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So I'm seeing lots of new names with post counts in the single or low-double digits these days, which is great - always great to see [strike]fresh meat[/strike] new blood arrive.

So, for the newbs and the veteranos alike, what are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Presently I'm playing and running Flashing Blades. I don't have my eye on anything new at the moment.

So what's your story?

I already did my 'hello' post, but I'll bite...

I'm Bob, and I'll try and play just about anything once.  I'm an old married fart, with kids, and I don't game much anymore.  I try to get things going online from time to time, but I can't find a way to make that actually 'fun' - or haven't yet.

My most recent games were Pathfinder, D6, and WyRM, in that order.  Last face-to-face game was Pathfinder Beginner Box for my nephews and their parents.

Historically, my first game was the Basic D&D Red Box.  Followed by AD&D, Palladium, Star Wars, and on and on and on afterwards.

My present wish is to find an extensible game system with balance built-in that offers satisfying play.  Small order, right?  :)

I'm Rick, I've been in the army for 14 years, and I'm in Afghanistan right now.

I'm an obsessive dilettante when it comes to games, but I have a hard time finding groups that enjoy making characters every other session, so I wind up focusing more.  

I pretty much always run, which makes it hard for me to get into the player mindset with my regular group, so I haven't played much in the last 10 years or so.

I love sci fi games, especially cyberpunk, but because of my group dynamics I've run about four 1-20ish games in D&D 3.5 over the last 10 years interspaced around deployments and other overseas tours.

Because everyone at the site I'm at is kind of lame, there's no gaming going on here, so I've been entertaining myself by working on modifying D20 and Living Steel by LEG into a horrid, kitbashed bastard of a game that I'm hoping will be familiar enough to my d20 players that they won't be too confused, yet still keep some of the aspects of Living Steel that's made it one of my favorite games to not have a chance to run.  It took me 5 years to convince my group from before I joined the army to try out Cyberpunk, but they loved it, so I'm hopeful.

I got into the game when I found a 1e PHB at a yard sale, bought it and a set of dice, and figured out how to run it based just on that for my younger brothers when I was 8.  Since then I've done almost every type of D&D (not 4e is all), TORG, Paranoia, Metamorphosis Alpha, Palladium Stuff (mostly Robotech and Rifts), Cyberpunk 2020, Hero (in about six different settings of various power levels), Marvel Super Heroes, Hackmaster 5th, Mechwarrior, Living Steel/Aliens/PCCS (no one ever seems to want to play it twice....), Shadowrun 2e and 3e, Traveller (Black box, MT, NE, CT and I backed the KS for 5e), all the various GDW games that used the same system as MT (twilight 2000, space 2300, that weird science one that I don't remember the name of), and a pretty extensive list of smaller titles that I can't remember offhand without my library nearby.

I want to convince people to play Living Steel, which is a terrific setting written by scientists, it just needs a little updating from being a late 80's game, but I'm thinking that it'll probably wind up falling more in the direction of another fantasy game or maybe SWN when I get back.  I lean towards crunchiness of rules, but if I'm running them I tend to memorize things and it makes it fast enough for my players to just tell me what they want to do and I'll spit the numbers back at them, then if they want to follow it they can do the audit and math when it's not their turn.  Oversimplification doesn't seem to make it much faster to me, and it lowers my entertainment value, but I don't go in for the overly ridiculous simulations of every aspect of reality (which is part of why I like Living Steel instead of the PCCS for the most part, there's just some things I don't need to know about the effects of a bullet, such as if it passes through your bladder or not...)

been lurking for a long while off and on, finally got around to registering.

Currently - AD&D/Osric with house rules & class changes to make sense with my setting. The weather's been too nice to get everyone together, and I'm still trying to sort out a bunch of bullshit relating to moving, so we're dead in the water till Fall.

As far as games go I'm pretty omnivorous but If I had to cut throats and keep two they'd be AD&D & GURPS.
That said, chuck Boorman's Excalibur, Asprin's Thieves World, Tolkien, Howard, Lovecraft and Tad Williams in a blender as the setting and I'm good to go regardless of the system.

Hi I registered May 2011, but didn't really post until quite recently.
I think I started posting more here when the whole Desborough thing blew up on rpg.net.
I noticed it was being discussed here in a more sane fashion (well at first anyway!  :D ).

