Topic: Best game you ever played in.
started by: Wolfguard
Posted by Wolfguard on Apr. 25 2002,16:52
Does not have to be the best game ever. Just the best game you were in.Like the friday night\saturday D&D games when i was in High School. (needless to say, this was first addition.)
That turned into a custom, unpublished game called Galaxy.
The creator of the game had a startrek type universe.
Mine was more of a degenarate Cyberpunk universe.
Guess where they wanted to play more.
I miss my friday night games...
Posted by Wolfguard on Apr. 25 2002,17:05
Most fun game i ever had i was running.AD&D.
First thing i did was change my kobolds. I made them smart. Real smart. The idea was you had to talk your way past them. They were pretty nice till you pissed them off. Calling them "Splat Beasts" pretty much did that.
Players would fight deamons and then think, "shit, to get out i have to get past the fucking kobolds." Then never did figure out to make peace with them
The other was the set of boat oars on the first level. Like viking ship oars. big suckers. Bone heads saw that i put them there for a reason.
well...the boat they are needed for is 5 levels down. about 3 levels down they got tired of carrying them and dropped them. 2 levels later they hit the boat that will only move with the oars...
The oars that only person in the room knew where they were. and I was not telling...
ah...the good old days...
Posted by TheTaxMan on Apr. 25 2002,21:01
Well...Hm.
Just on pure time spent playing alone, I think I'll have to go Age of Dragons; it's a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) I've been addicted too far quite a while (shameless plug: telnet ageofdragons.com port 4000). ALthough,
< Duris: Land of Bloodlust > is far better in many respects, I just don't play it as much.
Posted by Beldurin on Apr. 25 2002,22:15
Either GMing a Shadowrun (2nd ed) circle or Broken Seals, a WoT MUD.
Posted by Necromancer on Apr. 26 2002,02:22
my house mates have plenty of fun continually batling this tarusk in AD&D. The dwarf usually twats him and theres always just one fucking molecule left to make the bastard come back to life.My charachter currently has a habit of never being able to hit anything at all with his mace but amazingly nothign ever hits him either. but i got a cool big yellow mace dice to throw. mystra preists kick ass.
Posted by ic0n0 on Apr. 26 2002,03:09
I had a campaign of shadowrun going on for a few months until the end of jan when alex our cyborg died in real life.
Posted by Uberkommando on Apr. 26 2002,04:49
Hmm... It was either a game of Medal of Honor, when I shot 5 Allies in 5 shots at close range with a Mauser (hard as *hell*), or back in sixth grade playing 'water balloon capture-the-flag' at midnight, and pegging my friend collin in the gut with a balloon fired out of a massive slingshot. Those were the days...
Posted by Beldurin on Apr. 26 2002,07:44
| Quote (ic0n0 @ 25 April 2002,21:09) |
| I had a campaign of shadowrun going on for a few months until the end of jan when alex our cyborg died in real life. |
Sorry to hear that, man.
So does everyone follow the rules explicitly? I've always found as a DM/GM that it's much more fun if you use them as a guideline, but fudge the rolls to make the game better (hence the die screen).
Oh, yeah, and LARPING sucks.
Posted by editor on Apr. 26 2002,09:52
Will I get in trouble if I say I really like playing chess in a crowded coffee house while it's raining outside?
Posted by Uberkommando on Apr. 26 2002,13:59
No... but you'll get some damn funny looks.
Posted by Wolfguard on Apr. 26 2002,16:49
| Quote (Beldurin @ 26 April 2002,02:44) |
| So does everyone follow the rules explicitly? I've always found as a DM/GM that it's much more fun if you use them as a guideline, but fudge the rolls to make the game better (hence the die screen). |
I used the rules as a guideline.
I ran shadowrun for a bit but grabbed the FNFF combat rules from Cyberpunk. Made for a pretty good game.
same with D&D. playing fast and loose with the rules makes for a better game.
