Time to check in on what everyone is running, or planning to run. I like doing these every now and again, just see what everyone is up to.
If you can, list:
-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
Currently running the same D6 (Mini Six, actually) game I've been running for two years (pbp), although I'm down to one player. Setting is the Rust Moon of Castia mini-setting from the book (sort of Willow with the serial numbers files off). We should be in the final arc right now, but who knows how long that will last considering it's pbp.
Next I'd like to try running Beyond the Wall (OSR/D&Dish game) again. Ran a brief game a while back that died out, in no small part due to not enough preparation on my part. I'll go in better prepared this time.
I'd also like to finally try and run Barbarians of Lemuria (or Legends of Steel).
Still running Labyrinth Lord using my Wampus Country setting - weekly games on G+ and occasional in-person sessions in what is essentially an open table. We've had something like sixty different players drop by in the last year, over seventy in the G+ community; started the campaign in probably August of 2011. Some players join regularly, others occasionally, and we have a handful who only come around for the PbP bits.
It's the only game I'll be running for some time, I think.
Running Against the Slavers series using Next.
I am currently between campaigns having finished Horror on the Orient Express for Call of Cthulhu and Sentinel/Gauntlet for Dungeon World. I am taking a six month break from running a regular campaign.
On saying that, I have plans for 3 short run games (2 or sessions) in that time that are all face to face:
Iron Ridge for Tenra Bansho Zero
The Ghost Ship v the Pope for Warbirds
Escape from Mos Shuuta for Edge of the Empire
Leaving aside Warbirds, where the title only sells the awesome, I am excited about Tenra Bansho Zero as the mechanics are simply sublime and I am hoping to do a riff of Pacific Rim and Kurosawa's Ran.
-Hopefully Edge of the Empire this weekend
-Edge of the Empire Beginners game.
-Star Wars
-One-shot
-Face to Face
I hope to get my 4E D&D group (who is on a 40k kick right now) to try the new Star Wars Rpg.
Quote from: Starglyte;678687I hope to get my 4E D&D group (who is on a 40k kick right now) to try the new Star Wars Rpg.
I think EotE would be a good choice to transition fans of D&D, Pathfinder and the 40K games to. The system is a little saner too, despite the funky dice :)
Quote from: Skywalker;678701I think EotE would be a good choice to transition fans of D&D, Pathfinder and the 40K games to. The system is a little saner too, despite the funky dice :)
They really like playing with minis, so though I got them on board for this weekend(baring some schedule problems), actually running a campaign is another matter. They are gearing up for the Space Marine army release next month, so even if they like the EotE, it might end up being an once a month thing.
Quote from: Starglyte;678702They really like playing with minis, so though I got them on board for this weekend(baring some schedule problems), actually running a campaign is another matter. They are gearing up for the Space Marine army release next month, so even if they like the EotE, it might end up being an once a month thing.
We plan to use the WotC Star Wars minis, poster maps and tiles when we play EotE. True, the rules don't deal with spatial movement, but they are pretty robust for relative movement.
So I think minis may work great for EotE, and actually be better in some ways than RCR or Saga in that regard.
Not running anything, currently. Not sure what/when I'll run something next.
Currently playing in a face-to-face Gurps 4e Transhuman Space campaign, which will probably wrap up in mid-September. After that, I'll be playing in a Gurps 4e Banestorm campaign that'll run from between September and January, or February.
I'm not really a fan of Gurps, but I put up with it. Once I get past chargen (with extensive help from my fellow, Gurps-enthusiast, players), it's more palatable.
-Partially lifted and modified "Grandfather's Rain"
-Other Dust
-California in the year 2860
-ongoing
-face to face
I've started running a Stars Without Number campaign using what will ultimately be a very deviant version of the Mass Effect setting.
I'll be running it with my regular group, which in September will be starting it's 15th year of regular old-fashioned, kitchen table gaming. It will also be the first one without one of our founding members, who moved so that his wife can start her new career as a country school teacher. We were all both proud and sad.
The bonus has been that after recent Exalted and D&D 3.5 campaigns, people have been shocked at the speed of the combat round, something I plan to exploit. :D
I'm currently running an Atlantis: the Second Age game for some friends using the playtest from the Kickstarter, since the final book won't be out for backers until september or so. I'm planning to change to Lords of Gossamer & Shadow once I got my copy, since sword & sorcery doesn't seem to appeal to my friends very much (plus I really want to try that game).
