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Purplegrasshopper · 01-06-2009, 06:14 PM

What ones are your favorite?

Personally, I'm a fan of Rifts...played that one for pretty much my entire childhood. Ah, the memories...

phlydude · 01-06-2009, 06:23 PM

Strat-o-matic baseball was the only thing I ever got close to with RPGs

(that counts, right? - players all had a card and you rolled dice to see what the outcome was)

Elandyll · 01-06-2009, 06:26 PM

Ah good times.
I lack mostly time to play it now.

Started on Call of Cthulhu, then Stormbringer and Runequest (big fan of the Chaosium system), tried D&D or AD&D, didn't like it.
Also tried the Star Wars of WEG, a French RPG called "Malefices" (great one, very light on rules) and Space Opera (ugh, sounded good, but horrible system). Oh did a Paranoia or two back in the days, very fun but a little too gimmicky for me

My all time fav is still Runequest, and I have bought the new sourcebooks for the new version, but haven't found the time at all to get a group together in the past few years.

Marquoz · 01-06-2009, 07:32 PM

Paranoia is great for a con game with people you don't know.

Mechwarrior was a great one, combined Battletech and RPGing.

Dungeons and Dragons was a standard.

A friend of mine wrote a cyberpunk type game, that was awesome, we abused it to death!

Shadowrun magic and guns! Ohhhh yeah!

I've even been part of a Car Wars campaign. It wasn't all car vs car either, there was role playing!

Rob71 · 01-06-2009, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Marquoz

Paranoia is great for a con game with people you don't know.

Mechwarrior was a great one, combined Battletech and RPGing.

Dungeons and Dragons was a standard.

A friend of mine wrote a cyberpunk type game, that was awesome, we abused it to death!

Shadowrun magic and guns! Ohhhh yeah!

I've even been part of a Car Wars campaign. It wasn't all car vs car either, there was role playing!

Very cool game. This was how my first game came, a small book in a zip-lock bag.

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joeorc · 01-06-2009, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Purplegrasshopper

What ones are your favorite?

Personally, I'm a fan of Rifts...played that one for pretty much my entire childhood. Ah, the memories...

mine is Game's workshop's Inquisitor: and the fact that they made it free, you can download the rule book's free

along with necromunda, epic.

joeorc · 01-06-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob71

Very cool game. This was how my first game came, a small book in a zip-lock bag.

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uncle al's the auto duelest pal..

, love carwar's and "OGRE"

meta game: TFT

Marquoz · 01-07-2009, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by joeorc

uncle al's the auto duelest pal..

, love carwar's and "OGRE"

meta game: TFT

I remember Ogre, and Rogue Trooper, fun board games!

katharsis · 01-07-2009, 07:17 AM

I have been playing MERP for like the longest time (8+ years) with the same people and honestly think this was one of the best RPG's out there!
Whenever I go visit my friends in Germany we try to get together for a small run

Shadowrun is also quite good.

quexos · 01-07-2009, 07:39 AM

I never knew those pen and papers RPG's but I remember when I was a kid there used to be these books called "Les livres dont vous êtes le héros". meaning "The books whose main character is you". You began reading the book and after a few pages of adventure you had a choice of what to do next. let me invent something as an example: if you were at the entrance of a maze it said: to go inside go page 14, to avoid the maze and go around it go to page 21, to turn back and choose a different path go to page 26 ...

joeorc · 01-07-2009, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Marquoz

I remember Ogre, and Rogue Trooper, fun board games!

o'l that was a blast, that and o'l pretty much any "steve jackson" mini game

joeorc · 01-07-2009, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by quexos

I never knew those pen and papers RPG's but I remember when I was a kid there used to be these books called "Les livres dont vous êtes le héros". meaning "The books whose main character is you". You began reading the book and after a few pages of adventure you had a choice of what to do next. let me invent something as an example: if you were at the entrance of a maze it said: to go inside go page 14, to avoid the maze and go around it go to page 21, to turn back and choose a different path go to page 26 ...

yup..choose your own adventure book's...tried to get the school teacher to allow me to do a book report on one of those, when i was in jr. high..kind of got the wierd look from my teacher...the look "you got to be kidding me ..right", i just smiled and said ..have you read the book..

QwikSand · 01-07-2009, 05:31 PM

I used to do a lot of choose your own adventure books in school. Also there was a baseball game, APBA, that is still popular now.

01-06-2009, 06:14 PM	#1
Purplegrasshopper Expert Member Member since:Nov 2008 Location:Las Vegas, NV Blu-ray collection:13	Pen and Paper RPGs What ones are your favorite? Personally, I'm a fan of Rifts...played that one for pretty much my entire childhood. Ah, the memories...

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Elandyll Blu-ray Knight Member since:Aug 2007 Location:MD Blu-ray collection:188 Trading Score:1	Ah good times. I lack mostly time to play it now. Started on Call of Cthulhu, then Stormbringer and Runequest (big fan of the Chaosium system), tried D&D or AD&D, didn't like it. Also tried the Star Wars of WEG, a French RPG called "Malefices" (great one, very light on rules) and Space Opera (ugh, sounded good, but horrible system). Oh did a Paranoia or two back in the days, very fun but a little too gimmicky for me My all time fav is still Runequest, and I have bought the new sourcebooks for the new version, but haven't found the time at all to get a group together in the past few years.

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katharsis Power Member Member since:Aug 2007 Location:SoCal Home Theater Gallery:16 Blu-ray collection:379 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:8	I have been playing MERP for like the longest time (8+ years) with the same people and honestly think this was one of the best RPG's out there! Whenever I go visit my friends in Germany we try to get together for a small run Shadowrun is also quite good.

01-07-2009, 07:39 AM	#10
quexos Banned Member since:May 2007 Location:Brussels, Belgium	I never knew those pen and papers RPG's but I remember when I was a kid there used to be these books called "Les livres dont vous êtes le héros". meaning "The books whose main character is you". You began reading the book and after a few pages of adventure you had a choice of what to do next. let me invent something as an example: if you were at the entrance of a maze it said: to go inside go page 14, to avoid the maze and go around it go to page 21, to turn back and choose a different path go to page 26 ...

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QwikSand Power Member Member since:Dec 2007 Trading Score:25	I used to do a lot of choose your own adventure books in school. Also there was a baseball game, APBA, that is still popular now.

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