Role Playing Games

[Don John of Austria]

There is no substantial moral difference between playing D&D and playing cops and robbers. In D&D there are just rules so that everyone plays "fair". The rules are extensive and hopefully the stories are progressed past that of a five year old playing cops and robbers. This is a normal progression just like LOTR is for older children and adults D&D is for older children and adults.

[Crispy]

[quote name='philothea' date='Jul 7 2005, 04:03 PM']"I cast a magic missle spell at the skeletons,"
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OMW i jus remembered the funniest thing about D&D! watch this flash video, it gives a lightened perspective of the whole thing. i know it doesnt address the morality of some things, but i think thats more of a situational thing. i mean, i think this cartoon shows how the majority of D&D games might go (ok, i know it isnt all like this, and i dont mean to offend you RPG players out there, jus look at it as a jest on certain kinds of ppl, no offense intended). when u play, jus know where you hold God in all this (hopefully closer to your heart than being a wizard).

[url="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/90046"]8-bit D&D[/url]

[Socrates]

[quote name='Crispy' date='Jul 8 2005, 01:17 PM']OMW i jus remembered the funniest thing about D&D!  watch this flash video, it gives a lightened perspective of the whole thing.  i know it doesnt address the morality of some things, but i think thats more of a situational thing.  i mean, i think this cartoon shows how the majority of D&D games might go (ok, i know it isnt all like this, and i dont mean to offend you RPG players out there, jus look at it as a jest on certain kinds of ppl, no offense intended).  when u play, jus know where you hold God in all this (hopefully closer to your heart than being a wizard). 

[url="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/90046"]8-bit D&D[/url]
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Ooooooh! Very frightening indeed! I'll make sure my kids do all their pull-ups so they won't be drawn into this horrible evil!!!

[Kilroy the Ninja]

Yeah, we saw that site some time last year and we make fun of it mercilessly.


Curiously we usually have Mountain Dew available though....

[Semperviva]

well......i think role playing games are kinda dangerous, i know alot of ppl who do nothing but play them (esp GUYS haha)...i mean, I know of theses people, no-one really [i]knows[/i] them because they hibernate, lol......and it becomes a quasi-reality...and the danger of that, and any fantasy really, is that it takes you further and further from the [i]One Supreme Reality[/i] of God....but of course, in moderation its totally ok, but then again some things are really easily addictive...depending on the person i guess

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[infinitelord1]

i must admit i was addicted to warcraft III the frozen throne for about 3 years. It is the best rpg to ever hit the planet in my opinion. Im just now starting to get sick of the game along with every other video game i played. Now its just a matter of time before i step out of my cage and reality hits. Video games are addictive and they do stray you away from the world. Sometimes i fantasize about being characters in warcraft.......i wish i had magical powers like the blood mage.........Flamestrike!......or archmages blizzard.....lol.......or even blademasters critical strike.

[scardella]

I have to say this...

Warcraft is a strategy game with a storyline to it, unless you're talking about world of warcraft.

[Semperviva]

[quote name='scardella' date='Jul 12 2005, 08:32 AM']I have to say this...

Warcraft is a strategy game with a storyline to it, unless you're talking about world of warcraft.
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[i]okaaay[/i]. haha...so you're saying its just like a virtual chess with characters and plot? sounds fun! and oh yes, addicting too...but so is PM, hhmm...i have a thought that any addiction is an idol...unless its a balanced constant centered ness on God it will take over and become an idol...what do you think?[b] EVEN talking about God [/b]can be an idol...creepy...

[Didacus]

"Thoose maniacs! They blew it up! They blew it all up!"

Planet of the Apes.

[Kilroy the Ninja]

[quote name='Didacus' date='Jul 13 2005, 02:42 PM']"Thoose maniacs!  They blew it up!  They blew it all up!"

Planet of the Apes.
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um yeah, ok, sure..........

[sweetpea316]

Meh, RPG games are ok... not exactly my cup of tea.

[Guest JeffCR07]

[quote name='infinitelord1' date='Jul 6 2005, 09:23 PM']Have you played legend of the dragoon for PS1? i love that game!
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It is one of my favorite PS1 games

[Don John of Austria]

[quote name='JeffCR07' date='Jul 13 2005, 04:13 PM']It is one of my favorite PS1 games 
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Begone all you computer gamers-- pen and paper games are what is being discussed here, you know those games which reuire the use of imagination istead of just vision and reflexes.

