I recently concluded an online open table in Stonehell using OSE. 216 sessions over 3½ years. This was a great experience and I made friends.
Right now, I’m running a weekly Forbidden Lands campaign set in Raven’s Purge. I pitched it as a mini-campaign to try the system (10-20 sessions), but we’ll see. My goal was to play it with basically no prep (I bought the Foundry VTT modules), using the provided adventure sites generators when needed. We’re 5 sessions in and there is some interesting emergent story happening, but there are frustrations, too.
I plan on running Dolmenwood online in the near-ish future (I like to run adventures using physical books and they are further delayed due to tariffs). I want to have maps, NPCs, monsters and player-facing rules all packaged in Foundry VTT, so I still have quite a lot of data entry to do.
I’m very much an old-school type of referee: I love a simple ruleset that supports my rulings grounded in verisimilitude, not in genre emulation or dramatic storytelling. That said, I’d love to run a game of Blades in the Dark or Scum and Villainy.
Wrapping up in person campaigns of Slugblaster, City of Mist, and Fabula Ultima. Continuing monthly campaigns of Blades in the Dark, FFG Star Wars, and Vampire v5. Planning con one shots of Star Borg, Mothership 1e, Zombie World, Avatar: Legends, Pendragon 6e, and Call of Cthulu 7e.
Nearing the end of an open table Castle Xyntillan campaign, at 44 sessions, run weekly, OSE Advanced with many modifications. Peak 6 players, but dwindled down to 3 here at the end.
Concluded last week a 22 (short) sessions campaign of Black Wyrm of Brandonsford plus Hole in the Oak, run almost weekly for inner-city high schoolers (including one named Brandon), with the same Advanced OSE hack. Peak 9 players, but 4 stalwarts.
One-Shot Sky-Blind Spire with Cairn, two weeks ago. 4 players.
Playering:
5E D&D Shadow of the Dragon Queen, 4 co-players, 9 sessions completed.
OSE Advanced haphazard sandbox by new GM, 2 co-players, 15? sessions completed.
OSE Advanced open table Stonehell, 3 co-players, 26 sessions completed, though I joined late, and have attended only 3.
Dragonbane campaign on hiatus, 3 co-players, 11 sessions completed.
All but the high-schooler campaign have been online.
EZD6 (my oddball ) has my favorite magic system. It’s great for elementary kids who just want to think up cool stuff. I love being free from rigid Vancian magic systems.
Currently playing, Shadowdark (GM) and DCC bi-weekly. Cy_Borg monthly, 5e bi-weekly, and a have a Dragonbane 1-shot and Mothership 1-shot coming up in a month.
Pick your favorite sci-fi show/movie and run that. Choose something you’re super-familiar with and your players are too. Star Wars is a good one. Star Trek, sometimes. The Expanse works for some as well. I’m sure there’s one that’s entirely your jam. Set your game there and the improv will take care of itself because you can shamelessly steal from their plot lines and adventures and settings and major characters to create and/or spin off your own.
Remember, D&D is just Lord of the Rings the role-playing game, because it was all the rage at the time and that’s what they all wanted to do: fight the armies of Mordor and maybe play as a Balrog.
Just finished running a 9 session hex crawl of Cloud Empress, but was left unimpressed by the system and the dungeons provided in the Land of the Cicadas.
Starting a Mythic Bastionland campaign tomorrow. I’m super excited about it, I hope the players will buy into the weird and dreamlike aspects of the implied setting.
) has my favorite magic system. It’s great for elementary kids who just want to think up cool stuff. I love being free from rigid Vancian magic systems.