Thinking over systems and games that I would like to run for a group that meets all day about every 2-3 months for a sort of personal, in-home ‘con’ game, here is what I have on tap:
Classic Traveller
Setting: GDW 3rd Imperium
Adventures: Classic GDW modules such as “Twilight’s Peak” and “Deathstation”
Systems: GDW Classic Traveller
D&D
Setting: World of Redmark (Greyhawk style medieval fantasy) or Grehawk or Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lankhmar_%E2%80%93_City_of_ Adventure) Adventures: Classic 1e Modules (“U1 – Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh”, “UK4 — When a Star Falls” and “B10 – Night’s Dark Terror”) or new 5e Modules (“Legacy of the Crystal Shard” and “Tyranny of Dragons”)
Systems: Swords & Wizardry Complete (0e D&D Retroclone) or Labyrinth Lord or D&D 5e Basic Rules (free version out mid July)
TSR Star Frontiers
Setting: TSR’s Star Frontiers (see http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Star_Frontiers) Adventures: Classic TSR modules such as “Starspawn of Volturnus”, “Volturnus, Planet of Mystery” and “Sundown on Starmist”
Systems: TSR Star Frontiers system
Lord of the Rings / Middle Earth
Setting: Tolkien’s Middle Earth (3rd Age / LOTR era, or 4th Age after the LOTR)
Adventures: Classic ICE MERP Modules or Cubicle 7 The One Ring adventures
Systems: 1st or 2nd Edition MERP (Middle Earth Roleplaying, http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle- earth_Role_Playing), or The One Ring (now in print, Cubicle 7 http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/ our-games/the-one-ring/) or D&D 5e with custom backgrounds Star Wars
Setting: Star Wars (between Episode IV & V, or 150 years after the battle of Yavin in Episode VI)
Adventures: FFG Modules
Systems: FFG’s Edge of the Empire (http://www.
fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ minisite.asp?eidm=232) Ringworld / Known Space
Setting: Larry Niven’s Ringworld / Tales of Known Space (http://larryniven.wikia.com/
wiki/Known_Space) Adventures: Chaosium Ringworld Modules and/or reskinned Mongoose Traveller adventures
Systems: Stars Without Number (http://grognardia.blogspot.
com/2011/01/review-stars- without-number.html), Classic Traveller or Chaosium Ringworld (http://www.dennisantinori. com/RingworldRPG/4555.html)
For my alternating Saturdays game group (who is more into modern story games), I have the following on tap:
Firefly RPG
Day After Ragnarok (Fate)
Other systems I like but don’t currently have plans to run (maybe I’ll play them in a Con game sometime):
Mouseguard (based on Burning Wheel)
Solomon Kane (Savage Worlds)
Lady Blackbird
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