Does anyone here like role playing games?

[shaneoid77]

I've been trying to set up a street level game of Mutants and Masterminds so I can get used to the rules but it's been pretty difficult. I've played loads in my time, from GURPS to White Wolf and lately had a test of Pathfinder

[Koffyhouse]

I'm on roleplaying forums, i have been playing dungeons and dragons most my life, and i've played around with a comic based rp. I love to roleplay and i would easily say it helped me with the writing of my comic wild magic!
https://tapastic.com/series/Wild-Magic

[69Michi]

I used to RP a lot on DeviantArt. If you know the site, there are some awesome groups with awesome concept open all year round for you to try your luck, join, and make new friends with your characters. I joined both original concept RP groups and/or RP group based on manga/anime/movie series. My goal for RP-ing is just to befriend with as many people as I can, but the main reason that pushed me away from the RP world was how "thirsty" for romance/ship people could get in a RP :/ I feel like friendship is a nope and they are only out there to be able to get a ship for themselves. As soon as your character announce they are taken, expect people to stop swarming to you.

Though nowadays I'm too busy to even think of RP anymore LMFAO

[donathinfrye]

Yep! I owe RPGs a lot, really, for their influence on my life. RPGs are what got me into acting, which is what got me into directing/writing, which is what got me into wanting to do comics. It's all sort of tied together for me. : )

My comic, Atonement, is the spiritual sequel to a large-scale original sci-fi campaign RPG of the same name that I created and ran for a large number of players over the course of three years. It was basically like a game of D&D, except it ran 24 hours a day every day, and had anywhere from 10-60 people playing it at any given time. It was just one on-going story, probably the craziest and most intense thing I've ever done.

One of my other comics, I, Necromancer is sort of like Breaking Bad meets Dungeons and Dragons.

I'm also currently running a homebrewed 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign that I'm hoping to publish as a campaign setting through Wizard's DMsGuild platform.

And I do really get down on some awesome western RPGs/video games, particularly stuff created like Baldur's Gate, the Witcher series, Mass Effect and Dragon Age, etc. Choice/narrative-driven RPGs.

[bakasama25]

Baldut's Gate? Isn't that considered the best computer RPG?

Anyway have ever played Divinity: Original Sin. or Pillars of Eternity? Those play a lot like Baldur's Gate.

[shazzbaa]

I lost touch with my old group so I haven't played in a year or two, but I freakin' love D&D!

I've looked into FATE (I'd love to try it) and played a game of Savage Worlds, but D&D was my first love, haha!

[Aloredd]

I like playing the MMORPGs like World of Warcraft for pc and Destiny for the Xbox One....I haven't played any table top RPGs but I'd like to one day.

[Iaikaa]

I don't have any tabletop rpg experience in the past but after planning and fixing timetables for almost a year we finally got to start our tabletop rpg a couple of weeks ago and even though everyone was kinda clumsy with the play since we are not that well adjusted to the rules yet it was a ton of fun! We are playing Shadowrun and I've already gotten so invested in my character and her backstory it's kinda insane. We have the next session next week and I can't wait!

I really like the style and lore of Shadowrun universe all together since I was first introduced to it by the Shadowrun Crossfire deckbuilding game (which is nice too, between our group of 5 people we own 3 copies of the game, haha). I like more modern fantasy stuff instead of high fantasy and I feel like Shadowrun does work perfectly for me in that aspect.

[JustMarshma]

Getting the party together is always the hardest part XD

[JustMarshma]

GURPS is, in my opinion the best system for rp, never got much into pathfinder, honestly the D&D system is very unbalanced and Path tries to fix everything but still isn't convincing to me. But ehh honestly it all depends on what kind of campaign you role

[donathinfrye]

@bakasama25 Some people would say that Baldur's Gate is one of the best RPGs ever. I dunno. There's also Planescape: Torment and a lot of other great ones that people make arguments for.

Honestly, and maybe it's because they're newer, but I personally think that The Witcher 3 and the Mass Effect Trilogy are the best video game RPGs that I've ever played. I love the others too, though! Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity are pretty cool -- particularly their combat systems are neat. Their stories didn't hook me as much as some others.

@shazzbaa 5th Edition's a lot of fun. Roll20 makes for a pretty awesome online platform to play it, which sort of helps with the problems that a lot of folks have of getting a group together regularly. I'm surprised the Tapastic community doesn't have a Roll20 game run by creators who wanna livestream the campaign. That's some hotness in marketing land right now, and I'd love to see what a bunch of comic artists/writers do when thrown together in a good campaign.

@Iaikaa Shadowrun is fantastic! It's D&D cyberpunk with some really great lore and character hooks. Some other fun campaign settings that I tend to really dig ... Ravenloft (gothic fantasy/horror), Dark Sun (post-apocalyptic magic/fantasy) and Spelljammer (space magic!) If you dig Shadowrun, I think those might be some settings worth checking out for your next game. : )

[joannekwan]

I don't think I can do RP's. Like I enjoy video games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect where it's all scripted out for me and I just pick dialogue options. And I enjoy thinking of OCs and how they would fit into a particular world and interact with established characters (finished an Overwatch OC a couple days ago). But when it comes to actively assuming a role and basically improving, that's tougher.

[shazzbaa]

5th Edition's a lot of fun. Roll20 makes for a pretty awesome online platform to play it, which sort of helps with the problems that a lot of folks have of getting a group together regularly.

I'd definitely love to try 5th at some point. : ) I grabbed the player's handbook when it first came out and it looks awesome!

And my old group used Roll20!! We actually weren't local at all -- we were friends from art college, so after college we were spread all across the US -- and I'll definitely speak to Roll20 being a really excellent tool. I played a necromancer, so being able to position my various armies of undead was kinda vital in big fights, haha!

[donathinfrye]

@shazzbaa Much love for Minion Masters <3 I've been DMing campaigns for the past seven years, but it looks like our current homebrew 5e campaign will end soon and I'll get to finally be a player again. I think that I wanna play an eco-terrorist. That sounds fun.

[hunterblackwriter]

I've been playing table top RPGs for something like 35 years. At the risk of self-promotion, my webcomic dips VERY deeply into my old D&D adventures and campaigns.

I enjoy role-playing for its own sake and don't feel constrained by genre...but easily 90% of all the gaming I've ever done has been playing some iteration of Dungeons & Dragons. I'd love to play more horror games, but life prevents me from playing as much as I would like.

[hunterblackwriter]

5th Edition is amazing. It's quite possibly the best version of the game thus far, and I've played them all. It manages to simplify the game in the ways that 4e intended, without dumbing the game down, which 4e certainly did.

[igneriss]

Yes it is! and keeping the party together, I can't count in how many rp parties I've been ; -;

[hdvictor]

I've never role played but it's something I always wanted to do, I just never had the friends that are also into it. I do play RPG video games though, haha. But my comic characters actually DO role play whenever they enter different gaming realms (Shameless promotion, sorry!) https://tapastic.com/series/Random-Time-Encounters

[almondjoy445]

I've done some forum roleplay as well as RPG video games, but I have yet to try tabletop roleplaying and I'd like to one of these days.

[bakasama25]

From what I understand how those tabletop games work. it's a bit more work but you get more options to make your characters.