What am I playing atm?

Elric using the Legend rules, although tonight we're trialing the RQ6 rules to see how they compare.

I also play in a DnD 4th ed game. TBH 4th ed isn't my cup of tea but I'll play pretty much anything and it's fun enough I guess.

Oh yeah I've also been playing about with the RPG supplement rules for the Zombies! tabletop boardgame. Very simple rules but work quite well for the type of game it is.

I've been collecting the Rolemaster FRP rules and I hope to run that in Australia, Brisbane where I'm moving next month.
Currently I live in South England.

About 3 months ago I wrapped up a Pathfinder campaign which I'd been running for about 2 years I guess. But I'm kinda sick of the whole DnD thing  at this time, however I enjoyed running it for the time that I did.

Games I would love to play are:
Eclipse phase
Stars without number
Call of Cthulhu

I'm about to move, so sadly that puts my most common games and groups on hiatus, however I also play online.

Starting when I return to the net after a move I will be running: E.O.N: Empire of Night, a dark space opera rpg.

I'll also continue playing in Talislanta, and Basic D&D. Depending on what happens after the move I'll either be setting up real life groups, if possible. Or pick up more online gaming.

Right now I'm interested in running a few games. I want to take a break from Hellas, though I'd like to campaign wrap the one I'm running before taking a break from the game completely.

I'd like to start up on testing Cold Chrome Knights (Neo Cyberpunk), and some more testing of Hearts & Souls 2E.

I'd like to try playing Kerberos Club (FATE), Bulldogs (FATE) and a few dozen others :D

Quote from: Silverlion;569785I'm about to move, so sadly that puts my most common games and groups on hiatus, however I also play online.

Where are you moving? There are several sites that might help you find local gamers.

I stumbled across this site a month or so ago when TBP was having some fit over sexist provocative RPGs.

I started roleplaying in the mid-eigthies so I am almost the old guard.

I don't play or run anything at the moment and have done very little the last couple of years since I moved away from Sweden. Right now I'm living in Northern Ireland but are moving to UAE at the end of the month. I have so far never moved to an area with Roleplayers or had the time to look for a grouo since career and family has taken precedence.

I used to be a huge omnivore when it came to games but these days I prefer to run fantasy games and have recently found my way back to D&D in the form of Pathfinder. Used to be a huge fan of Exalted but burned out about 8 years ago. Big fan of old school.

Quote from: Exploderwizard;569819Where are you moving? There are several sites that might help you find local gamers.

Lubbock, Texas.

OD&D Homebrew Campaign...

StarSiege: New Battlestar Galactica...

I'm thinking about running some old school Traveller as well.

Quote from: Silverlion;569822Lubbock, Texas.

My condolences, at least it's not El Paso.

I'm running a Classic D&D game, straight up Rules Cyclopedia, set in my own homebrew campaign world. We're 5 sessions in.

I recently finished running a longish term Cyberpunk 2020 campaign. In the last year my group has also played In A Wicked Age, Ghost/Echo, Lady Blackbird, and Apocalypse World.

I have a hankering to run Bushido at some point, but I don't think my group are completely sold on that. Another option is Pendragon.

Quote from: CRKrueger;569846My condolences, at least it's not El Paso.

Thanks, its actually a step up in many ways from where I now live.

I'm currently running a Bushido campaign. It's been going on close to a year now. I've been gaming since the mid-70s.

Started gaming with WEG's d6 Star Wars in '87.
Running a Star Wars Saga Edition game online.

Played Pathfinder, Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader, and Buffy, along with a host of Palladium games at conventions.

I have pretty open tastes, and my group is willing to go with it so I've run my fair share of different games: RIFTS, Exalted, Mekton Z, Cyberpunk 2020, BFRPG, D20 Future, Adventure!, and probably a couple more I can't remember.

I rotate my GM duties with a friend, so I've had a chance to play in D&D 3x, SW D20, Exalted, and Aberrant.

Currently playing Pathfinder, with ACKS and Fantasy Craft coming up in the next week.

Going to be running Fiasco, ghost//echo, maybe RC/Basic D&D, and various other indie/old-school games.

I just received my copy of Legends of the Wulin in the mail, and I'm super-stoked to see how the system fares in actual-play.  I also have a copy of the Over the Edge 20th Anniv. on its way, and I got the PDF for RuneQuest 6, but I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.

