Drink, Dice, And a good time.

Pen and paper gaming doesn't sound as fun as playing a video game.

I used to play a lot, Still got my dice. Havn't really played since High school ended some 7 years ago. Witch really sucks :( I just don't know anyone in my area that can actually be a good DM these days

Pen and paper games can be great fun but like Bolt said, good DMs are hard to find. In my experience a good game can be killed by an uninvolved DM, and a so-so game can be saved by an imaginative DM really looking for a good time. I hope your Mass Effect game turns out well. Be sure to post the rule-set somewhere for others to enjoy!

I once played D&D with my uncle and cousin. After a fight in which I, a humble druid, got particularly wounded, I asked that we camp. My cousin, not one to dabble about wasting time, declined the ten seconds required to camp for the night.  uncle was attempting to get things moving and telling me to just go with him, but I in my annoyed state I refused and camped by myself. 
 
My uncle rolled his dice and rolled a one, and he made my pet Wolfy (A wolf) eat me to death. 
 
I did not play D&D again. 
 
Cool story, no?

I fucking love pen &paper &would gladly play it into the ground if only I'd some willing peers (: I've a Vampire: The Masquerade pen &paper guide gathering serious dust on my bookshelf

Dungeons and Dragons scare me.

I still have my dice, but I havent played for a very long time.

Pen and papre games are much more depthy than any video game in existance, There is no argument against that.
But as I stated before its more something you have to try to see if you like it,
And its not really everyones forte.
 
For example since i am the DM for all of our games, I allow players to do pretty much anything even if there isn't a rolling table for something.
i'll make one that suits the situation.
we've been playing for years and had fun every day we game. 
Not only playing books that we buy but we also make up rulesets and game with them. A few years back me and a few friends made a Final Fantasy pen and paper game that was based on FFIX, We had an AP system set up and everything it worked out pretty well.
That and we play time fellons. Thats a strange game but beyond fun.
Thats the only game I know where you can have Big boss, Abe lincoln, And Optimus prime duke it out.

I just recently started playing D&D and I like it a lot. Our games are pretty heavy on the role playing, so it's a lot like RPing in a video game. We got to town, ask people questions, buy things, get some clues etc etc. It helps that our Dungeon Master likes a lot of the same video games that I do, and is an experienced D&Der because she takes elements from both past times and makes fights and puzzles that are familiar but still fun to beat. I bought my first set of dice a few months ago, it was a good feeling :)

Back when I was younger, I grew up in basically a ghetto neighborhood.  I'd never even heard of D&D.  Then for high school I was in a more normal suburban type neighborhood.  I had heard of D&D but it was a game for the really weird nerds and geeks.  So I never really got into RPGs of any sort during my younger years.  Then my first time at college, I got into a MUD - the precursor to MMOs.  Basically D&D type stuff, but on the computer, all text.   Then later I did get into MMOs.  I couldn't go back to that crappy ol' technology of a MUD.  Some adult friends had tried to get me into D&D by this point, but... it was only 3 of us.  What's the fun in pen and paper D&D with 3 people when I could go play Everquest with its awesome graphics (at that time). 
 
I do certainly enjoy reading some P&P RPG books, whether they are rulesets or lore books.  My husband still has a whole bunch of books from the game Rifts, and a couple old D&D books.  I've looked at the Dragonlance P&P books in the past.  They're interesting for reading.  But there's something about MMOs that pulls me too hard for a P&P game to get past.

Every Friday is Pen and Paper RPG night for me and a group of close friends. We run two different games, one where I DM and then I switch off with the other DM every week. We're such giant nerds that we don't even play D&D; I'm running a Legend of the Five Rings (fedual Japanese fantasy setting) campaign and the other DM runs 7th Sea (a pirate/17th century European setting). We both tend put a lot of work into our campaigns and put a huge emphasis on creating a good story and giving every character an arc. 
 
I've gone out of my way to secretly pit characters against eachother, staged massive city sieges  and have made villains that the players are absolutely driven to defeat.  It's immensly rewarding and a great way apply ideas that you might think would be great in a movie or a video game. As much as I love video games they are more or less how I spend my (nerdy) free time between RPing, I'll take hanging out with friends in meatspace over sitting at a PC or my Xbox any day.

Duder, a pen and paper mass effect game actually sounds like a lot of fun! If u posted it online or something i could probably convince some of my friends to play it since they are much more into video games then Pen & Paper

I really like playing DnD myself and recently got Gamma World for xmas. It's fun to sit down with a group of friends, have a few beers, and just invent you own world without having to all buy the same video game or all be online at the same time.  Sure it isn't as fast paced as video games and I do have a few friends who despise it because they lack any imagination, but I think if anyone says they like gaming (especially RPGs or WoW) then they have a great understanding already of most pen and paper games.  
 
Every gamer should at least try the old school out.

I used to play the Lord of the Rings miniatures game. Tee hee hee. Making scenery and painting those tiny things was the best part though, I have to admit. 
 
On another note, the dice poker game in The Witcher is freaking awesome.

I've been dungeon mastering a game recently and the dudes and dudettes have been playing my campaign for like... I guess five months now. So I guess I must be doing something right. Makes me feel pretty good about my otherwise insignificant life.

I GM an Urban Arcana game (think D&D in a modern setting.) Lately my group has been ramping up the play schedule and we might take on one or two new members soon. I've played D&D-style games for years and I love it. It's a nice way to gather socially, and a human-guided game still has a lot to offer that video games and even MMOs can't match.

The Vampire Hunter D one that you made was pretty fun. I honestly wouldn't mind picking it back up.
But maybe less poo and vampire crushing this time, haha.

" Actually, What one do you think sounds better for the time being Shadowrun or Alpha and Omega? "

Sorry i've been gone for a month or so, I've not had a computer until just tonight and figured i'd drop a line in and see if anyone is still kick'n in the forum.