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Who plays RPGs?

Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
edited October 2012 in Off Topic
I'm not sure if this quite qualifies as Art, but you might argue it's Fiction. I'm posting it here for lack of a more appropriate place at the moment.

So I got to thinking...who in this community actually plays table top RPGs? I know not everybody has an active group all the time. Mine's been scattered to the four winds by life's obligations, but I still consider myself a player since that's what I WOULD be doing if circumstances were more favorable.

What about the rest of you? What games do you play?

A part of me thinks it would be hi-larious if we started a campaign up from this community. Might be fun to play the Neverwinter setting in anticipation of this game.

Thoughts? Concerns? I'm just throwing out an idea I had and seeing what sticks to the wall. At the very least the discussion should be fun.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited March 2012
    I have a world all shiny and ready to go. Well, pretty much. Of course, getting my guys together to run it can be problematic. Which is to say, very few times did I get together in the same place all the people who committed to play. A second try was even shorter, that time we managed to run only twice! Never even tried to find where the goblins were getting their funding, or what that item was they took with them . . .

    Of course, I played a couple campaigns before trying my hand at DMing. And though we're unlikely to ever run again, I keep adding bits and pieces to my world. Like an OCD checking the kitchen lights and the window locks, I'll never be able to stop myself, and I'm not sure why I'd try because it's fun to see the eastern continent take full shape, with cultures and monuments and trade prices shaking themselves down slowly over time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Ah, world building. I've spent countless hours of my life doing that for games I'll never DM. It's quite addicting.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Due to logistics I do play it online as a virtual tabletop, but that counts as we all gather once a week to play with a DM and players.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Aavarius wrote: »
    Ah, world building. I've spent countless hours of my life doing that for games I'll never DM. It's quite addicting.

    This reminds me of the time when I made with 9 sheets of paper, even if I would have never used it due the lack of people to play with, a huge map: it had many details and I also had drawn lots of cities, even one which was a magocracy after reading the DM guide or Complete Arcane of the 3.5 ed. Well after many days of dreaming of possible adventures that could have happened in those lands, one night I accidentally left it on the table... The next morning it was gone. And still laugh about it occasionally cuz still haven't learnt my lesson of not leaving things lying around the house :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    the-truthseeker wrote:
    Due to logistics I do play it online as a virtual tabletop, but that counts as we all gather once a week to play with a DM and players.

    I don't know of any reason why that doesn't count. I do it!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    I still play FR with the second edition rules. My friends and I grew up playing DnD, had original red box set for 12th birthday. 42 now and we still play FR, Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Dark Sun from time to time. Although the events are growing farther and farther apart as the years go on. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    cyguard1 wrote:
    I still play FR with the second edition rules. My friends and I grew up playing DnD, had original red box set for 12th birthday. 42 now and we still play FR, Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Dark Sun from time to time. Although the events are growing farther and farther apart as the years go on. :)

    I hear ya brother. I also never had the honor of playing (the 2nd edition) Planescape; my one big regret of D&D.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Dailo8934 wrote:
    Well after many days of dreaming of possible adventures that could have happened in those lands, one night I accidentally left it on the table... The next morning it was gone. And still laugh about it occasionally cuz still haven't learnt my lesson of not leaving things lying around the house :D

    And still to this very day, if you roll the 3d6 just so, the legendary Wandering RPG can still be heard in the distance.

    Saving its throws . . .

    looting its tables . . .

    and there are those who swear that, if you roll 100 on percentage at midnight of the winter solstice, and you find your snacks missing, you might have just been the victim of the Wandering RPG.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    I'm in a group that's played every Friday night (with occasional nights when a DM had a conflict) since 1983 or so. We've played all four extant versions of AD&D and D&D, and keep running 1st Ed (with some of 2nd and 3rd houseruled in) as the standard. We rotate the DM slot around so the DMs get to be players, too, so we're juggling three campaigns. Our players have shifted over the years (of course), and the current group ranges from almost 27 yrs old to just over 60.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    SteeleButterfly wrote: »
    I'm in a group that's played every Friday night (with occasional nights when a DM had a conflict) since 1983 or so.
    That. Is. Awesome! I'm eternally jealous of people like you. I've always want to be able to play that consistently.

