D&D

[fire_of_avalon]

I'm involved in two campaigns right now. One is based on Tolkien's First Age histories, and the other is a homemade campaign setting.

The first one is very interesting because the DM weaves our characters into the established plot, but let's us explore other venues. In that campaign, I play a 9th level Ranger (Rohirrim) called Alastriona (al-AS-TRI-na). She has lost her village, fought her brother (at the time she was level 5, he was level 12. I have no idea how I held him off) due to his madness/possession by Sauron, and developed a relationship with Curufin. Yes we are nerds.

In the latter campaign, I play a character who is actually three separate people imbued into one. The character has physical attributes of all three people, and the minds of the three struggle for control. Each time the character wakes up from sleep or unconciousness, we roll a percentage (based on the spiritual dominance of each character) to determine which persona the character has. The character is comprised of a quarter silver dragonian swashbuckler, a drow cleric and a human monk. The drow, obviously, is an evil character, while the swashbuckler is neutral/good and the monk lawful good. Each character has a similar goal, but a different purpose and way of reaching that goal. It is very interesting. Unfortunately, I haven't much used the cleric in battle. It's disappointing because I've never played a magic user before, and still haven't gotten to experience it.

We play a homebrew of 3 and 3.5, using the rules that make the most sense.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

My major campaign right now is the Disgaea one I'm running. I must say it's patently awesome.

[Tasura]

Right now the only one im playing in is my friends Warhammer home brew campaign, it started at lvl 1, we are now lvl 16. My character has survived for 2 years, he is a Cleric, half of the Chaos realm wants me dead, the other half run in fear of my appearnce or just the mention of my name.

[Dragon Mage]

My main campaign just went down the crapper. The DM (my idiot brother) has no inspiration and.....well here this is how the 'session' went today. After killing the Shadow dragon we went back to town. That was the last session. Today, the ranger got his dragonbone bow, dragon hide armor, which he gave to the rouge, and cloak. A pseudodragon adopted me as it's 'person', which also was last session. When I (not my character) tried to get them to go back for the hoard, they refused. Are you kidding?! A dragon's hoard, with magic items and 66,000 gp to be split up amongst the 3 of us. Instead we walked out of town with 2,000gp and me with practically nothing new, save some cool looking daggers.
The real pisser is that the ranger claimed the dragon as his kill. Me, the wizard, who suggest he make an effing dragonbone bow, wasn't allowed to touch the dam thing for spell components. He got first claim to all the armor and crap, and when he got what he wanted, he wouldn't go back for the hoard. I mean, God forbid if there's something that someone else might need or find valuble. The whole session lasted about 20 min. And this is the first time we've played in about 8 monthes. I'm. Pissed. And I'm thinking about joining another group. any reasons why I shouldn't? Can I get any help?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

If you don't mesh with the group, don't stay in the group.

Seriously, the Ranger has a Will save of what? +4? Hold Person his ass if he tries to shaft you again.

[Dragon Mage]

This group is made up of my brother and my best friend!!! I've only got 2 other friends.

And it's not like I can go out right cast hold person on him. He did a lot of damage, yeah, but it's just the way he does it....You can't accuse him of stealing the goods outright. It would seem like I'm being selfish and bitchy if I forced him to spread the wealth. What the hell can I do?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

You AREN'T being selfish. If he's the one who's taking all the wealth and leaving you with nothing, you're getting hugely shafted.

Another thing you might consider is say "Well, all right, screw you guys I'm going back to the Dragon's Horde and taking it all for myself. I'll be back in a bit."

Plus, you aren't meeting regularly anyway. Why bother? Honestly, a game like that is not at all worth my time.

[Dragon Mage]

Yer right, I just should've claimed the entire hoard.

And school causes a lot of problems with making regular sessions. And the DM is being a lazy arse and can't get any inspiration. A few things he can wing, but the rest is history. It takes him months to plan a REAL session.

*sigh*

Do you know of any good campaigns out there that we can pick up/buy? I'm not even going to suggest it to the dm. I'll DM it myself.

[Dragon Mage]

Like, what's Ravenloft? Is it any good?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Ravenloft is a low-magic Gothic horror setting. Basically, when you get sent to Ravenloft you're pretty much screwed for ever getting out again. I've not played it myself, but I've heard good things. You, of course, can decide for yourself.

[Tasura]

Playing a campaign from a book is good and all, but it can get boring both for the DM and the players, in the end you're just reading from a script and dont have to much leeway on what to do, since it gives you step by step what happens, though, if you do want one, I recommend "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" The best thing to do is just make up your own campaign, which is what I'm planning to do, since I have access to mostly all the books I could ever want or need. The one I'm making will augment the current one and the D20 Modern/Future one that my other friend is starting up, so there is a possibility to play some form of D&D all nights of the week but Sunday.

[Dragon Mage]

The big problem with making your own campaign is that it takes a REALLY long time, and when inspiration is low, you're screwed. That's the only reason I'm looking towards pre-set campaigns. We haven't played in months, though we've had plenty of opportunities, all on the account of the DM not having any ideas for what's to come. It's really killing our game. He's got some stuff planned out, but not clearly enough. After a long time of wanting to play D&D, I'm going to the last resort: pre-made campaigns.

[Tasura]

You don't have to make the entire campaign at once, just make as much as you think you'd play through in one sitting, then based on how things go then, make more of the campaign.

[Araciel]

both ways are easy and fun if done right.

ravnloft is ok i guess, it's not like playing other D&D campaigns though.

[Dragon Mage]

You don't have to make the entire campaign at once, just make as much as you think you'd play through in one sitting, then based on how things go then, make more of the campaign.

Well, erm, that's what we're doing. It'd be retarded to make an entire campaign all at once. It's being built step by step. The problem is that the DM is having a hard time coming up with the next small step.