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Do you play Paper and Pencil RPGs ?

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Yoc:
I still have all my V&V books and character sheets.
I think I came up with some not bad heroes for the time.
'Fables' creator Bill Willingham produced some of the modules for V&V and they were the basis for his first comic series 'The Elementals'.  I blew his mind when I showed up at a convention and had him sign them as well as his comics.  It's one of my more fond convention memories.  Bill was a very nice guy and I'm thrilled for him at the success that the 'Fables' books have gotten.

-Yoc

OtherEric:
I haven't played any tabletop RPG's in about 4 years; but even so I felt the need to add a couple options.  I suspect most of us here who do will have tried some Superhero RPG's, so I added the two I had spent some time with- Gurps, specifically Gurps Supers; and Champions

narfstar:
30 years ago some teens tried to get me to play D&D with them. Within two minutes I knew it was not for me

bchat:
I was, years & years ago, interested in playing Champions (which I still have the books for) and D&D.  Trouble was, most people I knew weren't interested in playing anything that wasn't a video game.  The only person I found who was interested in playing Champions lived too far away.  That's probably the main reason I prefer playing RPGs on the computer and, before that, the Nintendo systems.  Dragon Warrior (the whole series for the NES), Final Fantasy (SNES) and Elder Scrolls (Morrowind & Oblivion) are my favorites ... if that matters to anyone.

Guardian7:
Ohhhh RPGs...

I could literally write novels about the games we played.

It has been 13yrs as of the 20th of this month (Sept) that I last played an RPG.

I played them all.

I DM/GM'd and rarely ACTUALLY was a player. (Dungeon Master or Game Master for those of you who do not know the terminology).

It would probably be easier to list what I didn't play.

Northern Michigan was a pretty lame place for a young teen stuck in the sticks. SO RPGs were the easiest way to get lost in all that Heroing... Fantasy... Fiction... that I loved so much.

PRIMARY games:

Advanced Dungeon and Dragons (1st Edit only - hated 2nd... and 3rd... and lord knows what they have now).

We played in the World of Greyhawk (A supplement for AD&D). I had on ongoing campaign that lasted 13 years (up until Sept 20th 1997). Yes... 13. You wanna know what the highest level of character was? 12th... It may sound low. But we didn't just dungeon crawl... they traveled the World, stayed at Inns and got to know at least a handful of people from wherever they were at the time... We didn't skip that aspect. If it took two weeks to trudge to a place. They wanted to play it out and we did. They would battle small menaces along the way. A town plagued by Goblins... A murder... strange happenings... Missing merchant caravans... It was a beautiful game. So incredibly rich in detail and character personality. I literally have hundred upon hundreds of NPCs (Non-Player Characters) complete written out that the PC (Player Characters) interrelated with... became friends with... helped... married... etc. There were maps of every town and everything was indicated on the map as they discovered it.

They stopped evil Demi-Gods... put an end to a world spanning Slave nation... Defeated a darkness from beneath the Earth... Stopped a nearly unstoppable evil... rescued a King... saved God knows how many villages, towns and Cities.
They threw down corruption in all its forms and faced the purist of evil that appeared. Battled hordes of creatures of the night or from places too foreboding for anyone who was good of heart.
The game ended when some life changes came for me... So where those characters ended up is ultimately unknown. I am sure they stopped the world from toppling into Darkness and lived happily ever after.

It was awesome. Seriously it really was.

I had six players (locked)... I had a (huge) waiting list of people who would beg to play in my games. But I could only juggle so many players before it became a mess or would take on a crowd mentality.

My family advocated us playing and never fed into the whole "It was bad for people or was some sort of cult" (anyone who thinks that is mentally retarded).

We played Every Thursday (unless a Holiday interrupted) from 1986 until 1997. Yes I know that is only 11 yrs... but we played (too many) more times a week before that... seeing as I discovered RPGing in 1979 - I just had to pan back my own personal time spent doing it to a more reasonable "This day is when we play" thing than to play too many times a week.

Villains and Vigilantes was running on a 5 year "The CRUSADER" run when I finally called it quits. Though Lord knows how many different worlds and games we played using it before locking that particular world in place (lots... too many! LOL).

There were all kinds of other hit and miss games

Dragonlance - Forgotten Realms - Traveler - Star Frontiers - GURPS (Everything) - Spy Games - Pulp Heroes stuff - Call of Chuthlu - Elric of Melnibone - Paranoia - and on an on... we tried and owned EVERYTHING.

It was a fun time... no regrets here.

Do I miss it?

Yeah... sometimes... the camaraderie was wonderful.
I was lucky... I had the same three players that stuck through it through everything (We added players here and there mind you). So I miss that and them (Still friends mind you... but you know how it is)
It just isn't like that time when all your problems would fall to the wayside... and you would immerse yourself in the total delight that is an imaginative fantasy world of your own creation (even when using supplements - because you were still responsible for bringing it to life).

ahhh Good times!

SO yes... I did play Pencil, Paper and Dice rolling RPGs.

Think I am gonna go dig that old stuff out, later today and go over it for nostalgia's sake.

G7

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