Favorite campaign that you ever played?

[Eric V]

I have a player that has talked multiple times about being an investigator, but in the end always decides aganist it. I've been interested to see how it plays out if our campaigns.

To be fair, I had the wizard free archetype, but nevertheless, being an investigator was a good fit.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The first 5 or so years when Monte cooks forums were active, those were the days. The traveling machine that got past around from DM to DM was amazing it was at our table

Sad that the forum crashed and was never recovered. So much good stuff lost

I know Monte has a lot of other stuff to do with his time, but I still wish he'd clean up any remaining Ptolus campaign notes and put out a supplemental book. The articles from the original crowdfunding campaign that got turned into Secrets of the Delvers Guild were nice, but there's clearly a ton more stuff, based on the allusions in the big book.

 

[carmachu]

I know Monte has a lot of other stuff to do with his time, but I still wish he'd clean up any remaining Ptolus campaign notes and put out a supplemental book. The articles from the original crowdfunding campaign that got turned into Secrets of the Delvers Guild were nice, but there's clearly a ton more stuff, based on the allusions in the big book.

That and community. Bought the 5e version of Ptolus, it was nice but not the same without the the community behind it like 3.5

Seen a few stragglers asking questions on promises but its not the same

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That and community. Bought the 5e version of Ptolus, it was nice but not the same without the the community behind it like 3.5

Seen a few stragglers asking questions on promises but its not the same

Does Monte Cook Games have a Ptolus section on their Discord server? Not as good as a traditional message board, but that'd be something.

 

[carmachu]

Does Monte Cook Games have a Ptolus section on their Discord server? Not as good as a traditional message board, but that'd be something.

Honestly I don't know. I'm not a big discord user

 

[THEMNGMNT]

About 3 years ago I ran a campaign that combined Monte Cook's Banewarrens superdungeon adventure and the Ptolus hardcover (both developed for 3E) with Robert Schwalb's Shadow of the Demon Lord. The campaign lasted 50 sessions and took players from level 0 to level 10. Demon Lord and Ptolus fit together like chocolate and peanut butter.

Also ran a 60 session campaign of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist that used suggestions from the Alexandrian Remix to ultimately take characters to 12th level.

Those are probably my top two campaigns.

I also used a lot of Storm King's Thunder in a homebrew campaign. It's under-rated.

 

[Desdichado]

Probably Age of Worms. Mostly because it's the only long campaign that I actually played all the way to the end. Favorite campaign I ever ran: Demons in the Mist, which I largely made up on the fly as it was happening. It was pretty gonzo and had stuff like "The Jungle of Naked Fast Times era Phoebe Cates lookalikes who ride dinosaurs into battle against semi-civilized gorillas" and which, for a little while, gave players extra action points if they could quote 80s pop songs and make it sound unforced and like it actually fit. I had all kinds of weird ideas there; on a whim, I said no standard races (except human) and no spellcasting classes. I ended up with a human swashbuckler, a half-orc barbarian, a shifter soulknife, a hobgoblin rogue/fighter, another shifter of... I can't remember which class. It was a fun, crazy, swashbuckling game that felt very little in some ways like D&D as people know it.

The campaign that I regret not being able to finish the most is Horror on the Orient Express from the Kickstarter remaster from about ten years or so ago, or whenever that fulfilled.

 

[thullgrim]

I’m a forever GM so I’ll answer from that perspective. I ran a Nights Black Agents game in GURPS then Savage Worlds. The Zalozhniy Quartet. It was a fantastic game. Best game I’ve run in a long time. Players enjoyed it a lot. Got great feedback on it from them.

I started an Arden Vul campaign last year using Shadowdark and then switching to GURPS it was headed in a really good direction until life intervened. I’d like to revisit it maybe next year.

 

[mikeawmids1]

I ran a Nights Black Agents game in GURPS then Savage Worlds. The Zalozhniy Quartet. It was a fantastic game. Best game I’ve run in a long time. Players enjoyed it a lot. Got great feedback on it from them.

I read a campaign log of someone's Dracula Dossier game, and they said it would have been a great fit for Savage Worlds also.

link to blog post

 

[dbm]

I have the Dracula Dossier, ostensibly to run it in Savage Worlds at some point. But I am also interested in native Gumshoe so might end up running it with NBA.

Both NBA and Savage Worlds are pretty action oriented.