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General Category => RPGs => : The_Last_76 October 28, 2010, 01:02:10 AM
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Just a thread to see what sort of games people are in/running at the moment.
I'll get the ball rolling.
Running:
A Colonial-esque campaign taking inspiration from the RPPR New World Games, the Dark Sun setting and the history of Australia. Have about a dozen players in it and have been running it for nearly 30+ hours now. They PC's have been broken down into three manageable groups who game on different days. The basic story line started as 'You have been kidnapped...INTO THE FUTURE' and spiraled off into a Save The World/Rule The World game from there.
Running:
Lovecraft meets Buffy while Watchmen spy on there disgusting lovers tryst. A team of teenagers uncover the true nature of the cosmos and humanity's small part in it and dedicate themselves to fighting the implacable entropy of existence. A surprisingly deep campaign, with more player development than I would have expected from my players. Dealing with one characters slow descent into madness has been an over-arching struggle in the game.
Working On:
A multi-tier Halo campaign. Something that can combine the political intrigue of the various military factions, space combat, SpecOps, Squad level combat and Combined Arms level combat. The basic concept I have been working on is each players plays a few different 'roles' as they interact with other characters and players while trying to win the war and better themselves from it. Still early days yet, but I've nutted out a basic system for character creation, pitting rank and usefulness against personal ability and their command.
Playing:
A 3.5ed Eberron campaign. Made a Warforged Private Eye who very early on showed his true colours by sticking to the letter of his job rather than the spirit of it. Only one session in but it looks promising.
Playing:
Glory Under The Desert Sun; A WFRP 1st/2nd Ed. crossbreed system set in the distant Araby city of Al-Haikk. The game is deviously political and focused largely on stopping Brettonia, Araby and the Empire from falling into a three-way war.
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Running: Monsters and Other Childish Things: Road Trip. Just ran Session 2 tonight.
Running: Mutants and Masterminds, a campaign I've given the working title "Das Supermann." It's somewhat unoriginal, but it was suggested by one of the players, and I liked it so I decided to run with it. It's set in an alternate reality where Germany harnessed the power of the Atom and created an army of unstoppable Supermen to win WWII (like I said, it wasn't too original). If anyone wants to read the full description of the base setting it can be found here (https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVb8_RKymxw4ZGhnNHd2Y3RfMjhmenByNHZmdw&hl=en&authkey=CP7vycwD). It's got sort of an X-Men vibe where other mutants have popped up, and are being persecuted. It also started out being a very grimdark setting, but ended up being more Deadpool than Frank Miller.
Playing: D&D 3.5. We are on the epic tier of a campaign which involved us collecting pages for a mysterious wizard who said he was going to create a spell to wipe out the Mindflayers. We found out when we were nearing our quest that he was actually planning to kill off the Dwarves (I believe his motivation was that he was an Elf). We faced off in an epic battle against him, but were unable to save 95% of the Dwarven race. We are now on a quest to eliminate anyone he worked with and possibly find a way to reverse the spell (aside from True Resurrection cast a few billion times).
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Running: Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. Its ongoing, we are taking a break this week to run a one-shot in honor of Halloween. So far the campaign is doing alright. Took me a bit to jump back in the saddle and figure out how to not be an asshat all the time. We've nine sessions under our belt, and we will probably finish uhm... by the time my lease is up.
Running: Wushu Modern League game- Edward Cullen, Ra's al Ghul, Dr. Evil and Metal Gear Rex are the villains.
Playing: Some guy's homebrew everything. A dwarven Doctor. I have 6HP and last game I rolled a critical failure with my gun and it exploded and took me down to zero. I'm not sure how I feel about this game yet.
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Running: Pathfinder game that is a continuation of a 3.5 Faerun game we played a while back, I've told the story a few times, this is 30 years after Marcus Battlin is killed and turned into a vampire, his former adventuring companions have settled down, had kids, and founded a small town, in an alternate universe. He returns with sinister intentions, none of which the players know, actually i'm not even sure what they are I am flying by the seat of my pants on this one.
Little more info here. (http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php?topic=604.msg19971#msg19971) <--- Since then he has 20 class levels as well as being a Vampire and Vampire Lord (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20021018a)
Playing: 3.5 Oriental Adventures game, this is the sequal to our first campaign ever. Going pretty good.A little bit of backstory (http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php?topic=44.msg21011#msg21011)
Working on: Mutants and Masterminds hero game. Outlined Here (http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php?topic=987.msg20932#msg20932)
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As recommened by Tom...I'm playing Poo!
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Running: NOTHING.
Playing: NOTHING.
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Running: NOTHING.
Playing: NOTHING.
Dan is the saddest man.
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Running: A 4E D&D game set in the 2E D&D setting of Al-Quadim. The characters are: A Minotaur Runepriest who worships a warrior God, though his relationship with said God is a bit tense since the god killed him in a battle and then brought him back to life for no clear purpose; A Goliath Barbarian who gained his powers not by choice, but by a curse laid upon him by a Primordial that fills him with constant anger; A Eladrin Fighter/Ranger hybrid from Fae'run who was shipwrecked into Al-Quadim; A Thri-Kreen Fighter who has recently gained a new sense of individuality never experienced by her race; And a Shardmind Psion who was created by a mage and locked in a room for over a century for an unclear purpose.
They've received a prophetic vision which revealed that the country would be thrown into a massive civil war, and in a mere year's time, the capital city will be razed and the ruler of the land, the Grand Caliph will be murdered. The party has this year to do what they can to turn the tide of the war before it even starts. This game's had a lot of speedbumps in it's development, largely because we lost and gained players at a rapid pace near the beginning, but it's mostly leveled out. I have a LOT of fun running this one despite the trouble, though.
Playing: A Pathfinder game set in a homebrew setting. I play a Tengu Rogue/Sorcerer who has a strong dislike of authority, and views thievery as an art form and as legitimate a career choice as any other. The rest of the party is made up of a Kobold Monk who worships a God of pure law, and is honestly the sole sane man in the party, and a Half-Elf Wizard who tends to ramble a lot about inane stuff. Also he's an idiot and wears a pilgrim's hat for some reason. While it's mostly a sandbox-ish game where we're basically supposed find out where there's evil happening in the world and deal with it, we tend to just do stupid things to get ourselves in trouble, and then futilely try to fix what we messed up.
Playing: A 4E game in yet another homebrew setting. We're basically just mercenaries in this game, and it's much more hack'n'slash than the other games I play in. It's fun, but there's not much to talk about.
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Running: None
Playing: Deadlands Reloaded, my first campaign of this so I expect it's fairly normal. Harrowed, bandits and railways.
Playing: D&D 3.5, a Greek world with angry Hades and such.
Working on: A Call of Cthulhu campaign. Since this will be my first time running a campaign I'm a little nervous and am making sure I have all the facts down before I start. Not to mention the fact the group is busy half the time anyway.
There are a couple of others but we rarely play them.
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Working on: A Call of Cthulhu campaign.
Tell us about it. I've got a friend working on a CoC campaign for the first time, and I'm sure any insights you have will be worth their text-count in gold to her.
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RAN (last Saturday 6th Nov) - 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars; they fought on 3 Planets.
For anyone who doesn't know the game it is very combat heavy, with weapons that inflict 'Kills' and not damage. There are only 2 statistics - FA (Fighting Ability) and NFA (Non-Fighting Ability). All you have to do split 10 points between the 2 stats and then roll less than the stat value to succeed! Nice and simple, and bloody good fun.
The players were part of a platoon of 11 Troopers - Commanded by an NPC Lt., a PC was Sarge ("Khan"), another PC was Corporal ("Razak") and another was a Trooper ("Thorn").
1. Living Planet ('Planet Ruebens') occupied by parasitic lifeforms, where they had to lobotomise the brain.
2. Asteroid Belt ('Planet Picasso') occupied by Shadow Beasts, where they had to zero-g to find the Research Facility and rescue the scientists.
3. Ice Planet ('Planet Warhol') occupied by Snow Apes, where they assualted the capitol city of the Apes.
Best Part - During Game 2, the Shadow Beasts somehow morphed into Space Dolphins! They finally made it back on board their ship without losing a trooper (unlike the previous and next planets), but Trooper Jenkins had been wounded twice. Just as the airlock doors closed Jenkins suddenly started to shake and shimmy, and an interdimensional gate was formed inside him. As the Space Dolphins began to emerge from his still living, twisting body the Sarge gave him an order to stop becoming an Interdimensional Gate to the Space Dolphins Universe, which was swiftly followed by the Corporal restating the order in the form of a drill sargeant (hence his name - Razak). Needless to say, Trooper Jenkins refused to obey the orders and the feared Space Dolphins emerged to attack the brave soldiers of the 3:16. After the combat, his corpse was promptly court-martialled and found guilty, and his family was shamed. The interdimensional rift became known as the Jenkinomaly!!!
I would also like to mention that through the players describing the action (which they get to do if they fail a roll), the attacks of the Space Dolphins became anal rape - it was the most surreal fun I have ever had with 3 other guys in the same room EVER!
