What are you actually playing?

The first year report on my Mystara campaign.

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What am I playing?

  • OD&Dish delve
  • A gonzo Crown & Skull where we have revived Bob, prophet of the Curch of the SubGenious

What I’m running:

  • ShadowDark for teens and pre-teens
  • No Thank You, Evil (Cypher System) for 3rd - 5th graders.

I lately played some Weird (by kF), La Veillée (in development, based on swedish game Gastkammaren). Last month I played a few games of Swords Without Masters.
My game sessions are mostly playtests and discovering new games, because even if the session goes “good, but not mind and heart boggling” the fact that I discovered a new game is 100% guaranteed. #risk-aversion #play-to-win

I’m playing FIST: Ultra Edition. :smiley: It’s basically A-Team meets X-Men. I run it a bit more like Hellboy, a mix of dark comedy and horror.

This evening, I just ran the 21st session of an Outer Rim Marches game of Mothership RPG, which started almost a year ago. I run various simplified games for the kiddo (recently a three-skill 2d6 space game).

As a player, I’m in a Star Trek Adventures game, and coming up on the 8th session of an Ikezu-Ishi arc. I also play the occasional session of The Lost Bay RPG, :grin:

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Just wrapped up session three of an OSE game. Can’t say I love the system, but the group is great!

I’m looking to playtest my own project soon, a game called Lost Fable that takes a lot of inspiration from Final Fantasy / Legend of Zelda.

Sounds interesting, @Hilander! How does your game use its LoZ or FF inspiration? What are you trying to model? The vibes? Are you taking the inspiration in a mechanical or setting direction?

I backed Heroes of Cerulea, which is very NES Zelda inspired and even keeps in a lot of video games logic.

Just ran a one shot of MCC, Hive of the Overmind for some family members. So fun! But MCC is so crunchy. Speaking of crunch…currently playing in both a WFRP 4e campaign and a long running 5e campaign.

I’ve been running a play-by-post campaign of The Far Roofs. It’s my first time running a campaign in this format, but it’s going very very well

So lovely to see a thread that’s run this long! Forums for the win :slight_smile:

The last game I played in was a Call of Cthulhu mystery hosted in-person by a friend visiting from overseas.

My main gaming for the past year has been my own Mausritter campaign, which unfolded from a couple of pamphlet adventures into 16 game sessions so far of an epic quest in the vein of Lord of the Rings.

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My first forum post in quite some time!

I’m in the process of getting a Valley of Flowers game (played with The Black Hack) off the ground.
I also just joined an awesome little OD&D-like dungeon delving game as a player.

And occasionally I run a random OSR game at an LGS.

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In a week or so, I’m running a game of Errant for co-workers who have never played ttrpg before. If they like it, might become a recurring thing.

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Today I finished my Dragonbane campaign that ran through the entire core set. My favorite RPG experience in a while. Secret of the Dragon Emperor, the included campaign, is very fun and has a sandbox-y feel. Highly recommend Dragonbane.

I’m also running a 5e campaign that will be ending shortly. I ran the group through Lost Mine of Phandelver and I hated it. Very annoying to run and not good at the table. Next we’ll be running a quick 20th level one shot, Fires of Iskh, before another player takes the GM mantle.

I’m also running Abomination Vaults for Pathfinder 2e. This level of crunch isn’t usually my thing but in Foundry, with a pre-mademodule, I find it pretty easy to run. My players enjoy the crunch and it’s been a good, solid time.

I’m playing The One Ring, which is pretty interesting. As a Tolkien fan I feel it does good work capturing the feel.

I’m also playing in a 1:1 Forbidden Lands play by post. It’s going slowly, but it’s been a fun exercise. I’d like to try more play by post games.

I have a friend trying to get me into a Dark Souls-like 5e hack but I’m unfortunately at my limit.

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oh hey that one looked really interesting. Subsystems stacked on subsystems appeals to me a lot

I like it a lot! There’s so much to like and draw from. The one thing I don’t love is the movement/encumbrance system, which is just a lil too fiddly for my tastes.

Running a Shadowdark Hexcrawl for my in-person group, now hitting session 17. recently two of my players said out of the blue that they can’t imagine going back to 5e. Victory achieved!

Other than that I’m looking to play more investigative games this year. Played a great session of vaesen recently and hope to run the Cthulhu Berlin book for my online group. They are very flakey atm though.

Oh yeah and playing GMless vaults of vaarn play by post with a great group.

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Currently running a Pathfinder 2e game, that I got sorta roped into running against my better judgement. It’s going alright. Looking forward to playing or running Fabula Ultima this year. Maybe I’ll get to run Numenera again too.

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Just started playing in a Mongoose Traveller 2e game and someone on a server I’m on is starting a Daisy Chainsaw game soon. Looking forward to starting my Dolmenwood campaign back up or maybe swapping over to Wolves Upon the Coast.

oh sweet Daisy Chainsaw

There’s not a lot of competition for grid-combat magical girl games but I liked what I saw of it

Yeah! Haven’t played something that wild sounding in a while, so it sounded like fun.