So who plays RPG's....?

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Now have a rl group, which is amazing. Takes up time though!

You lucky bugger. Does that mean you're dropping Potty G now and Dark Awakennings or shall we still expect to see you around here from time to time?

[Custom_Hobby]

Hey Chris, its good to see you on the forum. Are we going to get back to Dark Awakenings?

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Hey Chris, its good to see you on the forum. Are we going to get back to Dark Awakenings?

Rogan's fighting the zombies but hopefuly soon the rest of you'll be back at the abbey to back him up.

[PaulH]

Hi

Been playing RPG's since 1991, before that on the Commodore 64/Amiga since 1983.  As far as DnD concerned, only played spellcasters until few months ago.

Got regular group meets Thurs, playing Age of Worms & World's Largest Dungeon on alternative months. Have know Balgin for about 11 years now - (Hi Balgin) - playing Balgin's Night Below campaign.

Also part of RPGA's Living Greyhawk campaign which retires this year.

Cheers
Paul H

[Bodhi]

Noone has mentioned any live roleplaying.
I've joined a few. Only eighteen year age limit, alcohol allowed on the premises and postapocalyptic Madmax style ones though. They rock  :icon_twisted:
Oldest participant on the last one I joined was 78. He was the mayor of town in that one. Our group had a bar serving only alcohol (moonshine) and beans. This was also our own only diet for five days. I was the cyborg bouncer and enjoyed being quite vicious and unpleasant all the time. It was freezing cold outside and our bar was the only place that was warm so people came to warm themselves... and got thrown out without mercy by my bouncer after forty seconds without ordering something...
These type of lives are quite different from most fantasy lives I've seen and am not so eager to participate in.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Noone has mentioned any live roleplaying.

I used to have a live roleplaying society based very near by (I could even get there in about an hour or two on my old heavy duty not-designed-for-speed 2nd world war relic of a pushbike). Then they moved to be about 20 miles away and slowly faded out of existance. I had about six years of great live roleplaying experiences (including witnessing a guy with his spell verbals sellotaped to the back of his shield as he'd just started multiclassing or had just started getting spell levels).

One of the guys at our liveroleplay group was Tim Prow (ex White Dwarf team member and now a sculptor for Reaper, apparently he's sculpted a lot for other companies too). He was very agile, very cheeky and very fast.

My best advice for anyone new to live roleplay is this: monster for the first two or three months. Seriously, play monsters. You'll learn the basics of the system faster than if playing a character and you'll also get an idea for which types of characters can do what (to help you work out which rules to use to fulfill the character image that you'd like to realise).

Also we had a Monster Credits system where monsters got a credit for half a day's monstering, 2 credits for a whole day. They could then trade in six credits for half a day's play as a player (which was really great when I was a piss poor teenager who couldn't afford the players fees most of the time).

The system we played was called Shadowlands but when the group moved some changes were made and it became known as Sage's Saga's. I remember staggering out of one encounter where the rest of the party had stood back and let my frothing at the mouth dwarf personaly take on 32 goblins (who attacked in two waves of 16 since we only had 16 monster players that day).

Laughing the GM asked me how many times I'd been hit and I honestly said "one on the right arm, two on the left leg and fifty two on the back." After checking the character sheet he said "that cure light wounds you cast right at the end actualy saved your life there!" So that was 42 damage on the back (out of my 108/54 life, that's 108 total, 54 on all locations to you non live roleplayers). Yep, my armour class was so high I was only taking a point bruise from the single's (10 - my ac meant 1 point minimum).

I did lose my safety xp bonus for the day 'though (for the first time ever) because when I charged the goblins I threw my shield away and it nearly hit the ref.

Oh, once there was an elf quest (where almost every character on the adventure was an elf). This human american indian ranger accompanied them and they kept giving him all the treasure to carry. At lunchtime the elves (being half elementals in that setting) needed to travel to the special elf world plane thing and they forgot to ask the ranger for all the treasure back. He didn't complain :).

Another fun one was after a long morning's adventuring, the ground shook and a dragon emerged (I was it's back right leg). The party of heroes assailed the dragon and it sort of murdered them all, then they found out it was an illussion.

At the end of the afternoon, as evening drew on, the ground shook and the same dragon emerged. The party half lizard paladin walked right up to the dragon's head and said "I disbelieve the illussion". "Okay," said the dragon's head, "quad through," it added as it jabbed him in the chest with the end of the staff symbolising the reach of it's neck.

Okay, all the other locations were doing quins (50-armour) but the head was doing quad through (40 ignoring armour, and most character's total life was in the 120-200 range so that really, really hurt and was almost garaunteed to take out a location on a non fighter type).

