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What Game Should I Run Next? [Interest: 4e/FR/EBB/WoD/Paranoia/DH/Nobilis/fuckthis]
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As I've said a few times, the Amnesia game I'm running is on the short end of games. IE: It will end probably within the month.
So, this thread is for the game I should run after that finishes. We're talking in broad strokes for a month from now. It would most likely be play-by-post. The way this works is that I'm going to detail a number of options with the settings and systems I'm interested in and have, and you folks can express interest in them. No strict you have to pick one to support idea; although I will weed out options that no one/one person is supporting. So, here we go:
4e Dungeons and Dragons
Forgotten Realms:
Predicate: I've had some success with the Forward Guard game and making the Realms accessible. I'm an old hand at the setting, you don't have to be. Generally, all I ask is that players have and read the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide. Don't feel intimidated because you don't know all 13 Lich-Kings of Cairnheim, that's for me to worry about, not you. It's a game, not a history lesson.
This idea is a sandbox game set in Waterdeep. The PCs, all old friends and members of the noble houses, find themselves through reckless adventure and daring in the Gem of the North, fallen from its status as the City of Splendors. Like I said, this would be a sandbox game - we get the group together, I plant rumors and ideas, and you follow up what you'd like; we'll go from there.
Eberron:
I could run a high-paced pulpy treasure-hunting game in Eberron. We'd be globe-trotting, looking at giant ruins in Xen'Drik one day and hiding under the psychic eyes of the quori in Sarlona the next. Airships, cannibal drow - the usual Eberron tropes in spades. I'd use some of the 3e material I haven't used yet in this, but overall it's a 4e game.
Homebrew:
Eternal, is what your mother called the world once when you asked her. Your town of Everwood has always been besieged by snow. No seasons, just the unending drive of snow and sleet, the hasty work of chopping down trees in the forest on the lighter days, and birthing new goats in the barns when you were shut in for months. You traded with the men in mail that took the long North Road one way or the other, and the dwarves and the dragonborn who lived in their ember holds in the next valley. You've never talked to an elf, but you've seen them, deep in the forest at the edge of your ribbon-train. And now the caravans have stopped, the snow is harder, and you can see strange lights from beyond the North Road's mountain pass. Lights that your grandfather, the oldest person in the village, has never seen. Lights that call to you.
2e Dungeons and Dragons - Forgotten Realms
We'd dial the setting way back down, playing in the Dalelands and using this as our only setting source (and possibly Spellfire, I'm not sure). This means that a lot of the detail and bad crap that's been built up around the Realms over the years goes out the window - Elminster is just a sage, Drizzt doesn't even exist, so forth and so on. Bhaal would still be a deity, and we'd be free to play in the standard mold of men and women surviving by wit, steel and magic against evil wizards and tyrant gods. If you're wondering why it's a fun place and what the Realms has to say as a setting, this is how to show it off. There's support in later supplements for stepping behind FRA; this would be the fun, simple, retro feel.
World of Darkness
I'd be up for running something in either the old or new World of Darkness, possibly crossover if people are interested in that. The only one of White Wolf's lines that's never really grabbed me at all is Werewolf: The Apocalypse, but I'd be up for working with anything else.
Paranoia
This is the back cover copy for Paranoia XP, the version we'd be playing:
THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND
The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy.
The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy.
Being a citizen of Alpha Complex is fun. The Computer says so, and the Computer is your friend.
Many traitors threaten Alpha Complex. Many happy citizens live in Alpha Complex. Many of these happy citizens are crazy. Which is more dangerous - traitors or happy citizens?
Rooting out traitors will make you happy. The computer tells you so. If you are not happy, the Computer will use you as reactor shielding.
Being a troubleshooter is fun. The Computer tells you so. Do you doubt the Computer, citizen?
Troubleshooters get shot at, mangled, incinerated, poisoned, stapled, blown to bits and accidentally executed. This is so much fun many Troubleshooters go crazy. You work with many Troubleshooters. They all carry lasers.
Aren't you glad you have a laser too? Won't this be fun?
Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!
PARANOIA is fun, different, and something you should definitely play if you never have.
Dark Heresy
I have Dark Heresy. I got lucky and found a copy of the core rulebook in a major bookstore here somehow during the original print run. I've been wanting to play it ever since, but haven't quite had the chance. Similarly, I haven't looked at the supplements much. But! If people want to sign up for the Inquisition than I will give them something to Inquisit.
