The Pen-And-Paper RPG thread! Options

[Colonel Mustard]

Just posted this up out of curiosity to see who here on the forums plays any kind of Pen-And-Paper/Tabletop RPGs in the vein of D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Exalted etc. I'm a player of Pathfinder (think D&D version 3.75) and have dabbled in Call of Cthluhu and the Warhammer 40,000 RPGs, and I'm just interested in seeing what people on the forum have done in regard in regard to these games, seeing as these boards are devoted to an RPG series; you a hardened veterans of the dungeon crawl? An exhausted, baffled and exasperated DM? A fresh-faced level 1 fighter with little experience of the game and no idea why the DM keeps bursting into tears whenever you suggest Bull Rushing somebody? Or are you just RPG-curious*?

Anyway, this is the Colonel Mustard totally not a survey to see if he's truly alone in this harsh, dark world thread. Do have fun, and I am curious to see how many vidja gamers play on the tabletop as well.


*Like Bi-curious but with a much smaller chance of actually having sex.

[Lady Saga]

A friend introduced me and my brother to The Fantasy Trip (TFT) back in high school, in the mid 1980s! Yeah...long time ago! At the time, I was a sophmore, and running with a druggy crowd, which (of course) irked my folks to no end. I wanted to get away from all that, and turn-based RPGs were the answer.

TFT is similar to DnD, but it has a different system of attributes, making it impossible for a high-level character to wind up with a zillion hit points. I think the most hit points a PC could have (a Conan type of PC) was 30, which took a long time (years) to build up. Most PCs started with somewhere between 8 and 16 hit points.

I think TFT went out of business at some point, because their installments (their dungeon crawl books) stopped showing up in the stores after a few years. At that point we really started getting dorky, and began to hybridize TFT with DnD, because DnD had a much larger system of rules, monsters, installments, etc. Basically, if you could think of any subject (taxes, for instance) DnD most likely had some rules to play by.

I played tabletop games probably into my 2nd year of college (early 90s), but by then all my friends and brother were off to their own colleges, and it's not much fun trying to play by yourself! I really wanted to find a videogame that simulated roleplaying games in real-time (starting with the original Nintendo/Legend of Zelda), and it took many years of course to find Oblivion. Soon as I read a review about Oblivion here on the 'net, it literally took me less than an hour to rush to GameSTop, buy Oblivion AND a PS3!

To answer your question, Mustard, I don't game tabletops anymore. I jsut don't have the time. My friend who originally introduced me to RPGs in the 80s still does, though, and he's been trying to get me to come visit and do some tabletop gaming with him (he lives about 3 hours away) but ...it'll probably never happen. BAck in high school, we had all summer to get a game going. Nowadays we all have full-time jobs, kids, and (gah) responsibilities!

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Oct 23 2012, 06:29 PM