Who else here enjoyed Pen And Paper RPGs?

[Gifted]

I'm just curious how many others here have enjoyed their fair share of rolling dice, writing up character sheets, arguing with GM/DMs and looking up rules in a book.

I'm asking because I'm starting up another Earthdawn campaign but found that I might have success doing so electronically. We're going to use a virtual desktop and utilize an online system to work it out.

It got me thinking how many others around here used to (or still do) PnPRP?

[Todie]

I enjoyed it a lot in my early to late teens. especially since being very inspired by my seven year older brother and his crew haing so much fun with it when i was little.

RPG throguh a virtual desktop sounds like an idea with tremendous potential !

[Sarov]

I enjoy them very much, assuming I can actually play something fun, that I can actually do anything, that someone isn't being an attention hog, etc. I've been playing them for more than half a decade continuously (and counting). There's always a game being run on Saturdays.

EDIT: Let's just say that I've played more than 15 settings* in the last near-decade...
*Setting includes different books/scenarios within the same game, e.g Greyhawk, Eberron and Faerun for D&D

For those that are curious as to which ones:

Hidden Content:

- Dungeons and Dragons (3.5)*: Eberron, Faerun, Greyhawk, original setting
- new World of Darkness*: mortal, Vampire, Werewolf, Hunter, Changeling, multiple settings at once
- Stars Wars
- StarCraft
- Naruto
- Final Fantasy
- Pathfinder
- Mutants and Masterminds
- Stargate: SG-1*
- D20 Modern and Futuristic (Star Wars, post-apocalyptic, "home brew"/original setting)

*Have actually run these ones.

[LordofAscension]

I played a lot of D&D 3 for almost 5 years. Then it died when we started to go our separate ways. Certainly informed what i like in a story though. I had the pleasure of being DM for a couple of those years and enjoyed it immensely.

~LoA

[DemolitionSquid]

I have extensive experience in PNPRPG. Which is why I'm uncertain it could work all that well electronically. Everything is better in Real Time when you can joke around, so it might be do-able over MSN or Skype or whatever, using a PDF dungeon map.

[Gifted]

So, an update so far, we're two sessions in our virtual desktop sessions. It'd had it's difficulties, but the majority of it involves having inexpirienced roleplayers.

One thing that pleasantly surprised me is that the shenanigans and sidetracking that involves side splitting laughter still exists online. I didn't expect that over ventrilo so well.

I think a good way to improve it would be skype, to allow the ultimately free form conversation, but that's something we're considering as well.

Another thing we're talking about is live-streaming it. While it won't be all that visually appealing, the angle of it being a podcast could be something people appreciate well enough.

I'm considering making a basic thread that follows the campaign itself.

[TheEconomist]

I have extensive experience in PNPRPG.

Mwahahahahahah! The stereotype is complete!

Seriously though, I'd have to agree that PNPRPGs need to be real-time. I dabbled with a few almost a decade ago but they were all similiar in format to a forum and I hated it.

[Gifted]

So, third session went and it went very well. I'll be honest, I had my concerns but this is going very well. I read how a lot of them use the actual chatroom to do it all, and I can't imagine it without ventrilo/skype.

Last night is when the ice finally broke in the group and they just kinda started "enjoying it" and some great laughs started to happen. It helps that I know how to code in their proprietory language, so I can make it a bit easier to work with.

[mikill]

Whats a pen and paper RPG? Is that like D & D?

[Sarov]

D&D is a pen and paper RPG. :P

They're also known as tabletop role-playing games.