Playing, Running, Wanting: October

For someone who thinks about RPGs a lot, I haven't been playing much in the last few months. I blame the whole 'working nights' thing. It tends to dominate your social life. Recently, however, I've been getting some chances to play, so that's a nice improvement.

Playing: At Tokyo in Tulsa in June, I made a few new friends (during a demo game of Werewolf: the Forsaken, no less) and we've recently been getting together everyone in a while for gaming nights. (They're in OKC, or I'd probably be a weekly thing. [Le sigh.]) We've done two different sessions of Gamma World so far, which were pretty good times for everyone. In a few weeks, I'm going up there for the weekend and after we hang out at Izumicon for a day, we're going to spend the other day playing Scion. I am looking forward to it, since all the other Scion games I've been involved in fell apart on the runway.

Running: With Halloween right around the corner, I felt like running something involving zombies, so I volunteered to do a one-shot of Unhallowed Metropolis for anyone who was interested. My friends that I game with online said it sounded like fun, so I'm making up some pregens and planning a suitably gothic scenario for the night before Halloween.

Wanting to Play: Oh geez. This is a big list. Of course, it's always a big list.

• Right at the top of the list is Exalted. The various threads on RPG.Net have me wanting to play a Solar, an Infernal, and an Alchemical all at once. I imagine it'll only get worse when the errata comes out for Lunars.
• I wouldn't mind getting to play in a Vampire game, although I have the feeling that if anything, I'll be the one running it once I get my copy of V20.
• Legend of the 5 Rings 4th edition. It's gorgeous and atmospheric and has a well-tuned system.
• Oh god, so many games. Monsters and other Childish Things, Wu Xing: the Ninja Crusade, Star Wars SE...I need to stop reading books, really.

Wanting to Run: I had originally offered to be the one to run Scion for the OKC crew, but one of the other people said she really wanted to be the one to run it. Since I'd be just as happy playing as running, I let her take it. Now I've been throwing ideas around my brain to see what else I might want to run for the group when it's my turn, and two things have really stuck out. Both of these will probably get posts of their own very soon.

• FantasyCraft is the big one. I've been a pretty big fan of Crafty Games since the second edition of Spycraft, and FantasyCraft is probably my favorite iteration of the 3.x mechanics ever. I just haven't been able to do anything with it yet. I want to change that.
• Monsters and other Childish Things is the other one. I just love the tone of the writing in the books, and the setting and basic idea are wonderful.