And the second:

Play-by-Post: Return to the Tomb of Horrors

Online, I am running the 2nd edition boxed set adventure Return to the Tomb of Horrors (which included the 1e classic) adapted to 3.5 rules. I expect a high turnover rate, but interest has been very good. I'm hoping the more puzzle-and-investigative nature of the adventure will keep a good flow going, whereas combats in PbP format often run very slow.

Quote from: Caesar SlaadGOOD STUFF

Seriously :cool:

Regards,
David R

Yesterday I ran the first alpha of In Harm's Way:Aces in Spades, the PCs being British RFC pilots in 1915, flying FE.2 fighter bombers against the German Fokker Eindeckers. One of the PCs got a date with two French girls while another got stinking drunk at a club. They went wandering through the French fields, and captured a German pilot who had crash-landed his Eindecker. He set it on fire to protect the interrupter gear, but one of the PCs smothered the fire with dirt while another plugged the hole in the gas tank with grass. They went up for a training flight and engaged in mock combat - one pilot hung over - with some of the most dizzying acrobatics you could imagine - Hammerhead stall and spin, yoyos, Immelmans, Split Ss, a hair-breadth escape from a crash, even a Vertical 8! The aerial combat system worked exactly like I pictured it. When they landed, one kissed the ground while another lay flat on his back and moaned, covered with his own vomit - yeah, the hungover guy!

-clash

I'm playing in two D&D 3.5 games. I DM one, and am a PC in the other. It's the same guys in both games, and we alternate irregularly between one and the other.

The game I DM is set in a fantasy equivalent of the early 16th century, where a new continent has just been discovered. The PCs are freebooters, scoundrels and revenge-seekers out to slay their enemies, make lots of money, and explore the new world. Right now, they're in a lost city searching for a necromancer who apprenticed under one of the PC's brothers. The necromancer is the only one who knows the PC's brother's location, and the PCs want to kill him and get the info.

The other game is more complex. It's actually part of a series of campaigns we've been running for about three years, off and on, with various DMs and PCs. This is the last campaign in the series, and it's set in an alternate reality from the rest of the campaigns. Summarising it is a bit hard, but basically, the old reality was destroyed by Cthulu's ghost (we killed Cthulu in the second campaign, but he came back) and one of his minions. We're trying to figure out OOC if it's the same deal here or not, and we're not yet sure.

Both are tons of fun.

Caeser Slaad, I love that Mercator projection of your world.  And the basic concept of "a place where I can set these adventures" is exactly what I want out of a D&D campaign world.

:highfive:

After more than half a year of burnout (during which I played, but didn't DM), I am gearing up for a new campaign. It builds on the themes of the Wilderlands and uses the campaign hexagon system style presentation, but has a much stronger sword&sorcery/weird fantasy direction. No elves, dwarves and goblins are involved, but I plan to use the whole range of slimes, molds, and assorted strange critters out of EGG's imagination (and some of my own). What I am shooting for is a game recognisable enough as D&D, but with enough changes to feel "off" a bit. Here is a thread wherein I discuss some of the things I wish to achieve, post some deity writeups and proceed to pick up a potential player in the process!

Since we can only play bi-weekly, I am planning to speed up level advancement by adopting the ale and whores rule - you get XP from treasure, but only after you have squandered it. Oh yeah, and ability scores will be rolled randomly, in order. Granted, players can choose between two series, but still, a step in the right direction!

I'm running a Vampire: the Requiem game. With a lot of people new to the hobby or who are tired of D&D 3.x. and didn't know other games and rulesets existed.

The PC's started as an Invictus Inner Circle, in the middle of 1950's Las Vegas. They're trying to ascend a Prince in the middle of Carthian Control and a growing Vampire Population. An open assassination has left the Vegas Kindred on edge, and the PC's questioning their allegiances. They're in the middle of searching the sewers for the Nosferatu ringleader (the Nosferatu in my game have a clan identity as they are mostly segregated from greater Kindred society and have no voting rights under the current Carthian Law)

Just started my Dresden Files game using Risus.
Set in London, the PC's have been hired by the mysterious Mr.Fawkes to steal a painting from the Piazza Scarletti Casino in London's west end.

The Witch wants the painting for herself, the Werewolf just wants his cut from the job, the Paladin (Invested with a measure of Archangel Gabriel's wrath) wants to bestow judgement upon Mr.Fawkes and the Einherjar (one of Odin's champions, a WWII marine commando who's back to prevent Ragnarok happening early) who wants to destroy the painting.

So that coupled with gerowing certainty that the current owners are Red Court vampires should make this an interesting proposition.

We are into the second hour of my 24 & Crisis Is Our Brand inspired Over The Edge campaign - The Day Of Living Dangerously

Two pcs are in the control room trying to calm down an irate student union organizer with org crime links.

