A friend once referred to the Palladium Roleplaying Game as "one of the more obscure, esoteric... gah!" I believe he was questioning my having it out in favor of D&D or Shadowrun or other systems.
The answer was that it didn't fit into my boxes. And I don't feel tempted to play the original system as I do, say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Let me pause and thank Eric Wujcik(sp?) for his efforts in producing some of my favorite games.
At any rate, my oldest, having taken an interest in RPing, found the book and started reading it. And he likes it.
And I'm the only person he can play with, apparently. >sigh<
Tonight he asked if we could play. It was just before bed, so it was easy to deflect him with the question "Do you have a character?"
When I first discovered D&D (back when it was AD&D, and we didn't know it was only 1st ed) I loved making characters. It was the one thing I did constantly, driving my dad nuts, no doubt. I'd sit there practically burrowing into the book, an imaginary sliderule working feverishly to determine HP potential vs dmg potential, long range magic use, and the survivability quotient (and I made that crap up... it was glorious). I was at the height of being a twinkie... a munchkin... a powergamer. I've never quite lost the taste for crunching those numbers. And Ultrason says he loves math.
With a little guidance, and love, he could be the next Eric.
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Ultrason must convince his peers to play... since no one else does. This means selling the idea.
Sell = remove obstacles.
Obstacle #1: It's too hard!
Look at D&D! If you were a typical 4th or 5th grader, would you play it? Where? Why? Aren't there better game systems (like the X-box) out there?
I took this up when I was about 8, and it took me 2 years to find a steady group, and they were all about 10 years older than me.
When I was 14 that group had moved on to Nintendo, mostly, with RPing a distant 4th for my old group. It wasn't until 16 that I felt pretty sure I could game at any given time... and I'd managed to start 3 different groups then.
And taking Ultrason to the local Game Palace would require that I take the other munchkins... for hours.
One of my friends has kids who are just getting to the age where they are inetrested in RPGs. Our group plays 3.5 AD&D and SilCore's Heavy Gear, which is more complex than AD&D so is probably out of the question for now.
He has offered to DM for his son and his son's friends but just until they get a hang of things... DMing is a skill and a talent, it's good to have someone who knows everything get you involved and then pass the reins over once they are comfortable with it. It sounded like a good plan to me.
Actually, Megason shouts "Dice!" as he pounces on them, then rolls them over and over again, watching them intently. Sounds like his dad.
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