Your RP Bucket List

[foxroe]

So many great RPG products, so little time...

As a DM (or a player), what's on your bucket list (it's an RPG list, people - no "visit Stonehenge" or "spend the night with Alicia Keys!" posts please )?

I'm absolutely infatuated with Tekumel. I'd love to be able to run a long-term Empire of the Petal Throne campaign using the OD&D rules. I would say that tops my list.

How 'bout you?

[Vile Traveller]

I still want to play a game of Space Opera. Have done since it was a thing.

Play, not run.

[Red Baron]

Full costume panzer commander wargaming, where all discussion and commands must be spoken/writen in german/french/russian etc depending on what side you are playing and a full set of prop flags for relaying signals.

[smubee]

- I'd love to play three sessions of every edition of D&D in order.

- Own the original supplements

- Own a brown box set, or just the alternate of Men & Magic

- Finish my old-school styled supplement for my own campaign world

[ritt]

Get a copy of OD&D.

Run original Empire of the Petal Throne.

Publish something more substantial than a 'zine article.

Hook up with a lady met through gaming.

Seriously explore miniatures wargaming. Even after three and a half decades of gaming I feel like I'm still an amatuer when it comes to toy soldier games.

Go to a Gen-Con. I imagine the crowds and clamour would just make me miserable (I'm more an intimate and eccentric regional con kinda guy) but it is kind of odd that my obsessive hobby has an event that serves as it's all-in-one awards show, trade show, party, and convention and I've never actually been to it.

[Deleted]

Compile the complete OD&D with the text from all of the various editions and then rearrange it in a way that makes sense to me. Then add information for the various monsters where it is missing, add art I like and then print as my open personal version. The only thing I am lacking is time, so if I live long enough to retire and am still able to function, then it will get done.

The other thing is to write a half dozen of my own personal supplements for OD&D for my personal use.

[MormonYoYoMan]

- Afford and purchase all of TLB's publications
- Afford and purchase all of that perilously dreaming guy's Smershed D&D publications
- Live long enough to run one last Glorantha campaign

[Deleted]

Oct 26, 2016 15:29:30 GMT -6 MormonYoYoMan said:

- Afford and purchase all of TLB's publications

I'm adding this one to my list!

[arkansan]

Publish something withing the OSR sphere.

Run the Great Pendragon Campaign to completion.

Find someone else in my state interested in historical wargaming.

Play a game of both Laserburn and Imperial Commander.

[Deleted]

Run or, preferably, play in a serious game of Pendragon.

[ritt]

Some great responses here.

This thread caused me to fall down an Internet rabbit hole of learning about Laserburn.

[tkdco2]

Perhaps I'll get to run the campaigns I've spent years developing: one hard science fiction, one swashbuckling/martial arts fantasy.

[Ynas Midgard]

Run Break!! and Lost Songs of the Nibelungs, once they are published.
Publish my Grim Tales rules/setting combo.
Design something OSR based on the Shadow Realm and "defend the base from intruders and/or hunt them down" theme of Werewolf: the Forsaken.
Run a wuxia game (preferably Tianxia or Wandering Heroes of the Ogre Gate).
Run a well-designed magical girl campaign (maybe Magical Burst, once it's published).
Run short campaigns with my favourite PbtA games (Urban Shadows, Fellowship, and Legend of the Elements).
Run a full-blown Torchbearer campaign.
Finish writing my Sempiternal Citadel of Maleficence gothic megadungeon (even if Melan's gothic dungeon will probably outshine it).

[Deleted]

Love this thread, Fox, because it really had me sit down with my morning coffee, and think about the topic for a couple of silent minutes.

Obviously, I want The Coward's Blade to last throught it's entire three-part arc. After that, I don't see myself DMing another PBP again, but I might well play in one, from time to time. In particular, I think I might want to return to - and to eventually get lost in - Aelyria, or a similar game of the kind.

With my current campaign group, in my old hometown, it would be pure joy to eventually play the "Doomstones" campaign, the half-mythical Warhammer campaign originally designed to be played under D&D rules. If we ever get there, which likely wouldn't be before 2019, or 2020, because these adventures are LONG - then it would be a sweet upper-level challenge, and, possibly, a fitting conclusion for our adventures in Gravesend. - Except for "Doomstones", I have really only one module on my shelf that I always wanted to run, but never quite got there: "The Doom of Listonshire", a d20 module released by Kenzer and Necromancer Games. It's plagued by the usual d20-overconceptualizations, but at the core, a pretty fine story I'd like to share with my players. So, I'd say, my bucket list is fairly short, and fairly based.

Now, as to stuff I'd love to do, but will likely never get to, at least not in any foreseeable future, as of October 2016: I'd love to run a really long, really well-researched Thieves' World game, perhaps from the classic era until perhaps even after the 2002 reboot. A city campaign, set in Sanctuary, telling the stories of the characters over the course of a few generations. - That way I'd have a wonderful excuse to hunt down even more relatively obscure (to me) fantasy authors from the 80s, and my players had a reference for the setting outside of myself alone. But alas, my memory is woozy, and that supposes I would have to reread all the books in the series first, just to feel satisfied and secure by myself. And given how much that would be, and how much other stuff there is still around that I want to read, it's rather unlikely, to tell the truth. Not as long as other, unread books, float around my study.

And around 2050, if I'm still around, and happily retired, I would love to run one last long Blackmoor game, preferably to a bunch of hapless youngsters, to show them what things were all about, in the days of high adventure!

