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Post by uncommonman on Sept 30, 2016 4:00:53 GMT -8
a heavily house ruled version of 2nd edition D&D with an extremely generous stat method (roll 2d6+6, total it, repeat 9 times, take best 6, repeat this process to generate 3 sets, choose preferred set, arrange as desired) in primary school drama class. just about everybody was rocking at least 3 scores of 18+, one of which was probably a 20. and for decades, i thought scores of 18+ were nothing special and a score of 14 was too low. our drama club wasn't even a proper drama club, it was merely a safe haven for primary schoolers to play RPGs without getting caught, though we had 1 reenactment or play a month to keep our funding. out of 1200 students on the entire campus, our club had 50 members we recruited. i started this in 1995. my first character was literally what basically amounted to an underage nymph multiclass assassin/illusionist without admitting it was an assassin/illusionist and without the character having to be evil or chaotic. she was neutral good i think. We usually rolled 3d6 and rerolled 1's. We also where allowed to roll first and pick stat later.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 4:20:01 GMT -8
Torg, September 2006 when I started my post-graduate studies. I'd LARP'd and done some free form forum based RP before then but that was the first time I sat down to roll the dice in a proper system.
While the character started out as a rather generic rough edged cop I really enjoyed his eventual downward spiral as he tried to save the Earth from the invading Cosms. By the time I left the campaign he was bitter and beginning to believe that the ends justified the means. He returned, first as an NPC in the spin off game I was running (not a GM-PC but so I could play him in a crossover event between the two groups) and then as the badguy for the second cross over (which I co-GMed). By that point he'd decided winning the war was impossible so the only option was to wipe out reality itself but was finally defeated by the PCs and wiped from history (with the PCs recruited by an alternate version of himself, yay multiverse paradoxes!).
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Post by weaselcreature on Sept 30, 2016 7:53:15 GMT -8
Ah Torg. I loved that system. I was in a campaign that lasted 8+ years, meeting almost every Monday night, same group of 5 core characters. It was pretty epic. I dropped out about year 6 or 7 for school.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 9:40:32 GMT -8
Yeah the main game I was in ran the entire main campaign over a period of about 3 1/2 years, my spin off only lasted about half that as I fell to my first encounter with GM burnout. Still love the game though even if the system is horribly frustrating.
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Post by ayslyn on Sept 30, 2016 11:34:53 GMT -8
New Torg is coming.
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Post by Kenigma23 on Sept 30, 2016 11:56:20 GMT -8
Red Box D&D in ‘82
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 12:16:19 GMT -8
Yeah I keep hearing that, was expecting an announcement during GenCon but to best of my knowledge there was nothing. Apparently the Savage World people are involved but am hoping it doesn't turn into just another savaged game.
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Post by akavidar on Sept 30, 2016 13:52:44 GMT -8
Well kids, in August of 1981 my best friend Brad came home from summer camp with the AD&D Players Handbook and said "I played this cool game this summer, we need to get a group of friends together." We would have as many as 11 people sitting at the table for some games.
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Post by mysticfedora on Sept 30, 2016 15:42:27 GMT -8
I've been going through this thread and trying REALLY HARD to remember when my first game was. I remember distinctly playing AD&D at... some point... and getting hooked into RPGs. It's baffling that I don't remember the specific game or even the group! Especially since so many other people remember as a life-changing moment. It must have been, but I apparently blocked it out.
In any case I defected pretty quickly to RIFTS which I played through high school in the early-to-mid 90s. During that time my table and I created a sci-fi Traveller-style homebrew game loosely using RIFTS terrible mechanics and played that nearly exclusively with a few White Wolf interruptions, as well as Shadowrun and Tales from the Floating Vagabond. You can still see the output of those years of homebrew worldbuilding at basilicus.wikia.com, where I dumped all of it into the commons for other people to run with. I'll come back to it someday. Probably actually use Traveller.
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Post by jazzisblues on Oct 2, 2016 7:12:01 GMT -8
I was 12, and saw the red box in the book store and had to have it, asked my mom who looked at it for a minute and said, sure. Took it home and tried to run it (very badly) for my best bud and a couple of friends. I have every confidence that we did everything wrong and I did every bad thing a gm could have done (railroading, gm pc, you name it I probably did it) but we were hooked.
