It seems these have lost favor to the multitudes of computer games that are so popular today. However, for me nothing replaces being with a group of friends and gaming all evening on a Sunday night.
Its about as nerdy a thing as it can be I suppose (other than jagging off to digital pics on foot porno sites) that one can do, but I think its still fun after 24 years. Gaming, not the wanking to pics.
I've got a group now that plays almost every Sunday evening. We're playing old 2nd ed. AD&D at the moment and I pretty much GM all the time. Another guy in the group took the reigns last year to GM a 3.5 ed. D&D game, but it seems most of us old timers prefer the flavor of the older games. People come and go in our group over the years. At one time I was running it for 10 people and then it shrunk down to 3. Currently we're running with 6 of us.
What's everyone else do at the kitchen table aside from breakfast?
Posted by Ben Del Amitri (Member # 2724) on :
Yahtzee. I still like the physical dice, the sound of things and even the paper score pads. I've been playing this since childhood and have collected several sets over the years, kind of a hobby.
Posted by Calico Jack (Member # 2299) on :
quote:Originally posted by ledaemon: What's everyone else do at the kitchen table aside from breakfast?
Lunch & dinner.
I haven't actually engaged in any non-sexual role-playing games since I last took part in group sessions of D&D back in junior high school. I miss it somewhat, but the creative void that it filled with fantasy has since been occupied by other outlets (mainly video games & porn but not necessarily in that order).
Calico Jack
Posted by wvcple2003 (Member # 5268) on :
Scrabble here lol. Our 10 yr old son beat my wife earlier this evening by 98 points in 3 games,lol. I like poker, but its kinda hard to find friendly games in our area;(drunks wanna pull guns when they lose yknow). Never really got into DnD, but since I play rpg's a lot online, It might b fun to give a game that doesn't cause people to call you a NOOB everytime you make a mistake a try.
Posted by Lou Gojira (Member # 983) on :
Man, I WISH I could get a D&D campaign rolling, but finding people to devote the time and finding the time on a weekly basis myself is virtually impossible. Video game RPG's kinda' filled the void some for a while, but I really don't have the time or patience for those anymore (hence I stick with shooters, fighters, puzzlers, etc).
Ledaemon, is your campaign continuous, or has it been different and seperate adventures over the years? How much time do you put into organizing adventures every week? Hope you don't mind my asking, just curious...
Posted by ncfootlover (Member # 7809) on :
Sigh I played D&D for a short while (6 months). I had fun while I did it and I guess there is nothing wrong with some nerds and video game geeks (including myself), getting together playing a fantasy game, eating nachos, and talking about famous super models we want to have sex with. Sigh to be in my early teens again, but it was but about 7 years ago....
"I want to use magic missle!"
Posted by ledaemon (Member # 198) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lou Gojira: Man, I WISH I could get a D&D campaign rolling, but finding people to devote the time and finding the time on a weekly basis myself is virtually impossible. Video game RPG's kinda' filled the void some for a while, but I really don't have the time or patience for those anymore (hence I stick with shooters, fighters, puzzlers, etc).
Ledaemon, is your campaign continuous, or has it been different and seperate adventures over the years? How much time do you put into organizing adventures every week? Hope you don't mind my asking, just curious...
I've been running my current ongoing campaign for about 3 years now I suppose. I use old modules I've had so I rarely actually cook up any home brew games since I don't have time to dedicate to that. Most of the time though when I have to I can pretty much ad-lib and put together on a whim and no one is the wiser.
Everyone in my group is now about 28 to 38 years old which is a good age range. I've had in my group ages 18 to 51 at one time or another with a variety of professionals, students, etc.
Posted by feet lover (Member # 2048) on :
yahtzee, texas hold em,pinnacle,eucker,have sex.
Posted by Lou Gojira (Member # 983) on :
quote: I've been running my current ongoing campaign for about 3 years now I suppose. I use old modules I've had so I rarely actually cook up any home brew games since I don't have time to dedicate to that. Most of the time though when I have to I can pretty much ad-lib and put together on a whim and no one is the wiser.
Do you ever have things that happened in other adventures carry over? For instance, if the players burn down a town, do you have this town not existing or being re-built in later adventures?
The last time I got to sit in on some D&D, I was a player and we all played either neutral or evil characters, which basically meant that if we could do something and get away with it, we'd at least try it. Our GM wasn't really prepared for it, and I kid you not, within three sessions he developed a nervous condition. He got so bad that he'd start a sentence of flavor text, suddenly his face would turn red, then he'd just lay his head down on the table mid-sentence and say: "I can't do this..."
I hope nothing like that has ever happened to you Bro. Something tells me that it hasn't...the guy we had GMing was so busy trying to work anime references into the campaign, he wasn't prepared to actually run the damn thing! Posted by ledaemon (Member # 198) on :
Pretty much things that happen in the game will have long lasting effects good or bad. They have made allies and enemies that just don't go away at the end of a gaming session. We've been playing the same characters and campaign for three years now so lots of things have happened over the course of that time which for the flow of the game you have to keep track of mentally and with a few jotted notes. Everyone in this group is basically playing good characters (one neutral) so there is not a lot of dissention within the group and they are more keen on solving the worlds problems rather than being the root of them!
The games I've been running have also been the epic sized adventures like "The Temple of Elemental Evil" which we played to completion for almost two years and currently "Against the Giants" which we've been doing since the beginning of the year I believe. In these games there is a "bigger picture" to the story other than kill da monster/grab da gold when I've run them.
Posted by Lou Gojira (Member # 983) on :
That sounds excellent Bro...I'd love to play in a D&D campaign with so much in it, and all the continuity.
That last game I mentioned, it's not like we necessarily set out to ruin the GM. It's just that after our characters rode in a wooden, magically powered anti-grav elevator from one deck of this ship to another (the ship's name was The Gygax), with a pixie playing a harp on top of it for the elevator music, we all just kind of looked at each other mentally saying "WTF?!", and we COULDN'T take that adventure seriously any longer. Posted by D.L. Fergus (Member # 3416) on :
I'm a White Wolf man, myself. Mage: The Ascencion took up a good portion of my life in high school and now I'm going to GenCon in Indy next month for the release of Mage: Awakening. If you enjoy role playing, I highly recomend checking out any of the World of Darkness games (Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage, being the "big three") for a good story-driven experience without all the erata and rules of a system-driven game like DnD or any d20 game.
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