To play, or not to play.....that is the question.

[Corinnguard]

I do not think I ever read the site rules before. Don't be a jerk seems to be the overarching theme.

Ditto. I didn't read the site rules either when I set up my EN World account 4 years ago. But I think all of us here have a general idea on what to do and not to do while visiting the forums.

 

[1QD]

Constantly calling it "Big Dragon" will likely bias how some people react to you.

Does that have a negative connotation I am unaware of? I thought it was just for ppl who do not like to use the actual name.

 

[Tonguez]

Ditto. I didn't read the site rules either when I set up my EN World account 4 years ago. But I think all of us here have a general idea on what to do and not to do while visiting the forums.

yeah I like to think of EN World as a quaint English pub, Morrus is the Guv'ner and the mods are the bouncers. The only rules that matter is we are here to have fun, Morrus makes the rules and dont be a dick

So I now have to ask. While I understand no one wants to see a bunch of spam, I have a TTRPG that I have created. It has taken me over 26 years to create. While yes I am excited about the idea that someday I may actually make a bunch of money, I am actually here to talk about my game.

I want to share some aspects about my game and get feed back and have genuine conversation, hopefully generate interest in my game, its rules and guage peoples reactions. I also would like to explain what makes it stand out from other gaming systems and what is awesome about it.

If this forum allows I would like to do a bit of a question period about specific professions or races or even talk about castle building, resources or even becoming a god!!! It is my aim to make a community based world. All cities in my world were founded by players, and I would like to grow the world in the same way.

Its been a good decade or more ago years ago now, but in the past there have been a couple of multi-thread setting creation experiments that took place on these boards. The City of Mors End is in the archives, along with the hosted World of Kulan, Cressia came about through Rangerwicketts Magical Industrial Arms Race threads.

So post your thread and if you do get lots of interest perhaps PM @Morrus etc to see if they're ok with you going multi-thread

Constantly calling it "Big Dragon" will likely bias how some people react to you.

Does that have a negative connotation I am unaware of? I thought it was just for ppl who do not like to use the actual name.

yeah I didnt think calling it Big Dragon had any negative connotations, I thought that was amusing, but then geek-rage may be a thing ...

 

[Morrus]

Can you direct me to the community rules? I do not seem to be able to find them.

You read them yesterday when you agreed to them when you joined.

 

[1QD]

You read them yesterday when you agreed to them when you joined.

No, I did not at the time, instead I was swept away to creating an account and seemingly skipped past them. I have as of now, and to be honest they were pretty fair.

 

[Kichwas]

Oh cool, why did you make the switch from the big dragon? Oh and where do I find these rules you speak of?

Quite a few people just simply never were on the ride, or only slightly so.

I started tRPGs in a one-shot in 1980 at my cousin's but that never went anywhere and it's a side of the family I've not even seen since that day.

So... in 82 two things happened. I got the D&D basic set as a birthday gift from my mother. Then maybe a month or so later I had my $5 of allowance money (that's about $50 million in today's dollars, or so it seems some times), walked into a hobby store and bought a "D&D adventure" that was in an odd sized box.

That's how I ended up with my first non-D&D game. As a kid I didn't realize there were other options, but the box to 'Melee' had Conan like art so I bought it. That's also known as 'The Fantasy Trip' - and the next week I was back to get Wizard, and some time later the compiled Fantasy Trip book.

These days that game's direct descendant is called GURPS. "Melee" is to GURPS what 'Chainmail' was to D&D.

Sure I played a little D&D back then, but just about as much Fantasy Trip. Didn't play in a 'campaign' for D&D until 84, and that very quickly ended in an RPG horror story.

There's a lot of different games out there. And having never really been 'pulled into D&D' in a way that stuck, I got to play a whole slew of them over the decades with mostly decent folks.

I've also met quite a few people who've never even played D&D. Until maybe Stranger Things this hobby was so small that even though D&D was the biggest game, that ratio probably wasn't so vast.