Nobilis
God, how do I say this. Yes, I got even luckier and found a copy of the Great White Book, the rulebook for it. In Nobilis, you're playing the Nobilis, mortals gifted with control over one element of Creation (something like guns or dogs, for example), that must defend it against those who would ruin or destroy Creation. I'm not doing it justice, it's even cooler than I'm making it sound, and it's possibly the most gorgeous game ever. If you want to play something different from the standard, but not as comedic as PARANOIA, this is the game to vote for. Really, it's amazing.
Okay, what strikes your fancy?
So, this thread is for the game I should run after that finishes. We're talking in broad strokes for a month from now. It would most likely be play-by-post. The way this works is that I'm going to detail a number of options with the settings and systems I'm interested in and have, and you folks can express interest in them. No strict you have to pick one to support idea; although I will weed out options that no one/one person is supporting. So, here we go:
4e Dungeons and Dragons
Forgotten Realms:
Predicate: I've had some success with the Forward Guard game and making the Realms accessible. I'm an old hand at the setting, you don't have to be. Generally, all I ask is that players have and read the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide. Don't feel intimidated because you don't know all 13 Lich-Kings of Cairnheim, that's for me to worry about, not you. It's a game, not a history lesson.
This idea is a sandbox game set in Waterdeep. The PCs, all old friends and members of the noble houses, find themselves through reckless adventure and daring in the Gem of the North, fallen from its status as the City of Splendors. Like I said, this would be a sandbox game - we get the group together, I plant rumors and ideas, and you follow up what you'd like; we'll go from there.
Eberron:
I could run a high-paced pulpy treasure-hunting game in Eberron. We'd be globe-trotting, looking at giant ruins in Xen'Drik one day and hiding under the psychic eyes of the quori in Sarlona the next. Airships, cannibal drow - the usual Eberron tropes in spades. I'd use some of the 3e material I haven't used yet in this, but overall it's a 4e game.
Homebrew:
Eternal, is what your mother called the world once when you asked her. Your town of Everwood has always been besieged by snow. No seasons, just the unending drive of snow and sleet, the hasty work of chopping down trees in the forest on the lighter days, and birthing new goats in the barns when you were shut in for months. You traded with the men in mail that took the long North Road one way or the other, and the dwarves and the dragonborn who lived in their ember holds in the next valley. You've never talked to an elf, but you've seen them, deep in the forest at the edge of your ribbon-train. And now the caravans have stopped, the snow is harder, and you can see strange lights from beyond the North Road's mountain pass. Lights that your grandfather, the oldest person in the village, has never seen. Lights that call to you.
2e Dungeons and Dragons - Forgotten Realms
We'd dial the setting way back down, playing in the Dalelands and using this as our only setting source (and possibly Spellfire, I'm not sure). This means that a lot of the detail and bad crap that's been built up around the Realms over the years goes out the window - Elminster is just a sage, Drizzt doesn't even exist, so forth and so on. Bhaal would still be a deity, and we'd be free to play in the standard mold of men and women surviving by wit, steel and magic against evil wizards and tyrant gods. If you're wondering why it's a fun place and what the Realms has to say as a setting, this is how to show it off. There's support in later supplements for stepping behind FRA; this would be the fun, simple, retro feel.
World of Darkness
I'd be up for running something in either the old or new World of Darkness, possibly crossover if people are interested in that. The only one of White Wolf's lines that's never really grabbed me at all is Werewolf: The Apocalypse, but I'd be up for working with anything else.
Paranoia
This is the back cover copy for Paranoia XP, the version we'd be playing:
THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND
The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy.
The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy.
Being a citizen of Alpha Complex is fun. The Computer says so, and the Computer is your friend.
Many traitors threaten Alpha Complex. Many happy citizens live in Alpha Complex. Many of these happy citizens are crazy. Which is more dangerous - traitors or happy citizens?
Rooting out traitors will make you happy. The computer tells you so. If you are not happy, the Computer will use you as reactor shielding.
Being a troubleshooter is fun. The Computer tells you so. Do you doubt the Computer, citizen?
Troubleshooters get shot at, mangled, incinerated, poisoned, stapled, blown to bits and accidentally executed. This is so much fun many Troubleshooters go crazy. You work with many Troubleshooters. They all carry lasers.
Aren't you glad you have a laser too? Won't this be fun?
Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!
PARANOIA is fun, different, and something you should definitely play if you never have.
Dark Heresy
I have Dark Heresy. I got lucky and found a copy of the core rulebook in a major bookstore here somehow during the original print run. I've been wanting to play it ever since, but haven't quite had the chance. Similarly, I haven't looked at the supplements much. But! If people want to sign up for the Inquisition than I will give them something to Inquisit.
