OT: The might of Pen & Paper

[Burnsaber]

I just read the blog post by S.R.Krol on the 4th edition D&D (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/blog.php?b=391) and thought about that the dom3 game might especially attract the Pen & Paper types. The intrest in the Chronicle games seems to support this.

So I think that one could have a fruitful discussion on these games here, considering the (relatively high) maturity of users on these forums.

I'm currently fully enjoying GM'ing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which is a lot better system than it sounds. The writers have really succeeded on bringing the cliche-tastic warhammer world to live and it bears no liking to the other low-quality license stuff (the WoW rpg for example) out there.

I simply fell in love with the system when I read the "monster manual" for it. 90% of it was pure fluff, just thematic writings and backround with 0% of rules (and they keep this up on the rest of books). That was simply awesome! I really hated the D&D monster manuals for just endlessly listing statistics for absolutely ridicilous amounts (& qualities) of monsters. 1 monster with a nice backround is always better than simple 4 stat blocks.

But it seems that current group will eventually dissolve as we go on our separate ways to the numereous Finnish universities, so I might be picking up some new games at sometime in the future. WRFP is awesome, but one of my players will taking all the books with him and I don't have the money to replenish my library. Any recommendations for good Pen & Paper games?

I've also been amusing myself with the idea of Dom3 Pen & Paper system, but I lack the time & test players for that kind of project. Dom3 with somewhat expanded lore could be an absolutely fantastic setting. Something like 3-5 years before the ascension wars would be good. Pantakrator is waning in power, mayhem is in the air and the ancients monsters are awakening, sensing that their time has come.