Sep 3, 2015 9:22 am
I admit it; I'm a games collector. As such, I have scads of RPGs I've never played, and others that I love that hardly anyone else has ever played. I'm trying to get a sense of what games players would be interested in having me run.
Got a favorite system, or are curious about a system? Suggest it; I might have it, and might be inspired by the suggestion to run a game in it.
At the moment, I'm considering the following systems off the top of my head:
* AD&D, D&D (from the Cyclopedia), or D&D5 - D&D scratches a nostalgic itch for me, but I wonder if we've reached saturation with D&D games on GP yet. Are there still players who'd like to get in some D&D?
* Skyrealms of Jorune - Probably in my top five games to run, SoJ has a very rich SF setting, with a SF-fallen-into-barbarism-after-an-apocalypse theme, and I suspect is well-suited to the sort of storytelling that PbP supports. Also: anthropomorphic animals, unique vocabulary, and magic!
* Protectors - a homebrew version of Space Seekers, which is a storytelling space opera game in which you play normal people placed in extraordinary situations (usually involving aliens, spaceships, and tremendously dangerous weapons). I'm excited about the recent RPG "End of the World," which apparently has a similar PC setup; I love playing in games and running games in which players play themselves or people much like themselves. I've been doing it for 25 years, though I came late to the party (Space Seekers has been going since 1982).
* The Taint - my favorite superhero game, the Taint is a 90s dice pool RPG in which players have a mutant strain that may or may not manifest itself as a superpower right away. The TV show "Heroes" seemed cribbed from the Taint when it first aired.
* Paranoia - Chaos and humor? My wheelhouse. Paranoia is THE "darkly humorous game." I'm most familiar with 1st and 2nd editions, but as far as I've seen, the variance between editions is as slight as the difference between CoC editions...which is to say, almost negligible. Still, if you want to play Paranoia in any edition, let me know.
Finally, if there's a particular type of game that you want to play, but don't particularly care about which system it's run in, let me know that, too. I'll probably have three systems that could work for any flavor of game.
Got a favorite system, or are curious about a system? Suggest it; I might have it, and might be inspired by the suggestion to run a game in it.
At the moment, I'm considering the following systems off the top of my head:
* AD&D, D&D (from the Cyclopedia), or D&D5 - D&D scratches a nostalgic itch for me, but I wonder if we've reached saturation with D&D games on GP yet. Are there still players who'd like to get in some D&D?
* Skyrealms of Jorune - Probably in my top five games to run, SoJ has a very rich SF setting, with a SF-fallen-into-barbarism-after-an-apocalypse theme, and I suspect is well-suited to the sort of storytelling that PbP supports. Also: anthropomorphic animals, unique vocabulary, and magic!
* Protectors - a homebrew version of Space Seekers, which is a storytelling space opera game in which you play normal people placed in extraordinary situations (usually involving aliens, spaceships, and tremendously dangerous weapons). I'm excited about the recent RPG "End of the World," which apparently has a similar PC setup; I love playing in games and running games in which players play themselves or people much like themselves. I've been doing it for 25 years, though I came late to the party (Space Seekers has been going since 1982).
* The Taint - my favorite superhero game, the Taint is a 90s dice pool RPG in which players have a mutant strain that may or may not manifest itself as a superpower right away. The TV show "Heroes" seemed cribbed from the Taint when it first aired.
* Paranoia - Chaos and humor? My wheelhouse. Paranoia is THE "darkly humorous game." I'm most familiar with 1st and 2nd editions, but as far as I've seen, the variance between editions is as slight as the difference between CoC editions...which is to say, almost negligible. Still, if you want to play Paranoia in any edition, let me know.
Finally, if there's a particular type of game that you want to play, but don't particularly care about which system it's run in, let me know that, too. I'll probably have three systems that could work for any flavor of game.