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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4990319" data-attributes="member: 77019">My favorite games were old ones like Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer FRPG 1st Edition, Paranoia, Traveller, and AD&D simply because it was so broken you had to customize it and it left room to actually role play a little.  I also had fun exploring a lot of other games I didn't end up liking a lot but enjoyed playing with when they first came out like Boot Hill, Gamma World, Twilight 2000, Morreau Project, Rolemaster, Harn etc.I think I missed the White Wolf stuff due to my age, I was turned off by 2E and after some initial excitement, ended up a little bored by 3E but I really liked the whole D20 OGL thing, bubble or no... the chance of customizing the system was very exciting to me and I liked a lot of the OGL stuff I got.  I also really liked some of the small indy press games which came out in the last few years like Dying Earth RPG, Shadowrun, The Riddle of Steel, Ars Magica, and Burning Wheel... now 4E has come along and almost ruined RPGs for me.  I just try not to think about it.I prefer having tangible books I can open up and physically leaf through, but PDF's seem to be alive and well to me.  I buy them and use them as a resource in my gaming, and just to read for amusement, I'm selling a couple of my own with my own little company, and they are doing quite well.  My first PDF came out almost a year ago and it's still selling, despite what people told me would happen.  I'm even starting to have a little fan base now, mostly in Europe.  The big change for me is that the kind of gaming I was into though is really being eclipsed by the new 4E / WOW type RPG as a competetive boardgame paradigm.  Maybe that is a kind of return to the roots of RPGs with chainmail etc.  I still love RPG's, I think role playing games are one of the most fun ways you can spend an evening with your friends.  But I prefer a more immersive, role playing oriented feel, and I notice the people I used to play RPG's with have moved away from the genre as a whole because of how it's changed, and most of the people I know who still game regularly are increasingly of a certain real specific demographic and mindset I can't really relate to.  The rules now seem to have all these assumptions of how you are supposed to approach playing an RPG built into a lot of mainstream games that I see available at outlets like Borders Bookstore.   I think the idea of what an RPG IS has been much more narrowly defined than it used to be, despite all the near infinity of options out there.I used to get excited when I would have a chance to check out the RPG section of a place like that, now I rarely see anything interesting.  I think what I liked about the older systems was that they were either more 'generic' in terms of how you could play them, because they were so loose, or they were tighter and a little more immersive in terms of feel and setting.  I don't see that as much any more but maybe I'm just not spending enough time in my FNGS.G.</blockquote>

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