RP Today

One of my hobbies is role-playing. We get they guys together once or twice a week and play our turn-based team strategy social game for hours on end. Every once in a while, we get long sessions. Tonight will be one of those sessions. We will be sitting at the table for 12+ hours slaying demons, negotiating our way into a masked ballroom party, and losing our way in a towering megalopolis among the many other situations we find ourselves in. Yeah, we're pretty into it.

To help illustrate the material we work with for these games let me give a number: 300. This is about the number of sourcebooks we use for our games. Not all at once, mind you, we have our limits (in this case, the brain).

Our game of choice is actually a hybrid. We play Dungeons & Dragons 3.5/Pathfinder with house rules. How do you play more than one game? These two are not identical after all. That's because what they are is close enough for conversion on the fly. To be up to speed on everything is also a team effort, however.

Thinking about it, learning rules for a new tabletop RPG after you've already learned one becomes fairly easy. I've learned more than a few systems, and I have one of my own. People tell me that's how programming languages are, and I can only hope they're right.