Hey there fellow Forum-dwellers!
I'm organising an introduction to pen and paper roleplaying games at my university, with the obvious aim of introducing people with little or no experience with roleplay to this particular type of game, but also to potentially start a new group of roleplayers on campus.
The reason why I'm telling you this is that I'm thinking about which particular system and setting to use on this occasion, and I'm wide open to suggestions and commentaries on the ones I'm already considering.
The audience for this introduction will be comprised of History and Philosophy majors (so there's a minimum amount of geekiness in all of them), and I'm looking at things that are either set in familiar contempary settings, or in very undefined settings that I can edit and make up as we go along. System-wise, something simple but enough leeway for creativity, and I'd rather have an "end of mission points that you spend as you wish" rather than the D&D style level system.
Games I'm looking at are : -In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas : French indie RPG where you play as a demon or an angel in a contemporay setting. Lots of humour (such as Demons of Ugliness having bonus skill in Modern Art). Uses 3d6 for all rolls.
-DragOOns : Another French indie RPG, free for download if you're interested. Each player is a hero created by one God or another for whatever purpose, but to make sure you don't get ahead of yourself you have a mark of misfortune, such as a tendency to turn into an octopus when you see the colour blue or whatever you want to come up with. Uses a d20 system, where each dice corresponds to a different level of difficulty. Medieval fantasy setting, but doesn't go to far into detiails.
-A Song of Ice and Fire RPG : Love the system, love the setting(which is also popular with most of the crowd I hope will be coming). But I think the system might be a tad unforgiving for new players...
Well anyway, hope to hear your thoughts!
I'm organising an introduction to pen and paper roleplaying games at my university, with the obvious aim of introducing people with little or no experience with roleplay to this particular type of game, but also to potentially start a new group of roleplayers on campus.
The reason why I'm telling you this is that I'm thinking about which particular system and setting to use on this occasion, and I'm wide open to suggestions and commentaries on the ones I'm already considering.
The audience for this introduction will be comprised of History and Philosophy majors (so there's a minimum amount of geekiness in all of them), and I'm looking at things that are either set in familiar contempary settings, or in very undefined settings that I can edit and make up as we go along. System-wise, something simple but enough leeway for creativity, and I'd rather have an "end of mission points that you spend as you wish" rather than the D&D style level system.
Games I'm looking at are : -In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas : French indie RPG where you play as a demon or an angel in a contemporay setting. Lots of humour (such as Demons of Ugliness having bonus skill in Modern Art). Uses 3d6 for all rolls.
-DragOOns : Another French indie RPG, free for download if you're interested. Each player is a hero created by one God or another for whatever purpose, but to make sure you don't get ahead of yourself you have a mark of misfortune, such as a tendency to turn into an octopus when you see the colour blue or whatever you want to come up with. Uses a d20 system, where each dice corresponds to a different level of difficulty. Medieval fantasy setting, but doesn't go to far into detiails.
-A Song of Ice and Fire RPG : Love the system, love the setting(which is also popular with most of the crowd I hope will be coming). But I think the system might be a tad unforgiving for new players...
Well anyway, hope to hear your thoughts!