So I'm seeing lots of new names with post counts in the single or low-double digits these days, which is great - always great to see [strike]fresh meat[/strike] new blood arrive.

So, for the newbs and the veteranos alike, what are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Presently I'm playing and running Flashing Blades. I don't have my eye on anything new at the moment.

So what's your story?

I already did my 'hello' post, but I'll bite...

I'm Bob, and I'll try and play just about anything once.  I'm an old married fart, with kids, and I don't game much anymore.  I try to get things going online from time to time, but I can't find a way to make that actually 'fun' - or haven't yet.

My most recent games were Pathfinder, D6, and WyRM, in that order.  Last face-to-face game was Pathfinder Beginner Box for my nephews and their parents.

Historically, my first game was the Basic D&D Red Box.  Followed by AD&D, Palladium, Star Wars, and on and on and on afterwards.

My present wish is to find an extensible game system with balance built-in that offers satisfying play.  Small order, right?  

I'm Rick, I've been in the army for 14 years, and I'm in Afghanistan right now.

I'm an obsessive dilettante when it comes to games, but I have a hard time finding groups that enjoy making characters every other session, so I wind up focusing more.  

I pretty much always run, which makes it hard for me to get into the player mindset with my regular group, so I haven't played much in the last 10 years or so.

I love sci fi games, especially cyberpunk, but because of my group dynamics I've run about four 1-20ish games in D&D 3.5 over the last 10 years interspaced around deployments and other overseas tours.

Because everyone at the site I'm at is kind of lame, there's no gaming going on here, so I've been entertaining myself by working on modifying D20 and Living Steel by LEG into a horrid, kitbashed bastard of a game that I'm hoping will be familiar enough to my d20 players that they won't be too confused, yet still keep some of the aspects of Living Steel that's made it one of my favorite games to not have a chance to run.  It took me 5 years to convince my group from before I joined the army to try out Cyberpunk, but they loved it, so I'm hopeful.

I got into the game when I found a 1e PHB at a yard sale, bought it and a set of dice, and figured out how to run it based just on that for my younger brothers when I was 8.  Since then I've done almost every type of D&D (not 4e is all), TORG, Paranoia, Metamorphosis Alpha, Palladium Stuff (mostly Robotech and Rifts), Cyberpunk 2020, Hero (in about six different settings of various power levels), Marvel Super Heroes, Hackmaster 5th, Mechwarrior, Living Steel/Aliens/PCCS (no one ever seems to want to play it twice....), Shadowrun 2e and 3e, Traveller (Black box, MT, NE, CT and I backed the KS for 5e), all the various GDW games that used the same system as MT (twilight 2000, space 2300, that weird science one that I don't remember the name of), and a pretty extensive list of smaller titles that I can't remember offhand without my library nearby.

I want to convince people to play Living Steel, which is a terrific setting written by scientists, it just needs a little updating from being a late 80's game, but I'm thinking that it'll probably wind up falling more in the direction of another fantasy game or maybe SWN when I get back.  I lean towards crunchiness of rules, but if I'm running them I tend to memorize things and it makes it fast enough for my players to just tell me what they want to do and I'll spit the numbers back at them, then if they want to follow it they can do the audit and math when it's not their turn.  Oversimplification doesn't seem to make it much faster to me, and it lowers my entertainment value, but I don't go in for the overly ridiculous simulations of every aspect of reality (which is part of why I like Living Steel instead of the PCCS for the most part, there's just some things I don't need to know about the effects of a bullet, such as if it passes through your bladder or not...)

been lurking for a long while off and on, finally got around to registering.

Currently - AD&D/Osric with house rules & class changes to make sense with my setting. The weather's been too nice to get everyone together, and I'm still trying to sort out a bunch of bullshit relating to moving, so we're dead in the water till Fall.

