Pen and Paper!

[PedroSteckecilo]

Not only do I play tabletop RPGs, but I even verge into true unrepentant nerdity by running them as well.

Currently I run a Mage: the Ascension game and am looking to acquire more books for an Iron Kingdoms campaign.

BEWARE! Iron Kingdoms is the most awesome setting ever... except that it also has some of the most broken and unbalanced RULES ever. Some of their play mechanics are also... obtuse, the arcane mechanic being the most notable example.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

BEWARE! Iron Kingdoms is the most awesome setting ever... except that it also has some of the most broken and unbalanced RULES ever. Some of their play mechanics are also... obtuse, the arcane mechanic being the most notable example.

The arcane did look a bit on the WTF-inducing side, but that seems balanced with the sheer unbridled awesomeness of the Gun Mage.

I take a World of Darkness approach to running most games - if a rule doesn't work, I either change it or throw it out entirely.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

BEWARE! Iron Kingdoms is the most awesome setting ever... except that it also has some of the most broken and unbalanced RULES ever. Some of their play mechanics are also... obtuse, the arcane mechanic being the most notable example.

The arcane did look a bit on the WTF-inducing side, but that seems balanced with the sheer unbridled awesomeness of the Gun Mage.

I take a World of Darkness approach to running most games - if a rule doesn't work, I either change it or throw it out entirely.

Gunmage is so very broken as well though, very, very overpowered.

 

[Alex_P]

Say, are there any fans of Dragon Warriors or Beyond The Supernatural here?

Anyone?

Doesn't look like it.

If it's any consolation, though, Mike Mearls (one of the main D&D4e designers) says he just picked up Dragon Warriors and likes it.

-- Alex

 

[linchowlewy]

BEWARE! Iron Kingdoms is the most awesome setting ever... except that it also has some of the most broken and unbalanced RULES ever. Some of their play mechanics are also... obtuse, the arcane mechanic being the most notable example.

The arcane did look a bit on the WTF-inducing side, but that seems balanced with the sheer unbridled awesomeness of the Gun Mage.

I take a World of Darkness approach to running most games - if a rule doesn't work, I either change it or throw it out entirely.

Paranoia has a similar rule system that works twice aswell because it's against the rules of the game for the players to know the rules. so far i've managed to run an entire six week long mission without knowing the combat rules!

 

[Silver]

That's why I always change the rules as soon as a player is close to figuring it out. It's hilarious to watch DnD-players try to cope with it when you throw out the hit-points system and add weapon proficiency, parrying, and training improvements on stats. Turned out like a really nice system, and fights got a lot more interesting.

 

[Lance Icarus]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

 

[linchowlewy]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

 

[Lance Icarus]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

 

[Neosage]

When I was around 10 I got into DnD but only 5 years later did I realise that was some wierd board game version, I wanna start DnD but I dunno anyone who plays near me.

Edit: I do play WH40k and WHFB

 

[linchowlewy]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

the guy was actually playing an angel. he started the game off as human but he kept up making annoying items so i created a side quest that led to him being taken into a hidden room and everyone killing him. we then ate his body parts to steal his stats! so to make it up for him i let him be a human with wings.

 

[Lance Icarus]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

the guy was actually playing an angel. he started the game off as human but he kept up making annoying items so i created a side quest that led to him being taken into a hidden room and everyone killing him. we then ate his body parts to steal his stats! so to make it up for him i let him be a human with wings.

So it was an angel that hurled a dog into a giant's mouth. Oh, that makes it even better. Also, the party ate his body parts to steal his stats? What kind of game were you playing?

 

[linchowlewy]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

the guy was actually playing an angel. he started the game off as human but he kept up making annoying items so i created a side quest that led to him being taken into a hidden room and everyone killing him. we then ate his body parts to steal his stats! so to make it up for him i let him be a human with wings.

So it was an angel that hurled a dog into a giant's mouth. Oh, that makes it even better. Also, the party ate his body parts to steal his stats? What kind of game were you playing?

a game of runequest. also he was an angel after we ate him, he began as a human. with the stat giving i just thought that was hilarious when people started calling dibs on the body parts.

 

[Lance Icarus]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

the guy was actually playing an angel. he started the game off as human but he kept up making annoying items so i created a side quest that led to him being taken into a hidden room and everyone killing him. we then ate his body parts to steal his stats! so to make it up for him i let him be a human with wings.

So it was an angel that hurled a dog into a giant's mouth. Oh, that makes it even better. Also, the party ate his body parts to steal his stats? What kind of game were you playing?

a game of runequest. also he was an angel after we ate him, he began as a human. with the stat giving i just thought that was hilarious when people started calling dibs on the body parts.

Mental Note: During Runequest Thanksgiving, when a party member looks at you and asks for a leg, he's not talking about the turkey.

 

[linchowlewy]

Pen and Paper is how I prefer my RPG personally. Video game RPGs are inherently linear (with rare exceptions) and usually force you to play as a single player, despite there always being a party. Pen and Paper, on the other hand, is a completely different experience. You can bring a group of your friends together and an at least clever GM and have an experience that you'll be talking about for ages. I can't count how many times I've seen a GM rip a page out of his note sheet and hurl it behind him, realizing that idea for the campaign was officially screwed.

