The Best Game I've Played In
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pyatSo, what was the best RPG game you were ever in, as a player?
This is a tough call. As I’ve noted elsewhere, enjoyment of a game is often reliant on the enthusiasm of the participants. So, a terrible GM running a broken game can still be remembered as The Best Thing Ever, if everyone had fun.
In addition, it has been a long time since I played in any game regularly. I think I was 18 or 19 when I started GMing almost exclusively. I can remember playing in fantastic games when I was 14 and 15 years old, but the details are fuzzy, and I really think I we were mostly just hanging out and drinking soda and being geeks.
Also, I want to stress that, aside from the epic badness of the Trinity game I mentioned in a previous entry, I’ve never been in a noticeably bad game. There have been games that didn’t gain any traction and got cancelled, or games that had dull sessions, but none were really bad.
Indeed, I have been in some very excellent games.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thebitterguy ran a really engaging Buffy: The Vampire Slayer game, for example. ("Xena! We always knew it would come down to this...") mar2nee’s intermittent D&D game is very crunchy and fun, and it's awesome that her teenage kids play too. viktorhaag’s abortive Spirit of the Century showed a great deal of promise, what with the historical giant submarine and most awesome cooperative character generation setup.
That all said, I think I was most impressed withnottheterritory’s Mage: The Ascension game. He is an excellent gamemaster, with a good handle on plotting and character development. I really like the dramatic interactions he’d planned for the players. Similarly, his Star Trek game (using a system developed by eyebeams had some wonderful moments. The Klingon Opera mystery was fantastic, and the cultural details he came up with were quite memorable. The other players had a ton of fun, as well. nottheterritory is very good at spontaneous dramatics, and acting, which adds to the fun immensely.
He considers himself weak when it comes to adjudicating rules and combats, but the White Wolf system (andeyebeams system) are intuitive and smooth enough that this did not really present an issue, at least not to my recollection.
So, kudos to you,nottheterritory!
This is a tough call. As I’ve noted elsewhere, enjoyment of a game is often reliant on the enthusiasm of the participants. So, a terrible GM running a broken game can still be remembered as The Best Thing Ever, if everyone had fun.
In addition, it has been a long time since I played in any game regularly. I think I was 18 or 19 when I started GMing almost exclusively. I can remember playing in fantastic games when I was 14 and 15 years old, but the details are fuzzy, and I really think I we were mostly just hanging out and drinking soda and being geeks.
Also, I want to stress that, aside from the epic badness of the Trinity game I mentioned in a previous entry, I’ve never been in a noticeably bad game. There have been games that didn’t gain any traction and got cancelled, or games that had dull sessions, but none were really bad.
Indeed, I have been in some very excellent games.
thebitterguy ran a really engaging Buffy: The Vampire Slayer game, for example. ("Xena! We always knew it would come down to this...") mar2nee’s intermittent D&D game is very crunchy and fun, and it's awesome that her teenage kids play too. viktorhaag’s abortive Spirit of the Century showed a great deal of promise, what with the historical giant submarine and most awesome cooperative character generation setup.That all said, I think I was most impressed with
nottheterritory’s Mage: The Ascension game. He is an excellent gamemaster, with a good handle on plotting and character development. I really like the dramatic interactions he’d planned for the players. Similarly, his Star Trek game (using a system developed by eyebeams had some wonderful moments. The Klingon Opera mystery was fantastic, and the cultural details he came up with were quite memorable. The other players had a ton of fun, as well. nottheterritory is very good at spontaneous dramatics, and acting, which adds to the fun immensely.He considers himself weak when it comes to adjudicating rules and combats, but the White Wolf system (and
eyebeams system) are intuitive and smooth enough that this did not really present an issue, at least not to my recollection.So, kudos to you,
nottheterritory!
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Date: 2009-03-10 12:58 am (UTC)First off our computer expert botched his computer roll.
Then our commander botch the diplomacy roll to smooth things out for the previous botch.
Then we go to recon this Goauld planet (with a nuke in case things went bad. And EVERYONE ended up getting possessed at one time.
One of our team was secretly a Reol, that tried to trick us with a hallucination of General Hammond, another that just kept trying to stab the rest of us in the back, a few Jaffa for each of us and us just getting deeper and deeper.
And we laughed harder and harder.
That nuke for blowing up the planet I mention earlier? We used it to blow up Stargate Command.
The GM ended up hand waving it all away by having us wake up in simulation couches. Still we had fun.
There was one other time with a WoW RPG, where I played a pyromaniac goblin, gave him a high pitched voice and everything.
We've got these dead bodies of the attacking force, what will we do with them?
Goblin me: Strip them of anything of value, I know of a place that sells dog food.
At the end of the of that session the GM has three tied for best player of the table (wins a little token you can redeem at the con store).
For the Horde?
Orc: Yes.
For the Horde?
Human: No.
For the Horde?
Me: (still in Goblin voice) Whatever has the most profit.
I got the token.
I got some, not really bad, two railroads that sucked (anything where you will fail if you don't do something at a precise time and way) and one where didn't so much suck as stupid and gave our Shadowrun group a running joke.
Trying to sneak into a Denver Hospital. Let's go through the sewers into the hospital. Can't, apparently the hospital has 10,000 sewer pipes this big (holds up both hands indicating a pipe four inches in diameter).
Wan't the GM's fault, it was how the session was written (by idiots). Then on we talk about, are the building's sewer pipes this big? (gives same gesture).