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Ok, I think it's a given that Ralph, at least, is part of the gaming crowd, what with his avatar Ben having played D&D at a convention, and in creating Tales of the Questor.

So, how many of my fellow readers are also players of D&D and other fine rpgs? I know I can't be the only one.

LoneWolf23k wrote:Ok, I think it's a given that Ralph, at least, is part of the gaming crowd, what with his avatar Ben having played D&D at a convention, and in creating Tales of the Questor.

So, how many of my fellow readers are also players of D&D and other fine rpgs? I know I can't be the only one.

You aren't!

Shaaruuk

I Dungeon Master a 3rd Edition D&D game every Saturday.
I own a lot of systems, and have even played a few of them.

It's actually easier to count the game systems I haven't played in.

- Mjolnir (which was the name of my very 1st D&D character)

A gamer am I. In fact, at one point, I was trying to get a setting for every genre (came darn close, too). For now, though, I am quite happy with Mutants and Masterminds, which I GM every Friday.
Magius out.

Magius del Cotto wrote:A gamer am I. In fact, at one point, I was trying to get a setting for every genre (came darn close, too). For now, though, I am quite happy with Mutants and Masterminds, which I GM every Friday.

I've heard some good things about that system. How is it compared to other supers games, such as Champions?

- Mjolnir

For starters, it's MUCH simpler. You don't end up crunching numbers for every kind of power you want to make. And you can still make a pretty wide variety of characters, if you take the various NPCs in both the main book, the Freedom City book and the Crooks! book for exemples.

Citing exemple powers: Animation (of inanimate matter), Cosmic Power (Your classic Silver Surfer/Green Lantern thing), Super-Strength (a strength multiplier which can also grant super-leaping, invulnerability, super-breath and other "brick tricks"...)...

Exemple characters:
-The Atomic Brain: A supervillain who is, really, nothing more then an atomically-empowered, disembodied brain in a robot body who keeps trying to end the world via nuclear annihilation
-Daedelus: THE Daedelus of myth, granted immortality by the gods for the loss of his son, he's been living down the ages, and now fights as a power-armored superhero.
-Protonik: The creation of a Soviet Super-Science project, he was granted Superman-level powers and acted as the USSR's main hero, until he eventually defected to become a superhero for the whole world.
-Doc Otaku: a teenage scientific prodigy who also happens to be a thrill-seeker wanting to have fun and test his genius, and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process. He also has three android bodyguards in the form of teenage schoolgirls (like you wouldn't in his shoes.)

I perticularly recommend the Freedom City sourcebook, btw, if you're really into the classic Silver Age style of superheroes. Because that's what the setting is: a Silver Age style city of superheroes, without any of the "grim, gritty realism" that writers like Ennis or Bendis are infamous for. The META4 setting presented in the Crooks book is a lot more grim and dark: Atomic Brain and Protonik are from it, but so are villains like the vile Carrion Queen, the sociopathic Murderman and Butcherboy, and the ruthless assassin Toreador.

And the bat, too, of course. I suspect we may have >50% gamers here... might be simpler to ask who -isn't-...

I've tried it once.

Oh very yes.

I own a lot of games, and have probably heard the rules for the other ones.

Where's that's Questor RPG?

Last I checked, sitting on a shelf somewhere in Ralph's apartment, unfinished. =P I'm guessing bugging him about it might not earn ya many favors. 'Course, if we don't bug him, he might never finish it... just shouldn't overdo it, y'know?

Speaking of which...

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.... *nudges Ralph*

I might settle for statting out the Rac'conan in D&D and/or GURPS...

I watched a game once, and it looked like alot of fun, but I don't know of any groups now and I don't really have alot of friends who'd enjoy that. -_-

I'm not a gamer of any sort. No board games, no card games, no arcade games - though I played a version of "Lemmings" on a 1.44 Mb floppy disk once that was interesting. But generally speaking, most games require two or more people, lots of time, and sometimes lots of money. That sorta rules me out.

ooh.. lemmings.... good game. No rpgs for me. But I do game on the PC (Myst series, C&C, Homeworld.) My only requirement now is that it must have a decent story (I.E. NOT KKND )

I first played an RPG in the late '70s. My participation has been off and on over the years (usually more off than on), and I've played a lot of different systems. Gives me an odd perspective sometimes.

I've played just about everything, but over the last few years I've been less and less of an RPG person and more of a 'gentleman Wargamer' focusing on histroical miniatures (no fantasy world could be wilder or more heroic than teh one we live in) with a strong fantasy bent onm occasion...

I've actually progressed from gaming once a week, to once a month, to once every few months, to never. I'm still a "gamer" but I don't play any more. Mainly due to lack of time and other intrests taking over.

- Mjolnir