Well, guys, I'm going to be playing an OSRIC adventure online. For the uninitiated, this means we're going to be playing 2nd Ed DnD, basically, except we're going to do it online.

Because our DM was a little silly when he said if we wanted to play a race outside of the DnD canon or edition, we went sort of crazy. We start off relatively normal, and then the rest of us decided to be crazy.

One of our guys is a Dwarven fighter. Another one's a thief of an as-yet-undetermined race. Another's a mage. Basic fare.

Then I decided I wanted to play AD&D as a Tiefling assassin. Aw hell yeah, that's more like it.

Then I persuaded someone else to pick something crazy. He decided he's going to be a Lawful Good Skaven Cleric. Yes, he picked a race from Warhammer Fantasy. Yes, he's playing it as lawful good. Yes, he's petitioning his god to heal people. Yes, I'm demented and yes I love it.

If the undecided players take our example... this is going to be the best game ever.

We haven't even started playing yet and this game session has already won forever.

So, for the rest of you roleplayers. Tell us your incredible stories.

BTW, I used the search bar, didn't find anything.

Someone in that group should be a Tralfamadorian. That would be hilariously insane to play. :bonk:

Its awfully strange that this topic came up when it did...I fired up a new game of Morrowind...and it always intrigued me on how people roleplay in games...

I know its a stupid question, but how exactly does one roleplay?

How would I go about roleplaying in say, Morrowind to better my game experience?

Before I had to quit due to being super busy, I was in an Old World of Darkness VTMB game, had lots of fun playing as a Kuei Jin (Kindred of the east- chinese vampire pretty much), it was nice playing as a special snowflake character for once, but the ST kind of made me a bit of a Mary Sue because he was a big fan of asian mythology. I got lots of leeway I really shouldn't have. Riding out of hell on a motorcycle made of my own willpower was prolly the biggest one.

It's like playing pretend, only you make the history of your character and pretend to act as the character would act. Not always as how you would act.

TRALFAMADORIANS. I LOVE IT.

Pssh, Tiefling assassin. Nah, Tieflings are okay.

I once played as a Cat Spirit person from Oriental Adventures, and was a bard. My only weapon was my lute, so I ended up convincing legions of thugs to work for me.

Damnit, Defaulted! We don't need anymore ideas!

And for the record, OSRIC is 1st ed AD&D! Not like there is a massive difference, but still!

Damn it, Verlox. Can't you see the possibilities?

Playing as a plunger with a hand on top of that is literally the reverse of Minmaxing!

When in doubt, turn to the power of http://www.wikihow.com/Role-Play-in-The-Elder-Scrolls---Morrowind

It's basically setting up rules for your character and always asking yourself "What would >insert current character< think, do, feel, etc."

But no rule is absolute. Some roleplayers do just fine without following a strict guideline, like me. I break rules all the time, but I still have fun roleplaying.

A quick example: Say you made a short-tempered Orc warrior. If someone gives him [censored] or otherwise gets on his bad side, even if that person was an innocent NPC, you attack, and unless he's both willing to and capable of overpowering the guards, will go to prison for a while.

Oh. My. God.

Lawful Good Skaven Cleric? Hilarious.

Lawful Good Skaven Cleric of David Bowie and/or Vinegar Ra? Timeless.

I may be outside the conversation here but I tend to rp in games that don't call for it. Ie. Saints row two, it just makes the game more enjoyable

Ditto. I tend to roleplay in just about every game I play, even the linear action-packed ones.

Yep, just started a game with members from this forum not too long ago.

I don't really have enough imagination or patients to roleplay. It probably would make a lot of games more fun, but it just doesn't interest me at all.

I can never seem to get a game lasting for more then a session, but I do have one pretty hilarious story.

I was pretty bored, so I got a couple of friends together quickly to play a fairly free-form, on the spot game. One guy suggested that it take place inside someone's mind, which I accepted. However, one player who had never RPed before (and possibly didn't even know how to) began making a bunch of dirty jokes during character creation, and refused to stop. Everytime we tried to kick him out, he wouldn't leave. After awhile half of us just left.
However, I came back later to discover that they were actually about to start a game... only they'd modified it so that the program that sent them into someone's mind was going to go rampant and start eating FLESH, so they had to get out quickly. In addition to that, they were all playing Red vs Blue characters. Needless to say, I left again quickly.

