Who plays real RPGs (pen & paper)

[eL_PuSHeR]

Every now and then, when I am not working, meaning mainly on Sundays, I play with my friends some game of Call of Cthulhu or Aquelarre, my favourites.
After that, we usually get fed up with pizza or chinese food. Cool.

[Starscream]

I play D&D now and then with some friends.

It's always good stuff.

I wanna cast a spell! :)

[pelly]

:confused:

What do you do when you get together to "play" this game?

I have never done anything like this, so I have absolutely no clue....

:D

[Onde Pik]

Originally posted by pelly
:confused:

What do you do when you get together to "play" this game?

I have never done anything like this, so I have absolutely no clue....

:D

Well typically, one person is the game master(GM), and the rest are characters in the game. The good GM has an overall storyline idea, that the characters might or might not follow. The GM has to be imaginative and should not be afraid to pause the game for a few minutes to think, when something doesnt go as planed. Well ehh.,.. enough about the GM.

People will usually sit at a table with pen paper and dice. Each character has a character sheet and the GM has a rulebook and possibly a map of the place in question aswell as notes about the plot. The best RPG's are strictly verbal. Meaning that you don't move lame character pieces around on the table. The GM starts the game by positioning the characters somewhere and opening up the story. People then comunicate what they want to do and how they want to do it. They play their character fully, by speaking with a strange accent and cursing alot if they are some drunken old dwarf. Or try to be as gay as possible if they are an elf ;)

I have no idea if this was what u meant ;)

[eL_PuSHeR]

It's somehow like starring a little theatre act.
Very imaginative and fun.

[pelly]

Hmm......very interesting....strange.....but interesting....

So the characters are essentially making things up as they go according to some loose storyline???

What is the overall objective/point? If it truly is a Role Playing Game, there must be a winner of sorts.....how does someone win???

:confused:

[FastM]

Originally posted by pelly
Hmm......very interesting....strange.....but interesting....

LMAO, My thoughts exactly.

I remember seeing kids on my elementery school bus playing D&D but i could never come close to understanding what was going on.

[fastguy94416]

There are some kids playing magic and stuff at lunch, but I just make fun of em :D

[Starscream]

Originally posted by pelly
What is the overall objective/point? If it truly is a Role Playing Game, there must be a winner of sorts.....how does someone win???
:confused:

There is never one real "winner". The goal though is to accomplish whatever quest or mission the GM/DM has set out for you.

[Vash]

I used to play 2nd ed. D&D, and then some 3rd, but most of my time was taken up by 2nd ed. Star Wars. But then, those days are over. All my gaming buddies live in a different state now.

[-=DVS=-]

Originally posted by Onde Pik
Well typically, one person is the game master(GM), and the rest are characters in the game. The good GM has an overall storyline idea, that the characters might or might not follow. The GM has to be imaginative and should not be afraid to pause the game for a few minutes to think, when something doesnt go as planed. Well ehh.,.. enough about the GM.

People will usually sit at a table with pen paper and dice. Each character has a character sheet and the GM has a rulebook and possibly a map of the place in question aswell as notes about the plot. The best RPG's are strictly verbal. Meaning that you don't move lame character pieces around on the table. The GM starts the game by positioning the characters somewhere and opening up the story. People then comunicate what they want to do and how they want to do it. They play their character fully, by speaking with a strange accent and cursing alot if they are some drunken old dwarf. Or try to be as gay as possible if they are an elf ;)

I have no idea if this was what u meant ;)

HeHe this sounds like alot of fun :D

[Darth Rancid]

I used to... but unfortenately those days are history now... and since many of the character-sheets have gone missing, the heroes of those days have passed into legend...

[marqmajere]

Oh they are alot of fun (till the GM kicks you out of his campaign, the jerk). I play D&D 3rd Ed. sometimes. EQ been eating up free time. So has Twisted Metal Online (they FINALLY sent it)

Marqus

[SurfMonkey]

I used to play DnD and ADnD up until my A levels, we also kicked out with Blood Bowl, Call Of Cthulhu, TMNT, Paranoia, Rune, Warhammer. And just for kicks we went out to do some Live Role Playing up in the mountains of Scotland and around the lakes in Kilarney in Ireland. That was great fun, then they invented paintball and we did quite alot of that.

I think equivalent to RPG teams have been replaced by LAN parties and UT teams. How things move on, from games of pure imagination to games where half the work is done for you but the adrenaline rush is still there.