Day 19 of #RPGaDay2022 brings up a poignant question, "Why Has Your Favorite Game Stayed With You?"
A better question first is, "What Exactly is Your Favorite Game?"
For me, It can't be D&D, or my specific flavor, Hackmaster. I haven't played or GM'ed it enough in the last decade to justify things. Lord knows I have a gigabyte-plus of old modules just waiting to be played, and bringing that back online is my dream game. I simply know I don't have time for that at this moment.
Star Wars d6 is the current game I'm running. After 2 1/2 years, I'm not as intuitive with the rules as I'd like, plus the 20-year gap of playing requires a few more sessions before I could even consider it (and that's even after I used it as "my favorite" for Day 17.
Which leaves Call of Cthulhu as my favorite game. It may have been one-off during the first half of my gaming life, but thus far it's been a dominant part of my second half.
The reason CoC has stayed strong is the same reason I enjoyed AD&D as much as I did in the 90s. Through trial and usage, I've memorized almost everything I'll need to run a pre-7th Edition game off the top of my head.
Spells aside, and maybe some love for random insanity generation, I rarely need to reference the books (and that includes the allegedly "insufferable" Resistance Table)
My 1920's game was pretty by the book, rules and tropes-wise, but I've also been able to expand CoC into more modern concepts of gaming. Heck I've been able to take this picture:
And turn it into an entire session in my 1990's Canadian College Cthulhu Campaign.
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