[foxroe]

Holy Moley! Those are some great lists! The best thing about your lists is that it gets me hunting down some of those obscure titles on the interwebs and learning a thing or two about them. Also, they help me to reevaluate my own list (but Empire of the Petal Throne is still number one ).

Oct 26, 2016 9:17:11 GMT -6 Red Baron said:

Full costume panzer commander wargaming, where all discussion and commands must be spoken/writen in german/french/russian etc depending on what side you are playing and a full set of prop flags for relaying signals.

That's hardcore, RB! Makes me want to find an old copy of Squad Leader...

[simrion]

Actually freakin' play in an "old school" campaign for longer than one or two sessions. I'm the guy that keeps getting stuck with DMing...sigh LOL

[tkdco2]

Oct 27, 2016 8:39:49 GMT -6 simrion said:

Actually freakin' play in an "old school" campaign for longer than one or two sessions. I'm the guy that keeps getting stuck with DMing...sigh LOL

I know the feeling.

Edit: I'm talking about a live game, of course. I am a player in a couple of games in these forums.

[Deleted]

I'd like to add, the new "Valley of the Four Winds" campaign that Doc X started a week ago might get as close to a *bucket list item* as it could possibly get.

[kenmeister]

Run an Alternity Dark Matter game.
Run a Call of Cthulhu campaign like Masks of Nyarlathotep or Horror on the Orient Express.

Write my "Gates of Babylon" campaign setting for AD&D.

Run Rappan Athuk from start to finish, edition unsure.

[DungeonDevil]

Pretty much any OS game, whether RPG or wargaming. I may only list them with sufficient prodding.

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Oct 30, 2016 18:15:41 GMT -6 DungeonDevil said:

Pretty much any OS game, whether RPG or wargaming. I may only list them with sufficient prodding.

How about posting your top ten? Prod!!! Prod!!!

[makofan]

Run SPI's Universe

[idrahil]

I would love to run a weekly megadungeon campaign sometime.

[foxroe]

Oct 30, 2016 13:35:41 GMT -6 kenmeister said:

Run Rappan Athuk from start to finish, edition unsure.

I'd like to do this as well. Rappan Athuk is a fantastic campaign module/megadungeon. It's very deadly, so I would suggest a "light" game since the players are likely to be rolling up characters quite often! Maybe OD&D (perhaps with classes from the supplements since RA has Druids, Thieves, and Paladins) or S&W:WB.

[kenmeister]

Oct 30, 2016 20:37:21 GMT -6 foxroe said:

Oct 30, 2016 13:35:41 GMT -6 kenmeister said:

Run Rappan Athuk from start to finish, edition unsure.

I'd like to do this as well. Rappan Athuk is a fantastic campaign module/megadungeon. It's very deadly, so I would suggest a "light" game since the players are likely to be rolling up characters quite often! Maybe OD&D (perhaps with classes from the supplements since RA has Druids, Thieves, and Paladins) or S&W:WB.

S&W Complete, OD&D with supplements, LL+AEC, or BFRPG with supplements seem to me to be the best options.

[DungeonDevil]

Well, the OP said RPG-only, so I'll omit the wargaming stuff. However...I will mention CHAINMAIL!

Off the top o' me gulliver:

Moldvay Basic
Holmes Basic
OD&D (+CM)
AD&D (up to and excluding the stuff in UA)

Elric/Stormbringer

Pendragon

Tunnels & Trolls
Starfaring

FASA Star Trek

Classic Traveller (preferably, non-OTU; preferably heavily "Dumarest"-inspired)

Starships & Spacemen

Call of Cthulhu (any edition)

WEG Star Wars, 2nd Ed., Revised/Expanded (or REUP)

Advanced Fighting Fantasy, 2nd edition

[arkansan]

Oct 27, 2016 0:12:52 GMT -6 ritt said:

Some great responses here.

This thread caused me to fall down an Internet rabbit hole of learning about Laserburn.

It's a neat game that is actually quite serviceable as an RPG.

[ritt]

Oct 31, 2016 17:41:22 GMT -6 arkansan said:

Oct 27, 2016 0:12:52 GMT -6 ritt said:

Some great responses here.

This thread caused me to fall down an Internet rabbit hole of learning about Laserburn.

It's a neat game that is actually quite serviceable as an RPG.

It sounds like a cool game by all accounts. Can I play it with 25-30mm figures?

The only 15mm figures I own are an Elephant, two pack mules, and a little Indian dude holding a parasol (From a wild grab-bag of historical minis purchased at a con auction). Now, part of me is a hardcore old-schooler (i.e. masochist) that would actually enjoy the challenge of pitting such a meager force against space marines in power armor, but still...

[Deleted]

Palladium (Rifts and Fantasy).
Forge stuff –– Sorcerer et al.
Publishing two of my campaign settings, plus the stuff I've written in a third "campaign setting" which wound up being a crappy campaign setting but a good fiction setting.
Lejendary Adventures.
Call of Cthulhu.
Sovereign (1KM1KT).

[ritt]

Oct 30, 2016 18:25:47 GMT -6 makofan said:

Run SPI's Universe

As a teen/college-age idiot in the 1980's/early 90's I played in a very long Universe campaign ran by a very eccentric and driven GM who took the game very, very seriously and ran a very personal campaign based around his historical and political obsessions.

It was ...an experience. For both good and ill, the kind of experience you can't get from movies, TV, an MMO, or even a long series of novels. Don't let anybody tell you our hobby is inferior to any of those.