Roleplaying Games + Your Story

Zaboem 2017-12-15 05:02:47 UTC #1

Please tell me about the relationship between your comic/novel and roleplaying games. Was your cyberpunk magnum opus inspired by an epic session of Shadowrun that you played? Are you developing your fantasy world into a gritty GURPS module? Do you create character sheets for all of your main characters to keep in your series notebook?

I have seen mention of at least one creator other than myself mention creating an original game. Some earlier threads asked some more targeted questions like Do You Play D&D. I have not found a nice general discussion thread about Tapas stories and gaming, so I am starting one.

P.S. Post those character sheets.

Tycade 2017-12-15 14:18:40 UTC #2

My comic and gaming go hand in hand. I am creating the comic as a script for a video game, but also, it's very VERY inspired by games such as Devil May Cry, Bloodborne, and Xenoblade. I don't create character sheets for all my characters, because a lot of the time I am adding them in as I go. What I do however do, is draw a full art page on the character after I've shown them in the comic (when I have the time!) and use that to base their posing and reactions in the comic. Wanna read mine? Here's the link!

DiegoPalacios 2017-12-15 14:36:36 UTC #3

Making d&d caracters and roleplaying them affected the way i make characters for my comic.

I try to know how my characters may react in any situation and like playing characters with different personalities. Some of the examples from d&d 3.5 campaigns i played:

1- kelgar: a human fighter-wizard who is a casanova-wannabe with a huge ego who loves posing, boasting and showing off. He was extremely emotional but he considered himself a hero. And because of that he would help people in need. His catch phrase was: iiiiiii'm Kelgar!!. His familiar was a raven that shouted compliments to him. (Neutral good)

2- haruk of the north: a tall, muscular and stoic human monk with a strong spirit of self-sacrifice and strong convictions. He would do the right thing even if it ends up badly to him.
.(lawful good)

3-edward tenebro necromus mephisto: a creepy behaving warlock who uses his invisibility invocation to appear behind people with umconfortable timing. Everything he says sounds like an umconfortable innuendo or like he will murder you in your sleep or do something unsettling. He operates in unhortodox ways and focuses only in results. The people who knows him get used to his creepiness. The paladin of the party not detecting evil on him, (because he was neutral )helped.
(chaotic neutral)

Here is my comic, is a comedy about that parodies the legendary hero fated to save the world from the forces of evil, but with a twist: the main character is an actual inanimate rock

Zaboem 2017-12-15 19:38:58 UTC #4

Because nobody asked for it, here is a link to the game. I decided to publish the rules directly into the novel. Upcoming chapters will continue to alternate between fiction and an RPG rulebook at irregular intervals. The rules are actually quite short, so they won't last too long.

Ghostie 2017-12-16 01:47:35 UTC #5

Not gonna lie, my world is from a 600 page RP and the original main characters (not the main chars in the comic, this was way before) were a halfling necromancer and a half-elf rogue. XD We played D&D before, and a lot of the monsters and stuff in the original cut before I edited it all into a novel had to have their names changed to something original instead of from the monster manuals. It was a pretty wild ride. Even now, there's some D&D elements in it, like different races, and I plan to drop a joke here or there that's kinda meta, lol.

JediM 2017-12-16 09:38:43 UTC #6

My story is entirely the result of me RPing characters in video games. Amellen in "The Hungry Lions: is directly based on a CK 2 game. It's a bit of a spoiler but I started that game as Edward III as a child and my goal was to make Edward III survive his regency. By the end, Edward had killed most of his relatives for their treason, fallen in love with a woman he could never have, and other tragic things. By the end, I had this character in my head and I had to tell his story. I also added in some events from my exceptionally tragic Ironman Mount and Blade campaign.

I have another comic in the works that will follow my pacifistic huckster character from D&D and his literal deal with the devil.

feba5 2017-12-16 11:11:53 UTC #7

I'm super inspired by videogames (dark souls <3) and books, but for me it's the opposite right now, me and my friends are studing rule and games to create a campaign in the world that i'm writing here on tapas, and it's gonna be cool man

SoFt 2017-12-20 21:19:20 UTC #8

While I've only dabbled in tabletop, I play console RPGs alllll the time. The work I presently have here, Sanguine, was inspired by a series of vampire-based questions and supernatural being observations that I posed to a co-worker and fellow nerd of mine. Those questions and observations were in turn inspired by my extensive play of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. Specifically, the DLC titled "Blood and Wine," which heavily featured vampire characters.

As a matter of fact, I used two of the characters from that DLC as visual reference points for the clothing styles and physical bearing of two of the characters in Sanguine. So, I'd say it's had a pretty strong influence in respect to the setting if not the plot and characterizations =P .

I have a separate story in the works that borrows much more inadvertently from Final Fantasy XV in that it features a modern/futuristic fantasy setting with a King as a vital mystical lynchpin nonetheless somewhat out of place in the modern society. I'm pleased enough to say that all of my stories are quite different from the things that inspire them, but I'm not shy about inserting little shout-outs and the like here and there. Ain't nothin' new under the sun, after all.