New gaming?

[thessalian]

Okay, while I'm loving Mage, I'm kind of jonesing to do ... I dunno, something else. So I'm thinking, maybe I should see if I can get a game together for the other Sunday. You know, something a bit less ambitious than Mage has turned out to be, and can be shunted aside if anyone else wants to run something brief with no long-term commitment and no stress if they lose inspiration and tank out plot-wise.

I suppose this is addressed particularly to dodgyhoodoo, weaselbitch, nadriel, lokean and guido_was_taken, but is of course not limited to those five; this is addressed to any of my friends in the area and interested in gaming. If you are keen, take a minute, leave a comment, and answer the following questions:

1) Are you free on the Sundays alternate to the Mage Sundays (for the uninitiated, the alternation for non-Mage Sundays goes 5th Feb, 19th Feb, 5 March, 19 March, 2 April etc)

2) If so, are you keen to participate?

3) If the answer to the above two questions is yes, any preferences to what's run? I've personally got a yen to run old Vampire, Werewolf either old or new, Awakening, picking up the old BESM campaign or possibly trying Shadowrun. Kult is an option only if dodgyhoodoo doesn't mind me reading the books.

Answers on a comments field, or whenever you next see me.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sure you can read the Kult books - no scenarios in the core book, just setting, rules and unpleasantness, so no spoilers for whatever I might do at some point - just not on a weekday evening ;P. The old stuff decreases in quality dramatically, unfortunately - the Metropolis sourcebook wasn't translated well, had piss-poor proofreading, and, well, even the better stuff isn't that good all told.

Haven't seen much 2nd ed stuff, but I understand it's been picked up again recently for 3rd. It's a great game, just poorly developed.

[NB I did a bit of work on WOD(2)ing it a while back, the rules would probably work better. You're welcome to what little there is there too, didn't get around to working on magic but that shouldn't be too hard to fix.]

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

I might be interested (although I'm trying to remember where you live).

Gaming

[lokean.livejournal.com]

I'd love to get some more gaming in on the other Sunday.

That said, something a bit less ambitious and a bit less headfucky and evil (in a good way, you understand?) is certainly the order of the day for me. It would be nice to deal with reasonably simple problems like "The well oiled midgets [Sabbat] are in town and they want our bandicoots[primogen] (said the fishmalk to the nosferatu)" or "We need you to steal research on magically active cyberware from Digicorp's hardware-secured datavault, in space"

With regards to game systems I'm rather partial to Shadowrun and haven't played it in geological ages. 'Course, Vampire or BESM are great too.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Oh, preferences for what to run: Vampire the Massacre, Werewolf (I've got a character idea I want to try out who can fit either WoD setting*). I don't play mage (would happily play shadowrun and don't know BESM) and am free on sundays.

* Includes elements of both Miles Vorkosigan and Ra's Al Ghul. If you don't want some creative destruction, better say so now.