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I prefer to play the Hero System since it's a toolkit. I can't stand anything related to d20.
Its actually kind of funny...before D20 was D20 my two most commonly played games was 2nd ed D&D which still used the d20 a lot and Cyberpunk which had this weird D10 system. For a while there we were playing with these home brew rules that I meshed together for a generic somewhat free form game of modified D&D that did D20 + half your stat + a bonus for being proficient in a skill or any attack pluses when it came to attacking going up against a set number that you had to beat out. It was a really rough system but I enjoyed it...so when I saw 3e and the D20 system it instantly felt wonderful in my eyes because it was like someone went in my head and took the giant boulder rolling around in it and sculpted it into something wonderful.
I definitely get its not everyones cup of T, but I've always enjoyed it and the mix of a stable ruleset mixed with a fair amount of flexibility.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to show everyone the logo and the cover preview of my book.
Damn, this is actually pretty awesome. Is this your art?
I started playing in 1974 with Chainmail, the precursor to D&D and then played actively until the mid-80s. However, it got harder and harder to find anyone who actually wanted to play who wasn't a screwed up idiot. The last group we had, one member got so into Vampire: The Masquerade that he started dressing all in black and refusing to leave the house during daylight hours. Since he was the ride everyone else had to the game, we just stopped playing. Every attempt since then has failed because the people were just too messed up. I'd like to again one day, occasionally, my wife and daughters and I will sit down and play Paranoia or something, but it's hard to find anyone well-adjusted who likes to play.
I started playing in 1974 with Chainmail, the precursor to D&D and then played actively until the mid-80s. However, it got harder and harder to find anyone who actually wanted to play who wasn't a screwed up idiot. The last group we had, one member got so into Vampire: The Masquerade that he started dressing all in black and refusing to leave the house during daylight hours. Since he was the ride everyone else had to the game, we just stopped playing. Every attempt since then has failed because the people were just too messed up. I'd like to again one day, occasionally, my wife and daughters and I will sit down and play Paranoia or something, but it's hard to find anyone well-adjusted who likes to play.
That's my problem, as well.
The guys I used to play with, are perpetually single and get very jealous, if I couldn't drop everything to go hang out with them.
I had to cut ties because of it.
Same here. I had a group through most of the 80s and while I'm still good friends with most of them, I am the only one out of the group who ever got married, ever had kids, has ever held a good job, etc. It's kind of sad, really.
That sounds like an absolute riot, bet a lot of those games were interrupted for gales of uncontrollable hilarity. :mrgreen:
Played pen and paper Star Trek role playing games during the '80's and '90's.
Same here. I had a group through most of the 80s and while I'm still good friends with most of them, I am the only one out of the group who ever got married, ever had kids, has ever held a good job, etc. It's kind of sad, really.
So, do you play pen and paper roleplaying games (i.e. D&D, shadowrun, call of cthulu, etc.)?
Don't like being a game master, much rather be a player.
I prefer to play the Hero System since it's a toolkit. I can't stand anything related to d20.
I used to be a d20 guy until we scored the license to publish AfterWorlds as a supplement for HARP Sci-Fi. That caused me to get very heavily into HARP and eventually Rolemaster. Seeing the level of detail and the sheer elegance of those games makes me wish I'd gotten into them earlier-- back when I had a few thousand dollars' worth of AD&D 2e.
I used to be a d20 guy until we scored the license to publish AfterWorlds as a supplement for HARP Sci-Fi. That caused me to get very heavily into HARP and eventually Rolemaster. Seeing the level of detail and the sheer elegance of those games makes me wish I'd gotten into them earlier-- back when I had a few thousand dollars' worth of AD&D 2e.
I ran a Rolemaster campaign for a while back in the late 80's, or maybe it was early 90's. It is an intresting system. I liked the critical hits tables in particular, some of them were hilarious.
I know what you mean. I wish I had all the money I sunk into AD&D and other systems to put into Hero. I want to wish you luck with your book. It's a long, hard road to get a book published.
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