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I would like to start gaming on Friday afternoons/early evenings. I have this time off from work and I want to start doing something more with it. To this end i am willing to run/co run a game. I would prefer Fridays over Saturdays, but either will work. If you have a preference post it.

1. the Dragonlance game would be using the Saga System. It is based on using cards instead of dice. My idea for the game would be aged adventurers meeting in a bar or some other meeting place to have a drink together and reminisce about old times. This would be a round robin type game with each person GMing as his character tells a story. The world would have some preset things, but still be mostly free for GM description.

2. Werewolf would probably be a low power level game to see what WW is all about. I do not really have any ideas for story or plot so this would probably take a little while to start

3. Vampire would be a mid level game focusing mainly on exploring powers and seeing how they work. Again like WW i have no ideas ready for this so it might take longer to set up and get going.

4. Other - got any ideas? wanna run something? post about it. I am willing to take suggestions on systems and/or someone else running.



I think my personal preference would be for fifth age. The system is easy to run and play in. The game style would be something that if people get involved could be very fun and lasting. Plus with the world being more open and free it would give everyone a chance to add something and toy around with their idea of fantasy.

although I would not be available if it were friday evenings, werewolf or vampire would be fun, I think another fun alternative would be Promethean or when it comes out in August Hunter.

After Haley's pool party last night, it seems that there is a calling for a new game or two. The days I heard were for Fridays and Sundays. Either is good wth me.
As it turns out I have ahad some time on my hands recently and have therefore been doing some writing. I have made a couple of systems from the ground up (one is ready to go), and I've also been turning through plots for old games I enjoyed.
Marvel (which also uses the saga system) was really popular, and i have an idea for that. It involoves the original cast of characters and can easily incorporate some of the newer generations of heroes that were introduced into the Lost Souls.
The other system is based on the Magic the Gathering storyline, and you can read a little about that in the Magic the Gathering Forums. It would require some basic knowledge of the CCG (for mage battles) but it doesn't require cards.
These are my ideas, let me know what you think.

i want to do several games, as long as i'm not responsible for them.

i just read a wod-type novel about a were-coyote and a bunch of werewolves. i would like to play ww because of that.

the saga thing would be nice, just cuz its different and because it hasn't been done in a while. not sure how i feel about the story though. the old people around a table thing is cool, but i think there needs to be a little more world to frame things with. and i don't want to run too often.

i want to play marvel whenever its ready also. since it is only one story arc, it will just be a temp game, yes?

oh, i also want to run a temp game of dragonblooded exalted kids. need more reading though.

I'm semi-interested in all of the games on the table at the moment. A more detailed run-down:

5th Age sounds pretty cool. My major hangup here is that I am not a very experienced GM, and Exalted is eating a whole lot of my time already, so I'm not thrilled about running, particularly because I don't (as I've said many times) have a story to tell.

I'm 50/50 about werewolf. Part of me wants to play a few sessions just to check it out, but I glanced through the corebook and wasn't thrilled with what I saw.

I'm fairly interested in Vampire too, simply to gain more familiarity with the Vampire-specific aspects of the system, which is useful for SummerGame. Also, I always seem to be stuck playing starting characters, because nothing I've played in has really lasted long enough to get out of that role, and this seems like a game that might not start at a beginning level.

I am very, very interested in Marvel. Would play at the drop of a hat.

Similarly, I am very interested in the Dragonblooded game. Run it. Tonight.

I'm making a character.

i like where werewolf has gone in alot of ways. though some of the fluff i will miss, and i think the gifts should have been done differently, and i don't want to have to read 4 other books to get a good understanding of all the lodges, gifts, totems, etc. but other than that i think it is ok... oh, and the story is kinda lame.

so it isn't great. yeah. but the core idea is cool, and the new system, all else aside, does provide better tools imo for good rp experiences.

Unfortunately for Gideon by the time his character sheet gets here via 3rd world mail delivery, the game will already have died.

I'll actually be there sooner than a letter would be.

