any DUers into RPG games?

[gold_bug]

Not computer games, I mean the old skool pencil & paper RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons.

I used to like D&D when I was a teenager. The reason I'm thinking about it now is because Wil Wheaton has been discussing them in his blog recently ( www.wilwheaton.net ). It's been so long since I played a RPG, I wonder if it would still be fun now that I'm a (supposed) adult.

[kalian]

1. I was big into D&D and GURPS....

:toast:

[Streetdoc270]

2. GURPS Rules!!!!!!!!!!

Im gonna run a game of GURPS for my gaming group! Its gonna be based on Timeline/SG1.

We also play AD&D 3d edition, Marvel Superheros, Mage Knight and Warhammer 40k and fantasy

[DrWeird]

3. Monster Manual and Fiend Folio were my childhood picture books.

My big brother played it when I was seven and/or eight. I've been enraptued ever since. Had "deadly grell", "raging roper", and "fire elemental" toys. They were better than He-man and transformers together.

Didn't play as much as I wanted to. It's hard to find a group of gamers in Holy Roller country. But my first experience in liberalism came when some crazy religious fundies wanted to kick us out of the school library.

[gold_bug]

7. hey that's how I got interested too

My friend's older brother had the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio, when I looked at all the pictures I was fascinated.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

21. me too..

the Githyanki always freaked my shit.

[DrWeird]

22. Ah, but turn two pages...

and there's the Grell, it all it's fricking glory. Best. Monster. Ever.

[opiate69]

4. My wife, brother-in-law and sis-in-law

and I get together once a month to game.. we also have a few online campaigns going... cool stuff...I only wish I had gotten into it back when it first started.

[Az]

5. Old schooler here

Started playing D&D in 79. Have the original Greyhawk and Chainmail manuals. Miss it terribly. But time being what it is I must now be satisfied with Interplay and Bioware's occaisional wonderous products. Squaresoft is another conduit but Baldersgate and its brethren feel closer to my memories.

[Captain Absolut]

6. Hell yeah

D & D 3rd edition, 7th Sea, and Battlelords...hot dork action for me.

[Darranar]

8. Me!

[MrSlayer]

9. Yes, actually. We recently started playing again.

My brother, a friend and I just recently completed a campaign for the first time in years. We still have all the AD&D books, dice and screens and everything. It's been like 18 years since any of us played and being the bored, married people that we are, we figured "what the fuck?" and broke it all out. I find I enjoy the game play a lot better than as a kid because everyone has a more mature perspective. Instead of total "hack and slash" and ask questions later, you actually try to figure out the puzzles and link the events and build the story. Not to say that there isn't a whole lot of insanity and mutilation because there is but the greater goal is a lot more favored than sidetrack nonsense.

[Liberal Classic]

10. I must confess

that I am old enough to have played AD&D in '81, though I really didn't get into until high school.

[Redneck Socialist]

11. I played D&D and Star Frontiers back in the day.

White Wolf has some very cool games out that really stress role playing, character development and story as opposed to the old kill the monster, get the gold, dungeon crawl thing.

[Book Lover]

12. Yep

I used AD&D and Rolemaster; I am currently in a RM game that has been going on for four years... yes, if the GM is good, it is more fun than when we were kids.

[starroute]

13. My son plays them -- there's a lot of new stuff

He likes to tell me about them, because he knows I'm curious but will never have the free time to get involved myself.

He's especially excited about Exalted, which is a D&D type game from White Wolf (Vampire, Werewolf, etc.) -- except that instead of hacking around looking for treasure, you have the powers of a god and the responsibility to do something useful with them. Plus which, you're being hunted by the forces of the Realm, and you're also under a curse (though you don't know that) which periodically makes you go totally nuts. *And* it's set on a flat world with an amazingly complicated cosmology, not to mention a whole range of deities, spirits, supernatural forces, demons, lords of the underworld, representatives of the celestial bureaucracy, and whatnot.

He's also starting to get involved in Nobilis (where all the players represent Platonic ideals, and which I don't understand at all), Unknown Armies (occult horror crossed with urban legend), and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game (whose main objective seems to be making witty quips and striking dramatic poses.) And he's intrigued by a new Conan game, which is apparently dedicated to replicating old-school hard-boiled sword and sorcery, without the Tolkienish accretions.

