Poll: Do you Roleplay?
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I'm a pretty serious Pen and Paper Gamer, I have a regular game that I play in roughly every saturday evening, an alternate I occasionally play in on Sundays and a new one I'm starting up on Mondays.
Actually... I probably like Pen and Paper RPG's more than I like Videogames...
Blasphemy I know
Actually... I probably like Pen and Paper RPG's more than I like Videogames...
Blasphemy I know
My girlfriend wants to role play. I'm with her 24 hours a day, and all of a sudden I'm just supposed to show up like, "hey, I'm the plumber..."
She wants me to talk during sex, too. What does she expect me to say? "Done!"
She wants me to talk during sex, too. What does she expect me to say? "Done!"
Oh, I love to roleplay. I played Dread once, but I fail at jenga, so my character didn't last very long. We get together with some friends twice a month and RP homebrewn campaigns using the cyberpunk system (modified to fit the setting). Next week we're a starting a campaign based arond the Mad Max movies.
However, my favourite game has always been MERP (Middle-Earth Role-playing). Robust, flexible system, d100 system, pre-built setting that all players are very familiar with, and lots of freedom when creating a character. We usually roleplay seriously (faking accents, being poetic and Tolkien-esque, and, above all, we favour being in-character over benefiting the party. That means that even if the sea route is the shortest and safest, the dwarves won't get on the boat because they have sailing).
However, we do make jokes and act stupid from time to time. It keeps things fresh.
Dwarf: "Stop your bloody song about the woods! Sing about mines!"
Me (Bard): "Fine, fine. MORIA! MORIA!" sung to the tune of Laura Branigan's Gloria. Massive laughter ensued.
However, my favourite game has always been MERP (Middle-Earth Role-playing). Robust, flexible system, d100 system, pre-built setting that all players are very familiar with, and lots of freedom when creating a character. We usually roleplay seriously (faking accents, being poetic and Tolkien-esque, and, above all, we favour being in-character over benefiting the party. That means that even if the sea route is the shortest and safest, the dwarves won't get on the boat because they have sailing).
However, we do make jokes and act stupid from time to time. It keeps things fresh.
Dwarf: "Stop your bloody song about the woods! Sing about mines!"
Me (Bard): "Fine, fine. MORIA! MORIA!" sung to the tune of Laura Branigan's Gloria. Massive laughter ensued.
Yeah, we play D&D weekly. My wife still thinks we do LARPing stuff despite my years of telling her otherwise.
Sure...a couple of times and it was fun. D&D and stuff
Nothing said about other times though....
Nothing said about other times though....
No LARP, no pen and paper, no text based RPG's...
I did RP on WoW quite a bit a few years ago though, those were fun times.
And in the bedroom occaisionally.
I did RP on WoW quite a bit a few years ago though, those were fun times.
And in the bedroom occaisionally.
If she wants you to be the plumber mabye talk about the service charges these days...saintchristopher said:
For what its worth i recon there are 4 kinda roleplay
1: casual fun games with dice and pen and paper - like d&d. not to be taken seriously but can be a good laf witha bunch of mates.
2: 'serious' games covering dificult subjects like philosophy, beleif, the nature of reality and alternate realities. games like vampire, warewolf and cuthulu should all fall into this category most of the time - turing any of those games into a hack and slash xp fest is a travesty.
3: larping - ie live action roleplay. thats is dress up silly, get wasted and have a laf.. any thing more serious and its realy an amateur acting career.
4: the sort of roleplay that usualy hapens between 2 or more adults in private.
Well i can honestly say ive done the lot - there all fun. I got no problems admiting im a geek tho but ive always felt it odd that a hoby that requires social interaction has such a bad impression to the masses. The fact is roleplaying is just acting mixed up with a few basic rules...no mater what kind your talking about. if you get a kick outa being some one else (and were all signed up to a forum called the escapist) then try it cos u might like it.
d12's and robes of destruction are optional.
give me a weekend with likeminded nutters playing a marathon session of AD&D 2nd edition and i'm a happy camper =)
Used to play pen and paper. I still have the books but no one to play with. I never got to play enough to roleplay well though, but still had tons of fun with characters screwing up in randomized ways.
That was back in the über serious days. If I were to roleplay today, I would play a drunken pirate or something that get the party in trouble all the time. Or a the very least a cocky and overconfident youth.
That was back in the über serious days. If I were to roleplay today, I would play a drunken pirate or something that get the party in trouble all the time. Or a the very least a cocky and overconfident youth.
