Quote from: Caesar SlaadOuch.

I remember one time I put somthing in my sig that implied that a lot of folks on RPGnet didn't actually play. I drew some fire for that...

Isn't that a group attack?

Quote from: Caesar SlaadI can find some decent conversation there from time to time (as Dr Rotwang alludes to, I self-filter out the exalted threads.) But there seems to be a bit more elbow room here and the recent influx of posters seems to have livened the conversation up.

The percentage of threads that interest me is close to 50% here. There it's less than 1%, and going down.

-mice

Quote from: flyingmiceIsn't that a group attack?



The percentage of threads that interest me is close to 50% here. There it's less than 1%, and going down.

-mice

I do enjoy RPG.Net, but I find myself reading Tangency and Other Media moreso than RP Open these days.  I guess it's just a kind of trend thing.  No harm, no foul, I say, but I must admit that I spend more time talking about games than actually playing them...however that has more to do with a lack of time and reliable players than anything else.

That said:

My wife has put together a pirate game to be played with Wushu; I'm eyeing a  Steampunk Musha game before too long.  I itch to run The Traveller Adventure, have ideas for a one-off Toon game (A "Dungeons & Toons" quest to retrieve a bottle of High Karate), and so help me I'm going to run Entounter Critical SOMEhow before I die.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!My wife has put together a pirate game to be played with Wushu; I'm eyeing a  Steampunk Musha game before too long.  I itch to run The Traveller Adventure, have ideas for a one-off Toon game (A "Dungeons & Toons" quest to retrieve a bottle of High Karate), and so help me I'm going to run Entounter Critical SOMEhow before I die.

Steampunk Musha?  Very cool--are you thinking of running it for Iron Gauntlets or another system?

Re: Actual playing, Matthew seems to have landed the same analysis in this thread.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstSteampunk Musha?  Very cool--are you thinking of running it for Iron Gauntlets or another system?

IG.  Why not?  No conversion work, and I think Impresa's pretty cool.

I've been quite taken with the PIG output, and own Vice Squard, HN II, IG, the GD-i manual and Steampunk Musha.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!IG.  Why not?  No conversion work, and I think Impresa's pretty cool.

I've been quite taken with the PIG output, and own Vice Squard, HN II, IG, the GD-i manual and Steampunk Musha.

Then we have something in common.

Currently in a bit of a hiatus but I think have two games that I'm reasonably likely to return to.

First is a Harnmaster game set in Harn, called The Glooming Isle. Although this is my first actual play in Harn, my impression is that the game is a bit more magic-heavy than usual, partly because it's set in Melderyn.

Second is a significantly-modified version of the Burning Sands setting for Burning Wheel. We've moved the background quite a bit from the Dune-with-serial-numbers-filed-off so that it's a bit more about colonialism and has a more multidimensional setup, with two interstellar empires fighting over a planet, a native resistance, and class warfare between the local nobility and the commoners. The GM has been talking about converting it to Burning Empires after he digests that work.

I'm running a DC Heroes campaign in which the PCs work for T.H.U.G.S, Inc (Temporary Henchman and Uniformed Guard Service), an employment agency which hires out mooks and goons to various world-conquering super-villains. The players have to deal with egotistical, neurotic, and/or homicidal megalomaniac bosses, backstabbing co-workers, and the superheroes out to take them all down.

However, in a stunning plot twist, the PCs are actually deep-cover federal agents, who use T.H.U.G.S to infiltrate various criminal enterprises and destroy them from within.

It's mostly played for laughs. I'm aiming for a cross between Superfriends and Office Space, with maybe a little bit of Alias.

Playing: recently finished up an online game of Dogs in the Vineyard.  Not my style, but I wanted to see how it worked in practice.  Sister Tirzah decided that some kind of a mistake was made, because she clearly wasn't called to be a Dog.

Running: I'm just about to return to a homebrew online fantasy that's been on hiatus.  We were going to play tonight, but my brother's girlfriend showed up for the weekend, so it'll have to be next week.  I really, really want to get back to this one.  

It's a simmy immersive thing set in a land where the mages are the rulers and nobles and the coastal towns bear some resemblance to the Hanseatic League. The PC is a young magical genius from a highland manor, and there's a lot of political intrigue going on.

I'm currently running a short campaign of Hero's Banner, influenced by 13th century Europe, especially battles between Norway and Scotland. It's good fun: a western prince versus a barbarian warlord versus another barbarian warlord. I'm looking very forward to playing again on Monday.

I'm running a one-shot of Blue Rose for some locals tomorrow, and I hope to rope some people into a continuing campaign using a slightly modified version of the setting. It seems like it would be a really good game, especially for some co-workers who played D&D when they were younger and are interested.

I'm running an Icelandic Saga game, using the Pendragon rules and the Saxons/Lands of the North supplements.

First session we had a blood feud start up, Monday coming the party are raiding Irish monasteries so as to get funds to protect their lands and so as to be out of the country for a bit while the family of Hall Grettirsson decide what to do about his slaying.

Great game so far, I'm very buzzed about it.  Good to be back playing too after a really disastrous Summer with scheduling conflicts.

Pendragon rocks for this type of stuff, it really does.  I can't praise it too highly.

My current campaign:

There's "no set storyline", just sort of an interesting campaign world. An evil militant group/army is secretly gearing up to take over the kingdom, undead have overrun the capitol, and there's a demonic cult in the area. There's also a dragon, and a tribe of barbarians that worship and other stuff.

Generally- the PCs are adventurers. One guy is an evil priest trying to rebuild the religion of his secretive god by taking over these hidden shrines located throughout the campaign world. A couple of the other guys have a grudge against the dark militant group, and are working to sabotage them. One character is suspected of being involved in the undead takeover of the capitol, so he's sort of on the run and avoiding being seized by the law.

The goals are short run things that vary from adventure to adventure. For example-the current party goal is to track down some woman who stole an artifact that the priest is convinced he needs in order to take over a new shrine.

Quote from: Abyssal MawMy current campaign:

There's "no set storyline", just sort of an interesting campaign world. An evil militant group/army is secretly gearing up to take over the kingdom, undead have overrun the capitol, and there's a demonic cult in the area. There's also a dragon, and a tribe of barbarians that worship and other stuff.

Generally- the PCs are adventurers. One guy is an evil priest trying to rebuild the religion of his secretive god by taking over these hidden shrines located throughout the campaign world. A couple of the other guys have a grudge against the dark militant group, and are working to sabotage them. One character is suspected of being involved in the undead takeover of the capitol, so he's sort of on the run and avoiding being seized by the law.

The goals are short run things that vary from adventure to adventure. For example-the current party goal is to track down some woman who stole an artifact that the priest is convinced he needs in order to take over a new shrine.

What system?  

Quote from: Zachary The FirstSteampunk Musha?  Very cool--are you thinking of running it for Iron Gauntlets or another system?

I'm running it for my next non-clash-written game. Right now my group is too busy kicking Barbary Pirate tail to think about anything else, but SM is irresistable!

-clash

Quote from: Zachary The FirstWhat system?  

Regular old D&D!