    I'm going to go into the corner and sulk, now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    I used to play PnP RPGs D&D and M&M. I like both the universes.I wanted to play warhammer (40K) but couldn't get a group to play that. My PnP group got disbanded, so for many years there was a desert with oasis of single player games.

    I filled the void with retro games at that time, as most good computer games with graphics were FPS. Then I started to question... what is RPG? Is it just a game with a good story?

    After a long heretical journey I realized that RPG truly means rolling the dice. *sigh* there was a time when I thought Rune - a viking sword game could be regarded as RPG (such heretical thoughts!). DDO made me realize that the RPG lies in dice, whether electronic or physical.

    Long live the Dice! (oops I rolled 1)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    gillrmn wrote:
    I used to play PnP RPGs D&D and M&M. I like both the universes.I wanted to play warhammer (40K) but couldn't get a group to play that. My PnP group got disbanded, so for many years there was a desert with oasis of single player games.

    I filled the void with retro games at that time, as most good computer games with graphics were FPS. Then I started to question... what is RPG? Is it just a game with a good story?

    After a long heretical journey I realized that RPG truly means rolling the dice. *sigh* there was a time when I thought Rune - a viking sword game could be regarded as RPG (such heretical thoughts!). DDO made me realize that the RPG lies in dice, whether electronic or physical.

    Long live the Dice! (oops I rolled 1)

    Methinks yon player doth confus-ed the terms ROLL with ROLE. What's in a name? Perhaps the entirety of history of said character, perhaps not. But one doth not gain a name from a roll of dice polyhedron!


    One gets thine meaning from what one contributes. If one enjoys the random roll of the dice, then state-ith so. But heed not a character acted by claimith from generated statistics I implore thee!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    the-truthseeker wrote:
    Methinks yon player doth confus-ed the terms ROLL with ROLE. What's in a name? Perhaps the entirety of history of said character, perhaps not. But one doth not gain a name from a roll of dice polyhedron!


    One gets thine meaning from what one contributes. If one enjoys the random roll of the dice, then state-ith so. But heed not a character acted by claimith from generated statistics I implore thee!

    All hail the dice for dice is my deity! It smites all the heretics and non-believers with the eternal blessing of the 1.
    While heretics are doomed believing in chosen one, we have the chosen 20!
    *starts the daily prayer*
    I pray to thee mighty dice, destroy the world!
    *rolls 1*

    [And so the hero saves the world at 0 level]

    EDIT: The dice giweth and the dice taketh away...

    EDIT 2: dice says, "et tu brutus?"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Or as another man put it, "life's hard, get a Cleric."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Also an active PnP gamer for almost 12 years. ^^
    I'm through a lot of systems, but got stucked luckily at D&D, aspecially in the FR setting, re-starting with 4e.

    I love the idea about a community based campaign or at least a little storytelling of our own. ;)
    That's what guilds/The Foundry are meant for, right?
    ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    I play Tunnels & Trolls (Ken St. Andre's version of D&D) with my son and Before the Gates of Troy solo.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 5,050,278 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2012
    Nebless wrote: »
    I play Tunnels & Trolls (Ken St. Andre's version of D&D) with my son and Before the Gates of Troy solo.

    Thanks for the nostalgic flashbacks there!
  • valkhadvalkhad Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    I'd be down -- we'd need to have a way of tracking character progression that could be accessed online (d&di accounts exported to pdf and kept as a google doc?) and a diceroll mechanic. Also, a specified time to post. Combat would be... frustrating to say the least... if people drop in and out. We'd also need a virtual tabletop.
  • devoteoftempusdevoteoftempus Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 473 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2012
    These people play PRGs.
  • iamtruthseekeriamtruthseeker Member, Moonstars, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    devoteoftempus wrote: »
    These people play PRGs.

    As do we here.
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  • gillrmngillrmn Member Posts: 7,800 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    iamtruthseeker wrote: »
    As do we here.

