What Are you playing?

[The Game Guy]

Hi everyone,

I am curious to find out what everyone is playing and what everyone is running.

I am running:

Cyberpunk 2020

All Flesh Must be Eaten

I am playing:

Final Destination: Dead in the Water (Unisystem)

Shadowrun 4e

[SDF_II]

On Tuesdays I'm running a TORG 1.5 (R&E) game.

House rules:
-- Long Range Contradictions: Any effect that does not happen through direct physical contact will result in a LRC. So if you shoot a laser, slug thrower, or arrow in the LL, you'll make a LRC. This differs from the book, we like this better, it keeps reality very important and high power under some control. Our opinion.

-- Skill Based Combat: Jasyn came up with a way to solve the GJN that compensatied for the SZ/MB methods shortcomings. It plays VERY well, but any skill that is used, needs to be considered a Macro skill. Fire Combat, Energy Weapons, Melee Weapons...all of them. We've seen it first hand. Damn sword woman.

-- there is another, but I forget..it is hard to remember some of these.

The rest of the rules work very well.

I don't have time for other games...I've run TORG at Conventions, and have had 10 years total of Shatterzone campaigns (3 different groups, but the total time was 10 years). That is about it right now.

SDF II

[masque]

Right now I'm not playing anything, but I'm running a HARP Cyradon campaign. Been at this one a few months, ran a Star Wars game previously for about two years, splitting duties with one of my current players.

Oh, and if anyone asks, to me, there is only WEG Star Wars. As with the special editions and the prequels, I don't have any use for D20 Star Wars in any iteration.

[Kalzazz]

Running and playing, D6 Star Wars / New D6 mish mash, Earthdawn 1e and 2e mishmash, GURPS 3e and 4e mishmash

Playing only, DnD 3e, WW

[kellhound]

Preparing to start (restart?) a Traveller New Era campaign, and deciding on a modern setting for a D6 one.

[Liteft]

I'm currently playing in a Dark Ages Witchcraft/Armageddon game

I'm preparing to run a Magic heavy D6 fantasy game.

[Arbor_Productions]

Savage Worlds all the way. About 8 months into our Rippers/Deadlands campaign.

[Kansas Jim]

I am curious to find out what everyone is playing and what everyone is running.
Nothing and nothing. :(

I was briefly playing in a DC Heroes game back in May, but then the semester ended and three-quarters of the group either graduated, flunked out or otherwise left for the summer so the GM decided not to continue the game. Last time I talked to him he's thinking of trying to run something else during the fall semester if he can find enough new players, so maybe I'll be playing something again in a few months. Or I may try to run something, but I'll be in the same boat of having to find new players.

[Grimace]

For the first time in a couple 3-4 years, I'm playing games. And for the first time in a VERY long time, I'm not running the games I'm in...I'm actually a player.

I've been playing Legend of the Five Rings (non-d20 edition)

and just recently I started playing in a new group some Star Wars...D6 version!

[nerdron]

I am Gming DnD 4e and Star Wars D20. I am working on converting the [URL="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=96&parent=51[/URL] game I wrote for Final Sword into D6 Legends, and would like to run that in the near future.

[Lee Torres]

Last four things my group's been playing:

Winter 2006/Summer 2007: (running) D6 Legend homebrewed Pulp using setting elements of Exile Games Hollow Earth Expedition (we would have used Ubiquity but it was a sequel to an earlier D6 Legend Pulp campaign, and although the conversions would have been pretty trivial, I opted not to!)

Fall/Winter 2007: (playing & running) Mongoose - Traveller (playtesting)

Spring 2008: (running) Cubicle 7 - Doctor Who (playtesting)

Now: (playing & running) Mongoose - Traveller (now working on our very own Traveller Universe...)

[jasonga]

I'm not currently playing in anything (I was in an AD&D 2e game with my wife, but we dropped out a week or so ago due to player conflicts).

