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Anyone gaming Dresden anymore?

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Mark baker:
I ran a game at GenCon UK 2007, and am running it again at a Con over this weekend using CJ Carella's Witchraft. I don't see any real issues with the lack of a system mechanic for the "Murphyonic Field"... nothing that can't be overcome with a blend of roleplaying and GM fiat in equal parts.

I did find it harder creating decent game stats for charaters like Mouse, Billy Borden, Thomas Raith, etc even with a copy of the Abomination Codex, but with a degree of flexibility and descriptive text in the character backgrounds, even that wasn't too onerous.

Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
I'm tinkering with creating a Harry Dresden-esque character in the Matrix Online. Really! Especially on the Recursion server, there's a strong hint of urban fantasy to a lot of the RP, so with a little tweaking, it could work. A friend of mine agreed that certain virus abilities on the Hacker tree work very much like fire magic and of course there's always the Handgun abilities...

Brodie:
I've been using GURPS for my game. (I've got it set before the end of book 3 and the players don't know how close or far away that is yet. Mwahahaha.) However, I feel the urge to slap the wizard of the group every time I run because he doesn't do anything.

Over in our White Wolf mish-mash/little-bit-of-everything game, run by someone else, I'm playing a mage based pretty damn heavily on Harry Dresden. Hell, I even made him a P.I. that advertises his services as a wizard (he's an orphan and calls himself a wizard, despite having become acquainted with 'mages'). I had fun with the Murphyonic field drawback the GM and I came up with, along with the Soulgaze drawback. The Sight was an advantage. That, combine with the Soulgaze, gave my character insight - vague though it was - that the other PCs weren't privy to and made me useful. I'm not totally like Harry - I can't declare war on all vampires as I wouldn't last long since one of the other PCs is a vampire (and recently crowned Prince). However, I do have a goal set for myself: Kill the head Sabbat vamp. :)

I've found that Mage works extremely well for Dresden style magic, for the most part. But if you go by the rules, you'll find yourself taking Spheres that you'd think shouldn't be involved (Time and Mind).

But, GURPS can accomodate anything and everything with how versatile it is.

Elaikases:

--- Quote from: finarvyn on December 17, 2007, 07:46:18 PM ---For a while there were several posters giving updates as to how they were using various systems to run a campaign in the Dresdenverse, but recently this section of the board has been very quiet.

Perhaps this happened at the same time as Fred announced alpha playtesting of THE REAL THING and somehow homebrew games seem less interesting? Maybe people just didn't have anything new to report? I'm hoping that the lack of conversation here isn't indiciative of low long-term interes...

Anyway, I've experimented with Dresden in a couple different game systems with varying degrees of success...
1. Amber Diceless -- this works surprisingly well, since so many of the characters are supernaturals. In a mostly mundane world, it would have some issues.
2. Buffy -- I've found that BtVS (Eden Games) has the right kind of feel, perhaps because Buffy is written with wry humor in much the same way as Dresden. Also I find that I can use some of their ideas for vampires and spells and other things that fit well into Harry's world.
3. Monte Cook's World of Darkness -- this plays like most any d20 system, and typically you like it or hate it. I find some of the ideas (particularly the magic system) to be particularly clever, but overall the system is bulky and cumbersome.
4. Spirit of the Century -- of late I've drifteed back to SotC as my Dresden rule system of choice, in anticipation of the SotC system being similar to Dresden Files. I know that the magic system will be different, but at least my players will be used to the funky +/- dice.  ;D

Anyone else running Dresden at the moment?


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The new Basic Role Playing is out from Chaosium, just got my copy and it looks like fun.

Lizard King:
My group just hasn't had a chance to play much at all through this season.  We will play our own little Dresden game again.  We tend to mix a little Constantine feel in with it, just because we are big fans of both, and they mix nicely. 

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