I want to expand the module I wrote for the recent con into a Cyclopedic/Mutant Future campaign. (I just have to type it as one word) I've been meaning to take a gander at Utrusk. I'm glad people are doing new things with old rules, rather than just recreating the past. I do not intend to publish anything, though I am grateful for the retro-clones empowering others to produce AD&D/D&D material without getting sued. I'm not particularly interested in proselytizing, converting, or recruiting. I could care less what happens with 4th edition or Pathfinder or 3.5 Resurgent. I am not trying to steer gaming back into the style of older editions. I also like to play games besides D&D, but that is what I am most into right now, so that it what gets the most attention in my blog. White Wolf, D&D, Gamma World, Warhammer, whatever. I started this blog because I could talk for hours, nay, days, about roleplaying games. On the other hand, I loathe 4th edition and will not play or run it again. I will never run it again, though you might be able to persuade me to play it. In fact, I'll be plain: 3.x, while tolerable, just doesn't do it for me. Yeah, they do have a different play style associated with them, but I believe that is influenced by the deadliness of the old rules. In fact, it isn't so much the play style as it is the mechanics and the whole 'pimp my build' thing with 3.x and the very divergent nature of 4th, specifically. I tried the new ones (played 3.x for most of college, actually) and they just don't deliver for me. Look, I'm just a guy who happens to prefer the older editions of D&D. At least this week's drama is slightly more substantial than what armor class system you prefer. I once found it kind of endearing, but now I'm getting kind of sick of it. :)ДЄh, time for the weekly blog shitstorm. instant scalding holy steam to smite basically had the same effect as a flamethrower, but without having to worry about all that pesky collateral damage. Oh, one last enjoyable memory: the party used their steampunk skills to invent a 'boiler backpack' that they would fill with holy water and heat up. the only reason I can think if is that it must have been run before I picked Fudge up (which was also sometime in the early 00's.) I'm also not sure why I didn't just use Fudge.

(The vicar was always jumping off stuff, throwing stakes, kicking in doors, etc.) In fact, in the theoretical someday where I have infinite time to game, I would consider resurrecting (ha!) the game using SW. the more cinematic nature of the system would have fit in better with the slam-bang action that the players tended to fling their characters into. Looking back, this game would have been awesome to run with Savage Worlds. I have since ditched all my GURPS stuff except for the steampunk book, only because it has a ton of great information and ideas to plunder for future steampunkity endeavors. (I owned and had played GURPS and run a few one shots, but never tried to do a campaign with it before.) I recall the last straw being an attempt to design a construct (clockwork golem) using GURPS Robots. Those sessions were a blast, mind you, but I quickly found GURPS to be too cumbersome for my tastes. The campaign only ran for six sessions, unfortunately. a defrocked vicar who was abandoned by the church after he tried to warn his flock about the dangers of vampires, an amateur detective in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, a psychic opium addict, a mad inventor, and the scandalized half-Japanese son of one of London's wealthiest men. The characters were a pretty eclectic bunch. (They did not get the chance to meet Springheel Jack, sadly)

Adventures revolved mostly around vampire hunting, but I threw in some other monsters as well.

Ah, I also neglected to mention that this campaign took place in an alternate history steampunk London. The characters were all members of the Holmwood Club. Dracula had created more spawn than just Lucy Westenra, and now vampirism was spreading through the Victorian underworld. Seward founded the Holmwood Club, which on the surface was an exclusive social club, but in actuality was an organization of vampire hunters. Meanwhile, back in England, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Van Helsing and the Harkers were in Europe, hunting down the spirited away remains of Dracula which had been stolen by some of his followers. (Or was it 2002.?) The game was set in London, after the events of the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Back in 2000 or 2001-ish, I ran a GURPS campaign called 'Legacy of Dracula.' It was largely inspired by Kim Newman's Anno Dracula and the film adaptation of From Hell.

Cinematic unisystem compiled pdf