Other than that, I run short games for another group once in a while. Maybe we'll play a Tenra Bansho Zero one-shot in two weeks.
PS: I really miss playing once per week like I did last year. :(
Rotating through multiple campaigns:
Savage Midnight - Midnight using Savage Worlds. We just finished Crown of Shadow.
Two Deadlands Reloaded campaigns, one that will eventually run through The Flood Plot Point and one that will run through the Last Sons plot point, I think.
The Savage World of Solomon Kane plot point campaign.
We are planning to give Dresden Files a go, since I just finished the 10th book, and I'm thinking of resuming my kid's Spider-Man campaign, but using Fate Accelerated instead of Marvel SAGA.
I am down to run a Star Wars (D6 1st ed) later this month. I've planned it as a one shot but I guess it could potentially grow into a mini-campaign.
Things are kind of slow since my ICONS campaign ended in June. The summer holidays making it hard to get the whole gang together, and rightly so!
After my D&D next play test faded out due to fatigue, I have moved on to play testing a game (and setting) of my own creation. Not really talked about how long this will last, suspect 6 months to a year. Face-to-face.
I'm currently running a D&D 2nd Edition Player's Option PbP, set in Greyhawk. My SO and I left a 1e game last year and decided to start up a new campaign with our characters, but using 2ePO. The spinoff's been running since February.
I'm also planning to fire up the 2ePO Greyhawk PbP I put on hiatus last October. It had been running for 2 years at the time. All my players save one are up for continuing. We'd planned to start back in June, but due to a death in my SO's family, I put things off for a while. I'm thinking maybe we'll start after Labor Day.
I'd still like to run through the sample game in the MouseGuard book and to run in (or play) Stars Without Number.
Getting ready to start a Marvel FASERIP game, with 3 players.
Reason I'm excited? It's my 7-year old son's first game (specifically requested, too).
Playing in a DDC face to face game, although that's coming to an end soon, so i won't get to feel the awesomeness of 4th level. Boo!
I've decided today in fact to return to Rolemaster after a few years away. It always was the system i felt most at home in.
-Currently running Tyche's Favourites (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Tyche%27s_Favourites).
-System: heavily houseruled ACKS.
-Setting: Massalia, 300BC. Straight historical; no magic, monsters or dungeons.
-Duration: Runs weekly (most of the time) expected to until my second daughter is born at the end of October.
-Type: Face to face.
-Bonus: What excites me most is getting to use historical details all over the place, and creating an interesting scenario without falling back onto "a wizard did it".
Quote from: Zachary The First;678642Time to check in on what everyone is running, or planning to run. I like doing these every now and again, just see what everyone is up to.
If you can, list:
-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
I am running Ernie Gygax's Hobby Shop Dungeon using 1st edition AD&D rules. It is face to face at the moment (I am play-testing an introduction module we authored for Gygax Magazine #3), but will include online games soon as I open the table progressively to whoever wants to play. Probably will use Skype and/or G+. The setting is our own, and I expect it to run for quite a while. What most interests me is to see the setting we've been working with for months now come to life at a game table I will be running, and see what unexpected objectives, strategies and courses of action players will come up with!
Current games:
-Campaign: Merchants of Death
-System: Volant - Kingdoms of Air and Stone
-Setting: Created for the game by the group. A group of floating skylands being assailed by a nomadic people settled on migratory stone fragments. PCs are from a fragment that sells trained war birds and engines of destruction to other governments.
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Next couple of months
-Type: IRC
-Campaign: 1802
-System: In Harm's Way: A Napoleonic Naval Roleplaying Game
-Setting: The Gulf of Mexico, in 1802, hunting pirates for the Royal Navy
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Until winter, when the group switches to StarCluster 3. Currently in its 8th year.
-Type: IRC
-Campaign: Playtest #1
-System: Lowell Was Right! A Very Different Now
-Setting: Mars, 2013. PCs have crash landed on Nix Olympica (Mars) and are trying to reach civilization.
-Expected/current duration of campaign: A month or so more before we switch to Playtest #2
-Type: Face to Face
I'm running Lacuna. Fast, fun, tense... perfect for these Summer Nights :)
For this fall I'm putting the finishing touches on my "CSI Waterdeep" campaign - D&D 3.5. It will be an experiment: we agreed on three "episodes". If we like it we will go on, if not I'll think about something else - probably with GURPS 4E.
