Checking interest to see if anybody wants to do some Let's Play.
For them as isn't in the know, essentially Let's Play is a quest, but rather than rolling the dice directly the QM is playing a video game (Typically an RPG, 4X, or similar game with a relatively complex decision tree) while the players decide what moves are made during play. I'm interested in running one and want to see if anybody wants to play along.
I generally prefer to Let's Play older retro games. Some options I have off the top of my head:
Ultima
Or, gaining ultimate power by throwing your money in a river
The Grandaddy of Western RPGs and progenitor of a mighty Franchise that lasted for decades before being EA'd, Ultima is a charmingly quirky game with some truly bizarre mechanics, where you start out armed with a knife and leather armor, progress to fighting Gelatinous Cubes while wearing a space suit for armor and firing on them with a phazor, and end the game flying a starship duking it out with TIE fighters so you can convince a trapped princess you're hard enough to deserve her giving you a time machine.
Wing Commander: Privateer
Or, Profiting by begging xenocidal space tigers for mercy
While a bit more actiony than most options, Privateer is a fun sandbox game where you play a space mercenary running cargo, shooting pirates, and sometimes engaging hostile aliens as you try to make another buck to pay your docking fees and hopefully buy a better ship. But in the meantime this odd artifact some old guy pawned off on you in lieu of payment on a job is attracting some weird attention...
Mech Commander
Or, Quit shooting the enemy! We need that salvage intact!
A fine part of the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe where rather than a pilot yourself, you're mission control guiding your team of pilots through the clan wars and stealing as many 'mechs as possible along the way and trying to earn more Cbills in hopes you can upgrade your two light 'mechs into an entire company of assaults, because the Smoke Jaguars aren't going to go easy on your when you invade their homeworld.
Space Empires IV
Or, There might not be a star or any planets in this part of space now but give me a few days.
A once very famous 4X, and still extremely fun, Space Empires IV is notable for the absolutely incredibly dense tech tree and just how much an advanced civilization can manipulate the universe at the high end. Ringworlds? Yes. Dyson Spheres? You can build 'em. Destroy stars? Of course. Build entirely new planets and stars for them to orbit? Oh yeah. Reshape the structure of the cosmos itself to your will? It would hardly be worth it without that, now would it? It's notable for having a tech tree that forces you to constantly change your design strategy over time, as new techs render old styles of ship design and combat obsolete. Sure, gigantic shipkiller missiles were top-tier a few turns ago but now fighter and drone carriers are completely dominating missile ships, and in a few turns those will be obsolete and it'll be all about the direct-fire energy weapons.
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