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.

 

[Corinnguard]

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

There needs to be a thread of 'what do you liken EN World to?'

Thanks to the animated movie BELLE, I think the term Internet Society is a good way to describe what EN World is or at least could be.

 

[TheSword]

Welcome to the Forums.

As an alternate system I play Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e. You’ll find I manage to crowbar references to it into any thread I can… including this one and I’ve posted quite a few threads about why I think it’s great.

Though I didn’t stop playing D&D 5e. I run and play campaigns in both. They both scratch totally different itches to me.

 

[1QD]

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.

AHHH Chainmail... I used to have that as a boxed set. My main experience in gaming is 1st ed, 2nd. The first book I ever bought was the encyclapedia magicka. It was like 60 bucks. ( think of your 5 dollar reference X12). I thought of it as an investment. Over the years I collected all 4 of the books and went on to the spell compendiums, wizards and priests. Together one of the single best collection of work DnD has ever come out with. I got years out of those books. I liked the mini stories that came with the items.

My first game was with a friend I made at summer. He would stay with his grandma in the summer so I would go over for sleepovers and we would drink pop and game all night. Those were the days!!! My first.

Moving to ottawa my books came with me, and I met a new circle of friends. We would have gaming marathons that would run day n nights for weeks on end. I took up GMing then, and at the time had collected every type of dragon I could find.....36 or so...maybe more, and we started an epic dragon campaign, on of my largest dnd campaigns yet. Then 3rd ed came out and well, I broke away from dnd. They changed everything, tried to rewrite every thing.

I then broke off on my own, and decided at 11:11 at night I would create my own world. When I say the time, I had just finished drawing the first draft of my world map... 26 years later I am working on my 3rd and 4rth expansion, with dozens of books still as of yet to be written.

In some ways I owe Dnd. It helped me make friends, develope my creativity and my visualization....all things I cherish today. But when business became more important to the company, I developed my own. It is my sincere hope that one day my system rivals that of Dnd. While may may scoff, or perhaps not, I can honestly say on its own there will things recognizable, but my system is truly its own entity, an expression of how I see the world in fantasy terms.

 

[The Soloist]

In some ways I owe Dnd. It helped me make friends, develope my creativity and my visualization....all things I cherish today. But when business became more important to the company, I developed my own. It is my sincere hope that one day my system rivals that of Dnd. While may may scoff, or perhaps not, I can honestly say on its own there will things recognizable, but my system is truly its own entity, an expression of how I see the world in fantasy terms.

Welcome.

Lofty goal. How does your system stand out? It is a d20 system, a dice pool system, a d100 system, a 2d6 or 3d6 system, a diceless system, a card base system?