Hah we should have -all- seen this coming from me. Well those few that know me well enough here. Yes. I admit. I’m one of those dorks who gets giddy and loves to Role Play or RP Thundercats. Currently I have one TCAT partner that I role play with at least 3x night a week. But I’m always interested in more new friends to talk too and play with! Heck if I get enough responses here I’ll kick up my old T-cats RP forum and we can have a whole slew of funage.
So…any nibbles? =D
Oh wow… the last time I did anything like that involved phrases like “Roll 2d20”.
I’ve never really been able to understand RPG’s on messageboards. Actually, the only RPG’s that have ever made sense to me are video games which is completely different. 
The problem I have with RPGs is it’s a breeding ground for trouble and hurt feelings. You remember me from years ago when we RPGed when I was new to the fandom (I was such a newbie, it wasn’t funny…I must have been online about a few months at the time) and I walked into several traps. The cliques or groups love to snare newbies for their tactics. It reminds me of the “College English I” paper I wrote about the workplace and new employees last semester. But what happened to me is a long story, pm me if you want the details…
The point I’m making is this, sure it’s a lot of fun to write Tcats RPG, but there is always going to be some clique or group that’s going to be created in the background that tends to overtake the game…thus what happened to me. So yeah, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Let me tell you how it happens…it always starts off with the “damsel in distress”..it’s a weak player (usually the female that wants to pair up with the lead male) that get’s hurt feelings if the story doesn’t go her / his way and slowly complains to the other players…waiting for them to jump up and defend her/him. Then other players, usually the minor players that want to have their voices heard and look like heroes, jump in as well, and thus, the clique is born! Where they begin to do what is called “a colab” post, where they all write together in one post of all of their characters to combat the normal RPG players that play their own character by themselves in a “single” post. This is how they over take the game and usually do what is also called “power playing”…no matter what you write, they will miraculously know what is going on and ward off attacks, your plot or defeat you. This is why I’m so against “colabs” aka collaborations.
I have noticed for several years that it’s so common that in clique RPG groups, it usually ends up as a “lemon with a plot”..aka overly physical romantic stories, or it ends up as a drama with no bad guys, just good guys with difficult love interest relationship problems, pregnancy is always involved between characters, and then you have what I like to call the “Don Juan of Gary-Stu’s” he’s usually the head male character that likes to become the most powerful character that attracts all of the female players.
Trust me, I used to play RPGs for years and it always ends up this way and since I tend to complain about this sort of stuff, I usually end up being killed behind my back by the clique.
If you do end up having a RPG, keep it strictly single posts, don’t allow colabs. You’ll avoid alot of headaches that way.
Just my two cents 
Not really into RPG’s but a CCG is a whole different animal and there is a rumor that Wizards of the Coast will be getting the license to produce the Thundercats CCG based on the new series…we shall see…
I’ve been in and/or ran my share of games over the years. Some were really fun, others ended in some drama lol Such is the nature of rpgs. Sepphara, would love to get back into gaming sometime, but I’m afraid I don’t have the time (toyed around with a loose form of role play at formspring, and don’t even go there anymore, ugh). Good luck to you 
Queen, part of the prob you had imho, was the type of game it was. If I remember right, the rules of the game you were in was there was no rules, and no GM guiding the story. That type of gaming doesn’t work for everyone and seems to be in my experience, far more prone to cliques and drama. Even a game of tag has ground rules to try to ensure fair play lol
I personally like direction and limits on characters (canons or OCs - games that have pre-approval of characters help prevent uber characters and power playing - not to mention make sure well thought out characters can enter the game -although you can get god-modding in those games lol sometimes you can’t win so yeah it does for me largely depend on who is gm-img too).
Rules also help if things are in place like you can’t just up and say what damage your attack does to another’s character etc so that can prevent the ganging up effect that it sounds like you experienced. control over your character and his/her destiny is pretty important to most people, but the opposite can suck too - there’s always the people that no matter what happens or what attacks their sue is faced with, they never get hurt etc and that’s no fun either :-p So yeah it’s ideal if the people coming together to game have the entire interest in the story in mind, not just focused on their own beloved character. asking people to be fair and reasonable is sometimes a taller order than it should be though!
seems like people have different gaming backgrounds though, and each rpg is a little different than the last. depending on how you like to game, your enjoyment of the game may vary. i would say if you want to consider trying gaming again and sepphara sets up a game, observe for a while. See how its ran and determine if its style is a good fit for you. who knows, in a different type of game, you may have an entirely different experience.