As far as unreleased/new products, I'm looking forward to Night's Black Agents.  I'm still unsure about GUMSHOE, but the concept for this game is pretty slick, and I liked Ken Hite's work on the mythos in Trail.

I'm playing DnD Next on Roll20 as I write this.

I run a lotfp campaign.

I've run several years-spanning Rifts campaigns.

I live in Columbus, used to publish a local gaming magazine called the Mother Planet, and am a college student.

Hi.

I'm Jukka from Finland. I'm a game designer for small Finnish RPG company Myrrysmiehet.

I'm at the moment running/playing our own games: Vihan lapset (Children of hate) and Hounds of the Sea, which is swinish card game.

I have played/run in past two years: Stalker RPG, Trail of Cthulhu, Red box D&D, Dragon Age, D&D 4e, Warhammer 3e, Pathfinder and some Finnish games.

Mostly one shots or small campaigns.

I'm currently working on GM book of Vihan lapset and swashbuckling-Robin Hood.

Sorry for the bad English.

Running: Labyrinth Lord, Hollow Earth Expedition, Dungeon Crawl Classics
Playing in: Dark Sun Savage Worlds, Nordic Microlite74
Will be playing this weekend: RuneQuest 6, Tunnels & Trolls

- Live in Kansas City, Missouri.
- Been playing since 1991 (AD&D)
- Using ZWEIHÄNDER and its various iterations over the last 9 years
- I wrote my own original low magic/high politics humanocentric homebrew in 1997, moved it to a group wiki in 2005, been running it ever since

Quote from: Black Vulmea;569739So, for the newbs and the veteranos alike, what are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Hi. I'm Ben. I'm an actual Benplayer. The original, as it were.

Right now I'm running AD&D 1e.

I'm playing D&D Next with Estar as DM.

I want to run Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea (http://www.rpgnow.com/product/104296/Astonishing-Swordsmen-%26-Sorcerers-of-Hyperborea) right now. Other games that caught my interest lately include, Servants of Gaius (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=23198), DCC RPG (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=23017), Adventurer Conqueror King system (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=23258). Oh and I want to run some RuneQuest 3 too. And Call of Cthulhu. There's always room for CoC. And OD&D. And some WoD games. And... and... etc.

The three latest products that caught my interest are Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=23677), which I grabbed on an impulse at a book store, Numenera (http://www.numenera.com), Monte Cook's upcoming science fantasy game, and the Swords & Wizardry Complete rules kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-the-actual-1st-edition-rolepla) from Frog God games, which interests me for the hardcover and the multiple stretch goals goodies.

I'm Blair, I'm a mechanical insulator 1/3 of the year and a Physics Student the other 2/3 as well as a hardcore punk metal bastard.

I'm currently running an open/Flailsnails OD&D(ish) sandbox/megadungeon campaign in association with Vancouver Red Box.

I'd like to run a hard-ish science fiction game a la Traveller or Eclipse Phase, or something swords/fantasy-ish but gritty like Heroes or Runequest, but D&D is my first love and it burns brightest. When I do run Sci-Fi games it's D&D with different trappings!

I play O/B/X/A/D&D as well, and am open to trying a wide variety of rpgs, but I like the ritual routine of a regular D&D game.

My name's Andrew, I live in London, and I've just brought to a hiatus a Labyrinth Lord (AEC) campaign I've been running (irregularly) for a about a year. Highest level reached was 4th, I don't know if that means I'm "doing it wrong".

Got back into gaming again a couple of years ago.  I'm 27 and started with an introductory set in the 1990's that came with red plastic adventurer miniatures and cardboard stand-ups for the monsters...

Now I'm about to start playing in a 2nd ed. WHFRP game, which I've never played but am sure I'll enjoy.

I don't think I've ever run a published module.  I need to change that.

Game I really want to but have never run: Traveller.  I just don't think my players would make the buy-in.

EDIT:  I guess I am also a hardcore grindcore death metal punk bastard.

Where my gaming wishlist is concerned, I like to collect games that catch my interest so I have a handful of them that I would like to work up the gumption to run:
- Any of the 40k RPGs.
- Traveller
- AD&D 1st
- don't have it, but I am really curious about Starblazer Adventures. Anyone think it's worth it to wait for that 2nd edition in the works?