I'm currently running a Sunday campaign for my regular players (running WEG's Fires of Amatsumara, but using the EABA system), and a Tuesday night game for my wife (which is a cyberpunk style setting). I'm also running a PbEM game - Evernight, using Savage Worlds (and if anyone is interested in playing, drop me a line as I have a couple of openings).

I also manage to convince my regular players to do the occasional once-off to playtest things (the latest was my adventure contribution -Obliviscence (http://www.polgarusgames.com/downloads/Obliviscence_v1.pdf) - that I wrote for WoAdWriMo. The playtest ended up taking two Friday nights to complete, and again used the EABA rules).

Cheers,
Jason

[Havard]

I'm currently running a Savage Worlds game in the Blackmoor Setting. I'm playing in a nWoD Vampire: Requiem of Rome campaign.

We also have a few very sporadic campaigns using MasterBook and the occasional one-shots with the HeroWars system.

There's been no gaming at all during the summer though, but I think things will pick up in a few weeks. I am planning a few mini-campaigns for the fall too:

* One Savage World of Solomon Kane game. (Possibly just a one-shot)
* One In Nomine/Gangs of New York game (Just something Ive been thinking about these last few days)

Havard

[imported_Magman]

Haven't played anything for quite a while. Though I try and stay involved on the forums and buy any new source material.

[The Game Guy]

Haven't played anything for quite a while. Though I try and stay involved on the forums and buy any new source material.

You should try to get a forum game coming so that you can get some gaming in.

PBP games can be fun, or you can play a game via the chatroom

[imported_Magman]

Sounds like a good idea.

I am switching jobs soon and I do a lot of website/programming stuff in my spare time. So i will check out some and see if I find the time for any of them.

Man, I miss my days of being young with carefree days with no responsibility.

[Stormchild]

Every second monday I GM Torg, the other Mondays I am a player in Perry Rhodan (Midgard system). I am about to start an Earthdawn campaign as GM someday soon. And I try to run Torg on every Con in 100 km vicinity (next one is RatCon in Dortmund, Germany 22.8. - 24.8.). There are a lot of other games I played and GMed the last 20+ years (esp. Shadowrun, Shatterzone, Bloodshadows, Talislanta, Star Wars, Ars Magica, Deadlands, Stargate...)

House rules: there is only one I use right now (though there may be others we used so long that I think of them as being official): for any played card or Poss the player has to come up with a in-Game roleplay-explanation how he did it.

[Whill]

I'm not currently playing or running any games. The last campaign I played was D&D 3.5 (Eberron), because that's what my friends wanted to play at the time.

On the GM side, I've been developing my Star Wars D6, further revised and expanded version of the game at the same time as my smugglers-to-heroes campaign that takes place in the 2 years leading up to A New Hope.

If I play any games before my game is ready to run, then it would probably only be if I could get in on someone else's Star Wars D6 game.

[The Game Guy]

Sounds like a good idea.

I am switching jobs soon and I do a lot of website/programming stuff in my spare time. So i will check out some and see if I find the time for any of them.

Man, I miss my days of being young with carefree days with no responsibility.

Yep. In high school I used to play every day at lunch and on the weekends.

Had a snow day? I would go over to my friends and game and stay warm (we would of course take breaks to play in the snow).

Those were the days.

[BigJackBrass]

Much as I generally dislike having moved to a city, I have to admit that I get a lot more gaming done these days :D

I'm in the fortunate position of having to actually turn down games. Two a week is great, but I was in more than that at one point and inevitably something had to go. Currently my group plays on Monday and Thursday, the resulting mayhem being recorded for an Internet "actual play" site. Monday is usually a slightly larger group of players and generally a fairly mainstream RPG; Thursday tends to be fewer of us playing something slightly less common.

