Pen & Paper

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• Nexi Member Posts: 2

  August 2006

  if you want to get into pen and paper RPGs, you go to your local game shop.  They always have open games where they allow complete strangers to play.  Most vets in rpgs are more than willing to allow "new blood" so you shouldnt have a problem thier. 

  I hope this helps
• Kuzzle Member Posts: 1,058

  August 2006

     Yeah, I heard something about that back when there still was a local gaming shop. It closed down about two years ago, though. Sorry, I should've included this in my original post... Now the closest one is more than 200 miles away. I'm screwed...

     It was a nice thought, though, Nexi. Anyone have any other ideas?
• modjoe86 Member UncommonPosts: 4,050

  August 2006

  To answer your two questions: People that play pen and paper rpg's are usually anti-social nerd males. Hence the stereotype. When you go to the local gameshop, look at the 40 year old men with trenchcoats and pony tails that play them and you'll see what I'm talking about.
  
  

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• Kuzzle Member Posts: 1,058

  August 2006

  
  

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  Originally posted by modjoe86
  To answer your two questions: People that play pen and paper rpg's are usually anti-social nerd males. Hence the stereotype. When you go to the local gameshop, look at the 40 year old men with trenchcoats and pony tails that play them and you'll see what I'm talking about.
  

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     Yeah, just wondering why? I mean, yeah, I get it, but they obviously have friends, and that makes them social, right? And I was just curious about that whole "men more visual" thing. I mean, if that's true, you'd think more women would play Pen & Paper RPGs, right? Just wondering...
• Wolfjunkie Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 985

  August 2006

  I play PnP. We have an rather odd mix, in our gaming group.
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  The wannabe gangster, master of the art.. Lying. Yeah, an classic power gamer that doesn't have much interrest in roleplaying.
  
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  Trenchcoat wearing, pony tail, and a goat moustache - Our semi metal head. He's cool alright, and lays down girls like no tomorrow. He prefers to play some rather odd characters, such as little girls who are possed by demons, or an old grumpy ratcatcher with an smelly dog.
  
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  The semi geek, yet party boy. He's an lil' bugger, barely reaches me to the chest. Also quite popular with the girls, even though he's an RPG geek. Plays mostly mages.
  
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  The homosexual-but-won't-admit-it-my-friends-will-kick-your-ass-if-you-don't-behave kiddo. He got an huge social network, which makes him think he's the big fish.. He isn't. Mostly just a lying, backstabbing bastard. Loves to play old army vets.
  
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  Our GM. He's like an geek Guru, who have played every single PnP on the market. Unfortunately, he only use premade modules.. And is way to strict in his GMing style.
  
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  Me. Pretty much just an screwed metal head, with no sense of reality. I play thiefs and interresting spellcasters(Shadow mage from Warhammer, yeah!)
  
  So the stereotype really doesn't fit in here, as we're all vastly different from each other.
  
  
  
• Kuzzle Member Posts: 1,058

  August 2006

     Ok, well, more specificly... Anyone have any other advice about how to get into it? I mean, short of shaving my head bald and writing "Interested in D&D" or something on the back, I mean... Yeah...

     Anyway, thanks for you guys' input so far.
• shae Member Posts: 2,509

  August 2006

  
  

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  Originally posted by Kuzzle

     Ok, a couple of questions about Pen & Paper RPGs...

  1: Supposedly the people who play them are "anti-social nerds"... Ok, what the hell? They obviously have enough friends to play their game, and that's a lot more than I have. How you suppose this little stereotype got started?

  Maybe I've just been lucky but I've found that most P&P'ers are the complete opposite of anti-soicals. Most that I have met are very group, friend and community oriented people that are a blast to be around. This is just me but in my experience I found that people who play P&P RPG's are much more accepting/inviting of others to say in comparison to your hardcore pc gamer you meet at a LAN Party.

  So yeah, not sure where that stereotype started.

  2: Supposedly males are more visual than women. That's why women buy romance novels, or something... Anyway, Pen & Paper RPGs don't have graphics or anything, so why is the stereotypical Pen & Paper RPG player male? You'd think it'd be the other way around. Any thoughts?

  Don't really know where it came from or why but from I've seen in my experience, theres alot less female P&P players then I've met in pc/console gaming. For example, I work part time at a gaming store, I havn't seen many that come in asking where a P&P store might be type thing. But I don't know, that may be just me, I'm sure it could be different all over the world.

  3: Ok, they seem like they would be fun to me, but, well... Yeah, they require too many people. At one point, I had about $250 or so in D&D books, but I never got to play the game because I don't know anybody. Anyone have any suggestions for someone looking to get into a game?

  Well, I have very limited experience with P&P but I can say they are awesome fun almost 100% of the time, especially if your with a good group of people who are there for fun and play. I've palyed tons of V:TM and DK tables and have a good $600 to $800 worth of books and decks, although I havn't really played in years now.

  My best suggestion would be to find a local P&P store, gaming store, board callers or at least the closest there is to you if you live in a more rural or hard to get to location. From there you can find peopel to hook you up with a table, give you website for local events and give you an idea of whats being played.

  Another good idea is to visit your local university/collegiate websites, look for forums and group posting and see if there's anything there. I know at my school there's a ton of p&p players that get together on a regular basis. So that might be a decent place for you to start.

  
  

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