One pc is hiding out in an abandoned factory after being chased there by sinister policemen (who were part of her security detail)

Another pc is trying to negotiate a settlement between farmers and a big multinational corp all the while keeping an eye out on her partner (another pc), whose trying to calm down victims of what they think is corporate sabotage - which they did not authorize.

The last two pcs are meeting a source who could lead them to the leak, whose passing info to a determined journo out to get them & ruin the next day's election...

Regards,
David R

I'm currently GMing a Burning Wheel game: The Fall of Turmhoch. It's a fantasy foreign legion saves the world kind of a campaign. The characters are all 5 lifepath movers and shakers. The current situation involves our ranger and reluctant warrior scouting the northern wastelands to try and determine the nature of the threat to their world, while our oathbreaking dwarven prince travels the soft underbelly of the southlands to try and drum up support for the outnumbered garrison of Turmhoch.

If you're curious about how a BW game plays out, you can check our AP thread here
I apologize in advance for the bastardization of any german words you might encounter.

Well... I joined a long running, but player poor D&D campaign, where my dual flail weilding mercenary occasionally feels drastically underpowered next to the Elven Wonder Twins (a Conjuror and Cleric respectively), but heck, it's fun in it's own way, and apparently my wait and see playing style is miles ahead of the couple I replaced (kill it and take it's stuff... what do you mean begger's don't have any stuff? ok, gimme the xp then!).  For a guy with no real armor I have an obscene AC.. and given the fragility of the wonder twins and the unpredictability of the Unicorn riding earth gensai (she of the I threaten small children to their parents because the parents are evil...)... well...


Sadly they only play about once a month, though I'm thinking that I might have to form a SR4 group with one of the Elven Wonder Twins, since we both like the game.

THIS friday (a week and a half late....grrr...) I hope to run the first session of my Runequest game, and thus actually report on how it's going.

Quote from: Spike...where my dual flail weilding mercenary...

How do you dual-weild flails, wouldn't they get tangled up?
Or does your character have very long arms and goes in windmilling frantically like a Chinook in a barrel roll?

Due to an XMas hiatus, and this Sundays game being cancelled at the last minute (I was literally halfway there, and if I hadnt been delayed by the next door neighbour for 15 mins as I left my house, I'd have arrived on the GMs doorstep), I havent tabletop gamed since mid-November.
The GM is currently PBeMing us for a bit, which might prove troublesome later as I'm a much, much better writer than I am tabletop RPer (which is a reflection on my RP skills not my writing)

Let's see I am:

Running a game of Exalted set in the Hundred Kingdoms near Denandsor. The game is still in the early stages and the PCs are just now consolidating their positions in the boom town they are in. They are surrounded by three other countries that all want to use their vast resources for their own ends. Should be fun.

Running a game of D&D 3.5 set in an...alternate Forgotten Realms. I pretty much ripped everything out but Faerun and have been slowly but surely undermining certain underpinnings of the setting in order to get some conflict in there and make the PCs the stars of the show. Right now the PCs are investigating the manufacture and use of a set of soul stealing blades. One of these blades was used to permanently kill Storm Silverhand, a leader of the Harpers, and alot of the big names of the setting on both sides are in semi-hiding.

I will soon be playing in a D&D3.5 Campaign as a member of the 'SWAT team' of a City's Watch. Hopefully that'll go well.

That's pretty much it.

-Mike

This Sunday I am running episode or "Session #50"  of an ongoing GURPS: TRAVELLER campaign.
 We usually game every other week a pretty intense 3 to 3 and half hours sometimes 4 hours. Why so short a time? We used to have our game sessions on Thursday night, then Tuesaday night between 6pm and 9pm. Players had to go to work the next morning.  Now that we're gradually switching to Saturday or Sunday nights , the group ius hoping to get 4 to 5 hour session lengths.

 If you know the TRAVELLER universe, most of the group's adventures are set in around District 268 of the Spinward Marches.  The players are the crew of an Empress Marava-class far trader starship. The ship is the I.M.S. Margaret Thatcher ...but they just call her the "Maggie" most of the time.  Its set in the 3rd Imperium year of 1119 and in January 5639 AD on the Solomani calender.

We just "restarted" the above  campaign.

 From September 2006 to mid January of this year I was actually running a Fantasy mini-campaign using the BANESTORM setting. That was very strange for me .  For close to 24 years I've mostly run science fiction or TRAVELLER-esque Space Opera RPG campaign, with quite a few old FASA STAR TREK  campaigns back in the late 80s/early 90s.

The BANESTORM story had my  group of players very involved with the Caitness civil war situation. One of the Pcs was a very recent Banestorm victim - less than 3 days time before the campaign started.

Anyone want to hear more about either of those? Would I put those kind of threads in this section? or up in the regular Role playing section?

- E.W.C.