Do you play pencil&paper RPGs?

I played D&D before the Advanced version came out. God it was so fun. And then AD&D for years. Plus I own and used to dabble with:

Champions (and later the Hero RPG System, which was one of the best systems ever)
Vampire The Masquerade (along with the other Storyteller titles)
Top Secret
Boot Hill
Star Frontiers
Middle Earth Roleplaying
DC Heros
Shadowrun
Marvel Superheros
Mechwarrior
James Bond Roleplaying
and a bunch of others.

Hmm..what was the one by TSR, set in a post-nuclear holocost world, where you could be a Pure Strain Human, Mutant or Mutated Animal. That was a fun one and I have it somewhere. Edit: Gamma World!! That one had so much potential!

I still have boxes of RPG stuff stacked in the closet.

I used to love DM'ing in AD&D and created my own campaign world with very detailed maps, religions, economy and history.

I haven't played any of them in about 12 years, but would love to try it again, though I fear it might not be all that fun anymore.

That would be Gamma World.

It was recently re-liscenced by Sword and Sorcery studios and released for D20, but in my opinion, and that of other fans of the series, it kinda fell flat. Darwin's World was done heavily in the Gamma World theme and is a much better port of the game to the D20 system.

Darwin's World

I used to be into D&D when 2nd edition was out..but I havn't done that in awhile. Of course, we used to say basically screw the rules anyway, so it was sort of a pseudo D&D system where mainly the DM (myself usually) had ultimate rule over things.

So I was like a dictator. he he

Experience? Bleh! Who needs it!!!! I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR CHARACTERS LEVEL UP!

Saving throws? What? Shut up! ...We don't need that formalized crap! I will decide how this situation will be handled. What's your STR? Oh, that's it? Well roll this D8 here... oops, well I guess that means he's stronger than you. Oh well. He just kicked your ass by the way.

You want to do WHAT? Here...roll this D100... if you get a 100, it'll work.

Armor class? What? Be quiet...that's a waste of time. That's a dragon in front of you, I don't care what you have there. You're only gonna hit on a 16 or higher and that's a gift. If you're not happy with that, I'm sure he'll feel pity on you if you wet yourself. Well maybe not.

Hehe, this is the best way to rule your P&P empires...really. Worked great for us... in fact, whenever we tried the more formalized system we always thought it was too many rules.

I've played D&D in all it's incarnations for years. Most of my old group still plays once a month. Back in high school we also dabbled with Judge Dredd, Cyberpunk, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

For pure realism and adrenalin-pumping fun, I absolutely *love* Cyberpunk2020's combat system. It's always felt so much more authentic than the dual-weilding broadsword, fight-brilliantly-til-you-drop combat systems of many other games. The high mortality rate during the first few reckless firefights really makes you think twice before running in, guns blazing...

Shadowrun is good in this regard too; no surprise, they are extremely similar in many ways.

Nothing like having your orc 'runner and the stuffer shack clerk staring at each other, guns drawn, deciding if it's really worth the risk...

Of course, the game tends to devolve into the nitty-gritty at times... "I'm going to have the gunsmith add gryo stabalizers, blowback vents, and a smart-link system to my custom rebuild of an Ares Predator...", and having each of those things actually mean something.

Sorry, I don't have any of it converted to PDF. I've some luck finding old RPG books on Ebay and Half.com though. It's been really surprising to find obscure books for a decent price ther!

Ya know, its funny you should mention PARANOIA. I was JUST talking to a friend about how cool it would be to run "live" paranoia in SL. I wonder if we could get a croup of paranoia players together, pool tier, buy a sim and BUILD alpha complex (well part of it anywaz). If we ciould formalize and script friend computer and his inner workings, and some of the gadgets and weapons... this would be an AQWESOME place for some free form troubleshooting.

That's about the only idea I could come up with for something to do if I had an entire sim at my disposal. On a more general note, I'm suprised that SL isn't used more regularly to do roleplaying games. It provides a location, communication, and the ability to create things at will to help players visualize the situation or even get more into it (such as SL Alpha Complex idea).

It's been tried a few times. Back when Aleph was being developed I had a room I had set up for gaming... It had dice-rollers and such, all gathered around a table, and some other scripted items...

Hard to get players together, I found :/

At some point I may package up the stuff I had made and put them for sale somewhere.

I'm a huge RPG'er... here is a list of some of the games that I have played over the many years:

Spycraft
Legend of the Five Rings
Robotech RPG
Marvel Super Heroes (original TSR version)
Top Secret/Top Secret S/I
Traveller
Star Wars d6
Rifts
Heroes Unlimited
Champions/Hero System
White Wolf Storyteller System
and of course, D&D (although I am not a huge fantasy genre fan... have moved away from the game a long time ago)

Bye bye for now,
Alexis

forgive me, but this customer feedback for a store just amuses the hell out of me:

"Wow. I was amazed to get my bag of dice with such expediency. I ordered the Pound-Of-Dice Sunday night and asked for it shipped regular mail. It arrived Wednesday morning! In the future, I WILL be doing all my future RPG business with RPGSHOP.COM. "

That friend wouldn't happen to be Deevyde Maelstorm, would it? If not, I'd hit him up in game if I were you. He's the Paranoia-live citizen who brought me into SL, runs the Brainiacs, has done games of Assasian and an incredible giant Pong game...though I think that general RL busy-ness has kept him from running events lately. Doing Paranoia in SL is somewhere near the top of his list of future projects. >:)

For my own part, lately I've been toying with the idea of developing some tabletop gaming accessories of the sort Reitsuki was describing...dice, maps, miniatures, etc. Or developing a LARP-like system (SLARP?) that can be done in a decent sized room with the needed backgrounds rezzing in and out as needed, which is considerably more cost-effective than developing a whole sim.