Nobilis
God, how do I say this. Yes, I got even luckier and found a copy of the Great White Book, the rulebook for it. In Nobilis, you're playing the Nobilis, mortals gifted with control over one element of Creation (something like guns or dogs, for example), that must defend it against those who would ruin or destroy Creation. I'm not doing it justice, it's even cooler than I'm making it sound, and it's possibly the most gorgeous game ever. If you want to play something different from the standard, but not as comedic as PARANOIA, this is the game to vote for. Really, it's amazing.
Okay, what strikes your fancy?
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Paranoia would be cool, I might be convinced that Promethean(nWoD) is TOTALLY AWESOME AND YOU SHOULD RUN IT not that I'm biased or anything.
I really like the sound of your homebrew setting/Eternal. Snow is always dramatic.
Nobilis is very very cool but I'm just not a huge fan of it.
Not interested in Dark Heresy, I'm waiting for Rogue Trader before I break into that world.
Soooo. Paranoia, Promethean, or Eternal would be my top three choices.
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Paranoia's character generation is mostly random tables and the players don't get to know the vast majority of the rules, so yes, there's an easy way.
Because they shouldn't know the rules anyway.
So Paranoia is one of the easiest games to pick up and play, it just requires a healthy dose of insanity injected directly into the brain.
If I can hold them off alone Hot Fun is my reward
"Please engage the menace, Citizen", I hear on my comcord,
When will the Vultures arrive?
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
My clone keeps marching on.
They're advancing on all sides now and I'll soon be overrun,
I try to open fire but there's a malfunction with my gun,
So I toss a nuke grenade and then turn tail and run,
When will the Vultures arrive?
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
My clone keeps marching on.
The Commies are all vapor now and for that I'm real glad,
My geiger-counter indicates I took a thousand rad,
I check with The Computer and find out That's not too bad,
When will the docbot arrive?
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
Glory, Glory, Hail Computer!
My clone keeps marching on.
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Computers are fun!
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Because I really want to play a 4e game.
Preferably Forgotten Realms.
Anything.
I might, might you understand, might consider contemplating running a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game. Either PbP or IRC.
But that is only a possible maybe if people are interested.
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1. eberron 4E
2. dark heresy
3. world of darkness
(I am not sure what the policy on books here is because I am lazy and just skimmed the OP, but I have the books for 4E and Dark Heresy, but no WoD (and it's only really Hunter that I have an interest in)
I'd be up for a bit of nWod Werewolf/Mage/Changeling cross over.
What do you mean.
Also can you maybe link some more Paranoia stuff? All I know is that it's some sort of dystopic tron world where you need the kill the fuck out of everyone before they make your brain melt. Sort of like Space Station 13.
Which I also want to play.
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Several people have reconsidered their votes after actually reading over Eternal. I'm going out of my way to make the Realms accessible; Eberron may not be everything goes.
You genuinely don't need to know much about Paranoia to play. Really. Character death is measured in "don't even bother coming up with a personality." It's funny and light-hearted and it's entirely based around stabbing everyone else in the back.
Oh, fine, you want to know?
Your character in PARANOIA is a Troubleshooter. Troubleshooters have been appointed by the Computer to find traitors - members of secret societies, mutants, and evil Commies - and bring them to justice before the Computer. Which usually means executing them. Coincidentally, your character is a mutant and also a member of a secret society. But your fellow Troubleshooters don't know you're a traitor yet. If you can accuse them of treason first, you might just survive. However, false accusations of treason often get the accuser executed...
How do Paranoia games usually work? Swap in new players as we kill each other off? It could make for a relatively fast paced PbP that way.
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So, I'll initially roll for players (fairly, one roll) on IC from people who have played PARANOIA before to fill up however many Troubleshooters we go with. As they run out of Clones, the Computer may select you (yes, YOU!), Infrared Citizen to supplement current Troubleshooter operations. (So yes, there will be swaps.)
This is if we pick PARANOIA.
I wonder how much it goes for these days.
I think it'd be great in PbP too.
Wait what? But the point of paranoia is that dying is only a minor inconvenience!
It's what keeps everyone shooting each other
We need some Paranoia on this board.
Please?
Edit- A full complement of clones would work fine, I think. Obviously you're the Computer, so do what you want- I agree with Rend that you'd take some of the fun out of backstabbing people if it had dire concequences for their being able to keep playing. If it's meant as a playtest (you anticipate 20 people want to play, so you sub them around for one to three clones each until you have an idea how much you like them, so you can find a solid group for a real game), that works well.
If not I'll vote for Nobilis.
If so I'll vote for paranoia
Unless the polar bears drink coke, in which case I vote to kick Arivia off the island.
Good points, taken under advisement.
My second choice would be your homebrew 4e game.
It is the most fun you can have before the communist mutants get you.