Nina327
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ITs tabletop. I was just wondering if anyone had heard of it.
Gamers?
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Whats a table?
Nina327
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It's that thing your cat sleeps on next to the mail.
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Its a hard surface from which you can place things upon such as bending over naughty people to spank.
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well not till you said something, just saw it on rpgnow, interesting Apocalypse game. Guns and swords, spells and chaos. All very interesting.
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Still a gamer!
I used to play WoD's Werewolf the Forsaken. Lasted quite a few years, but I haven't had much time for it now that I have a daughter. I may return to it one day.
I still do forum roleplays ( like here ), and have been a console gamer and still am. I have less time for those, but I don't miss an opportunity when I can. Recently bought Silent Hill: Downpour and Mass Effect 3!!
I used to play WoD's Werewolf the Forsaken. Lasted quite a few years, but I haven't had much time for it now that I have a daughter. I may return to it one day.
I still do forum roleplays ( like here ), and have been a console gamer and still am. I have less time for those, but I don't miss an opportunity when I can. Recently bought Silent Hill: Downpour and Mass Effect 3!!
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I do both pen and paper/tabletop (DnD, Call of Cthulhu) and console gaming, a little PC when I can find a game my PC can run.
I've honestly almost been knocked off console gaming thanks to the ending of a certain series of games (which has also caused me to experience the worst writer's block ever...).
I've honestly almost been knocked off console gaming thanks to the ending of a certain series of games (which has also caused me to experience the worst writer's block ever...).
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OH! I never knew!
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I'm a 30+ year vet of Pen & Paper roleplaying games, and I am regularly attending gaming sessions with some friends. This group has been going for about 20 years, give or take a few months. In that time, I have played numerous systems, like Blue Box DnD, AD&D, WoD, Traveler, Exalted, Shadowrun and many more that I can't remember right now. I have also done a fair bit of LARP. Plus, I have run quite a few RPGs and LARPs.
I haven't done much of the computer/console RPGs, mainly because I am an elitist snob and think that they aren't really RPGs.
I came here after being told about it by a friend I met through another role playing forum, and I have been here ever since. Still having lots of fun when the real world lets me.
I haven't done much of the computer/console RPGs, mainly because I am an elitist snob and think that they aren't really RPGs.
I came here after being told about it by a friend I met through another role playing forum, and I have been here ever since. Still having lots of fun when the real world lets me.
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I'm a 30+ year vet of Pen & Paper roleplaying games, and I am regularly attending gaming sessions with some friends. This group has been going for about 20 years, give or take a few months. In that time, I have played numerous systems, like Blue Box DnD, AD&D, WoD, Traveler, Exalted, Shadowrun and many more that I can't remember right now. I have also done a fair bit of LARP. Plus, I have run quite a few RPGs and LARPs.
I haven't done much of the computer/console RPGs, mainly because I am an elitist snob and think that they aren't really RPGs.
I came here after being told about it by a friend I met through another role playing forum, and I have been here ever since. Still having lots of fun when the real world lets me.
I have to say I rather agree with this. I know that they are getting sophisticated, but to my mind, if the end results are pre-programmed along with certain 'action choice paths' it's not really role playing.
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I'm a 30+ year vet of Pen & Paper roleplaying games, and I am regularly attending gaming sessions with some friends. This group has been going for about 20 years, give or take a few months. In that time, I have played numerous systems, like Blue Box DnD, AD&D, WoD, Traveler, Exalted, Shadowrun and many more that I can't remember right now. I have also done a fair bit of LARP. Plus, I have run quite a few RPGs and LARPs.
I haven't done much of the computer/console RPGs, mainly because I am an elitist snob and think that they aren't really RPGs.
I came here after being told about it by a friend I met through another role playing forum, and I have been here ever since. Still having lots of fun when the real world lets me.
I agree 100%.
I wrote an article about this topic some time ago.
I dislike when people lump MMO's with RPG's because they are not the same at all.
The two fine points that separate them comes with Choice of action+Limitation of said choice.
No matter how much effort a programmer puts into the Video game, there are only X amount of outcomes for X amount of choices. Once those choices have been explored, the game is done.
People have no such limits, people at a gaming table can do anything and are only limited by their collective imaginations.
The second part is Role Play vs. a computers Roll play, ie; You only get set choices of what to say/do-vs-the computers set options of what your choices will yield.
That comes back to my first point, but a computer really does lack the emotion good role players can bring to the table.
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I'll agree that MMOs are NOT RPGs, but you could rpg in them..... well okay not so well. The way you are boxed in does limit the ability. OH GO KILL THESE MOBS, but I want to talk to them and befriend them, NO YOU CAN ONLY KILL THEM.
On a side note, I did RP for a while with a group of people on NWN2, a lot of nice communities out there, but you while you could emote, and have someone DM, you were still limited to the game's engine and tools (though there was a lot of 3rd party tools people made to help).
Oh well.
On a side note, I did RP for a while with a group of people on NWN2, a lot of nice communities out there, but you while you could emote, and have someone DM, you were still limited to the game's engine and tools (though there was a lot of 3rd party tools people made to help).
Oh well.
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The term is really only kept for the familiarity at this point. People hear RPG and know it means you probably gain experience and have some control over your character's progression. They're definitely not RPGs in a Dungeons and Dragons sense.
It's not really worth being pedantic about though.
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I gotta be honest, I'm not really sure what you're arguing here. MMOs and RPGs aren't the same, of course. Then again not all MMOs are RPGs.
You can argue about computers having limits, but you don't seem to understand that the designers had to put those options in the games to begin with. You're right, people have no limits. Which is why there are so many outcomes for games like Elder's Scroll Area and Daggerfall which are very much Dungeons and Dragons like with creating a character sheet and roll dice for your attributes even combat is determined by invisible dice.
In short, computer and console RPGs didn't just come from nowhere. People created them along with the world within. In essence, game designers are the equivalent to dungeon masters.
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If by gamer, you mean I spend $60 on a game, lock myself away for a day or two, and get bored just before the final level, then yes. And that was a run on sentence, as is this one, and no I've never written about my characters. Never felt that attached to them.
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I just remembered where I use to roleplay before. A nice "basic" site that allows for character sheets, multiple threads, and many games for play by post. Check it out.
http://rpol.net
http://rpol.net
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*raises hand* I'm a gamer! I'm currently taking a break from most of the games I like though so I can focus on school. But I get on minecraft sometimes. Used to play a bunch of MMO's and I've drawn comics of my characters from those.
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