What's next?

With The Dee Sanction wrapped up, it’s time for something else. My current plans:

Fate of Cthulhu

Cthulhu has arisen—can our heroes travel back through time to avert catastrophe? This will be my first experience with Fate Condensed—I usually use Fate Accelerated. I’ve picked the Cthulhu timeline because, in all my years playing Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu itself has never featured. Time for that to change.

I’m not sure when this will start as Jon is running a delightful London-based Cthulhu Deep Green investigation at the moment.

ALIEN: Destroyer of Worlds

For the Monday night crew, I will run Destroyer of Worlds. I ran Chariot of the Gods for them back in the early summer. Destroyer of Worlds is Aliens to Chariot of the Gods’ Alien. I need to practice running combat in the Alien universe. I’m finding Destroyer of Worlds a bit frustrating—Free League haven’t made this easy to GM.

We’re currently being Greek heroes in Agon at the moment on Mondays. I’m not sure if Destroyer of Worlds will follow that in January, or whether we will play something else first.

One-shots

I may have the opportunity to run a few one-shots, and I have these ready to go.

• Monster of the Week: I’ve made a couple of changes to The Seeds of Doom and want to rerun it. Possibly with my nephews over Christmas.
• The Aurors: Hunting dark wizards in the world of Harry Potter. I’ve submitted this to run at Airecon (Covid permitting).
• Kingdom, Fiasco, Follow: I’d like to play more of these, as I feel I haven’t quite got the hang of them fully yet. At the moment, we use them to fill in gaps between other games or when we know a player can’t make it.

And further out

These are further on the horizon.

Traveller: I am very tempted by the new edition of Secrets of the Ancients. I’ve written about it before, but I didn’t run it. The new edition looks very nice, but I haven’t run Traveller since the dawn of roleplaying.

Hillfolk: I’ve had this since the 2012 Kickstarter but have never got it to the table. Wow, that’s nearly ten years. I played it once, at Furnace.

Urban Shadows: I backed the 2020 Kickstarter. It’s still in production, and I hope to try it with the Monday night crew. I’ve had mixed success with PbtA games, but I’m hoping this will work for me.

Good Society: Another Kickstarter, and one that landed in my doormat in October. I have too much on my plate now, but I know that some of the Monday night players are keen to try this. I’m not sure how well it works online—it uses cards. I need to figure that out.

Other London: Before too long, I’d like to return to Other London, my modern urban horror game. I started planning an investigation some time ago, and it’s time I returned to it.