There is a giant gaping hole in my life, that can be filled only by HOT TABLETOP RPG ACTION. Ro and Simon have expressed interest, and I am vaguely willing to DM. Now I need to find a few more players and decide, pre-existing universe or EarthDawn. Hmmmm.
Or, better yet, find another to drink of this cup, and be a player myself. =)
Um, depending on the game, i might be up for playing. Been a while
was it you …
that was telling me that earthdawn had been revised so that it wasn’t so awful?
neato world, poo poo system.
you know that i’m a 3rd edition d&d ho, but i’m too far away to play anyhow. i’d run the game if i had players .. but alas.
Re: was it you …
Probably not me. I’ve always liked the EarthDawn system. It does have the eye-rolling class system going on, but beyond that I think it does pretty well.
D&D is like microsoft, imho. It’s only running the show because of marketing, not because of system superiority (though I will grant that third ed made it much, much happier).
Re: was it you …
right .. and i enjoy using my common base ms software because it works and gets the job done, and i can even do things that i enjoy on my computer. much like 3rd edition – the latest rev of ms shit isn’t so bad either.
i wouldn’t play 2nd edition to spare my soul eternal torment. 3rd is a sound system with little effort to understand. having to refer to the book for 1/4 of a game session (“oh, i don’t know if class-x can do this .. let’s check!”) bugs the snot outta me.
i can’t commute down there to play anyhow, so it’s moot.
if someone would commute up here to play tho, i would gladly run. 😉 we covered this ages ago, tho. ah well.
*looks for dice*
i was a huge tabletop rpg geek from 6th to 10th grade.. i had the rule books, the dice, the character sheets.. (D&D and Paranoia mostly, never got into AD&D).
ya know what? I never played one real game in that time. Not one. It was just me and my *two* friends, and that eventually became one friend (yay for nerd outcasts!)
so.. hrm. definetly curious to see what that would be like
>> Allen
Do you still have the Paranoia books?
Heavens.. you really are just stalking me now, arent you? When was this even posted??
Sadly no, I lost all of those books during a very ugly seperation process involving my mother and her husband, during my senior year of high school.
I think that might argue that I’m stalking him, not you. Perhaps this is just the, um, Paranoia, talking? : )
Nah, I’m reassured on the stalking front. Just the knowledge that I am not receiving unique treatment helped. I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. 😉
Shift from the Sci Fi to the fantasy (AD&D) or at least a combo (Rifts)… and Im there! 🙂
Nah, no sci-fi for this monkey. Fantasy or bust. =)
Wuss
As an “always the DM, never the player” I have the following advice:
Run the game yourself, you pansy!
As an Earthdawn owner who never played it, I encourage you to run Earthdawn so that I can read about it on LJ. On the other hand, you may want to run something people are actually likely to own and want to play.
Re: Wuss
Yes, oh bringer of pain. =)
I simply hope that I may bring half so much torment as you have, sir. 😉
hack’n’slash
While having no interest in the supposed joy of low-quality adlib acting err… I mean role-playing, I certainly did enjoy the semi-mindless hack’n’slash of teen-aged D&D with interesting mysteries and puzzles tossed in for spice. I’d like to try playing some Warhammer Quest, Talisman, Hero’s Quest, or When Darkness Comes myself.
RPG-lite, often no DM, a miniature feel, and you’re definitely done with the adventure in 3 hours at most. Anyone intersted? This stuff is mostly OutOfPrint so I’d have to do some digging.