Hello, I'm Jeff.

43 years old and been playing since I was 12. I work with industrial robots and love it. I read a lot, mainly science fiction and fact plus tech manuals. I have two cats and one 24 year old daughter who is responsible for all my grey hair.

I'm a big fan of Traveller (which I've done a little writing and playtesting for) and d6 Star Wars. Other games that have a soft spot in my heart are D&D 3.x/Pathfinder, Mekton, Cyberpunk 2020, Ringworld, D&D RC, D&D B/X, Labyrinth Lord, and Jovian Chronicles.

Currently starting up a Labyrinth Lord game with some coworkers and running a d6 Star Wars game out of a geek bar called Green's Tavern.

I'm Brendan, I live in Hartlepool and this is my 22nd year as a role-playing gamer.

I'm playing in a Dark Heresy campaign and preparing to run Black Crusade.  Yeah, the Warhammer 40,000 games are popular with my group.

I collect a lot more games than I play and would love to get another King Arthur Pendragon campaign going sometime.  Well, that or Marvel SAGA, because it is still the most fun I've ever had with a superhero game.

I'm collecting a couple of fanzines (The Manor, Loviatar) but nothing new has caught my eye in a while.

Name's Ravn, and I'm a swede. Been playing RPG's for 29 years, so there's too many to mention just off the bat, and my bookshelves are filled with books (much to my wife's chagrin during our recent move to the north of Sweden).
I'm constantly reading and writing things for my favourite games (scenarios and what not), but with the earlier mentioned move I have to find new players in the area (something that shouldn't be a problem).
There's so many games I love, and I won't bore you with a huge list, but some of them are WHFRP 2ed, Unhallowed Metropolis, Eclipse Phase, Degenesis, Tribe 8, Blue Planet, Fading Suns, Ars Magica and Shadowrun. Also eagerly awaiting for the Swedish game Cold and Dark to see the light of day.

Just finished an Essentials Only, old-school-style 4e campaign.

Currently running Stars Without Number (although they are teetering on the edge of a TPK).

Will soon be running a Ravenloft Campaign (Pathfinder) where the three players are angels (using the Savage Species method).

I'm running a Dark Heresy campaign set on a Hive World that's been going for about 3, 4 years, and I'm hoping to finish sometime this year. I'm playing in just one regular campaign at the moment (until recently it was four, but people seem to have run out of steam a bit recently), which is a WFRP (2nd ed) campaign that uses a subset of the Apocalypse World rules for bit of the conflict resolution (main exception is combat). And I do one or two random one-offs, often of a storygamish variety, each month. This month it's a beta playtest game called Beyond the Wall which is allegedly a slimmed down version of D&D where you make up the adventure as you go along, or something.

I'm currently developing my own games for publication. I recently published a Fiasco playset based on Westminster politics called House of Ill Repute, and I'm currently working on a game designed to simulate disaster movies called Disaster Strikes!. If you're interested, check out my website http://www.blackarmada.com

I'm a gamer of many years, living in switzerland.

Right now, i am gm-ing an Exalted campaign run with M&M 3e (bi-weekly).

I am playing in a lot of games although some of them only get played sporadically. There's a Mystara LabLord group which also plays Pendragon, a Crypts&Things Hyborea group, a bi-weekly D6 homebrew campaign and another weekly D6 homebrew group under the same GM (and in the same setting). We also have a group of players interested in trying out a lot of the new indie-style games...which has been a lot of fun.

Wow...now that i have written it down...i think i have to cancel some of those games...nothing else gets done this way :D

There are still a lot of games i'd like to try out. For example Legends of the Wulin, Marvel Heroic RP, Mistborn Adv. Game, DCC and ACKS

Wait, I forgot to say what games I'd like to play but aren't. All of them, really. I have about twelvety games sitting on my shelves waiting to be played. Currently next in the queue are Archipelago 2 (which I tried once but spent the entire evening on world building instead of roleplaying) and Dog Eat Dog. Also have never got around to running Savage Worlds(!), Ars Magica or Hero Wars. Or Traveller. There's so many great-sounding games I haven't tried, it makes my head spin.

Quote from: TrueGygaxFan;570149Original Dungeons And Dragons First Edition Red Box

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I'm Tim. Up until my move I've been running:
Atomic Highway
Hellas
D&D Cyclopedia
Hearts & Souls.

