Back in October 2009 my D&D 3.5 Monday game went biweekly and I decided to find some people interested in playing all these games on my shelf that I had bought but not played. And I hoped that these other people might also have some cool games that I had heard about but didn’t want to buy because I was afraid of collecting even more gaming detritus.
It has been a great experience!
What we would do is try a game and if we liked it, we’d schedule a follow-up session. This is what we have played:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/64449/Western-City-(English
I think the two games I have enjoyed most are *Mountain Witch* (the setup involving trust and betrayal, and the idea that more and more of our dark fate needs to be revealed before the story can progress) and *Dogs in the Vinyard* (how to solve conflict with nothing but your rifle, the bible, and mechanics that reward escalation of violence).
The two games I was most disappointed in were *Spirit of the Century* (we had great fun but I was shocked when I saw how big the rulebook was; I’m not going to buy another fat FATE book anytime soon) and *Blossoms Are Falling* (the setup was unbalanced in hindsight ¹).
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Running The Mountain Witch with you guys was awesome. You were lenient when I goofed up the rules, took the road trip movie vibe of the whole endeavor AND we had quite the ending, I’d like to say …
– Harald Wagener 2010-06-15 11:45 UTC
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Should look into ICONS. Super hero gaming without the bulk of HERO or even M&M. I really like the random character generation. If you ever read or played Marvel Super Heroes, it is very reminiscent of that.
– Adrian 2010-06-17 07:33 UTC