D&D
Rifts
GURPS
As far as CRPGs...hmmm...
Nevercracked...um Neverwinter Nights :-P
Guild Wars
Baldur's Gate series
Planescape: Torment
Icewind Dale
And for some old school nostalgia....ULTIMA VII: THE SERPENT ISLE!!! I finally got this to run on my Linux laptop. A sure example where newer games are not better games - this game kept me up many a night when I was younger.
Our weekly game session is D&D 3.5 but when with a different crowd we might sneak in a session of Star Wars RPG, a round of Munchkin (hilarious if you haven't played it), or a little death match on the ol' XBOX. On the other hand, there are so many games that my friends and I own that we've never played it's staggering. Half the time I'll buy a new game just because it's really cool reading. Gamers just like games, play em' or not. It's all good.
P.S. Nothing will surprise Dungeons & Dragons though....in my humble opinion.
P.S. Nothing will surprise Dungeons & Dragons though....in my humble opinion.
I think you mean "surpass" - and in that case I agree. Good ol' fashioned Pen & Paper RPGs will always outweigh anything that I might find on a standard computer "RPG", and is always my first choice.
I think you mean "surpass" - and in that case I agree. Good ol' fashioned Pen & Paper RPGs will always outweigh anything that I might find on a standard computer "RPG", and is always my first choice.
Computer games have a long way to go before they can compete with actual players, gamemasters, paper and dice. Physical presence, spontaneous Monte Python references and in-person high-fives just don't exist in the ether yet.
Top Secret. Man, I loved that game.
Don't get mad, I actually bought the old Top Secret for $5 bucks used. The premise of a spy game was and is cool, but the combat system was- well it had me rolling on the floor laughing, which pretty much spoiled the rest of it.
"Let's see I'm playing a 5'3" tall bald guy who is left-handed and using a 2.25 inch long knife and am fighting a guy on a 10'x3' balcony. The sun is setting so I'm getting some glare in my glasses (forgot to mention I was facing northwest and that I had glasses on on that are .125 inches thick and tinted dark pink). That takes care of me now my opponant is a 7'2" mongolian with a tire iron (10" long). Is he right or left handed?...."
It was just plain hillarious to me. At the time it was only slightly funnier than Paladium's MDC system. Rolemaster should have so many charts. It just seemed very awkward to me and I never went back.
Speaking of Rolemaster, Middle-Earth Role Playing was my first game, and yes it had a lot of charts, but my God, what great source books. Just throw an Angus McBride cover on it and I'm there. I actually like it more than 3.x D&D. You never get adventurers retiring from D&D because they've lost a leg to a war troll's axe, but you do in MERP. Oh, yeah and none of that fighting at full-strength-until-you-die crap when you fight here you better know what you're doing.
"Classic" D&D also holds some great memories for me. A game where dwarves where dwarves and elves could wear armor and hurl lightning bolts. Color-coded box sets and better yet -the D&D rules Cyclopedia (one book fits all). Simple innocent and complete.
DC Heroes. I'm going to back track for a moment and say I like the Rifts world as well as the Paladium version of Robotech, but the system just doesn't work. You can't blow a damn thing up with one missile, let alone your gun pod, but you can now that I've gone and translated it all to DC Heroes, and better yet it doesn't take you all day to run an in-game minute-long combat. DC Heroes makes superhero math easier than any other supers game I've seen and is adaptable enough to allow you to have your own custom heroes fight fifty-foot tall mecha, alien monsters, dinosaurs, and timelords and have it seem balanced and natural.
TMNT. before the advent of Mega-Damage, Erik Wujcik did some incredible things with the unweildy Paladium system and this was the best. Followed up by After the Bomb, a game for the times; when twelve-year-olds everywhere slept in shadow of the bomb.
Doctor Who/Time Lord. Two different games same great taste. When playing a Doctor Who game most of the time you really don't need the rules (nor do you want to ever get into a firefight), but both games give you mechanics for operating and sabotaging an ever cranky TARDIS as well as building alien menaces.
