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    Default About Tabletop Role-Playing Games (aka Pen & Paper RPGs & Pen & Dice RPGs)


    First off, I'm not really sure if this section of the message board extends to discussions on tabletop or "old school" RPGs. I'm just assuming that this section does in opening such a topic. However, if discussions on tabletop RPGs truly belong here and if a thread like this (or resembling this) has been created in the past, then please simply insert my posts to that former thread. If not, then please relocate this thread to its proper place, if not delete it altogether (if necessary). Thank you and my apologies (whichever is appropriate) in advance.

    Anyway, if anyone in Istorya.net was or are or would like to be playing, running, even designing tabletop RPGs, then I invite you to post in this thread. Let's swap stories-- preferrably war stories --and ideas and information and resources.

    With a gaming group of five players (three college and two employed friends) of mine, I'm currently running a free 3.5 Edition D20 Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) free adventure called "The Burning Plague" that I (very) loosely adapted to the D100 Mongoose RuneQuest (MRQ) system. We're really having a lot of fun on (almost every) Saturday afternoons, even more fun than in those adventures I ran and played with an original but insane system of my own design-- 'coz the 1st Ed. D&D boxed sets were just so expensive then (and they still are!) --back in high school. A human lord and a human wizard are played by the working class, while a half-elven ranger, an elven priestess and a murderous flesh-eating scholar who was changed into a repentant manticore (as a temporal punishment for his crimes) are played by the student body (heh!).

    I'm planning now to loosely adapt those old adventures to MRQ. I think I'm going to start with those Role-Aids adventure scenarios from Mayfair Games back in the 80s.

    Ahh, tabletop RPGs still rule over computer RPGs, for me!

    Thank you.

    Peace.

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    Hi there, alain. You into tabletop RPGs too?

    Last Saturday was a blast-- what ran for just 40 seconds of adventure time took us five hours in real time. They were battling two trolls in this test adventure. One of them, the human townsman scholar, died of "blood, shock and internal injuries" (I just love how the core rulesbook puts it) with just one swing of a troll's club to an arm (that crushed it to pieces!). Another, the half-elven ranger, lost consciousness two combat actions after taking a swing of a troll's club to his abdomen, though his arrows did much damage to one of the monsters. A third, the human noble lord, fell to the ground with yet another swing of the second troll's club to one of his legs. The human noble wizard was able to hurt one of the trolls the most with his Fireblade-powered scimitar. The elven priestess also contributed significantly with her crossbow shots ('coz she always failed in casting her Divine and Rune spells, hehehe).

    Thanks.

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    Hello, have you tried playing Battletech RPG?

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    Quote Originally Posted by christ1an
    Hello, have you tried playing Battletech RPG?
    No, I haven't. Since I'm more drawn to the fantasy genre, I tend to stay away from the science fiction genre.

    I do, however, have heard a lot of gamers who love Battletech to death. All the hosts of this one podcast that I regularly listen to, "Fear the Boot", are Battletech diehards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by christ1an
    Hello, have you tried playing Battletech RPG?
    There is no such thing as a "Battletech RPG". The Battletech system by FASA is essentially a wargame--a tabletop turn-based hex strategy game played on a hexmap sheet and using counters and figures. I've been a player since 1991 (but have not played a major game since then, because of the advent of oh-so-many Battltech themed computer games). The RPG component was handled by an RPG system called "Mechwarrior" (not to be confused with the video game series of the same title).

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    Quote Originally Posted by rodsky
    The RPG component was handled by an RPG system called "Mechwarrior" (not to be confused with the video game series of the same title).
    Hmmm, so "Mechwarrior" is the RPG system then, eh?

    Hey, this got me curious, was there a Robotech RPG back in the early part of the 90's or was it just a wargame like Battletech?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoundedbyHeaven
    Hmmm, so "Mechwarrior" is the RPG system then, eh?

    Hey, this got me curious, was there a Robotech RPG back in the early part of the 90's or was it just a wargame like Battletech?

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    The Robotech RPG (as the name implies) is indeed an RPG system, much like FASA's "Mechwarrior" RPG system. But of course, that's an entirely different milieu. The reason why it gets confusing is because FASA actually "borrowed" (some say stole) 'mech designs from the Robotech series (which in itself, is a stolen concept from Japan's Tatsunuko production house), mao nga some 'mechs in classic Battletech/Mechwarrior look a lot like Robotech Mecha .

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    Quote Originally Posted by rodsky
    The Robotech RPG (as the name implies) is indeed an RPG system, much like FASA's "Mechwarrior" RPG system.
    Oh, I see. And here I was hoping our gaming group back then really played the very first RPG in our high school.

    I guess we just played the very first fantasy RPG.

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    I first played AD&D back in 1988 (UP Diliman college dorm). I started making my own AD&D modules in 1989 as DM. I abandoned it for lack of enthusiastic players. Then computers came along and I got swept away by games like "Curse of the Azure Bonds" and "Secret of the Silver Blades", but I got sidetracked by Richard Garriott's "Ultima" series. The only time my interest in "pure" AD&D gaming was when I started playing PC based "Forgotten Realms" games like "Planescape: Torment", "Icewind Dale" and "Baldur's Gate"...but yeah, not exactly tabletop, but hey the issue again is lack of willing and in-the-know players (at least from where I come from, Mindanao).

    -RODION

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