What systems and/or campaigns are you currently actually playing? I spend so much time thinking about new systems and reading old ones, and I sometimes forget that playing is actually a part of things.
So, what are you actually playing right now?
I am currently running Curse of Strahd for two of my adult kids and two of their friends.
I am about to start a Mouseguard-like campaign in FUDGE, with my wife and all of my adult kids.
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Just finished up A Keep on the Borderlands campaign running in White Box FMAG, real old school!
Playing Star Trek Adventures right now, with my brother GMing. He absolutely loves the game, and this is our third campaign. Love the game, but holy smokes the main book is badly organized.
Once that’s done, it’s my turn to GM, and my daughter wants a magic school game, so we’re going to do Kids on Brooms.
Been playing D&D 5e for years, currently corralling my group into a transition to GURPS 4e. Technically not playing it yet, but characters are being built and the pre-session 0 conversations have been had.
I’m running Burning Wheel. The group are wizards on the cusp of the fabled third age of magic. I’m using the Trilemma Adventures as well as the setting from the book. I’ve got seven players so I’m just over the stressful threshold.
It’s absolutely awesome.
I have no familiarity with Burning Wheel but everyone I know who’s ever played it seems to consider it one of their favorites. I always got the impression it’s quite mechanically sophisticated without being altogether combat focused, which is a bit unique among ttrpgs in my experience.
In the process of trying to put together a Pathfinder 2e campaign where I run them through an adapted version of Curse of Strahd. It’s just working out the scheduling…
Running a Cypher System (Numenera) game.
Playing in a Cypher System (sci-fi setting with Farscape influence) game and a Star Wars Edge of the Empire game.
I’ve been in a bit of a break from running 5e DnD and have been blitzing through some other RPGs mostly as one shots to keep things fresh, honestly they’ve all been great in their own way:
- Black Sword Hack (Moorcock/Lieber OSR sword and sorcery)
- Black Hack (OSR)
- Mörk Borg (Doom Metal OSR)
- Mothership (Sci-Fi Horror)
- Mekton Zeta (Anime Mecha)
- Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (Heroic Fantasy)
Ooou, how are you liking BSH? I finally received my copy and I’ve been itching to try it.
On paper, it seems to hit my subjective nail on the head for heroic, yet still mortal characters. Also the magic systems are really neat. I love how uncontrollable they seem. Magic should be scary, even for the wielder.
I have doubts about the perks, though… There aren’t that many, and I’m concerned about characters feeling very samey by top level.
Yeah its a really nice system, combat has a nice flow to it and characters can feel pretty fragile, but also appropriately strong, we’ll see with time how the progression holds up but it’s been really fun so far, it really catches that Moorcock Sword and Sorcery Itch 👌
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A bit of a summer hiatus now but by autumn I’ll be back to running Stars Without Numbers. First time running a sandbox style game that really works for me, so many planets and places to visitive actually been playing dungeonworld recently for the first time as we take a break from our usual D&D game. It’s been a bit of a refreshing change of pace.
Masks - I currently did a session zero for this game this weekend, and will be doing the first session next tuesday. I’ve played Masks a bunch before, and having seen Across the Spiderverse twice recently I’m really looking forward to it.
Pathfinder 2e - currently playing through Abomination Vaults on my Sunday livestreamed variety game group. I think one player isn’t enjoying it so much as he enjoys playing unusual characters more than the tactical combat itself, but I think everyone else is enjoying it.
SWN Revised: After two previous SWN campaigns, this one is a bit different. Instead of starting off as a free crew with a ship, the PCs are a part of a faction that’s half mercenary company half adventurer’s guild, that focuses on mech combat. So I made some systems for them to work their way up the ranks of the faction, a variation of the faction turn that represents different crews within their faction vying for control and influence, and a reputation system that unlocks more purchase options over time as missions are complete.
Pretty much everything I run these days is based on Savage Worlds. It just works the way I like to run games. I’m currently working on a conversion of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay to Savage Worlds and I’m looking to run another test game in about a month. Things have been going pretty well with it!
I do still get around to running a little Swords & Wizardry now and again too.