    Nah! Not PRG, we play RPG. What is RPG? Just put RPG on google, and click blindly:
    Rocket-propelled grenade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade
    A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired, anti-tank weapon system which fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.

    Huh? Really? Thats RPG?
  • anieanie22anieanie22 Member Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    waaaa i want to join you guys..... but i am so busy at my studies this day... i have played DnD on pens and papers for almost 10 years but me and my friend dont have any other players and DM anymore so we have to stop... i miss playing DnD T_T
  • remedialhappymanremedialhappyman Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I am currently running a Pathfinder campaign in a homebrew setting.
  • remedialhappymanremedialhappyman Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    anieanie22 wrote: »
    waaaa i want to join you guys..... but i am so busy at my studies this day... i have played DnD on pens and papers for almost 10 years but me and my friend dont have any other players and DM anymore so we have to stop... i miss playing DnD T_T

    You should try DMing, it's really not as hard as it looks and their is never enough DM's.
  • deathssickledeathssickle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I started DMing a campaign with my brother and a friend but after they found out they accidently stole a dragons egg and the dragon is from another plane of existence and and have a statue that turns into a mermaid when wet and then a person if mermaid is removed from water and back into a statue if hit by magic + the fact they cant get rid of it, they havnt played since
    I am usually Deaths Crowbar.


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  • gillrmngillrmn Member Posts: 7,800 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    deathssickle wrote: »
    I started DMing a campaign with my brother and a friend but after they found out they accidently stole a dragons egg and the dragon is from another plane of existence and and have a statue that turns into a mermaid when wet and then a person if mermaid is removed from water and back into a statue if hit by magic + the fact they cant get rid of it, they havnt played since

    banish the egg, disintegrate the statute and then sell it as "exotic sea delicacy" soup powder.
    After that sold the secret to adventurer's guild that if hit by magic, soup turns to sand - and sell the secret at a very very high price. Who knows they will name an interrogation or assassination technique after you....
  • deathssickledeathssickle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    gillrmn wrote: »
    banish the egg, disintegrate the statute and then sell it as "exotic sea delicacy" soup powder.
    After that sold the secret to adventurer's guild that if hit by magic, soup turns to sand - and sell the secret at a very very high price. Who knows they will name an interrogation or assassination technique after you....

    yes well I forgot to mention that how they got these was being sent on a quest for a Planar Gem by a being from another plane that is the enemy of the dragon(they did not know any of this until they gave him the gem(they just thought it was a big diamond), so he decided to give them an amulet that allows them to raise dragons like pets and they(the ones you raised from a hatchling) will obey you as long as you have the amulet one. Also they tried destroying the statue with a few spells and some eyebrows got singed when the spells bounced off of it.
    I am usually Deaths Crowbar.


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  • gillrmngillrmn Member Posts: 7,800 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    deathssickle wrote: »
    yes well I forgot to mention that how they got these was being sent on a quest for a Planar Gem by a being from another plane that is the enemy of the dragon(they did not know any of this until they gave him the gem(they just thought it was a big diamond), so he decided to give them an amulet that allows them to raise dragons like pets and they(the ones you raised from a hatchling) will obey you as long as you have the amulet one. Also they tried destroying the statue with a few spells and some eyebrows got singed when the spells bounced off of it.

    As for the dragons, I think it is the DMs duty to distribute "How to Raise a Dragon... for dummies" book.

    ----
    Are you sure it is a mermaid? To me it seems something more snister.

    Anyways, if spells won't do, this will do the trick.
  • deathssickledeathssickle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Well considering I am the DM yes it may be something more sinister. The egg hasnt hatched yet so no worries yet and I am thinking of including the statue in future quests
    I am usually Deaths Crowbar.


    Anyone still searching for guilds you can check out HCG Hardcore Christian Gamers.
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  • jadescimitarjadescimitar Member Posts: 716 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I play RPGs!

    Intros part 1 and 2 finally completed and uploaded... b:victory
    iamtruthseeker wrote: »
    As do we here.
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