The Future Soon!

Only about 1/3 of the books moved to the "ready room"

The beautiful Mrs. and I have finally achieved the "American Dream". We are signing on a home very soon. We will be moving across the Valley to our new abode in the month of November. So, with the move comes a lot of things. One of them is pain. Packing boxes, then moving them into the room that we're keeping all the "packed" materials is not conducive to a happy back, especially when your herniated disk tells you that you should have stopped ten minutes ago.

 The other thing that happens to me is ideas. I always seem to get ideas for running games during these times.  It could possibly be due to the amount of books I move, stack, or rediscover. Another possible cause is the fact that I'm getting the basement family room to makeover into my "mancave" and gaming room. I want to run a game, but I'm torn what to run. Here are what I'm thinking:
  
Idea the First
This one is somewhat short and simple, continue running the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Kingmaker.   My only concern about this one is the distance some people will need to travel. Also, there's a number of people that I want to invite to gaming. I've not had too much success with adding new players after a game has started. So, this idea has some possible draw and drawbacks. It's not an original idea, though, and that makes it easier for me to run. Heck, I'm going to include in this the idea of running any Adventure Path.

As a whole, I love the Adventure Paths that Paizo makes. I don't think I've seen an idea come out of the Paths that I haven't enjoyed. They make running a campaign much much easier. I want to keep this as a possibility.

I'm including into this one the fact that, after the first of the year, there's a new Adventure Path being released, called Reign of Winter. It's a rescue mission to save Baba Yaga, and with the wife's love of Russian Mythology and traditions, she's chomping at the bit to have me run this. It's possible I may end up running two games. One week one thing, the next week the other game.

 Idea the Second
I have a lot of the Original World of Darkness books. My wife just signed up for the Werewolf 20th Anniversary Kickstarter. This has caused me to remember the many enjoyable times I've had running the WoD. This is really the setting where I cut my DM/GM/Storyteller teeth. Because to that I'm really considering running a Werewolf the Apocalypse game.

Work in Progress: The Tribes Assembled, Artist: Steve Prescott

My current premise is to have a caern located up one of the nearby Utah Canyons. Of course, if there's enough interest on this one, I can really have some fun. Salt Lake City by Night. Rage Across the Uintas. I am currently seeing the possibility of Children of Gaia, Glass Walkers, Bone Gnawers, some other Garou tribes, trying to deal with encroaching Vampires, a wanna-be Hogwarts, evil Wyrm corporations, and the "Nephite Priesthood" returning in strength.Mormons and the supernatural, it's like a potential Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of Awesome.

Idea the Third
I also have a lot of Forgotten Realms books. This has spurred another possible idea.I would run this with Pathfinder, the reason for this would be multitude, but a good portion of that reason is it's one of the systems I'm most comfortable with. (I'm tempted to launch into my 4e tirade, but I will withhold.) Another reason that I'm thinking of going with Pathfinder is because the setting is designed to be different than the "modern" Forgotten Realms setting.

The idea for the game is that it takes place during the Golden Age of Netheril, before the Folly of Karsus. Magic is far more prolific, and even a bit different. The weave is strong and there are many nations creating great and powerful magics. This game would be the protection of Netheril with the possible creation of a frontier town. I want to have a more Roman era feel to this, in a way. Netheril was impressive, but they also had a lot of flaws. This is an idea that I would very much like to do in an Epic Fashion. If I were to run this, I'm pretty sure this could be the "long term game" I've been kind of wanting to run for a while.

Idea the Fourth
Among the many hidden treasures I've found has been the binder that Ang put together many years ago that have the core rules and the Player's Guide for Highlander: The Immortals. For those that don't know, a while back there were tons of "fan-based" rules being put out there for the World of Darkness. One of the most popular of these was the Highlander rules. I've run a Highlander game a number of times, and except for the time one player refused to accept the rolls of the Storyteller, I've had fun and good success with them. I think this is another game I could run, though I don't know how long term I could run this.

Idea the Fifth
I just got my copy of the Marvel: Heroic Roleplaying rule book. I'm really glad, because it's a genre of game that I've been wanting to run for a long time. It's also helped with an idea I've had for a while. I want to run a game where the main characters, the protagonists, all wake up with their superpowers. The game would consist of them going out, fighting bad guys, but also trying to figure out where their powers come from, why they have them, and what will the do once they find out. The thoughts behind this is Superheroes with a dash of Lovecraftian goodness to make things really interesting. One of the "scenes" I've had in mind has the group attacked by Doom-bots, with Dr. Doom attempting to test them... not for the reasons they would expect.

This idea has a lot of potential for some really good roleplaying, as well as a lot of fun. Also, this would be another "long term" idea.

Idea the Sixth
Robotech has been another game that I have a long history with. One of the many things I like about Palladium books is the fact that all of their games all follow the same rule set. I'm able to include stuff from Rifts and some of the other games Palladium's done.

The idea for this one would be a Expeditionary Force Marine team sent to Earth between the two main attempts to reclaim the planet from the Invid.The team's mission is a search and recovery one, though. Since the Robotech Masters and Southern Cross were aware that the Invid might attack, there was a rush to attempt to engineer weapons that could defend the planet from the forth coming invasion. Unfortnately, the Invid attacked far soon than expected. The prototypes of these weapons are lost, buried in rubble, or possibly even stolen by bandits and raiders. The team is to try to contact four known "skunkworks" locations, and then meet up with the main force with any resources they have managed to acquire along the way.

So, those are the ideas I currently have for games I want to run at the new house. I'm not sure which one I'm going to go with. If people think one would be cooler than the others, please, let me know.