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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Jun 13, 2011 19:47:46 GMT -5
We have a video game thread, but we don't have a thread for the far geekier and far more expensive counterpart that is table top gaming.
Personally, I've played Magic for almost a decade now, but never got hugely hardcore into it. I've also recently started playing Warhammer 40,000, so recently, in fact, that I still have yet to paint my models. Also, I play Tau if anyone cares.
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Post by Yaezakura on Jun 13, 2011 19:58:29 GMT -5
I don't know if card games really count as "tabletop gaming". Always seemed to me a term aimed right at PnP RPGs and wargames.
But, as to the topic at hand, I'm a long-time D&D player, though I don't currently have a game I'm a part of. There's been talk of a friend running a Dark Sun campaign though, so hopefully that pans out.
I also play 40k. I'm in the midst of building an Eldar army. I had originally started collecting Tyranid, but just kind of got bored of their playstyle.
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Jun 13, 2011 20:09:25 GMT -5
I don't know if card games really count as "tabletop gaming". Always seemed to me a term aimed right at PnP RPGs and wargames. I've always considered it table top gaming for similar reasons as war games. They're simply a different type of strategy game than war games. I specifically chose to avoid Tyranids, Orks and Imperial Guard for one reason: They're fucking expensive due entirely to the fact that they're swarm armies. Not to mention that I don't like having lots of expendable stuff. I can stick with my Kroot for the closest thing to expendable, thank you.
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Jun 13, 2011 20:37:36 GMT -5
I've played D&D for a while, but haven't played in almost a year now, as the place we used to go to closed. I don't have a book or anything, just two sets of dice, a character figurine, and a character sheet. I should probably invest in some stuff when I go to college.
Also, I have an interest in learning Drow.
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Post by Vene on Jun 13, 2011 20:44:01 GMT -5
I don't know if card games really count as "tabletop gaming". Always seemed to me a term aimed right at PnP RPGs and wargames. I've always considered it table top gaming for similar reasons as war games. They're simply a different type of strategy game than war games. I specifically chose to avoid Tyranids, Orks and Imperial Guard for one reason: They're fucking expensive due entirely to the fact that they're swarm armies. Not to mention that I don't like having lots of expendable stuff. I can stick with my Kroot for the closest thing to expendable, thank you. 'Nids can be primarily big thing, if you focus on genestealers and monstrous creatures. And I think you can take warriors as troops now.
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Post by Yaezakura on Jun 13, 2011 21:05:57 GMT -5
I had originally started with Tyranids because they were the inspiration for the Zerg, and I loved playing Zerg in StarCraft. But while they have pretty much the exact same concepts and the "same" tactics in theory, it didn't translate as well in execution. It just always felt like while I had a ton of units, they never managed to accomplish much besides die, even when I won the game. Guants were literally just chitinous smokescreens for the Warriors and such.
Then I did a lot of reading of various army books, and just kinda fell in love with Eldar lore. So I'm in the middle of trying to put a force of them together.
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Jun 13, 2011 21:36:56 GMT -5
'Nids can be primarily big thing, if you focus on genestealers and monstrous creatures. And I think you can take warriors as troops now. That's also not taking into account the other reasons I chose Tau, the main one being that they're a long range reactionary army. Who cares how much my Fire Warriors suck at close combat when my opponent can't GET to my Fire Warriors.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Jun 13, 2011 22:55:10 GMT -5
I don't play or anything, but I like reading D&D books for fun. I have quite a few of them now for someone who doesn't play. =3 (Although I have occasionally tossed around ideas for making a character.) Someday I will have that old 3.5 edition Drow book!
I also have about 1,800 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards (not including duplicates), and run a fairly basic beatdown-style deck. I also collect Pokémon cards, but don't have any decks for those beyond the pre-constructed ones. I'm a collector, not a fighter. =3 I dunno how many Pokémon cards I have, but if you stack them on top of each other, it's about four feet tall.
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Post by Random Guy on Jun 13, 2011 23:39:28 GMT -5
I ran a D&D 3.5 campaign for two and a half years during college. I've also played Pathfinder a bit.
Things I learned from my players: Don't wear a suit of full plate armor if there is a drowning risk.
