Any games, module, intersting experiments?

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    Hot Spring Island its just so interesting.

    Worlds without Number, I love the way rules and spells are described using natural language.

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    Homebrew stonepunk setting with GURPS

    Duskvol with HERO (don’t care much for FitD, but the setting seemed cool)

    AD&D 2nd Edition game in a post-cataclysmic Forgotten Realms, where magic is only done by specialty priests and thus cults are getting increasingly important. Basically a mixture between regular FR, those wu xia movies with lots of hidden sects and the cults of RuneQuest.

    Speaking of RuneQuest, now that BRP/ORC is out, I want to use it for something. Torn between a Qin dynasty not-quite-Wu Xia game and MERP-style Middle Earth.

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      I frickin love GURPS Ice Age supplement. But never have run it for two reasons:

      1. After years of consideration I’ve come to the conclusion that I just don’t particularly like GURPS as a system.
      2. I can never think of stone age scenarios that feel compelling in my mind. Not sure what quality would quite seem satisfying.

      But still have some fascination with a dawn of humanity type setting.

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        @PTR_K Well, of course every group and individual has their own rules preferences. I kinda like GURPS, it fits my mental model quite well.
        But my conception of “stonepunk” wouldn’t mean ice age/neolithic in a pure/historical form, as I’m not that fond of Quest for Fire/Clan of the Cave Bear storylines. Mixing in a bit of spirit-based religion or even Sword & Sorcery would be possible, but my conception of “stonepunk” would go quite beyond that. Meso-america mixed with early dynastic egypt and mesopotamia, with some anachronistic tech based on “weird rocks”.

        @Red_Ed

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    I’m looking forward to running my own fantasy setting I’ve been dreaming up, and Knave 2e looks like it should cover my system needs. Until I get the physical book from the kickstarter, I’ll be working on world building. I don’t have anything to show off here yet.

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    Two games I really really to run right now.

    One is Lancer. As much as I love fantasy games, the sci-fi setting looks like a nice change and battlemechs are cool. The character creation and levelling mechanics are interesting and I like the way you can reconfigure your setup so easily.

    The other is the fantasy TTRPG I’m writing myself. Its current working title is Saga, and it’s loosely inspired by ideas from D&D, Lancer, Fate, and my own experiments in game design. The aim is something more structured than Fate but more story-focused than D&D where non-combat challenges are given more emphasis and mechanical support.

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    Games: I recently purchased a set of Genesys dice. I’d like to use them someday.

    Modules: On my shelf, I have a copy of “Odyssey of the Dragonlords” just waiting to be used. However, my bestie is a big fan of greek myth, so I need to make sure she’d be able to play it with me or it’d just feel mean.

    Modules (Part 2): I’ve recently gotten into writing my own adventures, and have a pair of murder mysteries almost ready to go. I’m not sure if they’re well-made or not, but there’s really only one way to find out.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve always loved Shadowrun but I’m afraid of the rules. And I don’t have players.

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    I am personally keep thinking about The Halls of Arden Vul, seems like an awesome thing to run. But I have to admit it’s a bit intimidating due to size and complexity and I can’t, for the life of me, decide what system to run it with. But it’s been there brewing at the back of my head for almost two years now…

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    Man I really want to run a Blades in the Dark Game! Mine would take place a little further in the future when a never ending winter occurs and the plays have to navigate Dosvol as it slow gets enveloped by ice and snow and maybe find a way to stop it ;). It would be heavily inspired by Frostpunk with a massive heat generator in Brightstone and smaller steam cores placed throughout most of the districts.

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    I want to run some classic stuff like Temple of Elemental Evil and Ravenloft. Those are probably my two favorite adventures from my youth.

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    Ugh, too many things.

    Mostly I want to finally try running something with my homebrew Dragon Teeth, which is basically a very pared-down and generalized version of D&D 5E with significantly different magic rules.

    But what setting and adventure to run? There are too many that interest me, and gamer-attention-deficit makes it tough to focus on getting one ready for play. They include:

    Tomb World / Sepulcral Realm - Basically a world where undead have monopolized all resources and the living are rare and have an increasingly difficult existence. To the point that they can’t gain enough food to sustain themselves.

    • This is the closest I have to running something. An adventure maybe 1/3 written about a community caught between bad luck and an inflexible contract.

    Dark Sun - Nothing written, but an idea that has been stuck in my brain for years about convict-laborers sent on an archeological mission by a Sorcerer Queen trying to unearth something to weaken the position of a fellow monarch.

    Space horror - Various Mothership and similar published scenarios that’d be interesting to try.

    Astral voyage - Have some ideas about fantasy and/or sci-fi adventures traveling through Astral space on various mundane or transcendent errands. But nothing concrete unfortunately. Kind of intended to finally make use of my Astral Navigator’s Handbook.

    Also a few other slightly more traditional pre-published fantasy adventures/worlds.

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    I want to run Ultraviolet Grasslands, especially now that 2e is out. I can’t justify dropping $80 for the box set though.

    I don’t do pdfs for games more than a few dozen pages.

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      I’m afraid I’d be unable to handle the setting. It’s very cool, but even unhinged needs some sensible hinges to work, I think