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Started by Black Vulmea, August 09, 2012, 11:13:51 AM

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rabalias

I'm running a Dark Heresy campaign set on a Hive World that's been going for about 3, 4 years, and I'm hoping to finish sometime this year. I'm playing in just one regular campaign at the moment (until recently it was four, but people seem to have run out of steam a bit recently), which is a WFRP (2nd ed) campaign that uses a subset of the Apocalypse World rules for bit of the conflict resolution (main exception is combat). And I do one or two random one-offs, often of a storygamish variety, each month. This month it's a beta playtest game called Beyond the Wall which is allegedly a slimmed down version of D&D where you make up the adventure as you go along, or something.

I'm currently developing my own games for publication. I recently published a Fiasco playset based on Westminster politics called House of Ill Repute, and I'm currently working on a game designed to simulate disaster movies called Disaster Strikes!. If you're interested, check out my website http://www.blackarmada.com

Anglachel

I'm a gamer of many years, living in switzerland.

Right now, i am gm-ing an Exalted campaign run with M&M 3e (bi-weekly).

I am playing in a lot of games although some of them only get played sporadically. There's a Mystara LabLord group which also plays Pendragon, a Crypts&Things Hyborea group, a bi-weekly D6 homebrew campaign and another weekly D6 homebrew group under the same GM (and in the same setting). We also have a group of players interested in trying out a lot of the new indie-style games...which has been a lot of fun.

Wow...now that i have written it down...i think i have to cancel some of those games...nothing else gets done this way :D

There are still a lot of games i'd like to try out. For example Legends of the Wulin, Marvel Heroic RP, Mistborn Adv. Game, DCC and ACKS

rabalias

Wait, I forgot to say what games I'd like to play but aren't. All of them, really. I have about twelvety games sitting on my shelves waiting to be played. Currently next in the queue are Archipelago 2 (which I tried once but spent the entire evening on world building instead of roleplaying) and Dog Eat Dog. Also have never got around to running Savage Worlds(!), Ars Magica or Hero Wars. Or Traveller. There's so many great-sounding games I haven't tried, it makes my head spin.

The Butcher

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Silverlion

#34
I'm Tim. Up until my move I've been running:
Atomic Highway
Hellas
D&D Cyclopedia
Hearts & Souls.

After my move, I'm not sure what I'll be running or playing beyond my EON test, and likely one of the Hellas games which I'll return to shortly.

I'm a big fan of superhero role-playing games, preferably fast and simple like Truth & Justice, MSH, and Icons. Albeit H&S is mine and I love how 2E is shaping up.

I've owned a huge number of games over my gaming life, and will continue to obtain cool new ones when I can.

What am I interested in now? Lots. I'm wanting Reclamation, Mutant Epoch, Bulldogs (FATE), the upcoming FATE superhero game that was announced, the supplements for Icons. And about a hundred other games.

I'm a huge fan of games and gaming. I've got numerous games of my own in the works: Derelict Delvers (Space Opera), Vast Frontiers (mecha/space/western), Cold Chrome Knights (cyberpunk), E.o.N (Empire of NIght, Dark Space opera), an un-named wuxia space opera game, a fencing focused space fantasy game, a PA game centered around cthulhu mythos, Wyrdwalkers (viking mecha), Tribes of Mother Night (redux),  Bionic Soldier: Cyborg Elite,  and about a dozen others.

Things I'd like to play (not GM): Hellas, Icons, Marvel Heroic, Legend, DCC, ACKS, Leverage, Reclamation, and a bout a dozen others.
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MachFront

#36
Joined a while back. Mostly lurk. Would like to contribute more, but everyone here is much brighter than I so I keep to the back corner sipping on...what is this stuff anyway?

Eric. Recently turned 38. Or, as those of us in this age range like to think of it: "late 20s".
Live in (and always have) Fayetteville, GA.

Started gaming in 1986 at the age of 12 in early 7th grade. Friend used his older brother's battered copy of Holmes to run our games we played every day at lunch. I soon after bought another friend's battered old copies of B/X. I coveted the 'new and improved' Mentzer books. (Now, I dislike them and prefer B/X. Ah, well.)
Bought the RC the day it was released and used it for D&D gaming for what seems like forever.
Most recent gaming was with a group of total newbs. Began as RC, morphed soon to B/X after I finally realized that about 70% of the RC is totally useless. Then changed to Tunnels & Trolls which I ran nigh exclusively for years until this past year.

During the late nineties I searched for that perfect, more realistic game. Later, I grew up and stopped being stupid.

I don't stat things unless the game's situation/rules practically put a gun to my head. My preparation consists of barely thinking about it somewhere in the back of my noggin while watching a movie (probably something like Pumpkinhead).

