M and Ms

Malaise and Meme-hunting

I shouldn't be surprised that someone beat me to the meme (Rule 35 should be about memes).

Lately, my gaming brain has gone berserk finding
a half-dozen different ideas for new things to run. I'm certain this happens to every player, but this is getting nuts. Here's a brief list of shit that I have currently under construction or a deep and uncontrollable desire to run:

FlailSnails: I have been working a while on a Tokyo setting.
Pros: Roll everything awesome about Japan and anime up in one bundle and go bananas. Might be good times if I ever get the thing going.
Cons: I never feel ready enough to start it up. I always feel like something is missing.

4e: Now that Fourth edition is gasping its death rattle, I find it so irresistible. I haven't actually run any published adventures, even though I own quite a few of them. I would really like to run some of this crap I have clogging up my shelves.
Pros: Played and run a lot of 4e this year. Know it best of all the editions.
Cons: Played and run a lot of 4e this year. Burn out factor is high.

• Dungeon Delve: level 1 to 30 dungeon material. 30 sessions, 30 levels. BAM!
• Draconomicon: Dragon Hunters episodic campaign. Short and sweet and killing dragons.
• Sceptre of Spellguard: level 2 to 4 Forgotten Realms. I am not sure why I like this adventure, but I keep reading it through bit by bit.

Next:  After noticing the new play packet contained adaptation notes for Realms of Horror, I couldn't help but go scanning through the old modules to look at running them.

Pros: Classics!

Cons: Geez. . . Can't think of any.

Street Fighter RPG: There was a bit of a chit chat on a Google+ the other day that strayed from oWoD to this gem. I've never played it. I've always been keen to get into it, running a game or two would solve that.

Pros: Hadouken!

Cons: So many d10s.

Tenra Bansho Zero: I could not believe my luck when I found this little gem at Yellow Submarine in Shinjuku. It's this book that has me grumbling about my FlailSnails. This is almost exactly what I want that to be.

Pros: Giant Robots and super-human samurai.

Cons: I don't know where to begin in running this. It's so outside my safe zone.

Heroes Unlimited or TMNT: The first games I ever really truly campaigned were Heroes Unlimited/TMNT. I have had the books in my shelf boring a hole in my a long time.
Pros: Nostalgia.
Cons: Palladium combat is difficult to adjudicate swiftly after so long away from the game.

So, what is the solution? Pick something and roll with it? Poll for potential gamers? I think I will have to decide soon, but the summer burns away a lot of my motivation to play.
The marvellous thing about being part of the Google+ communities has been finding and connecting with like-minded folks.

Something will be decided, eventually.

Eventually.