After my move, I'm not sure what I'll be running or playing beyond my EON test, and likely one of the Hellas games which I'll return to shortly.

I'm a big fan of superhero role-playing games, preferably fast and simple like Truth & Justice, MSH, and Icons. Albeit H&S is mine and I love how 2E is shaping up.

I've owned a huge number of games over my gaming life, and will continue to obtain cool new ones when I can.

What am I interested in now? Lots. I'm wanting Reclamation, Mutant Epoch, Bulldogs (FATE), the upcoming FATE superhero game that was announced, the supplements for Icons. And about a hundred other games.

I'm a huge fan of games and gaming. I've got numerous games of my own in the works: Derelict Delvers (Space Opera), Vast Frontiers (mecha/space/western), Cold Chrome Knights (cyberpunk), E.o.N (Empire of NIght, Dark Space opera), an un-named wuxia space opera game, a fencing focused space fantasy game, a PA game centered around cthulhu mythos, Wyrdwalkers (viking mecha), Tribes of Mother Night (redux),  Bionic Soldier: Cyborg Elite,  and about a dozen others.

Things I'd like to play (not GM): Hellas, Icons, Marvel Heroic, Legend, DCC, ACKS, Leverage, Reclamation, and a bout a dozen others.

Damn, I thought the title meant this was about making Aqua Teen Hunger Force into an RPG.  :(

JG

Joined a while back. Mostly lurk. Would like to contribute more, but everyone here is much brighter than I so I keep to the back corner sipping on...what is this stuff anyway?

Eric. Recently turned 38. Or, as those of us in this age range like to think of it: "late 20s".
Live in (and always have) Fayetteville, GA.

Started gaming in 1986 at the age of 12 in early 7th grade. Friend used his older brother's battered copy of Holmes to run our games we played every day at lunch. I soon after bought another friend's battered old copies of B/X. I coveted the 'new and improved' Mentzer books. (Now, I dislike them and prefer B/X. Ah, well.)
Bought the RC the day it was released and used it for D&D gaming for what seems like forever.
Most recent gaming was with a group of total newbs. Began as RC, morphed soon to B/X after I finally realized that about 70% of the RC is totally useless. Then changed to Tunnels & Trolls which I ran nigh exclusively for years until this past year.

During the late nineties I searched for that perfect, more realistic game. Later, I grew up and stopped being stupid.

I don't stat things unless the game's situation/rules practically put a gun to my head. My preparation consists of barely thinking about it somewhere in the back of my noggin while watching a movie (probably something like Pumpkinhead).

Other:
Big fan of old-school, weirdness, wildness, Atari 2600, WFRP, RISUS, 1PGs, s&s paperbacks, has to buy a book if it has a cover by Darrel K. Sweet (except Wheel of Time stuff, because...c'mon), major movie geek and collector (VHS + DVD collection well over the 2,000 mark), conservative-leaning Libertarian, gun enthusiast, carries Glock 23, ren faire dork, former bass player of 15 years turned to all-software-synthesizers-and-samplers-all-the-time computer musician, loves industrial/EBM, classic rock, Holst, fusion jazz, stoner/doom rock, prog, and various electronic stuffs, stopped smoking and starting 'vaping'. Edits posts too much. Very curvy women. Rum & Coke. Rambles. Wants Pluto back.

Hi all. My name is Bruce and I am 25, currently living in Meaford, ON and like a few of you I am a punk, hardcore metal music fan (although I do love The Beatles).

I most GM and currently am running a Labyrinth Lord (now using AEC) or B/X campaign using Barrowmaze as the central focus point, but many TSR and OSR modules in the campaign area. I prefer B/X to use as my main gaming system, but since LL is free to get for my players, we use that.

I have run AD&D, 3.x, Pathfinder, 4e and the above systems. I am about to run an Other Dust campaign, beginning this Tuesday.

I have played in AD&D, 2e, 3.x, Pathfinder, 4e, Paranoia, CoC, d20 Modern and probably a few I am forgetting.

I am currently working on a homebrew set of rules using Chainmail as my base and focusing the game on only 1d6 mechanics. It is almost ready for my group to try out and it is a human focused, no other races, 2 class (warrior and sorcerer), no monsters (only guidelines how to create animals and other humans for adversaries. It is of course going to be digest sized and my group should enjoy the simplicity.

