The Index of Games
This is a living post, which I will update periodically as I get new game ideas or start to run old ones. If I've written anything else about an idea, I'll hyperlink to it from the idea's name.
Games I'm Currently Running
Sunday Holmes
I decided, on a whim, to start a brand new campaign with a group of friends. No setting concept, no adventure hooks, just a fistful of dice and a dream. Also I decided to run it with Holmes Basic, which I had never run before. It's fun! A bit of a disorganized mess, but fun. We'll see how long it lasts.
The Marble District
Planescape, the 2e setting, has fascinated me since I learned about it. The atmosphere and weirdness of it captured my imagination like very few published settings have. This campaign combines it with Skerples's Magical Industrial Revolution for a weird Victoriana fever dream. I run it for a small group of regular players and we have a blast; their gonzo plans and banter make sessions a treat.
Untitled Megadungeon Game
Your fairly standard megadungeon open table save a few twists. For one thing, the PCs are trapped in the dungeon a la Jenx's Zandan Megadungeon. For another (and I feel rather clever about this) the dungeon is personified as a god that the PCs can supplicate for aid. I have a good large player pool that continues to grow which is a blessing. This game is proving excellent for diagnosing quirks and areas of improvement in my GMing style as well.
Games I'd Like to Run
Bootleg Bright Conference
Have I been reading too much of Skerples's old Bright Conference posts? Perhaps. Are they giving me a craving for sci-fi? Yeah 100%. This would be about a crew of plucky humans trying to find their place in the galaxy after Earth is connected to the network of wormhole-gate-things. Probably there will be a lot about cultural exchange because I find that shit fascinating.
Rebels of Zorn
A Star Wars game, run with Luke Gearing's Violence. My main criteria when picking a system for this was I wanted stormtroopers to be scary. Violence was a perfect pick. Inspiration for this one comes in equal parts from Andor and the first season of Rebels. The former lends the feeling of a tooth and nail fight to survive against a superior force. The latter gives a small geographical scope and a feeling of change within that area. This could be run as a fixed group or an open table; I'm not sure which I'll choose just yet.
The Pilgrim Campaign
Probably to be run with a modified version of Pendragon for a small group. This game will be (as I envision it) highly episodic and focused on the player characters, their relationships, and the things they encounter on the road to the Holy City. A bit of The Decameron or the Canterbury Tales in an original fantasy world. mtb is working on his own pilgrim game in parallel with me, so I'm excited to see how our ideas diverge. I have a feeling they're going to be very different.
Zed-Team
A campaign about a crew of bottom-of-the-barrel superheroes who nevertheless must foil the plans of dangerously competent villains. I'm talking about guys like Paperclip Man, who can identify where any paperclip was manufactured (but only paperclips, nothing else) versus Evil Adam Atom, who possesses an infinite arsenal of hydrogen bombs. Or, y'know, something like that. Ideally the players will get extremely creative with their terrible superpowers. Or give up and buy firearms, I suppose. Either works.
60 Years in Space
Dan from Throne of Salt has cajoled me into eventually running 60YIS for myself. I mean, I say cajoled. Really he just twisted my already rubber arm about it; I'd been curious since reading his posts about it. And now it's actually playable! So my hard-scifi-loving ass is dead and buried, pretty much. This one's waaaaay on the backburner, though; I have other games taking priority for the time being.