Drop Dice

So if you have found yourself here than you must be looking for the same thing I am. An answer to the question of all gamers, what game is best for my table? Almost everyone starts with a background in Dungeons and Dragons, as I did myself, or at least knowledge of the game itself. This knowledge comes in varied levels. So for my readers that have little to no experience here is a brief run down. A table top roleplaying game, or pen and paper RPG as they are sometimes called, is the birth place of many of today's top video games.  Pen and paper games are themselves inspired by the old journey companions written in Europe by travelers. With the power of imagination the reader can escape from reality into the author's world. This lead to books often called "pick your own ending" books as the reader got to choose if the valiant knight entered the dark cave or entered the dark forest of doom. All of which is inspired by the human need to create stories.

Oratory is the art of speaking, and a skill utilized in story telling. In it's core element Tabletop RPG's are stories that have multiple authors for every section. The Game Master (GM)/ Dungeon Master (DM) is in effect the referee and judge, with the help of the Players and their Player Characters (PC) they create the story of their combined dreams. The Game Master also provides the setting in which adventures take place, think like a director of a movie where the players serve as actors. Each system has a unique way of playing out how interaction with the world play out. These rules establish a fair and balanced (hopefully but more on that to come) way to do everything from picking a lock to swinging a weapon. It is these rules along with the genre that game systems use make them unique among their piers.

This basically means that you have a wide range of simplified to very complicated rules systems to follow and you must ask yourself which game is best for my table. Many of you may already have that game system in mind, but how many systems did you look at before you found your answer? In this blog I hope to do an extensive look at game systems, genre, and social influence on Tabletop RPG's in an effort to find the best system for myself to run. I will attempt to do this an an objective way and in case where I can provide playtest information I will attempt to do so.