"Which RPG Do I Choose?" - Gaming Talk (RPG)

[chatviolent]

Oh! But the very first tabletop rpg game I played was... D&D 2nd edition... bad memories...

[chatviolent]

Our Dark Heresy GM had to convince us to try WH40k. But his descriptions of this gritty, dark and hopeless world was really appealing. We just started a Pathfinder campaign too, in Golarion. We are members of the Pathfinder Society and we use our venture-captain pretty much like a fixer from Shadowrun, so we can switch GM easily between sessions because they are like one-shot contract. It's interesting to see all the different playstyle the players have when they are behind the GM screen.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@chatviolent That sounds like a nice system.

[DirtyBriefcase]

LoL. There's already a My Little Pony Savage Worlds game. I'm playing in a game! You cannot escape it.

[chatviolent]

@DirtyBriefcase Seriously? Why do I feel the urge to google-search this and check what it looks like... -_-'

[DirtyBriefcase]

@chatviolent It's actually pretty damn good. It looks like an official product, but it's fan made. Complete with great art.

[chatviolent]

@DirtyBriefcase Yeah I checked the book. But I find it hard to imagine the gang with whom I play (guys in their late twenties) playing rainbow-colored ponies specialized in swag or vogue. But it could be funny I suppose... if you just want to goof-around and try something weird...

[TheShamanSZ]

As for my first pnp game ever? It was a D&D 3.5. It was the first group I was ever able to find, and apparently the one the DM felt she could cope with.

[TheShamanSZ]

Right now me and my group choose games that some of us have heard and like, and the rest don't mind playing. At the moment we have two games active - one is run via Eclipse Phase, the other is a Dark Heresy game. I actually suggested the DH game, since I like the 40k universe and find the system pretty decent. Eclipse Phase sounded good too, a cyberpunk-ish, post-apocalyptic game that tries to imagine what the not-quite-near future would look and feel like. GitS+fallout+mass effect, basically.

[Samwise7RPG]

My mother bought me a 1-shot of Classic D&D, and the old board game Heroquest. So I didn't choose my first game, hehe. I did buy the Lord of the Rings Red Box game, so I guess I chose that. I chose it because I loved Middle Earth. For a group I've been with, we find what everyone wants to play and systems they won't play and then figure it out. The GM needs to like the system he will be running, because if not they will burn out. I tended to make suggestions and listened to player feedback.

[Samwise7RPG]

@Samwise7RPG I like the D100 percentile systems as well, but I haven't actually really played many systems with the D100 roll under mechanic though. If you have a group that wants to take turns GMing that's great, especially if each of them has a different system they know how to run best, and those games are agreeable to the players too. 

[DarkinQusitor]

My group is playing GURPS 4ed, in the warhammer 40k/Dark Heresy universe. The players love to construct their characters, like they want them to be. Because in dark heresy rpg the system makes you look like a fool, everytime you try to do somthing you should be good at. ..

But not in gurps you can build a assassin who is good at what he do best

[YuriPRIME]

Also, IF you like D6 YOU MUST check out Silhouette system! I made an introduction to it on my chanell, but best way is to get any Dreampod 9 rpg. Heavy Gear would be my choice - outstanding system! Best mechanic i've seen so far, eventho I love WH and WH40k, Silhouette beats the crap out of it, and it's all about d6

[RobertJFreemantle]

@YuriPRIME Thanks for the tip

[YuriPRIME]

Honestly - atmosphere and climate. Looking on Warhammer, all the pictures and grim cruelty of it's style - I just said: I'm buying it, damn it!

Generic worlds and systems doesnt work on me and never did. When I asked people about Pathfinder as they tried to get me in, they toled me its: "You know! It's the fantasy!" I was like: "What?"

"Well, you know - fantasy like it's just THE FANTASY. Dragons, magic, elves"

when people try to recommend me stuff that way I get turned off so much.

[woodwwad]

It just has to do with whatever the person running the game wants to run. D&D was the first real rpg I found, as I bought it. I'm pretty sure I didn't know there were others. This was in the 80s and there weren't too many games out there as opposed to now.

[Mertaal]

My first system experience was, in fact, WFRP1st. I totally fell in love with the book when I saw it in my old Games Workshop and to be honest it was more of an impulse desire (not an impulse buy, as it took me ages to save up for it!) than a carefully informed decision.

I loved the older darker vision of the Old World. Ironically, I ran the game again recently, and still love it.

If you can get your hands on the old D6 star wars material, do so. It's literally brimming over with heart.

[thespiritcoyote]

lone wolf gamebooks were my fav.

A Starwars as a galactic scale sandbox campaign is just waiting to fade out... but it's the high points that ROCK!!!

