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[Mephisto]

I made a post that might be relevant to people here.

[SalmonGod]

Taking this to the correct thread...

So I'm thinking life is probably going to stabilize a bit now.  Some sources of personal drama are gone.  Vehicles that were total'd are repaired or replaced.  We are moved into our new house.  Work is settling after the big re-structure of the office.  And I'm likely to start working from home soon for reals, which will enable me to cut back on some responsibilities and hours.  Goddamn what a fucking ridiculous year it's been.

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Going to try and avoid D&D/Pathfinder.

[Gentlefish]

Taking this to the correct thread...

So I'm thinking life is probably going to stabilize a bit now.  Some sources of personal drama are gone.  Vehicles that were total'd are repaired or replaced.  We are moved into our new house.  Work is settling after the big re-structure of the office.  And I'm likely to start working from home soon for reals, which will enable me to cut back on some responsibilities and hours.  Goddamn what a fucking ridiculous year it's been.

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Going to try and avoid D&D/Pathfinder.

Well, if you can, Paranoia just got a re-printing. That would be hilariously fun to play.

[MrWiggles]

I really wanna play Legend of the Five Rings or Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones).

[Trekkin]

Taking this to the correct thread...

So I'm thinking life is probably going to stabilize a bit now.  Some sources of personal drama are gone.  Vehicles that were total'd are repaired or replaced.  We are moved into our new house.  Work is settling after the big re-structure of the office.  And I'm likely to start working from home soon for reals, which will enable me to cut back on some responsibilities and hours.  Goddamn what a fucking ridiculous year it's been.

And now that I'm here, I really want to find a weekend game to join up with.  I miss role-playing so much.  I don't think I'm likely to find anything local among friends.  Anybody got any good leads before I start randomly stumbling about the internet looking for one?

Going to try and avoid D&D/Pathfinder.

Well, if you can, Paranoia just got a re-printing. That would be hilariously fun to play.

You know, a Paranoia Straight campaign might be really fun, running from Troubleshooters (or infrareds-about-to-be-Troubleshooters) all the way through the High Programmers supplement.

[SalmonGod]

Not really familiar with Paranoia.  Had seen the name a few times, but that's it.  Just looked it up.  I want to get into a serious campaign with some longevity.  Paranoia doesn't read like it lends itself too well to that?

[Trekkin]

Not really familiar with Paranoia.  Had seen the name a few times, but that's it.  Just looked it up.  I want to get into a serious campaign with some longevity.  Paranoia doesn't read like it lends itself too well to that?

Paranoia Classic and especially Zap do not, no; they're goofy and explosive and short. Paranoia Straight, on the other hand, is equal parts Kafkaesque and Orwellian; it's less about ray guns and mutant powers and more about surviving a bureaucratic hell run by an insane computer. The setting is always crazy, but when played straight it is also uniquely terrifying.

[Harry Baldman]

Not really familiar with Paranoia.  Had seen the name a few times, but that's it.  Just looked it up.  I want to get into a serious campaign with some longevity.  Paranoia doesn't read like it lends itself too well to that?

Oh man, and I was just about to suggest Maid RPG.

If you're looking for something more serious, Burning Wheel is always worth trying. Blades in the Dark if you can find it is well worth looking into as well.

That said, D&D games are a lot easier to find than either of those.

[SalmonGod]

Burning Wheel and Eclipse Phase are the two games I most want to get into.  Burning Wheel because I'm enamoured with the mechanical design.  Eclipse Phase because I'm enamoured with the flavor and setting.

But yeah... I found the LFG subreddit, and it's 90% 5E :/

Spoiler: This is my RPG bookshelf (click to show/hide)

Most of it outside the D&D stuff on the bottom has been collected at Gencon over the years.  The only ones I've ever had the opportunity to play as more than a quick demo are D&D, White Wolf, Amber Diceless, and Call of Cthulhu.

I would consider D&D if I can find a Ravenloft game.... I love that setting.

[Harry Baldman]

Yeah, that's really the tragedy of it all. On the bright side, Curse of Strahd for 5E is a thing that's in with the kids now and that's Ravenloft, I'm fairly sure.

You could always try and run a Burning Wheel game, of course. Beneath the shitton of information it initially throws at you it's not really that complicated and a lot of what you can do with it tends to be blissfully optional depending on the kind of game you want to play. Granted, the Burning Wheel game I'm playing in that's given me that impression is admittedly a very talky as opposed to a fighty one.

[SalmonGod]

I have little confidence in my ability as a GM.  I know that practice and failure are required to get past that, but that's something I'd rather get through with friends and family.  Tried running Burning Wheel for a few people when I first discovered it, and it was a disaster.  When it's been like 10 years since roleplay has routinely been a part of my life, I'd like to get rolling again as a player.  And while I think I can set aside a few hours every weekend now, I still don't have the time for prep work to run.

[Trekkin]

Burning Wheel and Eclipse Phase are the two games I most want to get into.  Burning Wheel because I'm enamoured with the mechanical design.  Eclipse Phase because I'm enamoured with the flavor and setting.

I've run Eclipse Phase before. The setting is amazing, provided you don't mind your science fiction riddled with outright magic like sleights and some of the nanotech. It's fine if you want a sort of far-future Shadowrun, but if you go in expecting diamong-hard sci-fi there are some things you won't like.

The system, on the other hand, can really let you down, in part because the sheer variety of options for stackable bonuses relative to the range of results it can generate makes it very easy to optimize to the minimum allowable failure chance for certain common actions. If you're running low-combat it's less of an issue (since there's fewer skills you know a priori you'll always use), but still, it might work better if you hack it to be open-ended.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Calculus and Anarchist PolSci: The Game.

Anybody here ever play GURPS: Transhuman Space? Eclipse Phase is clearly drawing inspiration from it, but it seems like it has easier crunch.

[Rolan7]

Wooooah there's a Chronicles of Amber roleplaying game??  Personal note to check *that* out later!  Is it any good?  We're playing 3.5e right now, but I'm kinda due to run another game sometime.

(I might need to reread some, though...  I read the books so long ago, and I think I only read the first... 3?  I stopped on a pretty apocalyptic and explanatory note, but there were more books apparently.)

[Trekkin]

Anybody here ever play GURPS: Transhuman Space? Eclipse Phase is clearly drawing inspiration from it, but it seems like it has easier crunch.

It does, yes; if you replaced brainpeeling with a nondestructive upload and propagated that change through, the settings would be broadly similar other than the status of Earth. I kind of liked Firewall, though, just as a default way to bring PCs together.