Campaigns you hope to run someday before you die

[buzz]

[Off-Topic] FGU tangent

Villains & Vigilantes. Another candidate for d20 conversion. Or perhaps not. All that old stuff is at DTRPG. I would probably buy it in bundles if it were at RPGNow.

I was actually kinda sad to see V&V and other FGU titles for sale at DTRPG. AFAIK, FGU has a contract with its designers that gives them a total stranglehold on rights to their games as long as they "keep them in print." So far, FGU has done this by keeping NOS copies of various titles sitting in a warehouse in Arizona that you can order by mail. I have to wonder if selling PDFs via DTRPG counts as well.

Basically, you're never going to see new editions of these games. When I win the lottery, and after I buy Chaosium, I'm going to buy FGU, dissolve them, and then give all the games back to their respective designers.

 

[Pants]

Gah, the Neutral Evil Double Post +5!

 

[Pants]

Here's a couple that I want to run:
- An Iron Kingdoms game.
- A Midnight game
- An Eberron game (see a trend?)
- A d20 Future Firefly-meets-Outlaw Star game.
- A d20 Modern game where the PC's play as a ragtag group of secret operatives working for the US during the height of the Cold War. They go on missions for their secretive, shadowy leaders, fighting KGB agents, Soviet Soldiers, and all sorts of other Commie enemies. But then, just as the PC's get comfortable fighting human agents, the veritable poop hits the fan. The Russians discover some strange, eldritch power and start using demonic creatures and undead against their enemies, waging a secret, shadow war that only a few know about. Throw in some morally ambiguous decisions on both sides of the wall, crazy alien technology, insanity inducing creatures, and lots of big, gun fights.
- A SUCCESSFUL Evil Faerun campaign, somehow involving mind flayers, drow, and lots of Underdark exploration.

 

[buzz]

I'll take the OP question to mean, "games you want to play, but probably will not"...

Or at least, "games you want to play/run, but something inevitably pushes it into the (often distant) future." E.g.,

• Haven't found the right group of people for it
• Game would involve an amount of work you don't currently have time for
• Currently enjoying the campaigns of others that aren't ending anytime soon
• Don't feel up to running a game just yet
• More immediate interests taking priority
• etc.

 

[Greatwyrm]

Where do I start? I'll probably have to keep playing until I'm in a retirement home to make it through some of these.

Iron Kingdoms just too cool not to do at least once.

There was an idea from an old Alternity book that looked cool. Aliens are attacking earth. Scientists have developed a way to make you a super hero. The problem is, super powers burn out your body. No one who has gotten the treatment has lived more than a year. Volunteers could be anything from cops and military to guys doing life in prison.

I've got an idea for a late stone age (flint age?) fantasy game.

I've got another idea for what I call a magi-techno-thriller, for lack of a better term. Kind of like Buffy: tVS, X-files, Charmed, and a Tom Clancy book all slapped together.

AEG's Warlords setting really has me interested.

I've never had the chance to run an Oriental Adventures or Arabian Adventures game.

EDIT -- Gaahh. How could I forget. I want to run the Jakandor modules from 2e. The ones where there's a big society of necromancers on one end of an island and a big group of barbarians on the other. I always thought that was a pretty cool setting.

 

[Stormborn]

With my current gaming group I knwo it is unlikely that I ever get to run the following:

- A long term Unknown Armies Game involving CocaCola and the Holy Grail and just about as much Ken Hite SUppressed Transmissions as I can fit into it.
- A Mutants and Masterminds game based on the Exiles comic series, where I can throw out alternate universes and multiple variations on well known characters on a regular basis
- A d20 Modern game set around a war between the Faerie Courts a la War of the Oaks, the comic Aria, and many others

at least those. Now, if you asked what games I would like to PLAY in that list mgiht be considerably longer

 

[buzz]

There was an idea from an old Alternity book that looked cool. Aliens are attacking earth. Scientists have developed a way to make you a super hero. The problem is, super powers burn out your body. No one who has gotten the treatment has lived more than a year. Volunteers could be anything from cops and military to guys doing life in prison.

That's pretty dang brilliant.

 

[Desdichado]

Here's a couple that I want to run:
- An Iron Kingdoms game.
- A Midnight game
- An Eberron game (see a trend?)

Yeah, if we're ever in the same location, you need to run all three for me.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Yeah, the corrollary question is, what campaigns would you like to play in but not run? But that probably deserves it's own thread.

CSI: Waterdeep.

I actually had some elements of it in the one-shot I ran recently - some of the NPCs were making use of Forensic Necromancy - but it's one I want to play in.

"Well, killer took the head... we aren't gonna be Speaking with this one. And no witnesses."
"No, but tell me what you notice about the floor our vic's lying on."
"... it's stone?"
"Right. Do you remember that druid who helped us out a couple of years ago? Well enough to get a Sending through to her?"
[chuckle] "Do I ever..."
"Good. See if she'll come down here and do a Stone Tell for us. I'll check under the vic's fingernails... if there was a struggle, we might have something we can use as a link for Scrying on the killer..."

-Hyp.

 

[Pants]

Yeah, if we're ever in the same location, you need to run all three for me.

Heh, as long as you run your homebrew world, you've got a deal.
Now I just need to scrap the cash together and get all three books... :\

Games I'd love to play, but not run...
- Call of Cthulhu
- Ravenloft

I'd love to play a Midnight game, but I really wouldn't mind running one. Basically, anything I want to run, I'd want to play in.