fiach wrote:What she said
But in essence my experience with P&P, is that it is quest/dungeon based, eg. You enter a dungeon so wide x so long and blah blah blah. etc.
I cannt see how Ryzom can be encompassed in that sphere, it had neither dungeons or quests.
On saying that I never RP'd in Ryzom, so what do I know
Well, PnP can be very much more than just a Dungeon crawl.
I´m doing it for about 20 Years now and I´ve "visited" worlds stranger and more mundane that Atys
PnP can be politics, battle, adventure, emotion and much more, if you just take the time to come up with a good story to tell.
In most modern PnPs (mainly White Wolfs Products) the GM is called Storyteller because thats what he does. And the players help telling that story, their story, of high adventure or dark political intrigue.
As a Storyteller you just have to know what your players like and expect from a session.
And you are able to fit eachs seesions pace and mood to your players preferences.
The longest ongoing story I played was over four years, almost every Saturday. We had amazingly emotional, simply enthralling and some very funny moments. PnP is as much about FUN as anything else.
And the good thing is, you don´t sit at home and stare at a screen. Nope, you sit at home on the couch, or on a blanket in the garden, or at a friends home in the attic, whatever you like, you have some snacks nearby, some nice drinks, some nice and fitting music and most importantly Friends!
You play with people you see, you see them "acting" their charakters (verbaly, but LARP is an option too) you see your Storyteller portraying a plethora of different charakters and if he or she is a good Storyteller you´ll be avle to tell these apart by manner of speaking, or behaviour or whatnot.
PnP is amazing fun, just as Online Gameing is, as parent and child they are equals, with daddy for the most part giving his experience to his son, as it should be in any good family
CU
Acridiel
