Lord of the Rings or something

[wulfgar187]

Well due to lack of games starting that I'm interested in on the forums I am on I've decided to try my hand at running an online game. I know that not everyone is going to have the same games that I do which is why I'm not entirely sure what to run...I'll let you guys help me decide.

I'm mainly looking to run a game that I know forwards and backwards...which unfortunately counts out games like Star Wars Saga Edition(due to lack of knowledge of how starship battles work). Also this disallows a few other games like any White Wolf game aside from Scion.

Without further ado here's the games I'm considering running in the order of my preference...with the ruleset(publishing company) and a brief description of what the game would be.

1) Lord of the Rings(CODA rules by Decipher)
-----Was thinking of going with a Third Age game, which would hopefully end sometime in the Fourth Age. Possibly tying the players into the Fellowship in someway.
2) DC Universe(D6 by West End Games)
-----Bringing back my old table top groups campaign where you would be a team of heroes backed by a wealthy benefactor filling in for the dead(missing) Superman in the Metropolis area with probable world wide missions.
3) D&D 4th Edition(obvious option)
-----Forgotten Realms campaign starting in the Amn area unless the players make characters that would fit in a different area better.
4) Any of the following
-----Stargate RPG(D20 can't recall publisher), D&D 3rd or 3.5, Marvel(Marvel's), Hercules & Xena(D6 by West End Games), Star Trek(CODA by Decipher), Scion(White Wolf), Earthdawn(Fasa), Conan(D20 by Mongoose) and Star Wars(Revised Edition by WotC...would be D6 but I haven't found my WEG books yet)

Once everyone has given me an opinion I'll work on the house-rules if any I want to work and let you guys know the character creation options/rules.

[dorkknight23]

A lot of fun options, if I were pick just one, I'd love to play in a Scion game...

[Goats]

I keep hearing so much about Scion but Ive never EVER played it, any chance I could join your game DK?

and Id play pretty much anything, the power of the internet will help me get the materials I need

[dorkknight23]

Jan 5, 2010 20:23:37 GMT -5 Goats said:

I keep hearing so much about Scion but Ive never EVER played it, any chance I could join your game DK?

Your chances are surprisingly high. PM me and we'll talk.

[wulfgar187]

Well since only two potential players gave any opinions at all...I'm gonna just give up running anything for now here on this board. Iy's likely that I'll run something later, which might just be Scion since it was the only system that got any consideration from the two that replied.

[wildknight]

As (I think) we've discussed before, I would love to play a WEG DC Universe game, but I don't think many people have the rules, and I've never even found a PDF version of them.

Which is a shame... I think a lot of the MURPG people around here could really sink their teeth into that system.

[wulfgar187]

Well I haven't discussed DC Universe RPG with anyone but my brother and our weekly gaming group since before it got cancelled back in 2001-2002(can't recall which year). I found my books and figured I'd give it a shot online since my gaming group is stuck on D&D 4th edition...and the occassional saga edition game.

I also have 3 of the books on PDF(which if anyone wants I'll gladly post the link for the site I got them from. The site isn't in complete english(not sure what language it's in). However the pdf's are in english and work just fine...luckily the three books are the main book(kinda obvious that it's needed), the narrator's book(basically for players has a few more advantages/disadvantages and such) and the Directive on Superpowers(more detailed information about most of the superpowers [all except magic based which had its own book] as well as a better refined way to obtain them during the game as well as at character creation.

Without further ado...here's the link for the pdf's.
vardita.blogspot.com/2010/01/dc-universe.html

[dorkknight23]

Will definitely look at this...

[wulfgar187]

If nothing else I can always spend more time working on my Marvel game idea I had and fleshing it out more...or just scrap that and work on a Scion idea.

[wildknight]

Oh, nice link. Awesome. DCU is one of my favorite RPGs ever, definitely my favorite supers game for table top.

Although, it shares a problem with its spiritual predecessor, D6 Star Wars. I once was in a group with a guy who rolled 24... 24! dice for a routine action.

[wulfgar187]

Yeah that's why when I run a D6 based game I sometimes just have the player roll only the wild die...obviously this can cause problems. However my group had no problem with it when I ran my game, so if I do run the system online in the future I'll probly go with the rule unless the players want it otherwise.

Also I can relate to knowing the problems of the D6 system...my first campaign for D6 was a DCU game...and by the time the game ended my main power and it's related rolls were forcing me to roll almost 40D each time I had to roll. Luckily with DC compared to Star Wars you don't add up all the numbers, instead each die is either adding 1 to the result or not adding 1..except the wild die which can potentially add an infinite amount to the result(every crit success gives you another re-roll of the die) or take away 1 from the result(due to crit failures).

If your wandering how to roll normal D6 with the system(assuming you don't have any of the Herc & Xena dice or any of the DCU dice) it should tell you what numbers count as what on page 5 of the Core Rulebook.