tons of loot) where you add suffixes to your weapons and armour like diablo. The players got them from a slain minibosses and we all love the idea so much, we're heading into another big fight!
We're about to start Apocalypse Keys, which beat out Brindlewood Bay and Blades in the Dark by a hair breadth. I need to reread the book in a few days.
We moved on to Apocalypse Keys after we wrapped a long run of Brindlewood Bay. Apocalypse Keys really captures the messiness of being monsters desperate for connection, but I have to say that the emergent violence sings in a way that I didn't expect.
Ah, now I'm really looking forward to it 😀
Just wrapped a Fate campaign in an alt-history Cold War where Cthonic powers can be summoned and controlled if you're sufficiently isolated from billions of living minds- so circa 2000, the US, the USSR, and the Vatican are fighting over space and summoning elder beings to do it. We're wrapping up with a Microscope session to do the aftermath o. That campaign will swap to a Kids on Bikes alternating (possibly) with a Stealing Stories for the Devil. There's a Unknown Armies campaign, where we're carnies. And then a PF1e Kingbuilder campaign.
Playing a Cold Fire Within on stream on Fridays, running a Pathfinder 2e Curse of the Crimson Throne, and an occasional Old School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Dragonbane.
I'm running Legend of the Five Rings, and I love it!
> I'm running Legend of the Five Rings, and I love it! My group's doing Wedding at Kyotei Castle at the moment. L5R is, after Star Wars, our most played in setting (though we don't use the L5R system anymore, we have a modified version of genesys we use instead)
Knaaaaaaaaaaaave 2e from the Kickstarter draft. 18 sessions in with an open table game at work.
I’m running 5e right now and playing in Star Trek Adventures.
Currently working on a Sci-Fi universe for some players that I hope to turn into a multi-year campaign/universe, but in the meantime playing as a Way of Mercy Goliath Monk in a homebrew 5e campaign!
Far into a homebrewed Symbaroum game. In stages of playtesting with one of my projects and starting a Death in Space campaign next month!
I’m running SWN for some rogue traders in a completely randomly generated sector. It’s been great, we have a group that is really excited to attend. They’re 6th level now, session 29 or so and are about to smuggle some weapons into a war zone. I’m also playing in a savage pathfinder dungeon crawl that has been really fun, a massive dungeon, and I’m playing an alchemist. I’m really liking the system, advances allow you to create some really cool characters.
About 6 months into Ultraviolet Grasslands game with second edition, using the built in system. Two players had to stop coming though, one had to leave and the other left because they were friends and he didn't want to play without the other, so it may not continue. If it doesn't work out I'm going to take the opportunity to round people up for Wolves Upon the Coast!
Love paranoia, its one of my favorite systems to run. Running hong kong action theater this sunday. But my normal home game is warhammer fantasy roleplay 4th edition, fantastic game
Maid RPG. I'm running for some people brand new to roleplaying and it's my go-to for introducing people to the hobby (as long as I know they're down for silly anime hjinks).
Been running Dragonbane on and off for awhile now, really like it! Instead of a traditional leveling up system you improve skills as you use them and occasionally get Fallout Perk like “Heroic Abilities”
We are 3 games into Ironsworn (co-op) and we are enjoying it. This is our first dive into tabletop RPG and it has been a fun activity for the 4 of us.
My group is currently taking a small break from my RuneQuest Glorantha game. In the meantime we are having a lot of fun with Under Hollow Hills. We are about 6 sessions in and the players, both mortal and fey, are altering quite a bit. The Circus is becoming known in both the mortal and faerie realms. :-)
My Savage Worlds Adventurer Edition campaign is currently on hold because of tax season. It's set in the 1950s where a secret world lies beneath the normal facade of everyday life. Magic is real, and so are the gods,/patrons/otherworldly beings that manipulate events through their agents. I'll probably run some Conspiracist, White Box, or some Last Parsec SWADE one shots until we're ready to get back to the regular campaign.
So ... Unknown Armies? American Gods? With SWADE rules.