Other:
Big fan of old-school, weirdness, wildness, Atari 2600, WFRP, RISUS, 1PGs, s&s paperbacks, has to buy a book if it has a cover by Darrel K. Sweet (except Wheel of Time stuff, because...c'mon), major movie geek and collector (VHS + DVD collection well over the 2,000 mark), conservative-leaning Libertarian, gun enthusiast, carries Glock 23, ren faire dork, former bass player of 15 years turned to all-software-synthesizers-and-samplers-all-the-time computer musician, loves industrial/EBM, classic rock, Holst, fusion jazz, stoner/doom rock, prog, and various electronic stuffs, stopped smoking and starting 'vaping'. Edits posts too much. Very curvy women. Rum & Coke. Rambles. Wants Pluto back.

grimshwiz

#37
Hi all. My name is Bruce and I am 25, currently living in Meaford, ON and like a few of you I am a punk, hardcore metal music fan (although I do love The Beatles).

I most GM and currently am running a Labyrinth Lord (now using AEC) or B/X campaign using Barrowmaze as the central focus point, but many TSR and OSR modules in the campaign area. I prefer B/X to use as my main gaming system, but since LL is free to get for my players, we use that.

I have run AD&D, 3.x, Pathfinder, 4e and the above systems. I am about to run an Other Dust campaign, beginning this Tuesday.

I have played in AD&D, 2e, 3.x, Pathfinder, 4e, Paranoia, CoC, d20 Modern and probably a few I am forgetting.

I am currently working on a homebrew set of rules using Chainmail as my base and focusing the game on only 1d6 mechanics. It is almost ready for my group to try out and it is a human focused, no other races, 2 class (warrior and sorcerer), no monsters (only guidelines how to create animals and other humans for adversaries. It is of course going to be digest sized and my group should enjoy the simplicity.

Other: I have a cat (Simon), an albino rat (Otis), and a black pug (Penelope). I live with my girlfriend and we are quite happy. I love ham, bacon, pork chips, peameal bacon, and if I were to ever get trapped on a deserted island that they ate pig on, I would be quite happy. I have a book collection (mostly Appendix N stuff) and a huge horror film collection. My favourite drink is Guinness and will usually not drink unless there is Guinness (or Harp).

Brad J. Murray

I'm not really new here, I just forgot my password and couldn't make the bloody captcha work.

All my gaming these days is playtesting new games or playing other games as research (casing them like ripe banks, really). Right now I'm looking at boardgames that work really well to tease out the design methods that make them function -- Smallworld is paying dividends, for example, as is just reading about Magic the Gathering. The game that's getting the most playtest attention from me right now is our psychedelic fantasy game, Soft Horizon.

Imperator

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Quote from: Black Vulmea;569739So 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?

Well, my name is Ramón, I'm just 36 and I live in Barcelona, Spain, with my wife Victoria, 3 cats and a Russian hamster. My first daughter, Monica, is due in September. Started gamin in Fall 1985 with D&D Red Box, discovered RQ 3 and CoC in 1988, and BRP is my favourite system, though I run many many different games.

Now I'm running a WoD Mortals game that will probably end in Silent Hill (though now all the PCs have ended as inmates at an asylum) and a two player Vampire: the Requiem game. In both cases I used the quickstart as a springboard. These games started due to people being out on vacation.

I am about to start Horror at the Orient Express for CoC and I'm running a game of Traveller. Both games are on hiatus and are fue to restart in Spetember, assuming that my incoming baby girl allows for that. We'll see.

I have doubts about the continuity of Traveller, because some of my WoD Mortals game players have said that they'd rather go on with the WoD game.

I would be running RuneQuest, but none of my crews are in the mood for it, damn them. The only new product that may interest me a bit is RQ 6, other than that I already have much to do. Getting married plus my birthday plus preparing for a birth is more than enough.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).

Tahmoh

Im Steve im 35 and have mostly been gaming on and off since around the time the MB games Heroquest boardgame was released in 1989 or 1990(at the time i thought it was an rpg), since then ive played a ton of different games from Rifts through to Maid and found a way to enjoy most of them(though the AD&D2e game i took part in back in 96 didnt end well due to the gm being a power mad moron who couldnt think on his feet and kept trying to force warhammer fantasy battle spells into the game which lead to the party quitting em mass).  
Im currently prepping a SWN campaign which in theory should allow me to eventually shift the focus into a post apocalyptic campaign using Other Dust provided my players dont decide to go off and do something else, afterall no campaign survives fully intact once players start exploring the edges of the map and no gm of any worth should try to force them to conform to his plans(its more fun finding a new way to use that idea).

VectorSigma

Erik here.  I am currently running Labyrinth Lord (see sig & blog) over Google-plus, it's going pretty well.  Very pleased with the Hangout gaming so far.  I'd like to get a second PbP group going as well.

I've played a little of everything over the years, but right now my only love/focus is the game/setting I'm in the middle of.
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