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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1674934" data-attributes="member: 13654"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An Xcom game.  I have previously envisioned this as being quite directly based on the old computer game but now I'm thinking it would be much easier and more fun to run if I leave it more open-ended.  Probably use d20 Future as it looks a bit more suitable than d20 Modern/Traveller, or other such.  The one real sticking problem I have here is a good selection of ALIEN miniatures to use.  Even just having "grays" with weapons would put me dangerously close to setting a D&D game aside until I can get this idea out of my system.  The ideas I have for this one are VERY visual - lots of props, custom-made set pieces, etc. so I just couldn't skimp on what miniatures I used.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A "Forgotten Realms 2000" campaign.  Suggested by a dragon article a couple years back about "Greyhawk 2000".  Take the setting, advance it a thousand years or so and run a game of modern technology and sorcery.  I'd use FR because I've never actually run a GH campaign but have run a half-dozen or more FR games over the last... 15 years?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A super-hero game of some kind.  This is a recent addition.  I've become ADDICTED to City of Heroes and now have a serious jones for the days of Marvel Superheroes.  Of course the parade of super-hero movies in the last several years has helped as well.  Not sure what I'd use to run it though or what precisely it would be like.  Probably closer to Watchmen than anything based in the Marvel or DC universe.  I had a dream last night where I was Spiderman.  THAT's wierd.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A good Ravenloft game.  Probably something Earth-based (as in using the real world as a more basis for the game world).  I keep thinking in terms of steampunk more than gothic horror though so that's more back-burner.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An Eberron campaign.  My current game will feature the gradual introduction of some Eberron elements but a REAL Eberron game would be more Indiana Jones than I'd care to see in my current campaign (which is more like lightly technoartifact-tinged fantasy than pulp/action fantasy.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Spelljammer campaign.  More than any other game I've ever run I had players asking me to start it up again or take another shot at it.  Just haven't seen a good set of rules I'd like to use for it.  An Eberron game could, I think, become very close to a Spelljammer game, just with a more terrestrial focus.  IME players have ALWAYS had fun when their characters end up able to whoosh around the game world in a flying ship of some kind.  Ya just gotta be ready for it when you actually let it happen.</li> </ul>That's all I can think of off the top of my head but there ARE more.  Too many campaigns, too little time - and that doesn't even begin to cover all the new and revived  *PC'S* I want to run.</blockquote>

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