[PnP] Hello and a question

[Scott Adams]

At 01:33 PM 7/31/06, Franklin Robertson wrote:
>I would have to agree with the discussion.  I'm not a big fan of D20, I like rpgs that challenge the mind and games that try not to fit into the Lord of the Rings' cliche.  P&P is one of these games that I have admired for so very long, though I dont have anyone to rp with (hint hint to anyone lol). Other games I've enjoyed are RuneQuest, HarnMaster, and Warhammer FRP, games that create realistic worlds, realistic characters, realistic mysteries (i.e. fantasy worlds that are real, that bloom before you with each game adventure, not those kinds of games you see around D20).  What I would love to see, though, maybe, if someone here is willing to do this, is a step by step character creation of a "normal" character and a magic user style character.  I think that if we are able to see the step by step process, a lot of people would realize just how good P&P is, and I wish to say again that it is still one of the best games out there that I've placed in my many years of rpling.  By knowing how to create these two styles of most common characters, a lot of people would be able to understand the rest of how the system works.  Hence, I would love to see P&P republished and sold again (like with what some people did with the Arduin Grimoire system), all it would need instead of a full major rewrite would be example character creations step by step.  Well there's my two-cents into the discussion.

Hrm...Step by step you say?  Book 1 has it pretty well.  Granted for MUs you have to then use Book 2.  But the process step by step chart in book 1 seems quite well designed.  Not sure how one could improve on it.  For me the entire system is fine as is.  Whereas AD&D tends to be the newbie game of choice once one graduated to non-hack and slash thinking (killing everything in sight for tha tgreat shiny sword) and get into more brain thinking character backgrounds and actual (oh my god) role playing they tend to jump to a good system like P&P.  Granted after 2 decades character generation is all of maybe 10-15 minutes now without the use of the books since I've done so many (and my character generator doens't hurt as well :)).  Its been 20 years or so since I've been a newbie in rpgs so I guess I've lost that perspective.  

If your wanting to play with some pnp folks theres always PBEM games like mine :)