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Why play table top games?
9 years ago
I get asked this allot, with my collection of video games near 1K in titles, people that are new friends often ask why do i play table top games.
That's an easy answer to me, it sparks creativity to create something from almost nothing. With video games you get set paths and a few outcomes, even sandbox games still have limits set upon them at some point. With a pen and paper you can create a dynamic ever evolving world, with everything you want. Let the player (or yourself) go and be free in something that has no bounds. I realize some games do this too and i have a few that do, your stuck most of the time solo or siting in front of a TV with a head set on talking to someone miles away you barley know. Table top games allow that long forgotten age of social interaction to happen again. Im sure pen and paper games mean different things to different people, to me it means a night of siting around a table with some good friends. Even i have to turn the TV and videogames off once in a while.
Whats table top gameing mean to you?
dyno
That's an easy answer to me, it sparks creativity to create something from almost nothing. With video games you get set paths and a few outcomes, even sandbox games still have limits set upon them at some point. With a pen and paper you can create a dynamic ever evolving world, with everything you want. Let the player (or yourself) go and be free in something that has no bounds. I realize some games do this too and i have a few that do, your stuck most of the time solo or siting in front of a TV with a head set on talking to someone miles away you barley know. Table top games allow that long forgotten age of social interaction to happen again. Im sure pen and paper games mean different things to different people, to me it means a night of siting around a table with some good friends. Even i have to turn the TV and videogames off once in a while.
Whats table top gameing mean to you?
dyno
Like how a team of a kobold, gnoll and troglodyte managed to take down the corrupted kingdoms of humankind.
I find it a great way to entertain myself and my friends. The open environment creates one of the funniest of most epic stories you won't see quick in movies and video games.
It's also a great way to learn and/or train some social skills. Especially with social encounters in a tabletop, I always learned a thing or two to use in real life. So tabletop can even have an educational effect on you, depending on the circumstances. You'll learn teamwork, look at things from new perspectives (from the eyes of your friends) and that all in an entertaining setting.
BUTT to add. For me it also means for you to learn your own character more. get use to his habits, things like that. REALLY get them down. So you can act them out better. respond to questions as them better. or even if you plan on writing about the character. So much better then simply thinking about the character to voice it and give it a voice.
also helps me to gain more desperation to draw. as my folder here on fa can show that lol
finally its a way to bet away from my self. SO i dont have to be me 247 cause i dont know about the rest of you. but yeah i have pretty much everything about me
I'm just sad I haven't been able to play as much as I'm sure most have. I've been in quite a few games, but the average length of the game amounts to less than a collective half-day of playtime before something happens.
On the plus side, it means I make a lot of characters that I love to get behind, but it also means I don't get to really play them for very long.
I plan on using the game-finding template soon, but waiting for life to stabilize a little.
Though my old reason, which surprisingly still functions, was the creativity and the possibility of improvisation with the challenges. My example back then (25 years ago) was that in a computer game, you couldn't climb down a cliff if the computer game wasn't programmed for it. Even then, what to do if the rope doesn't reach? Well, splice the rope up, half it and double it's length. Yes, it won't hold as much weight, but we could deal with it by climbing down one after the other, lowering down the equipment including armor on it's own if a single character was still too heavy.
And that is without including PC/NPC interactions. Or the role-playing and so on.
And of course having a reason to hang out together.