In the next week we should be completing the first segment of an AD&D campaign before handing over to a new GM - myself, most likely - for the next few sessions, along with a cyberpunk game using the Sorcerer rules. Once Sorcerer concludes the next one on the list is Hollow Earth Expedition, which I'm especially looking forward to as I'll actually be playing, rather than running, a pulp game for once.

We've recently played Empire of the Petal Throne, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. There are several things on the waiting list, D6 included (I've long fancied running a few sessions of Bloodshadows).

[Wes]

Playing:
DnD 3.5 campaign that started in the mid 80's as a 1E game
Torg
Aces and Eights

Running:
1E Adnd

[The Game Guy]

Right now my gaming has changed but it is still busy. Right now I am in the process of getting a local group together.

Gaming I am doing now:

Running:

All Flesh Must Be Eaten: Hell In Cradle Bay (I have 3 people on the waiting list and I may start a second game for the overflow)- In OpenRPG

Serenity: Beyond the Black- In OpenRPG

Playing:

Final Destination- Dead in the Water- Via Play by Post

All Flesh Must Be Eaten- Ground Zero (Via OpenRPG but the game is on hold).

I imagine that we my local group finally gets together that the online games will not be replaced and I will narrow down my gaming to only once a week (to prevent burnout and to give me time to do other things).

[pathfinderap]

Dude, AFMBE?, Sign me up, :D

[hellsreach]

Since I still don't have a local group together, I'm stuck playing most MMOs. Recently taken up the Warhammer: Age of Reckoning MMO and liking it.

[The Game Guy]

Since I still don't have a local group together, I'm stuck playing most MMOs. Recently taken up the Warhammer: Age of Reckoning MMO and liking it.

I know dude. But it looks like the group will be forming soon. I am doing everything I can to make it happen ;)

[The Game Guy]

Dude, AFMBE?, Sign me up, :D

Yeah All Flesh is great. I would run it here but I would imagine that if I created PBP forums we would probably want to keep it via the spirit of the site, and only run WEG games.

Have you ever used Openrpg? I might be running a second game.

[skeloric]

I've quit trying to play RPGs at all.
I'll wait until everyone hits 65 and actually has time to game.
(If they can afford to retire at 65, that is.)
I've only got 25 years to wait.

[hellsreach]

I've quit trying to play RPGs at all.
I'll wait until everyone hits 65 and actually has time to game.
(If they can afford to retire at 65, that is.)
I've only got 25 years to wait.

Save me a spot. I'll be there in 31 years.

[skeloric]

Save me a spot. I'll be there in 31 years.
No problem.

[The Game Guy]

I've quit trying to play RPGs at all.
I'll wait until everyone hits 65 and actually has time to game.
(If they can afford to retire at 65, that is.)
I've only got 25 years to wait.

Well hopefully people can afford to (as you point out). Because if not then you may screw yourself over with your own plan and still wont be gaming at 65.

At any point hold me a spot, I will be there in 29 years.

[pathfinderap]

Yeah All Flesh is great. I would run it here but I would imagine that if I created PBP forums we would probably want to keep it via the spirit of the site, and only run WEG games.

Have you ever used Openrpg? I might be running a second game.

Openrpg?, not yet,
If you get to do that other AFMBE game gimmie a link/call, I'll be there ;)

[The Game Guy]

Openrpg?, not yet,
If you get to do that other AFMBE game gimmie a link/call, I'll be there ;)

Openrpg is great. There are forums where you can find all types of different games.

http://www.openrpg.com/

On a side note: I opened up pbp post game forums here now. Feel free to run a game here.

[Kalzazz]

My friend just started a new 'Not exactly ED' ED game

For online play, I like using IRC

[skeloric]

Well hopefully people can afford to (as you point out). Because if not then you may screw yourself over with your own plan and still wont be gaming at 65.

Its not like i have an option now to game.
In a town of 100,000 there is ONE GAMING CLUB and its focus is on BOARDGAMES.
(Playing a boardgame every once in awhile can be fun, but it isn't an RPG.)

