What are you currently playing?

[delericho]

All being well, tonight I'll be running the first of several one-shot games in the Firefly RPG - tonight's episode is "Wedding Planners", from the "Thrillin' Heroics" compilation of adventures.

Well, we had the game. It went well.

It also strikes me that Firefly should be a game where it's very easy to run a full campaign - because the convention is that the PCs mostly don't kill their enemies, this means that adventures naturally spawn loose ends which will help populate later adventures.

Our next session is planned for the end of Feb, with the adventure "What's Yours Is Mine" from the Core Rulebook.

 

[GMMichael]

Which RPGs are currently enjoying/taking/plundering/devouring your time and attention?

Devouring my time would be my personal game, Modos RPG, since it won't write itself. It won't let up, either, because I can't turn my back on rules that empower players to be better roleplayers and to create whatever characters they can imagine.

Taking my attention are the three games that I'd be playing if I wasn't writing: O.L.D., Zweihaender, and last but not least, D&D 5th ed.

I'm in three games right now. Running a D&D 5e campaign, and also a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. game, plus I'm a player in a Pathfinder campaign. Quite busy!

This guy is epic. Three games, while producing two new RPGs, one cartoon, two e-zines, and an online forum. Cheers!

 

[innerdude]

Playing: As an abrasive, redneck Army medic from Georgia in my buddy's Savage Worlds War of the Dead campaign.

Running: A Deus Ex campaign, powered by an amalgamation of Savage Worlds Deluxe, Sci-fi Companion, and Interface Zero 2.0.

 

[Umbran]

Running: A once-per month Shadowrun 5e game.

Running: a twice-a-month classic Deadlands game.

Prepping: A twice-a-month short Atomic Robo campaign, as filler for when Deadlands wraps up.

Early-prepping... looking at several alternatives (5e D&D beign a leading contender) for a long-term campaign after Deadlands wraps up.

Playing: in nothing regularly at the moment.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I'm playing a ghoul gravedigger in a Dresden Files campaign set in Revolutionary Era Boston.

 

[Razjah]

I'm currently playing a kobold battlemage (bard) in a Pathfinder campaign.

 

[Zhaleskra]

Currently in a Pathfinder game set on an alternate, earlier Earth. Using the backgrounds of the characters created so far for my World Tree adventure as a springboard for the adventure start. One player should be finishing his character today. So far we have a Cani warrior, and a Zi Ri pyromancer. One friend thinks he may play a Herethroy, so the species makeup will be Cricket, Dog, Dragon.

 

[Evhelm]

Currently running:
A 5e Campaign set in Forgotten Realms following from Lost Mine of Phandelver (complete) into the Hoard of the Dragon Queen (half-complete) and hopefully leading into Rise of Tiamat. Four players (Paladin, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue) all of whom are currently 5th level.

Currently waiting to play (in a few weeks):
A 5e campaign set in Forgotten Realms--Icewind Dale--that will be based off the Legacy of the Crystal Shard D&D Next adventure. This will be the first character I've played in around 10 years. I've chosen a Dwarven Bard (Entertainer). The flavor I'm going for is that he's a distant cousin of the royal line (Battlehammers, Silverstreams), and cares more about preserving and uncovering and sharing dwarven history and legacy than he does just about anything else. The Entertainer background is a bit of a misnomer--he "performs" the chanting and recitation of dwarven histories, epics, and songs. He's not above performing in taverns or the like, but stays to mostly dwarven themes as a way of educating the uninitiated of the glory of the dwarves.

And yes, I chose to play a bard because they're able to do just about everything (a little bit) so that I can maybe catch up on my missed playtime and experience being a player in a bunch of different ways

Currently lying fallow:
My 4e homebrew campaign. This one ran from 2008 to 2011; I like the setting (world is recovering after a possibly natural cataclysm that caused a near-extinction-age event; people blamed magic users for a while, until the magic users were the only ones that could make things better in the wake of civilizations' collapse; some "new" cities have sprung up, but most races/nations are the huddled survivors and their descendents and have largely closed their borders; piracy, bandits, and bands of wandering monsters and raiders are very common; ruins dot the landscape), and the party had been on the trail of a problem created before the cataclysm. Apparently some great evil was bound to a prison by ancient spellcasters (sources conflict: priests? druids? mages?), and the prison was sealed with three mystic tethers. One of those tethers has started to fray, and its guardians have died out. The last guardian explained the problem to the PCs before sacrificing her life to temporarily "singe" and seal the tether. Her supposition? The other tethers may also be in bad shape; they need to find a spellcaster the guardian trained, gain her trust, obtain mystic artifacts that will allow them to find the other tethers, and then seek them out. They were just about to set out to find the second tether when between the strain of RL and our mutual apathy for 4e, we let it lie.

Someday, I would like to return to that in 5e!

 

[Zhaleskra]

Looks like the both the PF game I'm a player in and my World Tree game are gaining players. For WT, our Cani Warrior hasn't shown up, but now we have a Herethroy Healer/Barbarian. The player put most of his XP into Healing and Edged for his Three Handed Sword, not even an amateur at Magic Resistance.

One player did express not liking having to know the sum of "next rank costs current rank +1 in XP" for character creation, and I get that because it's turning a lot of big numbers into small numbers. This is among many reasons I'm continually working on a character generator. While it's nowhere near done, it does save on time because it affects the character creation worksheet and the character sheet at the same time. At least the only time you need to worry about exactly how much XP it takes to get a skill to rank X is during character creation.

In addition to using background decisions, I'm using gear decisions to determine the story's origin point.

 

[Jiggawatts]

Currently playing in a Pathfinder Skype game with my original D&D group (and best friends) that spans 4 states, set in my buddies homebrew world that we have gamed in for over a decade.

Also playing in a Fantasy Flight Star Wars game at my FLGS. This group is kinda random in the games they play, in just under a year of playing with them we have rocked Star Wars (both Saga and FF), Robotech, Tales of the Floating Vagabond, an AVP game using d20 modern, and Dragon Age (the only fantasy game they seem to enjoy). I've had fun exploring games I never would have otherwise tried, but part of me just wants to play some D&D (or derivative thereof). I even offered to run a Rise of the Runelords Pathfinder game for them, which was met with much apathy. Overall I can't complain too much though, I have had some fun.