Tabletop RPG Discussion!

[Suzie Miyazaki]

So a couple of us here are into Tabletop Roleplaying Games like GURPS or Dungeons & Dragons, who wants to talk about them? We can talk about LARPing and CCG's as well.

So I want to get me and my friends into Roleplaying, and I've been trying for a while. At the moment I want to start the plot off in a similar way to the Seven Samurai/ Magnificent Seven. The group is taken in to defend a small unarmed town from bandits.

But the bandits aren't all they seem, and the town has a dark secret that the bandits want to get their hands on!

We're using the Microlite20 system which is very, very simple it's basically Dungeons And Dragons but condensed into a couple of A4 sheets of paper.

At the moment the party consists of:

• Elrysior, a Half-Elven Paladin who's a little "Neutral" on the rules.
  
• Freya, a teenaged halfling Bard.
  
• Thora, the teams young halfling rogue.
  
• Paul, a gnome ranger whose "28 ... ish" years old.
  

[Hayate Kakuzu]

I think I may have an addiction to Tabletop RPGs because I play so many. I'll try and list them along with my characters.

• Drallig, a jesting Eladrin Wizard of the Spiral Tower
  
  Rogue Trader
  
• Cin, the most badass Eldar pirate in the galaxy
  
  Anima
  
• Kadaj, a human with an artificial arm and a double-bladed sword
  
  Lorien Trust, which is a big LARPing community
  
• Drallig, a comedic sea trader who knows magic.
  

[The Greeed]

I have to ask, what's LARPing?

[Hayate Kakuzu]

It's short for Live Action Role Play. Essentially, players get up in costume and act things out. It's the geekiest thing anyone can do.

[Kai, Kenji and Mikel]

I've actually been considering getting into these for a while. Are there any websites anyone knows about where I could do this for free, or would I have to try and find a real-life group?

[Suzie Miyazaki]

LARPing or Tabletop games?

I think that there's a good few sites online that'll let you play over IM or something. If you have to find a real-life group then I suggest either:
A) Get your friends.
B) Go to a gaming store and see whether they have leaflets or posters stuck up on the walls about it.

[Shotaro Hidari]

Well, going to tabletops for a second, I actually finished up a pretty awesome, if short, campaign. We were using D&D 3.5 in the Eberron setting, and I was playing as my third-ever D&D character: Hana, the Chaotic Good Changeling Cleric of the Soverign Host who has a serious flat-chest complex. She was pretty much the comic relief of the entire game.

[K.W Cross]

One of my friends has just given me his character:
Socrates the 603 year old Elven Magi (Sorcerer)

So I think I'm ready to do this, but the problem is I haven't DM'd before ... ever ... any advice?

[Cassie [Crimson]]

I want to start up a DnD game also, but have no idea how. I've also never played.

[Kai, Kenji and Mikel]

We can be D&D n00b buddies! Also, I found this.

[Jackson Morris The Third]

Apr 30, 2012 21:04:04 GMT Cassie [Crimson] said:

I want to start up a DnD game also, but have no idea how. I've also never played.

Me neither xP

Apr 30, 2012 21:24:55 GMT Kai, Kenji and Mikel said:

We can be D&D n00b buddies! Also, I found this.

Ooh, that looks awesome =D Thankyou, very much.

I just re-found The Link where I got my microlite pdf's. It's a big, big, biiiiiiig pdf but it's 99.6% optional rules that can easily be taken in or out and a few other campaign ideas (Star Wars, Star Trek, Zombies, Terminator etc.)