[The Game Guy]

My friend just started a new 'Not exactly ED' ED game

For online play, I like using IRC

IRC is good, and Openrpg is a good option as well. It has chat, maps, dice roller, etc.

Not to mention the Openrpg site has forums to find gamers looking for games and games looking for players.

I am currently running a couple of games using it right now.

[The Game Guy]

Its not like i have an option now to game.
In a town of 100,000 there is ONE GAMING CLUB and its focus is on BOARDGAMES.
(Playing a boardgame every once in awhile can be fun, but it isn't an RPG.)

You can't get them to try playing a role playing game at all?

[Kalzazz]

The OpenRPG program has always annoyed me, it seems to find new and interesting to stop working

[cheshire]

Running:
I'm currently running a D6 Fantasy campaign. I've been overhauling the magic system to make it more closely resemble the force power system from the old Star Wars rpg. So far, things have been going pretty well. We've only run Star Wars before this (and a little bit of d20 modern), so we're getting used to the D6 body points.

[The Game Guy]

The OpenRPG program has always annoyed me, it seems to find new and interesting to stop working

I have heard that from people. The newer version seems to be more steady.

[The Game Guy]

Now that I have Shatterzone thats another game I want to run

[skeloric]

You can't get them to try playing a role playing game at all?
Nobody has time even for a regular boardgame night, anymore.
I don't work due to medical issues and thus I sit at home all week doing nothing while everyone else works two (or three) jobs.
Local (and only) game shop closed, removing any chance of getting any sort of RPG game going.
And so I must wait 25 years and hope people can actually retire...

[pathfinderap]

Openrpg is great. There are forums where you can find all types of different games.

http://www.openrpg.com/

On a side note: I opened up pbp post game forums here now. Feel free to run a game here.

You know I am tempted, and if my time was more stable I'd no doubt be running a game here right now,

[The Game Guy]

Nobody has time even for a regular boardgame night, anymore.
I don't work due to medical issues and thus I sit at home all week doing nothing while everyone else works two (or three) jobs.
Local (and only) game shop closed, removing any chance of getting any sort of RPG game going.
And so I must wait 25 years and hope people can actually retire...

Have you tried looking online for gamers in your area? There may be gamers in your area that have one online looking for people, because like you they can't find other gamers because there isnt a local game shop around.

There are a few sites out there you can try. Nearby Gamers is one of those sites.

[The Game Guy]

You know I am tempted, and if my time was more stable I'd no doubt be running a game here right now,

I wish you would. Now that I have Star Wars D6 I am primed to play.

[pathfinderap]

I wish you would. Now that I have Star Wars D6 I am primed to play.


Yeah, I know, I was waiting for you to react, LOL

So it was worth the wait after all :D

[skeloric]

There are a few sites out there you can try. Nearby Gamers is one of those sites.
I've been a member for years.
I live in Rochester Mn and everyone else in in Minneapolis or St. Paul -- I'll give a hint, its 1 hour each way and it takes gas, lots of gas.
Thought about trying a 1 hour commute to game but I couldn't justify it.

[Stormchild]

I've been playing with a group in Cologne for three years. This is about 60 km away. 1 hour by slow train, 1/2 hour by fast train. With a reduction card it was only 3,75 ? for one way. But they changed the rules for that reduction card and now it would cost about 20 ?. So I can't afford it anymore. Still I have a ticket that allows to take trains to D?sseldorf and the Ruhr-Region after 19:00 without additional cost. So I still have the option to find gamers in a region with about 20 million people.

[The Game Guy]

Yeah, I know, I was waiting for you to react, LOL

So it was worth the wait after all :D

Ok, well you got the reaction. So go post a message and start a game! :)

[The Game Guy]

I've been a member for years.
I live in Rochester Mn and everyone else in in Minneapolis or St. Paul -- I'll give a hint, its 1 hour each way and it takes gas, lots of gas.
Thought about trying a 1 hour commute to game but I couldn't justify it.

