Any "Old School" gamers out there?
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I have been using Gurps 3rd edition in my game have all the pdfs of the books from the internet. but I am not opposed to buying some stuff off ebay cheap and I am totally down for a serious game, I really wanna see how the online gaming can work out0
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I have no problems learning or using any other system either, I think it should be ultimately whoever is the GM choice as to which system, pdfs can probably be found for any system with enough internet digging0
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Gurp's would be cool, I haven't played that system in 20 years, especially if you can email us the PDF's or point us to them online. But of course, it'll be GM's choice as to system and I'm good with anything.0
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Having the PDF's for Gurps is useful since we could get everyone up to speed with a few e-mails. I know that I have not haven't looked at Gurps at all for about one and a half decades so I would have to really bone up on it. I do know that we would have the advantage of being able to pick a modern day setting with Gurps which is something that I feel would be pretty useful given this game would already be entrenched within the internet as it is.0
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If you are talking about Free material, then i would recommend either...
www.d20srd.org or www.d20pfsrd.com.
Granted, it's d20, but it's also open and there is no cost involved.
Just a thought to help throw out more ideas that won't cost anyone anything.0 -
cool whoever is interested shoot me a message with your email address and Ill mail out the basic book to let every get re-acquainted see if thats what we are gonna roll with0
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I started playing Basic D&D in junior high and quickly moved to AD&D. For a long time I had the original version of D&D and Expert D&D in the box with their modules (Keep On The Borderlands and Isle of Dread) as well as original additions of the Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide, Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, etc etc. Mom gave them all away in a yard sale when i was away in college along with all my mid to late-70s baseball cards. I'm still bitter about that.
If you guys are interested in starting games with your old crews, look into NeverWinter Nights. There are all kinds of modules for it and you can build your own from scratch. A lot of the classic old modules like Tomb of Horrors have been recreated. Pretty sure you can log in as DM and have your players log in as players and run the game online.
Never done it but know some guys who still do.
We had a fun game in college where we really tried to keep in character. I had a drow who was an archery master. One of my buddies had a Cavalier who would ride off to charge anyone who was attacking the innocent. We were hiding to ambush some bad guys and the cavalier hears some damsel in distress and hands the DM a note that I know says something along the lines of "I'm going to save the girl." I quickly hand the DM another note and he announces. The cavalier breaks cover and charges in the direction of the damsel in distress and is shocked to find himself sailing through the air and taking 2d6 of damage when bosotnwolf shoots his horse out from under him."
Good times!
Correct me if I am wrong but if he left his hiding place to go save the damsel the ambush is already lost. Now you don't have anyone trying to the damsel and the cover is broken. I would think it better to just go ahead with the attack even if it was ahead of schedule since the cavalier has already made his move. Perhaps my understanding of the situation is incomplete.
True, the ambush was done as soon as he broke cover. I shot the horse and then we started attacking the group we were targeting. Still handled them but I think my character actually died or came close to it.0 -
I am very respectful to anyone who takes on the mantel of responsibility that is being a DM. I will admit however, that if a person is reading out of a module it just bugs me. I see modules as training wheels. I can play a game where the DM is using a module and I will do all I can to be a positive contribution to the team. I would expect over time for the module to end and for the DM to be able to keep the game going. There just comes a time when the training wheels have to come off and when you get to my level you can't imagine actually putting them back on. I may borrow an aspect of a module that I think is well done like a villain for example but I will put my own spin on everything in my world. I will describe my own scenarios and I will know where I am taking the story.
Agree. If I ran a module, I pretty much knew it by heart before presenting it to my group.0 -
I started playing Basic D&D in junior high and quickly moved to AD&D. For a long time I had the original version of D&D and Expert D&D in the box with their modules (Keep On The Borderlands and Isle of Dread) as well as original additions of the Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide, Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, etc etc. Mom gave them all away in a yard sale when i was away in college along with all my mid to late-70s baseball cards. I'm still bitter about that.
If you guys are interested in starting games with your old crews, look into NeverWinter Nights. There are all kinds of modules for it and you can build your own from scratch. A lot of the classic old modules like Tomb of Horrors have been recreated. Pretty sure you can log in as DM and have your players log in as players and run the game online.
Never done it but know some guys who still do.
We had a fun game in college where we really tried to keep in character. I had a drow who was an archery master. One of my buddies had a Cavalier who would ride off to charge anyone who was attacking the innocent. We were hiding to ambush some bad guys and the cavalier hears some damsel in distress and hands the DM a note that I know says something along the lines of "I'm going to save the girl." I quickly hand the DM another note and he announces. The cavalier breaks cover and charges in the direction of the damsel in distress and is shocked to find himself sailing through the air and taking 2d6 of damage when bosotnwolf shoots his horse out from under him."
Good times!
Correct me if I am wrong but if he left his hiding place to go save the damsel the ambush is already lost. Now you don't have anyone trying to the damsel and the cover is broken. I would think it better to just go ahead with the attack even if it was ahead of schedule since the cavalier has already made his move. Perhaps my understanding of the situation is incomplete.
True, the ambush was done as soon as he broke cover. I shot the horse and then we started attacking the group we were targeting. Still handled them but I think my character actually died or came close to it.
