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What Are You Running? (August 2013 Edition)

Started by Zachary The First, August 07, 2013, 08:19:20 PM

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jadrax

After my D&D next play test faded out due to fatigue, I have moved on to play testing a game (and setting) of my own creation. Not really talked about how long this will last, suspect 6 months to a year. Face-to-face.

Dana

I'm currently running a D&D 2nd Edition Player's Option PbP, set in Greyhawk. My SO and I left a 1e game last year and decided to start up a new campaign with our characters, but using 2ePO. The spinoff's been running since February.

I'm also planning to fire up the 2ePO Greyhawk PbP I put on hiatus last October. It had been running for 2 years at the time. All my players save one are up for continuing. We'd planned to start back in June, but due to a death in my SO's family, I put things off for a while. I'm thinking maybe we'll start after Labor Day.

I'd still like to run through the sample game in the MouseGuard book and to run in (or play) Stars Without Number.

Novastar

Getting ready to start a Marvel FASERIP game, with 3 players.
Reason I'm excited? It's my 7-year old son's first game (specifically requested, too).
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

One Horse Town

Playing in a DDC face to face game, although that's coming to an end soon, so i won't get to feel the awesomeness of 4th level. Boo!

I've decided today in fact to return to Rolemaster after a few years away. It always was the system i felt most at home in.

Kiero

-Currently running Tyche's Favourites.
-System: heavily houseruled ACKS.
-Setting: Massalia, 300BC. Straight historical; no magic, monsters or dungeons.
-Duration: Runs weekly (most of the time) expected to until my second daughter is born at the end of October.
-Type: Face to face.
-Bonus: What excites me most is getting to use historical details all over the place, and creating an interesting scenario without falling back onto "a wizard did it".
Currently running: Tyche\'s Favourites, a historical ACKS campaign set around Massalia in 300BC.

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Benoist

Quote from: Zachary The First;678642Time to check in on what everyone is running, or planning to run. I like doing these every now and again, just see what everyone is up to.

If you can, list:

-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)

-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....

I am running Ernie Gygax's Hobby Shop Dungeon using 1st edition AD&D rules. It is face to face at the moment (I am play-testing an introduction module we authored for Gygax Magazine #3), but will include online games soon as I open the table progressively to whoever wants to play. Probably will use Skype and/or G+. The setting is our own, and I expect it to run for quite a while. What most interests me is to see the setting we've been working with for months now come to life at a game table I will be running, and see what unexpected objectives, strategies and courses of action players will come up with!

flyingmice

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Current games:

-Campaign: Merchants of Death
-System: Volant - Kingdoms of Air and Stone
-Setting: Created for the game by the group. A group of floating skylands being assailed by a nomadic people settled on migratory stone fragments. PCs are from a fragment that sells trained war birds and engines of destruction to other governments.
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Next couple of months
-Type: IRC

-Campaign: 1802
-System: In Harm's Way: A Napoleonic Naval Roleplaying Game
-Setting: The Gulf of Mexico, in 1802, hunting pirates for the Royal Navy
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Until winter, when the group switches to StarCluster 3. Currently in its 8th year.
-Type: IRC

-Campaign: Playtest #1
-System: Lowell Was Right! A Very Different Now
-Setting: Mars, 2013. PCs have crash landed on Nix Olympica (Mars) and are trying to reach civilization.
-Expected/current duration of campaign: A month or so more before we switch to Playtest #2
-Type: Face to Face
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Reckall

I'm running Lacuna. Fast, fun, tense... perfect for these Summer Nights :)

For this fall I'm putting the finishing touches on my "CSI Waterdeep" campaign - D&D 3.5. It will be an experiment: we agreed on three "episodes". If we like it we will go on, if not I'll think about something else - probably with GURPS 4E.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Artifacts of Amber

-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)

-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....

Shadow threats
Amber
Post first series
as long as I can make it last
Face to face 3 hour sessions weekly

Surprised how well my group has taken to it. Sessions detailed in Amber forumn



Desert Storms
3.5 D&D
Home Brew world
Will end in 3-4 months. when they hit 12th or so. Game gets hard to run though I can itis starting to overload the players with options and game prep is too intensive to do it like I want to do it.
Face to face weekly sessions 3-4 hours

System and game was requested by a player who has since dropped out due to life. Didn't really want to run it. But oH well.



Shining Worlds
Hoebrew hack of Seventh sea system
Home brew universe, Mostly Firefly, lil babylon 5 and generic space opera stuff.
Plots are becoming an issue but should run another year or so.
Face to face weekly sessions 6-8 hours

This is my zero prep walk in no plot game that I amaze myself that I run some intircate plots with no plan even up to the actual game session. Been fun and love playing my NPC's.

That's it for me

Considering running a PBEM Amber game for shits and giggles.

later

trechriron

-Dark Portals - Against The Horrors
-13th Age
-My own setting I'm planning on publishing
-6+ months at least
-Type: face-to-face on a table. :-)

-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is the light fast rules that still feel very much like D&D to me. I'm super excited to play test my setting and get direct feedback. The 13th age has a couple "story game" elements that I really like, the way the classes are defined is fun (very player-focused), and it has system-bits in the right places.

Our first session was a blast and the 2nd session happens this Sunday.
Trentin C Bergeron (trechriron)
Bard, Creative & RPG Enthusiast

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RPGPundit

I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around.  Probably will be next time, too.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;679594I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around.  Probably will be next time, too.

Yeah, same here. Still running Call of Cthulhu 6E, prepping for Coyote Trail and plans aplenty for other stuff.

-current campaign: The Extraterrestrial Eater, a homebrew scenario
-system: BRP/Call of Cthulhu 6E
-setting: 1920s Lovecraft Country
-expected duration: one or two more sessions
-type: face-to-face

-next campaign: no scenario yet
-system: GDi/Coyote Trail (+ Knuckleduster Firearms Shop)
-setting: 1866 Montana
-expected duration: no idea
-type: face-to-face
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RandallS

-Current Campaign: Secondary Wilderlands (a branch of my long running Wilderlands campaign but set in the Valley of the Ancients area.)
-System: Playtesting Microlite81
-Setting: Judges Guild Wilderlands (Map 3: Valley of the Ancients area)
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Unknown, but may eventually merge with the suspended main Wilderlands campaign (set in the City-State of the Invincible Overlord map).
-Type: face-to-face (my Sunday Game)
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Zachary The First

Quote from: RPGPundit;679594I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around.  Probably will be next time, too.

That's awesome! :)
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Currently Prepping: Castles & Crusades
Currently Reading/Brainstorming: Mythras
Currently Revisiting: Napoleonic/Age of Sail in Space

Kyussopeth

-Current Shadow World Grand Campaign / Legacy of the Sea Drake / Shadow Stone / Legacy of the Loremaster Epic world spanning campaign

-System Highly house ruled AD&D 2nd ed. with players options: S&M and C&T crits modified to be more RM like.

-Setting: Shadow world setting

-Expected/current duration of campaign: Started in November 2012 will likely end in a few years at the current pace

-Type: face to face in@ my dinner table

-Bonus: I love that this Campaign resembles a COC campaign. I love that entire sessions are spent just researching and I love that my PC's are afraid, very afraid of what they've learned.