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{Query:} What Game shaped your playstyle?

Started by Silverlion, January 09, 2009, 05:22:59 PM

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Drohem

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January 13, 2009, 12:40:51 PM
Quote from: Imperator;278076RuneQuest and CoC made me a manly man.

Bingo!  RQ3 was the eye-opening game for me.  I was playing AD&D regularly, but there was this nagging feeling at the back of my head about it.  I then started playing in a RQ3 game, and I realized that RQ3 matched my preferred play style better than AD&D.  I still love AD&D, but I prefer a skill-based system over a class-level system ultimately.

arcady

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January 15, 2009, 03:08:17 AM
Champions and Arduin.

Arduin, and a bad GM that forced the use of a hips-bust-waist table for female characters upon me shaped most of my negative impressions about gamers, and how to game wrong. But it also started me down the path of playing only female characters - originally as a knee-jerk silent protest, but in time I just got stuck with it to the point where I draw mental blanks anytime I try to make a male protagonist. And I still can't play Arduin... 24 years after that one session, and I still feel disgusted any time I see an Arduin book.

Hero system shaped my perception of options and a need for control over characters and character design. As a GM, it shaped my perceptions on how to lay out a plot and what constituted an adventure. Even though I don't think it did that in the best of ways. My adventures tend to be rather confusing... Its not so much that I followed the mold in Hero System published adventures, but that I came to it with Champions before I ever read super hero comics, and took a disjointed path to a genre I didn't yet know - and got stuck in a mode of thought that still plagues me today...

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