Cool games you have participated in as a player

[Merten]

I'd love to hear about the games folks have participated in. Shamelessly plug your best experiences and do it in one paragraph. I'll start.

Ground Zero (2001, third time the game has been played)

A game set into the US Midwest during the Cuban missile crisis; warning sirens herd members of a small community (a streetfull of people in small town) into a fallout shelter. After day and a half of sporadic news reports from radio, uncertainty and stress in small space with people who don't exactly get along, the bombs begin to fall. The Korean war veteran, closet gay and teacher, Mr. Whitman, faces his inner demons and finds them victorius. The end of the world as we know it stops his descent into madness and shell shock.

[woolTECH]

Catain Dick Britton and the Voice of the Seraph. (http://www.crookedhouse.org/index.php?page=127) A one-shot 1937 set pulp action larp.

World spanning adventures involving zombie nazis, a uranium mine, spies, archiologists, a tank, art thiefs, gangsters, PIs, aristocrats, a tank, a plane ride, clowns, hitler youth, and I don't know what else. Best. Event. Ever.

[SpringsBoundlessThorns]

Wow, that Voice of Seraph game looked totally amazing! Wow! Wow! Wow! My cup runneth over with green Larp jealousy juice!:D

[Gunhex]

Had a great time crewing/writing for Capt. Dick Britton. Was a real blast.

[Lollo]

I'd love to hear about the games folks have participated in. Shamelessly plug your best experiences and do it in one paragraph.

Pleasantville, by Marco Paroli & Marzia Possenti. Story taken from the movie, all the players dressed in the black & white (http://www.flyingcircus.it/rubriche/reportage/le_meraviglie_di_pleasantville).
I had probably the smallest PC sheet in the world. "You're the perfect daddy, you love your family and you want everything to stay as it is now".
Still, the game went perfectly. No kewl powers, no Illuminati plots, just... roleplaying in this (not-so-)perfect world. There was also a plot involving a Big Secret (something to do with the first Matrix) but it was the interaction between strong characters that did work.

Ciao
L.

[Merten]

Catain Dick Britton and the Voice of the Seraph. (http://www.crookedhouse.org/index.php?page=127) A one-shot 1937 set pulp action larp.

That looks... Good. Very good. Extermly good. Especially when I try not to see the folks I suspect to be GM's, walking around in orange vests.

Right then, next one.

Black Flag (2003)

A historical game set in the US Civil war and Missouri, where a group of bushwhackers and partisan rangers journey to hidden cottage, to help their relatives escpaing the union Jayhawkers, recuperate from recent heavy battles, and to interrogate their prisoners. For Hop Toothman, a partisan ranger, this means a long walk in rain, wet boots, sleeping outside and eating beans from a tin can while the better folk roasts beefs a few meters away. And the last heroic stand against the superior numbers of Union soldiers, covering the escape of the better folk.

[Redfeild]

Early to mid 90's Gray Book ere of MET. No it was not the system so much as the period. At its hight there were two games going on at alternating weak ends. We boasted fifty or more players at any one time. Lord help us if they all showed up at once.

For all intense and purposes the gray book was HORRIBLE! The powers where messed up. Conversion from table top near impossible. But we had a blast.

When the troop went Cam I was for it. But what we gained in a global community we lost in local participation. We will never see those days again. May be its for the best. Those days were also rampant with clicks and some of the worst power gaming I had ever seen. Still, if I could go back to the park and see all those people in their gothiest gear again that would be sweet. I can honestly say I had the most fun in those days.