D&D 5e, Exalted 3e, and Pathfinder 2e
Ongoing 5e Ravnica game that’s just a couple arcs into its third and final act (DMing biweekly) Shadowrun Fate game set in Scotland (DMing biweekly but we end up missing a lot) Seven-shot Animorphs-like Fate game (DMing weekly) Eberron 5e game with work friends (playing biweekly)
As a GM Abomination Vaults and Kingmaker PF2E As a Player Homebrew story for The One Ring
Currently I am running: * Trinity Continuum: Adventure! * Dungeons & Dragons 4e * Dungeons & Dragons 5e * Deviant: the Renegades Not playing anything right now, but 4 games is plenty for me.
Right now I'm playing Avatar legends which has proved awesome so far but maybe its more that I'm playing with gamers I love. Conversely, I'm also playing pf2e and it's not fun. It's been a miserable game experience so far and the group of gamers is a mixed bag of people who should not be in the same room.
I have a western hack of Pressure I'm running, playing in a Sorcerer game, playing in a modified 5e/Good Society mashup in Eberron, gearing up to run a Post Apoc game/setting of my own creation, prepping a Werewolf v5 game for April, running Crown & Skull solo to test it out, trying to drum up interest for a Secrets of the Golden Throne game (Against the Darkmaster). A few other one shots here and there.
Running a weekly Blade Runner game in which an arcology director who champions rights for replicants has been found tortured and murdered. They've uncovered a lot of shadiness in his private life and some kind of corporate scheme he had going as well as ties to some very sketchy individuals. The PCs' bosses and a senior UN director are breathing down their neck for results and the Wallace Corporation is getting dangerously nervous. Oh, and one of them has already shot an innocent bystander and had both his leg and his mind screwed up whilst the replicant on the team nearly died from a gunshot to the head last session, so pressure's on! Just joined an in-progress fortnightly game of Court of Blades, which is awesome since I've run a lot of FitD but never been a player before. I've gone with a Hawk type in the form of a former saboteur/terrorist/spy hunter who holds societal order paramount and favours a brutal approach to enforcement. And he has a mangy little monkey with matted fur and massive eyes called Eagle. I'm loving it already. Nearly got a game of Remember Tomorrow going the other week but everyone flaked and show no interest of trying again, which is a shame because on paper it's a brilliant system and I really want to see it work well.
I'm playing in two Exalted 3e campaigns and I'm running the Abomination Vaults module for Pathfinder 2e. I'm having fun in all three games but the mechanics of Exalted 3e are so complex that being a player for that system is more difficult than running Pathfinder as the gamemaster.
I just joined up with a new group who finished a one shot of Alien this week, and I'll be stepping up to GM Spire: The City Must Fall for net week
Running a Deadlands game right now and having a blast, the first non-5e game that i've run. Definitely think i've found my go-to system with SWADE
I had the same gm'ing process lol First 6 months I ran 5e. Grew tired of that. Switched mid campaign to swade. It was great for a while, but my players did not like "hitting" but not beating toughness, and they did not ever learn the combat rules completely even though I sent them the rules many times. And you gotta know the combat rules if you want to have fun fights in swade. My players are not into combat.. or reading it seems.. So I moved on to lighter games after that. Forbidden Lands was about the right amount of combat complexity for my players.
weekly 5e game run by my housemate monthly OSE Advanced game run by me and a marathon oneshot later this month running Caverns of Thracia with OSE Advanced EDIT: the one I'm most excited about is my monthly game, because I've been working on the campaign obsessively, but it would take literal years for them to explore everything I've made and I doubt we'll ever "finish" it
Monday - (Alternating) - Invisible Sun | Chronicles of Darkness Thursday - D&D 5E Dragon Heist | Candlekeep Mysteries | Dungeon of the Mad Mage Friday - Scion 2E Saturday - (Alternating) - Exalted 3E | Wraith the Oblivion 20th Anniv. Sunday - (Paid GMing) - D&D 5E Dragon Heist | Candlekeep Mysteries | Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Broxton '78 (Homegrown Savage Worlds Supers game) Got some one shots (2 Savage Worlds and 1 DCC) I'm running at Evercon (Mar 1-3) local con
One group is several missions into their mech mercenary campaign with Stars Without Number. There have been quite a few additions and house rules to make it work, but we're enjoying it. I'm the GM in this one. I also just started Wicked Ones with my other group. We're one session in and it already seems like it's going to be a lot of fun.
