View Poll Results: Roleplaying. Tried it?

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  • Yes and still play them!

    7 20.59%
  • Yes but stopped.

    12 35.29%
  • Yes but never liked it.

    3 8.82%
  • Nope but would like to.

    1 2.94%
  • Nope; and I have no interest.

    3 8.82%
  • Only in the bedroom sense.

    6 17.65%
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    Tried Roleplaying?

    Inspired by this thread and my own curiosity how many people here have played roleplaying games (I might get to card, board and computer games later)?
    Last edited by killingtime; 4th-September-2006 at 01:22 PM. Reason: Updated Hyperlink

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Nothing wrong with a bit of roleplay!

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Nothing wrong with a bit of roleplay!
    Great minds.......

    I find the dressing up fun

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    This may sound a bit like a pot calling the kettle black. Yes I did play RPG's And stopped for years and years. then late last year myself and a few likeminded individuals got together for a laugh and a few games and that was fun. We've since stopped again.. we've had our fun and that's that.

    What puts me off roleplaying is the number of people who take it too seriously and it's all they talk about. i recall a tale from my Uni days when I asked a friend "How was your weekend?" to which I got an excited reply of something along the lines of "F**king awesome.. me and my dark elf consort took on an entire army of orcs and ogres in their subterranean dwellings and after fighting though many levels we ended up in the base of a dark mages tower and kicked his butt *pant pant pant*"

    To which I looked at him blankly and said "ah.. so you roleplayed all weekend?"

    mind you he was of the same school as my other pet RPG hate.. I (as GM) set up a situation where my players were in a town to get supplies. Same guy above.. picked a fight in a bar (fair enough) but proceeded to try and kill everyone around him.. and then feverishly asked me "How many points do I get for killing xxx, yyy and zzzz?"

    I told him I though't he'd be better off playing doom.

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Wadaya mean 'only in the bedroom'? There are other places one can play dressing up games .
    (As previously posted by Sparkles and others) I doubt you'd meet a Librarian or Secretary in a bedroom!

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    What puts me off roleplaying is the number of people who take it too seriously and it's all they talk about.
    Unlike dancing of course . No I entirely know what you mean. I enjoy it but often I find players (mainly in roleplaying societies and conventions) take it all far to seriously. I remember being at a convention and deciding to be social and try to introduce myself to a bunch of new people and then wishing I had an escape route as someone was telling me how fireballs should have pressure effects etc. I think it's the time that, outside a game, people use I for themselves and there character interchangeably that sets of warning (of a long talk on what there character got up to) for me.

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    ...but proceeded to try and kill everyone around him.. and then feverishly asked me "How many points do I get for killing xxx, yyy and zzzz?"
    That's probably why a lot of us moved on to things like Cthulhu where you'll get nothing other than insanity for doing such things. Thankfully the people I game with seem much more well behaved.

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    Wadaya mean 'only in the bedroom'? There are other places one can play dressing up games .
    (As previously posted by Sparkles and others) I doubt you'd meet a Librarian or Secretary in a bedroom!
    I was going to put "only in the sex sense" but I figured that it would just be weird to have this thread upstairs since it really belongs in the Geeks' Corner.

    Noted though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    I was going to put "only in the sex sense" but I figured that it would just be weird to have this thread upstairs since it really belongs in the Geeks' Corner.

    Noted though.
    Don't 'Geeks' have sex then?

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Don't 'Geeks' have sex then?
    Most of the geeks I've ever known would rather game than have sex...

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Don't 'Geeks' have sex then?
    The lucky ones do .

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    The lucky ones do .
    Is that cos they pay for it?

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Geeks don't have sex!!!!
    (well this one doesn't any more )

    we reproduce by cell division.. like giant amoebas

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks
    Most of the geeks I've ever known would rather game than have sex...
    hmm.. nope. given the option I would tell my gamers to leave.. and let my good lady friend have a rustle with my dice bag instead..

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Way back I invented a role playing game, if being a dictator can be classified as role-playing, and had three weekly sessions running at Croydon, Crawley and Wimbledon. Despite it obviously having hit potential I was unable to find backers to have it commercially produced.
    I discovered D&D, at High Wycombe whilst on contract, and loved the superb creative crew that played it there. I treasure my "News from Bree" fanzine and the memories it invokes. RPG's are too much a way of life for me, so I moved on when my contract ended.

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Don't 'Geeks' have sex then?
    It happens occasionally, it would seem...

    Actually - when I was at Uni, the 'For Dummies' series was just getting into its own... Linux for Dummies, Office for Dummies, Macintosh for Dummies etc etc etc...

    Anyway - one day, they released 'Sex for Dummies' - and the University bookshop ordered it in. It was a useless bookshop, and they obviously didn't really know how to categorise this one once they got it....

    ...so they put it in the Computing section. **

    Stray
    **And I'm really not joking about that...
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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Great minds.......

    I find the dressing up fun

    really
    do canes and desks come into this?

    I ask purely for information

    trust me i'm er errrr
    trust me I'm a bloke!

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    He he, I liked that article.

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    Wadaya mean 'only in the bedroom'? There are other places one can play dressing up games .
    (As previously posted by Sparkles and others) I doubt you'd meet a Librarian or Secretary in a bedroom!
    You're hanging around in the wrong bedrooms then.

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Don't 'Geeks' have sex then?
    Apparently not ...

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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by Icey View Post
    I .. ahem.. actually used to be the webmaster of a website (albeit a tongue in cheek one) sadly the domain has long since lapsed as I couldn't deal with all the funny posts I was getting any more..

    anyway it was a website for a "charitable" organisation.. I can't really go into too much details about it .. except to give you it's name

    www.sex4geeks.co.uk

    Sadly.. (or perhaps Gladly) all trace of it has gone.. except some very few and small references on google.


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    Re: Tried Roleplaying?

    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Great minds.......
    Mine too.

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