dungeons and dragons

[NeoTifa]

lol. just the name sounds funny. i used to play this alot in middle school and my freshman and sophmore years. i thought about this when a guy i used to play with, whom of which i havent seen in 4 years, at college. this made me happy to see him again, even though i would be ashamed to admit how i know him lol.

also, in my computer programming class, of all classes, they were making fun of a group of students and professors playing it in the engineering building lol. how funny is that. nerds making fun of nerds. ha ha. i guess its a different breed of nerd.

did you ever play d&d? any memories? etc...

[Araciel]

Lots. I miss it, but I suppose I'm not that interested in playing anymore.

[Peegee]

Lots. I miss it, but I suppose I'm not that interested in playing anymore.

I managed to avoid playing it until I played chauffeur that one day. The prospect of sitting there for hours not participating with everybody else caused me to play it with Araciel.

I played a little 4.0 and didn't really care for it. It wasn't bad or anything, but I guess it's the social aspect that makes the game fun, not the game mechanics (I'm sure not everybody agrees with that claim).

Shruggle.

[Bunny]

I have never played a full game. I did, however, read the Player's Handbooks, Monster Manuals, Dungeon Master Guides, and the rest of the books front to back several times. For fun.

[Mirage]

I've played D&D a few times, but I prefer WoD :p. However, I haven't had a chance to play for quite some time now. Mostly because no one can be arsed to lead a game.

[Nominus Experse]

I played it once, and I loved it. Sadly, no one in this immediate area is worth exchanging any sort of words with, much less substantial amounts of time.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I run a 4e game every Thursday, it's great fun. I like the system quite a bit.

I'm also making a unique tabletop system based around anime-style play with my roommate, it's turned out pretty well and once we're done I hope to market it.

[rubah]

I haven't played it but I sat in a bunch of campaigns last semester xD

[MadeOfApples]

A few times.

My non-complete understanding of the rules. refusal to speak in character (Everyone else was), and my general dislike of cheesy puffs kind of made those I was playing with stop inviting me.


It was fun though.

[NeoTifa]

i never do the character speak crap. and i love cheesy puffs :3

[Markus. D]

Neverwinter Nights is as far into the D&D world as I'd delve.

[MadeOfApples]

i never do the character speak crap. and i love cheesy puffs :3

Its not that I don't like cheesy puffs, I just hate having orange fingers afterwards. Always get that stuff all over my clothes and belongings.

And character speak is kind of neat. I'm just not good at it and it makes me feel silly anyways.


I would love to play again though. I had so much fun playing but just felt out of place with the group I was playing with. I want to play with other (fairly)new people so we can learn together.

[escobert]

Neverwinter Nights is as far into the D&D world as I'd delve.

same here.

[Cyric]

Neverwinter Nights is as far into the D&D world as I'd delve.

same here.


Likewise. Although I am a Forgotten Realms (books) addict.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I still love it, and I'm an old bastard. I have friends that want to play, but we all live at least an hour away from each other so it's hard to organize something when we all never have the same day off.

D&D is only fun when the people you play with are fun. I've had groups that were a little too anal retentive about the rules, or just too out there. My favorite D&D sessions were with serious story lines, but always filled with tongue and cheek humor and plenty of dry sarcasm. We were there to have fun, after all.

[Laddy]

I love it. I like v4.0, but it feels...incomplete. v3.5 is where its at! Thankfully, a good friend of mine who really introduced me into the game lives about two minutes away, so we call and go like that.

EDIT-And we always stay in character, I'll even risk my life (in game, of course) if it requires me to stay in character.

[Araciel]

Likewise. Although I am a Forgotten Realms (books) addict.

:P Never would have guessed by your name.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I love it. I like v4.0, but it feels...incomplete. v3.5 is where its at! Thankfully, a good friend of mine who really introduced me into the game lives about two minutes away, so we call and go like that.

EDIT-And we always stay in character, I'll even risk my life (in game, of course) if it requires me to stay in character.

4e just doesn't have the options 3e has right now, but when they have more time to release more books, it will improve. I find it to be a superior system on a number of levels, although I do admit there's a lot less you can do with it.

[Araciel]

I find that the streamlined system in 4.0 lets you focus more on role-playing, if not mechanical character customization.

[Værn]

I love it. I like v4.0, but it feels...incomplete. v3.5 is where its at! Thankfully, a good friend of mine who really introduced me into the game lives about two minutes away, so we call and go like that.

EDIT-And we always stay in character, I'll even risk my life (in game, of course) if it requires me to stay in character.
My group isn't even going to bother with 4th Edition. Our GOD already has at least 15-20 books for 3 and 3.5, so switching to 4E is going to cost him a fortune.
Aside from that, none of the other players really like the idea of switching because everybody's saying "It's just tabletop WoW."
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[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I love it. I like v4.0, but it feels...incomplete. v3.5 is where its at! Thankfully, a good friend of mine who really introduced me into the game lives about two minutes away, so we call and go like that.

