RPG Groups?

zekiel

Just a thought!
A couple of years ago, myself and many friends a had a large RPG Club in the Clondalkin area which consisted of about 25 peeps.

Is there any RPG groups still going in and around the Dublin area and what games are you playing?

We used to play all mannor of RPG's. ie.. WFRP, MERP, Cthulhu, Vampire..
RPG's only, im not interested in Wargame groups.

:ninja:

Nevyn

My group is currently loooking for members.

We play in our house ( spookys house )
on sunday evenings.

and we play all the above


will pm you

Thaed

hedgetrimmer

Dublin Games Guild in the Teachers Club parnell sq every Wed has some rpg

3rd place run a games club every sat in Cafe Kuba, Temple Bar

Every Tuesday night in the exchequer bar organised by Jim Lucas

EdBanger

don't forget Cammarilla Ireland,
The official White Wolf Fan club and international World of Darkness LARP

Dublin at the moment has 4 Venues for this: Vampire (Cam/Anarch), WearWolf,Changeling and Vampire (Sabbat)

PM me if your interested in a Looooonnnnnnggggg term Larp
(I'm still playing my Frist Character that I made 4 years ago and I'm a Neebie compared to some of the Uk/USA players)

zekiel

Thanks Thaed,

I will be interested in playing soon enough, but with my new Job my sundays are fairly limited timewise.
I am dying to play cthulhu.. dont know if you guys play it much.. but I love GM'ing it.. classic horror! ya got to love it.

Hope to be able to play soon...

Ken

Nevyn

ah a willing GM , love to see how you
would try handle myour lil gang

zekiel

Hmm, perhaps I'll play for a while... Then have a bash at GM'ing, The Gaelcon a couple of years ago thought me not to jump in and GM a group I hadnt played with before.. They butchered me!!!:D

Specky

A-haa!! Another Cthulhu fan!!

I usually GM but haven't run a Cthulhu game in years (quite a few years in fact), still got all the old research and materials from the last campaign I ran though I think....trip to the attic may be required....

Haven't done much gaming in a while due to work commitments but would be nice to get a group going again in the reasonably near future

zekiel

Cthulhu is class I remember the last campaign I played my character was a German scientist and inherited an old house in England due to being the last decendant from an old family. Upon gathering a few friends we went on a trip to England were we found this old mansion that was falling apart from the seems.. Ohh the horror that we experienced there.. My charactrer eventually went mad and with a butter knife, jumped at a waking tree and got fairly mashed into the ground.
I miss that character!:D

Specky

Yep, I'd have to say that Cthulhu was the last "shop bought" rpg that really caught my imagination....and I must point out I bought Cthulhu when it was first released....and that was many years ago now!

Was up the whole night reading the rules and supporting literature.

Don't want to start a flame fest on games other people think are better than Cthulhu by the way. I bought numerous games since then but none have really got me excited like Cthulhu did. Of course, I played a fair bit of Runequest prior to that so maybe I just liked the Sandy Peterson style....but I think that 1920s/1930s period is really fun to play in and there's lots of "real" information you can pick up to build games around.

Yep, lots of games set in old mansions, they're cool places

Hours of fun playing all the weirdo NPCs too, butlers and fu manchu type characters...oh boy!! Definitely time for a trip to the attic....and whatever it may contain!!

zekiel

I think the main class point to make about cthulhu was that it was one of the few rpg's were your characters couldnt become big powerful warriors, they were 90 percent of the time nerdy weakling's that were afraid of there own shadow.. class fun.

Specky

Just occured to me...if the real world was like the Cthulhu world the Stira slogan would be "Stira - Get attacked in that attic"

The Brigadier

Guys,

did you ever play the Masks of Nyalathotep campaign??

Pure class.....

Specky

did you ever play the Masks of Nyalathotep campaign??

Not me, I looked at quite a lot of the published material but didn't play much of it...if any!? (I GM mostly and some flaw in my character means that I have the attention span of a goldfish with alzheimer's and attention deficit dissorder when it comes to reading other people's GM material so I always play home grown campaigns...some would say I'm a megalomaniac...others would use less sylables...)

Earthhorse

Didn't care much for Masks. I think our group approached wrong though and it may have been alright.

I loved Horror on the Orient Express though. One summer we spent many a darkened day in my living room with the curtains drawn playing that. We got nearly half way through before our GM became dispondent and the thing peetered out.

There were many cool set pieces and we played it to the Dracula sound track (some classical music score that I don't know the name of).

