What kind of Tabletop RPG campaign are you into?

My tabletop RPG of choice is Second Edition AD&D (with some Hackmaster thrown).

I have played/DM’d in both short story-telling and epic campaigns, but because of scheduling/player availabilities, we have been doing more random dungeon generated games/sessions than anything else for over the last decade.

We have a separate group of PC’s we use for those random dungeons than we do for our module/campaign ones.

And oh, I also do the whole “former PCs” into stories, especially if those PCs have retired or died.

The reaction from the players when they realize this rumour or plot device has their former PC (or party member) instantly perks up their interest.

We also had it in our games where the DM could only effect the items a PC has on them during the game.  Any items/wealth they left at “home” was 100% safe.  No robbers, thieves, wars, looting, natural disasters, etc. could effect them.

So in time, we had to have PC declare where their “home” is.

There was a “Capital City” (my own creation), and we also had what is known as “new Barovia”.  (A town that we took over when we had “permanently disposed of the former ruler”), which is now the size of a city with lots of PC’s building their homes there, plus a few temples, etc.

I think it depends on the people you are playing with. I personally love a long campaign where it’s going to be story driven. However, the best games I ever ran were ones where I barely had a story in place, and I only had certain interaction points planned. I totally turned my players loose to create the world they were going to inhabit.

One time, I started a game where at the end of the first dungeon my motley group players (thanks to their bottomless greed) ended up releasing an ancient dragon that they were supposed to follow and stop from terrorizing the world.

Nope. They said, “Screw that. We’re gonna go the opposite way the dragon went.” No heroic quest here.

So then I tried to tempt them to stop an orc army heading towards the kingdom.

Nope.

But they did find the orc warboss taking a dump in the forest, where they proceeded to capture him and keep him in a cage while they again went  in the opposite direction on their own quest to create Utopia. Oh…and they hired a goblin to poke the orc warboss with a stick.

This game also included the poisoning of an entire village to turn them into slaves, and when I brought in two new players, they assaulted them and took all their gear.

So in the end, I think it’s all depends on the people you are playing with to determine what kind of game you are going to play.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Roas.

My best games were AD&D Second Edition, Revised… Back in the 90s.

We managed to completely alter the game world we were playing in. I managed to ascend my character into a lesser deity, after the party worked together to take down a Deity in the Abyss.

I don’t recall the details offhand, but things were crazy.

Oh, I had a really good campaign set for my players.

We where doing the DragonLance Modules, and our group was 2/3 evil, 1/3 neutral.

I had it ready for if/when the group, upon being asked to join the Dragon Highlord’s armies, they accepted.

I had the whole… them attacking the remaining elven lands, remaining dwarven stronghold, conquering Solamnia, etc.

Sadly, we had to stop the week before our final exams, and the group never got together afterwards to continue.

I’m assuming all your games had a diverse group of characters, with 2-3% of the NPCs gay and that you made sure that orcs and drows were really evil before attacking them? 🤣

Stop me if I’ve told this one in another thread.

Same game I was talking about.

Story point: a brothel along the path to wherever the hell they wanted to go.

Brothel is secretly run by a succubus.

The druid in the party, playing as a drunkard who is constantly high and is a sexfiend ends up with the succubus.

Fight eventually breaks out with said druid shooting fire out of his dick as an attack (cuz he was naked when it started).

We lost the only girl who was playing with us after that session.

There were eventually drow, and I over powered them to kick the entire party’s collective ass.

So what do you think? ;)

I’m really wondering if they are ever going to make a Dragonlance movie series…

Yay, I am still waiting for a first one.

And no, I do not count the animated/CGI mess that was “Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008)”

After what we saw with Lord OF the Rings, we know they can do EPIC Fantasy Films.

Sadly, having said that, I heard they would rather do a Forgotten Realms show in the same style of Game of Thrones.