Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!campaignwiki.org!.POSTED.staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: What have you been playing in MARCH 2024? Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:21:01 +0200 Organization: Campaign Wiki Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:45:34 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: sibirocobombus.campaignwiki; posting-host="staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl:31.183.178.178"; logging-data="3538542"; mail-complaints-to="alex@alexschroeder.ch" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Hamster/2.1.0.1548 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UJZzrhCaB41r/giPyHkkN5N8yLM= sha256:WBN3uJ6PgxdlfOLvfQ8F97nCLsCUKFdLTky98VATNjc= sha1:iowEbFfOmmSyfQpYIbLNxKCUTto= sha256:rJSdClNBlA0CfAU710Mo7bhAc6CthZ5Qu823GkktQhU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2796 Lines: 34 On 4/8/2024 5:04 PM, Justisaur wrote: > On 4/8/2024 5:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote: >> Spalls is doing this all the time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, >> which for some reason is the only one of those computer game groups >> that seem to get any kind of real engagement. And I was thinking... >> why don't we do that here in rec.games.frp.misc as well? > > I tried to do that years ago, and the problem was no one was doing much, > of course that was after the group had mostly died. Well, that's why I will try to do this a bit now. Maybe we can actually get some discussion going again. > >> So, what have you been playing in March 2024? > > None.  I haven't played or run anything in more than a year now.  My > last was January of last year running Dungeon Robber (the tabletop > version) on Rpol which does play by post.  Unfortunately I burned out on > it as I was posting way too frequently. I also found a lot of flaws that > were irritating to me, I wanted to fix but would likely require a > reboot, and I was down to 3 players who really only wanted to play solo. What's Dungeon Robber? > > It seems to be getting harder and harder to get players who are > interested in non-5e play.  Or maybe I've picked up bad habits and am no > longer a good DM.  I'm not sure.  Ah for the days I was running 2e with > 7 players for years on end. > I sure hope not, I still haven't jumped on the 5e bandwagon. I just don't feel enthused enough about the game to actually buy the books (or even read that far into material that's in the public.