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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erratic K" data-source="post: 1161703" data-attributes="member: 14360">As a player:probably a D6 type game (super rules light), that a friend ran.  It was loosely cyberpunk (set in just in the future- kind of like some of William Gibson's books).  No magic, but some tech we don't have yet.  It was great.  Two great characters (we only had two players and a GM that time), a crazy plot and we came out on top- partially due to fortunate rolling and partially due to crazy actions that were plot affecting.   It was a crazy combination of action, comedy and plot advancement- with crazy dice rolling.We revisited the characters remade with different rules years later- it was not the same.  Do not revisit flawless one-shots.As a GM: I'm not sure.  A couple convention one shots have been good.  The best con experience was running Speaker in Dreams once for  a fantastic group.  The group made the difference.  Roleplaying and combat, they were great.  They were really involved and made the module their own plot-wise.  I guess they were active and interested in participating with the plot and that made the difference.The other time that sticks out is pretty much any Feng Shui adventure that I have run.  I play the CCG Shadowfist (which is related) sometimes, so I just pull a deck and made it into a scenario.  After sketching it out on paper and making some notes, I made some character sheets (the players sometimes make their own).  The players love it- Feng Shui is kinda fast and loose and cinematic and it was pretty cool as a one shot.  We've never done campaigns- nobody cares for advancement when they are a movie hero (essentially).I also recommend Mutants and Masternids as a one shot... superfun.  Basically for one shots I've enjoyed Feng Shui, D&D (especially with hand out characters), Mutants and Masterminds, Dark Matter (and the D20 CoC, never played the older version).... and almost anybodies rules light crazy system.-E</blockquote>

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