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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 15:21:04 GMT -5
By the way, if you're talking about the Martin Hackett Fantasy Wargaming book, then yes, I can certainly believe that you've played it (because I've played it too!). Not that one (though I have it somewhere) but the Bruce Galloway one. And thanks for the welcome. Oh yes, the Galloway one. I picked it up a few years ago, but have yet to give it a whirl at the table. |
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Post by tetramorph on Sept 7, 2015 17:50:08 GMT -5
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Post by Admin Pete on Sept 9, 2015 7:50:17 GMT -5
I think that roleplaying and storytelling are very different games like soccer and football). Welcome all and welcome bhoritz. I find this to be an intriguing statement ( one I agree with) since so many people believe that there is zero difference between roleplaying and storytelling. Love the art and the blog! Also down in the Art - Campaign Inspirations forum feel free to start one or more threads with any art that you would like to share. |
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Post by bhoritz on Sept 9, 2015 11:27:56 GMT -5
I find this to be an intriguing statement ( one I agree with) since so many people believe that there is zero difference between roleplaying and storytelling. I think that the difference lies in the point of view of the players. In roleplaying, during play, the players are inside their character, being only able to make choices that their characters could make within the limitations of the game world (that's immersion and that's what older games were about). In storytelling, during play, the players are seeing their character from the exterior and can make choices that are authorial choices that wouldn't be available to the character, they participate as authors to the writing of the adventure of their character (that's identification and that's what narrative games are about). I think that the difference is very important, resulting in very different game experience... and I tend to jump on a soapbox when it is mentioned. Oopps. I did it again. |
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Post by hengest on Sept 16, 2015 15:36:30 GMT -5
I was introduced very casually in the late 80s when I was in maybe 5th grade. There was no culture of RPGs around so I just peeked into the book and rolled what I was told. The other kid was DM / other player. I got a copy of Mentzer Basic with birthday money, basically liked it, but the tone bothered me, I had no sense of scope, and no one to play with.
When I was 14 I played AD&D for about a year with a church group of adults (there were no other teenagers around). Much better understanding of the game this time. Memorized the core books, loved most of the flavor.
Fell in with a short WoD campaign in 12th grade. Was ok; I missed D&D.
In my mid-20s, played by chat with dicerolling stuff with a friend from high school and some people he knew long distance. 3E. Major fun.
A couple years back I discovered the OSR online, read tons of stuff and liked a lot of it. Played one Google+ one-shot with strangers, but it fell pretty flat.
So here I am a quarter-century after meeting the game, still with my thirst largely unslaked. Just got married, have some free time, but am afraid of seeming weird to my wife and also afraid of disappointment if I just don't fit in with a group.
I've enjoyed a bunch of the threads and campaign materials on this board.
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Post by Admin Pete on Sept 16, 2015 18:17:00 GMT -5
Welcome hengest, I hope that you find what you are looking for here. Please jump in and comment or ask questions. We are a friendly group who just want to get more enjoyment out of life and our hobbies. Congrats on getting married!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 15:47:27 GMT -5
I've never posted in an Introduction thread before, so I suppose it's about time to do that. Like many of you, I started playing D&D in the early 80s back in Junior High School and still play with the same group pretty much ... though there have been many that have come and gone. 1st Edition AD&D was pretty much it back then. There was the occasional Traveller session (and I like to run that every once in a while to break up our gaming days a bit.) I started DMing with the Redbox of BECMI and then moved on to the Rules Companion so I'd only have one book to flip through during games. I dabbled with second edition and really liked the way you rolled up Thieves .. or Rogues, as 2nd edition preferred to call them  . Then I took some time away from the table, but by the time I got back I really didn't like what the game had become. So, I went back to what I knew ...But RC just lost it's lure for me. When I looked into OD&D I found what I was looking for ... something similar to AD&D, but without a lot of the baggage it never needed ...