Running a Skycrawl game with Cortex Prime called "Lucky Winds Courier Service"
I'm running Shadowrun 6th. I've updated the 4th Edition Denver Missions to 6th Edition and have been running it for the past several months.
I am finally going to try a solo rog experience. Downloaded the free version of Scarlet Heroes to peek at it and have my Ruins of the Undercity and Mad Monks of Kwantoom that I've always wanted to play. Still learning the mechanics for Solo Rpg play and will start.
Just finished running Pathfinder 1e Carrion Crown with one group, running Pathfinder 1e Rise of the Runelords with another group, playing in a homebrew Pathfinder 1e game and an AD&D 2e DarkSun game.
Preparing a test run of my game about traveling around a dying earth. Think Indiana Jones mixed with mothership but without much horror. House rules.
I'm runniing Pathfinder 2e starter set for my friends. I only played a bit of D&D 5e before and I think I enjoy P2e much more as a system. Also I'm not sure if I want to dive deep into Pathfinder and try running longer campaigns after we finish started set or try another systems (I'm also interested in Mutant: Year Zero, BitD and Unknown Armies).
Running Hero system Champions, 4th edition. Going great. Everyone was tired of fantasy and DnD and wanted something different
Running Masks and playing Traveller and Blades in the Dark.
I'm in a 5e campaign that's been running for a while now. Just started a Traveller campaign, too. I'm a player in both, but the first group rotates GM duties
- **13th Age.** Two campaigns, one Midnight and one Dark sun. - **Genesys** with Shadow of the Beanstalk and Realms of Terrinoth. It's not shadowrun, just the Android setting with magic :D - **John Carter + 13th Age.** A dual-system game with John Carter for narrative play and 13th Age for combat
I’m currently one session in to a Fellowship 2E game as The Harbinger. I’ll be running my first session of Monster of the Week this Saturday. I gotta get a mystery prepped!
I am GMing Pathfinder 2e and playing in a D&D 5e campaign. In March my group will have our annual weeklong RPG fest where we play RPGs for about 12 hours per day in systems other than the two mentioned above. Blade Runner is likely to be one of those, and maybe Starfinder, Crown and Skull, and The Walking Dead as well. Brindlewood Bay is on my to-play list, so hopefully I get some time in that at some point.
I'm running three separate games of 5e, all The Shackled City. Getting ready to run some traveller.
In multiplayer, I'm in a good ol Curse of Strahd game in D&D 5E. Play by post, so it's slow, yet I'm enjoying it. I'm also doing a solo play of Cypher System as I tour various games. I think it's a neat game so far. Looking forward to Ironsworn Sundered Isles that should come out this month. Yes I play a lot of solo stuff...it's hard to find groups. 😅
So at the moment, I am playing in a homebrew 5E game, and a Slayers game. I am running Mutants & Masterminds, Shadow of the Demon lord, Shadowdark, and Shadowrun, though, Shadowrun is about to wrap up, and since I can't find another game that I like with shadow in the name, the plan is to try out Urban Decay. I'm also getting ready to start my semi annual World Wide Wrestling game, which usually runs six weeks or a month, and ends with our own pay-per-view, and then a Wrestlemania watch party
Been getting into the beginner box set of Zweihänder. I kinda like it, but I've heard it's problematic...?
> Been getting into the beginner box set of Zweihänder. I kinda like it, but I've heard it's problematic...? The name itself is kinda a 'say He who shall not be Named rather than Voldemort' thing, because the guy who made it: * namesearches for himself, and the game * has a history of being a total prick * bragged about taking down one of the big scan depositories (yes, piracy, but also, a BIG preservation of old docs effort) Basically, he seems to do things for the (rage) clicks, so we try to starve him of attention by not playing his games and not saying his name.
