RPG
RPGs or RolePlaying Games have been a hobby of mine for about twenty years. Started out with the Sword & Sorcery books, the kind where it has entries such as
“You walk down the dripping hallway wondering if this was such a good idea. As you round a corner you come to a door on the right side. There are slight murmurs emanating from the other side of the old wood. The hallway continues into silent murky darkness. Go to section 271 if you want to continue down the hallway, go to section 34 if you want to open the door.“
Later on I adapted those rules and made rules for free-form roleplaying, often using LEGO miniatures for visualization and gamed with my younger brother. Later on I found Dungeons & Dragons, MERP and eventually Advanced Dungeons & Dragons which I gamed with circle of friends after school every Friday for a couple of years. That was my largest campaign ever, 40+ sessions I think the total was and at the end many jokes about my Gamemastering style had been fostered.
After Advanced Dungeons & Dragons followed many more. ShadowRun was a memorable entry and is a game I still highly cherish although I game it far too seldomly.
I tried making a list for this page with all the games I have either gamemastered or gamed during the years and I finally decided to scrap it. It’s long, it contains games I’ll never game again, and it is also rather irrelevant. Your first stays with you forever and remains special, of all the rest it is better to focus on those that mean something significant to you. I’m still talking about roleplaying games. Partly. Whatever.
My favourite games are ShadowRun, SLA Industries, Exalted, 7th Sea, Deadlands, and the D20 game system from Wizards of the Coast. Currently I find that D20 gives me the possibilities of casual gaming that a family and professional friends necessitates. I don’t mean professional friends in the sense that I order them from a bureau somewhere but in the sense that they all have professional lives and more and more of them are getting married or are in strong relationships.
Current campaign: D20 Dungeons & Dragons v3.5
The setup is the Lawyer as gamemaster currently with my son, the Ambassador, the Tech Artist, and me as players. We have decided that there is a rotating gamemaster to ensure that the game is easier to keep going. Been a while since we did something like that but I think it adds to the atmosphere knowing that the game will be driven in various directions depending on the gamemaster. The D20 system is also pretty straight forward so there should be only limited rules complications.