-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
Shadow threats
Amber
Post first series
as long as I can make it last
Face to face 3 hour sessions weekly
Surprised how well my group has taken to it. Sessions detailed in Amber forumn
Desert Storms
3.5 D&D
Home Brew world
Will end in 3-4 months. when they hit 12th or so. Game gets hard to run though I can itis starting to overload the players with options and game prep is too intensive to do it like I want to do it.
Face to face weekly sessions 3-4 hours
System and game was requested by a player who has since dropped out due to life. Didn't really want to run it. But oH well.
Shining Worlds
Hoebrew hack of Seventh sea system
Home brew universe, Mostly Firefly, lil babylon 5 and generic space opera stuff.
Plots are becoming an issue but should run another year or so.
Face to face weekly sessions 6-8 hours
This is my zero prep walk in no plot game that I amaze myself that I run some intircate plots with no plan even up to the actual game session. Been fun and love playing my NPC's.
That's it for me
Considering running a PBEM Amber game for shits and giggles.
later
-Dark Portals - Against The Horrors
-13th Age
-My own setting I'm planning on publishing
-6+ months at least
-Type: face-to-face on a table. :-)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is the light fast rules that still feel very much like D&D to me. I'm super excited to play test my setting and get direct feedback. The 13th age has a couple "story game" elements that I really like, the way the classes are defined is fun (very player-focused), and it has system-bits in the right places.
Our first session was a blast and the 2nd session happens this Sunday.
I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around. Probably will be next time, too.
Quote from: RPGPundit;679594I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around. Probably will be next time, too.
Yeah, same here. Still running Call of Cthulhu 6E, prepping for Coyote Trail and plans aplenty for other stuff.
-current campaign: The Extraterrestrial Eater, a homebrew scenario
-system: BRP/Call of Cthulhu 6E
-setting: 1920s Lovecraft Country
-expected duration: one or two more sessions
-type: face-to-face
-next campaign: no scenario yet
-system: GDi/Coyote Trail (+ Knuckleduster Firearms Shop)
-setting: 1866 Montana
-expected duration: no idea
-type: face-to-face
-Current Campaign: Secondary Wilderlands (a branch of my long running Wilderlands campaign but set in the Valley of the Ancients area.)
-System: Playtesting Microlite81
-Setting: Judges Guild Wilderlands (Map 3: Valley of the Ancients area)
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Unknown, but may eventually merge with the suspended main Wilderlands campaign (set in the City-State of the Invincible Overlord map).
-Type: face-to-face (my Sunday Game)
Quote from: RPGPundit;679594I'm running the exact same things I was running last time this thread came around. Probably will be next time, too.
That's awesome! :)
-Current Shadow World Grand Campaign / Legacy of the Sea Drake / Shadow Stone / Legacy of the Loremaster Epic world spanning campaign
-System Highly house ruled AD&D 2nd ed. with players options: S&M and C&T crits modified to be more RM like.
-Setting: Shadow world setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign: Started in November 2012 will likely end in a few years at the current pace
-Type: face to face in@ my dinner table
-Bonus: I love that this Campaign resembles a COC campaign. I love that entire sessions are spent just researching and I love that my PC's are afraid, very afraid of what they've learned.
Quote from: Zachary The First;678642-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
Right now, I'm running two different games in my
Wandering Stars setting. It's a sort of Western/steampunk space fantasy thing-- FTL dirigibles with gunslingers and elves. They're both using slightly different variants of Fate Core, because I'm still designing the rules, and both are relatively new. I'm hoping they'll both last at least a few months.
The first game focuses on a pirate crew that started off exploring Angelic ruins on a frontier planet-- after their ship crashed-- and are now being drawn into the Celestial intrigues between Angels and Demons.
The second game focuses on Baroness Lupine von Changepelt's Traveling Wildspace show, which is getting drawn into the lead-up to the First Galactic War. They're investigating the murder of a prodigal princess by a false flag operation led by a legendary mercenary and trying to figure out why they're being attacked by every Orcish raiding party for light-months in any direction.
Next campaign I'm planning is either going to be my epic
Planescape/Star*Drive crossover (in which the two settings are gradually combined into a
Galactic Planescape) or a Street Fighter RPG campaign with rules tweaks to support more urban fantasy.
