Topic: You youngsters and your nintenboxes 530's

[JiPrime]

I tried playing Pen & Paper D&D with my roommates.

60 minutes later we all gave up and played Starcraft 2.

The game was too slow and it was a hassle flipping through all those pages of the book.

It was hard to keep track of the stats, too.

And the Dungeon Master was a dick as well.

I have said before and I will say it again: Traditional Non-digital RPGs will die within 50 years.

[VeteranVk]

I like D&D. I haven't played it in about 5 years unfortunately. Even longer still (12 years ago to be exact) my first ever LARP was Vampire the Masquerade. Call me a dork if you like but I thoroughly enjoyed LARPing.

[Grim_Creeper]

Your criticisms, Flame and JiPrime, are well founded. However I will address them as follows.

If I were to run such a game, I would use a greatly simplified version of the rules which I made, I would be handling all dice rolls through an automated dice roller, and would be calling upon the castlevania enemies we all love to hate, the items we've worked hard to get, and the locals (complete with their music), for the setting.

Essentially a players responsibility would be to maintain a text document which states clearly what their statistics, items, and abilities are, and to decide where they go and what they do. The game uses very simple, multipurpose statistics.

HP - run out of this and your dead.
Soul - Run out of this and your out of magic use.
Mysticism - rules how well you use and resist magic, mind control, and other 'mystical' stuff
Fortitude - rules how hard you hit, how much hp you have, how resistant you are to poison, etc
Willpower - rules how focused you are, how resistant you are to fear and intimidation, how well you both resist and use curse inducing abilities, and etc.
Intellect - rules how smart and savvy you are, whether its learning by experience or academic learning
Luck - rules rare drops, how often you dodge, how often you land critical blows, how often you notice cracked walls, etc

-All- dice rolling, -all- calculations, and -all- book work would be done by me, and, since I have a responsibility to the players, would be handled in a prompt and efficient manner.

Players would be able to chose any one of the following classes. [the text inside the parenthesis is intended to give an idea of what their like]

Hunter Warrior [Simon, Trevor, Christopher, Julius, Sonia, Richter, Grant Danasty, etc] Any Good Alignment
Hunter Warrior Uses the following Sub-weapons: Axe, Dagger, Silver Dagger, Gold Dagger, Boomerang, Rebound Crystal, Bomb
Hunter warrior uses the following familiars: Owl, Angel, Drake, Sword
 
Hunter Magician [Sypha, Charlotte, Yoko] Any Good Alignment
Hunter Magician uses the following sub weapons: Holy Book, Holy Water, Holy Flame, Holy Cross, Aguni
Hunter Magician uses the following familiars: Raven, Fairy, Mandragora, Doll

Specter [ghost character, equips powerful Auras in place of weapons but can equip some armor and accessories] Any alignment
Specter uses the following auras: Fire, Water, Soil, Lightning, Dark, Curse, Status, Blade, Blunt, Light, Wind
Specter uses the following familiars:Ghost 2, Flying Hand, Doll 2

Heroic Vampire [Alucard, D, Blade, others] Any good alignment
Heroic Vampire uses the following familiars: Owl 2, Sword 2, Drake 2, Raven 2
Heroic vampire uses many of Alucard's abilities and transforms

Demon [Equips some weapons, uses powerful Auras, and equips some armor and accessories] any evil alignment
Demon equips the following Auras: Soil, Air, Fire, Water, Blade, Blunt, Status, Dark
Demon uses the following familiars: Ghost 3, Imp 2, Bat 2, Mandragora 2

Evil Vampire [Dracula, Kain (from legacy of kain), others] Any evil alignment
Evil vampire uses the following familiars: Ghost, Imp, Bat
The evil vampire uses some of Kain's abilities, some of Dracula's abilities, and uses evil monstrous versions of Alucard's transforms.
The 'relics of dracula', which are his surviving body parts, can be equipped and used by this class, but it requires removal and replacement of your own body-part, similar to the hand and eye of Vecna.

I'm fully capable of making it truly epic and would wish to, but no story can be complete without the players. I have the documents on my desktop and so they would always be easily accessible to me. Note however that this takes place in a future time period, and so, while virtually all the weapons, armors, and items from the CV games are around, you could break open a cracked wall and find an oldschool ray gun or buy a defib kit from a merchant.

Talk to me. I'm game to do this if there is a genuine interest in it and I'm serious about making my storylines truly epic and fun.