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Never played D&D or AD&D , unfortunatly. I got Stormbringer , Hawkmoon ,MERPG and CoC and a few weird french ones I dont remember the name. Though I dont play

by camus2 13y ago

Never played D&D or AD&D , unfortunatly. I got Stormbringer , Hawkmoon ,MERPG and CoC and a few weird french ones I dont remember the name. Though I dont play tabletop RPGs anymore , i still buy rule books or campaigns when I find them in shops, just to read them. One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs , maybe somebody will come with a new concept using technology while keeping the essence of RPG, cause having a computer as rolemaster is not very exciting.

pmiller2 13y ago
>One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs I'd disagree with that. RPGs were always pretty much a niche hobby. There's a rich fandom if you know where to look, and the industry is adapting to the pressures of technologies in some interesting ways (e.g. embracing print on demand). Check out the activity on forum.rpg.net to see the hobby alive and well.
- Jtsummers 13y ago
  Interestingly, a few years back with D&D 4th Edition, there were a lot of new players coming from the video game side of the house. And not just the stereotypical nerds. As a friend lamented once, "You know, I get that you play these games. But why are my frat brothers playing D&D?" A lot of popular RPG video games are either based directly on a tabletop system or get a tabletop system made for them. In the latter case, it's often an easier game to get into (the Dragon Age RPG is a good example) than some of the more standard tabletop systems. And then there's Cortex and Cortex+ which exists pretty much just to turn movie/tv shows into RPGs.
r00fus 13y ago
> One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs No, I'm pretty sure it was MtG (i.e., Magic card game). I remember the year before MtG got popular, super crowded conventions. Year afterwards, the biggest crowd were playing MtG. A few months later, and I'd started entering the MtG tourneys.
GuiA 13y ago
> a few weird french ones I dont remember the name. French guy here- I'm not sure why (well I have a few ideas, but they aren't very developed), but pen and paper role playing games were (relatively) super popular in France, and are still to this day. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, there were several PNP RPG magazines distributed nationwide (Casus Belli, Backstab, Graal, etc.). I may be wrong, but it seems that only the US surpassed France on that point. I was hooked from the age of 10 or so. I had been reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for a few years, and one day I learned about Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly my local library didn't have a copy of the books, and I didn't have any allowance at the time, so I invented universes and rules on my own and played the games with my brothers. I later played some D&D, L5R, WoD in middle/high school, and read ton of custom rulesets/settings I found on the internet. Good times :) (and I did nostalgia quite a bit the other day by buying a bunch of used RPG books on Amazon that I had wanted as a kid but could never buy. They're going away for dirt cheap now!)
simonh 13y ago
> One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs... Traditional pen and paper RPGs are a very long way from being dead. The industry has changes radically, but it's still very much alive and as vibrant as ever. What's happened is that it's diversified away from a few very successful companies such as TSR, Chaosium, SJG, Palladium, etc into hundreds of small independent publishers serving niche audiences. The radical reduction in the costs and difficulty of publishing, particularly in the form of PDFs, over the last few decades have revolutionized the industry. Kickstarter is also acting as a fantastic catalyst that's matching up audiences with capital to authors and publishers in need of funding. This is enabling a whole host of projects that previously simply wouldn't have been viable. There's also a mini-renaissance going on in children's RPGs with games like Mermaid Adventures, itself a very successful kickstarter project, being a favorite in Chez Hibbs. There's never been a better time to get into RPGs and never been a greater variety of innovative games in print and available to play.
ConceptJunkie 13y ago
Fantasy Grounds plus TeamSpeak. After attending a reunion with a bunch of college friends, we started up a gaming group again. Of course, we are now scattered all over the country, but using Fantasy Grounds solved that problem. It's a decent piece of software for remote role-playing and has lots of support for different systems. We are using Pathfinder because it's the best spiritual successor of the original AD&D. After a couple months we started using Skype, which made the game move a lot faster, and later migrated to TeamSpeak, which makes for a really good environment for getting a geographically-diverse group together weekly. 6 years on and it's still going strong.

by camus2 13y ago

pmiller2 13y ago

>One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs I'd disagree with that. RPGs were always pretty much a niche hobby. There's a rich fandom if you know where to look, and the industry is adapting to the pressures of technologies in some interesting ways (e.g. embracing print on demand). Check out the activity on forum.rpg.net to see the hobby alive and well.

Jtsummers 13y ago
Interestingly, a few years back with D&D 4th Edition, there were a lot of new players coming from the video game side of the house. And not just the stereotypical nerds. As a friend lamented once, "You know, I get that you play these games. But why are my frat brothers playing D&D?" A lot of popular RPG video games are either based directly on a tabletop system or get a tabletop system made for them. In the latter case, it's often an easier game to get into (the Dragon Age RPG is a good example) than some of the more standard tabletop systems. And then there's Cortex and Cortex+ which exists pretty much just to turn movie/tv shows into RPGs.

r00fus 13y ago

> One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs No, I'm pretty sure it was MtG (i.e., Magic card game). I remember the year before MtG got popular, super crowded conventions. Year afterwards, the biggest crowd were playing MtG. A few months later, and I'd started entering the MtG tourneys.

GuiA 13y ago

> a few weird french ones I dont remember the name. French guy here- I'm not sure why (well I have a few ideas, but they aren't very developed), but pen and paper role playing games were (relatively) super popular in France, and are still to this day. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, there were several PNP RPG magazines distributed nationwide (Casus Belli, Backstab, Graal, etc.). I may be wrong, but it seems that only the US surpassed France on that point. I was hooked from the age of 10 or so. I had been reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for a few years, and one day I learned about Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly my local library didn't have a copy of the books, and I didn't have any allowance at the time, so I invented universes and rules on my own and played the games with my brothers. I later played some D&D, L5R, WoD in middle/high school, and read ton of custom rulesets/settings I found on the internet. Good times :) (and I did nostalgia quite a bit the other day by buying a bunch of used RPG books on Amazon that I had wanted as a kid but could never buy. They're going away for dirt cheap now!)

simonh 13y ago

> One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs... Traditional pen and paper RPGs are a very long way from being dead. The industry has changes radically, but it's still very much alive and as vibrant as ever. What's happened is that it's diversified away from a few very successful companies such as TSR, Chaosium, SJG, Palladium, etc into hundreds of small independent publishers serving niche audiences. The radical reduction in the costs and difficulty of publishing, particularly in the form of PDFs, over the last few decades have revolutionized the industry. Kickstarter is also acting as a fantastic catalyst that's matching up audiences with capital to authors and publishers in need of funding. This is enabling a whole host of projects that previously simply wouldn't have been viable. There's also a mini-renaissance going on in children's RPGs with games like Mermaid Adventures, itself a very successful kickstarter project, being a favorite in Chez Hibbs. There's never been a better time to get into RPGs and never been a greater variety of innovative games in print and available to play.

ConceptJunkie 13y ago

Fantasy Grounds plus TeamSpeak. After attending a reunion with a bunch of college friends, we started up a gaming group again. Of course, we are now scattered all over the country, but using Fantasy Grounds solved that problem. It's a decent piece of software for remote role-playing and has lots of support for different systems. We are using Pathfinder because it's the best spiritual successor of the original AD&D. After a couple months we started using Skype, which made the game move a lot faster, and later migrated to TeamSpeak, which makes for a really good environment for getting a geographically-diverse group together weekly. 6 years on and it's still going strong.