#RPGaDay2022 - Day 15 - Who Would You Like to Game Master For You?

Day 15 of #RPGaDAY2022 brings out my bucket list, sans death. "Who Would You Like to Game Master For You?"

I don't have a top 10 list of celebrities that I want to GM for me, so I'll stick with the mid-to-late 90's nostalgia. 

Doctor Bob and Eric... From New Jersey.

No, I don't need a game run by the generic knock-off soda at Wal-Mart.  

Dr Bob is currently a Professor of History, although I had the good fortune of meeting him while he was still a simple post-grad, working on his Master's.

Simply put, he was the best Call of Cthulhu Keeper we had in the area.  His games were well thought out and comprehensive, with just the joyous twinkle in his eye when things went silly... or completely insane.  

As Mission Director for an original Delta Green game, he was unsurpassed.  That rating was from his players, who were usually awestruck and unaware as the shit hit the fan, because I didn't get the chance to play in his full campaign in the 90's.  

I did get to participate in a Masks of Nylarathotep campaign he ran in the 2000's, but that was abruptly stopped after New York, due to scheduling and personal issues amongst the group.  

I will admit I did have the good fortune for him to tolerate me as Keeper in our long-running 1920's Cthulhu game (his character runs from episodes #14-41).  

The last game I had the pleasure to play with him running was a Delta Green RPG playtest based in Afghanistan, obviously before the latest version came out.  

If COVID would ever completely go away, he would have an impressive list of folks willing to travel to play in whatever his brilliant and twisted mind could come up with.  I simply ask for a folding chair in the corner of the room to participate and appreciate the madness. 

My 1B is EricFromNJ, currently a regular letter writer into the Happy Jacks RPG Podcast,  His current letters talk a lot about Pathfinder and Savage Worlds, but back in the day, there was Dr Bob's Delta Green game, and Eric's Sunday night Star Wars d6 game... with Dr Bob playing in it!  

It was an eclectic mix of award-winning GMs, experienced gamers, and local metalheads young and old, as players, that set the stage for that game, but he was the straw that stirred that incredibly complicated drink.  Bi-Polar Protocol/Assassin droids, cheeky Jawas, runaway Stormtroopers, Wookie porn stars (amateur), a big black man with a flame thrower (Big Bob Watts!), and Zorak from Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the list is far from complete, yet he handled them all, everyone got a moment to shine, and Captain Moser's Blitz was the ship to be traveling the galaxy, even if they did salvage Darth Vader's toilet from the surviving wreckage of the first Death Star. 

Again, I was not in this game, I just knew everybody who was in it (including my girlfriend at the time, how's them apples.)

All of that could be true… or none of it.  It was that legendary. 

I've had the opportunity to play with Eric numerous times, and I believe it was an early Mepacon I or II where I played Captain Marino in one of his Star Wars d6 con games. 

Of course if either are readily available on Mondays from 9-11, I'll gladly take them as players for the current Star Wars game... and anything else we come up with... but I'd much rather be a player at their games.

For Honorable Mentions, I'd also like another go with some of the GMs at my first two cons, Lehicon III and Lehicon IV, waaaaay back in the early 90s.  Why?  I simply would like to revisit their styles and see if the GMs I thought were great truly were, and moreso why the bad GMs I experienced impacted me in those developing years.