Posted by ic0n0 on Apr. 26 2002,17:19
If you fallow the rules of any role playing game to closely you spend more time looking up rules then playing. They have to be a guideline, it wouldn't be fun otherwise.
Posted by veistran on Apr. 26 2002,23:44
Shadowrun had rules for everything, it was nice and annoying in some respects. The best RPG'ing is when you need the least dice rolls, imho. I played a Star Wars RPG with some great characters and the only person that ever rolled any dice was the GM.
In shadowrun I had a really great character, he was a demo expert. This one run we ran into some really heavy security trying to take out this Ares exec and had to bail. Because we'd be given a stipend to get the job done, we still had a chunk of cash, which we ended up blowing on composition 14, and got ourselves back into the compound. I brought down that building and knocked out windows for a couple city blocks. Ooooh did Lonestar love me after that.
Posted by Beldurin on Apr. 27 2002,06:41
It was a lot of fun, but their rules for decking and magic were fux0red. We just never bothered with the matrix and kind of fudged the magic. The rest of it we stayed fairly close.The best was giving out karma for creativity at the end of the run, like for our split-personlity cross-dressing troll who missed the intelligence rolls (repeatedly) and never figured out that a cyborg was using his best friend's severed head as a puppet to tell him what to do.
Damn trolls.
Posted by Wolfguard on Apr. 27 2002,16:53
sounds like some of the Cyberpunk games i was in.Had a player that was pretty close to the edge of cyberpshchosis for most of his time. His partner got killed and HE cut off the head and used it for a puppet. He would talk to him self all the time using both voices. We as a group worried about him a bit but it was fun.
Posted by veistran on Apr. 28 2002,02:30
in 3rd edition they supposedly improved the magic system (haven't read the rules yet)... yeah, we always fudged the matrix stuff. As far as weirdness, we had a chip junkie that had three different personalities once. He would randomly flit between Rambo, Christopher Walken, and his "normal" persona.
Posted by BlackFlag on Apr. 28 2002,05:37
I'd have to say a D&D campaign involving a 15,000 man army invading our country, an army of the undead, and the search for the remains of an ancient legendary necromancer who might or might not be dead.The character i played was an ex-mercinary going by the alias "Lance Duval", masquarading as a homosexual in the hope of throwing persuers off his track. Other characters included an elf/troll cutpurse with a phobia of crowds, an extremely powerfull mage who was narcoleptic and addicted to opium, and a berzerker dwarf too stupid to remember his own name.
ever notice how anal elves are about setting fire to their forest?
Posted by veistran on Apr. 28 2002,07:29
my current d&d character in a ravenloft campaign is a former falkovnian general who got power drained back down to first level, and got his army killed (well not really, it was a meat grinder of the highest order), has a big price on his head, is cursed to never know the power of compassion (for killing some gypsie spirit that was trying to kill it's still living child), and may possibly be in for a bout with lycanthropy.
Posted by Beldurin on Apr. 28 2002,07:53
| Quote (BlackFlag @ 27 April 2002,23:37) |
| ever notice how anal elves are about setting fire to their forest? |
Anyone seen "Those Who Hunt Elves?"
| Quote (veistran 28 April 2002 @ 01:29) |
and may possibly be in for a bout with lycanthropy |
Shapeshifters are tough to play (and have notoriously bad hygiene).
There's also an RPG called < Tinker's Damn >that's pretty good (catalog section). It's sort of anime-based, but has tons of flexibility for character gen...anything from magic to mecha.
Posted by WrineX on May 01 2002,23:14
I really don't understand a word you are saying...but then i never understood the fun in playing magic games...
just give me a good old game of Quake and the like...
Posted by Wiley on May 01 2002,23:24
| Quote (WrineX @ 01 May 2002,15:14) |
| I really don't understand a word you are saying... but then i never understood the fun in playing magic games... just give me a good old game of Quake and the like... |
Ditto ...I'm just here here to frag some poor souls.
Posted by Wolfguard on May 02 2002,19:27
its more fun to torment their little minds.you really cant do that in quake.
