Role Players Sound-off!
<div class="IPBDescription">Not video games</div> I'm just curieous how many people are here are into Role Playing games? By this I don't mean like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. I'm talking about:
Dungeons & Dragons
Shadowruun
White Wolf
Vampire the Masquerade
DC Heros
Star Wars
I play D&D (AD&D and 3rd ed., not 3.5) and Star Wars; including a MODed version of the Star Wars d6 system that's adapted to the Gundam anime.
Dungeons & Dragons
Shadowruun
White Wolf
Vampire the Masquerade
DC Heros
Star Wars
I play D&D (AD&D and 3rd ed., not 3.5) and Star Wars; including a MODed version of the Star Wars d6 system that's adapted to the Gundam anime.
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I GM a game of Werewolf when schedules fit, averaging each fortnight.
I play paranoia once in a while, usually online through <a href='http://www.paranoia-live.net' target='_blank'>paranoia live</a>
And then I'm the starter of, and one of the main admins of, <a href='http://s6.invisionfree.com/Xect' target='_blank'>The Old Space Cantina.</a>
So well, you could say I'm into roleplaying games.
One of the main GM's and myself have put up a webpage for gaming in our local area, and generaly our state (Illinois). You can check out some of the games we've run on the site as well: <a href='http://www.ilrpg.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.ilrpg.com/</a>
In fact, heres a link to the most recent character I played in D&D: <a href='http://www.ilrpg.com/prisoner/akaiel.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ilrpg.com/prisoner/akaiel.html</a>
(featuring custom art of my character that I had a friend of mine do)
You can check out all the details on that perticular game here: <a href='http://www.ilrpg.com/prisoner/' target='_blank'>http://www.ilrpg.com/prisoner/</a>
My fave character was my Deepwood Sniper who name was Charlie "2 Legit To Quit" Suarez
My friend would go around town yelling charlie in the tree.
Other than that I've played:
D&D
Advanced D&D (AKA 2nd edition)
D&D 3rd Edition
Chron X
Vampire: The Masquerade
MMORPG's are video games... which this is not about.
This is about table-top, pen-and-paper RPGs.
Yeh I know MTG aint RPG but its fun nonetheless
I'm getting pretty tired of D&D. There's far too many silly rules and stats and stuff, even with the new edition. I've been working on my own homebrew system and checking other stuff out; it's nice to escape from the tyranny of D20 from time to time <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Same.
Unfortunately, everywhere I go, RP is non existant, and I'm a cheap bastard, so I kinda quit.
what HAVN'T I played.
/me looks over at some of the books on my floor:
PHB (3.0)
Changeling (only WoD game I will play)
Exalted (I said WoD, not WW, I will play many other WW games, just not WoD <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Kithbook: Redcaps (source book for Changling)
Savage Cost (modual for AD&D)
Everlasting: Undead
I own a few other books, though I don't know where they are atm, included are:
All of the 2.0 LARP books for WoD (I ussed to play, I can't stand most poeple who play tem anymore, I got outa my angst phase)
ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN!!! One of the best games out there, survival horror done RIGHT!
I also have the expansion for it called Enter The Zombie (from old kungfu movies to HKBO Done survival horror style)
List of games that I have played off the top of my head:
AD&D
D&D 3.0
All White Wolf games (all WoD, Exalted, Aberant, Trinity, just not Adventure)
All Flesh (and by expansion a few other games that use the same system)
Everlasting (a VERY good system, similar to WW's just much better)
Shadowrun 2nd ed
Shadowrun 3rd ed (this is one of my personal favs)
I know some about Cthulu
I know Tri Stat (BESM, Silver Age Sentilels)
The Fudge System
GURPS
In Nomine (by SJ Games)
And alot of other random stuff.
I AM A GEEK
If there are any gaming groups in the NYC area (preferably queens, though I can get around) that need/can take a player I would be greatly apreciative of a PM
and if any one wants to know about some of the random systems I listed I will be happy to talk <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Eventually we got bored, and substituted the little statues with action figures. We proceeded to bash the hell out them, and randomly assign victory and defeat. The story went along the lines of: That godless **** Barbie sacrificed my dearest friend, the Red Power Ranger to some dark god or another. Luckily, Optimus Prime and the Transformers showed up, so I (GI Joe) and the Transformers proceeded to lay some serious smackdown on Barbie and her heathen servants.
We also threw dice at each other. In retrospect, I can safely say it didn't work out all that well.
A friend of mine and I used to do "adventures", which was evolved from the concept of a choose-your-own-adventure book, except oral, and therefore not limited. More of a single-player adventure game with the other person coming up with the puzzles. Good fun <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Not many people play where I live, but you can easily adapt almost any game to play over IRC. I run D&D games all the time and play Exalted (seriously, if you enjoy epic characters/storylines and battles like in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Hero, check out Exalted). Sometimes other games, though those are more rare in my little RP circle. The most bizarre thing I've played is a Feng Shui-based "sequel" to Final Fantasy 8 (I'm aware a lot of people dislike FF8, let's keep this on-topic). Still ongoing, and terrific fun.
