Years ago I did a small bit of forum RP stuff (something like 5 years ago), and in the area of about a year and a half ago I think (and upon reflection, I could swear it was only a few months ago if I didn't have a few timestamps to work by) I started playing a game with a few friends which only lasted about three sessions - it had some memorable moments, like (as being an evil-character campaign) my half-orc selling the halfling into slavery to the party leader (and even though the game has long since finished, he will not let me forget it) and my first experiences with meta-gaming from another friend of mine. But, now I have found a more RP-heavy rather than stat-heavy game and it is going quite well.
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I like them. Sadly, my group and I cannot play today as often as we used to when we were younger. Over the years we had LOTS of awsome moments, we even still like to remember some of the more juicy stuff, mostly in form of insider jokes.
We still call one friend Raptor-Xerxes, for succesfully talking back Church officials, making a deal with Heathens, helped bringing down a Insane nobleman who wanted to kill 17 mil people and pillaging the Family tomb of the same Noble House all the while behaving as Xerxes from the movie 300 and being dressed in a Raptor suit. This was in Fading Suns, and he was a 2m tall, muscular Banker/loan-shark with sharped golden teeth. Yes, a Banker. Now imagine the rest of the troup - a alcoholic nobleman/martial artist, a genetically modified Cossack/soldier, a fanatically loyal courtmember/spy and others, just to name a few.
We still call one friend Raptor-Xerxes, for succesfully talking back Church officials, making a deal with Heathens, helped bringing down a Insane nobleman who wanted to kill 17 mil people and pillaging the Family tomb of the same Noble House all the while behaving as Xerxes from the movie 300 and being dressed in a Raptor suit. This was in Fading Suns, and he was a 2m tall, muscular Banker/loan-shark with sharped golden teeth. Yes, a Banker. Now imagine the rest of the troup - a alcoholic nobleman/martial artist, a genetically modified Cossack/soldier, a fanatically loyal courtmember/spy and others, just to name a few.
Been raised on tabletop rpgs and tend to prefer them to videogame versions (more freedom, less androgenous emos with swords that just wouldn't work).
Demon Hunter is my current fave, and I'm not too happy with the current version of d+d.
Demon Hunter is my current fave, and I'm not too happy with the current version of d+d.
I play 3.5 D&D and I've tried Star Wars: SAGE Edition, but I've only ever played online due to a lack of tabletop groups where I live. (Sadly these games never seem to last long due to other people having poor attention spans. 
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Yeh been playing various table top rpgs since i was a little kiddy.. many many years ago.
most clasic moment of recent memory:
ok im a gnome necromancer(zook the deranged), theres a human rogue(lev the bastard), a human fighter(vixen the unstable) and a half ork monk (ront the unlucky)
were in a dungeon.. as you do..
lev spots a secret door, so he opens it and goes inside to take a look. sudenly the door springs shut behind him(the 'door' was a wall rising up from the floor - stone about 3 foot thick) water starts to fill the room that lev is in and he begins to drown.
So.. unaware lev was drowning, after a few minutes of us waiting for lev to 'do his thing' we decide he may need help - i blow the wall apart with a spell (Just as lev was about to disarm the trap - yes he gets caught in the blast). Water gushes past soaking vixen and ront (i was flying as usual) and pushing lev, ront and vixen into some traps we had decided to ignore earlier.
notably upset, lev grabs me and throws me down a hole in this new room - a hole he had had to wrigle down while strugling for breath searching for a trap mechanism to get me to press a button. Of course i take offense at being manhandled and cast an enfeeblement on him leaving him helplessly lying on the floor. I crawl down the hole and press the button.
the button opens the secret door on the otherside of this room. Seeing this new doorway ront and vixen imediately run to 'secure the entrance'. The button ALSO triggers the water flow again pumping sewer water onto lev's face which he cant avoid due to being so week.
Of course heres the critical point.. Im a gnome.. its a button.
5 more presses.
I yell back up the hole.. DISAPOINTED VOICE:"it doesnt do anything".
mean while lev is getting soaked and vixen and ront are getting repeatedly slammed into the roof by a rising and falling 3 foot block of stone.. The party was NOT amused, i nearly wet my self laughing ;-)
Its stories like this that i do real role play for - mmos, and games like neverwinter are good but its a different kind of experience.
most clasic moment of recent memory:
ok im a gnome necromancer(zook the deranged), theres a human rogue(lev the bastard), a human fighter(vixen the unstable) and a half ork monk (ront the unlucky)
were in a dungeon.. as you do..
lev spots a secret door, so he opens it and goes inside to take a look. sudenly the door springs shut behind him(the 'door' was a wall rising up from the floor - stone about 3 foot thick) water starts to fill the room that lev is in and he begins to drown.
