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Post by Curtis_Louis on Jun 25, 2022 15:22:46 GMT
I've been playing since the late 70's. I've seen it grow, wane and come back strong. Maybe we need a 5e thread..... I also started in the late 70's, but stopped when I joined the army in the late 80's. I never had an opportunity to play again. When my parents passed away, I found a box of all my AD&D stuff in their attic. I'm not familiar with the 5e aspect of the game, but a thread specific to D&D would be interesting.
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Post by eastman on Jun 25, 2022 16:11:34 GMT
With the more recent editions, played a bunch of 3.0, 3.5 and Pathfinder. Didn't like anything I saw with the changes to 4e. 5e was a big improvement over 4e, and I've been in a few good games with it. Some of the best used the Arcanis setting for the 5e ruleset.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2022 4:45:23 GMT
I guess this is becoming a D&D thread. Sword collecting fits in with D&D.
I learned the rules in 1982. Monster manual, players handbook, DM guide. I'm playing a computer based game "baldurs gate" solo tonight. Winning so far.
I'm such a dork.
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Post by eastman on Jun 26, 2022 23:27:31 GMT
I also started in the early 80s (1981 or 1982). Didn't buy a good sword until the late 80s (DelTin Joinville).
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 27, 2022 4:29:01 GMT
I played Baldur's Gate. And I think this stuff is responsible for all the "Is 9260 better steel than 5160?" threads.
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Post by tera on Jun 27, 2022 15:45:00 GMT
That's right, Daggers and Damascus, what else?
But seriously, I thought it appropriate to create a space where fans of the Dungeons and Dragon franchise (or other tabletop systems) may share memories, collaborate on resources, and discuss how sitting around a table (or meeting through the many virtual platforms available today) has brought them good times with good friends.
I'll start by admitting my first exposure was AD&D back in the 80's. We had this huge bowl of jollyranchers that were too much to resist, and I struggled with the most basic puzzles. Still, I had an amazing DM who would adjust the game so the players, while challenged, still felt clever and heroic. Good times, indeed.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Jun 27, 2022 16:00:44 GMT
Nah, nobody on this forum is into role playing games. I'll give you props for the effort anyway.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jun 27, 2022 16:50:47 GMT
Oh, to be twelve years old again, in rural Kansas, during the Satanic Panic....
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jun 27, 2022 18:36:00 GMT
Oh, to be twelve years old again, in rural Kansas, during the Satanic Panic.... And listening to Twisted Sister...
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Post by stormmaster on Jun 27, 2022 18:40:46 GMT
always had a interest in D&D but no one around me did so i never played
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Post by howler on Jun 27, 2022 19:54:29 GMT
My friend and some of his buddies were into it, but I was mainly interested in the books talking about the powers, nature, abilities of the various characters (gods, monsters, warriors, etc...). Never got into the setup, let alone the mission itself. I probably should have.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jun 27, 2022 20:47:07 GMT
Trust me, you're never too old.
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Post by rschuch on Jun 27, 2022 21:28:58 GMT
Used to play a lot back in the early to mid 80s and then, after I got married, we found another couple we used to hang with and we’d play and watch X-Files on the weekends. He was a great DM! The wife and I used to play on our own, too, and we branched out into Ravenloft, Lankhmar and Al-Qadim, which is an Arabian Nights type milieu. Lots of fun! She had a psionicist which was tricky to DM and I did a lot of ad-lib stream of consciousness type adventuring when things went awry. Even came up with an arch nemesis I would toss in every now and then…oh she HATED him!
Anyway, that was back when I had time to kill and draw up dungeons and new monsters. I haven’t played in 25 years or so. My daughter is 32 and wants to start a group in her area and wants me to show her how to DM, but I’m old school 2nd edition. I have no idea what the rules are anymore or where the charts and tables are. In order for the game to flow you have to know that stuff like the back of your hand and all the different modifiers. Just running a 1st level dungeon would take me forever.