World of Darkness (old skool). The most brilliant thing White Wolf ever did was dropping a bahzillion hints as to what's going on and then never actually giving you a straight answer (well at least until they decided to reboot it). First and Second Edition Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling and the incredibly edgy Wraith put the "role" back in role-playing. The systems for dealing with things like loss of humanity, level of enlightenment, distance from mundanity/bedlam and personal angst only see a mass-market match in Call of Cthulhu's sanity rules. Even better every book (sourcebook, adventure, what-have-you) had a mood and a theme which in some way reflected a core priciple of the line it was a part of.
Before there was d6, before there was Star Wars RPG, there was Ghostbusters (followed by Ghostbusters International). Simple fast, easy and damn funny. If you own it or can get it, drag it out for Holloween you will be glad you did. You may never go back to your battle map again....
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Actually D&D is my secondary system.
I primarily play HERO. In just about any genre - it is our group game. The D&D I play is solo stuff between the wife and I*.
I also collect and read but don't play superhero roleplaying in general - I've got about 8 game lines complete, and get the M&M (and superlink stuff) and Godsend Agenda right now.
* Yes I married a gamer girl. We met when I moved into the area, and she was the GM of the Champions game I got into.
Besides D&d I play Champions of Norrath, Age of Mythology Kingdom Under Fire Heroes. Basically I play everything involving Swords & Sorcery.
Your not alone Rob,
Makeda
Pen&Paper: Rifts, D20 Modern, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Gurps, Palladium Fantasy, Beyond the Supernatural and Star Trek.
PC Games: Morrowind, Alpha Centuri, Neverwinter Nights, Birth of the Federation.
PS2: Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Splinter Cell.
Legend of Zelda.
Final Fantasy.
Magic the Gathering.
I play Yu-Gi-Oh, but not for fun, but rather because it keeps my brother occupied so he won't loot my room. (He does that a lot.)
Has anyone starting playing the new THIEVES'WORLD? I think it is by green ronin?
I am a disciple of Sid Sackson. This is a great tribute site to him:
http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sackson.htm
Bob Claster's words bring tears to my eyes:
"... His face was not a famous one; his is not a household name. Yet, in the world of games, he was Beethoven; he was Shakespeare; he was Michael Jordan. His name was Sid Sackson, and he was responsible for an unparalleled variety of brilliant games. This site pays tribute to the greatest of the unsung heroes of the world of games-- the game designers. Their names rarely can be found on the boxes that contain their creations, and only occasionally will you find them even in tiny print on the rules booklet. Yet, without them, we'd probably be sitting around playing "Count My Toes," or something equally as exciting.
Most game designers have a tendency to specialize in one certain type of game. The truly remarkable thing about Sid Sackson was the scope of his output. At various times in his career, he set his fertile mind to financial games, dice games, card games, abstract strategy games and more; and the resultant games stand with the best in each category. ..."
Has anyone starting playing the new THIEVES'WORLD? I think it is by green ronin?
That is on my birthday wish list--I love Thieves' World and can't wait to sink my teeth into it.
Well besides D&D I like to play a number of board and card games.
my second choise to D&D is clasic battletech from fasa it a hoot!!!!!
nothing like being an elf or being in a 100 ton battlemech!!!!
Has anyone played "Attack Vector: Tactical" ?
http://www.adastragames.com/products/adastra/av.html
The hype on the page is quite large, and I would like to hear the opinion of an experienced gamer.
:)
Has anyone starting playing the new THIEVES'WORLD? I think it is by green ronin?That is on my birthday wish list--I love Thieves' World and can't wait to sink my teeth into it.
what a great series! The latest book "Enemies of Fortune" is fantastic!
I plan on buying all the gaming items, (Thieves World players manual, Murder at the Vulgar Unicorn & Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary) in the next week or so.
Munchkin card game
yu gi oh card game (play these waiting for gamers to arrive)
Rifts-Palladium - lot of fun, lot of expansions too.
Rolemaster and Spacemaster - my fav but darn hard to gm or find a gm.
