Who's into P&P RPG's? Whats your favorites?

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Pen & Paper Role Playing Games's are totally rad. Don't knock em til you try it.

So who here is into those?

What P&P RPG's do you particularly like? Why?

Do you do it with a group of friends? Via messageboard? IM? Some other means?

I like World of Darkness best. Really enjoying the new version, but I used to play Masquerade back in the day. Haven't actually PLAYED a new campaign. I like that game I think because I'm a big Horror genre fan. I also enjoy DnD. I like Rogues and Clerics.

I used to play with groups of people, but most were a little TOO into the Vampire gothic thing. Like it was real or something. Weird. I used to play with my husband's friends but we've gotten so busy we don't play anymore. I would LOVE to DM a game, but am very shy about it. Great at the story building, not so good at the telling part (not much of an actress really). I would love to play online somehow. Not sure how. There was one time my hubby ran a game using some online tool (?) and skype. THAT was cool, but he doesn't have time now

I used to play with my roommates - Thankfully, all sociable, well adjusted guys who weren't too into it, as you describe(i think I know what you're talkin about there!). We played all manner of games - D&D, superheroes, Warhammer, Spies, demigods, angels, modern mages, ourselves(in Call of Cthulu lol), kung fu masters, free-form story-telling experiments, Victorian English zombie-hunters.... We bought tons of books over the years we lived together. Since moving out, not so much gaming, and I sure miss it!

I recently joined a game online that uses Google Wave. It works great. I'm not sure what the best way of finding such a game would be, but I found mine via the White-Wolf forums. I'll bet you'd easily get some joiners if you started a game and posted it on those forums. So far Wave is working very well. It's got it's bugs, but otherwise, much better than message board or an IM. I'd suggest it!

I'm all about Exalted. I like the variance of themes and styles it has, the whole Epic Hero Who Shakes The World vibe.
The system though... *sigh* Too crunchy for it's own good. It sucks you in with it's potential, and then frustrates you with it's little idiosyncrasies.

I've never played the WoD line, though... I guess I don't get it. The vampire thing never really interested me (although, dark girls in corsets & fishnets? Yes, please!). And the game seems relegated to reveling in goth-ness... But I doubt that's all there is to it. Can someone explain to me whats so cool bout playing a vampire or werewolf, etc?

Yea, I know what you mean about the wallowing in goth-ness. Those are the people I was referring to when I said they were "too into it." I don't mind a dedicated gamer- but if you think you're really a vampire there's something very wrong. o.0

I like Vampire I think because I am a huge Horror genre fan. I'm talking old skool though. I love the psychological horror, thriller, or mystery stories and vampire and werewolf stories used to be that (not these gross gruesome bloodbath stories...or fluffy love stories with "sparkly" vamps you see now, LOL). It's just laced with metaphor and mystery and I think that's why I like it. Plus, I'm a sucker for an antihero. What makes a better antihero than a literal monster? This is why I prefer the world as it has been reimagined in Requiem vs. Masquerade. The world now is centered on the theme of mystery, instead of outright hopeless deviance. Like Film Noir instead of gothic slasher story. Much more my cup of tea. It's much more openended in regard to world building. But then you get the problem of TONS of rules. But I'll take that over pigeon-holing that results in sterotyped characters over and over (the biker brujah, the schizo Malkavian, the politician Ventrue, the "starving" artist Toreador. It just got boring after awhile). Basically I feel this new vision is more sophisticated from a story perspective.

A lot of the time though, I find that most people who like WoD do because it gives them an excuse to be "creepy" and uber-goth.

As for online gaming, my hubby suggested Wave as well. Haven't used it yet for anything. I'm a bit hesitent when using new technological stuff. It takes me a long time to learn them but if I am determined I learn them well. Just have to make the time I guess.

I'm mostly a WoD player at the moment (vampire, werewolf and changeling). I've only ever played new WoD though. A lot of the games I go to are live action, and at vampire the costumes can be incredible - lots of canes, top hats and velvet.

I like how all of the games have very different feels to them. Vampire is dark, brooding and quite stagnant. The characters are trying to cling on to their humanity, trying to be and portray what they no longer are as they go through all of the rituals of socialising. Under this paper layer of normality they scheme and plot, working every situation to their eventual advantage. Vampire is a very PvP game.

In werewolf you play as a pack. You're like a group of soldiers. You live together, you fight together. You may not always get on with all the members of your pack, but you know they'll be there when you're in trouble. Whereas vampires are emotionally very cold and survive endless years in this state, werewolves live in every moment and could easily die the next. It's definately my favourite game right now.

Anyway - that is what is so cool about being a vampire or werewolf (although please no soppy sparkly romantic hero vampires - I might be ill )