We moved into our current home two years ago. I had been out of the role-playing game thing since 1988, yet I had a ton of games and game-related stuff that I kept moving with me. Between not wanting to move them ever again, and some changes in my job that made me worried about my cash flow I decided to sell off my gaming stuff.
And sell I did. Gone were my copies of the D & D Holmes Basic set, Gangbusters, Top Secret, Call of Cthulhu, Thieves World, a bunch of microgames, Panzer Blitz, Worlds of Wonder, Runequest and many more. (But kept my 1st edition AD&D and the OD&D white box)
And selling this stuff off made me interested in what was going on in the RPG market. I started reading blogs and found a couple of books on the subject.
And then I started playing D & D again, the current version. The rules seem less weirdly arbitrary than the versions I played, but I'm not a fan of the class and level system and 'armor makes you harder to hit' combat. That just seems goofy to me.
So I'm thinking about running something again. My rules of choice back in the day were Runequest and other Basic Roleplaying derived games. I picked up the Basic Roleplaying 'Big Gold Book', Magic World and the Advanced Sorcery supplement and like them a lot. I've read Runequest Essentials and it seems to be the best iteration of those rules I have seen, but have not yet sprung for the complete ruleset. But seriously thinking about it.
I've got some notes on a campaign, and already tried making up a new monster which ought to be here somewheres. I wonder if I have time to actually put something together. And who would play if I did? We already have lots of scheduling issues with the folks I play with now.
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