Rystil's Next Game--You Pick!

[Eluvan]

Squeee!

This is the most exciting recruitment post I've seen in a long time. Chock-full of games that I want to jump on and eat up like candy.

I think the one that I'm most excited by is the post-Arthurian game. I'm a huge fan of my Arthurian mythology, and Anglo-Saxon England generally. The Irish connection is also particularly wonderful. I'd *love* to play that Fenian berserker/Skald. The whole idea of pregenerated histories also kind of appeals to me - I love working on my characters, but I've been doing a lot of that recently and I think it'd be a really nice change of pace to work instead on getting really deeply into a character somebody else has fluffed out for you.

Failing that, I'm an inveterate Planescape lover. The only game I run at the moment is Planescape, and periodically I curse EnWorld in general for not producing enough Planescape games that I've ever managed to get in on one as a player. So that sounds highly appealing.

Oh, and you're right that Faces of Evil is a great supplement. I love it to pieces. You can get a PDF of it for $4.95 at RPG Now, if you're interested.

And your homebrew, too, sounds quite delightful. So... I voted for those three, as the ones that stand out to me as the most interesting and exciting. But I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at any of those games.

 

[Jolmo]

I've been away from PBP-gaming for several months now, but this post pulled me back in again.

Anyway, I voted for the post-Arthurian game because of the potential in a game where the characters are designed along with the plot so they all fit in with it and each other; Kiss of Darkness because it just sounds interesting; and planescape because I've wanted to play that ever since I picked up PS:Torment.

 

[ghostcat]

I've voted for Kiss of Darkness & Eyros cos I prefer traditional D&D

 

[Munin]

I went for Kiss of Darkness also. I'm a sucker for conspiracies.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I ment for filling people in who have none of the material (like myself) and never played.

I'm not a planar buff, and don't recal much of it other than some from 1st Ed about which planes are which, but I could easily play that up with an accidental traveler.

Ah, that's cool. Yep, you could just be a Clueless sod. But don't mind if most people you meet tell you to quit rattling yer bonebox until you know the dark of it, berk!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Squeee!

This is the most exciting recruitment post I've seen in a long time. Chock-full of games that I want to jump on and eat up like candy.

I think the one that I'm most excited by is the post-Arthurian game. I'm a huge fan of my Arthurian mythology, and Anglo-Saxon England generally. The Irish connection is also particularly wonderful. I'd *love* to play that Fenian berserker/Skald. The whole idea of pregenerated histories also kind of appeals to me - I love working on my characters, but I've been doing a lot of that recently and I think it'd be a really nice change of pace to work instead on getting really deeply into a character somebody else has fluffed out for you.

Failing that, I'm an inveterate Planescape lover. The only game I run at the moment is Planescape, and periodically I curse EnWorld in general for not producing enough Planescape games that I've ever managed to get in on one as a player. So that sounds highly appealing.

Oh, and you're right that Faces of Evil is a great supplement. I love it to pieces. You can get a PDF of it for $4.95 at RPG Now, if you're interested.

And your homebrew, too, sounds quite delightful. So... I voted for those three, as the ones that stand out to me as the most interesting and exciting. But I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at any of those games.

and Anglo-Saxon England generally

Just a note, though--the Saxons are still the invading barbarian bad guys for the moment, though they have a strong foothold in the south and east. Even so, Mordred and his allies were driven back at Camlin and have been unable to launch another effective assault into Caer Gwinntguic yet...but their numbers are growing, and trouble is brewing in the east.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hmm...let's see. Kiss of Darkness is in the lead for the moment, with Post-Arthurian and Planescape right behind!

 

[Manzanita]

Alright. I don't normally start games on this forum, but Rytil is a pretty reliable DM, eh? I did really like the Immortality Awakens proposal. I'm pretty much a straight D&D guy, so I voted for Kiss of Darkness. I've had great fun in homebrews in which the DM is really invested.

I am a King Arthur fan, as well as being a big history reader, so I'd love to play in that one too. I'm just unsure how it would work. Games like that are also a bit dangerous to try on PbP, in my experience. Due to the high drop-out rate, if you invest a lot in the backgrounds of the starting PCs, then the players go AWOL, it can be difficult to keep the game going.

In any case, I'm going to keep an eye on this thread & hope I can get in. Thanks for starting something up, Rystil. We always need good DMs.

 

[Rystil Arden]

but Rytil is a pretty reliable DM, eh?

I'm glad that I am considered that way PbP is what got me most of these posts, so it's probably true.

I am a King Arthur fan, as well as being a big history reader, so I'd love to play in that one too. I'm just unsure how it would work. Games like that are also a bit dangerous to try on PbP, in my experience. Due to the high drop-out rate, if you invest a lot in the backgrounds of the starting PCs, then the players go AWOL, it can be difficult to keep the game going.

Hmm...well it's definitely a good question. I've run at least parts of the first two games here face to face, and I have indeed had some drop-outs. What I guess I would do is ask replacement players to be kind enough to take over the character for the player they are replacing, allowing a bit of mechanical retconning to suit the new player if she likes. I've actually done that IRL in the Post-Arthurian game, and it has usually worked rather well** and PbP would make it actually easier by putting the whole game at the new player's fingertips. Ideally, if we have players on whom I know I can count who are reliable to keep posting, like you as a LEW Judge, we wouldn't have to replace anyone.

**(although the time when a Spanish guy took over for Naoise and betrayed the party was troubling, but that Spanish guy betrayed the party in any game he played, so I guess it wasn't a surprise--his most famous character was a fallen-paladin turned necromancer who fell for looting the corpse of the Zhentarim leader during a fight, leaving his adjacent barbarian ally to die to the blades of the others, and then he brought around a huge cart to store his loot everywhere, including one foray into the Abyss)

 

[Nonlethal Force]

I voted for homebrew.

I just like homebrews as long as the info is up front.

And ... I'd be interested in being in a game that moves. I think my games that I DM move pretty well ... but the games that I am a player in are pretty slow. So if you are looking for a player that is willing to post in a game between 1/day up to 4/day ... I'm in.

If you allow psionics, I've never played a psionic warrior. Would be willing to give that a try. If you don't allow psionics ... then I'll figure something else out ... Heh. I've got this "awakened" talking badger that is amuzing some of my players at the moment!