Then maybe you should consider running or playing a game online. Openrpg is great and I have good luck with it.

[pathfinderap]

Ok, well you got the reaction. So go post a message and start a game! :)

Well pretty much everyone likes Star Wars 2nd Ed Rev, :D


Okay, if I get a Co-Gm (because my time is unstable, it wouldn't be right to make everyone wait if something happens at my end)
And the player, You are on!

Thinking, some time between 4th Ep, and 5th Ep (but could be placed before 4th Ep)

Civilian based, no rebels (at least not right away, if ever) crew of a YT-1300 light freighter going about their (mostly) legitimate busineses,

Better idea?, let me know,

[The Game Guy]

Well pretty much everyone likes Star Wars 2nd Ed Rev, :D


Okay, if I get a Co-Gm (because my time is unstable, it wouldn't be right to make everyone wait if something happens at my end)
And the player, You are on!

Thinking, some time between 4th Ep, and 5th Ep (but could be placed before 4th Ep)

Civilian based, no rebels (at least not right away, if ever) crew of a YT-1300 light freighter going about their (mostly) legitimate busineses,

Better idea?, let me know,

Actually between the 4th and 5th ep would be great. I have a great idea for a smuggler too.

Best bet now is to post an ad and see about getting interest.

[Stormchild]

During the clone wars between Episode II and III would also work quite well.

[Whill]

Well pretty much everyone likes Star Wars 2nd Ed Rev, :D


Okay, if I get a Co-Gm (because my time is unstable, it wouldn't be right to make everyone wait if something happens at my end)
And the player, You are on!

Thinking, some time between 4th Ep, and 5th Ep (but could be placed before 4th Ep)

Civilian based, no rebels (at least not right away, if ever) crew of a YT-1300 light freighter going about their (mostly) legitimate busineses,

Better idea?, let me know,

Mostly legitimate? What kind of fun is that? Maybe after we start we become involved in less than legitimate business? After all, that's where real the credits are. ;)

[pathfinderap]

Mostly legitimate? What kind of fun is that? Maybe after we start we become involved in less than legitimate business? After all, that's where real the credits are. ;)

Well its all up to the players to choose,
And you know how easy a legitimate plan can go south in the Empire....

:eek::D

[pathfinderap]

During the clone wars between Episode II and III would also work quite well.

That was my second option, but due to the degree of new rules to cover the Jedi powers etc, I thought it best to leave until later, a freighter crew is much easier on everyone and the fastest to get in to play,


But if this game does well watch this space for a Jedi....

[The Game Guy]

Well its all up to the players to choose,
And you know how easy a legitimate plan can go south in the Empire....

:eek::D

I want to be a simi-legit smuggler ;) I do some runs that are legit, others not so legit.

[pathfinderap]

I want to be a simi-legit smuggler ;) I do some runs that are legit, others not so legit.

Well the original idea was for the crew to work freelance for certain Corporations out on the rim, when they need to transport a person, data, or hardware to other systems in the area that are plagued with pirates and smugglers (who sometimes take part in pirating)

You would have been pirates and smugglers who have gone (er, semi?) straight, and now act as counter pirate vip delivery service,

[The Game Guy]

Well the original idea was for the crew to work freelance for certain Corporations out on the rim, when they need to transport a person, data, or hardware to other systems in the area that are plagued with pirates and smugglers (who sometimes take part in pirating)

You would have been pirates and smugglers who have gone (er, semi?) straight, and now act as counter pirate vip delivery service,

That works for me :)

[pathfinderap]

That works for me :)

Okay, if everyone else agrees with this premise thats where we will start the game,

[Whill]

Sounds cool!

[pathfinderap]

Sounds cool!

Okay, just need to see Grimace's reaction, if he wants to GM,
if its a go, we will start hammering out the details, and then we can start,

[Whill]

Do we have enough players to crew the ship?

