Then old school RPGing is not for you, or you're not for it, or something.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
For me, it's all about the social aspect. Getting together with friends, face-to-face, with some (OMG!!11!11) beer, soda, and snacks, hanging out, and shootin' the shit is always just as fun than the actual gaming part.
Well, I've not ruled them out yet, because it's obviously a different experience. Doing tabletop gaming it with friends whose company I enjoy and whose creativity I appreciate sounds like it could be appealing. Just sayin' I don't run around FF8 and think to myself "this game would be so much better if Seifer was played by Sven."
Actually, Seifer being played by Sven would be kind of awesome. But my point stands.
Oh totally - two different beasts that scratch two different itches!
I've played an e-mail/message board based RPG for Star Wars. One campaign lasted for several years, with leaps in decades with the same characters (if they lived). It was pretty fascinating. The GM later wrote a book about it all, but couldn't get it published because it was Star Wars.
That sounds awesome - how fun.
I'm hoping our new campaign lasts for a very long time.
I've always wanted to create something like that again. We used the D6 system, so the GM would just roll our actions. It was played narratively. So we'd write what our action would be, along with any dialog, thoughts, etc. He would write the results.
He'd done this many a times before, as we started out with something like twenty players, and we all connected to each other at one point or another. Me and one guy broke out of a prison, only to be caught again, and put in with others at a Colosseum like battle royale. When we managed to live, there was tons of character interaction, with a Wire-esque investigation on a crime syndicate. LOVED that.
My character even had an appropriate death. Twenty years later, still hurt from whatever happened in that battle royale, I tried to be a thief again, only to be caught redhanded, and shot dead. Just the way the rolls went, as my GM had many other intentions for my character. Sad though. And quite the shock for me. WHA???
Haven't played D&D since high school on account of no longer having entire weekends to kill trying to crawl a dungeon, but when I was in high school, I was pretty hard core.
My friend & I had a single ongoing campaign in the Forgotten Realms that lasted... well, we probably started it in junior high, played it all through highschool and even for a little while into college. We got our guys into the middle teens, and had some pretty awesome adventures getting them there, including doing the Queen of Spiders D&D modules which culminated in us going up against Orcus. That was pretty awesome.
Man, those were the days... getting up at whenever, laying out our stuff, playing D&D until 1-2 in the morning, crashing, waking up and doing the same thing over again....
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
I'm a huge D&D geek.
I play in two home campaigns at the moment (one 4e and one v3.5). I also play the Living Forgotten Realms stuff with local friends, though thats just an excuse to get together and game now and then.
I helped run WotC's big 3.5 campaign, Living Greyhawk. It was awesome creating characters for storylines, mapping out plots and setting them in motion. I felt like I was on a TV show's writing team, sometimes, and that was fantastic.
11 adventures float out there with my name on it - they aren't commercial, so you can't buy them - but its nice to have my name on something I'm very proud of. One day, I hope to convert all those adventures to 4e.
The one thing I like about 4e is how easy it is to create and adapt content. I've created a handful of races and a few paragon paths...in 3.5, that'd have been hell.
That sounds awesome Fezzik.
I've never DM'ed D&D before. I always ran Palladium games (TMNT, Ninjas and Super Spies, Robotech, and Heroes and Villains).
I've played D&D, but only 2ed.
I'm looking forward to running 4ed. You like it, eh? I think it sounds pretty awesome.
We're starting out using the pre-generated characters and rules from the Test Drive adventure, and I'm going to run the little adventure at the end of the DMG.
Our campaign will mainly consist of me running pre-packaged modules, highly modified of course. I just don't have the time anymore to create adventures from the ground up.
I used to play Marvel's card game called "Overpower".
And then I also played the DC/Marvel crossover card game called "VS."
I still have all my decks tucked away under my bed.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Not only have I DMed D&D, I've created my own campaign.
I consider myself pretty much a prince among nerds. Settlers of Catan, Magic the Gathering, AD&D... I've been around a bit, games-wise.
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
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