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Post by Yaezakura on Jun 14, 2011 1:11:37 GMT -5
I ran a D&D 3.5 campaign for two and a half years during college. I've also played Pathfinder a bit. Things I learned from my players: Don't wear a suit of full plate armor if there is a drowning risk. Unless you're REALLY good at swimming. Sadly, most classes that get plate armor get very few skills, and swimming is not exactly a high priority.
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Post by Distind on Jun 14, 2011 5:30:46 GMT -5
On the marginally less expensive end, Arkham Horror is a damn good game. If you have enough room on your table it may count, but I've got to play it on the floor without even getting into the expansions(which are also quite cool). What I need to do is get 8 people to play it for once, and just watch the terror go.
And for best lore in an RPG I've ever seen Shadowrun, I own most of the source books just for the wise ass comments made by characters. The novels aren't half bad either, just avoid the original trilogy, and that new trilogy they put out after fasa bit it, that was pretty bad.
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Post by Oriet on Jun 14, 2011 8:10:21 GMT -5
For tabletop RPGs I've seriously played (meaning multiple sessions/adventures in them): Dungeons & Dragons (2nd ed., 3.0, and 3.5), Pathfinder, West End Games' D6 Star Wars, d20 Star Wars, d20 Modern, Alternity (which is actually the forerunner for the d20 system), GURPS (3rd and 4th editions), Buck Rogers High Cliffhangers, Vampire the Masquerade, Big Eyes Small Mouth (original, not d20 version), and Dark Heresy (Warhammer 40K RPG). I've also looked at lots of supplements for them and made all sorts of house rules, either to expand the games beyond their genre, create rules for handling entirely different universes than it was made for (most notably for games in either FF7 or Star Trek), handle a rule in a more intuitive way (at least for me), or to fill gaps in the rules (such as Dark Heresy not having rules for damaging objects). I've also looked at other systems to see if I like how they do things, and for inspiration for rules, items, NPCs, and adventures.
For card games I dabbled with Pokémon when it came out, had some fun with Magic, and played a lot of Mechwarrior with my childhood friend. Oh yeah, and also tried playing one of the various Star Wars CCGs that were made, though I don't remember which it was and didn't find it to be that fun.
I've also played Warhammer 40K on and off for a decade. I have Tau and Space Marine armies, and have the start of an Ork army, though I still need to assemble most of them and figure out the paint scheme I want to use.
For the last few years I've also been slowly working on making my own tabletop RPG system. I've not yet been able to settle on what core mechanic I want to use. There are bits and pieces I keep using, such as a logarithmic size/range table which allows the same combat mechanics to be used by characters and capital ships alike, and for them to be able to interact. I've only played a few encounters and one full adventure with various incarnations of it, so I don't have a beta release or anything for it yet.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Jun 14, 2011 9:02:27 GMT -5
Oh, right, I forgot I have the entirety of the Ghostbusters RPG, too. It was a precursor to West End Games' D6 system, or so I have read. I have all three of the adventure modules for the first edition, the boxed rulebook for the second edition, as well as the second edition's four modules and the Tobin's Spirit Guide supplement. All of it is out of print, and altogether it cost me about $250. >w> Which is okay because awesome.
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Post by erictheblue on Jun 14, 2011 11:36:32 GMT -5
I have played D&D 2.5 and 3.5, and now play in a 4.0 game. 2.5 was fun. The 3.5 game didn't run long enough to cause class imbalance. I love 4.0.
I've run a Call of Cthulhu game and would like to run another, if my gaming group decides to take a break from D&D.
My fiancee runs new World of Darkness, mostly Vampire and Changling, and I've played in a few of her games. I'd love to try Geist, but she isn't familiar enough with the system. (I bought the book, but she hasn't gotten around to reading it.)
I'd also love to play Dark Heresy. I've gotten into WH40K books over the past few months and find the setting fascinating. I don't have the money to get into the wargame side, but if I did, I'd probably play CSM. (Maybe SM, but probably CSM.)
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Post by QWcanary on Jun 14, 2011 12:49:26 GMT -5
I've been playing and DMing Dungeons and Dragons for about 25 years now. I am currently playing a 2.0 game and DMing a 3.5 game. I have more dice and minis than I care to admit.
I'm also big into the World of Darkness/White Wolf game system: I have the original series but love Mage: The Ascension the best, followed closely by Werewolf.
I've also played Aeon Trinity (psionics in space), Star Frontiers, and a great many others.
And of course, I like RISK, Axis and Allies, and Shogun as far as board games go.
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