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[cpt renault]

Man, to think I never had even heard of these games until this. They sound
genuinely entertaining. I guess I'll have to pick these up and try running a few.
Which would be a good place to start?

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by cpt renault

Man, to think I never had even heard of these games until this. They sound
genuinely entertaining. I guess I'll have to pick these up and try running a few.
Which would be a good place to start?

You are talking about the World of Darkness RPGs? Well, we were talking about the old WoD, which is out of print since a couple of years back. But maybe you could find some used books? The new world of darkness I didn't played, but from what I read and heard, it is different from the old in various ways, most of which sucks

The easiest starting point could be vampire, although it is usually the one with the worst following or the one which most easily derails into big craptitude. Mage is my favorite, but could get very hard to understand at first. Werewolf is the most combat heavy and beastly of them, and wraith needs some serious role-playing. Changeling is considered gay by most, although I found it charmingly, and refreshing after all those other wangsty games.

So, which one I recommend to start with? Vampire the Masquerade. Although I don't like a lot of it and can easily turned into superheroes with fangs (completely derailing the game) and being the one that is the most serious angsty-pansy of all, it's premise is simple, clear and familiar in a lot of ways. But do the effort to understand and learn Mage the Ascension. It's not the mechanics that are hard, but the setting and the "philosophy" (in the loosest sense) behind both the rules and setting. It is really great, and it's even better if you turn away from the New Age sorcerer wannabe angst and more into urban fantasy kind of game.

[hunvagy]

And if you like superheroes and chinese kung-fu movies, you could try to find a copy of Exalted That book is the one that doesn't fit with the other WoD games. You have to play demigods of sorts, and the introduction part states for the DM the art of storytelling: ".. if you played Final Fantasy VII.." well, from that on you can tell what to expect. I think it's the only game, where the DM can award unbeliavable and superhuman acts the players try to perform with extra dice

[El Quia]

But they are waaaay over the top, and the challenge sometimes seems ridiculous, even at relatively low levels. Also, they stole a skill mechanic I was developing, bastards!

[hunvagy]

Originally Posted by El Quia

But they are waaaay over the top, and the challenge sometimes seems ridiculous, even at relatively low levels. Also, they stole a skill mechanic I was developing, bastards!

Yup, it is very strange.. even for a white wolf game it is strange :thumbs:

Just remembered these:

How many brujahs do you need to change a lightbulb?
"Change your f****n lightbulb yourself, bub!"

How many malkavians do you need to change a lightbulb?
One, but it depends on how ripe the tomatoe is, and how willing the chicken is.

[angry axe]

axe has played many RPGs over the years, starting with diablo when i was about 5 and a few other random games my dad had lying round the place

[hunvagy]

Originally Posted by angry axe

axe has played many RPGs over the years, starting with diablo when i was about 5 and a few other random games my dad had lying round the place

Diablo is NOT an RPG *Hides behind something big and solid, before the fanboy rage comes*

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by angry axe

axe has played many RPGs over the years, starting with diablo when i was about 5 and a few other random games my dad had lying round the place

We were talking about table-top RPG. Please, don't bring your new-fangled computer games here :tongue:

Have you played some pen & paper RPG?

[hunvagy]

I just remembered one of the funniest plays we had a few years back. We were playing D&D 3.5, and I was DMing. So the guys wanted to play high level characters (14 or so) and I said yes. They ran through the core books, and picked a lot of magical stuff, armors and weapons +5, and the like. I just smiled and let them do it. We were a few hours into the game, and I did make the sweat. A LOT. Then they decided to stay overnight in some old ruins in the middle of the jungle. I unleashed some Nightwalkers on them, with nasty abilities. One of them was that via touch attack, they can drain the magical properties of items. So after I got some lucky dice throws, both of them were running around in plain plate mails and with +2 weapons. And the monsters having a DR of 10/+3 they were on the win. And what does the Fighter/Cleric do? Starts attacking the creature with the Rod of Cure Critical Wounds
The monsters being undead take damage, and using up just about all charges, he destroyed them. Never had that much laughs in a play before

[Vain Vair]

Lightning Bo--...Oh... I see that was done already Anyway.

I never did grow up with much of D&D or any other pen and papers, but the games looked fun to me, I was more into card based games (Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, Ect...) But that got old after I hit 10. And seeing as how have "At home learning" I never have a lot of people to play with. (Was the same with cards, but Toys-R-Us always had something on weekends for card players)
And I know for a fact that you can't play with yourself (Pun intended) in most pen and papers.

But then it all just went away and I settled for just PC RPGs such as Might and Magic and The Elder Scrolls games. But to what the first part of this topic I'll say yes, I have Role Played in some games, City of Heroes was one, sadly ALL RP in that game now deals with cybering or just plain A-Holes that god mode the RP. I left CoH and basically stuck with single player games for RP (And that can get kind of... Odd, to say the least.) like talking to my creature in Black & White with text boxes, or using a oblivion gun mod playing as a elf who walks around and yells "Garbage Day!" while shooting people (Don't ask...)

Wow this got long anyway that's just what I have to say about my own life/RP things. As you can see I tend to ramble, but thanks for reading.