EDIT-And we always stay in character, I'll even risk my life (in game, of course) if it requires me to stay in character.
My group isn't even going to bother with 4th Edition. Our GOD already has at least 15-20 books for 3 and 3.5, so switching to 4E is going to cost him a fortune.
Aside from that, none of the other players really like the idea of switching because everybody's saying "It's just tabletop WoW."

I hear tabletop WoW bandied around a lot and I can certifiably tell you that anyone who says that has no idea what they're talking about.

[Araciel]

I can see why people make those parallels, but really the game has always been what you make of it. The '4E=WoW' thing is silly. While, like I said, there are some MMO-like changes made, they don't change the game so much that it's unrecognizable as D&D.

I prefer 3.5 but I do concede that 4E has some pretty good ideas behind it.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I can see why people make those parallels, but really the game has always been what you make of it. The '4E=WoW' thing is silly. While, like I said, there are some MMO-like changes made, they don't change the game so much that it's unrecognizable as D&D.

I prefer 3.5 but I do concede that 4E has some pretty good ideas behind it.

A lot of it is because 4e adapted some MMO concepts that work pretty well to it's system, just as it adapts a number of other concepts from other such games that work. It still uses them in ways that work for the game itself.

[Laddy]

V4.0 is actually too balanced, all characters feel the same and if focuses around combat too much. =/

[Captain Maxx Power]

Most of our D&D games basically consisted of us finding more and more inventive ways of cheating. Quite often they would end with the GM saying we were all destroyed due to a passing laser beam.

[Rantz]

I've never played D&D (unless you count Baldur's Gate, which you don't), although I wouldn't mind trying. I've skimmed through some of the books and it seems like fun.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

V4.0 is actually too balanced, all characters feel the same and if focuses around combat too much. =/

While characters use the same construction, mechanically, their power-sets are incredibly different and they play as such. It doesn't look like much on paper, but in practice it's incredibly effectively executed with each character having their own specialization and play-style.

Also, 4e has more and better presented rules on out-of-combat interaction than any D&D edition to date. It also has one of the best DMGs around, a large portion of which is NOT focused all on combat. 4e is too combat-focused is just plain incorrect.

[Araciel]

I always thought D&D was focused on combat, but that's the point... You want to have awesome action sequences between heroes and villains or monsters.

I never thought it was that big a deal that combat and magic were a huge part of the PHB because, well that's why I played D&D. The non-weapon proficiency system in 2e was meh, but when skills were introduced in 3.0 it was awesome! Skills gave so much extra depth to the game.

Anyway yeah...

[VorpalCyberWolf]

Have played and still play with a large chunk of my friends. We have actually played just about any variant or edition you can think of, including D20 Modern. It's fun and a great mental exercise in building characters and stories if you play how I do.

[The Triumphant Hero]

I see the premise behind 4e, but I vastly prefer 3.5 because it is infinitely easier to make your own class in 3.5, and I found the systems in 4e a bit too in-depth. I'm a big fan of making up classes, races, and mechanics because it makes the bad guy seem a lot more epic when no one else can do what he does.

[Cleric]

I've always wanted to play but A) have known no one who was into it, and b) I don't really get it lol. Maybe someone could enlighten me?

[Ben]

I've been playing DnD alot lately. I have two neighbors that I play v3.5 with every week or so, and I'm soon going to be joining some buddies from school to join a 4.0 game. And, I have a question, mainly for Behold the Void. Is it hard to switch from v3.5 rules to 4.0?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Not particularly. 4e is really easy to pick up in general, even for the uninitiated. Some basics to remember:

What used to be saving throws are now defenses. Every ability requires an attack roll vs. one of four numbers, AC, Reflex, Fortitude, or Will. It's still the simple d20+modifiers vs. static number.

Just about every roll you make gets a bonus equal to 1/2 your level rounded down. Attack rolls, defenses, skill checks, what have you.

Saving throws are now to end ongoing effects and are a flat succeed on a 10 or greater each turn.

So long as your to-hit exceeds the target's defense, a 20 is always a confirmed critical and it does damage as if you had rolled maximum on your damage dice (possibly adding extra dice that you do physically roll depending on your weapon or power used).

Number [W] = the amount of damage dice you do when using a power. Thus, when using a 2 [W] power with a greatsword (which does 1d10), if you hit, you roll 2d10 for damage, in addition to other static modifiers.

Charging is now a standard action that is a move and a basic attack action. Thus, you can move before you do it. HOWEVER, once you finish a charge, your turn ends.

Beyond that, it's pretty simple in the core combat. Decide what kind of power to use, make an attack roll, try to roll high.

[Araciel]

We should attempt an on line Eoff DnD game

I have tried on various occasions to do this with little success. There are simply issues of schedule conflicts (if trying to play in real time) or lack of interest (on a play by post basis)

I wouldn't mind DMing a 3.5 campaign/adventure.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I tried to set one up myself awhile back, didn't pan out. However, I've got something in the works now for EoFF tabletop fans, more information on that will be forthcoming around the end of the month.

[Markus. D]

I fail at roleplaying :[!