I love traditional games, but I have nobody to play them with, unfortunately.
I've played a little bit of 3.5, 4, and 5th edition, which I guess is being called DnD Next?
It's great fun. I want to do more.

Miggles, why is it that you dislike dnd exactly?

Never play Shadowrun with Areku.

Chiming in to confirm that Shadowrun is awesome, although this may be in large part due to me having an awesome group to play with. Supposedly our playing style tends to lack a lot of subtlety, but WHO NEEDS SUBTLETY WHEN YOU GOT GRENADES?

Subtlety is for dum, you only need add more gun.
Unless you're playing Arekurun in which case he'll punish you for not being good at subtlety.

Careful there, SR is somewhat heavy on the minutiae, and rules.

that sounds silly

areku you are silly

shadowrun is best experienced escaping in a helicopter from an angry dragon while trying to pelt it with hand grenades

either that or invade a cult/gang base and throw poison gas grenades everywhere so people choke and die

:v

Suffice to say, our characters are pretty much a bunch of vicious ♥♥♥holes. Surprisingly enough, we've only earned two points of notoriety so far. :v

I'm glad so many people on this forum are into traditional games.
Do you prefer action or storytelling more, Datarealms?

Storytelling!

I bloody love writing. I've always wanted to play a tabletop game as the DM, but I never found anyone interested in playing it

As for Age of Empires II, I must confess I rarely ever played that game till I got the HD edition. But I've barely played it.

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, on the other hand, was my staple RTS of that time. That and Empire Earth

Abstracted problem solving. Video games do combat mechanics with less fuss and while interesting stories can and do emerge I don't see any sense trying to plan out great narratives when success at anything is predicated on spiteful dice. I think tgs are the only game medium where players can really exercise true agency with infinite potential for creativity.

I love traditional games.

One of my favorite board games

Figures how much you've learned from it.
Sorry! The original game to teach you to be a top notch ♥♥♥hole.

I bet you buy Illinois Avenue and the B&O Railroads with loaded dice.

Everything this guy said right here. Traditional games, though dependent on a good DM/GM who isn't inclined to railroad, push shitty pet NPCs into the plot or push his weird-ass fetishes into the background of the story, present the most diverse possibly way to game.

Chances are most settings or plot you can think of are accomodated perfectly by an existing game, can be adapted or squashed into one with a few houserules or can have a homebrew rigged to play them. Unlike video games or gamebooks (which are honestly pretty damn lame), traditional gaming can really deal with the abstract (see the bizarre reality warping antics of Noumenon or Nobilis).

And even though freeform is a dirty word, if you have enough imagination and character of your own it can definitely work - once a fortnight, I run a rules-light squishy freeform thing about minimum wage workers at a gas station who contend with the collapse of the world around them in many many forms, a different apocalypse per session.

/tg/ has become the only board on 4chan I frequent, and I occasionally run quest threads and civilization threads there, but... it's not as good as doing something with DRLFF people. You guys are the greatest.

I miss my days of RTD writing in our Forum Games section so much. I have so many ideas and plans, but I'm afraid of disappointing the community again - even with the lack of activity these days, it's that fear that is keeping me from anything new.

My best traditional-games friends here, who helped me hash things out for real, are mostly disconnected from me now. I said some awfully stupid ♥♥♥♥ I'm ashamed of to Foa in the wake of a badly planned ruleset I wrote, trying to defend my errors to the point of pigheadedness. Miggles is an intensely cool dude and still present, but we haven't spoken in ages. Caekdaemon is off being the busiest bee that ever lived, writing pages on pages on pages. Psygnosis is alive, but he doesn't have the will or the volition to return here. Harzipan is still alive - but not on DRLFF any more to any serious extent.

...does anyone have an open slot in a TG they run over text? I'd love to join, unless #ld lurkers only are allowed.

I'm running at maximum productivity!

Thirty five thousand characters a day everyday!