OldSchoolChris said: Andy M. said: Does it have to be D&D? I have some weird old games lying around :) Absolutely not. You can run virtually any game on here. What games are we talking? Well, now remember these are old - from the 70s-80s - so there may be updates. But looking at the shelf I have D&D Basis (plus Greyhawk/white box), 3rd editions, Gamma World, Traveler, Space Opera, Runequest, Metamorphosis Alpha, Tunnels and Trolls, Behind Enemy Lines, Star Frontiers, Top Secret and Boot Hill. I have been mulling over a form of Space Opera to start. Space Opera was GREAT but was essentially unplayable without modification. For example, it didn't have a good experience system which made RPGing well...difficult. That was easily changed. We used to play it as a guideline/set of rules that could be brought in as the DM thought fit. It made for good campaigns as a player as you couldn't 'rules nazi' and it FELT like it was real, like you were there and not exactly sure what you could do before you did it. Great fun. What I was thinking about was a campaign that started with, in the past, a Mars mission was launched from the USA. When they got to Mars, they found out that Deimos (a martian moon about 7 miles in diameter) was artificial. They spent some time and finally breached it but the 2 men sent in never came out. This was where the PCs come in. They are part of a group of 10 personnel being sent to find out what the hell Deimos is. The 10 personal are a mix of scientific and military. Not all of these are to be PCs...PCs would choose who they wanted to be and the remaining would be in case of PC deaths and to provide NPC support. I am thinking 3 maybe 4 PCs. I have kind of a skeleton of the entire initial scenario and where it will go. Not sure yet - does it sound too weird? I could start with something more mainstream maybe in Gamma World or Runequest.