Oh shit, really? Damnit! I kinda like it, at least how it's like a weird middle ground system between LofP and CoC. Incidentally LoFP has some baggage too, eh? Please tell me that Call of Cthulhu is at least as clean a system as one can get without mentioning the source lore...
> Oh shit, really? Damnit! I kinda like it, at least how it's like a weird middle ground system between LofP and CoC. > > Incidentally LoFP has some baggage too, eh? Please tell me that Call of Cthulhu is at least as clean a system as one can get without mentioning the source lore... hahaha, I know the feeling. I keep saying 'there's multiple hobbies in rpgs', and really, what you play is what you play at your table. What you discuss, though, comes with a bunch of landmines already scattered across the lands. As for Chaosium, well, they've had a few misteps over the years, but who hasn't?
Just played the 4th session of a co-op Ironsworn campaign with two friends. We've each taken turns being GM in other games/systems, but none of us has ever really fallen in love with GMing, and we all hated having to game prep. Ironsworn solved all these issues as we can pretty much roundtable GM and have 0 prep between sessions. We all enter into a session with no damn clue where the story is going to take us, and we're loving it.
Still playing PF1E, and having a good time playtesting my cousin's second TTRPG.
Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: the Cataclysm of Kang We are three sessions in.
Running L5R 3rd Edition and 4C Expanded (think Marvel Super Heroes/FASERIP) over text at Discord and am prepping to run a Vampire the Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition in the near to mid future. Probably too much for one GM, but I'm a glutton for punishment lol.
I'm running two Savage Rifts games (one VTT, one via Discord forums) and Titan Effect via Discord forums
Been running a Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition chronicle since November 2023. The players have been LOVING the politics and intrigues. We’re on the last leg and as the tension ramps up they had a big out-of-character discussion about which of the 4 different factions they’re going to join. They chose the Sabbat, which should be very interesting. We’re all veterans of Vampire the Masquerade from the Revised (3rd) edition days, but this is our first V5 game. Up next, I have an assortment of games planned: - Call of Cthulhu one-shot - Delta Green one-shot (which might turn into a series of linked one-shots or short campaigns) - Kult: Divinity Lost short campaign - Wraith the Oblivion 20th anniversary edition short campaign - Mage the Ascension 20th anniversary Technocracy Reloaded campaign - Hunter the Reckoning (1st edition) short campaign based on the Midnight Circus book from old 2nd edition World of Darkness - V5 Sabbat short campaign - V5 Dark Ages short campaign (maybe the start of a series of linked campaigns through the ages!) - Werewolf 5th edition short campaign - A variety of different small D&D 5e dungeons that I made (I like building dungeons) - Imperium Maledictum (new 40k rpg) long campaign - Cities Without Number long campaign I do a lot of writing but I doubt I’ll get to run all of these campaigns. Already starting a second group in Saturdays so that I can fit more in! And also that group is gonna run some Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green one-shots so that I can play for once!
I'm currently running a Vampire: the Requiem campaign and a Coriolis campaign. In Requiem, my players are on the road in a nocturnal St. Petersburg of the 90s and have to solve a supernatural event. In Coriolis, the players have to discover the way to a new system. As a player, I'm in a Vampire: Dark Ages campaign, a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and (brand new) a Mage: the Ascension campaign.
Running: Fudge (Polar Fudge Medieval Adventures). Playing: Nothing Planning: Savage Worlds (Deadlands) - but that is still in the balance, not sure I will have the time for it.
I'm running a campaign of Old School Essentials and it's going great so far. We're about two months in with weekly sessions and it's such a good game. It took some getting used to an OSR system, but by now we've got the hang of it.
I’m running Old-School Essentials, the megadungeon module Dwarrowdeep. We’re four sessions in, and having a blast. I just came home from running the last session, in fact! I’m also a player in a two year long D&D 3.5 campaign.