Since the responses to the fifth age game seem to be more for a normal style of game I am fine with that as well. I have been working on some ideas for a world that i was going to use for a D&D game, but it can be adapted to the fifth age system rather easily. Also D&D is an option, i should be getting my books form amazon this week so i can read over the system with some of my vacation time.

WW and Vampire are both 50/50 for me. I would be willing to run either. I will start coming up with story ideas for WW and Vampire. Only thing is i would need the WW books since i have none.

Marvel, i would like to play in. Nike needs to come back out of the obscurity of time.

Need more input though people. So please keep posting. Also more imput on time slot. Also I would be willing to run Friday afternoon into the late evening and deal with switching people out. I know Cheyne is good for friday afternoon and Steven for more of an evening time, so i would be willing to deal with things like that.

I'm available most evenings after about, say, 6:30pm. I put a hard limit at 1am for end time, for myself, unless its a Friday or Saturday, because I need to be able to wake up for work.

well I am willing to play the 5th age game but I am not going to want to run... it seems I am being tasked to handle 50%+ of any 4th Ed D&D games since I have spent a good deal of time reading the books... and I would like to play WW or if you wanted to try another of the NWOD flavors there is Promethean... and for this week and next I know I will have friday evenings and all weekend free so I am open... fridays may not be viable when I finish training but that will be determined by my schedule... weekends will remain open for the time being since work is not open those days... yet...

If I were there, I would offer to run a single covenant Nwod Vampire game. I very much got the feeling from my reading that they support and are perhaps intended to be used as overarching factions for PC parties that add flavor to a group and can provide the necessary establishment of power and authority that would support a patron NPC that gives missions and quests. I find the Ordo Dracul to very much support this structure, I know quite a bit less about the other covenants but the concept still stands. Perhaps the PCs are the newest (though that doesn't necessarily make them brand new) vampires in an Ordo Dracul city, and a rival city controlled by the Crone is hedging in on their territory.

Or a mixed covenant city but the PCs exclusively belong to one of the covenants. The PCs would still be drawn from the full spread of clans and bloodlines, and could (and perhaps should) develop rivalries, but their mutual allegiance to a faction would place them together, and they could potentially get up to some rather interesting exploits. This game could even be set within The City and run parallel to the summer game, and deal primarily with the population of vampires that are 'in the background', and thereby help flesh out the kindred of the city as well as have some good ol fashioned tabletop vampire fun.

Speaking of which, I'd like to see (and this may already be in the works) covenant specific plot in the Summer game. That'd be cool.

*Sigh*

If I have time, and I need *something* to do during my breaks besides name my unborn children, I'll start work on a setting that could be superimposed over the summer game (ie a relatively nameless city that matches most of the attributes of The City), but could also just be a neighboring city, that is oriented towards covenant interactions and classic vamp plot, but is intended for tabletop gaming as opposed to live action, so a focus on scheming and plotting and inclusive of mission style play, thusly allowing for episodic play and increases in status over time as the players grow in power within their covenant, clan, and city.

Basically I just said I'm going to make a module for NWod. I'll continue reading the books and I'll set up plot for each of the covenants, such that whichever covenant the players choose to play they see one side of the long term plot, and I'll try to include notes as to what equivalent operatives of the other covenants would be up to while the PCs focus on their own requiems and their own covenants and clans. It'd be nice for the PCs, or at least a few of them, to be called upon to perform opposing tasks by their covenants and clans, respectively. So the Carthian Daeva is asked by the Daeva to ghoul Bob cause he's such a great artist, and the Carthians want him killed, for their own reasons. Or maybe the Mekhet AND the Ordo Dracul want the ancient book you just stole from the Mages, and you belong to both, but each wants it for themselves.

And someone other than me could just as easily build and run a setting like this.

Finally, I wanted to whore myself out a bit. I don't have time to run a game, but I do have time to build settings and plot. If you guys have enjoyed my settings and plots and want to outsource some of your GMing, please just say so. I'd be happy to.

Great, so first we out source making shoes to third world countries, and now we outsource our world-building too. What's next?

You could outsource your childcare to third world countries. Hey chris, send me your kids by UPS, I'll have them back by dinner next week.