Other: I have a cat (Simon), an albino rat (Otis), and a black pug (Penelope). I live with my girlfriend and we are quite happy. I love ham, bacon, pork chips, peameal bacon, and if I were to ever get trapped on a deserted island that they ate pig on, I would be quite happy. I have a book collection (mostly Appendix N stuff) and a huge horror film collection. My favourite drink is Guinness and will usually not drink unless there is Guinness (or Harp).

I'm not really new here, I just forgot my password and couldn't make the bloody captcha work.

All my gaming these days is playtesting new games or playing other games as research (casing them like ripe banks, really). Right now I'm looking at boardgames that work really well to tease out the design methods that make them function -- Smallworld is paying dividends, for example, as is just reading about Magic the Gathering. The game that's getting the most playtest attention from me right now is our psychedelic fantasy game, Soft Horizon.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;569739So I'm seeing lots of new names with post counts in the single or low-double digits these days, which is great - always great to see [strike]fresh meat[/strike] new blood arrive.

So, for the newbs and the veteranos alike, what are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Presently I'm playing and running Flashing Blades. I don't have my eye on anything new at the moment.

So what's your story?

Well, my name is Ramón, I'm just 36 and I live in Barcelona, Spain, with my wife Victoria, 3 cats and a Russian hamster. My first daughter, Monica, is due in September. Started gamin in Fall 1985 with D&D Red Box, discovered RQ 3 and CoC in 1988, and BRP is my favourite system, though I run many many different games.

Now I'm running a WoD Mortals game that will probably end in Silent Hill (though now all the PCs have ended as inmates at an asylum) and a two player Vampire: the Requiem game. In both cases I used the quickstart as a springboard. These games started due to people being out on vacation.

I am about to start Horror at the Orient Express for CoC and I'm running a game of Traveller. Both games are on hiatus and are fue to restart in Spetember, assuming that my incoming baby girl allows for that. We'll see.

I have doubts about the continuity of Traveller, because some of my WoD Mortals game players have said that they'd rather go on with the WoD game.

I would be running RuneQuest, but none of my crews are in the mood for it, damn them. The only new product that may interest me a bit is RQ 6, other than that I already have much to do. Getting married plus my birthday plus preparing for a birth is more than enough.

Im Steve im 35 and have mostly been gaming on and off since around the time the MB games Heroquest boardgame was released in 1989 or 1990(at the time i thought it was an rpg), since then ive played a ton of different games from Rifts through to Maid and found a way to enjoy most of them(though the AD&D2e game i took part in back in 96 didnt end well due to the gm being a power mad moron who couldnt think on his feet and kept trying to force warhammer fantasy battle spells into the game which lead to the party quitting em mass).  
Im currently prepping a SWN campaign which in theory should allow me to eventually shift the focus into a post apocalyptic campaign using Other Dust provided my players dont decide to go off and do something else, afterall no campaign survives fully intact once players start exploring the edges of the map and no gm of any worth should try to force them to conform to his plans(its more fun finding a new way to use that idea).

Erik here.  I am currently running Labyrinth Lord (see sig & blog) over Google-plus, it's going pretty well.  Very pleased with the Hangout gaming so far.  I'd like to get a second PbP group going as well.

I've played a little of everything over the years, but right now my only love/focus is the game/setting I'm in the middle of.

Welcome to theRPGsite, all of you!

RPGPundit

My older brother introduced me to role-playing with the D&D basic set in 1981.  I quickly graduated to AD&D from there.

I currently play:
* AD&D
* 3e (only because my buddy found boxes of books and we're giving it a go)
* Compact Heroes
* tons of playtesting for Bleeding Sky and All Your Mechs.
* A bit of WFRP 1e here and there

I'm a Norwegian, 35y.o.a. Have gamed since Christmas Eve 1991 (or was it 1990?).

Having played this year: WFRP2, CoC, L5R, Transhuman Space, and Barbarians of Lemuria (Hyboria/Conan setting)
Having GMed this year: WFRP2 and Fading Suns.

Introduction threads, woot!

