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I know forum play-by-play roleplaying is a big thing around here on Gaia, but im wondering if anyone here conducts its real world counterparts.

There are plenty of different real world tabletop, ccg and roleplaying games and game systems available. They are very fun and creative outlets, as Tabletop games require you to assemble and paint models, CCGs require care in assembling a good deck, and P&P rpgs allow great customisation, the ability to write about and even draw your character, situations they get in, and the general setting of the campaign in which you are playing, and they all require strategic and spatial thinking of varying degrees.

Tabletop games are games that usually involve some kind of rules system, and physical models, or physical proxies representing the units you wish to play with.
Some examples of tabletop gaming, you can be interested in or even play such games as Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, strategic and historical war simulations, Warmachine or even Infinity.

Collectible card games are relatively straight forward. They involve collecting cards from a particular game system, and assembling themed decks to play against opponents. Some examples of these are games such as Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-OH, Pokemon CCG and others.

Pen and paper roleplaying games are the traditional kind of social roleplaying games, where you get together with a group of friends and play out the roles of characters in a particular setting or theme, with one person acting as a director for the proceedings (referred to as a Games or Dungeon Master). The most famous example of this kind of system is Dungeons and Dragons. Other examples of games systems are GURPS, wasteland, RuneQuest, the very customisable d20 system, World of Darkness and the similarly related Vampire: The Masquerade.

I've had lots of fun playing all three kinds of games over the course of my years, mostly sticking to Warhammer 40k, Magic: The Gathering, and D&D.

How about the rest of you?