I would also like to point out that all of us really want to return to the 3:16 universe, and hopefully soon!
PLANNING - Our next game session will be Deathwatch (to be run next Saturday the 13th, and will be ran by my son). I have a Dark Angel Tactical Marine, one player as a Ravenwing Apothecary and the other as a Crimson Fist Devastator. I am looking forward to it - we will be doing figure rep too.
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Running: None
Playing: None
Working On: A few campaigns with a 0% chance I'll ever run them
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Running: None
Playing: None
Working On: A few campaigns with a 0% chance I'll ever run them
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I'm sorry, you can tells about how awesome they are and that might make you feel better?
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Running: My first Call of Cthulhu game, A Pleasant Night in Emerald Grove... for seven players oh god why did I think this was a good idea...
Running: D&D 4E Dark Sun sandbox-y style game, with my regular group (six players, we never have a full house).
Working on: See also: Running
Working on: Setting up background for a Legend of Zelda D&D 4E game. (Veeeeery small concept work, I've got enough on my plate.)
Working on: Converting a 3.5 pirate-y ocean-y island-y oneshot I wrote into a marketable 4E campaign. (Not likely moving anywhere for a while.)
Playing: Oh, lord, I wish.
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Running: 4e DnD Storm of War. About to move to paragon tier.
Playing: 4e Dnd Scales of War. Just finished with a TPK. Moving on to Dark Sun next.
Working on: 4e Gamma World. A one or two shot adventure for the Scales group while Dark Sun is getting prepared. Basing it in Atlanta and doing too much work on it for a one shot.
Working on: CoC Masks of Nyarlathotep. The new edition is in the mail. About to start looking for some players to run it for.
Planning: Delta Green Phenomen X mini campaign starting with Convergence. Tried to start it earlier this year, but it never took off.
Planning: Dresden Files based in Atlanta. I have created several city setting ideas and threads, but it will be awhile until I have time to run it.
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Running: Starting a Deathwatch game on Friday, may be a one-shot if it goes badly.
Playing: A dwarf cleric in a 4e Scales of War campaign, not too far along, we're only level 3.
Working on: Mouse Guard game. Actually, it's written, I just have to gather the guts to get somebody to play it.
Working on: Modern-day investigative/espionage game - can't decide what system to use.
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Planning: Dresden Files based in Atlanta. I have created several city setting ideas and threads, but it will be awhile until I have time to run it.
How do you find the Dresden Files system? I've been meaning to look into it.
Running: Starting a Deathwatch game on Friday, may be a one-shot if it goes badly.
I'd love to hear how this turns out.
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Working on: CoC Masks of Nyarlathotep. The new edition is in the mail. About to start looking for some players to run it for.
Might I recommend listening to my actual play on the RPPR community site? I'm sticking fairly close to the book with the RMS Mauritania tossed in to fill in a couple weeks where we were down some essential personnel.
The Gaming Grunts AP is also good. I've heard that Adam Scott Glancy doesn't like the yogsothoth AP, which you have to join their ranks to listen to anyhow.
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Planning: Dresden Files based in Atlanta. I have created several city setting ideas and threads, but it will be awhile until I have time to run it.
How do you find the Dresden Files system? I've been meaning to look into it.
It seems good. I played in two games at DragonCon with a really good GM that were a lot of fun. I like the fate system a lot also. Character creation is pretty cool also.
I am not sure how much I like the extensive player "input" on the city creation. When I am a player, part of the fun of the game is the discovery of the unknown. If you already know the secret relationships between the groups and the internal structure, you lose the fun of the investigation and the surprise when a trusted NPC turns on your party. I don't know if this is because of all the background available from the books or not. But if you are basing it in a different city and with different groups/history, it seems there could be a lot of difference from the Dresden canon.
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I am not sure how much I like the extensive player "input" on the city creation. When I am a player, part of the fun of the game is the discovery of the unknown. If you already know the secret relationships between the groups and the internal structure, you lose the fun of the investigation and the surprise when a trusted NPC turns on your party. I don't know if this is because of all the background available from the books or not. But if you are basing it in a different city and with different groups/history, it seems there could be a lot of difference from the Dresden canon.
I wonder if this was heightened because it was a con game? Get players to jump into the city quicker, because they helped create it?
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I am not sure how much I like the extensive player "input" on the city creation. When I am a player, part of the fun of the game is the discovery of the unknown. If you already know the secret relationships between the groups and the internal structure, you lose the fun of the investigation and the surprise when a trusted NPC turns on your party. I don't know if this is because of all the background available from the books or not. But if you are basing it in a different city and with different groups/history, it seems there could be a lot of difference from the Dresden canon.
