Table top gaming

[SammiYin]

I've spent far too much money on 40k and Lotr tabletop, I have Imperial guard, Space marines, Grey knights, Orks, Chaos and tyranids.
How rich I'd be now if I'd just said no.

 

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

Ok, here goes:

I play:
Warhammer 40k
Warhammer fantasy
Warmachine
Anima: tactics

I'm soon getting in to:
Infinity
Malifaux


RPG's i have played
Call of Cthulhu
D&D

 

[Harry Mason]

I DM a small, 4 player campaign and play Necrons in 40K

Hell yes! A Necron brother on the Escapist!
Our number is legion, our name is death!

Ahem... Sorry.

I play Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Dungeons and Dragons, Rifts, Beyond the Supernatural, After the Bomb, and some home-brewed pen and paper RPs (and somehow keep functioning as a 20-something student). I love video games, but tabletop stuff with always be my one true geeky love.

There is nothing that can replicate some good friends, a fuck-ton of nachos, fourteen gallons of Mountain Dew and beer, Pizza, a good RP and loads of imagination in the dead middle of the night. NOTHING.

 

[Mordekaien]

I play an homebrew system, we made up for ourselves, suited for low fantasy and other dark and gritty settings

 

[Aurgelmir]

Where i'm from it's not a huge community of gamers, but the people who do table top, really know eachother. I've been playing warmachine off and on for a while now, I was really just curious to see how many people play some type of table top game, whether it be a d20, d6, d10 role playing pen and paper game, to something like warhammer or 40k or warmachine.

I play Warhammer (both kinds) and the occasional PnP RPG. I also try and get in the odd board game now and then.

 

[ultrachicken]

I've always wanted to play D&D, but it's practically impossible to find any groups where I live.

 

[Versuvius]

Enjoy 3.5 DnD, like the Fallout RPG (before it was banhammered by a lawsuit), RIFTS i like. D20 modern/future. Enjoy Warhammer but im not paying for that shit. Especially not now the models doubled in price.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Screwed up post look a few down for the actual one

 

[monstersquad]

It's very possible I get beaten to a pulp by the table top community, but I still consider myself fairly new to the table top community(only been playing since 3.5, so around..... pushing five or so years.) but what are GURPS?

GURPS is basically math class on a saturday night. I personally play in Pathfinder Chronicles, I run a home-brew Pathfinder setting, I play Space Marines and Orks in 40K, we used to play Shadowrun for many years, but we're on a hiatus right now. I will sit down and play almost anything that somebody pulls out.

 

[Filiecs]

I play a custom version of D&D with me and my friends. I'm DM'ing at the moment and am having MUCH more fun than when I DM'd using the normal D&D rulebooks.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

I've been wanting to get back into pen-and-paper tabletop games. I used to play D&D a lot. I really want to try out Vampire the Masquerade. Anyone in New York want to start a group?

Try the Vampire the Masquerade Meet-up group, My Pathfinder's group Dm is in charge of it, provided you're in NYC that is

OT: At the moment I currently play in a Pathfinder group, a Rifts group, and I DM another Pathfinder group, a Call of Cthulhu group and am about to start a HEX group for the simple reason I heard good things about the system and want to test it out.

 

[Herr Ludd]

Right now I GM a dark heresy campaign where my players just reached Inquisitor levels. I play board games and both warhammer as well as some card games. TT RPG is where my passion is and I've GMed siince the late 90s.

 

[Andalusa]

I play D&D with a few friends, because we're all new to it it's not a completely serious game, but it's fun. I used to play Warhammer but I lost interest a few years ago. I still have all my stuff just in case I want to start playing again.

 

[Josh Horton]

I play Classic Marvel RPG, way more fun with the potential of infinite different powers.

 

[trooper6]

It's very possible I get beaten to a pulp by the table top community, but I still consider myself fairly new to the table top community(only been playing since 3.5, so around..... pushing five or so years.) but what are GURPS?

