I run a bi-weekly 5e campaign in Blackmarsh. Running a weekly troika game. Playing in lotfp from time to time. Playing knave and cairn when I can. Mothership when we need a pallet cleanse. Planning on spinning up an Ose game when my 5e campaign wraps up.
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Mainly vibes. Still highly b/x compatible.
I wanted a game that feels hopeful. A lot of OSR these days feels either dark/metal or superbright/vanilla. I really wanted a game that says, “yeah, things are bad, but we’re going to try anyway.”
LoZ inspires the setting and campaign, and some of the classes (Summoner/Mage) draw inspiration from FF jobs.
I’m running a Mothership game live over discord, that started with Another Bug Hunt, but the survivors have commandeered The Metamorphosis (the ship the PCs arrive in, in ABH) and have turned to a life crime dipping in to A Pound of Flesh. I’ve built out a big sandbox for them by smashing all the TKG modules with Hull Breach and a smattering of other content.
I’m also running a play by post game for the same players with Cairn 2e and Nightmare over Ragged Hollow which has been a blast too.
Everyone in the group are also GMs so we occasionally get something else to the table. Had a one-shot of Beyond the Wall and Gardens of Ynn that I got to play in that was really awesome.
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I started a Traveller campaign right before the holidays. Gonna resume it next week, I think this will go on for at least a dozen session or so.
I’m slowly preparing to run some one-on-one Burning Wheel stuff this year, and a group OSR game. I don’t know if it’ll be Dolmenwood, OSE, Wolves upon the Coast or Outcast Silver Raiders; but it’ll be something along these lines.
I guess I’ll jump in to say, many years after my last post on this thread, I’m now running a historical Urban Shadows 2e campaign set in Boston in 1968, and I’m playing in a game of Apocalypse World: Fallen Empires. They both just got started and so far they’re both a great time!
I am playing Heart in a world we created through A Quiet Year. Also, Mausritter with my son.
2E Mongoose or one of the classic editions?
I’m running an open table, quasi-West Marches (all sessions begin and end in town) Shadowdark game with one other GM. We’ve had 8 sessions with 14 different players with a huge range of experience levels. It has been a blast!
Mongoose 2E, my first edition of Traveller!
I am currently running 2 games:
- Dolmenwood! An ongoing campaign of about a year at this point, a rather impressively coherent plot has sprung from it.
- His Majesty the Worm! I just got started with it the other day. We made the city together, determined the general layout of the dungeon, and only THEN made characters. Honestly, one of the best "Session 0s" I've ever had.
One of my favorite things about the wormgame is how it encourages relationships between characters as a significant part of the game- anyone have luck replicating that in other systems?
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