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[bryant]

WISH 51 asks:

What are three genres that you’ve had limited exposure to as a gamer that you’d like to try or play more of?

Hard question, cause I’m not sure what limited exposure means. I’ll take it as “haven’t played a lot in.” Lesse.

Off the top of my head, I might say pulp, but I think the old Feng Shui games I’ve been in qualify. They were more Asian pulp, but pulp nonetheless. Dear old Clarice, British counter-terrorism expert, was pretty much a pulp character down to the quirky name for her gun. So OK, I‘ve played pulp.

I’d play to play in a good horror game. There’s one. It’s a pretty wide field, but I’d be happy with anything from the esoteric horror of Whispering Vault to the gnostic horror of Kult to the conspiracy-driven horror of Vampire. This desire is likely to be satisfied very shortly by an interesting Ravenloft game… which, come to think of it, is slated to have a pulp element as well. Would that all my desires were so readily satisfied.

OK. I‘m gonna give in and say pirates, and I swear I was thinking of this before I saw Ginger’s answers. I like pirates and I want to play in a good pirate game, preferably in the Tim Powers vein. Unknown Pirates, anyone? I’ll have to reread the UA rulebook tonight to see if there are possibilities in that direction. Man, Plutomantic pirates… the gold weighs you down but it buys you freedom. Intriguing.

The third is hard. I’d say conspiracy, but UN PEACE was a pretty conspiratorial secret history kind of a game. SF? I want to play in a good near-future game (OK, OK, I want to play in a Trinity game) but I can’t really say I haven’t had exposure to that given my freelance Trinity work.

So I’ll punt and steal Tim Hall’s final answer. Alternate Worlds it is. As long as I’m dreaming, let’s make the GM work a lot.

Comments

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Pulp. Always have lots of that around.

Horror. I've run it, it always sneaks into any game I run. Wouldn't mind doing another Kult game again someday.

Pirates. Nope, haven't done much here. I have a good Tim Powers meets Williams S Burroughs pirate game in the back of my mind (thats two mentions) so maybe someday. Three mentions if I hook it into my chocolate pirate/Wonka scourge of the Seas campaign I've mentioned to Jess (which links it to Earthquake Weather done with chocolate, so thats 4 mentions).

Conspiracy. Currently running, se Pantellos.

Alternate Worlds. Got quite a bit of that in my Nobilis game.

Hrm. I'm probably one of the few folks who would say High Fantasy. I haven't run a High Fantasy game in perhaps 10 years. That or Romance.

Jere

[bryant]

I got a big fat wad of High Fantasy in a good D&D 3e game out in California, so I'm sorta satiated for the moment. Otherwise I'd have picked that. But it was a good game... Celtic-based fantasy, with PCs as the youth of a very small village that had been cut off from the world for a generation or so by a downed bridge. Bronze Age shading into Iron Age. No crossbows. Elves as Romans, but their empire in decline. I played a cleric of the Traveller (aka Mercury), god of getting the hell out of a no-horse town where my father hates me anyhow. Nostalgia!

Earthquake Weather done with chocolate?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

There’s the Duppy Jonah pirates campaign frame sketched out in GURPS Horror 3e. Very On Stranger Tides. It could satisfy at least two and maybe three of your genre wishlist at one go.

Pulp, sweet pulp. I was flipping through Nevermen and some Hellboy the other day and thinking of possible pulp games, but I don’t think I’ll go back to that well until I can think of something original to do with it. The pulp musical idea keeps haunting me, probably because John’s Adventure game expired before I really got to enjoy my Singing Mountie character.

Alternate Worlds. Hell yeah. My pseudo-participation in Jere’s Nobilis game (the pseudo part is my fault, not his) has only whetted my appetite for more history-twisting fun. Right now I feel like the next game I run has to be either Sorcerer or some kind of time-hopping alt-history game. (But, no, not Alternate Worlds Sorcerer.) Originally my plan for the latter was alternate worlds supers, but I don’t want to step the toes of Chris T’s game too much. So I’m thinking of other possible frames. Input welcome!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Alright, you know you can't just idly mention "my Tim Powers meets William S Burroughs meets Willy Wonka chocolate pirate idea" without coming across with some details. Inquiring minds want to know!

(Plus how else can we bump your # of mentions up over 10?)

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

That or Romance.

"Romance" like Bearskin's domain of Romance (chivalrous derring do, etc) or "Romance" like boy meets girl, affairs of the heart type romance?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Burroughs wrote a lot of pirate stuff. Cities of the Red Night or the novella The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar. Of course its by Burroughs, so you probably get a picture of how weird they are.

Burroughs to Powers is an easy jump. If anything Powers is the stabilizing influence here.

The English Pirates (you know Raleigh...nuff said) actually made more money from sugar than they did gold. Sugar was the hot commodity, and the reason the Brtiish forced a presence in the Caribbean (well a main reason -- harhar). Add a little ancedote I ran in about English pirates overturning barrels of cocoa beans into the water because they didn't know what there were, msoamerican mythology, the chocolate wars of the American wet, and Emperor Norton and you have a weirdd game that has been burning at the back of my mind for all too long.

I call it Earthquake Weather but with chocolate 9actually I hink jess first called it that) because it does a similar bit of mythology building as Powers did in Last Call/Expiration Date/Earthquake Weather but with chocolate instead of wine.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

When are you gong to make another guest appearance anyway?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Both. I want to do Tristan and Isolde.

One of my MAJOR weakensses as a gm i my poor ability to do romance storylines. I'd like to work on remedying that (I've trieda few times recently but I need more work)

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I'll have to reread the Duppy Jones campaign frame. I think I skipped over that one when I was reading Horror.

Wonder when my playtest version of World War II is coming in, thinking of Hite.