Oh that is fantastic! I audibly laughed when I read this. This means you didn't even stop him to preserve the ambush you did it just to be a dlck. You are like screw you and now on to the fight. And the fact that you put yourself in extreme peril to do all this purely on principle makes it even better. I really feel for the horse in this one though. He is simply a casualty caught in the crossfire between you two.0 -
Well I did some forward planning and If I don't manage to put together a D&D weekend in May there is a risk that I won't be able to play again until August.
The parties leader is graduating from college on the third Friday of May.
June I will be with my daughter.
July several members of the group will be out of town.
This potentially sucks.0 -
oh that does suck man. I have been freaking out cause we play once every other week, well our game day landed on our buddies bachelor party so one month is killing me0
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Well I did some forward planning and If I don't manage to put together a D&D weekend in May there is a risk that I won't be able to play again until August.
The parties leader is graduating from college on the third Friday of May.
June I will be with my daughter.
July several members of the group will be out of town.
This potentially sucks.
If we start a MFP game online we can play from anywhere!0 -
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If we start a MFP game online we can play from anywhere!
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I just had to throw my two cents, just saw this in the Gamers forum. >< Need to check more often I swear. Old school player here. Well...not sure 3.0 and 3.5 D & D is old school but yeah. Lol. I also saw someone mention White Wolf....uh yeah. Which game didnt I play in that system. Changeling, Vamp, Werewolf, and lots of the Year of the Lotus games. So anyways, just throwing myself into the room/forum/ether as a player of many games even still (though mostly MMORPG's due to being in Grad School and what not)0
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I just had to throw my two cents, just saw this in the Gamers forum. >< Need to check more often I swear. Old school player here. Well...not sure 3.0 and 3.5 D & D is old school but yeah. Lol. I also saw someone mention White Wolf....uh yeah. Which game didnt I play in that system. Changeling, Vamp, Werewolf, and lots of the Year of the Lotus games. So anyways, just throwing myself into the room/forum/ether as a player of many games even still (though mostly MMORPG's due to being in Grad School and what not)
Well this is just my personal opinion but I think that anyone who plays a game where you have a DM/GM/Story Teller and you are sitting around a table making decisions and the real action of the story is taking place in the mind counts as an old school gamer. I am not one to say that you only count as old school is you were in by X edition. I started with 2nd edition D&D and I now play 3.5 but I count it all as "old school."0 -
Well thanks for that then. I know some people who dont consider me a real old school gamer because I didnt play D & D from whatever iteration they want to consider the original, best, first etc. So refreshing to see some people who are like...bah, youre a gamer so its whatever. But yeah my old school started with Whitewolf then drifted into D&D and managed to slide into WoW and RIFT now to. 0
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Welcome Geeky girl from one of the Geeky Guys. As far as I'm concerned if you ever rolled dice that didn't necessarily have 6 sides you are old school!0
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lol. Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, I still have all my dice floating around. 20 sided, 10 sided, 1d4 d6....percentile....lol. Theyre everywhere.0
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I still randomly find dice in different drawers of my parents house lol0
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My brother has so many dice that he actually has a traditional school sized backpack full of dice. He brings it to every game session.0
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That....is one heck of a load of dice. >.< And here I thought a few bags of dice that I had was alot.0
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Yeah it is way more than we ever need. Unless you are running some sort of epic level campaign where people are using ritual magic or something like that you will never need that many dice. I think a big part of the reason we have so many dice is because we also play magic the gathering where large number of dice can be more useful.0
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Yeah, Magic does lend it's self to that. I used to carry my bags and some extras for either newbies who got dragged into playing the first time and had nothing or people who forgot their own. And I sort of collected nice ones. Ooooo shiny dice was my motto for awhile.0
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Ooooo shiny dice was my motto for awhile.
Might wanna steer clear of GenCon, or any other RPG-related convention then. You may just lose yourself...0 -
lol. I tend to avoid cons simply because I know myself. I will disappear and never return. Between video games, comic books, tabletop gaming.....I would get sucked into a black hole and ceases to exist. "I looked into the Con and the con looked back into me!" lol. Yeah, I hide from them for my sanity sake.0
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lol. I tend to avoid cons simply because I know myself. I will disappear and never return. Between video games, comic books, tabletop gaming.....I would get sucked into a black hole and ceases to exist. "I looked into the Con and the con looked back into me!" lol. Yeah, I hide from them for my sanity sake.
Hehe, i used to say that. Then i realized how incomplete my life was before Cons. Now...now i have clarity. Now everything is at peace. I hope you will one day find your peace.
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I admit to being curious about them. I would love to go to Comic-Con, E3. Dragon Con or Gen Con one day. But for now Ill settle for watching the photos and working on my degrees until I have that peace and am sure I wont end up disappearing into the con ether. lol.0
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Going to a convention is on my bucket list. I think it would be an amazing time for me. I went to a MTG grand prix and it was amazing.0
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finally had a game this weekend so much fun, its crazy how a a good game honestly beats any movie, book, show, video game ever. total immersion into a world with a group of great friends can't beat it.... only problem is the 2 week wait to pick up where we left off.0
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I do hear conventions are amazing. I have to admit I'd love to get all dressed up and go to one. Maybe some day. In the meantime I play my games, read my comics and wish more geeks were around this town.0
