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  • Re: What have you been playing in MARCH 2024?

    From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Mon Apr 8 08:04:35 2024
    On 4/8/2024 5:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    Spalls is doing this all the time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, which
    for some reason is the only one of those computer game groups that seem
    to get any kind of real engagement. And I was thinking... why don't we
    do that here in rec.games.frp.misc as well?

    I tried to do that years ago, and the problem was no one was doing much,
    of course that was after the group had mostly died.

    So, what have you been playing in March 2024?

    None. I haven't played or run anything in more than a year now. My
    last was January of last year running Dungeon Robber (the tabletop
    version) on Rpol which does play by post. Unfortunately I burned out on
    it as I was posting way too frequently. I also found a lot of flaws that
    were irritating to me, I wanted to fix but would likely require a
    reboot, and I was down to 3 players who really only wanted to play solo.

    It seems to be getting harder and harder to get players who are
    interested in non-5e play. Or maybe I've picked up bad habits and am no
    longer a good DM. I'm not sure. Ah for the days I was running 2e with
    7 players for years on end.

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  • From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Mon Apr 8 17:50:00 2024
    In article <uv0nk6$2gne7$[email protected]gnwiki>,
    [email protected] (Kyonshi) wrote:

    So, what have you been playing in March 2024?

    One session of Blades in the Dark on Roll20. We find that the combination
    of game and electronic support tries to overly mechanise the role-playing
    part. That being the case, it is annoying that characters can end up with nothing to do, when we get the job sufficiently right that there's no
    combat.

    One session of Honor & Intrigue, playing a privateers campaign in the
    Caribbean in 1661.

    Ran three sessions of GURPS 4e "Cold War Pulp" - a homebrew campaign that applies a pulp sensibility to a 1950 with psychics, dero, UFOs and
    further weirdness.

    Ran one session of Lions, Tigers & Dragons, an occult WWII campaign set
    in British-ruled India.

    John

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Tue Apr 9 08:18:12 2024
    On 4/9/2024 1:21 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 4/8/2024 5:04 PM, Justisaur wrote:
    On 4/8/2024 5:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    Spalls is doing this all the time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    which for some reason is the only one of those computer game groups
    that seem to get any kind of real engagement. And I was thinking...
    why don't we do that here in rec.games.frp.misc as well?

    I tried to do that years ago, and the problem was no one was doing
    much, of course that was after the group had mostly died.

    Well, that's why I will try to do this a bit now. Maybe we can actually
    get some discussion going again.


    Actually that was on r.g.f.dnd that I tried that.

    Too easy to forget what group I'm in. There's a lot more discussion
    elsewhere for old D&D, though I don't know of any more broad than that. Dragonsfoot does have an "Other Games" thread which sees a little
    discussion for things like WEG Star Wars and other games. It looks like
    the old Gama World email group finally dried up too, which was hanging
    on longer than here.

    Things seem to be heading toward Discord, but it's too private, gated
    and fragmented for me.

    So, what have you been playing in March 2024?

    None.  I haven't played or run anything in more than a year now.  My
    last was January of last year running Dungeon Robber (the tabletop
    version) on Rpol which does play by post.  Unfortunately I burned out
    on it as I was posting way too frequently. I also found a lot of flaws
    that were irritating to me, I wanted to fix but would likely require a
    reboot, and I was down to 3 players who really only wanted to play solo.

    What's Dungeon Robber?

    See my other reply.


    It seems to be getting harder and harder to get players who are
    interested in non-5e play.  Or maybe I've picked up bad habits and am
    no longer a good DM.  I'm not sure.  Ah for the days I was running 2e
    with 7 players for years on end.


    I sure hope not, I still haven't jumped on the 5e bandwagon. I just
    don't feel enthused enough about the game to actually buy the books (or
    even read that far into material that's in the public.

    It feels like 5e is dying a bit now too. A lot of people talk
    Pathfinder, but that's like 3.5 with more insane overpowered superheroes
    to me, which was the wrong way to go in my opinion. Yes players love
    their powercreep, but it makes the game too hard to DM.

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    -Justisaur

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  • From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Tue Apr 9 17:38:00 2024
    In article <uv2v7f$3bvje$[email protected]gnwiki>,
    [email protected] (Kyonshi) wrote:

    I don't know Honor and Intrigue and Lions, Tigers, and Dragons,
    what sort of systems are these?

    Honor and Intrigue is a fairly lightweight system, based on Barbarians of Lemuria and optimised for swashbuckling action.

    <https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/99286/Honor--Intrigue>

    Lions, Tigers, and Dragons isn't a system, that was me missing out some
    words by mistake. It's the campaign title; the system is GURPS 4e.

    John

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  • From dozens@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Wed Apr 10 11:52:52 2024
    On 4/8/24 6:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    Spalls is doing this all the time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, which
    for some reason is the only one of those computer game groups that seem
    to get any kind of real engagement. And I was thinking... why don't we
    do that here in rec.games.frp.misc as well?

    So, what have you been playing in March 2024?

    1. Girl By Moonlight

    A weekly game with the Lantern Light crew of Magic Girl adventures, and feelings! Easily the best game I've played recently. The first Belonging Outside Belonging/PbtA game that has really clicked for me. Zoom
    audio/video, no vtt.

    https://evilhat.itch.io/girl-by-moonlight

    https://linktr.ee/lanternlightadventures

    2. Delta Green

    Playing some Government Spook Call of Cthulhu. Only a couple sessions
    in. Pretty fun so far! Kind of grim. Discord audio/video + Foundry vtt.

    https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/236576/delta-green-the-role-playing-game

    3. D&D 5e

    A regular game of homebrew politics and intrigue in the Dark Sun
    setting. The only in-person, face-to-face, all analog game I'm playing
    at the moment. It's fun!

    4. Troika!

    Play by post on netnews that I am kind of neglecting at the moment, but
    want to get back into.

    https://www.troikarpg.com/

    5. Dark Conspiracy / Die 100 Times

    Play by post text on Discord. Thematically kind of the same as the Delta
    Green game I'm playing: investigate the Strangeness and try not to be
    consumed by it. Die 100 Times is probably the perfect lightweight d100
    system, and it makes me wish we were using it for Delta Green actually.

    https://www.darkconspiracytherpg.info/game-index/2nd-edition-catalogue/

    https://alexandre-kobayashi.itch.io/die-a-hundred-times

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