Quote from: BedrockBrendan;539658The trick to running ravenloft is to ignore the modules material and the 2e railroading (which the ravenloft line suffered from pretty heavily). If you work around that stuff the modules are still useable (feast of goblyns and castles forlorn had plenty of good stuff to use). The biggest problem with ravenloft is they encouraged gms to do a lot of bad things in their advice sections: use the mist as a plot sledgehammer ("you WILL go to the haunted house and LIKE it), story heavy adventures (The Created Module is a classic example), etc. It worked if you let the players explore and take initiative (and the powers checks system really went well with this style of play). The original setting was actually small enough that I could literally run a whole campaign without planning a single thing in advance if I really wanted to (because i was able to familiarize myself with all the key people and places).

Totally.

The actual scenario where the PCs would basically come to the setting being sucked by the mist and *explore* from there and get involved wherever/however they want would be (and was) the way I would go about it. Alternately, running a sort of "Ravenloft by Night" would be awesome (i.e. building a domain or city as a sandbox, City State of the Invincible Overlord, Ptolus style, and the PCs just go about their business in there) - that was the approach of S&S's Rookhausen live Ravenloft game online. It was great.

Quote from: Drohem;539653Hey, I made an assumption about what you would run when I made the initial post.  Sorry about that, but was I right?  Or would you run something else?

No, you guessed right, I was just remarking about the wide spread of games for anybody who accuses this site of being pre 4e Dnd only.

Quote from: Benoist;539662Totally.

The actual scenario where the PCs would basically come to the setting being sucked by the mist and *explore* from there and get involved wherever/however they want would be (and was) the way I would go about it. Alternately, running a sort of "Ravenloft by Night" would be awesome (i.e. building a domain or city as a sandbox, City State of the Invincible Overlord, Ptolus style, and the PCs just go about their business in there) - that was the approach of S&S's Rookhausen live Ravenloft game online. It was great.

That can all work great. Just stripping out the railroading works well ingeneral with those settings. Most of the time, players sucked into ravenloft will focus on escape as a primary goal, so there is a built in motiviation that drives the majority of campaigns. All kinds of interesting stuff crops up in their effort to escape or as they resolve themselves to their new fate. A lot of the later material tried to make the setting a more complete setting with pcs as natives, so that has all kinds of possibilities too (personally I prefer the classic, sucked into ravenloft and the pcs are set loose).

Cities are a good point. It is very easy to focus a campaign on one city or domain (which can be very maneagable). That is great for political intrigue and investigations.

Quote from: Melan;539615I think I will be visiting Barcelona somewhere in September, courtesy of ESPON, and barring an economic apocalypse (I mean, a worse one. Ha. Ha. That's the joke.). I always travel with my dice. Always.

Awesome, our baby is due around the 20th

Quote from: jibbajibba;539617I'll run an Amber game for you provided we quit at 11pm and head out to a salsa club

That can be easily arranged.

I'd run something. Let's see:

Hearts & Souls: Falling Stars (Live Playtest of random pc generation)
High Valor: Coils of Madness

I'd likely be up for running MSH or something similar as well..

since i don't see CoC on that list, i'll "volunteer" to run some, but modern day.  someone else can do the 20s session

What is on the date on this? Next summer I'm scheduled to visit Israel. I could do the layove three days in Spain as easily as a Paris or London stay. I'd want to visit some castles and stuff as well. Ancient Judea, Medieval Hotspots in the Med and ancient Rome are already featured heavily in the vacation plans so far.

There's no date, it's more of a what-if kinda thing.

BFRPG, set in 2e Ravenloft.

Quote from: GameDaddy;539784What is on the date on this? Next summer I'm scheduled to visit Israel. I could do the layove three days in Spain as easily as a Paris or London stay. I'd want to visit some castles and stuff as well. Ancient Judea, Medieval Hotspots in the Med and ancient Rome are already featured heavily in the vacation plans so far.

Quote from: danbuter;539788BFRPG, set in 2e Ravenloft.

I'm assuming this means "the convention will take place in Barcelona, which in turn will be sucked into the mists of Ravenloft".  

Uninfortunately it's just a fun thought exercise currently but Brendan made a good suggestion that could be realistic.  Regional meetups like a RPGSITE miniconvention done on a sort of semiannual basis. The question is though what would you run GameDaddy? If it actually happened.

Given the likely atmosphere of the Barcelona Mythical Meetup, I'd have to run something crazy.

Like at the end of the week, I'll run some weird cosmic dimension-hopping thing (FASERIP maybe) where everyone can play a PC they played earlier in the week, preferably one that died.

Quote from: VectorSigma;539802Given the likely atmosphere of the Barcelona Mythical Meetup, I'd have to run something crazy.

Like at the end of the week, I'll run some weird cosmic dimension-hopping thing (FASERIP maybe) where everyone can play a PC they played earlier in the week, preferably one that died.

Why has nobody mentioned PARANOIA?  What's FASERIP?

How about a nice light game of Gangbusters? See if your mobsters can become the top dogs in the city.

Quote from: Marleycat;539816Why has nobody mentioned PARANOIA?  What's FASERIP?

Marvel Superheroes Role-Playing game by TSR (stats spell out "FASERIP" and it used dice and a universal table.)