Do you, or did you, play pen-and-paper role play games?

[etmoviesb]

I was wondering if there is any other player of pen-and-paper RPG games, in the past I played quite a bit with overly complex rules systems like D&D...

Nowadays I play fairly rarely, if ever, and I moved to ultra-simple rules like Altars & Archetypes, in order to focus on the adventure, the characters, and the fun.

What about y'all, do you play?

[Jack]

No I never played any games like that.  I love my Skyrim and Fallout on the PC though 

[claws]

I had to look this up on wiki.

Most games follow the pattern established by the first published role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons.

Never played Dungeons & Dragons so I guess I'm out of the game 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I tried as a youth.   However it all turned out to be accounting and map making until your character gets killed.

Once computers did all the work I was much happier.
-Ed

[Rev. Powell]

Tried to a few times when I was a pre-teen but could never really get very far. Too hard to get a group together at the same time, then it was just endless paperwork. I agree with Ed and Jack that when computers handle all the accounting and math it's much easier and more fun. You do lose the social element, though.

[ChaosTheory]

I play D&D sometimes. Not so much lately as my group decided we needed to change up everyone's characters just as the one I had was really starting to flesh out and be fun to play.

D&D can be a lot of fun or it can be a lot of paperwork, it really depends on the group you're playing with and how much of a sense of humor the DM has.

[etmoviesb]

I agree with you, and actually that is the reason now I only play ultra simple rules system.

After all, the main point is the social element and the freedom you get from having a human referee (the game master), definitely not the paperwork... If you are more interested in using and abusing rules computer games are much better.

[JaseSF]

No, never but probably only because I didn't have a group of like-minded people with similar interests around me.

[Olivia Bauer]

Pathfinder and D&D 2.0 for a while. I would go to Owatonna every Saturday for a while.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Yes. Some and quite a bit.

The some.
My younger sister had a college friend, who was into Dungeons and Dragons, and when we went up to visit her, she ran the two of us through a role-playing session. Very interesting. Though, that was the only time I did something like that. More likely it was . . .

Quite a bit
playing role-playing as a solo individual. There were role playing games that were written so you could play them by yourself.

And then there were your paperback books that you read, and then when you came to a point in the story, you were given two or more choices, and you opted for one of those choices. Sometimes you picked the right one, and sometimes you picked the wrong one.

Most of these were your typical fantasy, horror, science fiction roleplaying--of sorts--stories, but others were based on Middle Earth, Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, etc. I was quite fond of these, and while they are now all locked up in storage, anytime I saw one of these, I laid my money down and picked up a copy.

The history of the company that originally came up with Dungeons and Dragons is in and of itself interesting enough, that there have been books written about it. What apparently began well and grew increasingly in size, came crashing down, when the company--apparently--could not adapt to the changing consumer market, and when the partners that founded the company came into conflict, that--apparently--could not be resolved, over company policies.

Does anybody still have all those odd sized dice you needed to play? I still have mine, but--again--they are locked away in storage.

[etmoviesb]

@A.J. Bauer
In my opinion Pathfinder fixes some, but inherits most of the flaws of D&D.

In particular:

Fixes: the rules push to insane multiclassing;

Keeps: to make PNGs is far too long; too big difference of power between classes; spells are too powerful making casters "binary beings": or they win or they're useless.


@BoyScoutKevin
Yes, I do. I have two small boxes that look like treasure chests full of dice.
Now I am considering to buy few d14, d16, and d18 to have the whole stair between d4 and d20 :D


Really gentleman, if you get the chance, try to play with ultra simple rules. In my experience it seems limiting in the beginning, but after one or two sessions you get the hang of it and simply stop thinking about all the messy rules and enjoy interpreting your character.

[bob]

I never did for some reason

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDJ1UOpxjt4

(Sorry about the fundie bit, that is a bit much).

EVIL! EVIL EEEEEVILLLLLL!
-Ed

[Zapranoth]

Did, and do.  (pathfinder.)

Played lots of first Ed Ad&D, Champions.  Back in the day.  :)

Love Skyrim, and Fallout.  (Meaning 1 2 and 3)

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Did, and do.  (pathfinder.)

Played lots of first Ed Ad&D, Champions.  Back in the day.  :)

Love Skyrim, and Fallout.  (Meaning 1 2 and 3)

Fallout 1, 2 and tactics are my all time favorite games... If my avatars don't give that away. I want to play the newer ones, but my technology is old school.