More Clearing the Shelves

Once upon a time I embarked on a quest to play all the games I had bought but never used. I even made a blog post about it: Clearing the Shelves

However, I did not clear the shelves. Things came up. Recently though I find myself running two game nights a week. One for WFRP 2e and one for the Grim North (it’s on Thursday, drop in style, you should play.)

It occurred to me last week that WFRP 2e was a shelf game. Another one ticked off the list (except I added two to the list by buying Basic Fantasy RPG and Classic Traveller, neither of which have seen the table.)

The 1st edition cover is better

So of the original list I’ve run: Warlock! Through Sunken Lands and WFRP 2e. All which proved to be excellent and campaign worthy games. Through Sunken Lands I’ve actually run twice with two different groups. In order to tick off another game I plan to convert the Grim North to Crypts and Things Remastered. At least temporarily. That sounds grander than it is given C&T is a Swords&Wizardry based game and I already use the Complete version of that system for the campaign. I’m interested to see how it works out. C&T is explicitly designed to be more pulp sword and sorcery than most retro clones; so the characters are a bit more robust and mechanically capable than your average S&W PC. 

All this does lead me to think about the possibility of turning more shelf games into table games. Some of those games are beasts though. Runequest. Empire of the Petal Throne. Traveller. The One Ring. All games I think are suited to longer form play, or at least I would want to run them out for more than a one shot to really get the full experience. 

Essentially there’s no rush, it’s all play and should all be good fun.