Anyone here play tabletop roleplaying games?

[dglisson]

@AnnaLandin I have to tell you that Dungeon World is a blast!! In my mindset these days where I don't feel like having to look up a bunch of rules all the time, it's exactly what I play to get the D&D fix I crave without a bunch of rules getting in the way. I DM a mean game of Dungeon World if I do say so myself! You should definitely find folks to play with and try the role playing experience at least once.

[dglisson]

@nathankschulz @gruetzi I remember reading the Game of Thrones RPG book and wanting to play real bad but never had anyone around that would have been interested unfortunately.

[nathankschulz]

Aw I'm sorry! That is half of the battle right there trying to find people interested in RPG in the first place, let alone in the same story universe.

[dglisson]

@gruetzi Hey so what version of Vampire do you play? Masquerade or Requiem? Also, any good recommendations for forum play?

[Aetherwing]

I do! I'm actually writing my very first campaign and am going to DM for the first time. I'm pretty nervous haha!

[dglisson]

@Aetherwing if you need any help DM'ing let me know, I've done it for years and know a thing or two, just don't be afraid to improv at the table! Good luck!

[Aetherwing]

Oh thank you I will! My boyfriend has also done it plenty of times. He's really good. I think it's the improv that scares me the most haha.

[Jelw]

Yeah totally! I started playing D&D 5th edition every week with a group of people and it's been a blast! Gotta say, my rogue character died a month or so ago and I still haven't recovered; it's brutal, man!

[thesisterscomic]

Yeah. Forever GM.
Legend of the Five Rings, ACKS, Into the Odd, Beyond the Wall, World of Darkness (Hunter/Innocents are my favorite for flavor beyond Core), own a metric ton of Pathfinder books because the bestiaries are worth it, The One Ring is righteously solid and lore accurate for my purposes, D&D 3.0-5e (4e gets a bad rap but it is damn solid if you know what you're doing). Collector's Edition for Rogue Trader and Deathwatch, loved me Dark Heresy (first full campaign I ever ran was in that) but not impressed with the second edition; also got me Only War. Lamentations of the Flame Princess, DCC (I need that one classic 70s con shirt damnit), and some Savage Worlds. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in hardcover. Shadowrun, run 2e and recently was able to decipher the brick of 5e.

Spent some hard money on the Degenesis hardbacks; running a game of that for some transmen primarily. My god the atrocities they commit for the sake of mere survival. Got that and an L5R game set in Ryoko Owari going on right now for my artist and some other art people (and they're dumb enough to get involved in a war between Daigotsu and Iuichiban); but I'm enchanted by FFG's Star Wars for no good reason--the dice are keeping me away though.

Not a huge fan of Powered by the Apocalypse games, just because there's a glut of them. Reminds me a lot of the d20 bloat. But there are some good ideas in them.

Love me my book. Wrote a crappy adventure for Savage Flower Kingdom, and half-designed a system like four years ago that gets passed around 4chan's /tg/ a lot because shockingly they like my charts and rules for small town horror. I need to retool that because I have numbers enough to know people would shell out 5 bucks for a pdf. Also got a Kung Fu Animal thing in the works because I found a good way of utilizing variance dice and success chains to get the wuxia flowing with just enough crunch; though that started out as me trying to get some Avatar: The Last Airbender stuff happening (namely because I wrote a semi-popular list of adventure seeds for that setting and I desire to get back into it at some point even if Korra was an abomination.)

I think the best part is, nobody really knows about my hobbies in meatspace. No shirts about the hobby or the culture (the DCC one I want is tasteful), and people just look at my bookshelf and think I'm exceptionally well read. It is kind of fascinating.

Somewhat looking forward to the new 7th Sea. Even though John Wick is a really wretched sort of game designer, I admire production values and think that tweaking the new system could result in something fun.