I’ve never heard of Savage Worlds or Swords & Wizardry. What are they like?
Savage Worlds has fast, brutal combat that instead of feeling balanced always feels risky. This is counterbalanced by the players having “bennies”, which are basically poker chips they can cash in for a re-roll of basically any roll, to tank (“soak”) some damage after an attack hits them but before damage is resolved, change a small story detail at the GM’s discretion, restore power points (basically mana for spellcasters).
At its best it feels like a pulpy, campy action system. The rule-set is generic and there’s over a hundred setting books in various genres. IMO it’s definitely worth checking out.
I’m running it for a multiverse-spanning multi-genre game. It’s a ton of fun so far.
Currently playing:
Weird Frontiers game every secondish week.
DnD5 game every secondish week or month. We have a slow pace and probably wont finish the modue, but it´s fun.Running: 13th age, getting ready to start a full campaign now that my introductory fewshot with another group draws to a close. I want to lift the story of tharizdun and the gem-prison loosely for this campaign, but not the greyhawk setting. I´m interested to see how it meshes with the icon system!
Looking at this, I guess I was hungry for some d20 hahaha. I usually play/run more pbta, but just got done on a monster of the week fewshot
edit: I recommend 13th age to all! It´s a great take on a less mechanical, faster and more “fantasy-avengers-y” style of dnd game with some great mechanics for shared stroytelling and letting players decide stuff. Needs an improvisational group, not good for groups with adversarial relationships/tendency to optimize a lot.
Getting ready to start up a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign here soon. Assembling the group for it now and so far I’ve got some good people. We are just waiting for the shop I work at to open up their private game room so we can use that. Not a fan of running games in a shops open game room will anybody can just walk up and interrupt us.
Playing a wood-elf rogue turned nature cleric (developed that way) in a DnD 5e LmoP turning Skt straight up kind of campaign (dm is somewhat railroady). Started a Fairy Wild magic sorcerer in a homebrew campaign which I am not quite sure yet will take off.
Toying with the idea of hosting something myself (basically bundling a lot of the oneshots I used to run on a Westmarches server I played and dmed on last year into a couple of storylines playing in the same setting, hindered by the usual roadblocks of not owning many books, discord server [and ‘not condoning piracy’].
Speaking of which, do you guys have some tips on how to start with that?
I’m playing in a long running monthly 5e campaign (enjoying my character, even though its kinda out of sync with what the rest of the players want to do…I can roll with it) as well as a new PF2e campaign…one of the adventure paths. First time into PF2E for me, I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it! Boy is there a lot of looking things up - I’ve heard PF1E is many times worse on that front? Crazy times…then again I might have loved it at the time it came out (I was on a PNP hiatus for a while), who knows!
Running wise, I’m about to start up/continue-sorta a long running campaign (the last one is on hold in Tier 4/nearing endgame waiting for one player, so we’re starting up another a few hundred years in the future) in a homebrew world. Really excited about getting back to DMing and creating!
Ooh who are you playing in Pathfinder? I had a bunch of fun with my mid-level fighter as well as my low-level magus and didn’t feel like I had to look too many things up. Granted, we were playing on Foundry which helped expedite a lot of things.
I’m playing a summoner. Given than 5e doesn’t have a pure summoner/pet class, and that’s kind of “my thing” I had to give it a shot. It’s wacky as hell to run keeping track of all the actions and 1->2, 2+1 etc. trades, but I’m finally getting the hang of it. Hard not to get sucked into analysis paralysis land sometimes.
I uh…also took the Beastmaster free archetype so I have 2 pets at all times, not counting potential summoning spells. I haven’t sat down and did the math to see if that would even be doable with the action economy…:)
Edit: We are playing in foundry. I honestly don’t know if you could pay me to play PF2E on paper. OK, that’s a lie, you could absolutely pay me, but I don’t know if I’d do it for free!
I’m playing in a Cyberpunk RED campaign and one of my groups just wrapped up a Numenera mini-campaign. Next month, the Numenera campaign will be replaced with a Kobold Press-heavy 5e campaign.
It’s on a bit of a hiatus as the moment, but I’ve been running Mork Borg.
