The Trouble is..

[prophet118]

Sometimes i hate being the only cool kid on the block to have a new game, It means i never get to play (if i can get it run)...

just a random thought, thats all, anyone else have this problem?


how many players do we actually have on this board, or are we all GMs?

[J.T.]

Wll I'm a little bit of both but mainly a player.

I have the same problem, since my daughter was born some 16 months ago I've had to give up gaming with my group as it is too far to go in the evenings with having to pick Emily up from nursery first.

So at the moment I'm in limbo where gaming is concerned. If anyone out ther has a game going or wishes to set up one in the Ealing, London, England area please let me know I would be interested.

J.T.

[prophet118]

my gaming has come to a crawl, then crashing halt as well, with the birth of my kid, september of 2004

always seems to happen, although in my case my wife (who i met at a vampire LARP) has completely given up roleplaying. :(

[Silverlion2]

That sucks Proph. My gaming is halted at the moment offline because of busy worklives of most of my players--I unfortunatly GM almost exclusivly. I love to play but getting a GM for ME is the issue.

I run numerous games online though to take up the time when I can't play face to face via IRC (right now I'm running my superhero game, MSH, and M&M--though the latter for fantasy) but not a Godsend Game. (I ran that for the FTF group and am trying to get them back together again soon.)

[prophet118]

personally im kinda waiting for a company to come around and try something wicked like GURPs... i know west end games kinda has that going, but only moderately so... look at how many game lines gurps has going for it..lol

one system multiple games... i bought d6 adventure and havent been able to run that either..but tell em its start wars d6 and you at least get people interested for nostalgia sake

i also tend to get into games no one will ever wanna play..

like recently i bought Blue Rose (from green ronin) i seriously doubt anyone in my old groups would ever want to play it.. same with skull and bones (green ronin) i never really got anyone to play in Slaine (mongoose) when i had it

i can only moderately get people to play the palladium games i have (except some of my high school friends, most of whom we started hero games on those systems)..

i bought Dark Ages: Fae (white wolf) because i loved changeling the dreaming, but wanted something older, dealing with what happenes before the events of c:td, but ive ran one game of it, and quickly remembered why i dont run white wolf games anymore..

the only game i might have any success at running in the near future (besides GSA) is King Arthur Pendragon... but even then i kinda doubt it, as the age of chivalry is dead in gaming.

[Silverlion2]

Well considerig a new edition of Pendragon has come out that may change. I own Blue Rose PDF (I was highly dissapointed, I like games which support their concept--it didn't) I like the True20 rules set, but Blue Rose was advertised as having more support for the romantic theme..but it didn't.

Anyway, I've no trouble getting my players to play any games I choose, but that's long long years of Good GMing to give me a rep.

You might look into playing online--advertise either GMIng or wanting to play in the above games.

[Jerry D. Grayson]

Finding people to play is hard. I may run a few demos around town just to meet new people. There is a LARP going and I may go just to farm the players there.
I’m very fortunate to have a wife who plays (met here at a Vampire Larp to)
My group has been together for about 15 years now. Some come and some go but I have a core group that are like a canker sore…I cant rid of them
Just kidding I love them all and consider them family…well family I wouldn’t drink from the same glass with.
At the moment I’m running a Forbidden Suns game on Fridays and a Deliria game on Sundays. I finished off my GODSEND Agenda Campaign a few months ago. I plan to start another once one of my other games end. Everyone is invited so come on over.

[Jerry D. Grayson]

Also you should head over to RPG.net and other RPG boards and post that you’re looking for a group. I’ve found a few people that way. Buyer beware;)

[prophet118]

Well considerig a new edition of Pendragon has come out that may change. I own Blue Rose PDF (I was highly dissapointed, I like games which support their concept--it didn't) I like the True20 rules set, but Blue Rose was advertised as having more support for the romantic theme..but it didn't.

Anyway, I've no trouble getting my players to play any games I choose, but that's long long years of Good GMing to give me a rep.

You might look into playing online--advertise either GMIng or wanting to play in the above games.

im probably going to end up getting the true20 book, i do like the rules, and the approach of certain aspects in blue rose, but other parts are sorely lacking what i think of in romatic fantasy... i think arthurian legends (the reaosn i bought pendragon) they think of other things..

i have done my fair share of online gaming at delphi forums, i started running games there in 1998, and have just recently stopped, as my longest running game finally game to a close

[prophet118]

Also you should head over to RPG.net and other RPG boards and post that you’re looking for a group. I’ve found a few people that way. Buyer beware;)


ive got my profile up on accessdenied.net but that thing has never helped me find any gamers, in fact i dont think any online site has ever actually helped me..lol

[Silverlion2]

I'm a willing player, but not a GM at this point (too many games I'm running already) but I usually only play via IRC/Chat programs.

[prophet118]

i tried roleplaying on chat programs, its far too chaotic..lol

of course, forum based roleplaying takes too darn long..lol

i managed to pull off one story arc, from start to finish (generally called an adventure, or mini campaign to some) in about 4 years on delphi forums

but oh what fun..lol, Battle of the Wyrm was insane, intense and wild... the name of course made no sense.... except to me, i originally created the forum as a Werewolf the Apocalypse forum, then changed it when no one was looking/interested

basically i used straight out D&D for character creation (with mods, point buy system, you get 90 points, everything starts at 0 and everything costs 1 point) but once everything got underway, i made all the rolls... which meant nothig in reality, since i never rolled anything, if the post was good, and it fit with the story i was trying to tell, it worked.

there had to be alot of trust (or deception) for the players to even let me do that... but even in that setting i had complaints:

* its taking too long
* give us magic items
* give us more xp

etc.

[Silverlion2]

I run games via chat all the time, its rarely chaotic. Wierd :)

Must be my players.

[prophet118]

therein lies the catch, you run them all the time, the times ive tried have been with inexperienced people who usually do the same thing in table top games (shout, etc)