freedom from choice

[reverancepavane]

Discussed the possibility of running some games with a friend tonight. And the remoter possibility of playing in some. I found it quite amusing that he complained he was building up a collection of role-playing games. For my part, it would be a lot easier trying to decide what games I would like to run if I was less spoiled for choice, both as to the genres and systems, but also what to do within the genres and systems (and yes, I've already done cross-genre-dimension-tech games). Sometimes I think it would be easier if I was a less avid collector, but they all have so many wonderful ideas to play with... I definitely want to do something mythic, especially where players can generate the myths. Hmmmm. Perhaps a Spirit of the Dead Again Maid Sorceror of Underworld Polaris. Which reminds me, I probably should make an effort to get the Maid RPG sometime soon, simply because not respectable game collection would be complete without it. Although I dread to think what it actually involves. <bwah hah hah ha ha ha ha ha ha> Maybe I'll try again to see if I can find people willing to play Grey Ranks with me. After all, whats not to love about a doomed resistance movement at the end of WW2 where you cannot possibly win. Sounds downright cathartic to me (although very few people seem to agree).

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[zogwarg.livejournal.com]

Grey Ranks?
Is that the one set in the Warsaw uprising?

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Indeed. You play one of the Szere Svangi (Grey Ranks), the teenage resistance movement in Warsaw in 1944 in their 60-day bid to throw off the German yoke before the Russians arrived to "free" them. Needless to say, even if the character survives the Germans, they will probably end up martyred, deranged, broken, or a suicide. Fun.