After that I played Traveller, and a host of other games including GURPS, Champions, and Pendragon most notably.
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Addendum: There was also that bunch of years I spent playing in the SCA which is really a larp even though saying so would mortally offend the SCA folks.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 2, 2016 17:23:34 GMT -8
I dunno, JiB, if I would call it a larp. Most of the folks I did SCA with were just stick jocks.
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Post by weaselcreature on Oct 3, 2016 8:11:04 GMT -8
I dunno, JiB, if I would call it a larp. Most of the folks I did SCA with were just stick jocks. True that. T-tunic, jeans and boots. "I'm medieval and can pike you in the head!"
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Post by weaselcreature on Oct 3, 2016 8:12:20 GMT -8
Yeah I keep hearing that, was expecting an announcement during GenCon but to best of my knowledge there was nothing. Apparently the Savage World people are involved but am hoping it doesn't turn into just another savaged game. If it doesn't have the Torg card mechanic, I'm out. There was something special about earning a good hand, then standing up at the table and throwing cards down as you explain the epic shit your character is about to try and pull off. Or playing for the moment.
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Post by chronovore on Oct 7, 2016 6:54:01 GMT -8
Though I bought one of the early D&D boxed sets with crappy, malformed dice, the first game I ever played in was Traveller. We were mercenaries with an alien ship that had advanced technology; our referee later told us it was from a novel he'd read and enjoyed so much that he wanted to build a game around it. Our adventures were generally like being in a violent episode of Star Trek.
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Post by Ambassador Dayson Brillet on Jan 23, 2018 18:51:53 GMT -8
Having watched D.T. Pints video I became curious as to when exactly I began my RPG obsession. It was on December 5, 2004 at a place called the Tower in Exeter NH. We played Dungeons and Dragons version 3.5. I was Aramil, an Elven Ranger. When that game broke up I went to my local brick and mortar called Myriad Games and asked the clerk to suggest something. He suggested GURPS version 3.0. I got the book home and started reading excitedly. To be truthful, I thought the game was way too complicated for me at that time. Ironically, I heard about a group playing Classic Traveller online. I say ironically because getting started in Classic Traveller is ,IMHO, way more complicated than GURPS. So, on January 20, 2007 I started playing Ambassador Dayson Brillet in GRiP (Generic Role playing for Internet Players) online with "Maladominus" as my GM. I started my own Classic Traveller campaign in Fantasy Grounds II on June 18, 2011. At the end of that, I started playing SLA Industries with "White Knight" as my GM on April 29, 2012 in EFnet. When that game broke up I started using Savage Worlds as my system of choice on Fantasy Grounds II. Usually "Mask of Winter" was my GM. I still keep in touch with him and we play occasionally. On May 4, 2013 I began my Savage Worlds campaign called, "The Salvage of the U.S.S. Kaine". About a year and a half ago I started going on the chat in the Fantasy Grounds site where I met "saithan" a moderator for the chat. He offered to run me through an intro game in GURPS version 4.0. I have been playing in his GURPS games ever since with two other players. I can state with absolute confidence that the role players with whom I have gamed so far are all outstanding and have a very deep love of the hobby. About the same time that I started my interest in GURPS I discovered the Happy Jacks Podcast! I have been playing in JiB's Fantasy Hero game Aescerlon since August 22, 2013. I GMed my first GURPS game on May 10, 2014. On May 11, 2014 I played in my first Champions game with Blackfoot on Fantasy Grounds II. On May 30, 2014 I played in Mask of Winters Trail of Cthulhu game using Gumshoe. On June 1, 2014 I played in Paul McCullen's Hero game , Millennium City Blues, on Roll20. September 13th, 2014 I played in Matt Manghi's L5R game. October 4th, 2014 I played in Jason's tabletop GURPS game. I am prepping my first Traveller Hero game. On Friday May 14th, 2017 I started playing in saithan's Shadowrun game. I am Akio Junichi, a street samurai. On January 21, 2018 I began playing in Mask's Wiseguy play test for Savage Worlds. I am Tommaso "Spider" Mazzotta, the B&E guy.
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