[gruetzi]

Masquerade, I play a fabulous Toreador XD. O dear, the main problem is... I play in spanish forums, so... let me try to find something in english. Or we can also start a game online, with GoT if you want to try it

[gruetzi]

I always wanted to play 7th Sea, but I never find another players for this specific game

[dglisson]

@gruetzi It's a good thing I speak Spanish then huh? PM me if you got any good links

[dglisson]

@thesisterscomic That was really awesome to read, I dig as I'm the same way, the "normies" don't know how I roll!

The thing where you wrote a "crappy adventure" that gets passed around really resonated with me. This is where I reveal that I actually wrote an SAS adventure for Werewolf: the Forsaken for White Wolf back when they still existed before the Onyx Path days. I made my little check off it and love seeing that it's still for sale, and love hearing about it when people play it. I always hoped it would lead to more but White Wolf was folding at the time and I didn't have the right contacts to stay in that game. Oh well, opportunity lost!

[thesisterscomic]

Oh, it was mostly crappy because it was laid out in Microsoft Word, and I forgot to stat up a bad guy that was somewhat important due to the main boss encounter featuring them as a threat mechanic. But good on you for making some cash on an adventure; I never really liked Werewolf. I think Pentex Industries works really well as a mortal threat (what with it leading to increased sloth, consumption, greed, and stupidity); but when you're magical eco-terrorists it seems to lack nuance. But I've always been weird with WoD; the various mythological creatures you can play never entertained me as much as the idea of being a normal person stuck in a horror movie.

And honestly, it's just a conversation thing when it comes to "normies"; like, do I really want to spend 20 minutes explaining my hobby? Why would they even want that? I used to be more open with it, but then I made a mistake of joining a gaming club back in undergrad. My god the horror. The horror of it all. It was like being surrounded by people who go full escapist in order to deal with their lives; rather than enjoying collaborative problem-solving, storytelling, and moderated escapism. Really made me put the hobby on the back burner.

I always wanted to play 7th Sea, but I never find another players for this specific game

Yeah, some of the dudes in my Degenesis group are super into Assassin's Creed and the R.D.Jr Sherlock Holmes flicks; I think the new 7th Sea might work well for that---even though I'm more of a Man in an Iron Mask + Zorro type when it comes to swasbuckling stuff. The Roll & Keep System is solid though, and 1e works with that and has social combat that seems pretty great in theory. Kind of wish L5R had that to spice up the Courtier schools.

[gruetzi]

yep, all the fencing system sounds pretty interesting, but I never had a chance to prove it.

[AnnaLandin]

@dglisson Yeah, that's the feeling I get! There's a handful of stats and some dicerolls, but most of the DW-system seems to be about building a story, and it's the story I'm interested in anyway.

I've got it on my to-do list, but we'll see when I get around to actually doing it.

[Shanny8]

I used to play D&D back when I was in elementary school and a little in middle school, but soon as I got in into high school I mainly started focusing on drawing comics, making money, and females. Nowdays I dont have that much of a desire to do the tabletop RPGs anymore, but I'll play the mess out of a good video game RPG(mostly a Final Fantasy person).

[shazzbaa]

I haven't gotten a chance to play since I moved out into the middle of nowhere a couple years ago, but I looooove D&D. Drawing silly doodles of things that happened is one of my favourite things xD I know 3.5 the best (I love psions, I'm sorry), I played and enjoyed 4E; I've also played a short game in Savage Worlds and I really want to try FATE at some point!

[dglisson]

@shazzbaa D&D is definitely an awesome game, you should totally try out Dungeon World which is like a cooler, faster version of D&D. As for FATE, I keep meaning to try it, I keep eyeing this Dresden Files RPG that is FATE based that I bought, I read it over but have not yet played it, I think the whole Aspects FATE thing throws me off a bit. I need someone who knows how to run that thing!

[JustMarshma]

Oh I love roleplaying! I usually DM, In fact, my birthday is in a week and i'm meeting up with some friends to play as a celebration (gosh i'm such a nerd!) I used to use a D&D/GURPS hybrid system, taking what I liked of both of them, but last summer, I decided to create my own system, it's still very beta because I haven't had much of a chance to test it. The biggest problem with these things is getting together xD