Poll: TableTop RPG's: The Best Thing You Aren't Doing

[Sprizmo]

People with serviceable imaginations and a vocabulary don't realize it, but they are likely candidates for forming an addiction to RPG's. I'm not talking the falsely labeled video game RPG's (which ultimately limits your submersion into an actual character role) but dynamic fare the likes of D&D and Shadowrun. These games are hard for people to access, but if the opportunity presents itself and they take the dive, its even more difficult to stop. The main troubling factor that keeps it from achieving the popularity it deserves is this hard core geek stigma that hipster-geek hybrids avoid in fear of reprisal or mockery. Also, the quality of experiences differ depending on how literal minded and balanced the GM (GameMaster)is. Largely, its a misunderstood gaming medium and has been for the 16 years I've been doing it on and off.

I wanted to ask people in this forum 3 questions (for research relevant to a project I'm working on.)

1. Do you or have you in the past played tabletop RPG's?
2. If you haven't would you be willing to try?
3. What can be done to weaken the stigma and attract newbies?

 

[Marmooset]

I don't think it's so much a stigma thing as a convenience one.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

1. No
2. Yes deffinately, but nobody around me does(I live in a small town) and I lack the means to travel the nearest city regularily(35-40 minute drive).
3. Well less demonizing in the media would be nice.

Hope that was helpful

 

[SideWaysThinker]

To be honest, I would love to get into table top RPGs, and I hope to do so when I go to college next month, but it is very difficult (where I live anyway) to A. Find the stuff you need to play a table top RPG and B. To find any bastards who will actually play the damn stuff with me.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. Make them more fun?
And Shadowrun was an RPG?

 

[Phlakes]

1. No
2. Dear god yes. It's too bad I don't personally know a single person that does, otherwise I probably would have already.
3. I don't really think there's a stigma. People just don't do it anymore because they can do it on a computer at their own convenience (although I'm sure most tabletop RPGs are more fun).

 

[Sprizmo]

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. Make them more fun?
And Shadowrun was an RPG?

Yeah its actually my favorite RPG and it came out in the 80's. Uses a percentage based dice roll system and gets complicated because it combines magic and technology. I also recommend the FASA game Earthdawn, which has been relatively popular in Europe since its release.

 

[Sprizmo]

Bump?