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Post by Eric Bergeron on Jun 28, 2022 1:59:42 GMT
I have been playing D&D since 1987, been in a regular group since 2018, we meet every thursday, each week a different couple brings food for dinner and we play for 3-4 hours. So much fun I encourage anyone looking to play to do so.
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Post by tera on Jun 28, 2022 2:01:09 GMT
I've always wanted to find a more tactical tabletop system. Fantasy isn't my usual thing. I'd prefer semi-realistic, but also enjoy sci-fi.
Starfinder looks really good, but still basically has magic just reflavored as bionic upgrades or telekinetic abilities.
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Post by tera on Jun 28, 2022 2:02:55 GMT
I have been playing D&D since 1987, been in a regular group since 2018, we meet every thursday, each week a different couple brings food for dinner and we play for 3-4 hours. So much fun I encourage anyone looking to play to do so. Fun with friends, that's what tabletop gaming is all about... ... though I am dubious because you say you meet every Thursday. You can't possibly be immune to the curse of cancellations and late arrivals. : P
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Post by eastman on Jun 28, 2022 2:34:45 GMT
When one member of our group converted the "Night Below" box set to 3rd Edition rules, we met nearly every Wednesday night until it was completed. I think it took a little over a year, and there were maybe 5 or 6 non-game Wednesdays over that time period. The party was big enough so we'd just have the DM drone the characters when the players weren't there.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2022 2:43:41 GMT
The good news is I finally got my Fighter/Mage/Thief to 26/22/31 level in Bg2. That's a record. I did that n hour ago. It only took 24 years...
Nice to be able to finally use Improved Alacrity with melee weapons. Dragons are dropping like chaff.
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Post by rschuch on Jun 28, 2022 2:59:35 GMT
Plastique explosives? Ah.. but do you remember the first 1-3 hitpoint stirge you had to fight, coming out of a fireplace? I have lots of memories! I remember the Giants series and finding Blackrazor in the Frost Giant lair....essentially Stormbringer. For a long time I played Axim Gemstone, a dwarf thief with a strong sense of self preservation. I played BG on PS2 back in the day if I recall correctly. My daughter and I played together and I think we won eventually. Long time ago! I should look into getting a PS2 again ...lots of fun games!
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 28, 2022 3:48:27 GMT
Ah, Viconia was hell of a romance...
After BG2 I played KotoR 1 & 2 with a simular system. My nephew plays D&D in a group.
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Post by Eric Bergeron on Jun 28, 2022 20:11:09 GMT
I have been playing D&D since 1987, been in a regular group since 2018, we meet every thursday, each week a different couple brings food for dinner and we play for 3-4 hours. So much fun I encourage anyone looking to play to do so. Fun with friends, that's what tabletop gaming is all about... ... though I am dubious because you say you meet every Thursday. You can't possibly be immune to the curse of cancellations and late arrivals. : P No our group loves to play the only time we cancel is if someone comes down with covid and for a time when covid was really bad we moved to online play, but other then that we play each week and occasionally we will move to a Wednesday night if there are school functions happening but we always meet each week :)
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Post by rschuch on Jun 28, 2022 20:29:34 GMT
Ah, Viconia was hell of a romance... After BG2 I played KotoR 1 & 2 with a simular system. My nephew plays D&D in a group. Diablo was kind of fun, too. Not D&D specifically but similar...
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Post by tera on Jun 28, 2022 21:11:50 GMT
As the OP, I officially say it's fine to discuss all things RPG and geeky. Diablo II was my favorite, and was an amazing procedural dungeon crawler with fantastic replay-ability.
For tabletop stuff, I lean more towards roleplay and narrative driven campaigns. Less so the dungeon crawler, roll math rocks for hours deal. But, that's the great thing about books, pencil, and paper. You can play the game you want to play.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2022 21:19:31 GMT
Books/pencil/paper/dice is the way I loved it most. Not hack'n'slash, but more narrative. DM would have to wing it when the rolls didn't go as expected - make stuff on the spot to keep the campaign going.
I love it. I haven't done that in.... 41 years.
