How much tabletop roleplaying have you done?
- A lot
- A bit
- None
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This poll is for kiwis who have larped.
I’m interested in how much intersection there is between larping and tabletop (pen & paper) roleplaying here.
Never done any roleplaying other than Mordavia when I first started. 
I started playing DND in about 1979 
Aaah, the heady days of “Keep on the Borderlands”
I don’t play much any more though (kids’ll do that).
I used to play Games-Workshop stuff, about… er… three years ago.
the LotR game was really great. 
Spent years playing DnD.
We’ve also played our own systems (D100 mainly) and most recently Vampire/Werewolf/Mage combos.
Although it’s not quite the same as tabletop, I played Magic the Gathering for about a year. I stopped when I started playing Mordavia, which was just so much more interesting. I tried DnD around the same time as starting LARP, but never really got into it. All the numbers confused. But I did like the dice and the illustrations in the rulebook.
Started in about 1984 with D&D and Twilight:2000 and never really stopped. Some periods of long abstiance but playing AD&D right now.
Also heavily played Rolemaster, Spacemaster, Star Frontiers, Traveller, Marvel Super Heroes, Palladium, Warhammer FRPG, Warhammer (Skaven), Warhammer 40K (Chaos Marines), Call of Cthulu, Dark Conspiracy, Star Wars, Magic the Gathering, and too many dabblings with other games to mention.
No tabletop, but have done Magic The Gathering & a few PC RPG’s. World of Warcraft etc.
Been playing for years.
mostly old Style DnD, but the new DnD is OK. CoCthulhu (It’s where Dr V comes from ) Star frontiers, SLAi, DCons, etc.
Still going. Sometimes I GM even.
AJ
Mordavia was the very beginning of roleplaying for me, three years ago. Since then, I have begun tabletopping (and swordfighting).
Funny for me it started with sword fighting.
My fault sorry 
just kidding
as for me played some D & D in high school, and enjoyed “Hero Quest” (God forgive me)
dabbled in magic the gathering
and i have read heaps of the Ian Livingstone books
My fault sorry
just kidding
as for me played some D & D in high school, and enjoyed “Hero Quest” (God forgive me)
dabbled in magic the gathering
and i have read heaps of the Ian Livingstone books[/quote]
It is your fault boyo
[quote=“Nikki”]
It is your fault boyo [/quote]
hey one of the good things to come out of working at HB
I only showed you the road you were the one who started sprinting down at full speed
I used to do heaps of tabletop roleplaying, starting from primary school. Lots of different games and settings, both published and homebrewed.
These days I do more larp, but I’ve played in a D&D3 campaign and am just starting running a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying 2 campaign.
I find that tabletop roleplayer often bring attitudes to larp that can be regrettable. In tabletop, it’s normal to drop out of character all the time. It’s normal to make humour by mixing modern stuff with setting stuff. In many games, it’s normal to “game” the setting: treating NPCs like irrelevant sources of information or XP, expecting to be presented with a story that you’ll have to follow, minimaxing your characters (minimising weaknesses, maximising strengths), etc.
I reckon that non-roleplayers come into larp with a fresher attitude and are more likely to take things at face value. I like the mix we’ve had in Mordavia, I reckon the roleplayers and non have both learned from each other.