Looking for a Game (esp. in WI 09)

[Furbo]

I've been at OSU for a while now and decided I should get out and start socializing more.  And since I'm a nerd, finding a game seems the way to do that.  So I'll cast my line and see what bites.

I've been gaming for a little over a decade now and I'm fairly familiar with a few systems:

D20 (3rd, 3.5, Pathfinder passing familiarity with 4th).  I'm a fairly big fan of Eberron.

oWoD (vampire, mage, passing familiarity with werewolf).

nWoD (vampire, mage, werewolf, changeling, promethian, mortal, mortal+/hunter).

Exalted/Scion (not super familiar with these but I'm a quick study).

And as said just above, I'm a quick study and can pick up on a new system fairly quick if there's a book available to reference.

Unfortunately, my schedule in winter quarter is going to be miserable.  I had a poor registration window this quarter and got stuck with night classes Mon-Thurs, which will basically stomp all over weekday schedules.

Friday-Sun is fairly open though.

I'm up for just about anything, I mostly just want to get a little table-top play in with some cool people.

Thanks for reading.

[BobChuck]

there's a (NWoD) Changling game that will theoretically be on every Saturday, though I'm not the one running it.

[Furbo]

I could do new Changeling.

Though it might help to specify:  I'm primarily interested in D&D (esp. 3.5/Pathfinder), Mage, Scion and Exalted.

I'm also generally interested in learning new systems.  If there's a game out there that isn't on this list then I'm up for playing if the group can tolerate a generally new player.

If there's a meeting on the saturday before finals I was planning on stopping by to trawl for a possible game.

[BobChuck]

I would love to play Mage (tAw)!

I cannot find anyone willing to run, though. I've got ideas, and they've been growing and pushing for a while now, but I really don't have the time to run a proper game.

At least, I don't think I have the time. It's been a year since I tried, but then, that one failed after 2 sessions...

I don't know. I'm definately up for Mage. I like the Changeling game, don't get me wrong, but Mage would be better. It' conceivably possible that I might try running come January.

[Measure Zero]

I would love to play Mage (tAw)!

I cannot find anyone willing to run, though. I've got ideas, and they've been growing and pushing for a while now, but I really don't have the time to run a proper game.

At least, I don't think I have the time. It's been a year since I tried, but then, that one failed after 2 sessions...

I don't know. I'm definately up for Mage. I like the Changeling game, don't get me wrong, but Mage would be better. It' conceivably possible that I might try running come January.

Damn!  I so want to play Mage, but I'll be out of the country starting then.  I think I'm like the only person who actually wants to play Thyrsus.

[BobChuck]

oh? care to share?

[Furbo]

I know nMage very well, but unfortunately I just won't have time to really run games for the foreseeable future.  I have to take 20 hours for a few quarters to kind of catch up on things and that just slogs me down in the extreme.

But I would certainly play a mage game if it fit my schedule.

[BobChuck]

Well, I've got a pile of SAS, so I could run quite a bit with a relatively small amount of prep. I could do Mage or mixed NWoD; either is fine with me, as long as the party is cohesive.

I'm not exactly agreeing to run just yet, but I'm definately thinking about it.

[kenada]

At least, I don't think I have the time. It's been a year since I tried, but then, that one failed after 2 sessions...

I enjoyed your Exalted game….

[BobChuck]

...yeah.

that one failed after three sessions.

It's not a question of "can I come up with material to tell a long term story?" that's not a problem. I was the DM for my D&D group for all of high school, and DMed most quarters during college. I ran a single campaign for three quarters with an eight-person party, and aside from a single railroading incident and the standard Spring Quarter difficulties, everyone had lots of fun. I can run a game, and run it well. I know that.

For me, the problem is prep time. The reason I did so well was by preparing. I generally didn't railroad. I built events which were driven by characters with motives and goals, so even though I was fairly certain what the party would do and how they'd do it, I could adapt and grow the story when they surprised me. But, doing that requires Prep Time. For a six to eight hour game (yes, they went that long), I spent 16-25 hours each week preparing. I didn't mind doing that; in fact, it was fun. I miss it. But I don't exactly have that kind of time any more. I might be able to find it, but the last two times I tried, it fell apart on me. Which sucks.

[kenada]

Whoa, 16–25 hours prep time would (and did) burn me out. I tend to prefer minimal prep time supplemented with improvisation. The times where I did put the extra time in planning things out never seemed to go all that well.

[Thomas Kerwin]

This is why I run Paranoia games with 16-25 minutes of prep time.

[BobChuck]

I seem to recall that we tended to die a lot though...

[kenada]

If people aren’t dying a lot in Paranoia, I’m not trying hard enough.

[BobChuck]

I thought that was just any game you played in general.