Would you still play RPG:s if...

[Kanegrundar]

Here's my answers:

1. I assume you mean the online community? If that's the case, yes I would go on playing. After all, I played for years without being part of the ENWorld community or any other for that matter. However, if you mean the entire community disappeared as in no one else is playing...well, that would suck. I do play solitaire D&D anymore these days since I don't have a group or the time to find one, so I guess I'd have to say "yes", but it's more just stringing together a bunch of random battles in a random dungeon, not like I'm really playing D&D.

2. This would hurt. I always need some time to get my thoughts together before a game. However, I think I'd be able to adapt to the non-existant prep-time.

3. No more new product? That's a problem?!?!? Heck, I still play Warhammer Quest and there hasn't been anything new for that game in years. Discontinuation sucks, but it's not a game ender. If D&D went away today, I still have enough material to play for the rest of my life.

Kane

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

My wife and kids and our friends would still get together and game, using one of the few hundred books I have. I improv all the time now, and every time I'm sitting in the quiet room recycling my lunch, I'm working on my game in my head.

I don't require community, spare time, or in-print books to continue my gamer lifestyle.

 

[Glyfair]

... the communities disappeared?

Depends on what you mean by communities. I would keep playing RPGs if the internet community disappeared (I was playing them well over a decade before there was a major internet community). Now, if my local communites disappeared, that would be a loss. If I lost that, it would be a struggle to keep a group going. That might cause me to stop roleplaying once the inevitable core gaming group started losing people.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I find the online community to be a pretty poisonous and incestuous bunch, overall, with notable exceptions. What it adds to my gaming experience is faster dissemination of news and reviews. The rest would have no impact on my gmaing if it went away.

And, as has been said, I have enough product now to play forever. Good new stuff might excite me, but it's not required for gaming.

 

[Jdvn1]

... the communities disappeared?

Yeah, I didn't have communities when I first started playing.

... you couldn't work with the game in your spare time, at all?

This is also basically how it worked at first. As a GM, I'd still find a way to make it work, though.

... the game of your choice was discontinued?

What, all three of them? I like such a variety of systems (one of which is discontinued, one other is just mostly discontinued) that I don't consider it a big deal. It's more about the game than the system for me.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Yes.

But it wouldn't be as much fun between gaming sessions.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

I sorta do...

I have run & still intend to run my supers games using the Marvel SAGA system. I prefer it over the various dice-based supers systems out there (though M&M seems interesting, but it's a "wait & see" thing for me, since I'm broke), & I prefer ot over the newer Marvel Universe RPG (totally diceless "resource management" game, which seems a bit more complex then other games out there on the market). Between another person in my gaming group & I, we have all of the books released for this system (not to mention access to various web-based resources as well).

 

[fusangite]

... the communities disappeared?

... you couldn't work with the game in your spare time, at all?

... the game of your choice was discontinued?

Feel free to answer these questions, or create a question or two yourself.

So, basically you're asking: would you still play D&D is the Khmer Rouge somehow took over the US and Canada. My answer: probably not. I'm guessing that's the only way my books would get confiscated, my free time would be controlled and my friends would be carted off never to be seen again. Fortunately, there doesn't seem any immediate danger of an undead version of Pol Pot rising from his grave and leading his minions across the West to unimagineable conquest.

 

[Romnipotent]

I'd have to kill myself and all of those who still played with me! this is no pact Im just trying to be humane

 

[Zappo]

I only game with my close friends and I don't really have any community except for enworld; my free time is constantly dwindling; and I play Planescape. Despite all of this, I want to game even more.