[Cryonic]

HERO 5th Ed
Shadowrun 4E
Savage Worlds

and working on a Classic Deadlands campaign (though I think the group I'm in is just gonna poo-poo on it since it isn't HERO).

[pathfinderap]

Do we have enough players to crew the ship?

Seems so, but if we didn't I'd pad it out with NPC's

Sorted ;)

[The Game Guy]

HERO 5th Ed

I am a big fan of Hero but I ended up getting rid of all of my Hero/Champions stuff (4th and 5th edition) because I just could not find people to play it.

People see the rule books and then poo poo the system which is sad, because its a great game.

[The Game Guy]

Do we have enough players to crew the ship?

I think we do now

[Cryonic]

I am a big fan of Hero but I ended up getting rid of all of my Hero/Champions stuff (4th and 5th edition) because I just could not find people to play it.

People see the rule books and then poo poo the system which is sad, because its a great game.

Yeah, I'm only aware of two groups in my area (5th largest city in the US). It's possible there are others given that HERO books do sell at my FLGS. But I don't see any ads for people looking to add to their HERO group. I think there are at least 5 Shadowrun groups in this same city that all shop at my FLGS. The vast majority (probably >70%) are D&D (AD&D, 3rd/3.5 or 4th) with the next largest being nWoD groups.

D6 sells (1 book every 3 - 6 months I think), but even HERO outsells it on the shelves.

HERO is OK, but it is very time consuming to create, let alone vet characters. Far too many of our fights have either the PCs just getting stomped all over or just rolling over the NPCs like they weren't there with the difference being just a point or two in their defenses seeming to make the biggest change.

[The Game Guy]

Yeah, I'm only aware of two groups in my area (5th largest city in the US). It's possible there are others given that HERO books do sell at my FLGS. But I don't see any ads for people looking to add to their HERO group. I think there are at least 5 Shadowrun groups in this same city that all shop at my FLGS. The vast majority (probably >70%) are D&D (AD&D, 3rd/3.5 or 4th) with the next largest being nWoD groups.

It's too bad really. I really love the Hero System. Yes, it is complicated but once you learn it it's not a bad system.

I wish more people would play it because when I do play the Hero system I have a lot of fun.

[skeloric]

It's too bad really. I really love the Hero System. Yes, it is complicated but once you learn it it's not a bad system.

I wish more people would play it because when I do play the Hero system I have a lot of fun.
I own Fantasy Hero, Horror Hero, Ninja Hero and the generic Hero System book as well as Champions in 3-D.
Love the books but the system needs a computer program to make characters.
Sort of GURPS with added unnecessary complexity.
But they are fun to look through, though.

[Cryonic]

I own Fantasy Hero, Horror Hero, Ninja Hero and the generic Hero System book as well as Champions in 3-D.
Love the books but the system needs a computer program to make characters.
Sort of GURPS with added unnecessary complexity.
But they are fun to look through, though.

Champions/HERO predates GURPS...

[skeloric]

Champions/HERO predates GURPS...
It still can be GURPS with added unnecessary complexity.

[Kalzazz]

I just really discovered CP2020 and will be playing in a game of that

[skeloric]

I just really discovered CP2020 and will be playing in a game of that
I was gifted with a copy that I have yet to open.
Along with about 6 other RPG books from awhile ago now.
A friend out of the country and left me his collection.

[pathfinderap]

I may run a Serenity game some day (lol :rolleyes:)

Imagine Firefly meets A- Team,

Vets after the civil war wander the verse trouble shooting for hire

theme track is "the firetruck" from the Evolution CD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXZIZqNyfA

[The Game Guy]

I just really discovered CP2020 and will be playing in a game of that

Love Cyberpunk 2020. I have the PDF of the core book which is a bummer to try to run a game with.

If I could pick up the corebook in print I would be happy. I am going to keep looking around.