What classic RPGs (p&p) did you grow up with?

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
norseamd

norseamd

Lifer
Dec 13, 2013
13,990
180
106
nakedfrog said:
I believe it's generally described as being AD&D 3.75. It can be a little rules-heavy, but it's still enjoyable. My viewpoint is generally that as long as the rules aren't actively getting in the way, they're not what makes a game fun.
Click to expand...

Yah I know what Pathfinder basically is and that it is basically a continuation of the old 3.5 D&D edition.

What I basically think I was wondering is do you like it. It seems there are more than a few here who hate 3.0 or 3.5 and anything that is related to it and they only like 2nd edition AD&D. I thought 3.5 was actually well liked and it was 4.0 D&D that was hated but maybe everyone here is just from a different era. 3.0 D&D still came out over 14 years ago. That means that 3.0 is basically an OAP by now.
 
wangotango

wangotango

Member
Sep 11, 2014
142
0
0
Bards Tale ll : The Destiny Knight . Also had a mini card game hidden inside. I also played the first one but the second was way better. Were talking early to mid 80's. I still have all that stuff packed away somewhere.
 
Last edited:
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,648
3,010
136
wangotango said:
Bards Tale ll : The Destiny Knight . Also had a mini card game hidden inside. I also played the first one but the second was way better. Were talking early to mid 80's. I still have all that stuff packed away somewhere.
Click to expand...

horray for reading the OP
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
80,287
17,081
136
norseamd said:
Yah I know what Pathfinder basically is and that it is basically a continuation of the old 3.5 D&D edition.

What I basically think I was wondering is do you like it. It seems there are more than a few here who hate 3.0 or 3.5 and anything that is related to it and they only like 2nd edition AD&D. I thought 3.5 was actually well liked and it was 4.0 D&D that was hated but maybe everyone here is just from a different era. 3.0 D&D still came out over 14 years ago. That means that 3.0 is basically an OAP by now.
Click to expand...

Right around the time I finally got used to 3.5 fuckin Wizards of the Coast came out with 4th edition and thats when I said "enough".

Not spending thousands of dollars on a hobby. Its just sick.
 
norseamd

norseamd

Lifer
Dec 13, 2013
13,990
180
106
shortylickens said:
Right around the time I finally got used to 3.5 fuckin Wizards of the Coast came out with 4th edition and thats when I said "enough".

Not spending thousands of dollars on a hobby. Its just sick.
Click to expand...

Paizo actually provides all the rules for Pathfinder for free on their website.
 
J

JPS35

Senior member
Apr 9, 2006
890
83
91
Does anyone recall a game in which you designed an "army" to fight against a large machine/tank? I think it was a one word title of the game and was also the name of the machine/tank.
 
John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
22,757
619
121
Well, tonight I'm playing poke the witch and then latter poke the cheerleader. LOL :p

I played D&D once, I think that's what it was I was a shadowman or some damn thing?

Brovane said:
So who still games with paper and pencil?
Click to expand...



This is how we played. I was in Job Corp then.

Can someone tell me why we weren't suppose to play RPGs in Job Corp? Maybe because people take it too seriously?
 
Last edited:
blankslate

blankslate

Diamond Member
Jun 16, 2008
8,797
572
126
JPS35 said:
Does anyone recall a game in which you designed an "army" to fight against a large machine/tank? I think it was a one word title of the game and was also the name of the machine/tank.
Click to expand...

I'm sure you are thinking of "Ogre"

As I recall it was also made into an 80's computer game.

19d05347b368cf1e824b1e229d22e055_large.jpg


.....
 
Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

Lifer
Feb 4, 2009
35,862
17,403
136
DigDog said:
to my shame, i have never played shadowrun or the palladium system. i did have the marvel super heroes system, whose hit charts were later recycled for gammaworld 3rd edition.
but, i got a ton of unknown systems in my bag.

ahem.
in chronological order.

1) gamma world, second edition. my first rpg, and still my fav.
2) D&D. like everyone else, i had A TON of D&D material.
3) AD&D
4) Gamma World 3rd edition. way better than 2nd, yet abandoned almost immediately by TSR.
5) Call Of Cthulhu. i still buy delta green books even though i don't play it, i just enjoy how awesome the adventures are, and how well designed.
6) MERP and Rolemaster (i wrote extensive mods for rolemaster to make it actually playable)
7) Twilight 2000
played this almost exclusively for a year, the most intense RPG year yet, with i think something like 150 days of gaming in a year.

Owned, but only played once or twice:

Space Opera (way too complicated and too much missing info)
Runequest (my friends were into it, but one day the dice roll went bad and 7/8ths of the group died, so they quit)
Tunnels And Trolls - rofl, this was SO BAD.
Marvel Super Heroes
GURPS
Recon (twilight 2k was just better)
Bushido (we tried playing it once, but we didn't know shit about feudal japan, so we went back to AD&D)
Harnmaster (i took the setting and made a great AD&D short campaign)

also: a car wars/ autoduel integration with additional material created for the purpose

played occasionally vampire, ars magica

honorable mention when i played briefly, but never had so much fun, Paranoia (first edition, the good one)
Click to expand...

HOLY CRAP someone else bought Space Opera. I have the same opinion, the game wasn't finished. I remember it would refer you to charts for space combat that didn't exist!

I spent most of my time with Powers & Perils (Avalon Hill), D&D 80's edition, Traveler/Traveler 2300. Some game time with Champions (which usually devolved to a joke fest), twilight 2000, some time with Gamma World & Metamorphosis Alpha (these usually went the joke fest route).

I wanted to like Rune Quest but I found it too high fantasy, I also wanted to like Call of Cthulu(sp) but it had very simple rules. My friends hated how ultimately your character would go insane. I loved looking at War Hammer stuff but again the rules seemed pretty basic.
 
Last edited:
twinrider1

twinrider1

Diamond Member
Sep 28, 2003
4,096
64
91
OGRE, wow, totally forgot about that game. The version I remember was a little plastic case with everything inside.
 
J

JPS35

Senior member
Apr 9, 2006
890
83
91
blankslate said:
I'm sure you are thinking of "Ogre"

As I recall it was also made into an 80's computer game.

19d05347b368cf1e824b1e229d22e055_large.jpg


.....
Click to expand...

I believe you are right! I never played this one, but it reminded me of the AD and D Master Module's "Twilight Calling" Biological/Flesh War Machine called the Kirekan. A very disappointing module to play.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
83,769
19
81
D&D Basic, then D&D Expert. Mostly either a Dwarf or Human Fighter then.

Then AD&D (in the mid 80's, starting with 1e rules...it got easier along the way), I played quite a few classes, but settled for Monk and later did MUDS with one quite successfully until the mods took the skills I suffered to get away since the Thief class complained too much. :)

Then some Gamma World (can't remember the character...) not too many were into it, Star Frontiers (Dralasite).

Chaos Stormbringer (Warrior Priest of Eshmer), not too many were into it.

Tried many other games most got to complex. Then Computer based became easier and faster.
 
T

TheVrolok

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
24,254
4,092
136
norseamd said:
That game is on sale on Steam right now.

Worth it?
Click to expand...

Not to threadjack, but it's VTMR:B right? Yes, yes it is. Fantastic game. Last I played it (years ago now) there was a community patch that ironed out a lot of bugs. Fantastic RPG series (VTMR: Redemption and VTMR: Bloodlines).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom