Table-top RPGs!

[Jacob Bos]

Who's rolling dice on the weekends? Who's slaying dragons and flying space ships with pencil and paper? Who's out there with a miniature army of orcs and zombies spread across the kitchen table, ready to do battle alongside cans of Mountain Dew and half-eaten bags of chips?
What's your game of choice? What RPG(s) would you would recommend?

 

[Venardhi]

I've tried a few but always end up back in the welcoming vorpal arms of D&D. I got into it soon after the release of 3rd edition as a teen and effectively skipped 4th edition during a roleplaying dry spell in my early-mid 20s, but 5th is like a fuzzy pair of plush socks and I've slipped right back in like I never left.

Currently don't have a game unfortunately. Tried a few times over the last couple years but most groups fell apart within a few sessions as most groups do.

Also, not really the right forum for this. Try gaming?

 

[Silvercrest]

For the last seven years I've been DMing a mashup campaign. It's primarily 3.5 Edition D&D, but set in the Stargate universe. To fill the gaps I've imported rules from d20 Modern and the short-lived Stargate RPG by AEG. It's only once every few months that we're able to meet and devote a full Saturday to gaming, though.

Since the summer I've also introduced a couple of my godchildren (ages 9 and 11) to an extremely simplified version of 3.5 Edition. We play for an hour or two in the evening every few weeks.

I fell in love with 3.5 as soon as I was introduced to it and haven't felt the need to pay out for any of the newer editions. This is typical for me: do not want to change after I've found something I like.

 

[Jacob Bos]

For the last seven years I've been DMing a mashup campaign. It's primarily 3.5 Edition D&D, but set in the Stargate universe. To fill the gaps I've imported rules from d20 Modern and the short-lived Stargate RPG by AEG. It's only once every few months that we're able to meet and devote a full Saturday to gaming, though.

Since the summer I've also introduced a couple of my godchildren (ages 9 and 11) to an extremely simplified version of 3.5 Edition. We play for an hour or two in the evening every few weeks.

I fell in love with 3.5 as soon as I was introduced to it and haven't felt the need to pay out for any of the newer editions. This is typical for me: do not want to change after I've found something I like.

Sounds like a great campaign!

 

[Silvercrest]

It has been great. Most of the Stargate setting has been during the first few years of the show, 1995 to 1998. I've had an improbable number of walk-ons and crossovers from various episodes. However, I've also tried very hard to remain consistent with the show, so I ruled out any contact with SG-1 themselves, or modern Earth, to avoid conflicts. (The android SG-1 has shown up, though.)

The most recent game was a multi-parter where they were fighting enemies on the time-loop/"Groundhog Day" planet. Injudicious use of the time device, plus an inconvenient solar flare, caused the Stargate to dump them on Earth 5000 years in the past. They had to team up with the alternate SG-1 from "Moebius" to keep Ra from taking the Stargate offworld. Finally the time-traveling puddlejumper returned them to the present. Except the jumper (really badly shot up during the episode) malfunctioned, dropped them in 2014, and then failed completely. The characters are now adjusting to the aftermath of the Goa'uld conflict, the aftermath of the Ori conflict, and the fact that everyone is 16 years older than when they left.

It's a whole new world ....

 

[The Grim Ghost]

It was more of a war game, but I was a big fan of FASA's Battletech series as a teenager and they had the Mechwarrior add on if you wanted to do some role playing.

I loved reading through the Rifts books even though I never played much.

 

[Jacob Bos]

It was more of a war game, but I was a big fan of FASA's Battletech series as a teenager and they had the Mechwarrior add on if you wanted to do some role playing.

I loved reading through the Rifts books even though I never played much.

You sound like my best friend... He pours over his Rifts book but has never played much.

 

[Jacob Bos]

It has been great. Most of the Stargate setting has been during the first few years of the show, 1995 to 1998. I've had an improbable number of walk-ons and crossovers from various episodes. However, I've also tried very hard to remain consistent with the show, so I ruled out any contact with SG-1 themselves, or modern Earth, to avoid conflicts. (The android SG-1 has shown up, though.)

The most recent game was a multi-parter where they were fighting enemies on the time-loop/"Groundhog Day" planet. Injudicious use of the time device, plus an inconvenient solar flare, caused the Stargate to dump them on Earth 5000 years in the past. They had to team up with the alternate SG-1 from "Moebius" to keep Ra from taking the Stargate offworld. Finally the time-traveling puddlejumper returned them to the present. Except the jumper (really badly shot up during the episode) malfunctioned, dropped them in 2014, and then failed completely. The characters are now adjusting to the aftermath of the Goa'uld conflict, the aftermath of the Ori conflict, and the fact that everyone is 16 years older than when they left.

It's a whole new world ....

Great idea, it's sounding better and better...lol

 

[marillion]

Sadly, I have fallen out of the RPG world. I played D&D and MERP (Middle Earth) heavily back in high school with a close-knit group, but when we all graduated, we mostly all moved away and I never got in with another group. I think I still have all my old books and dungeons in a box someplace in the garage along with my comics. Now I have a challenge for this weekend! LOL

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

There is another thread over in the Gaming Forum.
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tabletop-rpgs.283417/

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Love tabletop RPGs but have trouble finding good groups since college.

 

[Jacob Bos]

Love tabletop RPGs but have trouble finding good groups since college.

Same here. And I'm not one for virtual table-tops either. :-(

 

[JRoss]

Well, I don't get to play much, except occasionally with my wife and her/our friend. I DM. On the side I also write RPGs. My sig links to the Kickstarter for my forthcoming game, Kaigaku, and I also get to write some of the upcoming Star Trek Adventure game.

 

[bbjeg]

I was big on paper and dice RPGs for over a decade and only stopped recently this year because I moved away from my gaming group. Off the top of my head, I've played D&D, Shadowrun, Exalted, Aberrant, Werewolf: The Forsaken, World of Darkness, and BESM. There's probably a few I missed too but I'm a big fan of tabletop RPGs.

 

[Kahless the Unforgettable]

Shadowrun is and (since it's release, of which I have an original copy!) always has been my jam. Love the whole concept. Saddened by the video games, though.

 

[Jacob Bos]

Shadowrun is and (since it's release, of which I have an original copy!) always has been my jam. Love the whole concept. Saddened by the video games, though.

The video games never did anything for me either. But I love the RPG.

 

[Mike Farley]

I play in a 2nd Edition AD&D game on Sundays. Been playing since the spring with no sign of stopping.