What I always like about the Cthulhu rules were that they were simple, flexible and percentage based, so everyone knew what you were talking about when you said "add 10% to that roll".

Specky

Yes, orient express sounds like a nice setting for a game, especially for slicing a campaign into lots of nice short single sitting games...I presume you could get off the train at stations, each of which has a different setting...then lots of "murder on the orient express" type intrigue as the train chugged along. (through the tunnel, lights out, scream, thud, out of the tunnel....OH NO!! there's another dead NPC!!

I put together a campaign to run over a christmas years ago for my old group set in the London Underground. They couldn't get out and had to trek from station to station trying to put together clues to find the place where they would be able to get out.

Clues/monsters/puzzles/traps all related to station names. We were living in London at the time and so people had some knowledge of the geography and could even guess what (to some extent) they might encounter if they could remember which stations they were going to pass through. It was good fun but we never finished it...I didn't get dispondant, we all just got too drunk to care....and then christmas was gone and it was back to more serious gaming again!!

Rnger

Originally posted by zekiel
We used to play all mannor of RPG's. ie.. WFRP, MERP, Cthulhu, Vampire..
RPG's only, im not interested in Wargame groups.

There really should be some kind of legend stickied! What kind of rpg's are these? The dungeons and dragons style?

/me is a interested newbie

Specky

The answer to that question depends on whether you're looking at it from the simplistic or sophisticated angle:)

From the point of view of describing games they all have a genre and a rules system. Genres would be fantasy, science fiction, horror, historical...There are many rules systems, most are really very similar but subtly different. Usually the differences are in the combat and magic systems.

Don't ask me for a list of all the games and which rules systems they're based on because I don't really know. I gave up on rules a long time ago and tend to concentrate more on the genre when running games, only selecting portions of the rules to apply when necessary (this is rpg not monopoly).

So from a genderial point of view the games mentioned are:

Warhammer fantasy role playing game - fantasy...grew out of warhammer which is a fantasy war game rules system

Middle earth role playing game - do I need to explain??? fantasy role playing in the tolkien world

Call of Cthulhu - gothic horror based around the writings of H.P.Lovecraft, based on earth, can be any time really but it tends to be in historical settings from early 20th century onwards

Vampire - haven't played it....but I think I may be able to guess what it's about....


Anyway, I'm no expert, I've played rpg for years....a lot of years...but have been "having a rest" for the last few, so have lost touch with the main stream games scene.

Maybe someone else can give you more info but then who needs experts when you have google??:)

Nevyn

there are a hell of a loft of rpgs out there one for every intrest nearly.

vampire is one of the World of Darkness
rogs along with werewolf, changling, wraith ect,

D&D has many worlds, forgetton realms,
ravenloft, plansecape, dragonlance
each of them with thier own setting and
spice.


for those who like tech specs
there is Sla , shadow run and many others .

sure have a look at the gealcon sites and the rest of the conventions that are hosted here and you will see what gets run arround the county

Specky

well for us "old people" who like tech specs there's always Traveller....anybody play traveller any more??

Paranoia was a lot of fun too....kinda like comedy version of SLA

The Brigadier

One of my favourites was Paranoia...

Are YOU happy citizen?

Earthhorse

Man, I remember playing Paranoia once at Gaelcon. There was just no right answer to give! I think it's perfect for pick up and play though and a lot of fun.

You're right about Orient Specky. The game actually begins in London and from there you work your way to Europe and the train. I think they mucked about with the geography of Europe a little bit (or else the itenerary of the train) so you visited many famous and atmospheric places.

Pretty much every location you got off had something for you to do but the time limit of the train leaving added a certain urgency to the quest and also keep things chugging along regardless of whether you'd done what you were supposed to.

Our GM always ditches things though when he sees that none of us are getting it (which is kinda supposed to be the way in Cthulhu). Still some of the best experiences I had role playing that.

You should pop along to a convention Rnger if you're interested in getting to know the different types of games. No place to start like the deep end.

(Good to see some posts on this board without NWN in the title by the way!)

EdBanger

Originally posted by Earthhorse
Man, I remember playing Paranoia once at Gaelcon. There was just no right answer to give! I think it's perfect for pick up and play though and a lot of fun.

Was that one of Shemus's games?

He really is "The Computer" ((You can't not know Shemus, he's the one with the tie dyed orange Straight Jacket))

Earthhorse

Well I'll have to contradict you and say I don't know Shemus!

It was the Gaelcon in the Burlington I'm pretty sure. I remember hearing at the time something about the guy who wrote it having to do so on the day as the original promised scenario never materialised. Or something.