Do you Tabletop?

[tragedyjones]

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

[Arkandel]

@tragedyjones said:

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

I don't think "table" means what you think it means!

[Sunny]

@Arkandel said:

@tragedyjones said:

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

I don't think "table" means what you think it means!

Yeah, if I'm going to do it online it's another beast entirely; doing it via skype...loses something. Online tabletop is stupid fun, but it isn't the same.

[Pyrephox]

**Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past? **

Yes! Both, although right now my tabletopping has been limited to virtual realms.

What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?
AD&D
D&D 3/3.5/Pathfinder
D&D 4th
D&D 5th
Call of Cthulhu
13th Age
Unknown Armies
Little Fears
GURPS
Changeling: The Lost
Champions
BESM
HERO
Shadowrun (3rd and 5th)
In Nomine
Blue Rose
Edge of Empire
Rifts
Dark Heresy

Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

Many, many times. I've GMed most of the above games.

Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?

Yessss.

Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?

Only if I found the people unfun to be with, or the timing didn't work out to my needs. I would LOVE to get back into a RL tabletop game, especially with the right group.

[Coin]

@Sunny said:

@Arkandel said:

@tragedyjones said:

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

I don't think "table" means what you think it means!

Yeah, if I'm going to do it online it's another beast entirely; doing it via skype...loses something. Online tabletop is stupid fun, but it isn't the same.

I don't know. I think it could be lots of fun.

[Miss Demeanor]

@tragedyjones said:

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

YESPLEASE

[vaermithrax]

@Cobaltasaurus You still do MES stuff, Cobalt?

[vaermithrax]

@Arkandel Dude fuck yes, we have to do this. Seconded.

[Sunny]

@Coin said:

@Sunny said:

@Arkandel said:

@tragedyjones said:

Starting to sound like we may need a TT via Skype going on.

I don't think "table" means what you think it means!

Yeah, if I'm going to do it online it's another beast entirely; doing it via skype...loses something. Online tabletop is stupid fun, but it isn't the same.

I don't know. I think it could be lots of fun.

No, it's stupid fun. A lot of fun. Enjoyable. Yes. It's just not the same experience as actual tabletop.

[Tyche]

@tragedyjones said:

I have often said that I approach MUSHing from a tabletop background. But I know that some people, perhaps even a majority of us, don't have access to or never have tabletopped, or don't anymore.

So a quick survey, my answers to follow.

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?

We play almost every week.

What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?

I'll list what we played the most by decade.
70's - D&D, AD&D 1st edition
80's - AD&D 2nd edition, Traveller, Rolemaster, Vampire, Werewolf
90's - Rolemaster, Warhammer FRP, T&T
00's - RuneQuest(BRP), Gurps, Fallout
10's - Savage Worlds, AD&D 5th edition, Serenity RPG, Mutant

There's quite a number of games that we only played once or twice.

Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

I only GM maybe 4 times a year. We have 4 people who like to GM.
We usually have from 5-9 people playing.

None of the people I game with will play mu*s.

[vanderlylle]

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past? In the past.
What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop? Dnd 4e and 5e.
Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop? No.
Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity? Maybe.
Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop? ... Ish?
Misc: My schedule (retail management) makes regular meetings virtually impossible, so the couple of times I have played with groups it's been with the caveat to write me out for sessions if necessary or give someone else my sheet, which is no fun. That said, I really haven't enjoyed tt play. I thought it was because my first group was made of a strategic DM, a rules-lawyer, and me and my bff getting drunk while the two of them argued. Then I played with a group I really did like and... decided I still didn't enjoy it as much as MUing. I'd rather either hang out with my friends and socialize, or game, and tt mixes the two up for me in a way that makes both less fun. (And yet, I've made many good friends through MUing and actually moved across the country at the suggestion of a couple of them). Also I just kind of dislike DnD and I've never been able to convince a group to tt WoD with me. I once told a friend, while complaining about having to go to a tt session I was actually off work for, that, "It's not that I want to play DnD, it's just that I don't want my friends to play DnD without me."

As for why I like MUing (as opposed to just didn't enjoy tting) I'm in the MUing-as-literary-exercise crowd, too. My tt adventures have often seemed designed to make the PCs successful--the central conceit of the story is that they're the heroes, and it's less about creating a real-seeming character than fulfilling the role the story demands. I like the work of crafting sentences and scenes and themes, telling arcs that are not just about my character being the hero of a world but about the space this character occupies in a much wider universe, and making the medium work for me (this is one of my favorite parts of the wiki revolution, too--you can do fun things with text).

God that sounds pretentious. I'm an English major.

[BigDaddyAmin]

I have never tabletopped. But I would like to, one day. I am honestly thinking of maybe getting some people together to start a Fading Suns tabletop

[The Tree of Woe]

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?

Yes.

What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?

I play in a D&D game right now, and a Werewolf: the Apocalypse game, both online. I am looking to run a D&D game in meatspace, but if it doesn't fly I may give up and try to get it running via Roll20.

Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

Not for a long time, which is why I'm trying to get a game going, I need the experience.

Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?

Yes. My tolerance for certain games/genres is limited (I may be the only gamer ever who finds Steampunk to be noisy and overcluttered and not very much fun) but yes.

Misc: I agree with others who've said Tabletop and MUX offer wildly different gaming experiences... but I've already said my piece on that.

[TNP]

I tabeltopped before there was an internet. The list of games is legion but encompasses D&D in at least a dozen settings/incarnations, Space Opera, Rifts, Gurps, Champions, V&V, WoD and more.

[Bobotron]

@tragedyjones said:

I have often said that I approach MUSHing from a tabletop background. But I know that some people, perhaps even a majority of us, don't have access to or never have tabletopped, or don't anymore.

So a quick survey, my answers to follow.

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?

Both. I currently run a homebrew Final Fantasy d6 game and play in a BESM game, and am planning to help with a youkai-based BESM game when the other one ends. Past games include lots of D&D and Rifts and VtM in high school, then a dry spell, then back to WoD in 2004 with a long-term NWoD mortals-only game.

What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?

D&D2e, Rifts, Macross/Robotech, Final Fantasy RPG homebrew, Vampire the Masquerade, Vampire the Requiem, Werewolf the Forsaken, Changeling the Lost, NWoD Mortals, Mage the Ascension, mixed nWoD, an aborted attempt at Exalted, Sailor Moon RPG, BESM, Star Wars SAGA, NWoD homebrew Fallout, NWoD homebrew Crimson Skies...

Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

I have been before. D&D2e, Macross, FFRPG, Requiem, Forsaken, Lost, Sailor Moon RPG

Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?

I would and I still do biweekly.

Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?

N/A

Misc:

N/A

[Thenomain]

@TNP said:

I tabeltopped before there was an internet.

Since before 29 October 1969? I am impressed.

[WTFE]

@tragedyjones said:

• Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?

I did and would do again if I could find anybody to RP with. It's emphatically not a "thing" here so I've been in a 15-year dry spell.

• What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?

What game you got?

Seriously, I had over 200 RPGs. That's the core games. I also had most of the supplements for these games. (Basically if I liked a game I bought its supplements.) Of course I didn't play all of them; most of them I mined for ideas. I could play any of them though and was often called upon to run a game of something that caught someone's eye when the regular game couldn't work out for some reason or another.

Most common games played regularly, however, were Traveller (often played in the setting but using the CORPS rule system), HARP (don't judge me!), BESM (I said don't judge me!), and a CORPS-based modern-day police procedural campaign that ran for a looooooooooong time. (Think a Law & Order-inspired game and you've got it about right.) Interspersed between these were attempts at Everway and various flavours of Star Trek that never quite caught on.

In the distant, distant past I was big on C&S, Universe, Dragonquest, and Rolemaster (DON'T JUDGE ME!).

• Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

I switched regularly between running and playing. We had a pretty decent (if fluid) group of adults who recognized that not everybody wanted to run all the time and not everybody wanted to play all the time. We switched between us when the time was right.

• Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?

In a heartbeat.

• Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?

No. I have no opportunity.

[Cobalt]

@vaermithrax said:

@Cobaltasaurus You still do MES stuff, Cobalt?

Unfortunately, the nearest LARP group is in Portland, and I am car-less.

[Bobotron]

@Cobaltasaurus
You MES? Huh. I wonder if we've ever crossed LARP-paths.
Also, the MES is kinda... meh... nowadays, sadly.

[The Tree of Woe]

I'm personally acquainted with the new head of CWoD Werewolf. Not a bad guy. If you're looking for a MES genre to get into, I can at least tell you that one's run by someone creative.