Gamers?

[Annisthyrienne]

Just wondering, how many Litsters were or still are gamers. Were you, or are you still old school paper, pencil, and dice gamers, like DnD? Or are you more of the computer/online type? Does it affect how you role play here? Did it bring you here in the first place, like me? Have you written stories/role plays for your old gaming characters here?

 

[fr33ks33k]

Just wondering, how many Litsters were or still are gamers. Were you, or are you still old school paper, pencil, and dice gamers, like DnD? Or are you more of the computer/online type? Does it affect how you role play here? Did it bring you here in the first place, like me? Have you written stories/role plays for your old gaming characters here?

I still game, both tabletop and computer. It's never really affected how I write, but I'd imagine that the fantasy setting of DnD is probably very closely mirrored in many stories. For example, Into Fate's Hands is quite DnD-ish, with the orcs and elves and mysterious beasties.

I've never written a story for any of my old characters, though some of them I could see being the stars of an adventure. And honestly, I could imagine most of the characters I've created here fitting right in in a DnD campaign, or some other tabletop system.

 

[dragonrazor]

Always will be, with a penchant for the old school. Video games, M:TG, board games. The occasional tabletop RPG (I've grown to like the Battletech/Mechwarrior board game because you can win by torching the board)

 

[Perplexia]

I miss the table top game. It was based off of Gurps book of magic. I had quite a dice collection going.

 

[dragonrazor]

I miss the table top game. It was based off of Gurps book of magic. I had quite a dice collection going.

I....have two D20s. I usually use them as life counters in Magic....

 

[jack80]

Gamer always. Pen and Paper, or PC, I love games. I especially like it when I can get into the "role" of my character of a game. You will be able to tell when interesting tid-bits or things pop up.

I usually find myself enjoying thinking of a character background more sometimes then actually writing/playing said character. Though almost all my characters have a bit of me in them, either my dark desires or hope for the best.

My most favorite character was one that was just a simple work up. Then I helped create the race, the background, and their future in the games we played. I will admit, I based him and the race off the Minotaurs of DragonLance, but there were a lot of other differences and such as well.

As of yet, I haven't played a character I've roleplayed here... yet. A couple of Paladins are making their way up though ;p I always do enjoy a good Lawfulstupid Paladin.

 

[Cheska]

I am so much a gamer.

420 Dice.

The core books for D&D 3.5, players guide for 3.0
Pathfinder.
Exalted.
Just sold all my Vampire books [$200] for rent issues.
I have note books full of characters and Cheska is my personal favorite.

 

[Trouble_maker]

I used to love playing Halo online and was heavy into an MMORPG called City Of Heroes/Villians...oh and Street Fighter o'course

I also still dabble in Magic.

 

[Annisthyrienne]

In my case, I used to role play using Arcanum game system. For those of you truly dyed-in-the-wool gamers, you may remember the series of supplements called 'The Compleat Alchemist, The Compleat Spellcaster, and The Compleat Adventurer'. Well, Arcanum was derived from those supplements, some expansion added, joined by a Lexicon and a Beastiary to round out the whole Atlantean age game system. Later on it changed to spawn Talislanta, but in my humble opinion, that kinda sucked.

Anyhow, I used to play via Yahoo Messenger with my best friend from high school. My screen name, Annisthyrienne, was the name of my main character, a half elvish healer who married an elvish prince. She became so powerful in her healing, especially after devoting herself to an avatar incarnation of the Fertility Goddess that her best friend and first love gave birth to, that the simple folk of her husband's kingdom began to think of her as a goddess herself. She always tried to give the credit to Maia, the goddess she was devoted to, but it's hard to change the minds of people to believe in something they can't see rather than something they can see repeatedly before their own eyes.

When she gained the ability to resurrect the dead, and was granted the ability to bestow pregnancy on barren women, even without a husband in the picture, it was a few too many miracles to change people's minds after that.

Anyhow, it was a wonderful campaign that included lots of side characters and spanned about 4 years. Unfortunately, his wife decided she didn't like me, and made him dump me as a friend after knowing each other for more than 20 years. (It might have been because I told him once in chat that I was a more supportive wife from 500 miles away than she was in the same house. ) I was very depressed for a few months, and finally searched for an alternative way to role play. That brought me to Lit in October of 2010.