For me, if it’s not recognizable as Thundercats then it’s more like original fic with thundercats-like characters. I like some rules, including that the canons should behave in-character (and that canons need to be in it - personally I don’t care for games that are entirely people’s OCs), and a gm guiding the story’s direction, but that’s just me Although I was in a bizarro rpg that was a blast - all the canons were OOC on purpose but it was hilarious - not bad if that’s what you know you’re in for when you join LOL
on the flip side, I was in a different rpg where one of the canons was unrecognizable in every way…so hard to game reactions to that lol the only thing familiar about it was the characters name and no, there was no reason for the behavior, it’s just how this person re-imagined this canon character. It just should have been an OC shrug
Wow no lovings for the RPGS haha. Well thats understandable, alot of the early on ones did suffer from about everything QL mentioned in her post. I’m not talking a large forum spanning one unless there were plenty of people interested in doing it (And there isnt so Discord can stay dead XD ) but mainly what I do now to avoid all that board drama is just RP via IM and its so much easier that way. Each person fills the characters that are needed, you can decide on a plot, and just hash it out. shrug
But yea, I understand the bad feelings about RPG’s. I’m in a forum based one now and well it sucks. Not thundercats but another genra and its painful at times lemme tell you. Happens alot of the time with younger players (Guilty) and just in exsperianced. But I dont want to shed RP in a bad light XD
Thats why I stick to mainly IM RP.
Oh yeah, some of my fondest fandom memories are from RPGs. I’ve been in some great ones for sure They were usually forum or yahoo group (lol I just dated myself) based, so I’m not familiar with the IM format, but I imagine it works much the same just in real time…no ‘waiting for someone to post’
We were playing around with RP on formspring for a while too Sepphara - there’s still some TC based accounts that post, so you might want to check that out. It’s less serious though, and more jokey A fun distraction.
I’m interested since I enjoy RPG’s and one of my alternate characters uses magic. 
I do some very low-key, just for fun RPing of Mumm-Ra on Twitter and Formspring. I like Formspring because it’s like roleplaying the character if they somehow got online to interact with the other characters, or random people on the internet that sent them questions. It’s less stress and less of a demand on time than a more traditional RP, at least for me, which is why I like it. Twitter can also be fun when you have several in character accounts trading barbs and talking about things from their universe.
Neither of those are very good for involved storytelling, though, and of course, it’s not moderated being an online thing that anyone can contact you though.
In other fandoms, I’ve seen some pretty involved RPs done through MySpace and Facebook. It’s not really a style I care for, but it works for them.
Haven’t had time for actual role-playing - either tabletop or online - a lot these days. In many cases, it’s because everyone’s so busy that it’s difficult to get anyone’s schedules to synch-up for an extended campaign. This was true even when I played WoW, as the job I had at the time made it impossible for me to attend raids (that and the guilds I was part of could never seem to get their act together). I quit eventually once I started to feel like I was throwing money down a hole, I was no longer deriving any enjoyment form the game as I once did, and became backed-up on single-player games.
These days if I play tabletop, it’s usually going to be a tactical combat game like Federation Commander where you play a skirmish and you’re done, or a board game like Castle Ravenloft or Arkham Horror which is self-contained and can be sorted-out in a few hours. For actual role-playing, I pretty much stick with single-player games like Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins, or even JRPGs like Tales of Vesperia, Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
I would LOVE to roleplay thundercats with you! I prefer to rp outside of groups though because otherwise I get lost in the fray XD Drop me a PM! 
I has ideas lol
I’m creating a Table Top RPG using WEG Masterbook rules. Any suggestions on what I should include in it? I have a post in General Posts Thread that touches on a few idea’s.
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I dont’ do tabletop roleplaying. next time try creating your own topic for this instead of jumping into someone’s else’s.
I’m sorry.. I wasnt sure what you meant when you said you roleplay. I meant no disrespect.