GURPS stands for Generic Universal Role-Playing System. And it is just that. You can use it to play Fantasy, Historical, Sci-Fi, Horror, Supers, Westerns, Cyberpunk, Espionage...you name it, you can play it.

The game is point-based, so there are no classes or levels. You make the character that you want to make.
It uses 3d6 rather than a d20, so die rolls have a nice bell curve, so results are less wacky.
It is customizable, so you can play fast and loose, or you can play with lots and lots of detail.
It has a reputation for being complicated, but it isn't any more complicated than D&D.
It supports a lot of non-combat rules, as well as having a really interesting set of combat rules.
I have used GURPS to run Gladiator games were it was only combat as well as campaigns where there was almost no combat at all.
The basic conventional wisdom is that it takes a bit longer to make the characters, but in play everything is very fast.
It has a system of Disadvantages and Advantages, so if you choose to have your player be afraid of heights, it matters.
It has a system of hit locations you can use if you like, so stabbing someone in the eye matters.
PCs get to try and defend incoming attacks.
It can be used to play really realistic gritty games or cinematic over-the-top games.

You can download GURPSLite for free from the Steve Jackson Games website.

Some of the GURPS PCs I've played:
-Gianni Fiori: A single-father ex-cop who is now a private detective in Montreal in 2100. He is big, strong and quite conservative. He is opposed to androids as abominations. (Transhuman Space Campaign)
-Guy Roland: The young son of a plantation owner from Martinique who has come to Paris to study law and improve his station by perhaps marrying a noble. He doesn't have the status of the rest of the party, but he has more money than they do...and that is a source of tension. (Swashbucklers Campaign where we are all students at a Fencing Salle)
-Adaeze Idokuzo: The daughter of a village elder in a post-Apocalyptic Nigeria. She is a very skilled builder, knowing Architecture, Civil Engineering, Masonry, and Carpentry. Of course, she also has some guerilla combat skills...but what very few know about her, is that she also has some psychic powers...specifically Telekenesis. (Post-Apocalypse)

Some of the GURPS PCs in games I've GMed:
-Gunnar Heywood: Lightly alcoholic investigative reporter...well, ex-investigative reporter. Now Gunnar has implanted a camera into his eyes which he streams live to the internet at all times. He is a walking reality show. (Cyberpunk)
-Kai Greywind: Barmaid (with people skills and bouncing skills) who decided to leave home to become an adventurer, instead she get's framed for murder along with her fellow party members! (Fantasy)
-Molly McIntyre: Eccentric sister of gunslinger Seamus McIntyre. She has some gunslinging skills of her own...but it best well known for her fortune telling and mystical powers (Magical Old West).

There are a lot of things you can do with GURPS. It is a great game system.

 

[Harkonnen64]

I've gone from D&D 3 to 3.5 to Pathfinder, and it gets better every time.

 

[Justin Gooch]

Gurps does sound pretty cool, never been that big a fan of d6 games, too many dice being rolled... which is odd cause I played D&D 3.5 and that was a roll as many dice as you can possibly imagine game. Read some of the pathfinder stuff last night, wish I could find a group to either DM or find a buddy that would DM it for us and play. Our group slowly fell apart and people moved away, think there are like three of us left that played 3.5 together. And two of the people that "play" act like they are married together, and just get annoying sometimes.

On that topic here is a new question, Anyone play a game and not like the DM or one of the other players, or the other way around? Being a dm and wanting to reach across and push a player out of his or her chair or smack them?

And if so, details please.

 

[Zac Smith]

I long time ago I was into Warhammer, all kinds of it, 40k, fantasy, Battlefleet Gothic, Lord Of The Rings, but I did very little of the actual tabletop part of it, i just enjoyed, building painting and the general "collecting" part of the hobby

 

[GonzoGamer]

My friends & I play 40k (I?ve been an Ork & Marine player since 40k was invented) but we haven?t moved beyond the 4th edition. We just keep using those rules.
We also play Palladium rpgs: just started a Rifts campaign but we make up all our own stuff: don?t use the Rifts ?history/characters.?

 

[aba1]

I am retardedly adicted to magic