Oh and if you like Mecha Anime... check out Mekton tooo! maybe those little green sea-horseys can get their tentacles in some eldrich sea-beast-mecha to help save the world.... YAY!!! My little C'thulu come'n out to play... My little C'thulu we're all gonna save the day... My little C'thulu, My little C'thulu, "...and I'll eat the head!"...

[thespiritcoyote]

... "which RPG do I choose?" ...

...wait... ?! ... I HAVE TO CHOOSE?

My Little Pony in BESM YES!!!!!!!! I am there!!! Lets Do It!

MY Lilttle C'thulu YESSSSSS I AM THERE... cute and scary little pink and green tentecal sea-horseys on an adventure to save the world with c'thulu!!! btw, I already have that Desktop Poster! yay!

I play it all... I like d10, d20, 00%, and d6 skill systems, Interlock Combat, Gurps Character Gen, WoD LARP simplicity, and killing Orc's AND Elves for fun and profit...

[masterofflowers]

I was introduced to D&D 1ed '77 and never looked back. In the 80's I did GM some d6 Star Wars and MArvel Super heroes but my players at the time only wanted to play D&D and that holds to this day. If I had the opportunity I would play any game, just for the experience. What draws me to a game? Setting and if I think there is a story to be told in that setting that is as good(or better) than what has already been written.

[23penguins32]

Started with D&D 1E I guess really because it was one of the only fantasy RPGs, definitely the most prominent of the very few, at the time of Way Back. Then progressed in time to now D&D 3-3.5. I've played-ran others due to interest in the setting-genre. For example, super hero or military nuclear armageddon. You're right, there is always a discussion before starting anything new. Essential really. Though the very first time was just talking people into playing, trying it really. Cheers, man

[WinstonBiggleswade]

First game I played was "home-brew" DnD which was a system my friend pretty much made up as he went along. Ironically it still stands as the best system I have ever used and that’s probably due to it's flexibility of not really existing. My personal favourite systems are Call of Cthulhu due to the sheer danger factor. Players are the weakest things. But my heart truly lies with Vampire the dark ages. I like setting, I like the Encouragement of RP but mostly, I like rolling a ton of dice at once.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@WinstonBiggleswade I've been in home brewing too. I used to do a 1 on 1 over the phone thing like this with my lovely little wooden dice, all those years ago. Yeah, it was fond for the others who did it with me as well.

Ah, rolling lots of dice. That's one thing I enjoy about playing miniature war games, especially horde armies like Orcs and Skaven!

[Webhead123]

Wonderful video. I should like to record a response soon.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@Webhead123 Oh I'm glad you approve. I always like to see what you say.

[snikibastard]

First session I've played was 2nd DD, but than my friend brought WFRPG, the rest is history! hehe Two great things about Warhammer is the dark fantasy world and the percentile system.

[ZigCopasetic]

I bought an rpg based on the art. That book was shadowrun second edition. D6, fantasy races, matrix, guns and a dragon running for president. Yea, it was easy to get my friends into RPGs using it as a gateway book.

[YuriPRIME]

@ZigCopasetic Some may say it's a weak reason to buy a game, but I say it's fully valid. Art aspect is DAMN important. If you can open a book to your players, show them the content and they go "Yup, I get it" - thats more than 3 hours of explayning the very style and atmosphere. Hellas is a great example of that too.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@ZigCopasetic It's great that that was the reason that worked for you. We do get inspired my visuals after all. All those players that play an RPG based on a movie/T.V. show aren't basing it on gaming after all, they're basing it on visual/audio exposure = inspiration.

Thanks for commenting.

[azirk83]

1: GM decides. I know hundreds of systems, I'm not picky.

2: Gamed with a group to start off, picked up their game.

If immersion is a goal your point on picking a familiar fantasy is good, otherwise not so much.

'realistic' should be stricken as a term.

The Ultimate Dice are definitely not d4s.

Shared GMing is ok if everybody has the same idea of the setting and it's constraints.

CoC fan will hopefully go outside of canon, that's a chief problem with CoC games IME.

6:28 and on is all good

[RobertJFreemantle]

@azirk83 Thanks for the heads up on CoC

[azirk83]

@RobertJFreemantle Seriously, Lovecraft was all about fear of the unknown, and all the canon Lovecraftian beasties are very, very known.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@azirk83 Ah, excellent point. I'll get him to read this.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@azirk83 D4 has one great use though, if your group is 4 in number :D a randomiser for "happenings".

Who the thug will attack and such if no particular penchant inspires.

[azirk83]

@RobertJFreemantle Best use a d8 numbered 1-4 twice.

[windmark8040]

As GM, I chose the system for the group. I merely asked them what genre they wanted to game in.

The first system I GM'ed was the system that we were all familiar with the most (at the time)- 1st Edition AD&D.

[RobertJFreemantle]

@windmark8040 Cool, nice that you were there from the start!