(Yeah, I even looked into OSRIC, but it fell a little flat to me.) There was just enough different in OD&D to keep it interesting, loose, and freewheeling. I didn't feel confined by the structure of the game, I felt like you could do anything. I needed a setting to run OD&D though. I thought about a Greybox Forgotten Realms game, but I was Realmsed out. Sure, there is an implied setting in the 3LBBs and there was Greyhawk or Blackmoor ... but I needed something more and I literally stumbled upon Judges Guild's Wilderness setting. WOW. Pure Gold - (yeah I have heard some people say not everything was gold by JG, but then TSR was guilty of the same thing, so it was a moot point for me.) I have been running games in my tinkered around and modified City State game since early 2009 and my curmudgeonly players have lit up and started living again, 1d6 damage and Hit Dice and all. Now the hardest thing is to find places on the interwebs to talk OD&D without some old bastard stepping in and telling you - you're playing the game wrong and you really need to be playing X. The great thing about OD&D is there are so many ways to play it and still play the game right. Not that I need Gary's permission, but it's there in black and white. |
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Post by bestialwarlust on Sept 27, 2015 18:34:21 GMT -5
Welcome. Agreed about od&d I was mostly ad&d back in the day. I drifted away from d&d for a bit (though not rpg's) I found od&d to be a better fit as most of the time I ignored a lot of the ad&d rules and used mostly what boils down to od&d. Now I look at od&d as a nice set of optional rules that I can pick some information from if I want to.
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Post by Admin Pete on Sept 28, 2015 21:26:22 GMT -5
JMiskimen welcome! Look around post, ask questions and whatever, also digging up old threads is encouraged now when everything is less than a year old and if we are still around ten years from now digging up old threads will still be encouraged. The rules are pretty simple. If you have any questions, just ask.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 4, 2015 10:14:18 GMT -5
Oh look, mere days after making Sorcerer on the OD&D Discussion forums, I become a Traveller here. I need to get off the internet and do some editing.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 4, 2015 12:37:45 GMT -5
Oh look, mere days after making Sorcerer on the OD&D Discussion forums, I become a Traveller here. I need to get off the internet and do some editing. Cool! 15 members with 100 or more posts! |
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Post by rastusburne on Oct 12, 2015 22:01:28 GMT -5
Hi guys, some of you may know me from other forums. I frequent Dragonsfoot, and (less frequently) the ODD74 board and Knights & Knaves. I'm also on G+.
OD&D is one of the many RPGs I play, but I have a soft spot for it amongst the many.
Corey
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 12, 2015 22:30:20 GMT -5
Hi Corey, thank you for joining us and making our number an even and round 100. Sit a spell and look around, I am sure you will find something of interest.  |
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Oct 14, 2015 17:06:07 GMT -5
ohmygosh, rastusburn and I on the same forum? Hope everyone makes their SAVE! (lol)
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Post by rastusburne on Oct 15, 2015 4:36:02 GMT -5
ohmygosh, rastusburn and I on the same forum? Hope everyone makes their SAVE! (lol) Haha, I don't know how to reply to that. I don't recognise your username. |
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Oct 23, 2015 8:53:02 GMT -5
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Nov 1, 2015 14:47:52 GMT -5
Well, I'm a cat of many colors! But, sure--go ahead.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Nov 6, 2015 6:38:42 GMT -5
Welcome to any and all new members I may have missed!
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 8, 2015 14:29:37 GMT -5
Well, I'm a cat of many colors! But, sure--go ahead. Based on this comment I am taking the liberty of copying this quote from down in the Member Campaigns section The Lost Lands: Hello, everyone. Captain Crumbcake here. aka Oldkat, Professor Thork and various other things folks call me. I hope any ill associations you may have with me in the past on other forums can be set aside, as I am earnestly trying to abide by a serious standard nowadays--for the most part.  I would just say that I am not concerned with things that happened elsewhere and everyone starts here with a clean slate and as long as everyone plays well with others that is the way it will stay. I have a few friends on here who are tasked with holding me to my promise of no favorites and the same rules for all members, including them. Everyone is here to have to fun and share that fun. No "edition wars" and no bullies. |
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Nov 8, 2015 23:35:22 GMT -5
That's good to hear. I've been known for frivolously throwing sexual undertones into my posts in the past. I shant do that anymore. I, too, dislike edition wars. That said, its my opinion that there are plenty enough new-edition hangouts without turning them all into one. Which is why I was drawn here, and a couple other places. Well, that, and the folks here is nicey. |
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Post by Necromancer on Nov 9, 2015 8:08:16 GMT -5
Welcome to all new members here, cool to have you on board!
