only old school paper and dice RPGs are any good

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This is what I think, for they allow for better character development and interaction.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

True, it is a lot of work. MUDs are fun too.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I just like to read the rulebooks.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I think that everything going to d20 open source rules has ruined a lot of the fun of learning and playing different rpgs. otoh it's gotten rid of some really crappy systems too.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm SO down with what DV is saying right here.
though, i did have an extremely satisfying time playing on one particular Neverwinter Nights server. all the players were teh hardxore roleplayers, with background & storywriting very much tieing in with the game, lots of late-night tavern chatting and very active and imaginitive DMs. it was the closest non pen&paper game has ever been to a pen&paper game.
but aside from that, DV OTMFM.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 6 October 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Recommend me some MUDS, of either cyberpunk, futuristic, space, type themes. I'd prefer one without too much combat idealy.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

I liked the pen and paper call of cthulhu. i want to try muds too.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I saw a car with the license plate "ROLL D20" drive past my apartment building the other day. There's someone who lives near me who has the plate "KRYNN DM" also. I always loved reading the Gygax era D&D books as a kid, especially the early AD&D core books with their crude but unbeatably atmospheric illustrations. It was all very evocative of a specific time and place and mindset, strangely beautiful in its amateurishness and unwieldiness. I take pride in the fact that this epochal world-changing nerd stuff was developed in a small Wisconsin town, and I'm disappointed that TSR and Gen Con are effectively no more. It was always a highlight of the summer for me as a kid to go downtown and bum around Gen Con for the day-- it was a cool cultural thing to have tied specifically to southeastern Wisconsin.

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 7 October 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

gencon is still fun!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

in fact it might be more fun as an adult, you can get wasted and go to strip clubs and see klingons get lap dances.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I hadn't played one since I was thirteen until last year, I wanted to a whole lot but I had the wrong friends, too much pride maybe - I read a lot of rulebooks and thought if only... Then I did, an Unknown Armies game with awful players but a swell DM, it was ever so great. I wanna play more now!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.atomicsockmonkey.com/products/mnpr-rpg.asp

Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the Roleplaying Game

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I think that everything going to d20 open source rules has ruined a lot of the fun of learning and playing different rpgs. otoh it's gotten rid of some really crappy systems too.

as far as I'm concerned, the D20 system is well crappy enough. I kind of feel now that all games should use D6 systems like those of Star Wars or Over The Edge. I've been trying for a while to think how to run something like a Call of Cthulhu sanity system with one of those.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

in fact it might be more fun as an adult, you can get wasted and go to strip clubs and see klingons get lap dances.

I am going to have this horrible vision pustulating in front of me tonight when I close my eyes to go to sleep. Oh deah.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I have so many vampire: the masquerade rulebooks and supplements it's unreal. I bought them all on the promise that a friend wld use them to GM but he never did. he is a bad man.

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the Roleplaying Game

OMG, its everything my b/f worships, IN ONE GAME.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Chris P otm.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

"for a friend"

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

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