Games that you haven't run but want to [+]

[Ralif Redhammer]

I ran an all dwarf campaign for Savage Worlds a few years back that was a lot of fun. The campaign was a mixture of 19th century gender politics mashed up with Aristophanes' Lysistrata.

Concept: The most eligible bachelorettes in all of dwarfdom, the Grimké sister, are looking for husbands. They offer their hands in marriage to the two bachelors who return from a quest with lost sacred artifacts.

Twist: The Grimké sisters don't believe the artifacts can be found and this was just a ruse to get most of the young male dwarfs of fighting age, and some of their relatives, out of the city on a wild goose chase. In their absence, the women seized the principal government buildings and refuse to surrender until they're given the right to participate in government affairs. The government has shut down, women are well versed in siege warfare so using force isn't an option, and anyway, most of the men aren't willing to use force against their memaw anyway, and when the players eventually return, they've got to figure out how to solve the problem.

Pride and Prejudice and Pickaxes!

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Call of Cthulhu. I've been trying to find a hook, but my idea of a mobster family in 1930s Providence, RI didn't go over well.

There's probably a great 1970s/1980s Call of Cthulhu mobster game to be set in Boston and Providence, using all the stuff that came out from the Globe's Spotlight team and became Black Mass. There's deep setting information from everything that came out but still a lot of places to paint around the lines. (And the research would be a blast.)

Pendragon: I've got at least one player who would love it. I think some of my other players view a game of knights only as a bit constraining.

This has been my experience trying to get a Pendragon game together, too. One buddy of mine has a pretty reductive (but not entirely unconvincing) view of Malory that put the kibosh on a game I proposed. It's been years, but the gist of it was that Malory is little more than knights beating up people they didn't recognize until they do recognize them, at which point they get really sad about having caved their buddy's skull in. He's wrong, but he's also not wrong.

Numenera. I love the setting but am not in love with the Cypher rules set. I’d hack it into something else. Probably SWADE.

I agree that I would need to use another system, as I'm not in love with Cypher either. SWADE would work. I could see using it as a setting for D&D, too, though that'd probably be more work for less value than SWADE.

I've been wanting to run an all-dwarf campaign since the Complete Book of Dwarves was released. One of these years, it'll happen.

Any time I think of running a D&D campaign, I start by talking myself out of eliminating all ancestry options outside of dwarves and goblins. If I don't get to this step, I know I'm not serious about running a game.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

One game that I didn't mention above, but which I come back to every now and again as a possible one-shot is a mash-up of Casablanca and Call of Cthulhu. The PCs would be characters from the movie, chasing the letters of transit, which would be some sort of awful Mythos-related document (as I joked to my wife this morning, they could be letters of transit to a place beyond space and time).

 

[Reynard]

I've a campaign I've been brewing for years set in the star wars universe, sadly I've not found a suitable system to use

What is it about?

My go to for Star Wars if I don't want to use SWd6 is Savage Worlds. For Games set anywhere from the Dark Times to the post-RotJ era it pretty much works out of the box. It does Star Wars' gritty pulp planetary romance war story vibe really well. It might work less well for prequel era everyone's a Jedi, but I haven't tried.

 

[embee]

Pathfinder.

The OGL debacle gave me and my group the impetus to get outside of our 5e comfort zone. A 6 week hiatus in the 2+ year-old campaign helped. I gave the group a choice of DCC, OSE, or Pathfinder. We're running DCC which, I think, has a much more fun tone. Yes it's gonzo. But it can also be creepy. We're doing Sailors Under The Starless Sea now and we all are having a blast.

Hopefully though, when the group gets the actual roleplay itch, we'll go to PF.

 

[Fenris-77]

Brindlewood Bay, Spire, Band of Blades, Vaesen, SIGMATA. That's just off the top of my head and I'm sure there's a bunch more. My buying far outstrips my ability to actually get things to the table as a GM.

 

[The Shadow]

I've a campaign I've been brewing for years set in the star wars universe, sadly I've not found a suitable system to use

I've been considering Cortex Prime for Star Wars - Values seem like a good fit for the setting. Say, three Dark Side values: Fear, Anger, and Hate; and three corresponding Light Side values: Courage, Serenity, and Compassion.

Dark Side values can be invoked as well as challenged, which makes them much more powerful... But also gives you Corruption stress. If you ever take Corruption Trauma, you've fallen to the Dark Side. You can be healed of it, yes, but it gives so many benefits you might be tempted not to. (Unlike regular Trauma, you can use it for you in many cases.) If it ever steps up beyond d12, though, the character is no longer playable - you're an NPC puppet of the Dark Side.

The Force is probably done using Abilities instead of Powers. Lightsabers are a signature asset that you need a special Ability to even use without hurting yourself. (And yes, you can use both the Ability and the asset in your pool, plus whatever skill you're using for fighting, so you're pretty much a combat monster.) The Ability has an SFX to spend a plot point to deflect attacks onto other combatants.

 

[Committed Hero]

1. Call of Cthulhu. I've been trying to find a hook, but my idea of a mobster family in 1930s Providence, RI didn't go over well. I'm thinking of setting it in the modern era and having them be a ghost hunting crew that has their own Patreon/TikTok/YouTube presence. They have day jobs, but they do paranormal investigations for the views.

Dennis Detwiller wrote a scenario in TUO 14/15 set in Rhode Island involving bootleggers and FBI agents, "Call of Duty." But the modern idea sounds good too!

 

[GuyBoy]

I’ve never run Runequest.
Played in it way back in high school (as in when I was a teen, not as the school principal I became later!) and loved the richness of the setting, but never got the chance to run a game. Maybe one day.....

 

[kronovan]

Of the 9 IPs/homebrews I'm continually working on, so far I've only run 2 of them. The remaining 7 use the Mythras, Mongoose Traveller 2, SWADE, Cortex Prime or Call of Cthulhu 7 rules. And although I've run most of those TTRPGs before, I'd really like to run them with my homebrews.