Originally I had hoped to find one good person who could take the place of my best friend in role playing like before, but I still haven't really found that yet. But on the bright side, I've made lots of other friends here, and have enjoyed the kind of role playing we do here, even if it's not the same. I guess you could say I sort of still play Annisthyrienne here in the lounges, though her story certainly has changed.





I admit I have a hidden agenda for asking this question, but I won't reveal it yet to those who don't already know. All in due time.

 

[Ahren]

On one hand I'd love to get into a good D&D game again. On the other, they just sort of stress me out. I've never been very creative in those settings.

Video games are more my thing. Currently playing through Mass Effect 3. I'm not at the end but a lot of people are really getting pissed at the ending, so I'm curious as to why. So far it's been pretty good though. I always wanted to do an ME based RP here, but it seems people don't know it, or they're shitty writers and can't do it justice.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

On one hand I'd love to get into a good D&D game again. On the other, they just sort of stress me out. I've never been very creative in those settings.

Video games are more my thing. Currently playing through Mass Effect 3. I'm not at the end but a lot of people are really getting pissed at the ending, so I'm curious as to why. So far it's been pretty good though. I always wanted to do an ME based RP here, but it seems people don't know it, or they're shitty writers and can't do it justice.

I've been hearing that too, actually...but given the intense love people feel for the game, almost any ending is going to be disappointing for some.
(I'm playing it too, of course)
I do console games, nothing on the PC.
I also do some tabletop from time to time (Shadowrun was the last one).

 

[Veroe]

Its taken me a long time to admit to myself I'm not a gamer.

Mostly because of the trend of complicating what the designers should make simple, buttons and controls, and the overall gaming experience. I'm the guy that jumps off the ledge twenty times and falls to his death just short of the next ledge and throws the controller against the wall and quits on the game all together. All because I can't double tap the jump button within the right window of time apparently.

It gets into an area where the frustration of poor game design or honestly shitty gaming skills outweighs the enjoyment I get from the story of the game-usually the only reason I bought the game in the first place.

Pretty much the gaming industry is taking the medium to places I don't care about so I've decided I'm not gonna waste anymore of my money on them.

As for tabletop DnD, only played it once in my life and it was thoroughly enjoyable, short-lived but enjoyable.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

I'm a gamer. I've played Most of the tabletop imaginations.

I first got started with TMNT and other strangeness.
Got into Robotech, then Rifts. Palladium and Superheroes unlimited.

Played D&D.
then AD&D
Then 3, .5 and lost patience with 4. (No clerics. Well fuck you sir.)

And a slew of others. Even LARP'ed Vampire once.

I've loved many characters. Played three to retirement. And one to Epic. (Frost the Tiefling Thief. Didn't so much garrote people as behead them with a line of Acid.)

Two different characters are on here in threads. One of them I am very proud of.

And I have come to the thought that I am not much of a PC or Console gamer anymore. I just don't enjoy a lot of what's out there.

Thanks. This was a fun question.

 

[SadistiKrow]

Anyone can answer? Yes? I'm a soft-core gamer. Never had the pleasure of playing a good pen and paper because of a rather limited community in my area and an odd mental barrier that won't allow me to play with a group of all males. LOL. Though I did inheirit a set of first generation Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books from my Uncle from the 70's I think? Would have to check. I've read alot about some of the stuff put out by White Wolf looks very interesting.

As for Video Gaming I love lots of stuff! Diablo will always have a special place in my heart, so will Kingdom Hearts, FFVI, VII and IX, Batman Arkham Asylum and Mass Effect. Morrowind was fantastic with all the incredible mods released and so was Skyrim. Werewolves And yes Online games led me to seek out LIT for a more interactive experience!

 

[Deleted member 1126402]

On one hand I'd love to get into a good D&D game again. On the other, they just sort of stress me out. I've never been very creative in those settings.

Video games are more my thing. Currently playing through Mass Effect 3. I'm not at the end but a lot of people are really getting pissed at the ending, so I'm curious as to why. So far it's been pretty good though. I always wanted to do an ME based RP here, but it seems people don't know it, or they're shitty writers and can't do it justice.

Same here, always wanted to get into D&D but never had a way.

