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The Clock Strikes Thirteen

See also the DWAITAS forum repost which gets less views but more comments.

The first minute and 46 seconds of this is the musical cue cited.

Ending the game proved to be a good call as I haven't been able to get two of the players to rub together all summer. Still, GMing a Christmas special would have been fun.

The Last Dawn

Featuring Amelia Earhart, special guest Tarokka, and the Shadow Proclamation as RTD originally intended.

It seems I won't be at GEAS for the first three or four sessions - so I can probably stop worrying about coming up with a game to run this year at all, since GMs pounce on players at the first session. (And sometimes at the intro games day when they should be running one-shots...)

Whether this is a good policy or not is of course a topic for discussion. After all, The Watch House started a week or two after kickoff and picked up players starting in its second week, gaining and dropping and carrying on and growing into an unstoppable juggernaut of narrativist RPG... stuff.

Still, nothing like absenting oneself from a deadline to relieve the pressure and allow one to come in a bit late and see who's around and what's what.

The Infinite Machine

Favourite bits: Effie's reaction to a historical figure, and "the Earth exploding" in the next time trailer.

The Doctor Who Series A PBP is currently in 1943 as well, largely due to the research for this. Apart from the bits that are now in the Cretaceous period.

The closest thing I have to a game idea for GEAS 2010-11 is straight-outta-the-box Doctor Who again.

Beyond that, I'm still looking at Strikeforce: Morituri which I just know is a terrible idea because it's basically The Stars On Fire again but this time with superheroes.

I suspect Icons might give me actual ideas, current amorphous idea "create your own superhero universe in DCAU style" notwithstanding, but I have a much more classic-supers-friendly group on weeknights who I imagine would be keener.

Once again, I blame Joss Whedon for making Dollhouse so ungameable.

Thunder In The Skies

You're allowed to skip this one if you've already read The Hammer Of Time, although seeing how two groups respond differently to a variation on the theme may be of interest.

Ghost Ship

After nineteen and a half years, I finally get use out of an adventure from Challenge magazine. A Traveller adventure.

The Door In Time Actual Play of what I've been running on Sundays lately, starring Matt, Edith, Dave McI, Jonathan Relph and Stuart Petrie. (Hello all!) Friday night group will recognise the TARDIS motif.

( I think this should be clear enough. )

Questions, comments?

I'm fairly sure that this time last year I had a game planned out and ready to go, and another slowly building up. Now... I got nothin'.

The closest I've had to a thought is "um... superheroes?" Possibly with Icons if I like how it plays.

I'm already running Doctor Who after Deleted proved to be a one-term wonder. That could carry on. Or regenerate with Or regenerate with a partially or entirely different group and setup, for that matter, depending on who'd want to go forward.

I could try again with Star Trek but I got one player last time (hello Matt!) and that was off the back of the movie that made me want to do it in the first place.

Working on an Uncharted style modern Hollow Earth Expedition variant for the Nationals has me wondering if that could go, but it might be a bit limiting due to its only-a-bit-more-than-Deleted Weird Level.

I could always go to a published setting, I suppose. :D Revisit former glories, like Vampire or Adventure! maybe? Matt's talking about Star Wars already so that's probably off-limits.

I dunno.

I blame Joss Whedon for making his latest setting so game-unfriendly. :P