My bi-weekly Call of Cthulhu campaign has been going on for over three years now. More than 25% of the time, we end up playing boardgames or just canceling, because I currently have two reliable players and four unreliable players. I've been running various adventures in Arkham Country, because Keith Herber did such an excellent job on those source books, and there are many published scenarios set there. I would like to run Masks of Nyarlathotep for this group, but I am waiting for the long-delayed publication of the Masks of Nyarlathotep companion. Otherwise, it would take a fair amount of research to fill out the details, in case my players wander off track.

Played 2 Indie games over the weekend. Can't recall the name of the one, I will track it down. Both were pretty awesome.

Fiasco was the first we plaed. It is like making a Cohen Brothers movie, or Snach, something in those molds. Very neat game. Took some wierd turns that I was not in love with but overall my favorite indie rpg to date.

More on the other game in a bit.

I think that I completely loathe Shadowrun with an unending hate.

The system is painfully slow involving 4-5 rolls of a bucket of dice for each attack, compounded with the Runequest II problem of phased rounds with some characters able to act MANY more times per round than others.

Pile onto that a buckets of everything mythology piled in a big steaming heap on top of a dated 80's view of futuristic technology. Then scatter the rules all over a couple of White Wolfs (an official RPG Unit!) worth of sourcebooks.

I just want to see it burn.

hey, i never noticed this thread before!

Ok um... Ken was a sailor stuck in the shower and I was a firefighter

Black Barney wrote:


I'll dig it up every 4-5 months when I actually get a chance to play an RPG.

moofrank wrote:


I refused to even try Shadowrun, because I despised the way they took cyberpunk ideas and merged them with generic D&D stereotypes. Bleah. I was a fan of the Cyberpunk rpg, though that game had its own flaws. Pretty much any straight science-fiction rpg without psionics comes down to who has the best gear.

Ya'll are just haters.

That sad fact is that shadowrun does cyberpunk better than cyberpunk did (or cyberspace or gurps cyberpunk..ect) I tried them all. Frank has a point that it is a bit dicey- but that is a p[ro for me not a con. I love picking up a big handful of dice and laying the slapdown.

Steve"Cyberjunkie"Avery

No idea that Shadowrun was so divisive. I tend to enjoy playing/running indie games. Soliphist is a fun game as is Universalis.

But if everyone had the same taste, life would be dull.

Holy shit, I'm with Avery on something!

Shadowrun with a fantastectomy was a better Cyberpunk than CP2020.

It was a decent enough game even with all that crap in there if you wanted to just go with it.

I never played 4e (or even 3e), but I read the 4e rules and really liked what they'd done.

Dunno. I might like Eclipse Phase (more S/F /horror) far better. I also remember liking SLA Industries, but cannot remember much about it.