In a fearsome feedback loop that threatens the very fabric of not much at all, Adam at Barking Alien followed up on my first five role-playing games post with a post about the five rpgs he's thinking about most right now. Or then, when he wrote the post. That seems like an excellent idea. Let's have at it!
- 13th Age. I'm often thinking about 13th Age because I think it's an excellent game and I very much enjoyed running it in the past. I read 13th Age Glorantha the other day -- I backed as a Kickstarter in 1873 or thereabouts and never got around to reading -- and while it's massively incomplete, it has a lot of very good ideas. It's another layer of complexity on top of the base game -- I refer to it as Advanced 13th Age to no one because there's no one else here -- so I don't know if I'd run it, but it did make me excited to play 13A again, in some form.
- Break!! I've got an idea for subverting the bright and cheery feel of Break!! with an apocalyptic horror campaign influenced by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Kingdom Death, and few other bleak and depressing things. I can't quite decide if this is a terrible idea, or bold and exciting. Perhaps I will play it to find out!
- Call of Cthulhu. I am almost always thinking about Call of Cthulhu. It has been too long since I last played.
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess. This is a bit of a cheat as I'm working on a couple of books, but I am thinking about it and it is an rpg, so...
- Star Wars d6. I've got a rough idea for a pirate campaign, a mix of original content and some published adventures I've got lying around that would fit well with a bit of bodging. This also ties in with another post I really need to get around to publishing one day. This day? No.
I still haven't accepted the fact that Break!! is actually out. I remember reading about it on Google+ back in the day, probably around when Jesus was still a teenager.
ReplyDeleteI think you should go ahead with your subertion (?? I may have made that word up just now) of Break!! with bleakness. Maybe you shouldn't tell your players, that would make the reveal even more unsettling (i.e. they think they're playing this happy anime/early Final Fantasy game). E.g. they defeat their first cute boss only to realise it turning into a Elden Ring "phase 2" boss.
I've never played Star Wars but the idea of playing in that world intrigues me. But as always, the shady/dirty side of Star Wars is always more interesting than the clean/Jedi parts, so I'd probably rather play a smuggler than Jedi.
I didn't quite believe it when it appeared either!
DeleteI'll go into this more when I eventually write the blogpost, but "my" Star Wars is my brother's hand-me-down Star Wars Weekly comics, which was all psychic dragon lords and Magnificent Seven versus Godzilla, and nothing much to do with Jedi and zero Skywalker Family Drama.