And just for kicks...yesterday I was bored/procrastinating/in a PARANOIA mood so I turned to the equipment section of my shiny PARANOIA XP rulebook and made a replica of a Troubleshooter's laser pistol. Now just have to convince Deevyde to script it for me. >:)

AD&D, (mostly Forgotten Realms and my favorite, Al Qadim) Runequest, Shadow Run, Call of Cthuluh, (modern and 1920s, my favorite setting) Vampire, (Dark Ages and normal) Mage, Changeling, Werewolf, Wraith, In Nomine, Fairy Queen and Country, Amazing Engine, Gamma World, Space 1889, World of Greyhawk... I'm sure there are a few more I've forgotten.

We used to table-top game, as we call it, every Saturday or every other Saturday, and have marathon sessions that lasted for for nearly 24 hours. We played most games with the same group of 10-15 people, so there was a lot of comraderie that made them really fun, and a lot of grudges that made them even more fun

I, couldn't get into ADnD because of Thaco. That drove me insane, negitive numbers are icky. So I played G.U.R.P.S. for a while until D20 system came out. Then DragonStar came out, that was hot. DragonStar was what Spell Jammer was supposed to be. Then no one played Dragon Star. Oh yeah, has anyone heard of Pin Dragon. I remember that game was nuts.

Started with Chainmail and Swords and Spells - then to original DnD (3 itty booklets with parchment covers) then AD&D - 1st and 2nd Ed. Metamorphosis Alpha (later to be Gamma World)
Went through a lot of games as they came out 1st ed. - Rolemaster, Aftermath, Space Opera, Traveller, Thieves Guild, Tunnels and Trolls.

After a realizing that complexity wasn't the virtue I thought it was I settled with Runequest - becoming my fave system to run fantasy games...

Then onto the silly games, thinking back on it I was the only one in our group that would run them (fancy that!) - Bunnies and Burrows, Paranoia, Toon, Fuzzy heroes.

I played but rarely ran a few horror games V:TM, Werewolf, Mage, Call of Cthulhu.

Shadowrun, SPQR, James Bond, Mercenary Spies and Private Eyes, Pandemonium, Pendragon... and too many others to dredge up...

After my regular group disbanded and went our merry ways I took to coding Muds and writing comedy based games for Australian game conventions.

Siggy.

I'm an avid RPGer; indeed, i'm a frequent poster on the rpg.net forums.

Like many other rpg.netters, I tend to play niche games, in the same way computer gamers can spout on at great length about great games nobody's ever heard of.

Right now, Exalted - from White Wolf - is my number one hit, but Unknown Armies and a lil' game called Nobilis are ones I'd like to play more.

(Unknown Armies is a great modern occult/high wierdness game. I especially like the second edition combat chapter, which begins with a bit about how to avoid a fight... and ends something like: "but maybe the other guy is just too stupid to deal, or you just HAVE to bust somebody's head. In that case, here are the rules for simulating the murder of other human beings." It's a good way to get people out of 'kill things and take their stuff' mindset...)

I would buy die rollers. Different rollers for d4, d8 d10, d20 and d100 that whispers the result would be fantastic.

--v

I could post all the RPGs I have played but no one wants to take the time to read it all and don’t want to take the time to write it all out. LOL I will say I am a White Wolf fan boy. I was sad to see the old World of Darkness come to a end. Then I seen the new one. I have to say I like the new one better. I meet my wife RPGing. Wife and I are looking for people to RPG with. Our old ST/DM/GM moved to seatil. Our other game friends moved to Davenport. We are stuck in the Chicago land with no one to play with. Well I have found a few but I don’t want to play with them, they are strange even by my reckoning. LOL

Egads! I totally forgot Top Secret...Man, we used to play that game for hours

OMG Paranoia! Haven't heard that one in AGES! Awesome!

Let's see if I can remember al the ones I have played over the past 20-something years:

D&D up thru 3.5 rules (We still play every other Sunday! YAY!)
Traveller, Megatraveller, TNE, T4, GURPS Traveller
Gamma World
Star Frontiers
Cyberpunk
Top Secret
Gangbusters!
Robotech RPG
Mechwarrior
Star Wars RPG
Champions
Doctor Who
Amazing Engine! (kinda like GURPS if I recall correctly)
Marvel Super Heroes
I'm sure I missed some too)

:: figurine based games ::
Battletech
Warzone
Warhammer/Warhammer 40k
Space Hulk

A bunch also invented our own RPG called Portalriders... it was like a cross between Time Bandits and Quantum Leap I guess you could say... you could be ANYONE you wanted, fantasy, modern, scifi, magic, psionic, etc. it didn't matter. Made for soem great role playing! And the best part was, we structured the entire game so that all you needed was a pair of 10-siders... the entire system was percentage-based!

Happy Gaming!
Arti

LOL my current Dwarven Fighter is named Thac0 Hellbringer!!!! I absulutely HATED calculating THAC0's LOL I also made him use a GREATSWORD instead of the old standard "Dwarf with the axe" which I can't stand. It's SO stereotypical! LOL The only problem is that I can NOT find a figurine for him!!! I guess I will have to mod one :: sigh ::

Yea I love D20, MUCH MUCH better system!

Well Been playing for years. All of it.
Currently I play DnD 3.5 and Gurps Traveller.
Also, I am a miniatures gamer as well

I haven't played one of those in about 15 years

My favourite was always Paranoia. There's a custom Java app for facilitating games, but I've never tried it. It's supposedly pretty decent, though.

Nope, I don't even know what they are... lol.