Role Playing
I first discovered role playing games my freshman year at Oregon State University, starting with a now little known game called Tunnels and Trolls (remember Take That You Fiend!?) and then moving into the classic Dungeons & Dragons. Those were the good old days of pizza and Pepsi and all-night games. School took a distinct second to gaming in my academic life :)After I left school, moved to Reno and met my husband, my gaming tastes turned to Champions and Fantasy Hero, and then, finally, to GURPS. Of all the systems I've tried I like GURPS the best, mostly because of its extreme portability from genre to genre, and because it's a system I can use to make up my character exactly the way I want her. It's true that the combat is fairly inadequate, but since I don't care about combat that doesn't bother me.
Now, my husband runs my friends and I in a game of his own design every Friday, a dark fantasy world full of angst and triumph, heroism and despair. We're all much more interested in the role-playing aspects than in combat (well, most of us :) so we may go for weeks without combat. Conflict there is aplenty, though.
Game related web sites:
- These are guys who exploded into overnight success with the card game Magic
- These guys make Middle Earth, Dicemaster, Rolemaster, Silent Death, Combat Express
- An alternative to Campaign Cartographer.
- Most of these seem to be in the midwest area. Put up by the Metro Detroit Gemers.
- I scored 50%! Not sure if that's good or bad :)
- An "industry focused" role playing site.
- Main list for the sites on the GURPS webring.
- A set of campaigns for GURPS, mostly of an apocalyptic (aftermath) nature. Each campaign includes character notes & sketches, a detailed set of world resources (cultures, topography, history, races). Nicely done. A great resource for someone who wants to grab a campaign and start running.
- Worldbuilder in Germany has created these backgrounds for the GURPS system, including Babylon 5, Bubblegum Crisis, Captain Future, Dark Crystal, Gor'Li, Robotech, Stargate One, Tripods, Star Trek, Star Wars.
- A bunch of plots, presumably for role playing games, listed by genre, type setting, etc.
- A list of MUSHs, MUDs, FAQs and other information.
- Information of interest to PennMUSH administrators.
- Searches, MUD list, Java Telnet client, awards, what's new.
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