on roleplaying meta-ness and who's involved

[punsofiron]

Hey guys!

So I have brought it up in the chat a lot and kind of handwaved it, but I figured I should make it a little more...official?

For those of you who just game in, a while back Liz and Minako were playtesting a cracky revamp of Dungeons and Dragons that they'd put together, to make up for the fact that a: the only copy of D&D they had was 4th edition, and b: last time they tried to play that, Tom Servo was dungeonmaster. While this wasn't logged out because I figured we'd get tired of meta-RPing D&D every week and it wouldn't be NEARLY as funny as that first game with Servo, I've kind of assumed that they continued weekly D&D nights, and then after Christmas they switched over to the first edition Warhammer Fantasy RPG when Liz got a copy from Dr. F.

So I'm just wondering, who all would be in this campaign, or would have been for any stretch of time? It doesn't really have to affect anything, it's just a few hours a week and we're on double time IRL XD I'm just wondering in case somebody ever wants to mention it to newbies or share some banter with each other about some Noodle Incident that might've happened in the game or things like that. Plus it might helps us keep track of some side CR? Something like that, but yeah, I'm just wondering who here would be okay with saying they spend their Thursday nights on perilous adventures or some such shenanigans.

If you want to get an idea of what your characters would be getting into, you can find Iron Liz's review of 1st Edition WFRPG here.

Hope to hear back from you soon!

Comments

[salvagedlight]

Twilight would be interested in trying it! She's analyze it down to the bone, though. You'd come in one day, Liz, and find her buried behind ALL THE RULEBOOKS EVER and evaluating strategy and memorizing the rules. She wouldn't go as far as being a min-maxer but she'd be something of a rules lawyer because... TWILIGHT. THAT RULE IS THERE FOR A REASON.

Ven probably comes along since Aqua and Terra both play, but I'm not sure how involved he gets himself. He probably sat out the first couple sessions just watching in confusion until someone cajoled him to role up a character, but I don't know if it stuck. Zidane would peek in every once in awhile, but the less theatrical it is, the less likely it is to hold his attention. If the sessions were roleplaying and not just hack-n-slash-with-numbers, she'd have a greater chance of holding on to him. He'd always be willing to help with plot twists if she needed them, though.

[punsofiron]

In other words, teach Twilight the concept of the House Rule ASAP XD

Also Liz is a great encourager of roleplaying. Hack and slash happens, but characters are characters XD heck, in the session of Warhammer she has on her blog the beginning of it is just a scene of her character trying to get warm clothing for the winter XD

[salvagedlight]

Then she might get Zidane. Especially if she lets him actually act out those scenes XD

[punsofiron]

She'll probably laugh her ass off, but she's okay with this XD

[salvagedlight]

At least he can act?

[punsofiron]

Indeed XD

[dadandgone]

LOL I can see Terra and Aqua trying to explain it to him while playing themselves. Terra doesn't completely get it either but he's learned a lot since he started...he just wishes his rolls would stupid sucking.

[salvagedlight]

Ven would at least be content with his rolls sucking less than Terra's!