Table Top Role Playing Games have been a constant through my adult life. My love for dice chugging began in the seventh grade when a friend of mine introduced me to this game called Rifts. The selling point was that you could “do anything” in the game. It was like a board game without a board, where the players described all their actions verbally. It was like a form of improvisational theater.
Years later, 3 friends began a Dungeons and Dragons campaign ( that’s a series of connected rpg sessions) titled “The Green Cloaked Man Saga.” There were 3 players during the first game, but during the course of the year long game that number grew to 9. The epic story began with the siege of a small anglo-saxon inspired town by the dreaded Blood Moon Clan. Eventually the characters realized that the Clan was being manipulated by a man called Kortren, who wore a green cloak. That lead the players on an epic quest to stop the dastardly villain. Some how, that quest led the characters to a massive Minas Tirith like fight between Elves and Demons. After the death of half of the heroic party, the villain was killed. And a story which I will always remember fondly was completed.
The RPG group disbanded due to real life. As usual, people moved and lost interest in those childish games. But for some reason I still find myself drawn to them. It’s much more than nostalgia, i think. I still crave to be involved in the RPG hobby. But it seems like a hard thing to do now a days. Whenever I sit down to work out an RPG game I always find my self repeating a sort of mantra, ” I should be spending this time writing a book or short story.”
If I got one of you semi-interested in Role Playing Games, I’ll go ahead and throw in the names Dark Heresy, Vampire: The Requiem, and Kult.
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