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Topic	A Geektivus For The Rest Of Us
ParanoidObsessive 02/22/18 7:09:32 AM #215:	The Wave Master posted... Sadly all of my tabletop friends are scattered across the country, I really do not have anyone to play those games with on a consistent basis anymore. I so not even pkay Magic anymore. Sorry I cannot be of any help. The flip-side of that is when a fair number of your friends still live close, but you're all old and pretending to be adults with families and jobs and mortgages and such, so it's hard to get more than a couple of you together in one place at one time, and when you do, you mostly just want to have a few drinks and socialize rather than play time-intensive games that require a lot of thought or complex rules (a lot of my friends could barely play Monopoly or Clue, stuff like Betrayal at House on the Hill or Catan is right out). We manage to play Magic maybe once a year or two at this point. And in spite of a bunch of us playing a more-than-weekly White Wolf game in college, we really haven't managed to get together to RP anything in like more than a decade. That's actually why I was interested in whether or not that game was any good. It's sort of a simplified solo/co-op RPG/gamebook hybrid thing, which looks like it would be a potential vector for getting people who have never RPed before into RPing, but which is also quick and easy enough to play so that smaller groups of people without a ton of free time can potentially sneak in a game or two here and there. I was thinking it might be fun to play with my GF (she used to RP a ton as well, and is in the same current RP drought as me), and potentially with my nephew and niece (the way I sort of used HeroQuest as a pseudo-RPG with them) because I don't really see them often enough to run any sort of real RP campaign, especially with so few people. But I'd like to feel out other people's opinions on how good the game is (specifically, thinks like story pathing and balance, which have always been gamebook issues), and also more esoteric stuff like whether or not it's possible to play a more "evil" character or if it's just default assumed you're Heroic McNiceguy the Third with only the purest of adventurer motives. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:896549710] in A Geektivu... [t:76102111]...</cite> <quote><cite>The Wave Master posted...</cite> <quote>Sadly all of my tabletop friends are scattered across the country, I really do not have anyone to play those games with on a consistent basis anymore. I so not even pkay Magic anymore. Sorry I cannot be of any help.</quote> The flip-side of that is when a fair number of your friends still live close, but you're all old and pretending to be adults with families and jobs and mortgages and such, so it's hard to get more than a couple of you together in one place at one time, and when you do, you mostly just want to have a few drinks and socialize rather than play time-intensive games that require a lot of thought or complex rules (a lot of my friends could barely play Monopoly or Clue, stuff like Betrayal at House on the Hill or Catan is right out). We manage to play Magic maybe once a year or two at this point. And in spite of a bunch of us playing a more-than-weekly White Wolf game in college, we really haven't managed to get together to RP anything in like more than a decade. That's actually why I was interested in whether or not that game was any good. It's sort of a simplified solo/co-op RPG/gamebook hybrid thing, which looks like it would be a potential vector for getting people who have never RPed before into RPing, but which is also quick and easy enough to play so that smaller groups of people without a ton of free time can potentially sneak in a game or two here and there. I was thinking it might be fun to play with my GF (she used to RP a ton as well, and is in the same current RP drought as me), and potentially with my nephew and niece (the way I sort of used HeroQuest as a pseudo-RPG with them) because I don't really see them often enough to run any sort of real RP campaign, especially with so few people. But I'd like to feel out other people's opinions on how good the game is (specifically, thinks like story pathing and balance, which have always been gamebook issues), and also more esoteric stuff like whether or not it's possible to play a more "evil" character or if it's just default assumed you're Heroic McNiceguy the Third with only the purest of adventurer motives. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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