Heroes Games - Champions and other titles - how City of Heroes should have been done; archtypes my dark spot.
White Wolf games; Werewolf; Changling; old version; not the new
Torg - this is a great game; great concept; great storyline.
Our group played a lot of others but these are our core games.
Blessed as I am with some of the best players in the world (many of whom are accomplished GMs in their own right) we always have plenty of irons in the fire.
Right now we've been doing lots of Legend of the Five Rings, a long running epic level Forgotten Realms campaign, A great Shadowrun game (the GM of that one has the golden touch, everything he runs is awesome), A Solaris VII game, and two homebrews--a fantasy RPG merged with the best parts gangland 1920's using the White Wolf system, and a highly cerebral space opera campaign called Tyranestra (feels alot like Halo meets Homeworld).
Games I love include various D20 Future settings, particularly From the Dark Heart of Space (which I ran for a while on the D20 Modern Forums on Wizards if anyone wants a sample of my flavor :}) I also love Star*Drive and Tangents which have been updated as part of D20 Modern too.
I love Cyberpunk.
Loved the World of Darkness until the White Wolf guys blew it up...never really got into the new (sickeningly derivative) setting.
Rifts is cool if you rewrite all the rules and create new races and classes for it (which I did and the results were beauty).
I dig the some of the OGL stuff that's been coming out too. Everyone should play Dragonstar--it's AWESOME. Everquest is cool, but no one but me is really all that pumped for it. Likewise I'm a sucker for grassroots games so I bought Everstone--if for no other reason than it's done entirely by one gamer guy pretty much by himself.
Had a cool Dark Sun game (summarized in the Campaign Journals, again if anyone's interested).
And you know, pretty much anything else we can get our hands on. I break out the old Polyhedron games whenever my group lets me. Exalted, Star Wars, Twilight 2000, Street Fighter, Spycraft, Trinity...and we had a 3025 Mechwarrior game of legend that wrapped pretty recently, can't forget that--that has gotta' be one of the best games I've ever been involved in.
For P&P RPG:
playing presently:
AD&D 2nd Ed. (set in Mystara/Norwold)
Midgard (german RPG, classic fantasy)
WoD Vampire the Masquerade (the original, two or three times a year)
Deadlands (sporadically)
DMing:
D&D3.5 (Greyhawk, Slavers series, 578 CY)
WoD Hunter the Reckoning(two or three times a year)
LARP:
playing fantasy (a few times a year)
GMing Vampire the masquerade live (beware my malkav elder!)
What I have played in the past:
BasicD&D
AD&D1
Call of Cthulhu
Aventuria (older german versions)
Shadowrun (3.01)
Rolemaster
MERP
Paranoia
Mage
Werewolf
Vampire Dark Ages (GMing)
Ars Magica (also GMing)
Star Wars (West End Games)
Traveller (original)
probably others I don´t recall right now...
games and settings I own, hadn`t the chance to use but would like to:
Mage: Sorcerers Crusade, Changeling: The Dreaming,
Fading Suns,
AD&D: Al-Qadim, Spelljammer.
(my girlfriend complains about my continually growing collection, I blame ebay for it :-))
I don´t find much time to play board games...
I don´t like CCGs, and don´t play them.
computer games: only Heroes of Might and Magic (mostly III), and Diablo (rarely), no online games (gotta find some time to sleep....)
Stefan
Well, I play Magic:The Gathering. That's it for anything not on a console. Otherwise I'll play almost anything, but mostly RPGs and First-Person Shooters like Halo and Halo 2 (of which I am the best at in my circle of friends).
Besides D&D, What do you Play?
I sometimes play the stock market. What are some good stocks that Gamers should own??
Any coffee broker, Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola, fast-food joins, pizza places. :-D
Non D&D RPGS: Mutants and Masterminds, d20 Modern (Future/Past etc), Blue Rose, Anything True20 and Iron Heroes.
Non-RPGs: Magic: The Gathering, Heroclix, Dungeoneer and Texas Hold 'Em Poker.
Computer Games: Mostly Console games, am obsessed with Psychonauts at the moment.