The recent articles posted on MetaFilter about role playing game history and Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Played a little with things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, Runequest, and the Cyberpunk 2020. One of my favorite games of that time was the Amber RPG a great world thanks to the vision of Roger Zelazny and a great set of rules that threw away the dice and focused on the role playing and the story. The last phase of my RPG playing focused on the White Wolf games mostly Vampire: The Masquerade with a bit of Werewolf: The Apocalypse thrown in for good measure.
Most of the time playing was a lot of fun, but I finally got out of it when everyone I played with seemed more interested in advancing their character statistics and following the exact wording of the rules (including arguments about comma placement) than actually enjoying themselves. Still there is a soft spot in my heart for RPGs and from time to time I think it might be fun to play again with a basic system like the classic D&D game (not the new mis-labeled D&D version 3 which is really AD&D).
Anyone else out there ever play RPGs or still into them?