So.. unaware lev was drowning, after a few minutes of us waiting for lev to 'do his thing' we decide he may need help - i blow the wall apart with a spell (Just as lev was about to disarm the trap - yes he gets caught in the blast). Water gushes past soaking vixen and ront (i was flying as usual) and pushing lev, ront and vixen into some traps we had decided to ignore earlier.
notably upset, lev grabs me and throws me down a hole in this new room - a hole he had had to wrigle down while strugling for breath searching for a trap mechanism to get me to press a button. Of course i take offense at being manhandled and cast an enfeeblement on him leaving him helplessly lying on the floor. I crawl down the hole and press the button.
the button opens the secret door on the otherside of this room. Seeing this new doorway ront and vixen imediately run to 'secure the entrance'. The button ALSO triggers the water flow again pumping sewer water onto lev's face which he cant avoid due to being so week.
Of course heres the critical point.. Im a gnome.. its a button.
5 more presses.
I yell back up the hole.. DISAPOINTED VOICE:"it doesnt do anything".
mean while lev is getting soaked and vixen and ront are getting repeatedly slammed into the roof by a rising and falling 3 foot block of stone.. The party was NOT amused, i nearly wet my self laughing ;-)
Its stories like this that i do real role play for - mmos, and games like neverwinter are good but its a different kind of experience.
I never got to play one. I actually have the 4th Edition set of D&D but turns out nobody other than my strangest friends were willing to give it a go- and after I found out how bloody expensive the hobby was, I pretty much gave it up.
Shame, as nerdy as it looks I can't see it being much different than playing a less electronic Oblivion.
Shame, as nerdy as it looks I can't see it being much different than playing a less electronic Oblivion.
I've got an entire bookshelf devoted purely to my Pen and Paper/Table Top gaming books. Currently I'm working with/on...
1) An "out of the book" Campaign using the Pathfinder RPG (Paizo's rebalance of the 3.5 PHB using the open license system, commonly referred to as 3.75).
2) A post apocalyptic western using a kitbashed version of Star Wars SAGA Edition.
3) A political fantasy game using Burning Wheel
4) A Retro-Futuristic Gangster Story using Savage Worlds
I'm also eagerly awaiting my copy of the Rogue Trader RPG that I ordered from Amazon, it should be arriving today.
1) An "out of the book" Campaign using the Pathfinder RPG (Paizo's rebalance of the 3.5 PHB using the open license system, commonly referred to as 3.75).
2) A post apocalyptic western using a kitbashed version of Star Wars SAGA Edition.
3) A political fantasy game using Burning Wheel
4) A Retro-Futuristic Gangster Story using Savage Worlds
I'm also eagerly awaiting my copy of the Rogue Trader RPG that I ordered from Amazon, it should be arriving today.
That's amazing. I love it when you kill things that you should not be able to kill, and the DM just has a blank look on his face, 'cause you just threw off parts of his story. Good times.Actual said:
I remember one time when our characters' alignments were changed from some object, and we were evil. We were on a boat going to meet with some demon lord, and we decided to kill one of the passengers on the boat, who turned out to be some high level demon in disguise. So, he's about to wail on our asses, 'cause he ws like ten levels higher than us, or something. Anyway, I, as my halfling/goblin/dragon kin (long story), snuck behind him,and made a sneak attack using my garrote. This garrote was vorpal, and I had to skill that changed it's crit to 15-20. So, I rolled a crit, lopped of the demons head, and sent everyone into fits of laughter while the DM just looked at us. He couldn't believe it. He got us back later though. We were fighting a demon lord and my garrote was useless, as he was immune to critical hit effects. Bastard.
No, he is correct. His use of Valvetard is interesting but he's pretty much right on the money with you.Abedeus said:
I know what Gary's Mod is but only because a friend of mine is in the Half Life mod community, or whatever they call it. Otherwise I'd have no idea nor would I care in the slightest.
Dnd was my first, and I still play it fairly actively (mostly as a DM, which I'm not remarkably fond of. I think my stories are okay, but I can't act or improvise fast enough. And my players are luck incarnate combined with decent tactics that makes them easily capable of anniliating threats 5 levels higher than them without so much as a round going by...).