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Nov 11, 2015 20:03:30 GMT -5
 (This was the closest smiley I could find to emote my embarrassment) I am quite pleased to see when a post/thread of mine is "liked" by someone. But I am not sure how Notifications function here. Are they PMs? that require response? (Dang I'm dum!) 
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Post by waysoftheearth on Nov 11, 2015 20:59:56 GMT -5
(This was the closest smiley I could find to emote my embarrassment) I am quite pleased to see when a post/thread of mine is "liked" by someone. But I am not sure how Notifications function here. Are they PMs? that require response? (Dang I'm dum!) A "Notification" is not the same thing as a Private Message. It is just Proboards' way of telling you "something that may be of interest to you" has occurred. Notifications automatically occur, for example, when anyone quotes you, or names you in a post, or sends you a Private Message (there are other notification-worthy events too). The notification itself is FYI only; it doesn't require a response. However, if a notification is raised because someone has PM'd you, then you probably want to respond to the PM. See here for the full Proboards user guide on notifications: www.proboards.com/user-guide/notificationsHope that helps |
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Nov 11, 2015 21:45:27 GMT -5
Thanks. Yep.
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Dec 11, 2015 2:00:53 GMT -5
I just saw that our latest member, and old compadre of mine--AR-AR--has joined the club. Welcome aboard, ron--and all the newbies. Or oldbies, whichever the case may be. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Dec 11, 2015 11:54:07 GMT -5
Welcome rredmond, great to have you here! |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Dec 20, 2015 15:21:13 GMT -5
Our benevolent leader and Perilous Dreamer (brother of Beautiful Dreamer, which means he must have been created by Kirby also) and tell my story. His intent is to put the rest of you into a coma, then invade your caves and steal all your stuff.
No - wait. That was the game this girl in the Terran League tried to get me and my wife into playing, somewhere in 1976. (??) But I was studying at the Defense Language Institute and we had a one-year old baby girl, and really couldn't make the time.
But when we reached my first duty station (Shaw AFB, SC) we learned more about this D&D thing, played a little bit of it, and discovered one didn't need to know the rules. When I tried my hand as gamemaster, I'd learned a healthy disregard for rules -- besides, 0D&D whitebox didn't have rules that made sense. It wasn't later until one of Arneson's players was stationed at the same base (not Shaw) as us, that we learned 0D&D really needed Outdoor Survival and Chainmail if we wanted to "play by the rules." But it was too late. By then, my house "rules" (If a player tried anything that would entertain and amuse us all, whatever they rolled was a critical success.) were in place, and resembled the next game that I still use.
Tunnels & Trolls, 4th edition, with either a yellow or blue cover. (Seems as if I remember it being printed on a ditto master or even hectograph gel.) Stuck with it every edition, though we played and ran many, many game systems. Had a wonderful Runequest campaign which climaxed in January 1984, when the Red Emperor crashed out of the palace roofs, riding the giant Crimson Bat - which was his starship, and he was a Traveller villain who almost conquered the planet.
These days, my youngest grandson and his friends (and, occasionally, his sisters - who are wonders at role playing...Girls are natural RPGamers) get me to GM them sometimes, and they never know if I'm using TnT, C&C, or QADD...and neither do I.
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Post by Admin Pete on Dec 20, 2015 16:44:48 GMT -5
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Dec 20, 2015 17:09:58 GMT -5
Welcome to the boards, mormonyoyoman!
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Dec 20, 2015 20:28:56 GMT -5
Welcome to Mormon...any everyone else if I fergitted.
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