Currently I'm running a weekly Pathfinder game set in the desert and trying to work in as many genies as possible. Everything is better with genies. I'm also in a monthly group that rotates games and gamemasters frequently. We've played Dogs in the Vineyard and Burning Sands, the Burning Wheel variant set in a Dune-inspired world. For that group I've been running a Changeling mini-series set in the near-future, which has been going well. I like the story opportunities that open up when things like entering people's dreams and binding your life to a promise are in play, and it seems most gamers have not done them to death yet.

I would be interested in playing and running more indie games and am just catching up with the latest trends. I have Mouse Guard but have not played it yet. I ran In a Wicked Age for a while, and still like it, but it seems to have fallen off the charts. I could offer to run that. I've also got Monsters and Other Childish Things sitting on the shelf.

Actually I was a player. I was new to the Burning Wheel mechanics and the GM and the other players were relatively unfamiliar with them as well. Not too surprisingly we played it more like a traditional roleplaying game. I think we appreciated that there were innovative aspects to the game but in that particular instance we did not quite make them work. I think if we played it more than once we could have figured it out, but this group tends to play a new system every month. Like many innovative games out there, it takes a while to learn, especially since we are so used to more traditional systems. I think it would have been easier if we could have watched an example of how it was intended to be played instead of just trying to read about it.