And the last two prompts for #RPGaDay2023 :
30: Obscure RPG I've Played: Most likely that would be Expendables by Stellar Games. Played about three or four sessions in the mid-'90s. Lost the rulebook in a rented-storage mishap.
31. All Time Favorite: I haven't played it in a few years, but my heart still belongs to Teenagers from Outer Space.
And that gets us to the end of August, just a few days into September.
#RPGaDay2023 wrapup, part 2 of 3:
28. Scariest game I've ever played: Probably the top 5 have all been Call of Cthulhu sessions; it's the only horror RPG I play, and nothing else has really come close for scary.
29: Most memorable encounter: I was in a Pirates of the Spanish Main campaign several years ago, and our little sloop crew got crosswise of one of the campaign's leading pirates and his ship, which was at least frigate-sized. We knew we couldn't outrun or outgun it, so we tried to make him run his ship aground in the shallows and, meeting with success, managed somehow to burn it to the waterline. Then we caught up with the fellow on the island we'd been chasing around and went full Ender Wiggin on this guy, whom the GM had been building up as one of the biggest, baddest captains in the whole Black Brotherhood, and of whom we were frankly scared shitless. The GM was somehow not expecting this approach.
Fell kind of behind on the #RPGaDay2023 challenge, so gonna wrap it up in a couple of posts today:
23: Coolest Looking RPG product I own: Whim of the day says that it's the Night Vale-inspired styling of Kagegami High's cover art, which is quite simple but I find it very effective.
24: Complex/Simple games I play. Right now the most complex game I play is probably D&D 5e, with FFG Star Wars in second place (I could see where someone might swap those, but I'm comfortable with those rankings.) The simplest is Tiny Gunslingers.
25: Unplayed RPG you own: Most of them, really. The one I most lament not getting to try is Capes.
26: Favorite Character Sheet: I really love being able to fit a whole character on an index card, so I'm going to go with Ghostbusters here.
27: I Want to see a new edition of: I'd like to see Mike Pondsmith take yet another swing at Teenagers from Outer Space. Just to see where his head has gone over the past several years.
tbc...
Today's #RPGaDay2023 prompt:
Best Secondhand Purchase
I bought my White Box OD&D set used about fifteen years ago, and when I opened it I found a first-printing Arduin Grimoire (with the Otus cover) stuffed in beneath the original D&D rulebooks and supplements I-III. Hard to beat that kind of serendipity.
More #RPGaDay2023 catch-up:
18: Favorite system: Not sure I have one these days. Everything seems to have one or more aspects that bug me a bit. I've gone off d20 variants because the die's so swingy (though I do kind of miss D&D4e these days). I kind of like Fate, and Tiny d6, and PbtA, but each has one or more features that bug me just enough that I don't want to call it a favorite. (Of the three I think I like PbtA most at the moment, but I have also played it the least.) Risus is too simple; Savage Worlds has a combat death spiral and I hate those. Everywhen or PDQ# might be able to win me over, but I'd have to play them first.
Okay, I've fallen a little behind on #RPGaDay2023 , so I'll play catch-up today:
17: Funniest game: I've played a fair number of comedy games--Toon, TFOS, Maid, Paranoia, Creeks and Crawdads, Risus--but none of them quite matched those times where one of our regular action-adventure type games went silly at the table. I don't have enough details to hand to narrate anything, but there was a Gamma World campaign in the early '90s that took this turn pretty frequently. Some of my Savage Worlds games in the '00s (Space: 1889 in particular turned into a complete and hilarious shambles because the players consistently aimed for the exact opposite of Victorian propriety). Living Forgotten Realms and public-play 5e sessions went this way on occasion. (Try keeping a straight face when Harvey Birdman is invoking divine wrath across the table. Go ahead, try.)
#RPGaDay2023 prompt for 8/16: "Game you wish you owned."
TBH I own too many games as it is. But I have never owned a copy of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia--just about the only core book to avoid my clutches. It would also be very nice to own a copy of the West End Ghostbusters game.
So that's a twofer, I guess.
Third RPGaDay prompt is "first game bought."
Ever? Holmes Basic D&D in 1979. This year? Tiny Gunslingers (in PDF via DriveThruRPG), back in March.
Hi, all! Time for my second RPGaDay post.
Prompt 2: First GM
I'm going to read this as "First game you ran this year," which is a Dungeon World one-shot that I volunteered to GM so the group could try out the system. (The first game I ever GMed was Holmes Basic D&D, back in the dim recesses of 1979. The first GM I ever played under is a name long lost in the file cabinets of my memory. My first GM this year is the guy who ran "Seek and Destroy the Elf on the Shelf," who is named James.)
OK, doin' the RPG-a-Day thing here.
Prompt #1: First RPG played this year
That would be a Cypher System one-shot on New Years' Day. I played Ensign Goodwrench in "Seek and Destroy the Elf on the Shelf."
