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WISH 84: The Fantastic Five

For this week's Game WISH, Ginger asks: What five games would you love to run/play if you had a willing group and a weekly time slot?

Just five? I'll try....

1. Nobilis- I've been wanting to run this setting since the game came out. Someday.
2. Prime Directive- A game based on the Starfleet Battles setting, it works a lot better as a gaming setting than the official Star Trek setting. I ran a really successful Star Trek game in GURPS years ago. I'd like to see if lightning can strike twice.
3. Battlestar Galactica- Set in the original TV series setting, I would set the game several years after the first (and only) season. Adama has passed away and Apollo is now the Captain of the fleet. I'd probably borrow some ideas from the Richard Hatch novels, but since I've only read the first, I can't say for sure. Currently, I'm thinking I'd use the Unisystem rules to run it. It works really good for cinematic action and I have some ideas for spaceship combat rules.
4. Angel- Yeah, I know what you're thinking. "But, you're already running a Buffy game! What's the difference?" I've got a few campaign ideas based around supernatural investigative groups and/or Angel's Los Angeles.
5. Mutants and Masterminds- Like Ginger, I'd like to run a superhero game that's not d20 or Champions. Mutants and Masterminds looks like d20, but it isn't. It's an "OGL" game, meaning that they were able to use what they liked from the d20 system and throw out the rest. The result is an excellent system that fixes everything I dislike in d20. Character creation is point-based instead of class based and levels aren't anything but a general guideline of how powerful a characters powers should be when buying their powers. For a setting, I was thinking something that is more along the X-Men than the Justice League.