Gamer Rollcall!

[Darlica]

Just out of curiosity, who around here plays or have played or are just interested in RPG's (role playing games) and/or board games?

Even little experience counts as do old experiences.

Me? My SO introduced it to me when we met many years ago. I don't get to game as often as I would like to but I hope that will change some time in the future.

[anthrobabe]

used to be spookily involved in D&D but now--- not really anything.

of course my entire life is probalby just a RPG-- 

[Darlica]

You are not the only one with that feeling, just be happy as long as the the game running isn't Call of Cthulhu or Unknown Armies... *looks suspiciously at all corners with straight angles* 


No other confessions? Come on guys and gals!

[The Meromorph]

I gave up video games when I failed to return alive from any of ten tries at Top Gun - on the training mission!

I never got into RPGs.

[Aphos]

I did a lot of D&D and such in my college and Air Force days.  Haven't done anything but computer games, though, for a long time.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I run my own RPG site with a friend and I used to play D&D (until I realized exactly how creepy the DM was). I've been on a few other sites, mostly run by friends, but I'm not really active anymore.

[Darlica]

Yay! Gaming chicks!  

Creepy DM's/GM's that's a classic.  I have heard a lot of stories about those.


I deliberately stay away from on-line RPGs I spend far too much time by the computer as it is,
but I love the classic sitting on the living room floor events.

[anthrobabe]

I swear I currently attend classes with the DM of all DM's--- he's also got some sort of Matrix thing going on-- I keep expecting him to ask me to take this red pill or something

I have really found that I love to play Yatzee nowdays--- and Chuzzle is like crack.... but no RPG

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I loved RPG's until the my wrist and elbow complained to loudly about it . But I always preferred strategic type games loike Heroes of Might and Magic , chess , mah jong , poker , hearts and others .

As far as RPG's go...If you need an opponent to trounce repeatedly... I'm your sib.

[Darlica]

Heh. We should play the Talisman board game!
I bought it for my SO for Christmas, we have already had a lot of fun with it, flinging spells and backstabbing each other.

I don't have a head for Chess and I don't understand poker, strategy war games don't interest me much but give me a fleet on a Pirates of the Spanish Main board and I will give you a good run for the money. 

I'm very found of the Unknown Armies game, it can be weird and surrealistic all the time if that's how your GM runs it, or it can be very realistic with surreal encounters when you least expect it (the way I like it I like my Call of Cthulhu that way too).

A|STATE is interesting and I would like to play it again, my absolute favourite character Hannah Fortmier aka. Psycho Hannah a former corporate mercenary is from that game.

I hope I get to play Mutant soon I know my SO have something brewing we just need to get the group together which can be a slight problem since we nowadays are scattered all over Europe with one in Denmark, two commuting between Poland and UK one in Germany and one in Italy and   my SO and I in Sweden...     

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Yeah, he was uber creepy. There were two female characters--my half-elf and my friend's druidess, and there were 'incidents' that made me quit playing. That and he himself was the creep-mister.

Too much time online is why I quite playing on a lot of the sites I used to play on, and the one I run is very quite.

We could totally start our own piratey RPG here, too.

[goat starer]

i play everything. currently big into Stargrunt2 15mm tabletop wargaming.

[Pachyderm]

Played a few in my time. Warhammer, 40K on tabletop. America's Army on the computer. My evil brother gave me World of Warcraft for Christmas. I haven't dared to open it yet....

[Lindorm]

Arise! Arise from the dead!


Doing a bit of thread necromancy here, to see if there is any interest in starting a few game-related conversations.

Since I am the SO Darlica mentioned in her posts, I can readily confess that I am a long-timer gamer, mostly of RPG:s, but also some strategic and tabletop games, as well as a itty bitty bit of miniatures gaming quite a few years ago.

Due to the logistics, the "Mutant" sessions Darlica mentioned never got off the ground properly, but we did get to play some other stuff. Right now, I am trying to drum up a bunch of players for Coriolis -a Swedish SF RPG, set in a somewhat arabesque universe with a very nice mood and setting. In a way, Coriolis is a bit like some of the "hardish" SF of the seventies, something like Ursula K. LeGuin's work -hard SF, where the "hardness" is not so much in the technology, spacecraft and other gadgets, but rather in the social and cultural factors, the world the game tries to evoke and the interaction between the characters in it.

My plan is to start with the old standby of the players being a bunch of characters of somewhat negotiable reputation, in possession of a starship of the old rustbucket variety, and go from there. A first adventure on a dusty and dreary mining colony is already planned. Even though the settlemen on Aram's Planet is small, there are still enough factions to make life complicated and interesting. And when the player characters are thrown into the mix, things start to get a mite unbalanced. And why have the humiform natives been so restless lately?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Ooooh, Lindorm, you reminded me of my old Advanced D&D days, many years ago (pre-computer, too...).


Currently, I've no gaming buddies where I live; *sigh* PC's and gaming consoles have killed off the pen-and-paper RPG's I fear.

In fact?  I'm currently playing through Dungeon Siege II for the third or fourth time.  Then, I'll install Broken World (an expansion pack) and play through *that* (which I admit, I've never completed).

Years ago, I tried on-line gaming, but quickly grew fed up with gaming trolls: who's only desire was to disrupt the game, rape the players' of their stuff, and cause mayhem.  Diablo II was full of that sorts, back when gave it a go.  I've not tried anything MOL since.  Once burned and all that...

Once, long ago, I was running an AD&D (version zero) via E-mail....worked for about 6 months. 

[Swatopluk]

Currently working on a Cthulhu themed (simple) board game.
Principle: A number of cultists and Deep Ones try to reach the center of the board in order to wake Cthulhu. A group of humans tries to prevent that by use of Elder Signs. Humans and cultists can capture/kill each other while Deep Ones can only be killed by moving an Elder Sign next to them and them not moving away (cf. king in chess). Cultists can prevent movement of Elder Signs by stepping next to them. Two cultists next to an Elder Sign removes the latter from the board. If two attackers reach the inner circle, they wake Cthulhu who kills horizontally and vertically every human in line of sight (unless there is something in the way).
Cthulhu can be defeated by taking his freedom of movement, i.e. blocking him with Elder Signs.
Pieces move like king in chess except Elder Signs. Those move like rooks.
I'll post a few sketches soon.
Rules may be modified, should they turn out to be too biased towards one side.