[scardella]

You can be a lot more creative in a pen and paper style RPG than a video/computer game. [i]Note: I'm just trying to show how it can be more flexible. I would think that in a pen and paper RPG, if your DM is any good, your characters' moral choices would make a huge difference in the way they are perceived by non-players and in the course of the ever-winding storyline.[/i]

For instance, if you're in combat, you can interact w/ the environment in ways that you just can't program in. If you're fighting in a narrow mountain pass, you can cast a spell that'll remove a boulder's support and crush your enemies (or yourself) rather than having to cast "magic missile" right at your enemy. However, then you might have to find a way over or around those boulders that just crushed your enemy. Then, if there are predators/scavengers in the area, they just might show up in response to the dead bodies.

In another instance, if you're trying to convince some guy to give you some item or other, you can do his quest, or you can try and steal it, or you can kidnap him, or try to buy him off, or hire a hitman, or try and weasel it out of him, or try and frame him, or ...

[Fixxxer]

is socom a role playing game?

[Don John of Austria]

[quote name='scardella' date='Jul 14 2005, 09:07 AM']You can be a lot more creative in a pen and paper style RPG than a video/computer game.  [i]Note: I'm just trying to show how it can be more flexible.  I would think that in a  pen and paper RPG, if your DM is any good, your characters' moral choices would make a huge difference in the way they are perceived by non-players and in the course of the ever-winding storyline.[/i]

For instance, if you're in combat, you can interact w/ the environment in ways that you just can't program in.  If you're fighting in a narrow mountain pass, you can cast a spell that'll remove a boulder's support and crush your enemies (or yourself) rather than having to cast "magic missile" right at your enemy.  However, then you might have to find a way over or around those boulders that just crushed your enemy.  Then, if there are predators/scavengers in the area, they just might show up in response to the dead bodies.

In another instance, if you're trying to convince some guy to give you some item or other, you can do his quest, or you can try and steal it, or you can kidnap him, or try to buy him off, or hire a hitman, or try and weasel it out of him, or try and frame him, or ...
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Yup your absolutly right D&D can have all sorts of moral Choices in it, like since I cant take the guy who just surrended with me, as I can't trust him and he will slow us down, and of course every second the BBEG is coming closer to the fuition of his plan I can let him live and set him free on "Parole" or I can leave him here tied up and let what happens happen or I can just slit his throat and be done with it, ... of course there might be other options, I could say turn him into a rat and leave him that way, etc. Anything that can be done in real life plus a whole lot more, that is the nature of the game it is an unfolding story and the characters one plays make decisions, that is what makes them the Heros of the story, or perhaps the Villians, but it is a Game, I would remind everyone that Monoploly actually encourages lying... look at the Rules any deal not completed atthe moment between players is not binding... Illuminate actually encourages cheating and lying, those are the rules of the Game... it is a Game, lying in illuminate is no more wrong than bluffing in Poker or running a fake in football. Killing the prisoner in D&D is not morally wrong for the Player, but it will have Alignment affects on the Character( a not so subtle shift torwards Evil and Chaos-- seperate things in D&D ) and if someone is evil enough perhaps Heros will come after them, something that won't happen in a Video Game. Still It is a Game, a Game I will add that no one thinks is appropriate for young children and should have appropriate themes for the age which is playing them.

[Tony]

RPG games are boring.. Give me my sports games any day

[Kilroy the Ninja]

[quote name='Tony' date='Jul 14 2005, 11:37 PM']RPG games are boring..
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Not with the right group!

[Cam42]

And people are concerned that there is too much of a magical influence from the Harry Potter series?

This is much more dangerous.....I mean seriously, in an RPG, such as D&D, one can be a wizard, a god's honest wizard....one can cast spells and one can dress up as a wizard.....oh....this is all fantasy????

Silly me. A little scary don'tcha think?????? Not to mention realllly dorky.

[infinitelord1]

[quote name='Tony' date='Jul 14 2005, 11:37 PM']RPG games are boring.. Give me my sports games any day
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i was ranked 48 in madden 2005......havent played in like 2 months though........i am a vick abuser........but i run with my fav team now....detroit.
there recieving core is phenomenal in that game. And if you are about to play somebody who is gonna use the falcons.........detroit is the perfect counter to the falcons because of the speed of their secondary and defensive line........plus they force a lot of fumbles........perfect for using hit stick on vick when people scramble with him.

Edited July 15, 2005 by infinitelord1