And then we'll play Trail of Cthulhu.

Graham

I'm going to be running a 1920's horror campaign I like to call Bayuhc then I'll be running a modern version of it.

My current group (that has only recently formed and includes 2 trad rpers and one newbie bf of one of those players) is doing some good, old fashioned D&D using 3.5 at the moment. It's fun, I enjoy D&D face-to-face when it plays to its strengths and doesn't pretend to be something that it's not.

There are some bits, ruleswise and conventionswise, that irk me but, hey, I've got a roleplaying group again! Woo!

~Geoff

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The game of Cold City that James was running at the club came to an abrupt end when otherworldly entities started unravelling Berlin and we decided to help them, so we're having a couple of weeks of playtesting. We played Graham's excellent A Taste for Murder last Tuesday (I will get the AP report up today, really!) and will be trying Iain's Reel Adventures next week.

My Thursday group is doing a bunch of one-offs, as we've wrapped up our year-long Spirit of the Century game (1930s psychic investigators versus Nazi occult super-science), and we'll be playing Heaven & Earth and Elfs over the next couple of weeks.

And I'm delighted to have finally got a regular (well, monthly) game of Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium together. The group I'm running it for is mostly made up of very traditional gamers, but, oddly, the trad games we've tried (Mage, Werewolf, Godlike) have fallen pretty flat, while PtA worked a charm. Dread seems to be the first trad game we've tried that's really sparked, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it develops. The game's already drifting in some interestingly hippy ways.

I'm running GURPS on Monday, a campaign that has been going most of the last year, but which is about to take a break. Next week I think we will playtest Eekamouse in Atlantis, then we are planning a 4-5 session game of Dark Heresy, followed by a 3 month GURPS campaign (not the same one we are playing noe though). After that we may do some more playtests, or another short game, before returning to the current campaign.

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God damn nothing is the basic answer. I am trying to get a regular group going in edinburgh without much success. A change of day off for me might help the situation. Failing that I may start heading to GEAS on wednesday nights and seeing who i can round up there.

Cheers

Iain

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I hear you on the difficulty of arranging things Iain. What day off do you have?

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We've just played a fun Dead of Night session run by Greg. We had a right laugh, I got to play Buddy "Bud" Boswell, the Film Crew of One on the "set" of a very low budget horror movie.

Before that I ran a playtest of Cubicle 7's upcoming Dr Who RPG, which I'm not really allowed to talk about. We had fun with it though.

Claire's preparing to launch us all into The Savage World of Solomon Kane starting this week with the character creation session. That looks like a lot of fun indeed.

The main game I'm playing at the moment is 'Stuff The Rucksack', a deeply involved game of shoving things into a rucksack and running towards trains, buses or planes. Excitingly, the rucksack sometimes gets narration handled by other agencies. Like airlines. Who send the narration to unusual and interesting places!

Comedy aside...

I recently played PTA for the first time. Just one session, but I think we'll return to it at some point. It was a cop show set in Victorian London, but done in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. It was called 'The Deadly Implement'.

Also finished the Wellington playtest of Hot War and played Spione for the first time.

Tomorrow night I might be playing Grey Ranks with a couple of the guys here in Canberra. Then on Sunday it looks like I'll be running Hot War in Melbourne.

Exciting times.

Cheers
Malcolm

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I've just moved over to Dublin to have been trying to make gamers. I've made two, and played some Mouse Guard.

I found an excellent guy called Eoin who has 6 (!) gamers eager to try some indie awesomeness. They already played some PTA and liked it but their current game of Exalted sounds a bit muddy and heavy. And I'm meeting another interested guy tomorrow for coffee/vetting. The internet makes finding gamers easy.

So perhaps next weekend, I'm going to suggest an ice-breaker of Contenders for four of us. And then I have a hankering to try In A Wicked Age with another oracle - perhaps urban fantasy or magical realism.

I'm back down to one weekly session now, which is alternating between a gritty and fun UK-based Delta Green game (using Unknown Armies), and my first, floundering attempts with Burning Wheel, using the Blossoms are Falling setting.

We tend to rotate through games after 6 weeks with each, which works quite well as it gets a bit of continuity in without it becoming too stale.

Rich - I'd love to hear more about your DoN game. Was it the film set scenario out of the book?

Currently - Sunday was Trail of Cthulhu, is now switching to Dark Heresy.
Monday - Dr. Who Playtest
Tuesday - Spirit of the Century (playing)
Wednesday was Unknown Armies, now switching to DH.

Wow, that's a lot of gaming! I used to do that much when I was at University, but I can't imagine it now, not because I wouldnb't like it, but because it would be impossible to organise people to play with!

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Currently bringing a Gloranthan HeroQuest campaign to a close, were two of the players are Demon Horse Riding Crusading Knights and the other is actually a Demon Horse!

Reading Burning Wheel has really helped me structure this campaign which is very cooperative in nature and its seen the pcs grow up from plucky teenagers to MIGHTY heroes who are set to change the very reality of their homeland.

After this a short but focused campaign of Monkey to iron out the last wrinkles and see how it works for long play.

Regards

;O)Newt
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I think that you know the answer to your question, The Hat will be firmly on my head.

Afterall, only 90% on the game so far has been written by people other than me. With a bit more pushing of the RBH map method I think I can up that to 95%.

Lazy GM syndrome, who me, I think not...:)

Currently Playing: Red Box Hack, BAYUHC

We've finished Poison'd which was terrific and we're starting Trail of Cthulhu next week, part one of a world spanning adventure, London 1930.

I'm hoping to get Trail for my Birthday ... :)

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I've been running two Burning Wheel games, one weekly based in a bastardised version of A|State and the second a bi-monthly fantasy setting.

For the first, the Burning gates of hell, the game was structured around the relationship map from Sorcerer and Soul while the second has been more group-created.

I must say, having the skeleton of structure provided in A|State has made the game flow far better than the less structured game.
John

We've done Trailing for a bit now. The scenario should be in playtest soonish. We were going to play Koenig Hospital but Graham was unwell, rather ironically, so we played Tbilisi instead.

Nothing.

Simon Proctor
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Well Eeks went well, and Dark Heresy is going well too, next on the list is some Changeling : The Lost tabletop tomorrow

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BAYUHC (Ben's version of PTA) resumes tonight with an episode called 'Where the Wild Things Are'. All we know is that it will have something to do with lycanthropy and ancient Greece. Our cut scenes* in this episode will feature us as the retinue of a Greek hero.

Neil

* Ben operates a method where we play two characters in some episodes - our main characters and another totally unconnected character running through a parallel story which reflects on the main story, or interacts with it in some way. Its very challenging but magnificently fulfilling as the story unfolds. Its a bit like the pirate substory in The Watchmen?

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