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For me, I think that's what's brilliant about Dread. Not that campaigns are bad, but dread is "horror". People die by the end. I think it lends itself ideally to a quick-start, one session game. Loads of fun :)

I only *really* got started in RPgs last year ( I was 36 ). I mean I had sort of played in school. and played computer versions my whole life. But with my kids getting older, I thought it would be fun to go beyond the standard board games on "family game nights" and really get into interactive...

Sounds pretty fantastic actually! :) ... I'd love to join :P As for "insisting" on playing it D&D style, hey that's fine... But let's see how far your heroics will last when you come face to face with a shoggoth and all you have is 15 HP and a pea shooter. :P

My gaming group *IS* my wife, kids and a couple of friends. That being said, it is VERY difficult to coordinate them all into one room. The workaround has been to run one-night scenarios where it doesn't matter too much which players are or aren't there. But I am getting close to being ready to...

I don't know if this counts ( or has been mentioned already ). But when I first killed off my son in Call of Cthulhu, he was pretty upset at the inability to DO anything about it... ( He came from a D&D and SW Saga background ). This was after I had explained to the group that in THIS world...

Well I'm not sure I would say he does it for *every* roll... but he does it often enough. He does mostly define a clear line between his test rolls and the "final" roll... I think it's more of an issue with it rubbing other players the wrong way more than anything else...

So one of my players called shenanigans on another yesterday. I have a player who has a couple of sets of dice with him. He likes to roll from each set, decide which he feels is "luckiest" then do a final roll. The other player feels not only does this add unneeded time to the game, but they...

Don't forget Mr. Staypuft

Yeah, my 12 year old actually does NOT LIKE D&D... he's a lot more into the RP than the G :) . He likes that CoC concentrates a lot more on characters and investigation than a lot of tactical. The other two don't care, they like D&D and Star Wars Saga ( which are the other two games we've...

That's funny, I'm in almost the exact same boat. I sort of took it up a few months ago, and immediately became obsessed. My obsession spanned 3 games 4E, Star Wars Saga, Call of Cthulhu. It didn't cause any issues with my wife PER SE, except that she felt this came out of "left field" and how...

That's a good point. If you ever DO want to game again though, I can attest that running a game for your kids is a lot of fun. Especially if they are a bit older. I now regularly play Call of Cthulhu with my 12, 15 and 17 year olds. My wife is usually in on these games too.

I was always so sad to see Mr Carlson reduced to being the Maytag Repairman

Well like he said, you can be "different" without being complete opposites.

I totally agree with this. Pick your battles. There are so many things that are just not worth fighting about! But of course, that doesn't mean you should just roll over for all issues.

lol :p

I'm in pretty much the same boat. Except in my case she is marginally on board! I say marginally because she has ZERO interest in 4E ( which makes me very sad ), but *loves* Call of Cthulhu as do the kids ( 12,15,17 ) and two of our neighbors. So it makes for interesting game groups :) She...

Walt Disney ( the man, not the company ) created a form of entertainment that was aimed at "everyone". He didn't believe in talking down to children and wanted to provide entertainment that was, granted, "family friendly" but not AIMED at children. In fact, he did a lot of cartoons and comic...

I actually AM already "old" ( 36 ) and only started. Don't get me wrong, I "knew" D&D. I had friends in high school who played it. And I myself actually played a VERY LITTLE BIT of Starfleet Battles in college. But never really got into it. I played a lot of computer games though ( some of...

Funny thing actually. As far as Tabletop RPG's, I've just gotten into them hardcore at 36. So "grow up" ? I guess I'm growing down. To be fair, I've always liked other "geeky" things, computer ( later console ) games, sci-fi/fantasy, but I never saw a need to leave any of this behind as long...

If I were you, I would check out DREAD. The only real game mechanic is a Jenga tower and other than that, if the character can conceivably do it ( ruled by the GM ) then they do it, otherwise, they need to pull from the tower. The tower falls, the character is removed from the game. It's...