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[bryant]

Anyway, where was I? Ah yes:

WISH 84 asks

What five games would you love to run/play if you had a willing group and a weekly time slot?

I’m going to leave out games I’m in or running now, of course (yay, Champions and Buffy), and also games I expect to be able to play in soon — I’m looking at you, Star Wars and Charnel Gods and espionage game! You can also assume that I wish I could go back and play in Carl’s games again. Those disposed of:

• Over the Edge, preferably with the dark edgy gritty aspects in full swing.
• Vampire, and stop laughing. I haven’t played enough of this to be burned out on it. I’m thinking straight up Vampire Revised here, without all the various escalation bits. Or maybe the new version, if it resonates with me.
• Dark Inheritance, which I will never ever get to play, but a guy can dream. I find the D20 Modern system to be fairly elegant and I really like the Dark Inheritance mythos. Also, it’s the best example of modular setting design ever.
• The Dying Earth, so that I might properly indulge my inner Oscar Wilde.
• Trinity, the best SF game ever, not that I’m biased or anything. Yeah, I know the political history is a bit wonky but you can fix most of that if you aren’t hampered by the need to shoehorn Aberrant in there.

Nobilis is a very strong runner-up.

Comments

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

Huh. Vampire? Very cool. I've been toying with the idea of running my "Nights of Boston" game, which is this series of short-runs (two or three sessions) and one-shots strung out over the history of Boston from 1872 to the present. Each one occurs during one of Boston's big historical events, and you play different characters for each one (you get to make the characters, too, so no stock characters that I hand out).

Maybe I'll clean up that stuff. If you'd be interested, I'd love to have you.

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[bryant]

I would be exceedingly interested in this. Thank you!

By the by, I'm still working on polishing up those social dynamic rules -- I should have a nice pretty PDF done by the end of the weekend.

[flit.livejournal.com]

Vampire: sniff!

Dying Earth: sniff! Fly out and run a one-shot? :) :)

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

You've had your opportunities for Nobilis, and turned them all down.

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[bryant]

Only the once! And only because I was worried that I might be overly pushy if I asked in.

Nobilis espionage?

Re: Nobilis Espionage

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

You are never pushy to want in on one of my games, you are definitely on the "do more gaming with this fellow" list.

My intent is to return to Nobilis when time allows (couple of months), restarting the current game with some changes.

Espionage will be lower scale than Nobilis. While I think a Nobilis espionage game would be perfect (the Valde Bellum is a lot like a cold war), thats not the path my brain is taking for this one.

You are welcome to both or either, though I'm hoping ocne peaseblossom and I focus on it you'll be interested in the spy game.

Re: Nobilis Espionage

[bryant]

Yeah, I'm very much interested in that one. The Pantellos one-shot was really good. And I'm in more of a gritty mood than I am in a mythic mood, at the moment. My superhero game is going to scale up to be pretty mythic anyhow.

And thank you for the compliment.