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Author Topic: [No Politics Please] - How are you playing these days? What are you playing?  (Read 8409 times)

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My Friday group has been face to face since May of 2020 and we have finished a 5E Saltmarsh game up and started an Avernus 5E game. We have had one or two come down with COVID-19 and they either missed those weeks or remoted in via an iPad.

My thursday game is on Roll20 due to the fact that two of the players live in other states and we have played 5e, a Mythras Star Wars game and Cepheus Quantum/Barbaric!.

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Not running anything atm. It's too hard to get people to regularly turn up.
I'm considering starting an online campaign of something, using roll20 or a Discord mix.

Atm, I'm focusing on a side business work with web development anyway

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Just spent a month reinstalling and modding skyrim LE; got to where i think i'm satisfied with it, then reinstalled star trek online, discovered some new cstore content i dig and have spent about 200 bucks on it since then.

Bought the legendary klingon bundle for the D7cruiser and the lvl65 token mostly, bought the cat people escort for the rail gun to use on other characters and ships, bought a t6 romulan malem/tvara warbird which came with a warhead module like that found on the kor bird of prey which i had already bought back when it first came out, got that romulan lvled up to 26 now i think.

So i got my 65 starfleet engineer guy who has like 5 cstore fed ships;
Got a 65 jem'hadar tactical guy who has the cstore t6 dominion cruiser, the default bugship, and the lobi crystal dominion battleship with 2 hangars
Got a lvl 65 "alien" klingon faction tactical guy with like 12-15 cstore ships of various tiers most purchased for their consoles like the warhead modules and power leech console.
And the new 26 romulan science officer guy and the malem bop.

klingon bundle came with cross faction unlocks so technically each of these guys has access to over 30 cstore ships of various tiers and their consoles, but i try to keep each one with only 4-5 faction/race appropriate ships geared up and ready to switch out, outside of grinding in the t6 ones for the starship trait each unlocks im not big into flying cross faction, messes up the thematics for me and bores me.

Now the kor and the malem are some of the best cstore buys i ever made; both can launch mines and projectiles while cloaked, the quantum warhead module from the kor can go on any ship though the plasma one on the malem can only go on the malem...but this means that the malem can fire full spread/high yield of whatever normal torpedoes you slot plus a volley of like 12 seeker mines and of course 6 quantum and 6 plasma torps all at once w/o dropping cloak. very heavy one-shot kill alpha strike and if it survives it will probably die from the mines in a few seconds.

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sorry, as to tabletop, nothing swinging.
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Still playing in person Pathfinder 2e with my Friends & Family group.   They are currently roaming around a multi tiered dungeon and have created all sorts of problems with the locals that reside inside but when they have the motto of "no treasure left behind" whatcha going to do..... :p
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Running AD&D every other week, and playing AD&D every week in thedungeondelver's Greyhawk game.  My second Greyhawk campaign went on hiatus for the football season in the fall, and hasn't seemed to return yet ;)   My sporadic AD&D Greyhawk campaigns with my two sons (I DM one, and my younger son Henry DMs a 1:1 game for me) will pick up some more steam now that school's nearly out. 

I'm also playing Delta Green once per month, and giving some vague thought to a Blue Planet campaign with the advent of the new edition.

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I'm slowing starting to get the band back together for some in-person gaming.   Last year we were starting a Basic Fantasy campaign that was cut short due to the COVID madness.  But now its time to game again.  I'm just not sure if we'll continue with Basic Fantasy, or try out Old School Essentials.  Or maybe some Swords & Wizardry.  Or maybe try The Black Hack, or maybe try out my own Knave hack.  We're all old school players, so the toughest choice right now is deciding on which OSR game to run.

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Running 1st edition Metamorphosis Alpha. Never played it before and I’ve never GM’ed it either. We’re five sessions In and my group of 5 players is having fun. At this point we’re still at the “training wheels” stage as we get a handle on the rules.

MA is a lot of theatre of mind as we are discovering.

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Still playing D&D 5e. I largely don't mind it, at this point, and while I miss some of the more fiddly bits of 3e, the players not needing to have complete systemic mastery of the game to make decent characters has been a refreshing change of pace.

Having finished up my (rather modified) take on the Strange Aeons Pathfinder AP around the start of April, we took a break and are set to start up again next week.

Originally, the plan this run was going to be the Shattered Star PF AP, but... it didn't feature the kinds of creatures I wanted, it didn't really have a coherent story that works outside of Paizo's setting, and the ending was lackluster.

This led to be taking SS1 and modifying the crap out of it, to the point that it is almost unrecognizable, and throwing the rest of the AP out while retaining the general "recover bits of this MacGuffin" theme. I inserted the Illithiad adventure series from 2e, though the first one will happen "off-screen," and also added in the Tear of Ioun miniseries from some Dungeon mags from 4e.

Add in a random Paizo adventure about having to go to the moon, and I think I'm happy with the concoction.
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... and I think I'm happy with the concoction.

The inside scoop on how/what/why you are doing this, with notes, addendums, and your creative spark...? Would make for a fantastic blog. I mean it. This sounds incredible and also sounds like a lot of love is going into it!
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By mid-June all my group will be vaccinated. We plan to play Call of Cthulhu 7E.

Since last year we enormously enjoyed "Mythos Tales" (not an RPG but a game of investigation and deduction based on the "Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective" system - only in Arkham") I proposed a campaign called "Mythos Tales - Origins", based on the same narrative structure.

The characters are a group of investigators working for professor Armitage of the Arkham University. We start on September 1920 - with a prologue set in late January 1920 where the players keep other characters ("Under a Winter Snow"). How the events in far North Dakota are connected with the happenings in Lovecraft Count(r)y will be something to discover.

The first proper adventure will see the characters arriving in Arkham by car from Boston - only (obviously) to meet the "Dead Light" along the way...  ;)
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I have always had trouble playing in purely fictional places like "Boston" and "Providence."

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fictional places like "Boston"

Your dang username says "New Haven" not "New York City."
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And I now live in Deerfield Beach. But Providence, especially, is imaginary. I saw Jefferson Airplane there but I still don't believe it exists.

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Playing Ars Magica 5th edition, set in AD 1220, in person game.  I started during the campaign during the pandemic, 1 x a month, just to get some gaming going- I wasn't too keen on the online games.  Now that people are getting vaccinated, we're probably going to every 3 weeks.  That's about all I can handle as GM anyway, time wise. 

The 1220 AD setting seems to keep everyone's expectations reasonable.  It's 1220 AD, so you know going in what's what.  Really helped when I recruited a few new players.  Going well so far!

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And I now live in Deerfield Beach. But Providence, especially, is imaginary. I saw Jefferson Airplane there but I still don't believe it exists.

The descriptions of Providence in "The Haunter of the Dark" are very dreamlike, like if the city is halfway in the Dreamlands.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.