I had a couple others ask me to DM recently (now that I’m divorced and looking for love), but adults…older adults, that still play a children’s game can be…odd. One guy started asking me all these questions about “what’s the toughest monster?” and “how do you calculate THAC0?” And I thought, Nope. Too many questions. Gotta grow up sometime…
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Post by tera on Jun 27, 2022 22:09:24 GMT
These days there are lots of options for online play, and even places to find party members who actually can make scheduled games. Just a list of useful resources my wife and I have found: 1) D&D Beyond: www.dndbeyond.com/ (now officially owned by Wizards of the Coast). Purchasable digital source books and character building, all fully sanctioned. 2) Roll 20: roll20.net/ (free, online virtual tabletop for groups that can't meet in person). 3) Fantasy Grounds Unity (available on Steam): www.fantasygrounds.com/home/FantasyGroundsUnity.php (It looks like it was written in the 90's, but it is packed full of features. This is what our group currently uses and it works nicely) 4) Roll Already (a discord community): If you don't have a lot of time and want quick, one-shot dungeon crawls, this is a place to find sanctioned Adventurer's League players and DMs. Who knows, if you meet people you like you may choose to run a longer campaign outside of the Adventurer's League. Useful reddit post here:https://www.reddit.com/r/RollALready/comments/g01sca/rollalready_101_what_do_i_need_to_play/)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2022 23:03:21 GMT
I remember my first character in 1980, a ranger wannabe based on Aragorn from Lord of the Rings.
There were five of us plus the DM that weekend. I think I was 14 years old. Within an hour, my character failed a feeblemind save (which is kind of unfair for first level characters). After the failed save, for the rest of that weekend, my character was used as a battering ram by the other characters to break down doors and open chests. I had no say in it. I just watched in humiliation.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Jun 27, 2022 23:07:19 GMT
FYI everyone... I moved some of the posts that began over on the display thread and merged them here. That is why some of the posts above seem a little out of place or out of order.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2022 23:10:12 GMT
Way to go Curtis Louis.
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Post by glendon on Jun 27, 2022 23:55:48 GMT
Ah, there they were, Ronnie Raygun and Lionel Ritchie and Khadafi and all the other idiots demanding my attention and obeisance...and yet I sat there next to the future Homecoming Queen (whom, thankfully, I ended up not marrying) and convinced her to give me the One Ring as I knew it was deadly, and then Lo! I managed to roll back-to-back 20's, and my 1st-level Bard gave the Ring to Galadriel on my first ever Adventure; I survived to adventure again. If you didn't feel it was as real as the evening news, you weren't really alive.
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Post by rschuch on Jun 28, 2022 0:33:24 GMT
I remember my first character in 1980, a ranger wannabe based on Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. There were five of us plus the DM that weekend. I think I was 14 years old. Within an hour, my character failed a feeblemind save (which is kind of unfair for first level characters). After the failed save, for the rest of that weekend, my character was used as a battering ram by the other characters to break down doors and open chests. I had no say in it. I just watched in humiliation. Another couple of the spin offs I used to play was Champions (a superhero rpg) and Top Secret. I remember playing with a hastily assembled group and we were trying to stop a cruise ship hijacking. One guy was really pissing me off. We split into two teams at one point and I took the DM aside and told him to have the other team leave the room since we wouldn't know what each other was doing. The terrorists were coming up a stairwell and I told the jerk to hide in a stateroom and I'd lure them down the hall and catch them in a crossfire. Once out of ear shot, i told the DM I was rigging the door with plastique explosives, making a lot of noise, firing a few shots, then running like hell. Then I left the room. BOOM! Very funny! The jerk got all pissed off and left which improved the game immensely!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2022 0:49:51 GMT
Plastique explosives? Ah.. but do you remember the first 1-3 hitpoint stirge you had to fight, coming out of a fireplace?
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