The paladin staggered back, crying out in pain and healed himself a lot (but not enough), then the party attacked. I think about a third of them perished, maybe more. Aaah, good times.

[Hawkins]

live as in Larp?

[Balgin Stondraeg]

live as in Larp?

LRP. There's no A word in Live Roleplay. Americans say LARP, we don't. Nobody I ever played with did anyway (and could actualy say live roleplay faster than a lot of americans say larp too :p).

[Keeper]

live as in Larp?

LRP. There's no A word in Live Roleplay. Americans say LARP, we don't. Nobody I ever played with did anyway (and could actualy say live roleplay faster than a lot of americans say larp too :p).

There is an A in it if you're playing Live Action Role Play :P  Which is what some of the chaps at university did.  But not me - I was far too busy writing computer programs, drinking beer and playing Traveller or M:TG, not all of which were mutually exclusive :icon_smile:

[Chrysalis]

We usually have one LRP a year with my group of friends. That's a way to be all together during a couple of days now that life has made us live more or less far away from each other. We also run a club, OghamGN (GN=LRP in french: Grandeur Nature), and we organized an event in 2006. We'll be organizing another one this year.

You can find some pictures there on our website:

http://www.oghamgn.com/evenement1.php?content=8

[Rod the Worm]

I had my first and only experience of fantasy LRPs when I visited a friend and got taken along to monster for one afternoon game, then got inserted into a game of Vampire in the evening.  It thoroughly bored and embarrassed me, so I resolved not to go again.

Then I got persuaded to attend a Serenity LRP as part of the NPCing crew.  When I walked into a camp that looked like it was out of an episode of Shindig dressed as a Tong enforcer, managed to make a player brick it (in character) by making him realise he'd just asked if a high-ranking member was a classy *****, and later as an NPC captain managed to negotiate a large price for a batch of hooky whisky, I knew I'd found something I could enjoy.

I'm taking my own crew to play this September, so if anyone fancies joining me, just get in touch.  Age of the current players ranges from early twenties to late forties from what I can see, so no need to worry about fitting in.

Link here, Coben Dane on the forums, and featured in pics 5 and 7 in the gallery:
www.serenity-lrp.co.uk

[Bodhi]

live as in Larp?

LRP. There's no A word in Live Roleplay. Americans say LARP, we don't. Nobody I ever played with did anyway (and could actualy say live roleplay faster than a lot of americans say larp too :p).

There is an A in it if you're playing Live Action Role Play :P  Which is what some of the chaps at university did.  But not me - I was far too busy writing computer programs, drinking beer and playing Traveller or M:TG, not all of which were mutually exclusive :icon_smile:

The ones I've joined have had VERY little "action" as in combat. I prefer it that way. I prefer them when the focus is on ACTING not on "playing war". For playing war (That's fun to by all means) I prefer a decent laserdome or paintball game really. But good live roleplays are all about everybody acting out their parts in a believable manner and the less fighting there is the better I think.
I also participated in a childrens play that was basically this: A large basement filled with various rooms. In the rooms lived different types of troll and goblin characters. Then we let the children in and the improvised theatre interaction could take place. The kids participated in the unfolding of the story. No script. That was great fun. I played a dwarven alchemist (on my knees with legs hidden by a long cape, most of my kneeproblems date from this time, running in stairs each night delivering papers and walking on my knees two hours each day...)
So that was kind of like a Live roleplay to except the children just played as themselves.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

if i listed everything i have or would play, then the server would breakdown and we dont want that. :icon_wink:

right now however, im playing blood Bowl, Mordheim, Battle Tech, mechwarrior, Basic D&D, Warhammer, 40K, The black eye, and finally confrontation 3rd edition. no not at the same time, but thats what ive played sinse the end of january :icon_cool:

However as mentioned before, id love to play with you lot here as well.
when something opens up, gimme a PM :icon_wink:

Right then.... well I think we've waited long enough for Alex (who's absence has been rather long) so his character in Dark Awakenings is up for grabs if anyone's interested (although it would involve a lot of backreading, I might just let the game's current players run him as an npc, or do that myself (as I've already been doing)).

I think I might be able to squeeze in one more player for Night Below. What can I say? It's huge. If you'd like to start creating a character for that then let me know what kind of character you'd liek to play and I can help you translate that mental image into rules (if you need any help, that is).

The group are currently in a town called Millbourne and are about to get a good night's sleep and then catch the barge down river to the town of Thurmaster. You could be a local waiting for them there (and I'd fill you in on local information too). Thurmaster's a bit of a poor town (actualy the entirity of Harranshire's a bit run down and impoverished) so if your character doesn't particularly fit in with the local flavour then there's other places I could insert you in too (as a visitor at the local lord's castle or something like that).