I'm currently playing a D20 Modern game in my college's Fantasy Gamers club. Just last week we stuffed a goblin into one of our character's backpack in case we needed him later. Nobody's quite sure what that could possibly be for, though the general of our group wants to jam C4 down his throat and let him walk back to his barracks.

one of the more memorable moments happened when i was away for a day. my friends ended up fighting a giant and they all suckedshit at survival. and one of my friends who had a dog carrying all his sharp pointy weapons threw his dog into the mouth of the giant. he had a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding and he succeeded. killing the giant by all the pointy sharp things in his throat.

That is completely awesome in every way. I can just imagine everyone sighing and feeling hopeless when someone suddenly says "I throw my dog at him." Oh, that must have been gold.

One of my most memorable moments was a Star Wars campaign (I think it was Empire saga, can't remember off the top of my head) when I suddenly got in a sniper duel with someone off in the forest. I knew where he was, but I couldn't hit him. The GM must have been sucking too for me to survive for that long. After roughly four rounds of this our giant reptilian friend picks up a medium rock and hurls it in the directions the laser blasts are coming from. He ends up rolling 20 and knocking the dude out of the tree where he landed on his head, knocking him out cold.

Just the scene of all these laser shots going back and forth and it ended with someone tossing a rock. I suddenly realized that the Ewoks beating the Stormtroopers wasn't so unbelievable after all.

the guy was actually playing an angel. he started the game off as human but he kept up making annoying items so i created a side quest that led to him being taken into a hidden room and everyone killing him. we then ate his body parts to steal his stats! so to make it up for him i let him be a human with wings.

So it was an angel that hurled a dog into a giant's mouth. Oh, that makes it even better. Also, the party ate his body parts to steal his stats? What kind of game were you playing?

a game of runequest. also he was an angel after we ate him, he began as a human. with the stat giving i just thought that was hilarious when people started calling dibs on the body parts.

Mental Note: During Runequest Thanksgiving, when a party member looks at you and asks for a leg, he's not talking about the turkey.

legs give an athletics bonus! we have a full diagram of the body. just remembered, earlier in the questing a sorcerer turned him into a raccoon, sadly nobody gave a shit and left him as a raccoon.

 

[Saskwach]

Say, are there any fans of Dragon Warriors or Beyond The Supernatural here?

Anyone?

I started looking into Dragon Warriors and found a thread talking about it. It really hit all the right spots: middle ages through a glass darkly; folklore made real; new edition (I have no credit card to get out of print stuff) out very recently; and, the real kicker, English-style dark fantasy in the style of WFRP. Me wants this game now.

 

[linchowlewy]

Say, are there any fans of Dragon Warriors or Beyond The Supernatural here?

Anyone?

I started looking into Dragon Warriors and found a thread talking about it. It really hit all the right spots: middle ages through a glass darkly; folklore made real; new edition (I have no credit card to get out of print stuff) out very recently; and, the real kicker, English-style dark fantasy in the style of WFRP. Me wants this game now.

so could you go into more elaborate detail? I'm suddenly interested.

 

[Saskwach]

Well, from a fairly hardcore rpg site that I lurk on regularly:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=12674
The first post isn't so detailed but got me in the mood; the third post provides links; and post #49 on the fifth page [http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=12674&page=5] gives a good summary of its feel and mechanics. All the rest is browsable for some good postage here and there, but it's mostly uninformative expressions of glee (understandable) alongside a verbal tennis match ("It's a nostalgia trip!" "No it's not!" "Yes it is!" "You suck!" "No you suck!").

 

[TomWhitbrook]

Just to prove to myself I'm not completely crackers, or at least I'm not the only one.

I was working on my groups ongoing D&D 4th campaign yesterday, and between statting up some cannibal dwarves and their shadow masters I found myself getting the urge to roll up yet another PC for myself, despite the fact that I'll never ever get to actually play. Do any other eternal DM's get similar impulses, or have I just gone loopy?

 

[linchowlewy]

Well, from a fairly hardcore rpg site that I lurk on regularly:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=12674
The first post isn't so detailed but got me in the mood; the third post provides links; and post #49 on the fifth page [http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=12674&page=5] gives a good summary of its feel and mechanics. All the rest is browsable for some good postage here and there, but it's mostly uninformative expressions of glee (understandable) alongside a verbal tennis match ("It's a nostalgia trip!" "No it's not!" "Yes it is!" "You suck!" "No you suck!").

thank you i'll start reading that.

Just to prove to myself I'm not completely crackers, or at least I'm not the only one.

I was working on my groups ongoing D&D 4th campaign yesterday, and between statting up some cannibal dwarves and their shadow masters I found myself getting the urge to roll up yet another PC for myself, despite the fact that I'll never ever get to actually play. Do any other eternal DM's get similar impulses, or have I just gone loopy?

oh yeah i really want to create a character for runequest or paranoia but nobody else in my group really has the potential to GM well. tried and it just proves to be boring.