Thanks to Gamgee, I've been back into D&D pen and paper gaming for just around a year now. Solely online though, so it's more of Play By Post rather then Pen and Paper, but it still follows the same rules. www.giantitp.com is where I play. Great little site, though I hear myth weavers is another good one. It's really great fun, and very useful if you can't find a gaming group where you live.

Aye, all of my long running games died off there all at once. year long + games. Now I'm waiting for a game that plays weekly in a chat program or ventrillo or something.

Even with my old group, it was more fun to think about than to play. Combat is just... so... sloooooooooow. That's why we stopped. I don't know why I signed up to DM for the more recent group, 'cept that the half of it that I didn't object to included the nicest guy I've ever met (seriously, he'll just stop everything to help perfect strangers. He's amazing), and the funniest guy I currently know.

I recently got the the 4.0 version of "Book of Vile darkness".

Have you checked the Camarila Newsgroup?

Don't you English-speakers have any kind of "Online RPG"? (Not MMORPG) Like... A online "chat" with dice rolls, character sheet and everything? Here we have at least three (free) services like this.

Used to back on 1st and 2nd edition.

Happened to me too. The store owners are nice enough, and if I got an invite to play with them I might. However, every time I go in there, people stare at me. It freaks me the hell out. I wonder what I did to piss those people off so much, haven't gotten a death glare like that in a long time. I once participated in a magic tournament there, and me and my friend were treated like crap because we were new. Whenever I do try and strike up a conversation no one is interested, or can't be bothered. So I just stick to my group of players. It's a pity, but sometimes people just don't like you. Well in my case at least.

Yes i wish they'd gone more that way, without the miniatures rules, i loved 2nd ed, but the rules werent that brilliant, 3.5 was better if you stripped alot of the pointless miniatures and long winded combat rules, but much better character work, but blatanly stolen from warhammer fantasy role play.


I cant say ive heard of anything like that, i know of more than a few web pages where they run RPG's, you type your actions in and it gets added in to all the actions of the other people and the game in general, i played Macross 2 for about 12 months online that way, but an online chat would be brilliant, but difficult time wise, if you were playing with overseas players, always happened to me when playing WOW and being on a US server, but still sounds good.

But the one thing was i wish the person who'd started compiling and making the fallout rpg would have finished it and updated it for all versions, maybe its a suggestion to bethesda, bioware has dragon age rpg, lots of role less roll, would love to see a decent fallout rpg, starting from 1 to the current.


Did you ever play alternity starcraft, first and last time i ever played the alternity rules.

TSR days are long gone, the former writers all went freelance.

Vampire:the Masquerade used to have an official chatroom for that kind of roleplay. There are more unofficial chatrooms with their own houserules out there, they are just more with the v:tm goth crowd.

No, and I never find Starcraft universe anywhere good comparing to either Star Drive or Dark Matter.

Pathfinder is basically D&D 3.5 but published by another company. The rules are essentially the same, but some of the classes and monsters have been rebalanced.

Just managed to start the first session of D&D with my group. 5 Newbies including the DM and 2 more experienced players and we were playing 4E which is the only version us new players could get our hands on and we were already a bit into learning that when the other two joined. Anyway with the help of the two more veteran players there never came a moment where doing something as a part of roleplay wasn't possible with enough skill and luck by compromising somehow with home based rules yet 3.5 players will swear fire and brimstone upon 4E and say it's impossible to play with.

We didn't get too far so perhaps we didn't have too many cases where 4E could rear it's head to make up for a bad experience but what kind of stories can you more experienced players share about when 4E made something impossible for you ? Or perhaps just delve into it in more detail why 4E is hated with such passion.

I've played both D&D (3.5) and Pathfinder (which is an improvement of the system). I don't get many opportunities to play now, but when I do I jump at it. I prefer to DM/GM, but am happy as a PC if the game is run well.

I can summarise 4E's problems in ten words: 4E is an attempt to capitalise on the MMO market. It's not so much that the mechanics aren't there (although they aren't, for non-combat simulations), but that they're constructed in such a way as to make anything but combat irrelevant. This is against the spirit of (especially P&P) RPGs. There's not even much in the way of consideration of the environment, let alone story or character interaction. The whole idea just left me with a really gross feeling about WotC.

I wonder if they'll ever again produce a combination that's as rich as 2E and Darksun.

Oh, Darksun... !