Gamers can tend to take things too seriously, and I think its good to lighten up. After all, RPGs are sitting around with your gamer dork friends, eating junk food, pretending to be a lame-ass elf or something. So rip into your favorite game, admit that the trash everyone talks about it is true. You'll feel better I promise.
(Note: We all know what each other play here, so don't take this as an exucse to bash d20/Hero/Exalted/GURPS/whatever you have a hate-on for. Bash the games you love, because they shouldn't be taken so seriously.)
I'll start with Exalted. A popular game and with good reason, it combines two things all nerds love: shitty anime and overcompensating for a small penis. Yes, with Exalted you don't need to feel bad ever again. The cooler you pretend to be the more dice you get to roll! Sheer nerdvana.
And All Flesh Must Be Eaten. This one is popular with the wannabe gun nuts. That way they can go on about what kind of ammo they'd need to take down a zombie. Like any of your friends would shoot anything but a load in his pants in an actual crisis.
Then there's Star Wars:d20, for those that want to move beyond killing orcs in a dungeon, and move up to killing stormtroopers in a space station. And there's the wonderful Role-Play evident in star wars, like listening to two fatbeards debate the meaning of the Jedi code, while a social reject in the corner works on his wookie impression. D&D + Star Wars = geek apocalypse.
Aw, come on....don't post an embarassing picture that we can't really see. All I got was a "hosted by Tripod" image.
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Creative Director for Seraphim Guard | Dorkland! - My Blog | I am a Tampa Bay area Gamer and I am looking for other Gamers. | Check Out The Open Core System "It is, in fact, the newest Linux system upgrade for D20 - all the best things of what's come out so far wrapped into one package that looks somewhat different from the original but is far superior and retains all the best aspects." - Edmund Wilfong | In Development: The DeadWorld RPG | I am on Twitter and Facebook.
That should be the right URL. Dang me, I have no idea what to do!
Okay, I tried this: I opened a new browser and cut-and-pasted the URL (case sensitive) and I got the picture.
I have no idea why the link doesn't work.
I play with toy trains as I discuss long-obsolete railroad rules, with a straight face. I am beyond embarassment.
Ah....there it is. How weird. Yeah, you would think that gamers would get beyond embarassment over themselves as grown ups.
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Chris Helton
Creative Director for Seraphim Guard | Dorkland! - My Blog | I am a Tampa Bay area Gamer and I am looking for other Gamers. | Check Out The Open Core System "It is, in fact, the newest Linux system upgrade for D20 - all the best things of what's come out so far wrapped into one package that looks somewhat different from the original but is far superior and retains all the best aspects." - Edmund Wilfong | In Development: The DeadWorld RPG | I am on Twitter and Facebook.
The entire World of Darkness (especially the old one). Where else can you be cursed by God, be heir to an unwinnable fight, or even die, with the main result being that you suddenly get superpowers?
Ah....there it is. How weird. Yeah, you would think that gamers would get beyond embarassment over themselves as grown ups.
One reason I am NOT embarassed by either my Star Wars geekery, model railroad fanaticism, or gaming jones is that I look at those who would deride me for those things... that is, the "normal", i.e. near the center of the bell curve...
and realize I would not be such as they are, even if I could.
One reason I am NOT embarassed by either my Star Wars geekery, model railroad fanaticism, or gaming jones is that I look at those who would deride me for those things... that is, the "normal", i.e. near the center of the bell curve...
and realize I would not be such as they are, even if I could.
We've probably done enough threadjack though.
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Chris Helton
Creative Director for Seraphim Guard | Dorkland! - My Blog | I am a Tampa Bay area Gamer and I am looking for other Gamers. | Check Out The Open Core System "It is, in fact, the newest Linux system upgrade for D20 - all the best things of what's come out so far wrapped into one package that looks somewhat different from the original but is far superior and retains all the best aspects." - Edmund Wilfong | In Development: The DeadWorld RPG | I am on Twitter and Facebook.
Call of Cthulhu.
Man. Great atmospheric/psychological/tentacled horror game, but so prone to cliches - "You, the respected professor of anthropology, receive a letter in mysterious handwriting." "I BURN IT!" Etc. Or, as someone in another thread described, most of the heroes are doomed to insanity or death - this can go well, leading to heroes in the existential, Camus sense, or poorly, leading to half-hearted nihilism.
Not to mention the bizarre pairing of elements that, really, is a problem fundamental to the mythos overall - many point out that Lovecraft's horror is subtle and psychological, which begs the question - how the hell subtle and psychological can gargantuan tentacled monsters be?
I love it anyways.
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We've probably done enough threadjack though.
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