Alright so I'm not going to lie, I just got back from playing a tabletop game of Hunters. For those of you who don't know what tabletop games are, think DnD. Most of the ones made by White Wolf have a ten sided die system, and DnD uses the full range of dice, from twenty sided to a mere four sided die.

You roll dice depending on what your stats are, and depending on the roll plus stats, you determine if you beat the challenge. A storyteller sets the challenge number, and you have to meet or beat it. Pretty self explanitory.

I am, however, here to talk to those who HAVE played. What have you played? What kind of character did you make? Why did you make the character that way? Stuff like that.

I've personally dabbled in DnD, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: Apocalypse, Hunter: The Reckoning, Deadlands, Deliria, and Changeling: The Dreaming. A whole bunch. I'm a nerd.

So, I think I've explained myself sufficiently.

Thread is GO!

Edited by Phatman Dover on June 29, 2007 at 0:50:18.

I've played in two online D&D campaigns, as a Barbarian and a Wilder. That's pretty much it.

Apart from Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment (not actual tabletop RPGs, but based off of DnD) I've only done two, and those were actually done in the chat room with Phat or Evan as the DM.

I know we did DnD, what was that other one we did, Phat? We hunted undead or something, and we could put points into stats like contacts and artillery, etc.?

I don't mean to nitpick... but don't online DnDs negate the tabletop part of tabletop RPGs?

No.

Does it change some things? Yeah. Does it change the core of the game? No.

But I mentioned them as asides just in case they don't count.

Ah. I wouldn't know, having never played one. So I was confused.

Oh, let me see. I play DnD. Wait, someone wants to hear about my characters? Okay, well, you're going to hear about all of them.
My first character was a gun-wielding Sorcerer/Flux Adept (a prestiege class allowing Csandar full control over his body systems). He spent 99% of his gold on making his gun a +1 Laser Gun, so he had to usually borrow money to pay for magic items.
When that first campaign was complete, I was eager to switch to a fighter class and built a Barbarian named Sizzleman (named for his propensity for making bacon out of his enemies). However, the party became too awesome extremely quickly (nothing lasted more than 2 rounds against our 5th level fighter/barbarian combo), so I switched to a bard who used 3.0 house rules to wield a Falchion and a light shield, and still parry. This produced endless complaints, so I switched to a summoner who cast suggestion at will due to a magic item, and stayed there. For a long time.
Then I became a healer, and we're not going to talk about that. :hehe:
My current character is an 12th level wizard/Maxed out initiate of the seven veils (from complete Arcane), who is probably the most badass abjurer ever. He can, four times per day, instantly throw up a 15 ft wall that forces enemies to make a DC 27 will and fortitude save to avoide being killed by poison and warped to another plane of existance, in that order. Extremely defensive, although he has a huge selection of blow ye up spells and whatnot. He also plays drums in our extreme band, titled ManoWar, that gets into evil warlord castles and then kills them after the performance. He carries the drums on his back, when he's not too wasted.
I think that's all of them...

Break, I've never played a tabletop that involved buying anything but the book for it... No cards or figures or anything.

Anyway, I've played, Shadowrun, Starwars (Yes, there is a tabletop of that.) Vampire: the Masquerade, World of Darkness, Mage: the Awakening, Aberrant, and Ravenloft.

I doubt anyone will actually care much about my characters, but I'll name them off for the heck of it, anyway.
In Shadowrun... that was a long time ago. I know she was an elf and her name was Cadence, and she was some kind of spellcaster. That's about all I remember.
In Starwars, I played a Bothan Jedi with a talent toward healing. His name was Barukt Ya'bra or something like that. I dunno. Kinda a random name generator thing. We're starting up another game of it, and I'm making a human, non-force-using pilot named Jevri Ondi with like, maxed out piloting skills.
In Vampire, I started out with a female Gangrel names Crystal, who seemed prone to turn on her teammates. We purposely had her die so I could bring in Gabriel, another Gangrel that she'd turned, just to spite him. Both of them were kinda jack-of-all-trades in the talent specs.
In World of Darkness, I played... what DID I play? I don't even remember. I think since we transfered them into Mage the Awakening characters, I played as Shelly, who became some sort of life mage, but I don't remember what she was in World of Darkness... Then I got sick of her in Mage, so I made a doctor/scientist chara named Lowell, who's in denial that magic exists and doesn't seem to realize he's using it. (He has a lot of "tweaking the odds" type of magic.)
in Aberrant, I played a crazy man shapeshifter named Evan Hale who just... liked to kill stuff.
And in Ravenloft, I play as a twelve year old kid (warrior with a point of monk, and strangely doesn't take any stat penalties for being only twelve...) who's fun to play because I can get away with stupid crap like pushing my friend's character off the boat while he's peeing just... because.

If anyone actually read all that, I'll be shocked.