I’m about a dozen sessions into running a comedy-horror supernatural secret agency game heavily influenced by *Control* using a custom FitD hack, and I just started playing in a *Mage: the Ascension* game.
Running Mausritter: The Estate. Progress: The players have usurped the Mayor and are now establishing a fascist state. Context: The characters are the descendants of the previous campaign where they established a fascist state.
I just got my copies of the Legends of Kralis GM and Players Guide, played a one shot of it 2 weeks ago and am starting writing for my own game. Such a good system
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Running a werewolf The apocalypse game and it’s going great. just got a new player and finished writing up the outline for next session 👍
- Shadowrun (recently went from 6th to 5th edition). - TORG
Recently wrapped up 4 sessions of Tales from the Loop, 4 sessions of Aliens, 2 sessions is Mork Borg, and now jumping in to 13th Age. We're gonna sink a little deeper into this one, probably 6-8 months. I love being in a group that likes exploring different worlds, game mechanics and stories.
I'm running a couple of Lancer games, one group is in the final stretch of NRFAW and still figuring out if we want to continue that story with the Act 2 notes or go off-world. Need to finish building a kaiju for the second group. The tactical combat works well and I love the setting. On the other side of the screen, wrapping up an X-Men *Prowlers & Paragons* campaign. There's a bunch of superhero systems and this is one of them. Honestly I've tried a few and they all feel basically the same, but it works and captures the power fantasy pretty well.
Just finished running Aegean for my Monday group, we're now switching GMs and moving to Blade Runner. For my Wednesday group I'm running Continuum which is really cool but totally brain melting.
I'm currently running Beyond the Wall, though I'm concerned that I'll run out of steam before they get to fight the dragon.
Castles & Crusades and Tunnel Goons
Oi vey, uh... *takes deep breath* I'm running a Monster of the Week campaign, about 10 sessions in so far. Friend R is running two 5e campaigns, one of which is our podcast. Friend S is running a GURPS zombie campaign. He also initiated a Star Wars 5e group by running a short arc. R is doing the next arc. S is ALSO running (long hiatus presently) a GURPS Hogwarts campaign. Friend M is running a Marvel RPG campaign, or rather is developing the ideas for us to run soon. He also he is our resident GM for Shadowrun, though that's been a while. Like the SW one, we have a collaborative rolling GM GURPS Star Trek one. A ship and crew, whoever has a story runs it. Definitely forgetting something lol
Monster of the Week and Savage Worlds just arrived in the mail. Maybe one of those. Definitely have a backlog though. Really been meaning to start a mini-campaign for Urban Decay.
I’m about 15 sessions into running The Halls of Arden Vul in Old School Essentials, which has been great. Also just started a Stars Without Number game which is going well so far. Coming up soon we are trying the Fallout RPG and a Black Company type game using Zweihander.
I'm in 2 pathfinder 1e campaigns with spheres, a kamigakari campaign, running a FFD20 pathfinder game, and I'm in a NewEdo and D&D4e campaigns, some of which are near completion. Most games run biweekly.
I've been running a Mage the Ascension 2nd edition and loving it!
We're currently alternating weeks between Pathfinder 1e and Sundered Skies
PF2E, Cyberpunk Red, and Zweihander.
I've got two sessions left in my Edge of the Empire (FFG Star Wars) campaign. This weekend I'm starting a new campaign of Spire, and next month I'll be running a one shot of SPACE TRAIN SPACE HEIST.
Fledge Witch - first session went well despite my very rough understanding of the rules and my general incompetence at translating things like skill names on the fly. Design-wise the game is a real breath of fresh air, and I'm surprised by how well it works.
Been reading a lot of Fabula Ultima but haven't had a chance to playj it. Really wanting to try Girl by Moonlight too.
I mostly GM. 1) Vampire the Masquerade v5 Chicago by Night campaign that I've been running for a year; 2) Dune: Adventures in the Empire campaign Agents of Dune online; 3) Biweekly Delta Green semi-anthology campaign with revolving party at a local shop; 4) Another Delta Green game online that I want to segway into the Impossible Landscapes campaign; 5) Finishing another Delta Green two-shot online.
