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.

[Grits]

I played AD&D with my brother and his friends way back in the day. We were too young for jobs and our parents thought it was all about devil worship, so we managed with one kid’s allowance and my babysitting money. We had the Player’s Handbook and the Monster Manual, plus I think one or maybe two modules. So I got some graph paper and made things up. It was tremendous fun. I still have my blue canvas binder with pen drawings on it, and somewhere in the attic lurks a bag full of dice.

I would love to see more activity on the roleplaying threads here. I’m one of the silent readers.

[Lady Saga]

I played AD&D with my brother and his friends way back in the day. We were too young for jobs and our parents thought it was all about devil worship, so we managed with one kid’s allowance and my babysitting money. We had the Player’s Handbook and the Monster Manual, plus I think one or maybe two modules. So I got some graph paper and made things up. It was tremendous fun. I still have my blue canvas binder with pen drawings on it, and somewhere in the attic lurks a bag full of dice.

I still have all my dice, I still actively use them here and there for TES! I also have all my old books. I sometimes consult my Monster Manuals to compare DnD monsters (goblins, for instance) and humanoids to TES's versions. I do notice that Beth does seem to take into consideration some ancient facts, like trolls regenerating health and having a weakness to fire. Ghosts not being affected by "normal" weapons, etc.

I spent a lot of money back in the day, too. Hundreds of dollars, I'm sure. Far more than I've spent on TES's games so far. Not just on books, but also on all the little figureines they sold in the hobby stores. We'd buy those and paint them, which added to the fun, but this means we were also buying paints and paintbrushes by the dozen.

To answer your Q, Mustard, I will check out the MSN/Skype at some point, but I can't promise I'll join. My schedule would just get in the way at some point, but I'll look into it.
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This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Dec 4 2012, 05:52 PM

[PhonAntiPhon]

I still have all my dice, I still actively use them here and there for TES!

that's a great idea!
I used to play loads actually - I played a chaotic evil thief in AD&D, as I recall. Had loads of figures and everything.
At uni I playedva lot of Warhammer 40k.

[Lady Saga]

I still have all my dice, I still actively use them here and there for TES!

that's a great idea!
I used to play loads actually - I played a chaotic evil thief in AD&D, as I recall. Had loads of figures and everything.
At uni I playedva lot of Warhammer 40k.

I can actually recite from my (bad) memory my best characters from back in the day. And yea, I'm at work and I'm bored.

The Blue Wizard: Was probably my first character, whom I created at age 14 perhaps, hence the unoriginal name. He lasted very many years, and could make himself invisible, teleport to many destinations, etc. We adopted a system of Feudalism into our game at some point (super-geeks we were, this is the pen & paper version of mods, lol) and TBW became a Baron, owning land and collecting taxes. I made a TES version of TBW, whose name was The Grey Wizard. He's the one who saved Tamriel from Oblivion, and now has very little to do, other than receive constant compliments and chase pretty Arcane Uni apprentices around.

Randorf: a dual-wielding swordsman who wore enchanted light armors and also lasted a very long time. I am thinking of making a Skyrim version of Randorf, who will also dual-wield. I am a little hesitant though, because of the lack of blocking.

Simone: sword & board elf who also wore enchanted light armors. Simone lasted a long time, too. He died, though, while on his way from the Blue Wizard's castle to his homeland, a forest full of other high elves. He traveled alone for this journey, as I got overconfident and did not have anybody accompany him. Big mistake. At night he was surprised (lost initiative) by 3 dire wolves, who did double damage, triple damage, double damage. Since he lost initiative, and did make his 'saving throw', all this damage was compounded. Simone was dead. I could not believe it. Simone would have normally swept the floor while fighting 3 wolves.

To portray how rare this occurance would have happened, imagine rolling 3 6-sided dice three times (to simulate the wolves attacking). First roll would have been two 1s and a two (4) which was double-damage, second roll would have been three 1s (triple damage), and the third roll was another double. Try rolling some dice to see how rare this sort of attack would show up. This is why I believe in some sort of random 'fate', even in our games.

Justine: she was a mace-wielding fighter, and was Randorf's girlfriend. She died at some point, though, while fighting some boss-type NPC. I forget the details.

I also had a cleric, paladin, a halfling thief who could pick any lock, and other typical old-skool RPG type characters, but I'm not remembering names and details. There was also a long string of hirelings who would want to carry stuff, but who would get over-eager and rush into combat and die.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 4 2013, 05:06 PM