#RPGaDay23 Old Game You Still Play - The #RPG answer had been #GURPS Lite (1998) which powered our Generically Fast and Furious Lunchtime Game but that campaign wrapped in January.
#RPGaDay23 Weirdest Game You’ve Played - If by “weird” we mean a game that consistently introduced unexpected encounters and nonsensical reactions, then the answer has to be PARANOIA.
For those unfamiliar with this game, you are a Troubleshooter working for Friend Computer in Alpha Complex, the sole surviving human settlement. Or maybe not – Friend Computer isn’t telling. #Paranoia#RPG
#RPGaDay23 Smartest Game You’ve Ever Played - From a marketing and design perspective, Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. After 4e split the fan base, 5e reunited it by streamlining the game, resurrecting elements that people loved, and bounding the math so that bonus stacking (and the GM/player arms race it forced) was no longer a thing. #dndhttps://www.nuketown.com/rpg-a-day-2023-smartest-game-youve-ever-played/
#RPGaDay23 Favorite Game You Never Get To Play - Easy. The ALIEN RPG. I bought the books and boxed sets (or received them as gifts) during the pandemic.
I love ALIEN and ALIENS, but even I had to admit it was too dark to play when COVID was running rampant.
#RPGaDay23 Oldest Game Played - The oldest RPG I played is also the first game I played: D&D Basic Set. It was the red boxes set, where species was your class. Want to play a wizard/fighter? Be an elf. Otherwise be a human … and a wizard OR a fighter #dndhttps://www.nuketown.com/rpg-a-day-2023-oldest-game-played/
#RPGaDay23 Most Recent Game Bought - Thanks to GenCon, it is a two-way tie between the Marvel Multiverse RPG (which I played at the con as well) and the Captain's Log Solo RPG for Star Trek Adventures. #StarTrek#MarvelMultiverseRPG
First Game Purchased This Year: Forbidden Lands. I ended up with two copies: one in English ... and one in Swedish.
The Swedish one arrived first do to a shipping mishap. My family is Swedish - my grandfather and grandmother came to the US as teenagers - but they never taught my dad (or me) Swedish. #RPGaDay23#ForbiddenLands
It's a beautiful boxed set... but I don't understand a bit of it. Free League said I could keep it ... in case I wanted to learn Swedish some day. #rpgaday23#ForbiddenLands#sweden
First Game Master: Vince Hendricks. There were other game masters before him, but Vince ran the first real, ongoing, sustained campaign I played in.
Vince was my first college room mate - a senior when I was a sophomore (I transferred in that year) and he introduced me to a ton of gamers in college. #rpgaday23#dnd#campaigns