As usual, I'm having a hard time living in the moment. We resume our regular Gurps Knights of the Astral Sea game on Saturday night and while I'm super excited, I can't stop thinking about whatever game I'm going to run after that. Part of it is Gamer ADD. Part of it is having all/most of my prep-work done. And part of it is the fact that I'm really really getting a kick out of a bunch of new games that I have either recently purchased or that are coming down the pipe (DC Adventures, I'm looking at you!).
Next week, I'll also have a lot more personal time to write and do creative stuff. Because the wife and kids will be visiting folks out of state, I'm going to have computer time right after work when I'm feeling most creative. Typically, I have to wait until the kids go to bed and by then I'm usually so brain-fried that I can barely manage a regular blog post and a little reading.
I guess I don't want to waste that time.
So what am I thinking about specifically? Supers, for one. I've never run a super hero game and I've always wanted to. It hasn't bubbled to the surface of "things that must be done" until recently because it overlaps a bit with my Buffy the Vampire Slayer game and I've had other interests. But with Truth & Justice, ICONS, and the upcoming DC Adventures I am really anxious to give it a shot. I've played in some amazing supers games. My first gaming group that I joined after moving to DC was doing Gurps Supers at the time and my character from that campaign is still one of my all-time favorites. I also fondly remember a couple of Gen Con supers events that totally blew me away. One was a silly Gurps 4e Mystery Men game where I played I.R.Eskimo Dan (armed with harpoon and pocket calculator). The other was a slightly more serious Mutants & Masterminds game run by Pirate Cat and featuring an all-star cast if EN World regulars.
If I did Supers, my current thought is that I'd do a Golden Age game in the late 30's/early 40's to get a little distance from Buffy. Major influences would be Astro City, various works by Alan Moore, and Hellboy. There might be alternate history elements and I'd consider pulling my Silverlode setting forward in time to serve as home base (it's either that or Detroit). I'd love to grow the setting organically and for that I may need to start a new Mythic GME game (or World vs. Hero) in the absence of an opportunity to play with others. I'm going to avoid selecting a system just yet, though you can bet that I'll be posting Risus material on this blog.
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2 comments:
That sounds like it would be a cool supers game. I've spent a fair amount of my gaming career playing one supers rpg on another, but I haven't played one in a few years. In part, I think this is because (at least for me) supers games are more fun when your playing with people who know and enjoy the genre. and only you of my current group is a comics fan.
I find the wishful thinking of "thinking of the next genre to run" to be a great way to go. I started my group the other year to do D&D, but have (as I have in past decades)managed to slowly get my players in the mind for alternatives. A few years ago doing my Champions world again seemed like a pipe dream. Now we've gotten in three fun little games of it. Also Mutant Future and even a little OD&D White Box last week. Dream the dream man! Keep on thinking ahead and you'll be playing it in no time.
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