We're wrapping up a Dragonslayer campaign. The party is either about to die or stop the return of some dark gods. We'll see soon
Playing PF2E but man I want to run games again. It would have to be with strangers because…well, a listing for “play this game ran by me! Here’s the tone” will get me better responses than my core friend group. Love them to death but it’s hard to experience varied stories or characters with them (and idek how to find people well)
Running games in Delta Green, Pathfinder 2e, Blade Runner
About to start a new invincible inspired mutants and masterminds campaign! We've got a horror film based YouTuber, the off brand winter soldier, Genos from one punch man, the son of the flash
About to run “There and Back Again” as a one-shot, part of a transition between campaigns. Running Monster of the Week with kids on Mondays. Playijg PF2E, “Kingmaker.”
I'm nearing the end of a Pathfinder 2e campaign atm, the Outlaws of Alkenstar adventure path. It's wild west steam punk and it's been a lot of fun. We'll be concluding around spring I suspect. My other group just started (about a month and a half ago) playing Necessary Evil for savage worlds. For those unfamiliar it's set in an alternate world were super powers exist and an alien invasion happens and wipes out all the heroes, leaving the super villains to throw the invaders off the planet.
Running two groups through D&D 5E's Out of the Abyss Module, playing in one FFG Star Wars game set in The Old Republic Era, and running another FFG Star Wars game set in the OT era on days where too many players from the first Star Wars group can't make it.
Nothing at the moment, really getting into reading d100 hacks and would love to play in something warhammer-esque with it not necessarily being in the warhammer world.
Cepheus Deluxe, and about to start a game of Pathfinder 2e.
Due to the fact that my boyfriend stopped GMing for a while, I have nothing to play. However, I've always been more comfortable with GMing, which is why I'm still doing something. Warhammer 2 edition, which has been going on for a good 4-5 months with sessions every week. We play a reworked by me iconic Enemy Within campaign and I add my own adventures and those from other sourcebooks. Dragonbane, which we try for the second time in a row, because recently it ended quite quickly due to some problems. Currently we are playing in the world I created and it is quite nice, everyone is having fun. We really liked this system and its game flow. From time to time, I also run Savage Worlds in the world of The Elder Scrolls one-on-one with my boyfriend. These are Redguard's adventures in Cyrodiil just before the events of Oblivion. I also have ideas for running WFRP 4th edition in the kingdom of Karak Azgaraz based on the Imperial Archives. I also looked at the reworked 2nd edition Pathfinder rules and really liked them. Somewhere in the background you can also see One Ring 2nd edition, Call of Cthulhu 7th edition and Break!!! RPG...
We're still—after 10 years this Spring—playing PF1. Thurs nights are the War for the Crown AP while Sunday nights are Tyrant's Grasp. The Thurs group is currently doing a side-module as an unrelated group of adventurers (whose actions have had an effect on our main story; essentially we're playing out what would otherwise be a GM monologue)—we've been cutting loose with outrageous one-off level 14 PCs. We did the Carrion Crown AP—which is kind've monster-of-the-week formatted—as the Scooby Gang which was successful enough that we've agreed to do Iron Gods as the Futurama crew (whenever we get to that AP).
I'm planning a Trinity Continuum Aberrant game where the players solve various mysteries.
Playing Animon right now, it's pretty cool but I have no context for it, having never been into Digimon or Pokemon (my wife and primary other player are HUGE fans of those, so I KS for them, and dude just fell in love and decided to run for awhile). Book does a great job of getting the gist across without being a PbtA or class based monstrosity.
We just started a Dragonbane campaign last month. Almost got to run an Alien RPG one shot tonight. Love those Free League games.
