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What people ACTUALLY Play.....

Started by Koltar, October 30, 2007, 01:01:11 AM

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Koltar

#15
October 30, 2007, 05:41:52 PM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron..................I think. I'm sure Koltar's store sells more GURPS books than a similar store with an assistant manager who is only interested in CCGs :)


Thats what you might think, but in actuality almost all the groups or customers at our store who say they play GURPS were playing it BEFORE they discovered the store or met me.

They mostly were VERY glad to find a store that knew what they were talking about...instead of having to buy it at BORDERS Books or B. DALTON Books.

I can think of ONE guy so far who got his friends to try GURPS because he grabbed a copy of GURPS Lite at the store. Turns out his GM had played it or ran it 20 years ago, but at his player's suggestiomn he gave 4th edition a try and decided that he liked it.


- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Dan Bell

#16
October 30, 2007, 07:02:58 PM
Currently playing:

HARN (Sometimes using the HarnMaster rules, sometimes GURPS)
FADING SUNS
and D&D (3.5).
 

Tim

#17
October 30, 2007, 07:07:19 PM
My group has played a smattering of Call of Cthulhu, Top Secret S.I., Castles and Crusades, and a shitload of Burning Wheel over the past year or two.

D&D 3.5, Exalted, NWoD, and Shadowrun are popular with other groups at the local gaming club.
 

beeber

#18
October 30, 2007, 07:48:26 PM
i have no idea what the locals are playing.

my group:
megatraveller w/ mechwarrior
WFRP 1st
shadowrun using deadlands as the mechanics

backburner'ed:
some sort of laurel k. hamilton (minus the sex) meets WoD using millennium's end

pending:
MRQ slaine
star frontiers

Joshua Ford

#19
October 30, 2007, 08:09:18 PM
Koltar - just some questions on the thread's title and your OP.

First, is the thread title a little misleading, or should it perhaps read 'What people are actually buying from their FLGS to play and are willing to discuss with me?' Buying books often doesn't equate to actually playing a game and if people already have the main elements of a game line they may not be buying lots more, particularly for supplement-light systems.

Second (and third), which games do you class as 'forge/indie' in discussions and how do you 'describe fairly and objectively what the games are or how they are played'?
 

Koltar

#20
October 30, 2007, 08:47:19 PM
Quote from: AosI am going to post in BOLD more. It makes every post into a pithy masterpiece.


If you notice...I usually just put the names of role playing games in bold or sometimes movie or TV show titles.

- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Dr Rotwang!

#21
October 30, 2007, 09:44:36 PM
I've been playing  Risus, Castles & Crusades and D6 Space.

Hands up, who was surprised....?!
Dr Rotwang!
...never blogs faster than he can see.
FONZITUDE RATING: 1985[/font]

Koltar

#22
October 30, 2007, 09:47:37 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I've been playing  Risus, Castles & Crusades and D6 Space.

Hands up, who was surprised....?!


As long as you're having fun.
Cool.

 We have a few of the Castles & Crusades books I believe - I just never see much if any interest in them locally.


- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Dr Rotwang!

#23
October 30, 2007, 09:49:12 PM
Strokes/Folks, right?
Dr Rotwang!
...never blogs faster than he can see.
FONZITUDE RATING: 1985[/font]

Aos

#24
October 30, 2007, 10:36:38 PM
Quote from: KoltarIf you notice...I usually just put the names of role playing games in bold or sometimes movie or TV show titles.

- Ed C.

Facts are of no interest to me. They do no serve my ultimate purpose.
You are posting in a troll thread.

Metal Earth

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dar

#25
October 30, 2007, 10:51:26 PM
Quote from: AosFacts are of no interest to me. They do no serve my ultimate purpose.

We have noticed :)


What? Somebody had to.

kregmosier

#26
October 30, 2007, 10:56:29 PM
i have a group i'm lucky enough to play with every other sunday.  we've been playing a sweet AD&D campaign, but have recently started a game of pulpy Four Colors.  After a couple of sessions of that (as a sort of sorbet), i'm going to gm a nice game of delta green.  

we finished up a  6-session campaign of boot hill prior to all that...

life is good. :D
-k
middle-school renaissance

i wrote the Dead; you can get it for free here.

stu2000

#27
October 30, 2007, 11:56:17 PM
I'm playing Metal, Magic, and Lore and Metascape II at the moment. It's hard to say what I might do after that. I'm erratic. Don't try to pin me down, baby.

There's a lot of WFRP and Hero being played in my vicinity. I can smell it.
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot

GrimJesta

#28
October 31, 2007, 12:03:01 AM
From what I can tell, the big games around here are D&D 3.5, WFRP 2e, nWoD, Scion, and Buffy/Angel (but the store is also Eden Studios' HQ so that's no surprise). Oh and GURPS seems to do well too.

-=Grim=-
Quote from: Drohem;290472...there\'s always going to be someone to spew a geyser of frothy sand from their engorged vagina.  
Playing: Nothing.
Running: D&D 5e
Planning: Nothing.

Imperator

#29
October 31, 2007, 03:33:24 AM
I don't give a fuck about what is played in my local area, because my local area is huge and I don't play with all those people, anyway. And most of my gaming buying is made online.
 
My two groups will play what I tell them to play, as I'm always the GM :D ;) . These days, we play Call of Cthulhu (Sundays group) and are finishing a Mutants in Shadows short campaign, and gearing up for an Aquelarre campaign (Thursdays group). We play some indie games or board games when we lack players.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).
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