Some Queen

Because I haven't posted music links in a dogs age and why not.

So. The New Star Wars Trailer?

I'll keep this one short.

It looks fine and will be reasonably entertaining. I might go see it in the theater  assuming I don't have something better to spend $10 + snacks on. I will probably see it on NetFlix or DVR   with family if I don't  but again I haven't seen the Hobbit yet so who knows

I will say did get a little of the old excitement when I saw the Millennium Falcon however and I like the looks of the props.

To sum up in the words of the late great Freddy Mercury

"Jaws was never my scene  and I don't like Star Wars." or well I haven't cared for much it since the 1980's but his way sounds better.

Happy Thanksgiving

Keeping it simple today,

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers who celebrate the holiday.

Huh, a lot of Yandex traffic.

Yandex is the Russian Google and for some reasons sends a lot of traffic my way. All I can say to that is  Добро пожаловать Друзья!

 Welcome Friends if Google got it correct

What are the three best campaigns you've played in ?

Interestingly for me these are actually fairly recent.

Not in order here

#1  The all too short Sword and Planet game . Pathfinder

Marl the Half Orc merc and his friends adventure in a Pathfinder homebrew. B, my GM did a great job on this with an interesting world and plenty of things going on, doubly so since he had run very little before. Various group related things  kind of axed that game but it was really fun and I had a blast playing Marl.

#2 Swords Against Greyhawk Deviltry. Rolemaster Standard System

I'm riffing the title from Fritz Leiber of course but it was hack and slash Rolemaster set in Greyhawk with a quest to stop Tharuzdin, the Cthulhu of that setting from rising.  The game was fun for a very simple reason, everyone was well adjusted, busy adults "going somewhere"  with their lives and the all around maturity helped the game flow. Its what we need, when we needed it and the first truly adult group, not in texture but in focus I'd played with.


#3 Jeeves, Wooster and the Inquisition.

One of those Dark heresy Games I mentioned . I played a young but sensible "Chav" version of Jeeves against my friend B's younger Wooster  with great humor and effect. My character loved the Emperor  and the dice loved him. I've never rolled better in any game with 3 extremely difficult rolls against my lowest state that added up to a moment of awesome,. Everyone seemed to get in some of these moments and E who loves the material did a great jobs GMing

What are the three best campaigns you've run ?

This one is a bit subjective but I'm curious as to what campaigns you've run that you are your players thought rocked the hardest ?

My list, not in order

#1 Thieves Night Out . AD&D 2nd edition.

All players are thieves or thief multi-classes with humans aloud to multi-class with thief for this game. Basically it was a caper game kind of  Guy Ritchie, before Guy Ritchie meets D&D. There were 3 regular players plus up to 12 (far too many BTW)  at one point and simply it worked. The players had motivation, verve and at one point were so immersed in the roleplaying one broke out in sweat.


#2 Midrea Unglued.   AD&D 2nd edition.

The party was  two barbarians Hans and Franz  cribbed from Saturday Night Live , Rambo the awakened squirrel , Hayabusa the mute coroner, Inga, Hans and Franz's minder and a Satyr whose name I long forgot. It was played semi-straight but for laughs and given the inherent zaniness of D&D it was incredibly fun.


#3 Santa Carla Chronicles. Buffy RPG

This is three games actually . Buffy meets Blade meets Lost Boys with a tiny smidgen of Great Teacher Onizuka , Duke Nukem and Elvira  . This ran into 2 spin off campaigns, one  with the characters  on the run in Colorado and another 60 years into the future. All of the games had harrowing moments, Whedonesque humor , great roleplaying and charm. Truly a wonderful gaming memory over a couple of years

What are your favorite game systems?

I'm kind of curious as to what my readers like. I'll post mine

My favorite systems are in order

1 -Eden Studios Unisystem, both Cinematic and Classic

2- GURPS

4- everything else

I suppose folks are probably saying WTF? right about now. Well simply, these are the rules and books I like the most not necessarily the ones I play the most.

That's why while I often post D&D in its various flavors, it gets a lot of play and design time the others do not.

How about you?