Quote from: Zachary The First;678642-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
CURRENT
-Hollow Earth Expedition
-The Hollow Earth then on to some Greek ruins
-Duration is open ended
-Face2Face every week or so
PLANNING
-All Flesh Must Be Eaten with bits from Witchcraft
-Modern-day Manitoba
-Duration? A series of one-shots
-Excited to try out Unisystem
-Epic RPG
-Hex crawl during a strongly magical neolithic
-I got hexographer last week and it game me the motivation to pull this campaign off the back burner.
Quote from: Zachary The First;678642Time to check in on what everyone is running, or planning to run. I like doing these every now and again, just see what everyone is up to.
If you can, list:
-Current or next campaign planned
-System
-Setting
-Expected/current duration of campaign
-Type: (G+, face-to-face, email. PbP, etc.)
-Bonus: What most interests or excites me about this upcoming campaign is....
(Hey folks, new to the site)
Current: Ninjas & Superspies, homebrew campaign
System: based loosely on palladium's d20 system, but heavily homebrewed rules (been working on a homebrewed system for about half this campaigns life, as the campaign is heavy on martial arts/hand to hand combat and dare I say it.. grappling. Which most, if not all, systems I've looked at handled fairly poorly.)
Setting: Earth, 150 years from now, tells the story of magic/monsters/whatnot coming to earth
Duration: Going on 3 years now once a week, and hope to keep going for as long as interest persists
Type: face-to-face, but recently added email to the mix
Bonus: I originally came up with the idea for this campaign with the thought that allowing my regular group of gamers to create their own "earth-like" world from more or less 'the ground up' would be interesting. As they play their choices/actions have global consequences/results. With the end goal being after they finish this campaign, we fire up new campaigns in the world they have created.
Ok, my current weekly game:
Was Pathfinder, switched over to 4E dnd, Face to face, Setting is the City of Sigil, The Forgotten Realms and Ebberon.
Been playing for a few months, expect the game to last years.
Campaign back story in a nutshell:
Six 'heroes' are summoned from various worlds and planes by a wizard seeking help to save his world from an invasion of Demons.
The very diverse group of heroes agree to help mostly out of goodwill, and partially in expectations the wizard will return them home afterwords.
Demons overwhelm the wizards world and refugees including the heroes escape through a portal to Sigil.
The heroes adventure in Sigil and do some portal hopping, trying to recover evil artifacts that were the demons goal.
The heroes mostly succeed in foiling the demons plans to use evil artifacts to take over sigil, and than all of the Planes.
Time line advances 50 years (New characters made to make change from pathfinder to 4E less troublesome)
Two of the original heroes become cool mentor type npc's.
New heroes are summoned in a similar manner to save the same world again from the leftover demons of the first invasion 50 years ago.
Heroes take on this threat and discover Lolth is planning something that threatens everything.
They travel to a dark elven city in hopes of learning more and actually working against Lolth.
Heroes disguised as Drow (One pc is actually from the city) struggle at first but eventually accomplish quite a lot in the drow city.
They learn that one heroes home world of Ebberon is being invaded by Neogi and they choose to travel there immediately.
The heroes, a handful of allies they have gained, and 330 goblins liberated from the Drow city flee through a portal to Ebberon.
Characters
Kaius: Half Vampire Assassin, roman military man type.
Millie: Githzerai Psion Druid, goth type.
Itch: Goblin Battlemind (Psychic warrior) Liberator of Goblins
Vivi: Warpriest of Ellistraee, Drow noble
Sora: Kalashtar Ardent (psychic warrior/healer)
Analu: Human Elementalist storm/wind sorcerer, Airship Captain from Ebberron.
Note the three characters from Ebberon are all from different times.
Neverwinter Nights Campaign Setting using D&D Next.
I'm kinda burning out on making my own adventures, so I'm considering a published adventure. Maybe Tomb of Abysthor.
Considering picking up Dragon's Demand from Paizo. Level 1-6 works for me. However, I find it difficult to stomach the cloying flavour of their adventures, at least in the APs I've seen.
Dungeon World, tonight my players are venturing inside an abandoned temple (That used to be inhabited by Kobolds) and is current being used by cultists of the multiplanar city of Dis as a beachhead for dimensional overlap. They should solve this, this week. Not sure what we're doing next week!
Details, we're playing face-to-face, in a world of my own creation.