Dungeons and Dragons

I was curious if anyone played dungeons and dragons here? My wife and another couple we're friends with are starting to play. I've played a little in high school, as has one of the other people in the other couple. I've never been a dm though and I'm getting into that now. I was just curious if anyone else here played because I may have some questions and I"m always interested in tips. Thanks.

I didnt even know people still played that game.

Ha, yeah they do. There's actually a new version (4.0) coming out in a few weeks I believe. Although we're not going to start playing by the 4.0 rules because I already bought all the 3.5 rules lol

I used to have friends that played, I never did.

My boyfriend apparently used to be an avid D&D player in his twenties. The old group he used to play with tried resurrecting gaming together this year. We got to play once (including me), and we've never been able to get together again.

It was a bummer, I had fun playing. I would've liked to continue.

I have a couple of friends that have been designing their own tabletop RPG's for some time now. Those are the only games we run anymore.

I have some old D&D books somewhere, but didn't play it much when I was younger (not to many others into it in the small town I grew up in).

I used to play Vampire: The Masquerade! My friend and I were never serious enough for the hardcore group though, and never took it seriously, so we drifted off. My favorite thing about it was looking at all of the cool artwork in the books..

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I used to play Vampire: The Masquerade! My friend and I were never serious enough for the hardcore group though, and never took it seriously, so we drifted off. My favorite thing about it was looking at all of the cool artwork in the books..

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The artwork was pretty cool. But I only knew one guy who played D&D.

I know many, many people that played and still do play D&D. I, personally, have never played but then I've never been much of a role player .

I'll still be picking up the new Player Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Monster Handbook next week. It's one of the perks of working for Wizards of the Coast. I like to look at the pictures in the book, too! :D

Ok, first of all I wish I hadn't been away when this was first posted. :)

Second: OF COURSE people still play it!! Even tho 3.5 and especially the crud that is 4.0 have 'munchkinized' the game, it still lives on!

As if you couldn't tell, I play D&D and have since I was 5 (original 1st edition). Currently my BF runs two games online since most of our group is back in Texas. One is basic 3rd edition in a world he created that really rocks. The second is a Star Wars Saga edition game that just recently got started and is looking good.

Live RPG, or even online posted form, is the way to go game wise. :)

I've played on and off from when it frist came out still stick to the older rules think they have changed the game for the worse. When I found out they could make evil rangers I knew i was right in staying with the older game.

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Currently my BF runs two games online since most of our group is back in Texas. One is basic 3rd edition in a world he created that really rocks. The second is a Star Wars Saga edition game that just recently got started and is looking good.

Live RPG, or even online posted form, is the way to go game wise. :)

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How are you running the game online? We've considered trying to hook everybody up (Our major judge now lives in nebraska away from the rest of the group) through skype and webcameras, but haven't tried it.

Online Forum won't really work for us with the games we run.
Although it might be interesting to create a game that could be run in that fashion.

Hmm, you must be very visual players, then. :) We run our games off RPOL.net, which is a great IM-like game forum. The GM sets it all up and the players request to join and post away once they're in.

It's not better than live, but it's kinda nice being able to have time to word responses and attacks the way you want them. :) I can PM you my BF's email address if you want more info on the site, since he's the DM and knows more about it all than me.

I'll keep it in mind. We don't run games where we roll initiative or anything like that so combat pretty much happens in the order the judge decides or as close to "realtime" as it can. We always run games with a playlist of music, which has been more of a block to us trying to run anything.

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I didnt even know people still played that game.

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Tsk.

The 4.0 rule set is coming out, which will also offer full computer interface on virtual boards with voice-chat so you can hook up and play with people from around the world. There is also the D&D Online MMORPG.

Looks like it will be interesting. I enjoy boardgames, but never had anybody to try D&D with until recently. Sadly they are moving in a few months, so the 4.0 rule set/online will be perfect for keeping in touch and playing. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLXu...ragons-40.html

I used to play it. Then I moved to Muds online. Then I went to Guild Wars. Now I'm too busy being mature to play games lol!

Not true, I'm just lacking in the necessary free time nowadays :(

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used to play Vampire: The Masquerade! My friend and I were never serious enough for the hardcore group though, and never took it seriously, so we drifted off. My favorite thing about it was looking at all of the cool artwork in the books..

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I have a werewolf tribe glyph tattoo on my arm.
I was in an Eberron Game, which is an offshoot of the D& D game system.. the owners of the games Wizards of the Coast.. opened up their patents.. or what ever and allow independent D20 game systems to be published under their name.

I also do other games such as GURPS, Call of Cthulu, Tri Tac Systems, and in the D20 world, we play Spy Craft, Star Wars, Fringeworthy, and Champions system games.
I am 38 and have been in games since I was 17, I have friends who run Vampire Live Action, and some other games. I have DM'd games, and played a lot of other games.
We do it on our Saturday nights, my husbands friends and I.. I am at a game store NOW, while I am typing this, as they have WI FI, we just finished a GURPS version of Star Trek.
We don't get drunk, we have fun, we do have puns, jokes, silly things go on.. and have a jar for when we go off topic. The jar money is used to buy sodas and for charity work.
You can go into local comic book shops and game stores, you can find simple and fun board games, and books for table top role playing games. There are often announcement boards that have want ads for when people are looking for gamers for games.

Carol