Quote from: SunBoyWell, I just broke up with my girlfriend, who was playing my Amber campaign, and in the D&D campaign I was playing, and also I've left our usual club, so I ended up sending straight to hell not only those, but also a VtM LARP, another D&D campaign, great one, based on Calimport, a tweaked Iron Heros Britannia thing, and probably a SR4 campaign. And a week ago DtF crashed too. Not to talk about the possibility of one-shots and playtests on idle nights. So I only have left the Highlander-Roman Empire one, and the LOSH one (that stands for Legion of Super Heros). Like them both very much, luckily.

Ow ow ow... Sorry to hear that it didn't go well in the end, SunBoy.

Playing:

Savage Tide Adventure Path (after having finished Age of Worms)
Eberron homebrew campaign
D&D homebrew

GMing:

D&D set in Aventurien, currently "Against the Frost Giants!"

and as a spinoff: D&D Aventurien: Underseas, currently running "Shadow over Innsmouth"


Prepping:
The Traveller Campaign to continue the Traveller Campaign to end all Traveller Campaigns, scheduled for 2008

Playing in an Exalted detective story.  I dunno how long it'll last if other players don't join in, though.

This coming weekend will be the last game I run until all of us (my crew) get back from our various vacations.

It's a one shot, called "You Can Tell By The Way I Use My Walk"(since we are playing on Saturday night...oh nevermind) based on the old Gamma World setting (I just got so jazzed up by all the trash talk)...or rather think of it as a Gamma World adventure meets Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets Slash Maraud based on the lyrics of Funky Cold Medina.

Regards,
David R

I'm still running the Exalted game mentioned in my .sig file at the Big Purple site, which is now due to end by May of 2007.  I've had a roster shift during this time, have acquired and used most of the rulebooks in Exalted's 1st edition run, and now that endgame's coming I'm looking forward to an end that may well end in a Total Party Kill.  

In my run with Ex1, many of the quirks of the system came out and ended up having an effect on play that probably weren't intended at the time.  In our most recent sessions we've also come upon an insight that is independant of rulesets: the pace of campaign time must accelerate with the infrequency of campaign meetings to maintain the sense of progression on the part of the players, or they'll get bored and quit.

Quote from: Bradford C. WalkerIn our most recent sessions we've also come upon an insight that is independant of rulesets: the pace of campaign time must accelerate with the infrequency of campaign meetings to maintain the sense of progression on the part of the players, or they'll get bored and quit.

This is a very interesting idea

The last PbP game I played in tanked when the GM started taking the CP2020 ethos "Screw over your players" a bit too seriously. My attempt to run a PbP CP2020 game fell flat - I got a grand total of five in character posts from four players and nobody seemed willing to continue. So I'm currently PbP-less.
My regular every-3rd-Sunday game is currently on Christmas hiatus whilst we and the GM deal with the festive nightmare, but in that game we've lost 3/5 players, Kinain & Husband to real life housemove & job issues and Catpain Spudulike to real life & burnout. We're not having much luck recruiting replacements either.
 
I'm thinking of changing my online handle to Jonah...

Quote from: fonkaygarryPlaying in an Exalted detective story.  I dunno how long it'll last if other players don't join in, though.

Just to let interested parties know:

The game's Exalted 2nd, based around a group of Dragon Blooded nobles trying to stabilize Grey Falls to keep the whole place from going blooey.

The game's on EFNet, in channel #Nz17_Productions.  It runs 8-11 PM Central US time.

PM me for any details you might want to know.  

We need more players!  Badly!  Come on!

I just finished up a Deadlands:Reloaded game that ended quite well, tying up all the loose ends in one nice, neat package.  

Now I'm two sessions into what's being referred to as a "bar code fantasy" game, with elves, dwarves, and orcs (but no damn halflings) in a somewhat standard European medieval setting.  It's a far cry from my previous fantasy campaign that borrowed heavily from Maori, Mayan, and Chinese cultures where three out of four of the nonhuman races had scales (the fourth had an exoskeleton).

