Well, as we enjoy the wonderful authors and authress', we seem to forget that
books aren't all the fantasy there is. This item will be devoted to all the
fantasy games that we play, (RPG's, Puzzle, Even Crosswords!) come, relax
and most of all, ENJOY!!!!

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        I love a good magic-based game.. like Ars Magica.

Well...  I like the rpg Shadowrun, it can be lots of fun... That and
TORG...  I'll add more later.

I don't like actual RPG, I think because I've watched people devote their
lives to them, however, I suppose a once a week type thing could be kind of
fun... I've played D&D since I was six. I remember my first game. I got eaten
by this horde of killer bees...;) Which my brother thought was really funny
since Melissa means bee....yeah.....heh...;)

        Once a week is actual RPG. Shadowrun's good.

I think I just like my character- a female that kicks butt!  She's one
chickl that can defend herself!

what the heck is shadowrun?

Put Cyberpunk 2020 & D&D in a blender & set to "puree".
the result is Shadowrun.
By the way, anne, my most powerful AD&D character is a female elven mage
(the DM threw level limits out the window for this one....)

Shadowrun  is a futuristic game that takes place @2050 ce, magic has
reasserted itself into the world, quite strongly (althouhg many are sure
it never went away in the first place... ;) ).  Anyway, magic is back,
so are elves, trolls, orcs, and fun stuff like that.  

My character is a female former Yakuza ninja- physical adept.  When I
first started running with her it was interesting cause all the other 
players were male (the players were- there was one female character) and
my character was the best hand to hand fighter in the bunch!  <anne grins>
T'was amusing.... :)

Sounds like fun, Anne....you'll have to tell me about it. :)
Would anyone else like to give a short background description of some of their
favorie RPG for those of us who are relatively illiterate? ;)

Level Limits stink. If you were an elf, would you appreciate some HUMAN saying
you can't get as good as them?

I would, but it would take hours... :)

well, my standard Shadowrun character is a mage who, for some reason, likes
fire... mage, nice little guy, tends to use a katana and posion;) talks to
inanimate objects...... nice little guy, made quite abit

Greg- my character uses a katana too... although hers keeps getting taken
away and she is always buying new ones... <grin>  She also has a monofilament
whip... my brother wasn't sure that was a good idea, but it works for my
character... <hee hee>

I like hee hee ing!!!

just remember what happens when monofilament hits flesh;)
anyway, after stareing into the face of a few chuthulu minnions, he has
some.....uh, personality quirks. *chuckle* not to mention some lost essence. he
never seems to loose stuff, just his mind...... evil gm we have.... oh well.

I once had a AD&D character (wemic {lion-centaur}) have his tail stolen by a 
kender...painful experience...

*eep* I did it again....sorry. :(
My character from D&D was a stinky one, my brother made it...which is probably
why I got killed by a pack of roving killer bees. *frown*
I am still sore about that...
*pout*

*comfort lady blade*

Thanks, Adept-Mage. ;)

*bow*

I'm right now in the Middle of a Mage game...cool system...
it is in the trilogy of compatible system (made by soome
company that I can't remember)
Mage: The Accension
Werewolf: THe Apocolypse
Vampire: The somethingorother

the company is called white wolf

Storyteller system mfg.ID = White Wolf
WEREWOLF RULEZ!
Vampire: Masquerade 
<werewolves don't get paradox! HA! <;} >

neither do marauders...sort of, anyway...comere little hobgoblin...
nice little hobgoblin...

who needs magic when you have tac. nukes?

My NPC in an AD&D 2nd edition game was a 7/7 level fighter-thief, he had an
inteligent Vorpal sword (self-explanatory)

ouch....
Then there's always grunt:
(for those whom I haven't told about him, I will attempt to)
My friend was playuing a Krynnish Minotaur named Brute...
He started out with a stregnth of 18 and an Int of 8
He found two decks of many things
among the things they gave him...They EACH gave him:
+3 strength and
-3 Int,
So we now have aminotaur running around with 24 strength and 2 intelligence...
there's more, but I won't go into it now...

*chuckle*
i think i like rifts better....

        Mage was stolen from Ars Magica!

Magic the gathering is a fun game if ya know what your doin.  

no, magic the gathering sucks
ars magica kicks majorly, and i thought the same thing selena

Magic: the Gathering is why I was up to 5:00 am yesterday!  (I love that 
game!!! ;)  <anne grins>  )

MTG is  OK if you're not sick of it as I am.
Mage is Ars Magica, modern day.

i have been playing mtg since about 2 weeks after it originally came out.......
needless to say i am slightly dissapointed in WOC's handling of the game.
however, i also like a homebrew highlander system that i play in.....(based on
first movie and the series)

        MTG is too silly.

I'm just *sick* of all these card games...Is the art of role-playing dead?

not really, but you *used* to be able to play a good game of magic in under 20
min with a minimum of rules disputes. that was the appeal as to rpgs, they are
not dead, just growing like fungi in little clubs and cling ing to life in the
larger gameing clubs (at least in this area[ann arbor])

<Selena highly resents that!>
        These stupid little card games don't have the power of even the
poorest role-playing game, when it comes to spurring your imagination!
Fungi! You call Vampire fungi? How about Shadowrun?

I *wholeheartedly* second that emotion!

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