roleplaying
5 January 2004 07:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaSlowly but surely (thanks to the horrible influence of good friends if nothing else) I have come to the point of actively working on my desire to tabletop roleplay. I'm talking manuals, character sheets, dice, etc.
For a long time, a particularly disasterous event with my older brother when he was 14ish and I was 11ish led me to shy away from roleplaying, even though I was fairly certain that I would enjoy it. Most of my friends roleplayed, but I always found a reason to avoid it. After realizing the truth behind the said disasterous teenage event (that 14 year old boys are inherently cruel to their younger sisters, especially younger sisters who want to hang out with their brothers), I then became stuck with the burden of being the one person who didn't already know their way around the systems due to years of practice, and never asked to join my friends for fear of slowing them down or even (gasp) looking like a newbie.
I'm over that.
I want to roleplay. I now know a lot about the story of a few different systems and would like the chance to participate in those stories. I know Vampire the best (thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isaiahblake), have droplets of knowledge of various other World of Darkness settings (Mage, Werewolf, Changeling), and have seen a D&D session (but not books). I am fairly certain I am more of a storyline/character interaction player than a hack'n'slash, although I realize that I might want to start with the latter in terms of not expecting too much of myself.
Speaking ofisaiahblake, in an AIM chat last night he casually mentioned running an online game for goldbug and I. I have latched onto this idea with sharp claws, although goldbug seems pretty ambivalent and isaiahblake would need a bit more prodding to actually begin setting something up. I guess the point of this paragraph is to see if anyone else would be interested. I think I can safely say it'd be a White Wolf game of some sort, but beyond that it's not in my hands anymore. Tentative responses are fine, since there's nothing remotely solidified about this idea yet.
I have also sent off an email to everyone's favorite webcomic authorkobold, since he posted back in 2003 (y'know, way back then) about S*P Boston gaming groups forming up. I don't know if they've already formed, if they're really open to newbies, or what... I think I could count on S*P fans to provide a good deflowering. *snicker* karlean7, any knowledge?
And therefore in parting I say, if you are interested in satisfying this urge of mine, or even if you just are part of a regular game that I could sit in on to get a better feel of how things go, please let me know. I know there are several readers of my journal that I would like to get to know better and who roleplay, and maybe we could kill multiple birds with the same stone? :)
For a long time, a particularly disasterous event with my older brother when he was 14ish and I was 11ish led me to shy away from roleplaying, even though I was fairly certain that I would enjoy it. Most of my friends roleplayed, but I always found a reason to avoid it. After realizing the truth behind the said disasterous teenage event (that 14 year old boys are inherently cruel to their younger sisters, especially younger sisters who want to hang out with their brothers), I then became stuck with the burden of being the one person who didn't already know their way around the systems due to years of practice, and never asked to join my friends for fear of slowing them down or even (gasp) looking like a newbie.
I'm over that.
I want to roleplay. I now know a lot about the story of a few different systems and would like the chance to participate in those stories. I know Vampire the best (thanks to
isaiahblake), have droplets of knowledge of various other World of Darkness settings (Mage, Werewolf, Changeling), and have seen a D&D session (but not books). I am fairly certain I am more of a storyline/character interaction player than a hack'n'slash, although I realize that I might want to start with the latter in terms of not expecting too much of myself.Speaking of
isaiahblake, in an AIM chat last night he casually mentioned running an online game for goldbug and I. I have latched onto this idea with sharp claws, although goldbug seems pretty ambivalent and isaiahblake would need a bit more prodding to actually begin setting something up. I guess the point of this paragraph is to see if anyone else would be interested. I think I can safely say it'd be a White Wolf game of some sort, but beyond that it's not in my hands anymore. Tentative responses are fine, since there's nothing remotely solidified about this idea yet.I have also sent off an email to everyone's favorite webcomic author
kobold, since he posted back in 2003 (y'know, way back then) about S*P Boston gaming groups forming up. I don't know if they've already formed, if they're really open to newbies, or what... I think I could count on S*P fans to provide a good deflowering. *snicker* karlean7, any knowledge? And therefore in parting I say, if you are interested in satisfying this urge of mine, or even if you just are part of a regular game that I could sit in on to get a better feel of how things go, please let me know. I know there are several readers of my journal that I would like to get to know better and who roleplay, and maybe we could kill multiple birds with the same stone? :)
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on 5 Jan 2004 14:31 (UTC)arisia is a really really big science fiction/fantasy/filk/etc convention. it is happening two weeks from now, in the park plaza hotel. There are games beign run by peopel you may know from dance practice. itis a lot of fun. ther eis gaming, shopping, masquarade, play, etc.
ask me in person at dance practice.
likewise, if yo uare at all interested in LARP (live action role playing), check out www.intercon-d.org, a big all-LARP convention i nChelmsford, where a bunch of peopelyou knwo are runnigngames, including me :) that is march 12th weekend. likewise ask me in person.
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on 5 Jan 2004 15:14 (UTC)The way I currently view LARPing is even more intimidating than I view RPing (I'm not sure if I can talk like someone else, how can I fully act like them?). It might just be something that I have to be a tad bit inebriated in order to try (to get over my self-inflicted inhibitions), but I have no clue how that'd affect my ability to play. Heh.
Who knows, maybe by March 12th weekend I'll be all into it!