Northern Wing and Division 6

October has ended with the blog frightfully low on 'Host of Freaky Ghosts' entries for my tastes. The project got away from me as Real Life and my next big campaign began haunting more and more of my time.

A little disappointing perhaps but it ain't over until the banshee screams. Expect to see more on the work of parapsychologist Prof. Sebastian Pott throughout the rest of the year. 

Right now though, I'd like to talk about something else. 

Up until pretty recently I was running two seperate [and thematically different] Superhero campaigns and feeling burned out and slightly miserable doing so. I have since let the players in both groups know how I was feeling and asked that we switch to doing something else.

Group A, after tossing a variety of ideas back and forth, chose to go with The Winghorn Guard, my Dungeons & Dragons-But-Not 'Medieval Fantasy Superhero' setting. I know, I know, 'I thought you were burnt on Supers'. I am. The Winghorn Guard, while having some Superhero genre sensibilities, is quite a different beast, far closer to an Action/Adventure heavy Ars Magica campaign (kinda sorta).

I was actually planning on running a Winghorn Guard campaign next year for my 50th TRPG Anniversary so for me I'm just getting an early start. I'll be using my High Fantasy Heroes hack of Space Opera Heroes for this campaign. You can look forward to periodic posts about the campaign starting fairly soon. 

As for Group B, we also had a long discussion about what to play next and after going over a variety of ideas, I came out of left field with the suggestion of doing a Men In Black campaign. It's a game I've always wanted to take a crack at but never have. Turns out, that was the winner! 

Some time ago I purchased a PDF of the Japanese TRPG Trouble Aliens, which is essentially MIB from the perspective of the aliens. Borrowing from this game and maybe Meteor City as well, I should be able to generate a good amount of material. System wise I am not sure whether I want to go with the original West End Games D6 RPG, use the rules from Free League's ALIEN game, or do yet another adaption of Space Opera Heroes. Damn I love that game. 

More to come as ideas progress...

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