Do you play pen-&-paper roleplaying games?

[Russell of Los Angeles]

I'm bumping up this old thread so more people can take the poll.

I used to have some of the old D&D boxed sets (the series that started with the red box), and i made a couple of my own games. Like others, I spent much more time thinking and reading about the games than playing them.

I thought it'd be fun to collect the newest D&D books, even if I never play. Anybody have an opinion of them other than "tripe"?

[Tiamo]

I played them all, from the rather primitive D&D, via AD&D (the Gygax version), AD&D II, D&D 3 up until D&D 3.5. Plus some local variations.
Never played D&D 4 though, heard some real bad things about that, way too commercial and tending towards an adventuring game rather than a Role Playing Game.

I still have the original D&D boxes (red, blue & green, not the black one).

[*Wiro]

I used to play these games a friend of me made.
It was on paper and he'd draw things that happen.

Like, a small town with all kinds of buildings and people. And all you have is your house, your empty inventory and your character. And then you needed to work at the pizza-shop and stuff. lol. It was random but epic.

[Piscator]

Like, a small town with all kinds of buildings and people. And all you have is your house, your empty inventory and your character. And then you needed to work at the pizza-shop and stuff. lol. It was random but epic.

Used to play similar games with my brother when we were young and no computer was around. I even know someone who played a similar game with Lego.

Of the regular pen & paper games I only tried Shadowrun and The Dark Eye. Never played regularly though.

[Dudel]

Once or Twice... perfered Tradeing card games in High School. I've played a few Shadowrun D&D games and 1 or 2 rule 2.5 D&D games as well. I think it was 2.5.

[trexdino]

I play D&D, Star Wars, and some of the Super hero ones. I know, I am a geek.

Maybe we could play a game over the forums sometime.

[joo]

I've never been into physical RPGs. The first game that really got me into the expanded genre was Might and Magic - and that is entirely computer-based. Also, computer RPGs are so much more versatile. Why would you want to limit yourself to the real world?

edit: Actually reading some of the previous posts brought up some memories - I used to play drawing-based games with my brother such as "fights" where each turn we added one new body part to our characters that was either defending against a tentacle, or stabbing the other character's leg, or whatever. The page always got filled up with the most random and hilarous shit, especially when we ran out of space and made modifications to the previously drawn limbs

We also tried a more "rts" style gameplay where each turn we would draw a new unit onto a battlefield that was attacking the enemy army. Yes... a pen and some paper can be very versatile tools when you're bored.

[Piscator]

I always thought that you had much more freedom in a p&p game than in a computer game. Are we talking about the same thing?

[*Wiro]

edit: Actually reading some of the previous posts brought up some memories - I used to play drawing-based games with my brother such as "fights" where each turn we added one new body part to our characters that was either defending against a tentacle, or stabbing the other character's leg, or whatever. The page always got filled up with the most random and hilarous shit, especially when we ran out of space and made modifications to the previously drawn limbs

We also tried a more "rts" style gameplay where each turn we would draw a new unit onto a battlefield that was attacking the enemy army. Yes... a pen and some paper can be very versatile tools when you're bored.

We still do these things at school.

[Rebma]

This girl has no clue what they are.

[DylPickle]

Never played. I pirated pdf versions of the shadowrun rulebooks a long time ago though. Never really had the free time to read through them too well though, and I doubt I could ever find anyone to get a game going.

I was way more into Magic the Gathering and board games.

[Dudel]

I was way more into Magic the Gathering and board games.

I played Magic the Gathering from the first set untill they made those pre made artifact decks. That made me mad! Oh I loved my green Elf deck and my green Token deck.

Never once played a game with less then 60 cards in my deck eithor.

[DylPickle]

It's a really fun game. I have a shoe box full to the brim with that stuff, all purchased no later than eight years back. My brother and I still have the odd game, just for kicks.

[Dudel]

I was forced to get rid of mine in order to make me 'grow up'. It didn't work to well I just played less card games and more video games resulting in the fail of said concept.

[Antichrist_Online]

I currently DM for Etherscope (a Steampunk/Cyberpunk/Cthulu mix game).

Playing WFRP and Star Wars at the minute too, lots of Munchkin and a bunch of other things with the Questlands Society at my university...