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]

I always wated to play DnD ever since I found the 3rd edition monster book, I was into, well monsters back then, when I dug more into the whole pen and paper thin I had really wanted to try it, but all the response I would get would be, "That's for losers."
I still been trying to hunt down a group for few years already.

Keep trying, they're out there. I would think the Internet makes it much easier than when I was active.

People said "it's for losers" or "dweebs" (or whatever) back in the 80s, too. But whateva. Guess I am a loser and a dweeb because to this day I still have fond memories of tabletop gaming, but I am also proud to be a loser and a dweeb. It's funny how in videogames it is cool to play an RPG nowadays, but for tabletops it's still considered a 'no no' or a shunned product or something..

But it does take a LOT of time. Figure a fight which takes 30 seconds in TES could take up to an hour or two in DnD (all those dice rolls, pencil notations, etc.) Still lots of fun if you've got a group to play with.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Dec 1 2012, 03:23 PM