Because we have a recent thread about pet peeves that you have when playing RPGs with others, I thought maybe we should start one for people to list some of their more positive experiences or what types of things you have really enjoyed about different groups or people you have played with.

For example, under pet peeves I mentioned a guy who was always in character, even when we were taking a break and eating burgers. Because I didn't know him outside of the game, I actually thought that he was kind of an arrogant jerk because his character was. Since getting to know him outside of the game, I have realized that he is a great guy and a great role player.

So what I would say is that the opposite end of that pet peeve is the fact that I really appreciate the fact that he understood his characters far more deeply than most people I have played with. Sometimes people take a lot of time to assess how their character would respond in a situation. Sometimes people do what they want and pay no attention to the character's personality as they have crafted him. I really appreciate when someone knows their character intimately and has spent enough time with that "person" in their head that their actions in game actual reflect what you would expect from that character. Or even more so, when that character is developed in their own mind enough that their actions surprise you (when you counted on them behaving a certain way), and yet are still fully appropriate to the personality of that character.

I just like getting together weekly and seeing who can come up with the best tongue in cheek/action hero/spaghetti western one liners, and just the good natured general mockery that goes on at the table.

I definitely like to see what kind of one-liners people come up with.

My favourite of all time:

A Trooper in a WH40K setting (Only War, woo!) just crit and decimated the skull of an Eldar warrior of some sort. Our GM asked him: "Do you have any sort of witty one liner you want to yell out?"

The player kinda sat there for a few seconds, stumped, so I helped him out with the first suggestion that came to mind.

And so lives on the story of Trooper Carlyle, who murdered an Eldar warrior with a cry of "ONE LINER! F@%K!"

Hah I have a similiar story, from Dark Heresy - because of the story, the PCs had to change their names. I asked the players to think about their new names and give them to me before the next game.

When the next game was about to start I ask the player with Mechanicus Priest what is his new name. He looked surprised, then realisation dawned and only said: "Oh.. f#ck". Since then, despite having the new name, he was known as Brother Ohf#ck.

On banter:

Jarla: “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Herod: “…but fear’s scary!”
(Warhammer FRP)

Authalagos: “Are they Daemons?”
Herod: “Well they ain’t feckin’ Elves!”
(Warhammer FRP)

Authalagos: “Jarla and I were captured, and an Elven friend of mine is missing. Let’s get my stuff, find the Elf, and get out of here.”
Eckhardt: “...and rescue Jarla, right?”
Authalagos: “Who?”
(Warhammer FRP)

Gozer: “Are you a God?”
Vision: “No, but if you-”
Gozer: “Then DIE!”
Hawkeye (to Vision): “Dumbass.”
(Champions)

Argent guys: “We've told you what we know; we can go now, right?”
Quicksilver: “Sure you're free to go…”
Quicksilver and Vision (in unison): “STRAIGHT TO JAIL!” (we had not rehearsed)
(Champions)

Woodbine: “This is all your fault.”
Tepes: “No, this is all your fault. If you hadn’t ratted me out to the cops, I wouldn’t have had to remove my illegal taps, so I’d have been listening to my dad having sex, so I’d have known what he was up to.”
Woodbine: “...Okay, you have a point there.”
(GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War)

My favorite part is injection characters and scenes from the OT into the game but never having the players be there actively.

I love the fact that the Wheel was abuzz with the fact that Leia and Luke just passed through there and having my players hear about it, I love the look of surprise on my players faces when they find out Darth Vader is the nemesis of the Major General Tagge’s brother and that by helping him out they are upsetting the balance within the Imperial Army. It is awesome to have my players on the forest moon of Endor scouting out the location for the Imperial Shield generator they know (on a metagaming level) will be used for the second Death Star.

It is these things that ties them to the movies they know and love but still allows for them to be the heroes in their own adventure and so far they are loving it.

My favourite part of RPGs... it's a difficult question because there's so much to love. But first and foremost, I like struggling against something and succeeding. It's the feeling of accomplishment and proof of worth.

I also like the problem solving aspects of the game (tactical and otherwise).

I like imagining how my character - someone with a background far different to my own - sees the world and the situation they find themself in.

I like seeing a character grow and develop. Their goals shift and their point of view changing. The things that turn them dark, the stuff that brings them back out when things get desperate.

Related to that I also enjoy the crunch side, if I'm honest. Mechanically bolting on new talents to make the character better at their shtick is just fun. (If that sounds shallow, well, I'm okay with that )

Lots of friends!

I meet (or improved our relationship) while rolepaying most of my actual friends. One of my friends get in with his actual girlfriend (almost wife XD) playing Lord of the Rings d100.

As a GM I made cry 3 grown up men with one of my stories, and also made them pretty scared too about another one XD

Magic moments where almost everyone on the game believed that dices have some kind magic and have cinematics properties XD

Also tons of funny things, friends trying to do some funny blastdoor or blaster gun FX with vocal sounds...

I love roleplaying!

One of my favorite RP stories comes from my high school, D&D 2ndEd. days. Our games were probably 50% rulebook, 50% house rules. We always managed to be able to kill things way above our level because of the house rules, which, at the time, I was new to RPing, so I didn't really understand that we weren't following the rules exactly.

So I decided that I would put together a dungeon for us to run through. I invited my girlfriend at the time, who was pretty attractive. She made a character whose primary feature was her beauty. I had a wyvern in the very first room they entered. We had a house rule that said if you rolled a 20 on a d20 to hit, then you could roll a d100. If you rolled a 100, it was a "skull crushing blow." First room, first hit, this wyvern rolls a 20 then a 100 on my girlfriend. Because I didn't want her night to be over, and her first rp experience to be dying in the first room (against a monster really had no business fighting at her level), I made it so that she was merely disfigured, but not killed. She got up from the table, went upstairs (it wasn't her house, or a house she had ever been in before), and went to bed. She never did RP with us again.

No offence, but that sounds a little... cold. You sure that's one of you "favourite" experiences?

No offence, but that sounds a little... cold. You sure that's one of you "favourite" experiences?

Yes. She wasn't a very pleasant girlfriend.

This is going to be so sappy...

But EotE has given me and my brother a connection that has brought us closer. We're both very different people and seemed to be getting sorta distant, I guess. Now we have this thing to talk about and it leads to a lot more fun conversations and stuff unrelated to the game or Star Wars. I guess that's one of my favorite things.

This is going to be so sappy...

But EotE has given me and my brother a connection that has brought us closer. We're both very different people and seemed to be getting sorta distant, I guess. Now we have this thing to talk about and it leads to a lot more fun conversations and stuff unrelated to the game or Star Wars. I guess that's one of my favorite things.

Best post so far on this thread. Keep it up!

I wish there was a thing that would bring me and my brother closer... I envy you!