We just started playing Table Top again recently, and it has been a real shock to the system.

I'm starting up a game soon, myself.  Should be scary.

The sheer amount of dice rolling with this group surprised me - One DM seems to have random tables for everything and a few dice rolls later you have roll-played -   but not really role played ....

The other gets bogged down in the combat systems so it almost becomes a skirmish level war game ....

Good lord.  O_o  Hardcore rules D&D, is that it?  Would be a shock to get that after the sort of heavy RP one tends to get in play-by-post!

I hope you're having fun, at least!

Pathfinder - it does seem to handle many things better than the  other 3e variants - although they have just started adding in all the  rules that let people play an Alien-meerkat-cowboy(*) in a fantasy setting  :(

Without that they actually had an impressively well balanced game world and scenarios.  (when compared to most D&D settings I have seen)


(*) OK - that might be a slight exaggeration.

Pathfinder DOES look good.  They cranked up the power level of all the classes, but the classes actually seem to be more balanced now.  I rather liked what I saw of the game.  :)  Good choice.

But they've added in all kinds of other stuff?  O_O  Doesn't sound like it's entirely to your taste.  :(

The advanced players book has lots of new prestige classes, blood lines, extra abilities etc etc ....  It moves things into the mega high fantasy anything goes league -  which doesn't suit me well at all  :)

There are times when I want a gritty, lower-powered campaign, I admit.   A lot of the time.

.....

My tabletop is an Anima game.  There'll be lots of politics, shades of grey, dirty dealings, and nastiness, but gritty/lower-powered it isn't. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 16:43, Thu 02 Dec 2010.

Oh I like a 'heroic' game. I was introduced to Norse Myth as a child and then progressed through various other mythologies. In  the late 70s I found a D&D book and thought  WOW!  I read the PHB and DMG through cover to cover in a one night sitting  :)

I don't mind a bit of politics and intrigue or a few puzzles -  but they have to be fairly quick -  I am not good at piecing together clues spread over 12 weeks of adventure  :)  But basically, I like my fantasy worlds to be straightforward  and consistent  :)

Actually - the same is true of most other games - one of the reasons I like Traveller  as a setting  :)

Nothing wrong with that... :)

*grin* I spend much more time playing around with world design elements now, than I do playing.  *shrug*  Funny how one's interests change over time.

I understand that.  :)

For myself, I used to ref.

Nobody else in my group wanted to GM.  About...80% of the time, it was me.

:(

So now when I'm on Rpol and SC, I almost exclusively play.  After decades of reffing, it's welcome.

Thank you, Ron!

Indeed - thank you Ron.

TBH - I hardly ref at all now -  However, I still do world design  :)

Aww... it's nothing.  I prefer GMing to playing, to be honest.  Currently I have seven games on my Sticky List that I own, and only three games that I play in (and only one of those three could be accurately described as "active").  And I like it just fine that way.

Merry Christmas everybody...



Hope that Christmas is everying that you and yours could wish for.

From me, you will have to settle for a limerick (that I found on line)

Santa said "Look! In the Snow
A Travelling Bordello show.
I counted three hookers,
nice little lookers,
which leads me to say Ho Ho Ho"

I hope you all have a great Christmas, Yule and New Year ....

Sorry, no rhymes or pictures from me.  Just best wishes on a happy holiday season and a note that I am looking forward to RPing with all of you in the coming year (and beyond!).  Merry Christmas, everyone!

It's everywhere, that picture!  I cannot escape!

^_^

Merry Christmas, all!  I'd love to post more lengthly wishes, but this last week has been nutso, and Christmas Eve is looking just as bad.

Hope everyone is doing well, and yes, I too am looking forward to RP with everyone after the 25th!  :D

I'm going to be away for the rest of today, and part of tomorrow, so Happy New Year everybody.  May 2011 bring you all you could hope for.

Yes - and I hope you and everyone else here has a great new year.  We are seeing this year out in West Wales  and we are currently sitting in a service station on the M4, after exploring the Roman baths, amphitheatre and museum at Caerleon all morning  :)

I am sure that we will spend at least part of tomorrow up a mountain somewhere looking at pretty views  before we head home again :)

Sounds fabulous, Tylen!  :)

Okay, I'm now 'fully' back, and getting caught up in all my games.  :(  This could take some time.

This is the view from my mother-in-law's house, where I spent New Year.



The large shiny bit beyond the trees is a frozen river, with more forest on the far side of it.

Nice.

You!  Touched!  The COFFEE!

*burning aura erupts around Shui*

I am sure there must have been a splash or two on the counter as well ....  :P