D&d

nesf

Well since it was brought up in Admin, I thouth I'd post up something here about pen & paper role plays.

What are ppl into? (D&D, Hackmaster, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, GURPS, L5R Roleplay etc.)

lordsippa

Home cooked system is best. But World Tree is pretty cool! Um... Hackmaster is D&D with comedy. The Cthulu system is pretty funky! Um... vampire, werewolf etc are ok. But there are flaws. Personally, the least enjoyable system i've found IS D&D. It's too rigid. They try to cover everything with stats and yet... doesn't work. Even when it is flexible it feels like you're just offered a multiple choice question in a test. AND it takes too long to do anything. Calculating DC's and ... thank god thac0 is gone! THANK GOD! The only thing i like about D&D is that it's the perfect system for computer rpg's. ... and stealing ideas from it <like spells and such, not rules etc.>.

Thank you.

Borzoi

Haven't really played in years. Ideally I'd go play Cthulhu, which desoite a rocky begiining turned into my favourite rpg. Unfortunately I've tended to play Cyperpunk lately- which is a little munchie, or at least it is the way we play it.

Trouble is, too many players and not enough GMs and no real time to dedicate an evening a week. Wish I could though.

Hobbes

Typical CoC game.

GM: You come across a large door with a strange design on it.

Player: I look at the design.

GM *Rolls Dice* You have been driven insane and will spend the rest of your life locked away in a padded room with the rest of your party.

Player: bummer.

Skyclad

Its better that way. Truly.

Systems I like include Runequest and Rolemaster (both % based), settings Middle earth obviously, vampire, conspiracy X.

Dave

Mystic Fibrosis

so...who here plays D&D?? and what are their characters? i'm an elven mage.

Draco

I'm a D&D man myself. I have to say I do really like the 3rd ed rules, everything seems speeded up and more clear cut.

Borzoi

Originally posted by Hobbes
Typical CoC game.

GM: You come across a large door with a strange design on it.

Player: I look at the design.

GM *Rolls Dice* You have been driven insane and will spend the rest of your life locked away in a padded room with the rest of your party.

Player: bummer.

Reasonably true, the first few times I played it - which was why I didn't like it. However a later group with a kickass GM got me very keen.

Of course you could paraphrase for most games:

GM: You come to a room, there's a Insert Genre Based Nasty Here

Player: We attack the Insert Genre Based Nasty Here

GM: You kill it

Players: Whaheh. loot the body for XP

GM: You come to a room.............

Repeat as required

Not dissing you understand, just making a point

Hobbes

Not dissing you understand, just making a point

That would be the more hack n slash which personally I find boring. When I did play D&D (only ever DM'ed, never player) I always made certain parts of the game almost impossible to complete by combat (possible but easier options). It took one group 3 rerolls of characters to cop that on, but I wasn't all mean I let them find the corpses of "previous adventurers" who weren't as experienced to loot.

CoC is ok, that was more a joke then anything. A bit like what Dead Ale Wives skit is to D&D.

imp

Well I don't really play it all that much. I DM it tho which is a hell of a lot of fun. I play some other D20 stuff too.

[Player]: "Why do you hate all your PCs?"
[DM]: "They kill all my nice monsters..."

}:>

Qualin Hess

Personaly I play Vampire live (Minds eye Thetere), and St Were Wolf live.

I'm also curently playing a game of Table top Vamipre with ST I meet via this board.

I'm trying to write a good WH40k RPG but tis easer said than done. All i have atm is a good combat system and that dosnemt constutet a good roleplay.

Clintons Cat

remember Paranoia?
did anyone ever manage to run a succesful paranoia scenario?they always used to disolve into anarchy after about 10 mins or get bogged down with player briefings.

Qualin Hess

Hail Computer!!!


#Glory-gloooory Hail computer,
Glory-gloooory Hail computer,
Glory-gloooory Hail computer,
And the clones go marching On! On! On!#


If you ever played in any of Semaus's Games of Paranoia Live at any of the Irish cons in the past 4-5 years you should know that song. 8¬)

Draco

Our current campaign is Return to Temple of Elemental Evil.
I'm a human Ranger/Rogue/Assassin.

Rev Hellfire

Merged.

Plasticman

i'm not a very experienced player of D&D, in fact all the games i've played were a joke, but...

i'm a human sorcerer with an owl familiar

Mystic Fibrosis

yeah!go our half arsed game today!!!!

lordsippa

Ian, I'm thinking of taking my Drow "mage" <wink wink> and quitting... D&D here has left a bad taste in my mouth... but.. nah! I'll give you another chance.

TheAlmightyArse

Warhammer Fantasy's my chosen poison, although it was rather chosen for me. Still, I find it preferable to D&D.

Incidentally, playing for the comic value is always so much better than playing for any atmosphere-building, experience gaining, character develop nonsense. Last game I was involved in, I spent quite some time trying to set fire to a captain's monkey (I asked him if he intended to sell us as slaves and he said no, the lying hound...), one of the other players spent a lot of time scaling clock buildings, mooning people, and trying to sell the shirts he baffling decided to spent a lot of money on at the start, another got bored rather quickly, killed herself off, and played the SNES instead, and our last party member was a troll, whose main function was to open suspicious trap-laiden doors and give me something to hide behind while chucking spells about the place.

Our gamesmaster takes it all rather seriously and wasn't impressed.

lordsippa

Ah yes... in different rpgs i've invented counter monkeys, pestered my gm to PLEASE let me use the thermo-nuke that's just lying there! AND! I created the Beer Bomb, after already having discovered beer is a great antiseptic, refresher, poison <although that WAS dark elf ale>, and reason to get arrested and be forced into going on some stupid adventure. All in one adventure.

But my personal favourite was the priest who would hack himself all over whenever he commited a sin, such as lying, or if he failed in aiding in the mission <so when he nearly drowned i had to be healed from death for almost compromising the entire situation>. The GM actually liked him. I did the monster's work for them. ;p

TheAlmightyArse

Counter monkeys? Arrested? Actually getting past the "I want to call my character Fiddlibits" stage? I only ask because we've all got a habit of losing our character sheets, or more commonly, doodling on them so much that they're illegible, so that they're rather redundant. And then thewre's the problem of the GM deciding to try out a new rule system every friggin' time...
Because of this I think I've one character on level 2. Or had, until he was doodled to death, poor sod.