Heya everyone, Anjelika (Anj for short) here.  Been lurking at the site for a little while now (since the F-W BS thread was in the late 100's on 'standard' view pages).   I heard of the site from the Wizards forum, where it was mentioned in passing as a place where more OSR people tended to gather.  I have played some 1E, was raised on BECMI minus the 'I' (playing immortals sounded boring) and bought 2E the day it came out (although that was by chance, not intent).  My first 'game' was when I was 8 (that's 31 years ago now), although it lasted long enough for the DM to say "You're walking down a hallway.  Poison arrow shoots you in the arm you're dead."  Yes...he announced it as one sentence.  I got my own Basic set at 10 (the new Mentzer set) and have DM'ed ever since.  I play or run 3 nights/week still on average.

Currently playing Cerilia (2E) while preparing a fresh 1E campaign world as well as running a Cerilian game.  My favorite all-time class is Illusionist (hence the 'Seeming' in my name).  I have also played WW M:A, W:A, and V:M as well as some lesser-knowns like Anima, Lo5R, and WHFRP (2nd ed), as well as Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Cyberpunk (not 2020), and Shadowrun 1st and 2nd.  And I just got a stellar deal on a Very Good 1E OA handbook from Amazon for $3.98 that I'm happy about.

Kurt - long time member, haven't posted much lately due to changes in work/living arrangements. Started playing D&D boxed in 1979, been going strong with just about everything else since. Just finshed playing a two-shot old-school Traveller game and am beginning work on my own AD&D 1st campaign for my group that I've gamed with since - well, 1981 or so. :)

I'm vytzka, I just hit 27. I'm more of a miniatures gamer, but I like RPGs as well (sadly I get a lot more game time from miniature wargaming than roleplaying). Over here if I want something more interesting than D&D, GURPS or FATE, I have to run it myself most of the time, so I've ran Exalted, Rolemaster, Anima and Mekton Zeta over the years. Other of my favorite games include Dragon Warriors, AD&D 2e and MERP.

Currently in a D&D 4e campaign slogging through Keep on the Shadowfell and enjoying the romp so far, although I'm having more fun with the players than the system. Also trying to get a new face to face Anima campaign off the ground (after my IRC campaign fell to the usual IRC campaign disease).

I am a 44 year old american, discoverd basic dnd when I was in 6th grade.

Currently dming a Pathfinder game, Dark sun setting. Players insist on Pathfinder. I prefer 1E/2E.

Currently playing in a 4E, Pathfinder, Champions, Servants of Gaius.

Yes, five games.     (One is monthly, and one every other week)

Schedule is brutally tight, but I enjoy the games.


What I want to do, and can't get people to play, is Nobilis, and Dragon Age.

That's what I get for thinking that this forum topic was about cartoons.

I'm Mike, but friends call me Red or Redbeard.  Yeah, I've been on the site for a long time now, but haven't felt the need to post much.

I've been playing since around 1980-81, with the only real gap being the "D&D is Satanic!" period from around 1983-1986.  I've played 1e, 2e, 1e Gamma World, some Top Secret, some Pathfinder, some old Shadowrun, MERP/RM, and was talked into trying Battletech once.

Currently, I'm part of a long running (11+ years) 3.0 campaign that's not exactly known for speedy leveling.  Since my kids got into RPGs last year, I've run Savage Worlds with them, and at their request I'm running 4e for them.  I'm running the 4e campaign the way I know how to DM, so when in doubt I simply wing it rather than consult the rulebooks.

And yes, I do know that Koltar exists, because he works at one of the game stores I frequent.

I'm Jonathan, I'm 44 so far, and as best I can remember my first RPG was D&D blue box, and moved on to AD&D 1e pretty quickly thereafter. One day we played RQ (under protest, having told my friend who had bought it that there was no reason to bother with anything that wasn't D&D). The upshot was that for the last 30 years I've never played any fantasy other than RQ, or a BRP variant like Stormbringer. Did take time out for a fair bit of Twilight 2000, Traveller 2300, Cyberpunk and Call of Cthulhu to ring the changes and share GM roles. Now very happy to be a published D100 author with Age of Treason and its Companion book (for Legend).

Currently running an Age of Treason game on RPOL, and face to face once in a blue moon when the old chums can get together.

RPGSite - a bit acerbic at times, and the level of D&D fu required to understand many of the threads is waaaaay beyond me - but there's some seriously good brains, eloquent discourse and gaming passion lurking under the surface.