The system is a lil complex at times but it makes for interesting fights... once I DMed it for a bunch of friends and during the adventure a T-Rex came after them. They all turned and let rip with everything they had except one of them who fumbled his gun and dropped it in the long grass. While they all unloaded madly, the T-Rex's health barely budging as it closed the distance, the friend scrabbled around trying to find his lost weapon.
The Rex finally reached them and roared; it's jaws coming down on them for it's first and lethal bite but then fate took a turn for the weird. Just before the king of carnivores could actually sink it's teeth into our clumsy companion found his rifle!
Wasting not a moment he grabbed it, pointed and fired...
The dice rolled...
hit...
headshot...
critical...
Instant Kill...
o.O
Oh how my lil adventurers cheered. Oh well, they might've pulled off the luckiest un-planned escape I've ever seen in my DMing days but it made for a memorable game ^^
...none around here that I know of. There was a group of 4 people last year but I didn't know about them except for seeing them in the middle of a game once. They were playing a LotR version.
Pfffft.
<span style='color:orange'>UltimaGecko wants to shoot some dinosaurs...or be the dinosaurs...or get killed by dinosaurs...or trolls...whatever.</span>
I don't do it with them anymore but I did find a local RP club (there's several as I'm slowly learning; might try the others sometime) and I hit that each week for some RP and stuff.
Only downside is that everyone's currently DMing stupid D&D games... I'm tempted to show the group how to really DM as well as the one friend of mine who still does RPG keeps saying that the adventures in the group pale in comparison to the games I used to run and scarily I think he's right =/
~dusts off DM paper hat~
<b>Gecko edit:</b> DMing's pretty easy ^^
You just need to be able to draw pretty pictures in your player's minds and have a decent grasp of whatever rules you're playing with.
Writing helps your DM skills a <b>lot</b>.
For an example here's kinda what the DMs we have in the group are like (what I consider inadequete GMing) and then an example of what I'd usually do in the same situation =P
<b>bad example</b>
"You come across a village that's been burnt down by a dragon"
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<b>my example</b>
"As your party hikes over the crest of the hill a chilling sight comes into view. A small village stands just at the bottom but things are far from well; many of the huts have been reduced to cinders and those that are still standing are blackened and burnt. The air is thick with the scent of now-cold ashes and peering down you can make out a couple of wagons being pulled around collecting the scorched corpses of the dead.
Around the village are tell-tale signs of a beast's work; large clawed footprints have been torn into the ground and some of the destruction looks like it might have been caused by the powerful torrents of air from a huge set of beating wings."
It's not great but then again when you're DMing you have to do some stuff off the top of your head =3
The problem with the first is that it leads to a lot of questions, doesn't set the mood and generally causes confusion. I know from experience XD
The second example shows without telling giving it a bit of mystery. It also lets the characters know where they are in relation to the village (as apposed to mistakenly thinking they're already in it) and even gives them proper imagery to know the extent of the villages destroyed state =D
Giving decent descriptions of the environment is half the battle.
When doing characters it's important to give them memorable little habits and whatnot that make them a bit more individual. I sorta 'play-act' taking on voices and even doing their lil twitches or habits as I talk as them to enhance the experience. The players love it and it helps make things more immersive =3
Anyways... just a few tips.
hmmm, see one of my large problems is that I am VERY uncreative (thus creating a craptastic GM) so I can't drag my friends into it
/me contemplates researchign a spell of Summon Gem
I need some gaming lovin, hehe
Or atleast some people to play munchkin with every so often.
hehe, and Renegade named the one other WoD Game I actualy like. Albeit that is only if you officaly declare it is NOT in the WoD, other wise it interacts with the other games even worse then normal <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It's just down to practice Than... just about anyone tends to be pretty poop at DMing the first few times. The more you do it the more creative and comfortable you'll get with it and you just sorta ease into it all ^^
You should check if any of the local universities/colleges run any kind of RP clubs; worth a look at least.
the closest college requires me to take one bus from start to finish, and then transfer and repeate <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
but yah, I should probably check em out (specialy as my parents work there.....)
Oh, and gem, wait untill you have played all of munchkin mixed together (severly fun). I love Munchkin-Fu also, however it has the problem that it is much more just 'oh, look I get the right cards, I win' as it has very few screw over cards (ones that alow you to buff monsters and such <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Also in Unatural Ax (latest Munchkin expansion) there are alot of cards by famous webcomic artists (including a perfectly ordinary rabbit, Redneck Trees, and Phill Foglios glasses <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)