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  • Electric Bastionland has been the RPG I most want to run ever since I bought it years ago.

    After watching a surreal Acid Western (which started out deceptively straightforward and veered endearingly off the rails by the final act), I'm itching to run In The Light of the Setting Sun: Bonanza Edition. But I'm at the end of my current FIST: Ultra Edition campaign and don't want to rush anything. :D

    • What was the film? Enquiring minds want to know.

      • It's called Walker (1987). Directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man) and starring Ed Harris. Not currently streaming anywhere I know of, but if you can find it on DVD or something I highly recommend it. The less you know going in the better. :)

  • wanderhome! i don't have a group of friends who are cringe creative enough to do a fully nonviolent game

  • Ahhh, loads of them!

    D&D adjacent stuff like Pathfinder 2e.

    PBTA and kin like Dungeon World, Monster of the Week, Ironsworn. Blades in the Dark.

    Delta Green.

    I have a whole folder of freeform, GMless stuff like Microscope, Kingdom, Follow, Archipelago, Dawn of Worlds, Dialect, Intrepid, The Quiet Year.

    Gonzo one shot stuff like Paranoia, The Sorcerer Supreme, Ten Candles, peace was never an option (think untitled goose game: the rpg).

    I recently had a test run or two of Fate Condensed and got completely hooked.

    Most of those I'd be content to run or play, but the game I really want to GM myself is a campaign I've been dreaming up for about year now that I call the "sedition sandbox". The scope is focussed to a single city, the capital of a hostile foreign empire. The PCs are an elite team of saboteurs and infiltrators, sent by a nation desperate to turn the tides of a losing war. Their only objective is to bring down the empire from within. Intrigue, plots, rebellions, sabotage, faction politics, assassinations, propaganda, blackmail, anything the players can think of to achieve that goal is fair game. How far will they go to stop the greater evil?

    I think it would be a blast (naturally, I guess), and one or two players in my local network have expressed a little interest, but I've yet to rally the kind of commitment I think I'd need to really get off the ground. And the inexorable march of time makes it less likely with every passing day, as my friends either move away or are subjected to all life's little tyrannies of responsibility ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • Eclipse Phase. It's a d100 body-swapping cyberpunk scifi horror game partly inspired by the Altered Carbon novels. In the default campaign the players are part of a conspiracy to steer humanity away from tampering with X-threats like alien viruses and tech left behind by hostile superintelligent AI.

    I still might run it. My group cycles through GMs, each one of us running a campaign that can be years long. Last time it was my turn I ran Genius: the Transgression, next time could be Eclipse Phase.

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