The traveller, as the name implies, spent the best part of the last decade travelling, mostly around Asia and parts related, originally from Ireland and now once again clinging grimly to this windswept and rocky shore, using a pint of guinness to type with the other hand.

I didn't get much RPGing done during that time, being busy talking to heathens and learning their heathen languages, before eventually becoming a heathen myself, getting up to all sorts of unwise shenanigans, but like most here I cut my teeth on D&D, then AD&D. I dabbled a little in CP2020 as well as whatever version of CoC was current at the time, plus White Wolf games (which were actually a lot of fun except for the people they seemed to attract), and made a start on cooking up my own system before the aforementioned hiatus.

Anyway, long story short, I've researched how all sorts of games deal with various gaming challenges, rendered them down with a load of ideas of my own, and hope to release it sometime this year work allowing. I've accumulated a raft of notes of all sorts and am laboriously entering them in and organising them. It may turn out great, or it may be the middle ground that satisfies nobody, but I like it and it keeps me and my group off the streets.

I also have a puppy, if I didn't know better I'd swear someone had genetically merged a dog with a teddy bear, although she is an expert slipper thief and bummer of snacks.

Hi! My name's Jon and I am from Woodbury, MN. It beats the Dickens' out of me why I decided to use Jacob Marley as my online persona, but whatever.

I had been lurking around here for some time after discovering this site. I also post on occasion over at ENWorld.

I started playing in 1991 with 1st Edition AD&D and, with the exception of my four years in college, have been playing ever since. I am currently playing in two campaigns, both 3rd Edition D&D. I am also prepping a Domain of Greyhawk/City of Greyhawk sandbox campaign.

Hi, I'm James.  That is my real name, which I use because most of the time I use the nickname my parents gave me, "Jeff", which is a pronunciation of my first two initials, "J.F.".  So on the Web I use my real name and in real life I use an alias.
I have been playing since the days of OLD School AD&D- Against the Giants, Vault of the Drow, all of that.  But that group broke up for various reasons and I eventually found D&D too restrictive.  I've long since converted to HERO System, although I've played that for long enough that I'm seeing the weaknesses of it, and in any case my groups usually play other stuff- everything from Palladium to Unisystem.

JG

Quote from: Black Vulmea;569739What are you playing? What are you running? What would you like to be running or playing but aren't? And what new or pending product has your interest?

Played most of the RPGs that were in stores during 1979-1982.  Dropped out for quite awhile.  Thought I'd return to it and found that pogs was the main craze at some new store in town called Wizards of the Coast?!  which replaced the lack-luster Game Keeper stores no one visited.  Eventually found a "mom & pop" game store that sold GURPS and all its books.  Been going there ever since.  I GM for Mongoose Traveller right now.  And would like to GM GURPS 4e anything (maybe a GURPS Star Trek, GURPS New Sun, or a GURPS Morrow Project) when I do start up a new game.

A new product I'm interested in is Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

I discovered the other day that I still have a login from back when I used to ask questions about Forward to Adventure. Which is why I have a join date that seems to predate most of you. I post mostly on RPGnet, but also on Giants in the Playground and UKRoleplayers.

Currently playing D&D4e, wrapping up our second run of an Icewind Dale game. Loads of fun, we're Big Damned Heroes doing stupidly audacious things and saving the Dale (again). Last night we somehow avoided being TPK'd (mostly the Hunter having amazing luck putting one of the main villains down hard) and have now dealt with two out of three big threats. There's probably only a session or two left of this intentionally short game before we return to our main game.

That's Mass: the Effecting, a Mass Effect game set post-ME1 using nWoD. We're a team of "ethical" mercenaries gadding about doing jobs for people who are broadly above board. Most recently we stopped a fragment of Sovereign from the attack at the end of ME1 from turning the Citadel into ground zero for a husk-apocalypse. While also preventing the hanar from agitating a mob into killing our prinicipal, an actor who would become famous as Blasto the Jellyfish.

I'm prepping to run a Qwixalted game in our next "break" slot. It's a short premise called Heaven's Rejects, about God-Blooded PCs running a long con/caper on a pompous functionary in the Celestial Bureaucracy. Who also happens to be a parent to one of the PCs.

I don't buy much of anything, I average less than one product a year. The only thing on my radar right now (which I probably won't buy) is Exalted 3E.