I play and run nothing but Savage Worlds, not because I think it's a superior system, but because it's one that I know and my players know, and it requires very little game prep, allowing me to spend my time working on settings and stories, and not statting NPCs.  If I wasn't so lazy and my players weren't so drunk, I'd probably be more willing to try out other systems.

I've been "on sabbatical" more or less since the end of July. I've played a handful of RPGA Living Greyhawk, and I hope to play more.

But the big deal for me was DMing again for my son and his friends, playing in Mysteries of the Moonsea.  We've had 1 session so far, and I hope it continues.

I figure that everything I've been playing is like a red rag to a bull round here. Lately I've played A Thousand and One Nights, Agon, InSpectres and The Shab-al-Hiri Roach. I'm making plans for games of Bacchanal and It Was a Mutual Decision.

Yesterday, one of my groups played the pilot episode for a game of Primetime Adventures, and it was great; we're going to pick up the series after Chrissie/New Year. But hey, it's kind of old-school. We're guys running a magic-item business in a D&D-esque world – my character's a gnoll who wants to make it as an actor in the city.

We just had a game day today.  It was an informal game day organized and played by a few friends of mine and myself.  

We played InSpectres and Dogs in the Vineyard followed by Guillotine and Battle Lore.

All in all, an excellent day.

Currently playing a zany Exalted game on Mondays, and Ptolus on Thursdays.

This is the first time in almost a decade that I'm actually playing instead of running, and it feels good.

That being said, I'm also gearing up to run a D&D game on Wed. nights, probably the spiritual sequal of my old homebrew campaign that went on for five years.  I'm looking forward to getting back into the saddle.

Just recently ended a game I called Dark Prophecy, which was kicked from system to system looking for a home until finally finding shelter in the rocky harbor of WHFRP.  That game was so dark that one of my players actually walked away for a month...not because he didn't like it, but because it depressed him so much that he needed a sabbatical.  That was the greatest compliment he could have given me.

Upthread I said that GW was going to be the last game this year. Lucky me, I met up with some former gaming buddies who were off (more or less permanently) to Europe.

Talk (while drinking) turned to gaming and I ended up running an impromptu session of WFRP. They were going to start up a campaign once they settled down and the GM wanted me to get the four players he had, familiar with the second editions rules. Four? Five actualy, because I convinced his wife to play

The one off - Rats in the Vineyard - was a mighty success. And the group has now, one extra player - the gm's wife - because as she said post game..

"Once you do tough talk with Joseph Fiennes (The evil Count Pierre Ludoc) and duel on the rooftops - in the rain, there's no turning back..."

Regards,
David R

I'm running or soon to run two games right now:

Face to Face: D&D 3.5 - World of Baelish

The first game I am running in is a co-DM situation. Two of us wanted to run some things, one game night... so here we are.

We originally expected some newbies that never panned out. I had a more adventurous idea with more house rules that I decided against based on this. After it became clear the newbies weren't likely to show, I regretted that. I am still considering seeing if we can incorporate the rules and campaign ideas. Might not be worth the hassle.

I am running the game in a world called Baelish. It's my newish homebrew world that is made specifically to "plug in" various third party d20 system material. So far, the world includes:

• Necromancer Games settings and adventure sites as described in Shades of Gray, Tomb of Abysthor, and Bard's Gate. Rappan Athuk is also close at hand.
  
• The city Bluffside and the nearby Dry Lands: Empire of the Dragon Sands, by Thunderhead Games/Mystic Eye Games. Despite not being as polished as some city products, it still remains one of my favorites.
  
• Green Ronin's pirate-themed city Freeport
  
• Green Ronin's psionic setting Naranjan (detailed in Mindshadows.)
  
• Green Ronin's Egyptian Adventures: Hamunaptra
  
• Dog Soul Games' India-themed Sahasra
  
• The City of Cauldron for Shackled City Adventure Path
  
• The Wilderlands campaign setting has a new home after a Wilderlands fan did some map work for me.
  

I'm hoping to hit on lots of published adventures I've always wanted to run but never had the chance to, like the Freeport trilogy, mixed up with some of my own stuff when I have the chance.

Here's a Mercator projection of the world and some of the above sites highlighted: