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I was just sitting trying to find pictures from a RPG festival I was at once. I got curious, just how many of the people here on H2G2 do RPG's? I don't mean the computer ones, but the kind where you sit around a table throwing dice. Come on, show yourself.

I used to, but not so much anymore Will be up for it again, when I get some time Amber rules! Well, that is enough of that, until later....
BCNU - Crescent

I was seriously involved in Games Workshop (TM) games, but it cost a lot and filled time and space. I stopped for my GCSE exams 3 years ago and haven't restarted since. I was forced to put them all away when I went to uni but I intend to go back when I have time, space and money... Probably wishful thinking though.

Umm. can't say I never have. Can't say I wouldn't again given half the chance. But it's got to be good RP - not nerdy! I have a very good friend whose designs have made a lot of megabucks for the siad Games WQorkshop in the past, but I wouldn't touch their stuff with a bargepole. The best RPGs are the well customized ones!

But there's nothing moredull about talking through scenarios in which you played no part, so sha'n't.....

GW stuff included plenty of room for innovation and customising if you so wished. Especially Warhammer Quest.
One problem with customization is that you must have a firm grasp of the basic rules and alternative customising tools before getting down to business. Flexible systems are not friendly to novices.

In my second year at Uni a couple of dedicated RPGers moved into my flat and started having 12-hour through-the-night gang wars in our kitchen: I was most unimpressed, and now I'll moan about them any chance I get... they were the most annoying people I met in my whole three years, confirmed all my prejudices (and created a few new ones) about RPGers, and never, EVER, talked about anything else. I like to think they were excptions, though

I used to a bit of Games Workshop stuff, many moons ago, but I never really got into it except to paint the (expensive) miniatures. I don't think I'll get back into it, now

I wasn't much good at that. I was always stunned at the detail some people could achieve. Where my eyes were a couple of splotches in the upper part of the face, theirs actually had detail _within_ them.

The really annoying part was when they'd stand just outside my room and have a very vocal discussion along such topics as "if I have this modification to my Mark-2 prototype bionic eye, will I automatically get an advantage when I'm attacked from slightly behind and to the left in a lift by a level-eighteen ogress?"

To which the answer is, of course, "no, unless both you and I think it's fair, in which case we can add it in as a new rule.

I'm a big D&D fan, although I haven't been able to play very much for a long time (since 2nd edition). The core of my group, which consists of me, my wife, and a friend of ours) looks like it might reform. We have an easy time finding players, but willing DMs are hard to find.

Haven't roleplayed in blimmin ages. Dome nothing for a year and a half now. Before that I was a GM (running the same game with two different groups over a couple of years, oh the amazing differences). It must have be a good four years since I last annoyed a GM. That was quite possibly the one where I was married to the most powerful character in the game, only I thought she was a bit of cheese. Oh how I miss it all.

Blimey.
Played; you namer, we've done it (even The Morrow Project AND Other Suns ), including righting our own system out of frustration with all the others (twice! ). Favourites remain Runequest (2nd edition-the 3rd is awful and smells of wee), Cthulhu, Villians and Vigilantes, Tunnels and Trolls, Changeling, Werewolf, Mage and even Vampire if pushed.

Ref'ed- both the afore mentioned self written systems, Werewolf, Deadlands, Daredevils, and just about every other system under the sun. I am presently looking for an excuse to run a one off Changeling game, an ongoing campaign of Sailor Moon and to get Deadlands back off the ground.

*Sigh* I miss good roleplaying. When it's fun, it's just great....

I wish I had gotten into it earlier. My only attempt at it was at that festival. My mother was one of those people who believed doing roleplaying would make you loose any sense of reality. But most of the people I've spend time with has been roleplayers.

Used to, went through the usual D&D, AD&D, Paranoid (only roleplaying game to be played when drunk / *ahem*) and then settled on RoleMaster which I thought was the best of the lot. Haven't touched it for, erm, since uni, erm, 5 or siz years now. Probably wont ever again either.
Used to GM it as well.

I used to play Warhammer, but stopped when I did my GCSEs, it was too consuming on my time, space and money. It's become very expensive. I would not restart playing any Games Workshop game now unless I also had oppurtunities to play other games like Dungeons and Dragons.

Soon as Uni term starts again I'll pick up my Feng Shui campaign where it left off, I'm also playing in someone's D&D game. I love it. Can't get enough of it. What better way to spend wuality time with friends?

Eat RPG, Sleep RPG, drink Caffeine.

Got a website, too. On the subject of dunderheaded misconception concerning RPG, here's a link: http://www.theescapist.com

Got into RPG's about 6 years ago when I started uni, and have been playing and GM'ing ever since. Mostly D&D, but also Alternity, Star Wars and Shadowrun.

I'm also the owner of a fairly impressive Games Workshop Dwarven army, although I haven't actually played with it in about 2 years.

Dwarves! Yay! I still have some dwarf miniatures. Although I now despise GW. Why did they have to shaft the power levels so badly in Fantasy Battle? Why?

I tried it once but didn't understand. It seems to be an excuse to sit around cracking Terry Prachett jokes all evening. Those that do it keep on and on about it to and my retort was always there's a real life out there waiting to be had! *waits for backlash*

I was a role playing widow but my husband decided the house he visited to do it was not too pleasant (straight from gross-out series, A Life of Grime) and has returned to me on Sunday nights.

I do miss saying to him on his way out, 'Going to bag us some dwarves and fairies then?' because I thought I was being witty. Sigh...