Re: Conlangs in RPGs...
| From: | Eruanno none <eruanno@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 17, 2001, 20:40 |
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>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Eruanno none wrote:
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> > My langauge I am intending to put into my story and all my RPGs ( video
>and
> > paper+pencil ).
>
>Yeah--Chevraqis is at heart a story-language, which means I don't feel
>quite as obliged to do something New and Neat and Experimental with it;
>it's meant to be quasi-naturalistic, or at least naturalistic enough that
>if I can ever finish _Origami Souls_ and sell it to a publisher, a
>conlanger or linguist won't automatically go "BLECCH!" at the
>foreign-language phrases, names, etc.
Hopefully, my language won't suck either... Of course, what are the chances
of me actually finishing my language, or my book even ^_^
> > I really have never been able to play a pencil+paper kind of RPG and
>would
> > love to learn how.
> > Namaarie,
> > Eruanno
>
>Easiest way is to hunt down a local group of roleplayers--er, where are
>you, BTW? considering the multiplicity of home-locations I always forget
>where people are from!--and ask them if they're willing to take on a
>newbie. In the U.S. I've found that walking around with the Player's
>Handbook from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons will inevitably lead to a)
>random people asking me, "Don't you know that's Satanic?" <snort> and b)
>roleplayers coming up to chat with me, since AD&D, even if it's a lousy
>system, is one of the most-recognized (I suppose these days the White
>Wolf games and so on would also do). If you hit a game/hobby store
>(assuming they exist--they don't, per se, in South Korea), they may also
>have advertisements by local gamers, or know people they can put you in
>touch with.
I live in Atlanta, Georgia. My father thinks that D&D is satanic, of
course, I think he is satanic, but, you just can't argue with the person
that puts a roof over your head and stuff and a new computer ^_^
One of my school friends' dad played D&D and might teach me and my friends
how to play. I hope!
>If that doesn't work, you can try play-by-email games online;
>
http://www.pbem.com updates its listings regularly. Many of them have
>setting/background information on some website; some require that you're
>already familiar with the system they're using (e.g. AD&D, Das Schwarze
>Auge, Shadowrun, whatever), some are willing to teach newbies their
>system, and some are run "freeform" (without mechanics). While people
>used to tabletop often find PbEM painfully slow (since everything has to
>be written out, it's *much* slower than tabletop), it's not a bad way to
>get your feet wet. It probably saved my gaming sanity while I was in
>Korea (there are roleplayers among the U.S. military, but I didn't have
>base access anyway).