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Old 06-14-2002, 12:50 PM   #13
uss
20th Level Warrior
 

Join Date: November 16, 2001
Location: Estonia
Age: 36
Posts: 2,775
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Originally posted by Albromor:
Good for you, uss! Computer RPGs are a whole lot of fun and certainly give us visibly what we only can imagine in our minds, BUT the old P&P version can provide things that a CRPG cannot come close to. First, if you got an excellent DM the adventures will be long or short, involved, intruguing, and fresh. Two, playing with other people is a major plus IF they are good players and IF they can tell reality from fantasy. I kid you not. The very first time I played AD&D one of the players stripped another player of his Gauntletts of Ogre Power and gold. Everything was according to alignment and role play. In other words, the one who took played according to the parameters of the game. Well afterwards the one who lost these items LITERALLY threatened to punch his lights out! I remember saying, "Hey, look its ONLY a game. The guantletts really don't exist, the gold doesn't really exist." It took us 30 minutes to calm this guy down. I say all this, uss, to make sure you stay in reality. RPGs can be very mind addictive.
yeah. ill keep that in mind [img]smile.gif[/img] .
btw, my group is even more inexperienced than i am because im the only one who has played atleast CRPGs
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