On alternate Thursdays I play in an AD&D (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) game. I've played AD&D once before, but that was a short lived game many years ago. If you don't know what D&D is, it's a fantasy role-playing game set in the medieval age (generally), with magic.
My character, Maya, is a human monk/sorcerer (she was created before the new rules, which don't actually allow that particular class mix). She's decended of the Bloodline of Air, and hails from Calimshan. She looks like Indira Varma (Maya from Kama Sutra), but not quite so beautiful.

I used to play Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Thursdays, but that game is now over. We only got one season, but there are spin-offs in the works. The game is set in the same world as the television show (our game was before the end of the last season of Buffy), but the characters from the show are not necessarily a part of the world.
My character was Celeste Williams, a drop-dead gorgeous, rich half-demon, from a well-established half-demon family. The town we were in was originally settled by demons and half-demons, escaping persecution in Europe. Celeste could trace her lineage back to the demon demensions. Our hero was played by Kate, while Byron played first our hacker/occultist, then our true fighter, Alex played our enthusiastic clown (our version of Xander), and Terry played the heart-throb with medical knowledge (so we didn't all die).

Until recently, on alternate Sunday nights I played in a Tribe 8 game. Tribe 8 is set in an alternate/future Montreal, after the world has collapsed. For information about Tribe 8, click here.
I've now actually played two different characters in Tribe 8 - that's what happens when you live with the GM. Matthew was running the game and needed support characters to, well, be cannon fodder, so his main group wouldn't be the first to die. So, Kate, Alex, Terry, and I generously volunteered to play. First I was a former Tera Sheban, kicked out because she wouldn't focus on her studies. She was actually able to help the group, being able to read Tribal, and having a sense of . . . common sense. She was pretty good at grounding peole and reminding them of things like floating an injured man down a polluted river might not be the best thing for his chances of survival. I'll just let everybody else tout their own characters. We all did our part. And for my second adventure in Tribe 8, I played a member of the new variant of Doomseers, the Doomsayers. I was instrumental in assembling the group, and in directing it. I was, I suppoes, the leader, though really I was being led by the visions I was having. Again, we had Alex and Kate to round out the group. (Okay, three people makes a triangle, and they are rather rarely round.)

Information on other games to follow.