Watching an entire group of players faces when they finaly figure out what they need is someplace 3 levels above them is clasic...
Posted by Jimi on May 02 2002,19:57
Every Night in high school we used to play Quake2/Halflife/Dark Reign all of which ruled and in my opinion Darkreign is still the best strategy ever, you can't beat it.I'll never forget one game I played which gave me a fear of trees for life, you are able to camoflage certain troups to look like the scenary, I once got attacked by about 30 trees in a silly mess about game we had once. That was fun.
Best game of q2 was when we challenged our rival school to a game. Some how they had found out what we did every night and started giving a lot of us geeks grief saying how great they were and how we didn't have the guts to take on the challenge.
In the end we agreed as long as they all kept it a bit hush hush and only told the people who were going to be playing, they all came down to our school giving it all the mouth, we were outnumbered, it was about 15 Blyth-Jex students (us) to 40 Sprowston students (them). We wiped the floor with them. We never heard another word from them after that.
And halflife is always cool, but the best game was when one of our crew made a custom tag which was just a fucking huge dick, when we were in high school dick jokes were still hilarious, so we were all laughing our heads off.
Posted by Vigilante on May 03 2002,07:12
I think my favorite RPG campaign was an AD&D Spelljammer romp. Ahh, Spelljammer... totally ridiculous concept, and tons of fun. That one ran for a long time. Had quite a rivalry with another PC; I routinely went off hunting for cursed items to "gift" him, or getting him drunk then signing magical contracts. 
If anyone is particularly bored, take a look at the journal sites for the last two campaigns I've played: A GURPS space opera
( < http://wso.williams.edu/~bbirney/ascension/ > ) and currently a D&D 3rd ed. Forgotten Realms ( < http://www.benjamin-m-birney.com/forge_of_heroes/ > )
Posted by Jynx on May 06 2002,23:27
The absolute best gaming time I ever had was a year or two ago, Descent 3 multi. I don't know why, but I was red hot -- 75% efficiency, when my norm is maybe 40%.Ya know, you may be uber-l33t Quack players, but I can take quiet solace in the fact that I can wipe the floor with any ground-pounder here in a good game of 6-DOF Descent.
Posted by editor on May 06 2002,23:33
Don't tell, mmkay?I really liked Descent.
I never play games
cept that.
Posted by Jynx on May 07 2002,17:54
A kindred spirit??? On detnet? 
Right on! d00d, you gotta carve out some time and try out D3 -- it'll blow you away.
Posted by CatKnight on May 09 2002,04:45
i used to play vampire the masquerade in high school with this hot goth chicks. that was fun
Posted by ic0n0 on May 09 2002,18:01
| Quote (CatKnight @ 08 May 2002,14:45) |
| i used to play vampire the masquerade in high school with this hot goth chicks. that was fun |
I did AD&D for years, did some Vamp and Shadowrun. All of it bores me now, it is all the same.
Posted by WillyPete on May 10 2002,12:12
Anyone ever play the Aliens RPG? The character build rules suck big chunks.You spend 45 mins rolling a char, start the game and it all goes to hell.
Essentially this:
GM: You land in the dropship.
PC: We'lll walk outside.
GM: *rolls*An alien eats you.
PC: Which one of us.
GM: *rolls*Uh....all of you.
The other fun thing I've gotten into recently are the LARP activities held here in the UK. My mates dragged me off to one and I spent the weekend twatting people with solid core foam swords and axes. Pretty easy system.
A lot of it depends on your skill.
If you want heavy armour - you gotta wear it. Feckin' heavy shit.
Posted by Beldurin on May 12 2002,06:10
| Quote (WillyPete @ 10 May 2002,06:12) |
| Anyone ever play the Aliens RPG? The character build rules suck big chunks. You spend 45 mins rolling a char, start the game and it all goes to hell. Essentially this: GM: You land in the dropship. PC: We'lll walk outside. GM: *rolls*An alien eats you. PC: Which one of us. GM: *rolls*Uh....all of you. |
That's awesome...been there.
