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Post by keitaro on Jul 25, 2007 23:57:52 GMT -5
I'm well aware that this forum is an RP board, so I suppose it's time I ask a pivotal question:
Is/has anyone ever considered doing this RP in "pen and paper" form? That is to say, like a commercial RPG such as Dungeon and Dragons, or Shadowrun, or White Wolf, or GURPS, or anything related to those? I'm just curious, because in my opinion the actual danger of character death makes it more fun. Or maybe it's just the fact that the chance aspect integrated into the game makes it more interesting, I dunno.
Discuss.
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Post by momaru on Jul 27, 2007 1:11:02 GMT -5
Yah, I would love to do that, we could fairly easily set up whatever we wanted using GURPS's game mechanics. The only problem is the expense of buying all the needed players handbooks and whatnot and bothering how to actually play using the RPG system. I can see us buying multiple books in addition to the core rule books. Alternately, we could come up with a system of our own, but I would prefer using GURPS or some other already created RPG system that has all of the game mechanics kinks ironed out for us. I suppose some adaptation may be necessary, but I am not worried about that.
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Post by animeg on Jul 27, 2007 19:30:17 GMT -5
I...I'm not sure if I understand any of that. xD Because when you say 'Paper and Pen', I just pictured the actual items in real world but I'm getting pretty good hints that it's not that. xDD I've heard of DnD but never actually played it and I never even heard of those other stuff so an explaination about your term 'paper and pen' would be really nice. Please and thank you! :D
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Post by momaru on Jul 27, 2007 19:50:35 GMT -5
Well, there is GURPS light, which is a condensed 32 page form of their players guide/rules/character creation, and it's free. I suppose we could try playing with those rules and see if we like it.
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Post by keitaro on Jul 27, 2007 22:41:01 GMT -5
Ani: "Pen and Paper" RPGs are the kind that can be played with four items: a pen, some paper, the right kinds of dice, and imagination. Thus, no electronic mediums are needed. The main difference between a pen and paper RPG and this one is that there are, well.... requisites. Character classes need to be worked out, stats need to be rolled, etc. So instead of a "play-as-you-go" RPG like this one there will be points in the game where parts hinge on a combination of your skills and pure chance, such as battles. Battles where characters can die, get severely wounded, or kill others. I, personally, believe that this adds another dimension to gameplay that I rather like, but that's just me, and I'm only one guy.
As for Bryce, I'm sure that just using GURPS Lite is not necessary. I can either dig up the core rulebooks myself, and if that fails I know people who can hook me up for free. If they can't, then I guess we'll use Lite. But no point in settling for anything less than necessary. X-D
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Post by animeg on Jul 30, 2007 4:15:35 GMT -5
Ooooh! Alright, now that make sense! Hm, actually that'd be pretty interesting! Complicated... but interesting! I don't think Eon would get to that but we'll just have to wait and see. <3 <3
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Post by keitaro on Jul 30, 2007 5:55:42 GMT -5
Well, I'm glad I didn't fail at explaining it. ^.^;;
And complicated? Ehh... It really depends on what ruleset you use. In fact, if anyone's interested I suppose we can craft our own and make it as simple or complicated as we choose. But eh, I don't run the show here, so... X-P
Anyone else for/against?
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Post by sorin on Aug 1, 2007 12:01:01 GMT -5
I am with Taro.
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Post by Anon on Aug 1, 2007 21:56:34 GMT -5
Hmm... um, well I've actually never even gotten to play a game of DnD before nor any other pen and paper games so I can't really say whether I would like to or not. I think that it would be quite difficult to set up and get it going more that it has already been to get started RPing. I donno. Seems like a bit too much if you ask me not to mention we'd all have to gather together to play and there'd be tons of rules and such to follow and preforming all these checks and... wow. I donno. We could give it a try but I don't see us getting very far with it especially if most of us have never actually played a game like that before. Hmm...
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Post by bi on Aug 2, 2007 0:07:57 GMT -5
Wow...lD I havn't done DnD in about a year and a half. >: Last time I did it was with James W. So yea...I used to have DnD characters but...their pretty much dead now. NOW I know what "Pen and Paper" is pretty much. xD I don't like it as much as Free-RPG on both internet and LIVE, or paper if your with another person.
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Post by animeg on Aug 2, 2007 13:40:15 GMT -5
Well, I argee with Taro; Ani's a very very personal character of mine and has always been for years now and I don't want to risk her of being killed because... that would just suck. xD UNLESS, we like.. alter the rules or something?
Either way, I also argee with Tusami, I don't know if it would actually get far but I guess it couldn't hurt to try. The thing is, it'll be hard getting together and do this, ya know? I'm in collage and all and it's hard enough to try to keep in contact with everybody.
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Post by night on Aug 3, 2007 16:52:39 GMT -5
ah ive done one of these before. we were actually doing like..beta testing for a RP that allie did artwork for..it was called OVA and it was awsome...but........there were complications.....with....some of the members <.< long story...
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Post by keitaro on Aug 4, 2007 5:32:20 GMT -5
Umm... A lot of you seem to be laboring under the delusion that once your player is dead, they're dead forever and you should forget that they ever existed. That is almost always not the case. In every RPG I've read the rules for, there is a method for resurrecting a dead player character, and even if they DO die in that game, you can always use them in the next game.
Heck, depending on the setting, you can even claim that you had a clone somewhere and mind uplinked with it last Tuesday. (That's possible in D&D and Shadowrun, methinks. Although in D&D you need a lab, lots of time, and a large chunk of your own flesh. (One cubic inch. Pain.))
But yeah, distance is a real problem. I suppose everything is fine as it is, really. I just like my dice. *pats his dice bag*
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Post by kaito on Aug 7, 2007 17:36:30 GMT -5
That would totally kick ass if we did this!
I personally love Dnd to death, so I'm all for it.
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Post by eirra on Aug 9, 2007 13:03:15 GMT -5
Hmmm... I'm not entirely up for that cause Taro's a permanent character until I kill him. (Which probably won't happen- WAIT! Darius already Killed Taro... But then he got shadow possessed and then the- Oh nvm.) Point is, he's too intricate. I've put so much time into him and I don't want to run the risk of him getting killed by a bad spot check. XD I'll make a P & P character separately. SMACK! Bad Darius. No cookie! Darius: HEY! I said I was sorry! NO YOU DIDN'T!!! And you almost killed me, too, you freak. Darius: Oh, yeah. Oops. yeah, I kinda have to agree. I already know how Eirry is going to die... though I could create another character and use them I guess... One that I wouldn't care if they die or not. So... yeah, I'd be up for it. But it'd need a semi-permanent character. And I read your post, Kei, and I understand that Eirra wouldn't be permanently dead, but I mean, like Ani said, Eirra and Dariis are both very personal characters. If Eirra died, it would esentially bee like my dying in a differant world. If Darisu died, it would be liek a part of me dying, the spiritual part, I guess. I'd jsut feel more comfortable making a semi-permanent, or even using one of other characters, like Kapacha, maybe?
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