I am unsure of what you are looking for here. I started DND V3 almost 20 years ago, I own a large amount of books and played and mastered many games. I stopped when 4th ed came out because it sucked. I picked up pathfinder about 5 years ago and got into it for a bit but I had other more important things to attend to and fell out of role playing.
My advice is this. Play Paranoia. Pick a game master who learns the game inside and out. DO NOT LET ANY PLAYERS LEARN THE GAME RULES OR SYSTEM OR STORY. The game has authority classifications depending on what rank the players are that can let them be privy to some rules and lore. Trust me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
DND and even pathfinder are slowed down extremely by rules and arguments will come out between players and masters when the masters accidentally slip up and screw the party because they got a rule wrong. If you want to look into the game but are unsure if you want to master DO NOT READ ANYTHING ABOVE INFRARED LEVEL.
Discuss anything you want.
Neat, I'll give it a look. Not sure if everyone just lost interest though. People were very enthusiastic one night and I looked around but it never got brought up independently again.
Cool. Thanks for the advice. Any interest in joining in on this kind of thing? Assuming we ever get it off the ground?
I used to love long term games like I used to play in high school. The same character for a year or two sort of deal. But outside of things like that, its near impossible to get the same group of people together all the time. In DND and similar this is a huge issue. Sometimes players can play two characters at once but when a player returns for the next session they have NO idea what is going on.
If you try and convince me, I can set up a paranoia game for you guys here and there. You dont need to build a character (at least in the games I am proposing) and they can be over in 10-60 minutes depending on how.... things... go. And often, you wont get attached to your characters.
I read the article you linked. It looks fun. I'd definitely be interested if you're up for it. I know the regular podcast time doesn't work for you, what time of day would you generally be available? (assuming many of us are in the US east coast time zone)
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