As far as games go I'm pretty omnivorous but If I had to cut throats and keep two they'd be AD&D & GURPS.
That said, chuck Boorman's Excalibur, Asprin's Thieves World, Tolkien, Howard, Lovecraft and Tad Williams in a blender as the setting and I'm good to go regardless of the system.

Hi I registered May 2011, but didn't really post until quite recently.
I think I started posting more here when the whole Desborough thing blew up on rpg.net.
I noticed it was being discussed here in a more sane fashion (well at first anyway!   ).

What am I playing atm?

Elric using the Legend rules, although tonight we're trialing the RQ6 rules to see how they compare.

I also play in a DnD 4th ed game. TBH 4th ed isn't my cup of tea but I'll play pretty much anything and it's fun enough I guess.

Oh yeah I've also been playing about with the RPG supplement rules for the Zombies! tabletop boardgame. Very simple rules but work quite well for the type of game it is.

I've been collecting the Rolemaster FRP rules and I hope to run that in Australia, Brisbane where I'm moving next month.
Currently I live in South England.

About 3 months ago I wrapped up a Pathfinder campaign which I'd been running for about 2 years I guess. But I'm kinda sick of the whole DnD thing  at this time, however I enjoyed running it for the time that I did.

Games I would love to play are:
Eclipse phase
Stars without number
Call of Cthulhu

I'm about to move, so sadly that puts my most common games and groups on hiatus, however I also play online.

Starting when I return to the net after a move I will be running: E.O.N: Empire of Night, a dark space opera rpg.

I'll also continue playing in Talislanta, and Basic D&D. Depending on what happens after the move I'll either be setting up real life groups, if possible. Or pick up more online gaming.

Right now I'm interested in running a few games. I want to take a break from Hellas, though I'd like to campaign wrap the one I'm running before taking a break from the game completely.

I'd like to start up on testing Cold Chrome Knights (Neo Cyberpunk), and some more testing of Hearts & Souls 2E.

I'd like to try playing Kerberos Club (FATE), Bulldogs (FATE) and a few dozen others

Quote from: Silverlion;569785I'm about to move, so sadly that puts my most common games and groups on hiatus, however I also play online.

Where are you moving? There are several sites that might help you find local gamers.

I stumbled across this site a month or so ago when TBP was having some fit over sexist provocative RPGs.

I started roleplaying in the mid-eigthies so I am almost the old guard.

I don't play or run anything at the moment and have done very little the last couple of years since I moved away from Sweden. Right now I'm living in Northern Ireland but are moving to UAE at the end of the month. I have so far never moved to an area with Roleplayers or had the time to look for a grouo since career and family has taken precedence.

I used to be a huge omnivore when it came to games but these days I prefer to run fantasy games and have recently found my way back to D&D in the form of Pathfinder. Used to be a huge fan of Exalted but burned out about 8 years ago. Big fan of old school.

Quote from: Exploderwizard;569819Where are you moving? There are several sites that might help you find local gamers.

Lubbock, Texas.

OD&D Homebrew Campaign...

StarSiege: New Battlestar Galactica...

I'm thinking about running some old school Traveller as well.

Quote from: Silverlion;569822Lubbock, Texas.

My condolences, at least it's not El Paso.

I'm running a Classic D&D game, straight up Rules Cyclopedia, set in my own homebrew campaign world. We're 5 sessions in.

I recently finished running a longish term Cyberpunk 2020 campaign. In the last year my group has also played In A Wicked Age, Ghost/Echo, Lady Blackbird, and Apocalypse World.

I have a hankering to run Bushido at some point, but I don't think my group are completely sold on that. Another option is Pendragon.

Quote from: CRKrueger;569846My condolences, at least it's not El Paso.

Thanks, its actually a step up in many ways from where I now live.

I'm currently running a Bushido campaign. It's been going on close to a year now. I've been gaming since the mid-70s.

Started gaming with WEG's d6 Star Wars in '87.
Running a Star Wars Saga Edition game online.

Played Pathfinder, Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader, and Buffy, along with a host of Palladium games at conventions.