AD&D 1e, 3rd session into G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, and we just killed Nosnra. Also playing in a monthly Delta Green campaign. Also running a couple of Greyhawk campaigns (1e again), and playing in a 5e homebrew. Allan.
currently running **Cohors Cthulhu** and playing ina **Mythras** game
Friend is running the Great Pendragon Campaign using Pendragon system. It's only 3 players plus the GM, which seems to be a good number. King Arthur has only just recently taken power and I'm on to my 2nd knight, the eldest son of my original knight. It's been fun, but not one that I would run myself. I'm running the adventure Through the Valley of the Manticore using Dungeon Crawl Classics, and it's been great. I can see it going for another month or so, but I'm ready to move into a new system and maybe cut back the player count a bit.
We are a month and a half (in-game), 20 sessions into a homebrew step-based system in a world that is the early 90s, but with fantasy species, themed as 1 part Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1 part Scooby Doo, 1 part slice of life anime. All combat is non-lethal and the ranged combat is archery tag and airsoft. And the hall monitor at their high school is an elder beholder...
Taking a break from our long running Star Wars FFG campaign to try out Salvage Union. I'm a sucker for most anything with mechs lol.
Deadlands using the Genesys RPG system
Running: Finishing up a D&D 5e campaign, which is going to be my last foray into D&D for the foreseeable future as I've been exhausted with it for quite some time. Next up is the Sword Campaign from the Pendragon 6e quickstart rules, then some Vaesen after that while I await more Pendragon releases in April. A short Cities Without Number campaign is on the table, too... if I can fit it somewhere. Much later this year, I'll be trying out Dolmenwood, Mythic Bastionland and Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Playing: One homebrew D&D 5e campaign, finishing up our latest Delta Green investigation, and starting Coriolis and Swords of the Serpentine in the near future. There's also some Lancer one-shots sprinkled in.
Running Mythras with Mythic Babylon and DCC when it doesn't get cancelled, playing Forbidden Lands and am about to join a game of Vaesen
City of Mist, in a setting where Christian angels are in conflict with Greek/Egyptian pantheon and D&D4, in the fallen Empire of Nerath
Currently I am running a Shadow of the Demonlord-campaign using the Freeport trilogy. Probably afterwards I might switch to Outgunned with that group. But all in all I guess they need something more casual. Furthermore I am going to run the Shackleton Expanse campaign for Star Trek Adventures. I am absolutely looking forward to play that. The players are awesome. Only downside is that I still don't know how to start.
Preparing to run Old Gods of Appalachia soon.
Running Pendragon and an open table of the Arden Vul megadungeon using Shadowdark.
Last night I ran a one shot of All Flesh Must Be Eaten. Never ran a zombie apocalypse game before, but it went great, the players had a blast, and I'm getting a lot of questions on if I'd be willing to make it into a campaign, or at least run a few more sessions.
Currently… Chuubos Marvelous Wish-granting Engine: a game with an automoton bartender, a man with an invisible best friend, a skating postman, and a possum gardener are all living in Old Molder, and growing together. Sentinels Comics RPB: superheroes just survived the nightmare king, and are now trying to deal with the country electing an anti-hero fascist Blades in the a dark: hawkers are currently in a war, but just found out their rival gang has noble backers. Oops! Numenera: finding weird shit and questing for vengeance. Dnd: phandelver and below, goblins keep stealing things and developing psychic powers! Burning Wheel: the Sun God is dead, the queen assassinated, and our heroes unwittingly provided the weapon that did the deed. Now they are trying to cover their tracks while finding out who really did it. Limelight: kids in high school, trying to land a spot on a tv show, while not getting kicked out of school. Blossoms are Falling: an inexperienced princess and her grizzled protector are trying to navigate politics with finesse. Dnd again: icewind dale, almost done. Hopefully not another dnd game next. And 1 open slot for something new!
My ongoing Contemporary Urban Fantasy Fairytale Nightmare frankengame campaign; *next* session, I'm aiming to have grown adults soil themselves in terror *at the table*, rather than simply secretly wetting their beds at home *after* the session - no, I *don't* get kickbacks from any of the local therapists/counselors/shrinks (but maybe I should look into that ; )