Then came Exalted. Oh boy, do I love Exalted. The setting is wonderful, it's based more on story than on nitpicky rules but still has enough of them to satisfy the budding ruleslawyer in my head. Your characters kick ass from the get-go, you've got the potential to face anything from an army of people with less potent but MUCH more common superpowers than you (unless you want to play one of them, which is perfectly cool and edges away from the powergaming that Exalted is somewhat justifiably known for) to a 1500 year old ghost infused with the powers of a being that came before gods and would very much like to kill everything forever, disolving everything into absolute nothingness (himself included). Or go one step higher and fight the ur-god that's powering him (not a smart idea, but Exalted is all about being a hero, so even in the likely event of even your demigod dying very quickly, it's likely to be awesome). The fact that ressurection is a no-no, unlike most other RPGs makes character death and its potentiality a significant point.
I'm also raring to start a World of Darkness game (crossover, since the races in the World of Darkness games are actually designed to be allowed to do that). I'm extremely attached to Mage. The amount of power and flexibility they have is fantastic. Unlike everyone else that's supernatural in the World of Darkness though, they have a considerably easier time dying (there are defensive spells, but everyone else has potent passives AND protection abilites, the power to come back from the dead or the like).
But yeah, I love my RPGs.
Then came Exalted. Oh boy, do I love Exalted. The setting is wonderful, it's based more on story than on nitpicky rules but still has enough of them to satisfy the budding ruleslawyer in my head. Your characters kick ass from the get-go, you've got the potential to face anything from an army of people with less potent but MUCH more common superpowers than you (unless you want to play one of them, which is perfectly cool and edges away from the powergaming that Exalted is somewhat justifiably known for) to a 1500 year old ghost infused with the powers of a being that came before gods and would very much like to kill everything forever, disolving everything into absolute nothingness (himself included). Or go one step higher and fight the ur-god that's powering him (not a smart idea, but Exalted is all about being a hero, so even in the likely event of even your demigod dying very quickly, it's likely to be awesome). The fact that ressurection is a no-no, unlike most other RPGs makes character death and its potentiality a significant point.
I'm also raring to start a World of Darkness game (crossover, since the races in the World of Darkness games are actually designed to be allowed to do that). I'm extremely attached to Mage. The amount of power and flexibility they have is fantastic. Unlike everyone else that's supernatural in the World of Darkness though, they have a considerably easier time dying (there are defensive spells, but everyone else has potent passives AND protection abilites, the power to come back from the dead or the like).
But yeah, I love my RPGs.
I've been playing D&D for about twenty years, and I've been DMing an active game regularly since 2001. We just had a day long session on Sunday after Halloween. I'm running a 'criminal underworld' themed campaign right now where the players are running a thieve's guild in a major city. I also play in a fourth edition campaign my friend is running, but the more we play the more I despise 4E.
Also, tapletop gaming is a very cheap hobby when you look at it. Videogames are much more expensive, other tapletop miniatures games are more expensive (Warhammer 40k for instance), and any other 'collecting'-based hobby is vastly more money and time consuming than D&D.
Also, tapletop gaming is a very cheap hobby when you look at it. Videogames are much more expensive, other tapletop miniatures games are more expensive (Warhammer 40k for instance), and any other 'collecting'-based hobby is vastly more money and time consuming than D&D.
I adore tabletop gaming. Role-playing in particular is a favorite of mine, and I've played quite a few. World of Darkness and D&D are the two big ones. I'm a huge fan of Mage. My experience with the new World of Darkness is somewhat limited, but from what I've seen, the game is more balanced and the stories more open-ended. As for D&D, I ran 4th edition demos at GameX, but I understand the people who would rather play 3.5/Pathfinder.
Working on that very subject for today's blog post, in fact.
Also working on a sci-fi RPG based on some short stories I've written. It's a work in progress, and I hope to have a concise description by the time I'm done. For now I think of it as a mix of Firefly & the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
Working on that very subject for today's blog post, in fact.
Also working on a sci-fi RPG based on some short stories I've written. It's a work in progress, and I hope to have a concise description by the time I'm done. For now I think of it as a mix of Firefly & the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
My middle school had a Gaming with Minitures club basically we hung out in the art room after school and the principal who was a big war games fan supervised though he never interacted at all he just sat in the back. Most people there played Warhammer 40K the tabletop strategy game I tried to get into it but it was so damn expensive not to mention I was about 11 at the time. Eventually me and my friend got bored of playing and started bugging the D and D players who had to meet in the same room as us its really fun messing with somebody while they're trying to RP.
