Does anyone here play non computer RPGs?

[Harrison]

For me, as soon as computers became powerful enough to run an RPG that were able to create a good gaming world I practically stopped playing paper and dice non computer RPGs completely. I did still play some table top war games such as Warhammer, and some other games such as Blockwars and Rogue Trooper, but we did stop playing RPGs such as D&D.

I think it was around the time 16-bit computing came in and the original Dungeon Master was released that I stopped playing most paper and dice based RPGs.

[v85rawdeal]

I have to admit I still do play 'pen & paper' gaming, and prefer them to computer-based systems, probably because they can be so much more free-form than the usual crpg or mmorpg, and potentially less time-consuming.

Systems I have played and enjoyed include:

Role Master (awesome combat system, great possibilities, but a real bitch of a game to referee)

D&D - ALL incarnations (easy to get into, easy to play, easy to run and muh maligned by people who are too stat-happy (IMHO) plenty of scope for fun and games)

WWF (a lot of fun with a suprisingly simple but clever combat system, seems to forget that we all know wrestling is fake.. and makes it real)

Call of Cthulhu (very hard to run properly, as should be with horror-systems, requires a lot of devotion to the background history regarding Lovecraft to get the best enjoyment from)

Paranoia (sucks, just dire system, really does suck and is not fun at all)

plus there are others that I have dabbled with, along with ccgs, but tend to find myself going back to D&D, just enjoy it too much to want to give it up.

[Harrison]

I completely forgot about Call of Cthulhu. I used to play that years ago. A friend was a great GM for that game and we had great fun playing it.

I noticed you didn't think much of Paranoia. I personally loved that game. Second rules though as the first rules were no where near as good. But it is a hard game for the DM to control and get right. I think we were just lucky that we had a great guy running the Paranoid games we used to play as they were great fun and he used to add a lot of interactivity using OHP's and computer interaction which added a lot of atmosphere to the gameplay.