Besides D&D, what are you playing?

[hawkeyefan]

I’m prepping a game of the Alien RPG on Discord for my group. Looking forward to it. I’m using the pandemic to do some one shots of games I’d like to try, kind of as a test run to see what the group likes.

After Alien, I’m probably gonna run Band of Blades.

 

[Fenris-77]

I'd love to hear how that goes @hawkeyefan - I really want to run BoB but I don't currently have the right people. Also Alien, I've been binge reading the various Free League games lately and Alien looks particularly good.

 

[atanakar]

Scum and Villainy

Very interesting. My next buy.

 

[Fenris-77]

Very interesting. My next buy.

I'm impressed with it. It comes with its own setting, which is a cool one, but it's also trivially easy to run Star Wars or Firefly without actually changing much of anything other than the fictional elements. Plus it allows me to use all the various SW sourcebooks I have from other game all at once. WEG, FF, WotC, who cares, use 'em all, wheeee!

 

[hawkeyefan]

I'd love to hear how that goes @hawkeyefan - I really want to run BoB but I don't currently have the right people. Also Alien, I've been binge reading the various Free League games lately and Alien looks particularly good.

My group really liked Blades in the Dark, so I’m hopeful. I’m curious how they’ll take to the legion as opposed to the crew; the crew and downtime game was a big part of the appeal of BitD. We’ll see!

 

[jasper]

Weed wack the sidewalk, replant the sidewalk edging, regrout the bathroom, regrout the kitchen. clean the deep fat fryer (See1 below), post daily pics of no D&D, read my d&D books (dry reading). Today it weed wack the garden of sticker bush.
1. Steam cleaning deep fat fryer write up from Friday.
I was this years old when I discovered the deep fat fryer came apart in three main pieces. The nice stainless steel outside part, the black grease bucket, and the burner control unit. We will not mention me steam cleaning for an hour yesterday and an hour today.

 

[Fenris-77]

My group really liked Blades in the Dark, so I’m hopeful. I’m curious how they’ll take to the legion as opposed to the crew; the crew and downtime game was a big part of the appeal of BitD. We’ll see!

My first thought when I did my initial read through of BoB was to use it to run a Malazan Book of the Fallen campaign. That's still my plan I think, but I do need a different set of players. Definitely something different anyway. The legion idea seems like a nice RPG palette cleanser - multiple characters, complex story arcs - I think it'll feel fresh and hopefully very cool.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Malazan Book of the Fallen

Another Malazan fan! Cool!

 

[Aldarc]

My first thought when I did my initial read through of BoB was to use it to run a Malazan Book of the Fallen campaign. That's still my plan I think, but I do need a different set of players. Definitely something different anyway. The legion idea seems like a nice RPG palette cleanser - multiple characters, complex story arcs - I think it'll feel fresh and hopefully very cool.

I believe that I read on Twitter that Steven Lumpkin is also working on West Marches campaign hack using Forged in the Dark.

 

[Fenris-77]

Another Malazan fan! Cool!

Oh yes. Marvelous, marvelous books. I'm re-reading the whole series as a COVID-19 time passer. I've always had trouble deciding what game might best work for it as an RPG though. The games the books were based on were done using first D&D and then GURPS, but I've fiddled around with that and never been able to get a satisfactory replicant. I think they were hacking the system pretty hard. BoB seems like the right tool for a Bridgeburners game though.