Don't underestimate the power of the dork side

[brewer]

What brings out your inner dork?

Share it with us.

For me, it's classic D&D.

Woof. We've got our first FastCAT and VST tracking event both coming up in March.

[zwanzig]

Forum role-playing. I have a BA in English and use it to write freeform play-by-post rps online. No dice, no stats. Just story. But I can feel myself dorking out when talking to outsiders about it.

[Angrboda]

I'm a news junkie. I don't know how high that rates on the dork scale, but some would say a lot.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Forum role-playing. I have a BA in English and use it to write freeform play-by-post rps online. No dice, no stats. Just story. But I can feel myself dorking out when talking to outsiders about it.

That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru

[zwanzig]

That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru

Oh, no, I play. No, the role-playing I do is collaborative writing. I have a character and you have a character and we agree upon a basic story premise and the "playing of the game" is us trading back and forth in a series of posts written like a story. There's no GM; I don't write for or control your character and you don't control mine(unless we have NPCs that we share control of). So, the posts can be anywhere from a line to 1,000+ words, where my character does or says something in order to move the story forward and give your character something to react to.

The idea of it is like a round robin story game, except with the type I do, it's kind of odd to read back over the story because it changes perspective between the characters every post and sometimes the basic plot isn't defined beyond a skeleton or a goal to shoot for. The point is the character interactions and telling the story through that.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru

Oh, no, I play. No, the role-playing I do is collaborative writing. I have a character and you have a character and we agree upon a basic story premise and the "playing of the game" is us trading back and forth in a series of posts written like a story. There's no GM; I don't write for or control your character and you don't control mine(unless we have NPCs that we share control of). So, the posts can be anywhere from a line to 1,000+ words, where my character does or says something in order to move the story forward and give your character something to react to.

The idea of it is like a round robin story game, except with the type I do, it's kind of odd to read back over the story because it changes perspective between the characters every post and sometimes the basic plot isn't defined beyond a skeleton or a goal to shoot for. The point is the character interactions and telling the story through that.

That's impressive. I'm not enough of a writer to manage something like that.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

True crime...I know way too much about serial killers and forensics.

Had I known about forensics back in the day that may have been my choice of careers...the same cannot be said if I had known about serial killers.

[onlinebiker]

Somebody told me they liked playing RPG's....

I said it sounds fun - 

But I'm a bit nervous about the kind of people who would sell you a rocket propelled grenade.....