Admit it... You're playing Dungeons & Dragons.

[seieienbu]

I played D&D or random other stuff a bunch during high school.  Since then I've made a few attempts to play and every attempt has worked eerily the same.  A friend wants to play, we make characters and then set a weekly day to play.  After a month we have to skip a week, then it becomes every other week.  After a month or two of alternating weeks the group has gotten smaller, and then we quit for a month, have one last session, then never play again.  Organizing around adult schedules is quite a pain. 

I enjoy the character creation and combat aspects of D&D much more than the talking to barkeeps and using funny accents.  My least favorite thing about D&D is, well, generally the social aspects of the game.  One guy I knew kept trying to make female characters that would use dumb psychological control mechanisms to force other people into doing his bidding.  Stuff like that was always a pain to deal with. 

This probably is no longer a thing but I hated playing with anyone who thinks that things like "kinder" are hilarious.  In high school I was annoyed by the guy who apparently thought the Weis and Hickman books were high art and that Tasslehof was the greatest character of all time.  I quit the game because I wasn't allowed to kill the character.  If a guy is constantly stealing from you then I would under no circumstances put up with his bullshit, chosen mystical holy party of prophesied heroes or otherwise.

[TheClash603]

Me and my friends grabbed the 5th edition starter set and read through the rules together and have a pretty good idea what we are doing.  I am the DM, so I did some extra research myself, watched YouTube how to videos and read stuff online.

As none of us have ever played before, I am sure we are f*cking a lot up, but we are having fun.  Each week we add something new to our game, things like the Monster Manual, playing grids, pawns, and some sweet looking new Celtic dice.

I knew I was going to enjoy the game when my scenario said "you are a group of Redbrand Ruffians, yell insults at the players until you begin your attack."  I prefaced my onslaught of words with John Cusack's famous Gross Point Blank quote of "it's not me."

[BigusSchmuck]

Its been some years since I played AD&D. Mostly was 2nd edition. Macross on the other hand.... Loads and loads of fun. Always thought Palladium was a better RPG system vs 2nd edition. Though I'm sure that has changed now with 5th edition...

[esteban]

I also played:
Paranoia
Battle Tech
GURPS

[spenoza]

Always thought Palladium was a better RPG system vs 2nd edition.

After years and years of systems discussions, I think that's the first time I've ever read or heard those words  ; )

I'm sure the system was elevated by the Macross material. I would love to play in a Macross themed game. There's a group on-line using Mekton-Z to do Macross stuff. They even try to keep the mech specs updated to the most recent stuff.

[Zero_Gamer]

I also played:
Paranoia
Battle Tech
GURPS

I've played GURPS Auto Duel. It was pretty sweet. I always wanted to play Battle tech but never did.

See este, screw politics. RPGs and TG16 can unite the world!

Trμth!

[esteban]

I also played:
Paranoia
Battle Tech
GURPS

I've played GURPS Auto Duel. It was pretty sweet. I always wanted to play Battle tech but never did.

See este, screw politics. RPGs and TG16 can unite the world!

Trμth!

Hell yeah!

I don't think Paranoia had any traction.. But it was fun to play and read.

[Zero_Gamer]

I also played:
Paranoia
Battle Tech
GURPS

I've played GURPS Auto Duel. It was pretty sweet. I always wanted to play Battle tech but never did.

See este, screw politics. RPGs and TG16 can unite the world!

Trμth!

Hell yeah!

I don't think Paranoia had any traction.. But it was fun to play and read.

We just need to get the rest of the world on board. Maybe we should start a lobby lol.

See, we are the true one percenters!

[TheClash603]

We.had our first D&D fight, a guy showed up 45 minutes late and he was the ride of our chick cleric that plays.  The reason he showed up late was "the dessert menu took forever to come out."

If you are running over 30 minutes late before the dessert menu comes out, skip f*cking dessert!

If we did not fear his shocking grasp, there may have been some physical altercations.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Our group gets together once a month (ish) and we play Pathfinder.  For those that were used to D&D 3/3.5, Pathfinder is the perfect game system.

Otherwise, I do a one off session around the holidays in a game setting called "Dragon Storm".  It's a pretty much defunct world where you play a shapeshifting adventurer on the run from the evil Necromancers!  I pretend it's the pencil/paper version of the Super CD classic, Shapeshifter!!

[BigusSchmuck]

Always thought Palladium was a better RPG system vs 2nd edition.

After years and years of systems discussions, I think that's the first time I've ever read or heard those words  ; )

I'm sure the system was elevated by the Macross material. I would love to play in a Macross themed game. There's a group on-line using Mekton-Z to do Macross stuff. They even try to keep the mech specs updated to the most recent stuff.

It just makes more sense in the Macross world. Especially dog fighting. Seriously, a mecha that has a -10 ac and slower than crap should be easy to hit right? Just my opinion of course..

[elmer]

I don't think Paranoia had any traction.. But it was fun to play and read.

"The Computer is your Friend!" ;-)

Being a unregistered mutant is punishable by death.
Belonging to a secret society is punishable by death.

You are an unregistered mutant and belong to secret society, and your colleagues at work don't know.

As a member of the Computer's TroubleShooter squad, your job is to hunt out unregistered mutants and members of secret societies ... Welcome to Paranoia!

My D&D set was sold off to younger players, as was Traveller, and RuneQuest (anyone remember that one?), but I kept Paranoia.

Never got to play it ... but after the traditional RPGs, it was an irreverent breath-of-fresh-air, and hilarious to read.  You'd need a brilliantly-crazy & funny SOB to be the DM in that game.  ;-)

[Zero_Gamer]

I always wanted to play Shadow Run too, but never got the chance.

I know the game materials were harder to find in my area, and if I recall it was more expensive than TSR published games.

[spenoza]

Catalyst Labs has been pushing Shadow Run pretty hard at the last two or three Origins conventions, but I took their sample adventure and was not impressed. I'm sure a good GM could do much more with the material. I miss Cyberpunk 2020. Never got to actually play it, but the book had style.

[johnnykonami]

I'm getting kinda stoked for Mansions of Madness 2.0.  At first I was annoyed firstly due to price (~$100) and worried my older edition and expansions for it would be rendered worthless.  My girlfriend, and our two good board gaming friends all sat around and painted the character and monster figures one night.  Not something we normally do so those are special to me.

Luckily, the 1st edition and 1st edition expansions are compatible with the new version in that it comes with new investigators, monsters, and adventures, but you can use the 1st edition investigators, monsters, and floor tiles to supplement the second edition.  So not all bad.

The cool thing about this new version is that you can use your iPad (or Steam, Android, etc.) to run an app that takes the place of the keeper (dungeon master) and handles board set up, puzzles, randomization and all kinds of stuff that was annoying in 1st edition.  DM'ing is a labor of love, as said earlier in this thread I believe... and so it's a pain though for casual players.  This is cool for us especially, and nobody has to do the setup part for 30 minutes beforehand that really bogged the game down.  Anyway, this is the closest thing to DnD for my group right now.  I push for it because I like this kind of stuff, and I think this will sway the favor of the others too.