Heroquest back in the early 90,s, thats it though, i am looking into the Warcraft boardgame soon, being i am a world warcraft player, i am hoping it is as playable just like the PC online game.

I've never played any, but I almost tried to get into DnD before, one of my friends wanted to try it, and I said if you try, I might as well. To bad he never bought anything...oh, and Rioni Riishu, I read your whole post

Edited by Ace Scope on June 29, 2007 at 18:29:18.

Ah, you're thinking Warhammer 40k. Yeah, that game is quite expensive, and if you're not totally commited to it, it gets to be a real pain in the ass.

I'm more or less talking about you buy a few books and then you sit down and create a character on a piece of paper. The books are re-usable, and the paper obviously is in large supply. It's probably the cheapest of the hobbies, cause even if you don't have the money to buy the books, you can always download them. Not to mention some of the books are quite hard to come by.

And X, the game was Deadlands. That was a failed venture, to be sure.

Still, if you want to go farther, people can buy adventures they can run as DMs, and some use figurines for their characters and dungeon maps and the like.

Well after I asked I looked on my computer, lo and behold I still had the character information.

Turns out it was Hunter, 'least I thought it was when I played it.

I've thankfully never played tabletop versions, and just played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. Absolutely hilarious with the right people I tell you that.

I was a Fighter in the first, then a terribly badass Berserker/Cleric (named Hol because I'm super original) in the second. I remember reading one of the descriptions for a spell, saying you summoned strength from your god..and I asked my buddy X "wait what if I don't have a god, WHERE IS THIS POWER COMING FROM?!" and he rolled his eyes at me.

..well I couldn't SEE the rolling of eyes but I KNEW it was happening.

Currently I'm going through the first again as a Thief and we can't powerlevel because we have a Paladin and our rep can't go low. So it's interesting.

I've got the books for DnD 3.0 and 3.5, but none of my friends really wanted to commit. We then tried to do BESM (pretty neat), but the same thing happened. I've always wanted to get into it, but never found the right people. We had some great ideas, though. I made some maps in RPG Maker 200whaever and saved them as images, then outputted them on a flipped over tv. Aside from a custom built projector table, that's as cool as it gets. (DON'T USE METAL UNLESS YOU'RE CAREFUL, for obvious reasons ^_- ) I also figured out that a voicechat + one of those 2d mmorpg engines (playerworlds, mirage) works very nicely. The GM is just an admin, modify the game's source code to use whatever stat system you're using, etc.

I've got BG1-2 + expansions, Neverwinter 1, Icewind Dale 1, and the Forgotten Realms goldbox series, but never got heavily into them. I tried to play BG1 again a few weeks ago, but found it too unforgiving.

I always wanted to try the Robotech RPG, but I was always the only one I knew that found it interesting. Heck, I'd try anything.

My biggest problem with tabletop games is finding people to play them with.

I was in one game called 2300, where I had two relatively generic sharpshooters. About the only difference between the two was that one was fairly smart, and the other was as dumb as a rock.

I've also been playing a game based on the D20 system of DnD, set in the future. One character is a very tall humanoid lizard that likes to smash things, and a small cat-person that despite a unbelievably high sneak skill, likes to trip right as he enters enemy territory...

Haven't played any tabletop RPGs...

But reading "werewolves" in the title gave me a super nostalgia attack to that time that everyone in #mmpc played a game of Mafia, orchestrated by Zal.

We need to do that again sometime...x.x

Well, I have played some tabletop games, and I suppose they fall under the RPG genre. Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and The Lord of The Rings. Primarily the latter. It was quite fun, but I had little people to play with, and those whom did want or could play usually ended up quitting before I had totally butchered all of their characters.

But aside from that, no DnD or anything.

I played a fair amount of Warhammer; i'm working on my own right now. It's called Life, it helps the socially challenged gain lives and slay Lv. 37 lesser demons at the same time! Yeah, I know, stereotype joke...and do note that's not directed at anyone here.

Edited by Black Dranzer.exe on September 29, 2007 at 14:07:28.

I must now get back on my previous statement. As of the 29th of september, 2007, I have played my first game of DnD. And I have to say, it was kinda fun, but not really what I expected. And the non-expected part was in the fact that there was nothing to do with experience points or level ups and things like that.

While not an RPG, I'm playing Warhammer 40k. As for RPGs, I play DnD from time to time. Although, the GM's lazy.

I DM (GM, w/e) a group of asshats who complain about everything. So I'm taking a break and letting one of them DM, and everyone has legitimate complaints about how much he sucks. Example: level 19 party fights ungrappleable level 25 psion of a race with unbeatable regenerataion 15 that can't be killed without Necromancy (which I picked as a forbidden school), and the mage starts off grappled. We still win, once I get ungrappled. I made a point to get Shades as my next spell so I can duplicate Necromancy spells.