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Post by soulfromheart on Jun 28, 2022 22:06:12 GMT
I've always wanted to find a more tactical tabletop system. Fantasy isn't my usual thing. I'd prefer semi-realistic, but also enjoy sci-fi. Starfinder looks really good, but still basically has magic just reflavored as bionic upgrades or telekinetic abilities. Maybe Shadowrun ? Not up to date with the new editions but I really liked the lore until somewhere in the 4th Edition (there was some kind of IRL development controversy and it slowly began to jump shark too much to my tastes then).
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Post by skelley on Jun 28, 2022 22:17:50 GMT
I never played D&D (or any pen and paper RPG) but I've been curious about it for years. The only experience I have with it is watching Critical Role on YouTube. There's a gaming shop not far from me I've been meaning to check out but I have a hard time starting anything new, if that makes sense. I love playing BioWare games and other RPGs though. KotoR and BG get the most attention (and for good reason) but I absolutely loved Jade Empire. Between the magic wushu, fun characters and cool story with a twist it was a blast for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2022 22:34:23 GMT
I think it went nuts after Lord of the Rings was written. That was the game changer for me. And Dune. And the Moorcock novels - Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon, etc. And Robert E. Howard's Conan. Fritz Leiber with Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Edgar Rice Burroughs with John Carter and Warlord of Mars.
There were no movies back then when D&D started coming out. One had to have read the books, only to be written off as a nerd in high school. Or as Satanic by adults.
I dig how the general public digs it now. Game of Thrones might've helped.
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Post by rschuch on Jun 29, 2022 1:48:19 GMT
I think it went nuts after Lord of the Rings was written. That was the game changer for me. And Dune. And the Moorcock novels - Elric, Corum, Hawkmoon, etc. And Robert E. Howard's Conan. Fritz Leiber with Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Edgar Rice Burroughs with John Carter and Warlord of Mars. There were no movies back then when D&D started coming out. One had to have read the books, only to be written off as a nerd in high school. Or as Satanic by adults. I dig how the general public digs it now. Game of Thrones might've helped. Ha! Yep. We read all the same books! Movies like Excalibur, Dragonslayer, and Conan were few and far between so we did a lot of reading. Lots of fantasy books, and I loved introducing all them to my daughter when she got old enough....it was like reading them new again. Harry Potter was a big one back then. I think Harry Potter started the new fantasy renaissance, Game of Thrones and the LotR movies, too. It's a lot more accepted than back in the day when we were all freaks and geeks. I like narrative D&D too. I d usually come up with a plot, add a few twists and build the adventure, maps and monsters around it. I'd try to leave it as open ended as possible. I'd also try to encourage original thinking and using elements of the surroundings and actions other than just hacking and slashing. I came up with an unarmed combat system and even used to use a luck roll when something they wanted to do was really unusual.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 29, 2022 3:39:39 GMT
Oh yeah, as I always say, the three pillars of quality literature are: Swords - Undead - Spaceships
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Post by Eric Bergeron on Jun 29, 2022 20:45:40 GMT
Well tera we had to move game night to tonight instead of tomorrow one of the players child has something going on but we never cancel unless it's dire :)
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Jun 29, 2022 20:58:00 GMT
Books/pencil/paper/dice is the way I loved it most. Not hack'n'slash, but more narrative. DM would have to wing it when the rolls didn't go as expected - make stuff on the spot to keep the campaign going. I love it. I haven't done that in.... 41 years. My experience exactly! Some of the best memories happened when the DM had to "wing it". Hard to believe that was over 40 years ago.
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Post by eastman on Jun 30, 2022 1:05:02 GMT
That is how a lot of my Chill campaign went (for those unfamiliar, Chill was a modern Horror RPG system originally released in the mid-80s by former TSR employees, then re-issued in the 1990s by Mayfair Games)
I would have a rough outline of the story and build the details based on the player actions.
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Post by sonofarwyn on Jun 30, 2022 19:33:25 GMT
Ah, the nostalgia!
I was a huge D&D fan, started young with the original brown folio books, but really got into it with AD&D. Had a campaign I ran that lasted for years a few times. Good stuff.
Wound up playing a ton of games. Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, Gamma World, Traveller. Good times, but I haven't played since 2017.
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