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[Kadzar]

I have to say that Elfin Refugees is probably one of the most fun games I've played on this forum. The setting was based off of DF (though I'd call it a modded game since there were several varieties of elves and certain plants like blood lichen which of course don't exist in the vanilla game). We played a bunch of Elves who inhabited a smallish abandoned Dwarf fortress and spent time trying to make negotiations and treaties with the goblins down in the valley. I believe I suffered head injury on more than one occasion in that game. Also, the problem that seems to happen in some forum games where nothing ever happens was solved by turns taking place over several hours, slowing down a lot when really important things happened. Though some didn't like how their characters were interpreted sometimes, the only problem I ever had in that game was that combat was so deadly that it was simply best to avoid getting into fights, yet I didn't know this at a character creation and had taken a trait that it turns out made it hard for my character to learn to do anything that wasn't fighting, which apparently even included social skills.

The follow-up to that game was Explorers of Remembrance, and I think it ironed-out the bugs of the previous game. In that game we roleplayed the important bits and fast-forwarded through times when nothing happened (which may have just been when we were sleeping. That game was more fun that the first, actually, even though it stopped a lot sooner. I enjoyed playing a mostly moral-less bastard willing to do whatever it took to make sure the mission succeeded (and possibly get myself or Spain a little influence and/or power in the new world). If I was running that game, the only thing I would change would be to make the soldiers NPCs and replacing them with more scientists (because those guys seemed to have nothing to do most of the time, and it didn't make sense that just two guys would be able to protect the entire expedition, even with the advantage of possessing guns while the natives did not) and making the Dwarves Spanish and the Elves French.

I never actually participated in it (though I did post saying I'd like to join the waitlist), Criminal RTD was an enjoyable read and looked like a lot of fun.