I am a long time player and DM (since the 70's) and me and my crew just picked up the 4th edition rules and are trying them out this week. Anyone else play and making the switch?
Feel free to talk about anything D&D related. ;D
I play D&D.
Not making the switch because
A) Nothing Wrong with the current system
B)No Monk
C)I'll wait until 4.5 ;D
i used to. i dont know what edition or anything, we only played for a couple of months and then went back to cyberpunk.
I played for about a year when everything was converting to 3.5. I loved it once I got the hang of it! I had this problem of finding a good group that didn't get distracted by how I was a female though. =\ So I just quit.
I have never played it but d00d, D&D is so old...
I like saying that when ppl talk about D&D
Quote from: Punkbuster on June 10, 2008, 09:00:08 PM
I played for about a year when everything was converting to 3.5. I loved it once I got the hang of it! I had this problem of finding a good group that didn't get distracted by how I was a female though. =\ So I just quit.
lol, u serious? They must've been hardcore or sumthin lol there are some ppl that hold grudges against you if you beat them at it, not pretty...
Oops, I should read what i wrote before i post lol. I meant that I can't find a hardcore group.
Quote from: Punkbuster on June 10, 2008, 09:05:29 PM
Oops, I should read what i wrote before i post lol. I meant that I can't find a hardcore group.
zhat explains a lot my dear. (I type in different accent from time to time XD )
Quote from: JohnnyAR on June 10, 2008, 09:03:23 PM
I have never played it but d00d, D&D is so old...
I like saying that when ppl talk about D&D
Quote from: Punkbuster on June 10, 2008, 09:00:08 PM
I played for about a year when everything was converting to 3.5. I loved it once I got the hang of it! I had this problem of finding a good group that didn't get distracted by how I was a female though. =\ So I just quit.
lol, u serious? They must've been hardcore or sumthin lol there are some ppl that hold grudges against you if you beat them at it, not pretty...
Just so you know, you cant
WIN D&D, its not that kind of game.
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on June 10, 2008, 09:09:55 PM
Quote from: JohnnyAR on June 10, 2008, 09:03:23 PM
I have never played it but d00d, D&D is so old...
I like saying that when ppl talk about D&D
Quote from: Punkbuster on June 10, 2008, 09:00:08 PM
I played for about a year when everything was converting to 3.5. I loved it once I got the hang of it! I had this problem of finding a good group that didn't get distracted by how I was a female though. =\ So I just quit.
lol, u serious? They must've been hardcore or sumthin lol there are some ppl that hold grudges against you if you beat them at it, not pretty...
Just so you know, you cant WIN D&D, its not that kind of game.
You can't win? Then how do you finish it?
Quote from: JohnnyAR on June 10, 2008, 09:12:17 PM
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on June 10, 2008, 09:09:55 PM
Quote from: JohnnyAR on June 10, 2008, 09:03:23 PM
I have never played it but d00d, D&D is so old...
I like saying that when ppl talk about D&D
Quote from: Punkbuster on June 10, 2008, 09:00:08 PM
I played for about a year when everything was converting to 3.5. I loved it once I got the hang of it! I had this problem of finding a good group that didn't get distracted by how I was a female though. =\ So I just quit.
lol, u serious? They must've been hardcore or sumthin lol there are some ppl that hold grudges against you if you beat them at it, not pretty...
Just so you know, you cant WIN D&D, its not that kind of game.
You can't win? Then how do you finish it?
You don't 0_0
But in all seriousness, a game can go on forever, and it only ends when the players stop playing it.
And on a side note, I lost the game.
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I used to play AD&D (2'nd Edition, suckas). When I saw that they got rid of my beloved THAC0, I was devastated and only played one game of D&D3.5 thereafter.
I would like to try out 4.0 though, but so far I've been hearing nothing but heavily mixed reviews.
I played AD&D 2nd Edition from 1997 to 2001. I had a fallout with one of my friends who's very influential in our gaming group. I went on a family vacation during the final adventures of his campaign. When I came back, he treated my characters like crap and I quit. Our friendship also ended, too.
There are people who do that. I haven't personally had that happened to me, but I have heard of these things happening.
I have a nice set of D&D dice currently collecting dust on my shelf. Well they would be if they weren't in a velvet bag, but um...the bag is getting dusty at least.
I haven't played in awhile, i'd like to though.
Someday, I want to get a set of Emerald Dice...
I played an "abridged" version of D&D in early middle school, then actual D&D in high school when some of the regulars at the cyber lounge I worked at wanted to play. It was fun for a while, but I don't think I have the patience to play anymore. I tried picking up AD&D, but I already sort of grew uninterested after a while.
Plus, some of the people I played with were kind of annoying. :U
People say I would make an amazing DM, but I've never actually played the pen-paper game.
~Chun
I played a little bit of 3rd edition with my friends. We're gearing up to play 4th edition some once we get things more organized. The new edition has a lot of people up in arms, but then
every new edition did that. My impression is that it's an incredibly good game for running a combat-focused dungeon crawling game. A lot of people wanted to have a more flexible game, but to me it means that D&D is concentrating on the one thing it actually does better than the other games out there. That's actually why I'm keen on playing it now even though I kind of lost interest in 3rd edition (aside from the fact that it looks like they've drastically reduced GM prep time); it'll be a novel experience for me to play a game that emphasizes combat quite that much.
The main thing I like, apart from the fact that it's much simpler overall, is that the game is very balanced. Every class lets you have something to do all the time. A wizard can use up his big time juju in 4e, but he'll still at least be able to lend a hand with magic missiles and such (since they're now considered an at-will power), and a fighter
always has more interesting things to try than just "I slash at him." (Yes there are feats that give more options in 3e, but in 4e it's just not possible to create a fighter without him having some nifty encounter and daily powers to work with).