So there's a lot of variety out there, and much of it makes the D&D of your teenage years look positively simple-minded. If you're curious, you might go to the RPGnet forums and see what people there are talking about. (http://forum.rpg.net/)

[FDRrocks]

14. I'm a fan of Chrono Trigger...

I played Chrono Cross, but it didn't catch the magic.

BEST GAME EVER: Chrono Trigger.

[CandyCrim21]

15. Cyberpunk!!

That was the game that intoruced me into RPGs.
D&D had to grow on me a bit before I liked it. But cyberpunk is my love. But mostly me and my friends create our own gaming systems, while borrowing great features from others. In fact we just played a game based off of David Gemmels(?) books...ie., Druss The Mighty. I've never read them, but the game to a sick twist when of demon conjurers infused childrens souls into a demon. It was great!


:On edit:
Damn, just logged this on my friends account.

Supply Side Jesus.

[HawkerHurricane]

16. Play a lot of them...

Friday night is 'game night', when a group of us get together for DnD, Mechwarrior, Star Wars (1st edition), Champions... or a good group board game like Diplomacy, History of the World, Civilization...

Let me tell you about my 4th level Cleric of Torm...

[Supply Side Jesus]

17. Clerics I can handle, its the paladins I HATE!

ask me about my 6/6 fighter thief elf! Lothor the Greedy, god I loved playing that chaotic good sob!

[HawkerHurricane]

18. Whats the matter with paladins?

First off, the alignment is Lawful Good, not Lawful Stupid.
Second off, Paladins usually follow War Gawds... they should be played like they understand warfare, including ambushes, surprise attacks, guerrilla warfare, etc.

The big problem with Pallys is
a. People who play them like they're in a episode of the old 'Batman' TV series
and
b. GM's who insist that's how they're supposed to be played.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. Yeah, I agree...

But a Paladin hamstrings anything other than a lawful good campaign. Anytime the rouge nicks something, or goes for his sneak attack, the paladin should be up in arms by that, being the paragon of good that he is.

The monk, now there's a character...

I wanna know who plays Neverwinter Nights?

[HawkerHurricane]

23. Hah!

A Pally shouldn't object to a Rogue's sneak attack IF it's being done to further the cause.
And if your Monk is Lawful Good, he should follow the same code of ethics as a Paladin... if the Monk's not up in arms over the Rogue, than the Pally shouldn't be either.

[Supply Side Jesus]

20. bull headed, stubborn, pompus asses...

thats how I've seen them play. Nothin brings a party to a screatching halt than an obnoxious paladin who must have everything done his way. I played one once, and ended up being hunted by a 14th level assasin/thief, a 40 ft iron gollem and having my brother turned into a vampire. I kept doing the right thing and kept getting screwed for it. Though I do love their special abilities.

[HawkerHurricane]

24. Not played properly...

and a vengeful GM, sound's like a bad combo.

I won't play a Pally if the GM thinks they're supposed to be idiots. Or victims.

Properly played, Palidins are Warriors with a Cause... think Crusaders. As long as your opponent is evil, you get to cut loose (that's what the 'detect evil' special ability is for, after all).

[UnAmericanJoe]

26. Agreed

One of my favorite characters was a Human Paladin.
Valar Stronghold. He had a half-orc brother who was kidnapped by his evil Orcish father when they both were children. He adventures trying to find out what had happened to his brother. (Think Fox Mulder searching for his sister - only I thought of it way before the X-Files!)

It helps to play a Paladin as a somewhat tragic figure. A Paladin without a really good reason for being one just doesn't work out real well. If you develop an appropriate back story it also helps the other players understand where the Paladin's strong beliefs come from.

Man, just remembering this stuff makes me want to start up a game again!
Anyone in Seattle want to start a DU game (monthly or every two weeks)??

[UnAmericanJoe]

27. heh. I had a Halfling Rogue named Lothar.

Got the name from an old Saturday Night Live sketch with Mike Meyers.
Lothar of the Hill People.

[neverborn]

25. Oh yeah!

All kinds -- paper&Pen? Sure. D&D and L5R GM -- 2nd ed. D&D only. Screw 3rd :P

Computer? Neverwinter Nights, sure.

MMORPG? EverQuest.

Consoles? You name it...

[JackDragna]

28. Me!

I run a DandD game and play a Shadowrun game. Good, imaginative fun.