As for Mass Effect 3, well it doesn't help when the ending basically copies the first Deus Ex not to mention hiding any sort of reminisce of an RPG. Basically as one person put it, the game has gone from KOTOR with a cover system to Gears of War with experience points.

 

[Annisthyrienne]

Other than Arcanum, which was fantasy based in the age of Atlantis, I've also played Dragonquest, another fantasy RPG. In the vein of modern horror, I loved to play NightLife, a game set up where the player characters are monsters who have to live in New York city and keep a fragile balance between their monstrous sides and what's left of their humanity.

I've played Rifts, but it seemed to me to try to encompass too much at once, and suffered from balance issues. Some characters could be vastly overpowering, while others barely survived. I've also played ADnD but the dungeon master was boring and unimaginative, and I found the rules to be too complex and lacking in logic.

 

[Annisthyrienne]

As for the characters from my gaming days that have starred in some of my stories here, The ones that come to mind are Annisthyrienne, in a story that didn't get too far called Chronicles of the Wanderer-Princess in Exile

Another character is an elvish Ranger apprentice named Brennisen who ended up in Opposites Attract

And there was an Amazon half elf named Chelsea who was in the ill fated Amazon Sisters of Battle. This story was one I tried to start at least three times, with no fewer than 4 different people. The problem I had was that they would approach me wanting to have my Yahoo ID to discuss the story, and once they got me to chat with them, they only wanted to play sexually in chat. I enjoyed that too, but I never did get to do the story.

 

[Ahren]

As for Mass Effect 3

Yeah, I might even say take out the part of the post where you mention another game ending that's similar because you're right. They are similar enough to the point where I'd consider it a spoiler for anyone who knows the ending to that game but not ME3. I thought the same thing once I saw it.

I just finished it, and I can see why people are upset. It didn't make me retroactively hate the experience.

And I don't think your comparison to KOTOR and Gears are getting the right point across because you make it sound like it went from a great RPG to a generic action game. It actually went from a pretty crummy action game with a few RPG elements to a pretty good action game with a few RPG elements. The refinements they made from 1 to 2 were largely critically acclaimed. I know I had a hard time going back to 1 after 2. 3 just polishes the gameplay from 2. There weren't a lot of major additions but I enjoyed what was there.

 

[Dramaticflare]

I am indeed a gamer, mostly of the console and pen and paper variety simply due to a lack of fully operational computers in my possession. I've been playing a lot of Odin Sphere, FFVI, Dark Souls and Battlefield3 right now, along with a plethora of other dabblings. I have far too much free time on my hands because I don't have a girlfriend on them. XD
Currently in my voracious gaming appetite, I'm DMing 4e (but trying to get them to switch to Wayfarers), playing a fighter/wizard in AD&D, and occassionally GMing Paranoia. I appear to be joining a pathfinder game here on literotica, too. There's a dark world campaign that my friends keep discussing about restarting but I'm pretty certain is in it's death throes.
I'm a bit of a drama nerd, so acting out characters is one of my favorite pasttimes as it is and dnd seems to be the fastest and one of the best ways to scratch that itch. But none of my characters have stuck around long enough for me to get attached to them enough I desire to drag them out of their settings and into literotica. I do put care and atttention into them, but since my characters are usually weak or broken in some manner they generally have perpetual unsolved problems, some of which would not work in a one on one game.
That's my two cents anyway.

 

[jack80]

Interesting...

Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition


And they are already talking of doing the sequel up as well?!

Was one of the better D&D rpgs that was out there. I do look forward to this.

 

[johnny2373]

I am a definite gamer. Love my Board games, love D&D and now just recently got into SWTOR...after 4.5 years on LOTRO LOVE EM...sigh

 

[Blaanid]

I am a definite gamer. Love my Board games, love D&D and now just recently got into SWTOR...after 4.5 years on LOTRO LOVE EM...sigh

zomg! You play SWTOR? I am on Krayt server as Morgain, Morgosis, Spiredore, Blaanid and some others...

 

[jack80]

I was actually disappointed with end game SWTOR... I like the class quests, but that was about it.

Assassins were underpowered

 

[Nina327]

hmm...


anyone here heard of Chaos 6010?

 

[jack80]

hmm...


anyone here heard of Chaos 6010?

no... explain... plz...