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by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:21 am

I dont think this is the right forum to ask this but....
Have any of you played a pen and paper rpg ever??? like Dungeons and dragons you know.....
Just asking Question

by **Negative Zero** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:28 am

Yeah! I played with my friends Very Happy

! The first few games we used only dices or coins, for battles or events. Then we started picking numbers, something like....the DM thinks at 3-4 effects and we choose a number. Now it's something more like a quest, we can do whatever we want, I mean in a fight if a dragon atacks you, you can start smashing your head to a rock Razz

,or dance like an idiot, or you can stab your party members in the back Evil or Very Mad

....brings back memorys.... anyway, the point is that it's very simple, you don't need anything, only a DM and players !!!
Ohh..... I almost forgot! We call it SD&D (Simple Dungeons & Dragons), but I think it sounds lame so maybe we'll change the name!

by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:31 am

Yes well i am familiar with that type of RPG i myself have also played it.
Really now, theres nobody else who played a RPG like this or a rule complicated one???

by **debeaxcc** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:39 am

Can i still be the necromancer? Twisted Evil

Last time you wanted me to be drakonian, or something like that...

This of the most geekyest game I have ever played and one of the most invent-you-got-to-do ones, thats why I love it.

by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:51 am

HAHA
I have played the game wqith deveaxxc and he had a necromancer character it is indeed fun. I was the Dungeon Master ; i look forward for new "victims"

by **silentguy** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:48 am

now that the server is back I can finally post the answer i tried to send yesterday Razz

I played Midgard a bit, but mainly with a friend that live on the other side of germany, so we played via fax... it was weird, we just send him a list with descriptions what we wanted to to, and he managed everything else...
hat mad fights rather strange...
I also played a bit DSA (or TDA?) but our problem was with midgard and with DSA that we had noone experienced to be the GM...

by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:48 am

I am sorry but i have never heard of Midgard Embarassed

can you please tell me more about it??? silentguy??

by **silentguy** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:08 am

wikipedia wrote:Midgard is a fantasy role-playing game of German origin. It was the first such game ever published in the German language and the first role-playing game that was created in Germany.[...]

In contrast to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons or The Dark Eye, Midgard is not based very strongly on levels. The characters do have levels (Ger. Grade), but this only indicates how much a character has learned in life and they are not used to gain new abilities. New abilities or improvement of existing abilities are learned by spending experience points, which are earned by adventuring. There are 3 different classes of experience points (combat, magic and general), which means that for character classes that are a combination of fighter and magician, the amount of time spent using either capability is reflected in the experience earned (and used, of course). A characters level increases when he spends a certain amount of experience points to "buy" new capabilities.

There are more than 20 classes of characters, but those do not determine the entire look of the character, only how difficult or easy it is for a character to learn certain abilities.
[...]

I know, it's rather lazy to just copy/paste a lot of Wikipedia Stuff, but I forgot a lot and when i read up on in in the Wikipedia entry I thought that i could not write it much better anyway... (that's ~ half the article)

As you see, it was the first german RPG, but i think it's pretty much dying out, at least where "normal" people are concerned (if you wanna call any role-player normal *g*)
I bet that there are a still quite some players left, but last time i checked i saw no midgard books at the nearest rpg dealer...

by **Asbestos** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:40 am

by **accolade** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:11 pm

I used to play AD&D with my friends for an year or something, altho I lost my interrest in stuff like that after I got my computer. I also tried Cyberpunk which was great fun :) I'd love to try that stuff again now if I had some people to play with.

by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:14 am

Well you got me staright silentguy perhaps you want to play Simple D&D( no leveling, only storyline and quests, your mind is your true weapon Very Happy

) perhaps midgard (i never played but i think i will get along very fast) may i add you on my messenger list for friends???? Very Happy

Strange i started playing pen and paper rpg cuz i was fed up in computer games rpg systems.....Sure you dont want to play AD&D again accolade???

I dont understand the smiley Abestos, what did you mean by that???

by **silentguy** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:02 am

tarbosaurus_geticus wrote:Well you got me staright silentguy perhaps you want to play Simple D&D( no leveling, only storyline and quests, your mind is your true weapon ) perhaps midgard (i never played but i think i will get along very fast) may i add you on my messenger list for friends????

Off cause you can add me if you want, but I don't have Yahoo Messenger...
And I must say, I was always a borderline Munchkin...
I did not try to fight my friends for loot or anything, but I always were much more eager to manage my stats then actual role-playing, so SD&D would be lost on me Wink

*sigh* that reminds me, I should try to again find some friends to play Munchkin... Hm,does that qualify as a RPG? no, i guess not Wink

by **tarbosaurus_geticus** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:07 pm

Man sd&d does not include anything about player competion its more about colaboration and immersive storyline most likely you will not be able to kill anything as you canot do that in real life Wink

by **De Kus** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:28 pm

silentguy wrote:I also played a bit DSA

I have regular meatings with some friends twice a week for that P&P RPG ^-^. Me and a friend were introduced to it while on a tent camp about 10 years ago.
Recently I made a new character which was my first real character in that game... an Elven Warrior with only partly knowdledge about humans ^-^.

by **silentguy** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:41 pm

The only character that was really involved in some proper roleplaying and not just in some sad experimental stuff was, "Gerion McLachlan der Waldläufer"... a human Ranger from a kinda noble house...
funny thing, my other players asked me where i got that unusual name and I had no idea, and it later turned out I have a very remote 3rd degree cousin or something calles Gerion. Guess I heard and forgot about him and just used his name... Hm, I think i saw his 10 year old charater sheet around here somewhere recently... maybe i should dig it out again =)

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