#RPGaDAY2016 - Day Twelve: What game is your group most likely to play next? Why?

My next game is (unless anything dramatic comes up) Exalted, tomorrow, then Deadlands  next week.

As you've probably noticed, my groups tend to favour long campaigns, and having recently switched from Pathfinder to Deadlands, and before that from Aberrant to Exalted, it's unlikely that we'll be playing anything new for a while - especially as both Aberrant and Pathfinder have significant unfinished business. The Pathfinder/Deadlands group has talked a lot about Cyberpunk over the years, though, so if we do make a change, I'd expect it to be there.

I adore long campaigns, but part of me sometimes regrets that it does mean I play fewer systems and settings. Really and ideally, I'd have the time, energy and friends with time and energy to play more games so I could be in loads of long campaigns in loads of different settings.

There's a few games I've got that I'd like to play short sessions: Scavengers by Metal Weave Games, for instance. I don't back many kickstarters but I did back this one and the book is gorgeous. Seems straightforward enough, and I like the way it sounds all fun and greedy, but it can also be very, very dark. I've also got Abney Park's Airship Pirates that I really, really want to play

because AIRSHIP PIRATES!!! (Since a long ago WFRP game I've wanted to play a pirate queen. This has been vetoed as an inappropriate career path for Svetlana, so I like to imagine one of her daughters or grandaughters rebels and fakes her death so she can run away and be a pirate queen. Depending how the campaigns ends, I'd really like to write that story.) And then I got the Buffy rulebook for Christmas, and that's where it began for me so I'd love to revisit...

There's also other long-term campaigns I want. I've always wanted to play White Wolf's Changeling, and people were talking me around to wanting to play new Werewolf until I discovered they've got rid of the other Fera, when I really like all the changing breeds. But I'd love to play old Vampire or Werewolf again. Beyond that, I really want to play (or maybe even run) Lords of Gossamer and Shadow. I've had the books for a while now and they've given me ideas that are itching for exploration. I'm not sure how well diceless would go down with my group, but then, I don't need to tell them it's diceless 'til they're hooked, right? And Matt of No Games, No Glory runs a very well-reputed ShadowRun game, and I do miss the shadows...