I wonder if this was heightened because it was a con game? Get players to jump into the city quicker, because they helped create it?
No, the con game was ready to go. The city creation is part of the campaign style. It's not that it is a bad idea, just that creating the element of surprise could be harder for the players. It seems like the game can be played with a lot of intrigue. So I think that some of the player input should be limited. Maybe they could do a section or a faction that was important to their characters. But leave a lot of the plotlines to the GM.
Also, I think that the player-plotline interaction comes later in play once they get to know their characters and the world. Often a character's goals don't survive first contact with the enemy.
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I may have let things grow exponentially out of hand for my D&D campaign.
After a mere 50 hours of gameplay, they've succeeded in ripping the planet out of a pocket universe and place it back into the Astral Sea, resulting in a universe-fueled tidal wave of magic sweeping over all of their previous existence.
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Running: Starting a Deathwatch game on Friday, may be a one-shot if it goes badly.
I'd love to hear how this turns out.
Deathwatch was fun. Well, I had fun, and I didn't kill any players. I need to try harder next time.
The only complaints I have are that the game ran long (like six and a half hours), I say "all right," "uh," and "okay," way too much, and I'd like to be more familiar with the ruleset when I run the next game. But from the feedback I've gotten so far, everyone had fun and they're willing to play again.
There's always stuff the GM can't predict, right? Within the first hour of play, the Dark Angel knocked down part of a building on an attacking army.
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There's always stuff the GM can't predict, right? Within the first hour of play, the Dark Angel knocked down part of a building on an attacking army.
That was awesome. Also, I'd like to toot my own horn with that canisters of Promethian fuel idea.
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Working On - A Fear Itself one-shot based on this story (http://www.youtube.com/user/theLittleFears?blend=2&ob=1#p/u/18/sQSnsLYPgdk). I've sort of hit a wall, though.
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Running: Dark Heresy with some of the most amoral son's of bitches in existence. Perfect acolytes.
Running: Rogue Trader set in a sector of space cut off from the rest of the imperium. Have a Kroot and ORK PC and if one isnt trying to eat everything, the other tries to start fights when he is confused, which is always. Best game ever!
Playing: Dresden files game. Still in the planning stages.
Considering: I'm thinking of running a steampunk inspired game at some point. Either super dark like unhallowed metropolis or something a little more light hearted.
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Running:
Shadowrun with none of the original players still around in the game. They've formed something close to a Shadowrunner's union and it's hilarious how badly screwed they just got because they managed to actually annoy a MegaCorp.
Running:
World of Darkness, focused on Vampire The Requiem. Good game, long sessions with two well learned WoD players and one who just does not get it.
Running:
Exalted with three people, two of whom don't really get it.
Running:
Exalted game with four people, none of whom really get it. *sigh*
Playing:
A World of Darkness Hunter the Vigil game that alternates with my Shadowrun game. Currently on hold due to the GM's school work.
Preparing:
Esoterrorists game set in the Scottish Highlands involving drowning victims, a local band on the rise, and superstitious local police officers.
Considering:
A Modern Day Extraordinary Gentlemen game using GURPS. Three players, two of which know what they want to play and how to do so and one person who just does not get the concept.
Considering:
Dresbin Files RPG with three people, one who gets it, one between, and one who keeps written paragraph long Aspects.
Considering:
Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Astral Sea adventure based on the Pirates of Dark Water cartoon.
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Fucking hell, Tad. You must have quite the Endurance skill. If you do decide to run that Pirates of Dark Water thing, be sure to record it for us folks in Internet Land.
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That's the plan. I've been playing with my new Zoom H2 so that I can record the game properly when the time comes. Hopefully I can get my PCs to be more interesting by then as well.
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Tad, just tell them that they'll be internet famous, or ply them with alcohol things should get interesting once you start recording. Really. Nobody wants to listen to themselves be boring so you'll at least get people excited to hear themselves. And anyhow you can always pre-listen to the episodes before you upload them.
Recently I found myself getting pissed off during our games but when i listen to them I sound like a HUGE DICK. I've since stopped being such a little dick cheese burger. You can kind of think of the Actual Plays as photographs of the gaming session, gives you a chance to "remember that one time."
I would like to listen to the Pirates of the the Dark Astral Sea as well.
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There's always stuff the GM can't predict, right? Within the first hour of play, the Dark Angel knocked down part of a building on an attacking army.