Quote from: JohnnyAR on June 10, 2008, 09:12:17 PMYou can't win? Then how do you finish it?
Tabletop role-playing games are generally open-ended. You get together with your friends and tell stories, moderated by the rules. The game's rules don't tell you when to stop. (There are some exceptions, like My Life With Master, Polaris, Bliss Stage, etc. that have explicit rules for an endgame, but those are very experimental indie RPGs).
We'll we have played 4th edition a couple times now and I am DMing again tonight. So far it's been a lot of fun. Based on everything so far, I think the switch will be permanent.
The main complaints that I have heard is that it's a very different game than the one people have grown up with. This is very true. But for me the changes are a positive experience and was what I was hoping for from the system. The only issues I have so far are a bunch of minor things which effect my home brewed campaign setting more than anything else. And if I am patient it looks like those issues will be covered in future releases.
So yeah 4th edition rocks fairly hard. I am almost ready to box up my 3.5 books. Well most of them anyways. Some I will keep around for reference purposes.
Haven't played any form of D&D in about 3 years. Last time was a short adventure I ran (3 sessions) involving a murder mystery/fugitive scenario, using very slimmed-down 3rd edition rules. I thought it turned out pretty well and so did my players (to my knowledge) but I kind of hit a wall in my preparations for the sequel adventure so that never happened.
One of my friends whom I introduced to D&D has a regular play group at his school, though. I think they went to the 4th Edition release party - I still haven't seen what the 4E books look like. 2nd Edition is where all my good memories are. I played a lot on OpenRPG (http://www.openrpg.com/) especially.
YOu know, I keep hearing good things about 4'th.. I'm starting to think I might just have to go buy myself a players handbook.
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on June 10, 2008, 09:09:55 PM
Just so you know, you cant WIN D&D, its not that kind of game.
If you can't win, can you
loose the game?
Ssssss, whats a tough one.
I would like to say that a individual can lose on his own, if your character dies only though.
Same goes for a group, you don't lose unless you die.
But even then, death isnt really losing the game, as it is possible that the campaign can countue into and past a characters death. Perhaps the game would take place in the underworld (or the equivalent), or perhaps someone Resurrects the party/character to take on a task.
I would say that it depends on the DM, and how he deals with death.
So...
Q:Losing D&D?
A:Situational.
By the way, I lost the game. I hate "that" game...
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on June 15, 2008, 01:15:58 AM
By the way, I lost the game. I hate "that" game...
Indeed, old meme is old.
Getting back on topic, I've been through the new PHB and just picked up the DMG and MM last night. So far, I'm liking what I'm seeing and right now, I'm mulling over some character concepts to use to put character generation through its paces. It's a lot easier to get into than 3.x has been.
Quote from: Stormfalcon on June 15, 2008, 10:19:19 AM
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on June 15, 2008, 01:15:58 AM
By the way, I lost the game. I hate "that" game...
Indeed, old meme is old.
Make old meme new again by inventing house rules and not telling other people what they are.
(Hey, it occurred to me, house rules is totally a convention I learned best from D&D... go figure.)
Well, if you look at the history of D&D, the original version of the rules was very vague, and people pretty much had to houserule and generally make stuff up. That also meant that the ways people played would vary radially from area to area and group to group. The stereotype is that in D&D you kill things and take their stuff, but some people were actually trying to avoid combat unless it directly furthered their main objective (getting a certain treasure or some such).
With the release of AD&D, Gary Gygax wrote a big long rant in Dragon magazine saying how if you houserule, you're not playing "real" AD&D, but needless to say there's been a tendency towards tinkering that hasn't gone away. These days game designers tend to be of the opinion that a game shouldn't need house rules out of the box to work (which is a no-brainer, really), though that doesn't mean you can't change things if you want.
Rule 0: The DM is always right.
That means that if the DM says that your Greataxe auto-hits and does 1d1000 damage in a 50 mile radius, it happened regardless of what any D&D book says. Thats a House-ruling, mind you a retarded one, but none the less it is. That THAT is the beauty of D&D.
Quote from: Lactose on June 10, 2008, 08:48:21 PM
i used to. i dont know what edition or anything, we only played for a couple of months and then went back to cyberpunk.
I just now realized you mentioned one of my all time favorite roleplaying games Cyberpunk!!!! God I was addicted to that game I pretty much own every book R. Talsorian published for it. The group I played with broke up years ago and I haven't found time to start up a new one.
Well the new edition continues to please me, so I now pose this question. Anyone interested in a pick up game?
This wouldn't be a regular event because I live too far north from San Jose for it to be all that often, but I would be willing to get together on a weekend and throw some dice. I am willing to run the game and teach anyone the new rules now that I am comfortable with them.
I can manage a fairly large group if there is enough interest, but 5-6 would be the best. So first let me know who if anyone is interested and then we can figure out the rest of the details.
Quote from: Mordyan on June 24, 2008, 11:30:13 PM
Well the new edition continues to please me, so I now pose this question. Anyone interested in a pick up game?
This wouldn't be a regular event because I live too far north from San Jose for it to be all that often, but I would be willing to get together on a weekend and throw some dice. I am willing to run the game and teach anyone the new rules now that I am comfortable with them.
I can manage a fairly large group if there is enough interest, but 5-6 would be the best. So first let me know who if anyone is interested and then we can figure out the rest of the details.
I have a idea that would allow the distance between us meaningless.
We can play at DnDOG (DnD Online Games) [Linky (http://www.dndonlinegames.com/index.php?)]
That way, the people who do want to play do not have to waste precious gas money, or traveling time, and there is no meeting date that may lead to conflicting with someones plans.
Its a Win-Win.
My account on the site is the same here, TC X0 Lt 0X (BTW, Those are zeros =3).