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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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…
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.
ive 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.
I am running:
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A 4th edition D&D game for a group of 5 people
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A 4th edition D&D game for one person who is running multiple characters.
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A bunch of one-off Pathfinder 2E games for a group of people (basically whoever is available on a given evening)
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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.
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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 visitIf you haven’t encountered it already Sectors Without Numbers (https://sectorswithoutnumber.com/) is a great sector generator and management tool.
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yup, I’m using that. in particular a huge time saver in the initial prep
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 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.
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.
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 👌
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.
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.
Running a D&D5e game. Possibly the last one I ever run. It’s a blast though, and the players are amazing. The MCDM Flee, Mortals! book is really helping make it interesting to run.
I’m getting ready to start an Iron Kingdoms Savage Worlds game. It’s a one-shot, but if they like it, we’ll continue it into a campaign.
I’m also possibly going to be starting a Pathfinder 2e game soon. I’ve ran it a bit, but I still don’t feel like I know it very well, so I’m going to run the Beginner Box (possibly lead into Abomination Vaults) on Foundry. It’s a weird experience feeling like a newb again, since I haven’t really felt that way in decades. Most games just aren’t that challenging to master.
Flee, Mortals! is so excellent and makes me so sad that it’s likely to be the only monster book MCDM produces 😭
I’m playing in a Curse of Strahd game right now. I had actually bought the module some months ago and it’s sheer luck that I didn’t get around to reading it before my Sunday GM decided to run it. All I know is it has a big reputation as a celebrated module, so we’ll see 🤷
I’m also running a D&D 5e game set in my own homebrew setting & story. I’m basically trying to cram as much occult mystery, political intrigue, and high society manners and drama as I can into it, but I’m leaving myself open to the prospect D&D simply might not be cut out as a system for what I’m interested in. So I might be forced to transition to something else eventually, but so far so good for the most part. I’ve had more than a few sessions already without any combat, and I know I’m a bit over the skis of the rules at that point, but players seem to be enjoying it; and ChatGPT has been a godsend with helping me patch together loose plot threads and brainstorm explanations such as e.g. why there’s a dungeon full of gelatinous cubes beneath the count’s country estate.
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.
