Played Kult a while with a good GM back in the day. It was really enjoyable. A mix of dark heroes, hellraiser and conspiracy theories of sorts. Very dark (darker/more hopeless than Vampire in some ways). Very cool.

I'm working about 70 hours a week right now, so all I have time for is one game of Labyrinth Lord every few weeks. I'd like to run Mongoose Traveller, d6 Star Wars, or Pathfinder once my schedule clears up.

Quote from: Benoist;576880Played Kult a while with a good GM back in the day. It was really enjoyable. A mix of dark heroes, hellraiser and conspiracy theories of sorts. Very dark (darker/more hopeless than Vampire in some ways). Very cool.

Same here. You're right in that it's more fucked up and dark than Vampire, and yet paradoxically also more hopeful. Sure, the world is a prison and humanity is threatened by predatory, Clive Barkeresque supernatural jailers. But the asshole Demiurge has gone missing and PCs have a chance to transcend Maya (whether as enlightened Bodhisattvas or fucked-up psychos is up for grabs). Awesome game that doesn't get half as much love as it deserves.

Also, I loved the idea of the Ordo Fratribus Mortem (a cult of evil necromancer doctors who sacrificed patients to dark powers), which are just begging for a Kingdom Hospital-inspired Kult game.

If I had the time, I'd love to borrow my old Kult GM's books, and try and hybridize it with Mage: The Awakening, another game using a Gnostic universe as its backdrop. Maybe the PCs would be Pentacle mages who realize the Oracles have gone missing, the lights of the Watchtowers have gone out, no new Awakenings are happening and the Abyss encroaches as the Supernal grows ever more distant -- lending Awakening's Ascension War a new, apocalyptic urgency.

Now that my usual group has decided to take a break from tabletop gaming to play guild Wars2 for awhile(im joining them but still want to do abit of tabletop gaming aswell) ive decided to join a friends group in a town roughly an hour away by train(since i dont drive and none of my regular group are nice enough to give me a lift the gits), atm their finishing up a 3.5e campaign(using a mishmashed eberron and homebrew setting from what my friend tells me) but my buddy has said they're after something different from fantasy so im thinking Other dust mixed with abit of atomic highway may be the ticket to some Mad Max/fallout style action.

As to what I want to run, my attention is on Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea.

DCC RPG is also on my radar. As are Call of Cthulhu (never drops off it, really) and Servants of Gaius.

Games I want to run:

Dragon Age, Nobilis, 1E DND, 1E Gamma World, Compact Heroes


Games I will end up running despite my personal preference: Pathfinder, Pathfinder, Pathfinder, Pathfinder, and Pathfinder.

Quote from: Bill;576905Games I want to run:

Dragon Age, Nobilis, 1E DND, 1E Gamma World, Compact Heroes


Games I will end up running despite my personal preference: Pathfinder, Pathfinder, Pathfinder, Pathfinder, and Pathfinder.

Man, that sucks. Have you ever tried to go all like "next week it's Dragon Age bitches and I don't care if you want Pathfinder cos I'm fucking sick of it" or is it very likely no one would really show up? It works best if you're the only or one of the few games in town of course.

(I could run anything I wanted, I just couldn't play anything but GURPS or 4e it seems)

Quote from: vytzka;576908Man, that sucks. Have you ever tried to go all like "next week it's Dragon Age bitches and I don't care if you want Pathfinder cos I'm fucking sick of it"

Well it's kind of dickish to go all out saying "fuck you guys I don't care what you like", but you can at least talk about the monotony of running the same game, that there are other games that are very cool too and you'd like to run, and try to find a happy medium with the players (not against them). You could say something like "OK. I run Pathfinder on odd weeks. On even weeks, I run some games you might not be familiar with, but which I think are actually awesome too. An adventure of each. Then you guys tell me what you like best, and it'll become a regular alternate game. What do you guys think?"

You know. Something like it.

I was being hyperbolic of course (although over here it is sometimes hard to tell ^_^ ). However, if the GM doesn't enjoy what they're running there's either no game or they burn out and then there's no game. With that in mind, it is entirely legitimate for the GM to express their dissatisfaction with the game they're half-forced to run, and offering other options.

Worst thing that could happen if you don't overdo it with the swearing is either no one shows up, Dragon Age doesn't happen and then you're back to square one, or somebody else runs Pathfinder and you can either join in as a player or get some rest.

Burning out is never good and should be avoided, all I'm saying.

You could also try making a deal with them so if you run a short campaign of pathfinder for them then they'll give Dragon Age and other games a similar length tester campaign to see if they enjoy those aswell(and if they dont kill em and take there stuff lol).

I've got a Castles & Crusades campaign ready to kick off. That will get a good dose of DCC, Swords & Wizardry, and other OSR accoutrements.

I haven't run RuneQuest 6 in any meaningful way other than a bit of tinkering and I really want to get something with it off the ground.

I also want to run a mini-campaign with Burning Wheel. The players got their characters made but that's been put on hiatus. At least for now.

I recently picked up Fantasy Dice and it looks pretty cool so far. So, of course, I want to run it to see how it compares to the other games that I like that scratch the same itch.

Quote from: Soylent Green;576761Actually that sounds like a lot of fun, though just to be annoying the FF did take on Magneto right at the end of the Lee/Kirby era. Sorry, I am just wildly passionate about vintage FF. Those were the days :-).

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I'm less knowledgeable on the older FF stuff; I was more into them during the 80's, so the more classic stuff isn't something I know well. That's kind of why I wanted to use the FF, to tell my own stories with them. I also feel having a smaller group gives each player more spotlight time.

Quote from: urbwar;577128Thanks for pointing that out to me. I'm less knowledgeable on the older FF stuff; I was more into them during the 80's, so the more classic stuff isn't something I know well. That's kind of why I wanted to use the FF, to tell my own stories with them. I also feel having a smaller group gives each player more spotlight time.

That's one of the reasons I prefer smaller groups. You can really spend more time on the character interaction and roleplaying, as well.

Four players is really the maximum I'll run for.

The problem is that Pathfinder gets 'locked in'

I am dming a group, and playing in another, and in both groups the players are all obsessed with pathfinder.

When I bring up the toipic of other games in one group, I get responses like 'Why would we use anything but Pathfinder for that setting?' and other lame shit.

One group has too many gm's, AND the pathfinder problem.


Eventually I will dictate the games I will run, but I am not at that stage yet.

I want to run more 5e playtest.  Yeah, I said it.