As for the LARP stuff...I tried it once, didn't like it. Did however make the foam swords and beat the living piss out of my friends w/them.
Posted by veistran on May 12 2002,18:44
I've always found the LARPing to be just a little too uber-geeky even for me.
Posted by Wolfguard on May 14 2002,13:46
| Quote (Beldurin @ 12 May 2002,01:10) | ||
That's awesome...been there. |
heh...
i spent an entire weekend like that. started calling it the ACS gaming system.(Ablative Charactor System)
Ill stick to Cyberpunk and the Friday Night Fire Fight combat rules. Covers everything including rules for cover fire and the simple fact of when bullets fly people die.
Thank the maker for Truama Team Gold medical coverage!
Posted by veistran on May 15 2002,05:38
hehe, yeah DocWagon saved my arse more than once. Gotta love the DocWagon Platinum contract.
Posted by ^Evil_Matt^ on Jun. 05 2002,04:26
i don't play the magic games, but the best game i played in was a game of team fortress classic (a half-life mod). around 30 players, on my cable modem company's server - i had just gotten cable. There were 3 other members of my clan in the game, and two had just gotten cable as well. It was a really well-balanced game, with the highlight being a guy who wanted to get the server record for suicides - which he said was 342 - He got to 354. This was before the cs players started coming in. damnit i hate counter-strike....-matt
Posted by Marauder on Jun. 16 2002,16:11
First, let's get this straight. Descent 2 was better than 3.Anyway, There's a lot of candidate best games.
There was the Quake3 match within the clan - you could just hear Spybreak playing in the background...
There were the times in CS that, as the last remaining player, I killed entire teams...
There are the nights we play AD&D, which is more of a party game the way we play it...
But I think the most fun we had was probably when one of our oldskoolers set up a free MUD on the LAN. Before you roll your eyes, I'll say this: we had to figure it out, which meant that we died a LOT. Still do. So our chances of levelling this summer are pretty much nil. But some of the stupidest and most hilarious stuff happened.
For example, borrowing a fighter's sword and turning it invisible, then handing it back. Want to see a pissed fighter? That was it.
Posted by ^Oni^ on Jun. 20 2002,14:24
Most entertaining RPG I ever played? "Paranoia". 
As far as LARPing goes, why bother with foam stuff when you have a shelf full of SCA rated gear?
Posted by Wolfguard on Jun. 20 2002,15:19
i forgot all about paranoia."The computer is your friend. Trust the computer."
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 20 2002,17:00
| Quote (^Oni^ @ 20 June 2002,08:24) |
| Most entertaining RPG I ever played? "Paranoia". As far as LARPing goes, why bother with foam stuff when you have a shelf full of SCA rated gear? |
You did SCA? Had a buddy that was big into that for a while. Was a lot of fun.
Posted by ^Oni^ on Jun. 21 2002,19:28
| Quote (Wolfguard @ 20 June 2002,07:19) |
| i forgot all about paranoia. "The computer is your friend. Trust the computer." |
You are my new best friend.
I didn't do much with SCA, mostly, I just collect hand to hand combat weapons from around the world and from different periods of history. I make my own chainmail too.
I will post a few pics sometime soon.
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 21 2002,20:03
| Quote (^Oni^ @ 21 June 2002,13:28) |
| I make my own chainmail too. |
Done that.
Posted by humanoid on Jul. 03 2002,08:13
the best game i've been in would have to be Metal Gear for the NES. 
Posted by Steel_Samurai on Jul. 05 2002,01:41
I think the best I've ever been in would have to be someof the memories I have of playing the Shadowrun Detroit MUX...Good Times...
I've unfortunately never had the pleasure of playiing SR with a group because nobody in the close vicinity plays it and the few friends that I have that actually want to play, think that they can just jump right into it with no books or ever having any background
*slaps forehead*