"Brother Percius, Brother Angellus, please I beseech of thee. Do watcheth as I openth a can of Holy Whoop-Ass on our foul enemies."
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Tom runs games for Aaron and a few other people that have never been on RPPR but does he record them even though he has a zoom h2? Nooo... his friends are delicate little snowflakes that are too good to produce content for RPPR and Tom doesn't even try to persuade them otherwise.
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Tom runs games for Aaron and a few other people that have never been on RPPR but does he record them even though he has a zoom h2? Nooo... his friends are delicate little snowflakes that are too good to produce content for RPPR and Tom doesn't even try to persuade them otherwise.
Ross, this is only because it would shatter our perceptions of you as a Godly GM. The Cult of Cody would also collapse because there can be only one. Tom is sparing everyone's feelings by not recording his games. (plus doesn't he like, play music or do drugs during his games?)
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Running:
Exalted game with four people, none of whom really get it. *sigh*
How can you not get Exalted? You are overpowered anime hero, go fight and win.
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Tom runs games for Aaron and a few other people that have never been on RPPR but does he record them even though he has a zoom h2? Nooo... his friends are delicate little snowflakes that are too good to produce content for RPPR and Tom doesn't even try to persuade them otherwise.
Ross, this is only because it would shatter our perceptions of you as a Godly GM. The Cult of Cody would also collapse because there can be only one. Tom is sparing everyone's feelings by not recording his games. (plus doesn't he like, play music or do drugs during his games?)
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Playing: Dragon Age: have four players with a relatively new GM. On a bit of a hiatus as he is an actor and is finishing up a local show, so hopefully we can play again soon. Not a bad system though.
Running: Shadowrun: have two players right now with another two or three that want to play but haven't been able to make a session yet, all two of them that we have had. Started this game during the hiatus mentioned above, so not sure what will happen when the other picks up again.
Planning: DnD 4th: I am getting the rough outline for a DnD game set in the Demon's Souls universe with that same feeling of impending death. I am sure I will be asking for people's input on how to do this (like tripling monster damage, but halving their HP for a quicker battle or something, not sure yet)
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(plus doesn't he like, play music or do drugs during his games?)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Running: A homebrew D&D (mainly 1st and 2nd ed) game in a homebrew world called Elwarne - the game is called Making Myth. Been running it since August, but I have only had a full complement of six players for the last few weeks. The basic idea is that rather than running an old world with millenia of history and buried treasure and ruins and dungeons filled with creepy crawlies, it is a new world - created by the gods a mere 52 years ago - and the sentient races have all been given 'gifts' which they alone can use (some are cliché like dwarves and stonemasonry, but some are less so, like elves and literacy, or bugbears and martial arts). Humans have the unique gift of being able to both learn and teach the gifts of other races. The current characters are a human kensai and an ogre mage who grew up together, a dwarf bard and an elf cleric of the creation goddess who are married, a dwarf cleric/fighter of the god of justice, and a rather easily irritable centaur ranger. If you're interested in knowing more, check out my obsidian portal (http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/making_myth) site (the adventure log (http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/making_myth/adventure-log) is best to read, but there are bits and bobs in the other sections too).
Playing: A 4e D&D game run totally by-the-numbers from store bought modules. It's a pretty stale grind at times in my opinion, but at least I get to play, and the people are nice. I play a Dragonborn Paladin of Kord who lives to get into combat, and is only an adolescent.
Working on: A one shot con game called "Hammers Without Nails" using the 2nd edition Mage: The Ascension rules. The basic idea is I have five reasonably powerful battle-type mages who get put into a situation where they can't simply fight their way out. How will they creatively use their far weaker powers of persuasion and negotiation to get out of the bind? I'm running it at MacCon (http://www.macquariecon.net), a university gaming convention here in Sydney in mid December.
I am jealous of all you guys who are running and playing so many games. I remember the heady days of uni, when I was running four games and playing in one or two. Good times.
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Running D&D 3.5. Campaign getting near the end after a little over 3 years.
Running GURPS. Currently on hiatus until above is done.
Playing: Nothing right now, soon Eberron in 3.5 or 4E
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Running: Nothing after a good few years of running the Star Wars Saga Edition, Mutants and Masterminds, and Call of Cthulhu
Playing: Mutants and Masterminds (X-teens), Changeling: The Lost.
Soon to be running... My DM says in a few months he's going to need a break, so I'm going to run and give them a choice between: D&D 4Ed, Serenity, Game of Thrones, Werewolf: The Forsaken, Mutants and Masterminds 3ed turned into a Transformers game, or Battlestar Galactica.