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Author Topic: I've got 721 problems and the bitch ain't one  (Read 903 times)

Bland Joe Dwarf

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« on: October 30, 2012, 09:55:25 AM »
So, folks, been mostly a lurker here and on tBP for so long, I've started mostly information request threads, but now I feel I must introduce myself properly to the board.

I'm a 32 year old compulsive collector GM, living in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and part of your old friend, The Butcher's regular group. From this board I also know silva, and am currently pestering to GM some Glorantha for us. Hi guys !

Well, thing is, like the title says, my RPG game collection is numbering, today, 721 titles, only counting dead tree ones, and unfortunately many of them haven't seen much, or any usage.

I'm currently GMing two campaigns, a Game of Thrones d20 one, set prior to the Blackfyre Rebellion, and a murder mystery Vampire the Requiem one, centered in San Antonio, Texas, with elements from Damnation City, The Danse Macabre, and Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead, and between these and playing on Butcher's Warhammer game, I'm out of face to face game time.

I'm, as I've stated, an all-school kind of guy, having before GMed a Black Company pastiche sword & sorcery campaign, using Castles & Crusades in a semi-sandbox style, and before that a Changeling the Lost meets WoD Slasher game, and BEFORE that a 4e game with the PCs as Black Lantern spies in Eberron...

And I could go on and on, but mostly, besides the introduction, and stating the case that the few I times I gave books away I regretted it afterwards, what you guys think my course of action should be to make the most of my collecion... Online gaming ? Shorter-term games ?
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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2012, 10:00:07 AM »
Play more often with multiple groups? That's a little bit tongue-in-cheek, and a more serious answer might be to play more often but with an open table strategy.
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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2012, 10:00:41 AM »
Run the games you haven't got a chance to run yet on G+ via Hangouts.

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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2012, 10:14:38 AM »
Awesome! Good to meet  you so to speak. A good thing to do, is find things you really want to run--and do just that. Things which aren't useful for ideas, and you aren't running after a couple of years? You might consider trading or selling.
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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2012, 10:53:39 AM »
Quote from: Bobloblah;595975
Play more often with multiple groups? That's a little bit tongue-in-cheek, and a more serious answer might be to play more often but with an open table strategy.



Hi Bobloblah. If by open table, you mean accepting whoever wants to join, I already do that. In fact, the mercenary company themed C&C game showed me it was the perfect way to keep the table full.
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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2012, 10:56:52 AM »
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Run the games you haven't got a chance to run yet on G+ via Hangouts.

Nice, Mister Guignol,thanks very much for the suggestion I'll try those. How do they work ?  Any recommendations ? By the way, I'm the one owing you a DCC conversion for Tales, that's my next tabletop game, I'm just figuring out the Patrons :)
« Last Edit: October 30, 2012, 11:01:12 AM by Bland Joe Dwarf »
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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2012, 11:00:30 AM »
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Awesome! Good to meet  you so to speak. A good thing to do, is find things you really want to run--and do just that. Things which aren't useful for ideas, and you aren't running after a couple of years? You might consider trading or selling.


Nice to meet you too, Silverlion. Thing is, I have ideas for the whole spectrum of games, think from Swords & Wizardry, passing through Aftermath, then through WoD, going all the way to Spione and My Life With Master.
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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2012, 11:00:44 AM »
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Hi Bobloblah. If by open table, you mean accepting whoever wants to join, I already do that. In fact, the mercenary company themed C&C game showed me it was the perfect way to keep the table full.


Yeah, pretty much. It's a strategy for keeping a game running as often as possible, which is a great way to work your way through your backlog of gaming material you'd like to put to use.
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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2012, 04:03:00 PM »
Its interesting that we appear to have more Brazilians on this site than we do Argentinians, or even Uruguayans-not-in-my-immediate-gaming-inner-circle, for that matter.

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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2012, 04:58:18 PM »
Maybe you should run some sort of crazy mega-campaign that spans multiple worlds and lets you use multiple books at once.
Or a series of one-offs using different rules systems but interlinked somehow.

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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2012, 05:36:41 PM »
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Nice, Mister Guignol,thanks very much for the suggestion I'll try those. How do they work ?  Any recommendations ? By the way, I'm the one owing you a DCC conversion for Tales, that's my next tabletop game, I'm just figuring out the Patrons :)


Well, there is a calendar to post your games on here but I think the best way to find players is to start "circling" other gamers on G+ and post about what you're interested in running and when.  So far I haven't seen people have a hard time finding cool people to play with.

And yeah, let me know how the DCC conversion goes!  Looking forward to seeing that.

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« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2012, 08:15:11 PM »
Welcome to the RPGsite, BJD!
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« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2012, 09:55:13 PM »
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Welcome to the RPGsite, BJD!


Thanks, Novastar.
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2012, 10:27:42 PM »
I've given this same thing a bit of thought but on a much, much smaller scale and only in regards to fantasy.
Make up a solar system and place each different setting on its own planet in the system and then make adventures that move from plate to planet or whatever.
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You are posting in a troll thread.

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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2012, 10:53:31 AM »
Thank you guys for the suggestions !
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