Karak
01-27-2009, 07:55 PM
I forgot my lovely.
I forgot how elegant you were. How easy on the eyes, and soothing on the mind.
Oh yes.
This weekend we played an epic 14 hour game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st. All stats 100 percentile so that you can have so many levels of failure and success, so many shades of gray, so easy that the rules are there to help you roleplay not the other way around. Cumbersome careers aside(fixed with a single page download from the net), this is what roleplaying is about.
14 hours of epic investigation into a lovers triangle gone wrong between a Sea Captains whoring son, the whore, and the Captain of the Black Caps in Marrienburg. A battle across small boats tied together, a CSI like investigation into murder and a body tied to a dock support, 2 battles across the rooftops of the warf, running and jumping from rooftop to rooftop at breakneck speed only to randomly stop to dispatch a foe and move on, the smell of seasalt and blood mixing with the cries of the wooded.
And we won. Ha. Rarely does anyone get out of my games unscathed but the PC's did and therefore we won together.
In the past couple years I had forgoteen why I liked Roleplaying so much.
I forgot just how amazing it was to have everyone email me after a game, laughing, retelling the story and just basically being like little kids again. I forgot why I felt that even my enjoyment of multiplayer video games paled in comparision to pen and paper.
I remember now.
I forgot how elegant you were. How easy on the eyes, and soothing on the mind.
Oh yes.
This weekend we played an epic 14 hour game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st. All stats 100 percentile so that you can have so many levels of failure and success, so many shades of gray, so easy that the rules are there to help you roleplay not the other way around. Cumbersome careers aside(fixed with a single page download from the net), this is what roleplaying is about.
14 hours of epic investigation into a lovers triangle gone wrong between a Sea Captains whoring son, the whore, and the Captain of the Black Caps in Marrienburg. A battle across small boats tied together, a CSI like investigation into murder and a body tied to a dock support, 2 battles across the rooftops of the warf, running and jumping from rooftop to rooftop at breakneck speed only to randomly stop to dispatch a foe and move on, the smell of seasalt and blood mixing with the cries of the wooded.
And we won. Ha. Rarely does anyone get out of my games unscathed but the PC's did and therefore we won together.
In the past couple years I had forgoteen why I liked Roleplaying so much.
I forgot just how amazing it was to have everyone email me after a game, laughing, retelling the story and just basically being like little kids again. I forgot why I felt that even my enjoyment of multiplayer video games paled in comparision to pen and paper.
I remember now.