Concluded a Fantasy Craft campaign, nothing going on at the moment since I ended up running things because I couldn't find anyone else to run the system and I can't imagine me starting over with strangers to run again. Group just fell apart so I'll be out trying to find something new here shortly but I'm interested in games that hardly ever show up on Roll20 and the like so I don't see myself making much headway.

Quote from: dungeon crawler on December 01, 2020, 09:25:24 AM
Michigan.

Yeah, that tracks.

Finished my 5E game in a Epic battle,they lost but only because the dice turned against them. Was very good though frustrating to see it come so close to a awesome winning end to only falter and fail due to the dice but them's the breaks. The only time ever I have heard a player complain about my roll all dice in front of the party rule lol.

Now I am starting up a Old School Essentials game. I hope to keep it going for at least as long as I did my 5E one(since it came out). We will see.

All virtual.  All 5e.  Playing in a homebrew game (9th level) and in Descent to Avernus (still in Baldur's Gate).  I'm running Dungeon of the Mad Mage as a version of Survivor complete with all the game elements of that (they won their first immunity challenge so no Finger of Death surprise yet -- although I might do it as Edge of Extinction).  I was on Table Top Simulator for DotMM but moved it to Roll20 where the other games are.

Our weekend game is Fragged Empire.  We're about 7 months into it right now and I'm not sure how much longer we'll go.  Not for any lack of fun, we're all having a good time, but our games tend to dip around this far in and people start looking forward to giving something else a go.  Probably going to follow it up with a BESM 4th Edition campaign.

The smaller weeknight group is closing in on the end of an L5R campaign.  We're using the new Fantasy Flight edition and the consensus is that it's fine, but we prefer the old 3rd Edition Revised.  The clans felt more distinct with all the different schools and their abilities.  Once it's over we're moving on to The Dark Eye.

I had an 11-player regular game of 1e AD&D going before the COVID crap killed it. Since then, my table has been empty and I haven't gamed. I don't enjoy the online thing (if you do, great, I'm happy for you -- just not my cup of tea). I've been focusing on other things, and I'm content with that. I'll resume gaming once the COVID situation resolves.

Players too lazy to use D6's advantage/disadvantage system to build their ideal of a D&D character class are pestering me to do so or graft over a bunch of 3e such as class/level because they feel they need rails to ride on I guess. I will cease mapping, writing, and note recovery to check into it I guess.

Quote from: Naburimannu on November 29, 2020, 01:27:15 PM
Running a 5e Dwimmermount campaign online weekly with 6 players - mostly coworkers. Google Meet & shared documents, owlbear.rodeo for sharing maps thrown together in dungeonscrawl.

I just discovered dungeonscrawl, what an excellent tool! Not every little feature works perfectly yet, but for making a dungeon map I've never used anything easier or more intuitive.

I was a big fan of owlbear.rodeo as well, but lately I can't seem to get it to operate properly. Nothing seems to display ... is it just me?

Quote from: S'mon on November 22, 2020, 06:01:13 AM
All games online, England is in lockdown again.

My 5e D&D Princes of the Apocalypse game is about to end, last session tomorrow; the 14th level PCs defeated Prince Yan C Bin last session and the surviving PCs are fighting Air Prophetess Aerisi Kalinoth.

My D6 Mini Six Primeval Thule game is running fortnightly, PCs are in The Lichway & just met Dark Odo.

My 5e D&D Faerun Adventures sandboxy game set in Damara 1359 DR (1e era) is running weekly, PCs are attacking a Temple of Chaos dedicated to Tsathoggua.

Will likely take a GMing break in December until the New Year.

I now have 2 fortnightly groups in the 5e Faerun Adventures sandbox (levels 5-6 and 6-8) mostly online, online 5e Primeval Thule at level 17, and tabletop fortnightly 5e Odyssey of the Dragonlords at level 4. Playing some online 5e and online BFRPG.

I used to mostly GM at the pub, but after the covid lockdowns have never gone back to pub gaming, instead either online or at the kitchen table.

   Rickety, increasingly so every time it's been moved...and the finish is in dire condition
from years of shenanigans.  It's about time to buy a new one... (sigh)

   As for gaming, i've got a small group of 2-4 players who show up once a week for some
1e AD&D, currently they are traipsing through a particularly desolate stretch of Oerth
attempting to ferry a magic stone they PC's were sent to retrieve, wondering why they
keep encountering goblins who demand 2cp in tribute at bridge crossings.  Of course the
band of goblins in question are working for a local Copper Dragon who's bullied them into
helping him collect a massive pile of copper pieces in order to attract a mate.

   Throw in a gynosphinx and a rust monster or two and it's 1981 all over again.  Bliss.

   Never really played online, it's always been face to face, have an interesting mix of older
1e players and new blood from the 5e (though one has an old players handbook, bequethed
by his father).  So far, been going well, despite the constant lockdowns and crime waves
in my city that make getting players over consistently somewhat difficult. 

The last real campaign I ran was 1e AD&D around a table, but COVID stopped that. However, that group started back up again within the past few months with my eldest son running games (I was pretty busy with some work projects at the time they started back up). He ran a Dark Heresy game for them, and now they've moved on to Call of Cthulhu (he's running Masks of Nyarlathotep). They've been playing weekly here at my house. (It's about a dozen high school and college aged players, which can be pretty noisy...)

They've been asking about resuming the AD&D game, but I think that will wait until they finish Masks of Nyarlathotep. I've been working on a few other things, here and there (a D&D variant for fourth age Middle Earth, and a BRP-based zombie survival horror thing). But like I said, I haven't run anything in quite a while.

I've tried online gaming, but it's just not my thing. I like my gaming to be face-to-face around a table. Not knocking online for those who enjoy it; it just isn't for me.

I stopped playing when my son was born in 2015 and haven't been active since. I could probably start a group with my kids, now they're all over 5, but not sure I'm ready for that yet.

Oh boy, I'm on several games, so here it goes

- My 5e game that I DM is on pause right now, and we are looking to move to pf1 (because I'm already tired of WOTC's bullshit and with 5e in general). They rescued the rogue, who was being experimented with some psychic stuff by an elven scientist, and now are moving to move westward through the desert to recover a dragon egg. Each character is having their own stuff, but in short: the rogue has a dryad as his left arm, and she gives him power, the bloodhunter is starting to develop feelings (and doesn't suspect he is not human, but a chunk of GOO flesh with his soul and mind transplanted into it, his "alchemy" is nothing more than a placebo that activates the GOO abilities), the dragon bloodrager will met her (evil dragon) mom, and face her and acept her dragon blood, the wizard is being stalked by Orcus and his lackeys, and is planning on how to deal with that permanently. The dancer and the cleric are there, still hasn't occurred much with them.

- My PF game I DM, the party is trying to repel a goblin and orc invasion to their hometown. They will learn that they were seeking a fragment of a key that their mayor has (but isn't aware of that), that supposedly leads to untold power... in reality it's the key to a sealed dragon, who's lackeys have created that legend to free their master. And they will be tasked with exploring the kingdom and find the fragments of that key (with a nasty surprise in the form of a dragon final boss at the end). We started a few weeks ago, so there isn't much to say really.

- Now as a player, I'm on several games. I'm in a custom 5e campagin, playing as a yuanti that wants to become an Anathema (classic), while trying to find the door to the "new world", because in a year, the apocalypse will come and we have to get out of here. Currently on the way to an island habitated by dragons to rescue some friends, learning the meaning of friendship, trying to man up a fragment of the current anathema (that wants to kill my PC, and viceversa) so he helps me, trying to give more ambition to the tabaxi warlock and not die, because the situation is fucked up.

- Another custom 5e game, we are pursuing a noble with psionic powers because he tried to use as literal puppets and may or may not be planning to unleash a psionic abomination to further his ambitions. My rakshasa (that hides her true race passing as a tabaxi) is having an important mental crisis ad every day her true identity is coming more and more to the light, and doesn't know how her friends (aka the current party) will react. Currently we are in some kind of fire hell dimension, pursuing one of the noble's allies.

- And my most "cringe" game, a Spyro ttrpg game. As odd as it sounds, so far has been my longest running game, and I've been having a lot of fun, obviously much more light and simple than the others, but still fun. Currently we are doing the trials of one of the antagonists, that if we pass them, she will abandon her life and join us. My character isn't happy with this, and wants her to truly change her views, as he doesn't see that as truly changing. She is an "absolute order" kind of bad guy, but instead of the usual tyranny, she just robotizes everyone that defies her. Quite the nutcase, really. Meanwhile in another zone it seems my attempts to make the 3 antagonists of that place (a white snake kaiju triplets) are back to causing trouble (and being kaijus... it's BIG troubles), and it seems we'll have to return and fix that once and for all. And to make it worse, my PC is in love with one of those kaijus... so we'll have interesting times ahead for sure.

I like this thread. I like to hear about folks' games.

For me. I'm running 5e for my kids and some other family members. Not my favorite edition but it's what they like. It's set in 2nd edition era Forgotten Realms, not this....this....whatever it is. We're having fun enough.

Mongoose Traveller 1E is underway in the Foreven Sector Frontier. I'm keeping the number of players down to 6 maximum so that I can stay sane while running. We have 4 so far and a possible 5th (depending on his schedule).

Two of them are Knights of the Honorable Order of the Arrow both sent to settle a new world, one is just a Dame (SS A) and the lover/bodyguard of a Count (SS E) who were assigned this Knightly Order because they are both embarrassments to their respective families (and Out Of the Way places are good for putting people Out Of The Way). The other 2 are a scientist with the AAB and a scout with a Detached Duty scout/courier, the scout has reluctantly agreed to ferry the scientist and the nobles to their new home. Knights of the Honorable Order of the Arrow are granted a budget of MCr 1, transport for 100 tons cargo and 100 low berth colonists, and a world survey including a Type E starport built for their settlement. There was already a settlement that failed there, so they are the second one.

Now, their first challenge is building the initial colony site for their settlers.

Second challenge will be the settlers themselves. Some owe some serious debt that they were trying to escape from and Hortalez et Cie wants their money. Plus one of the colony transports will have 200 transportee convicts instead of 100 volunteer settlers (mainly because Countess Cheyenne Grace Impanema who is leading the colonization effort in Foreven Sector doesn't want competition).

Third will be the Vargr raiders.

Then some perfidious Zhodani.

Then since they are near Alenzar, there will be Chamax!

All in all, it should be pretty fun!