I don't know about anyone else, but that last part actually sounds pretty awesome.

I roleplay a lot in games, but besides that I don't know anyone irl that would like play DnD or anything, although I wish I did. I tried some with a couple friends in high school, but it usually just deteriorated into us making up impossible stunts when things got sticky. Ex: "Oh wow, everyone is about to die....now what exactly would I need to roll to throw my sword like a boomerang and kill everything in the room..."

I opted to DM during an open PnP session. Four dolts wanted to be the greatest bad good guys ever and decided to role a full drow band, Drizzt-style do-gooders. Then they had a nice adventure on the surface. All those fun quests and awesomeness of the then very new dark elf novels.

Or so they were thinking. I made sure that they got the idea what it would be like for four fully armed drow marching in daylight into a city on the surface of Faerun.


My tales of DM in Call of Cthulhu though... Well, they shouldn't be told here. Know the moment of revelation in Event Horizon, when you see the video of the ship's hyperspace travel for the first time? That's Muppet Babies.

I tend to have not so well adventures, full of trials and tribulations mostly brought on by myself. The only role playing I do is the cursing I do when everything fails spectacularly and I still make it out alive to tell the tale. My stormtrooper "Jack Henderson" comes to mind, that game went from bad to worse. A Jedi, a fight on a tram station, and then I was set up and Imperial Intelligence was on to me. I was an out cast running and gunning with some old retired clone troopers and a crazy droid. Then the game ended after so much fun and hijinks. I never did clear my name and go back to being a trooper full time.

Edit
Oh yea my Stormtrooper got his squad killed, and a patrol speeder exploded killing another squad. This was used as bonus form of leverage for when it came time to pack my box, a box full of frag grenades. Thankfully I got out of there, and with my armour.

Roleplaying adventures? Gosh, where do I start? We have so many great and epic moments every week when we play Battletech.


Last time, our players faced full company of hostile mercenaries when guarding remote fuel depot. They managed to destroy their recon force, but
when they faced the enemy assault elements which consisted one assault lance (4 Mechs) and one fire support lance. While players had only 6 mechs.

It was damn epic game. One of their NPC comrades was mauled to pieces by enemy assault. And decided to give his friends last fighting change by
committing self destruct sequence. His mech fusion core exploded and swallowed enemy commander and his body guards in one huge explosion. But the enemy
commander was lucky and his 90 ton assault mech was still standing after all that sand and dust settled. At this point, players decided to fall back as enemy
kept advancing towards their objective.

One of the players who played their unit's leader, decided to cover the retreat of his subordinates and managed to critically damage the enemy commanders mech and
charged his almost destroyed machine top of the enemy commander, while rest of remaining 6 enemy mechs shoot his mech wildly. It was damn epic moment
when as his last act of defiance he self destructed and took enemy commander with him. While making sure that his friends where able to retreat safely to their dropship.


That is just one story among many awesome moments...

:cryvaultboy:

My friends and I just finished up a table-top AD&D campaign, everyone got way too busy to play now. I was DM btw
I think I am going to check out this OSRIC you mentioned.
Do any of you have room for a new party member? if so, how do I join in?
You can pm if you like.

I usually do one-on-one roleplays, either through AIM or on a forum where we each takes turns writing a part of an ongoing story. There no GM involved, we either plot out some basic stuff beforehand or just wing it and see where it goes. Ideas and inspiration for the story come naturally as we get into the story.
Posts are usually a single paragraph, maybe two, though on forums my posts can reach the length of two pages in Word. I either play with original characters or I do RPs based on fandoms. Right now I'm doing an awesome RP based on Assassin's Creed where I play Malik and Alta?r, and a friend plays an OC. Tons of fun!

I think my current record is a one-story RP that has reached over 2000 pages in Word, written over MSN and AIM. Oh fun times.

xD Well... If that's what you're into, I guess




Ooooh, I'd love to hear more about the drow adventure.

Same here. Only started after playing OB though, my first true RPG :rock: