Dungeons and Dragons

Xaetherian

General DnD discussion thread for those brave enough to openly admit to playing. I'll start by saying that I only recently started playing 3.5, and after a few rounds getting to know the rules and getting a feel for the freedom and creativity the game allows, it's everything I hoped it would be. Even with getting my butt handed to me every battle on my newest character, currently a level two wizard, the fun I have RPing with my friends more then makes up for it.

Nellaundra

Just recently starting DMing a game.  First game ever for all of us, using 3.5.  Let's hope I don't fail entirely!

Xaetherian

I dmed my first time for part of a night not too long ago myself, it actually came a lot more natually then I thought, there was no combat mind you, but it seemed like the players definitely had fun! Although I think it'd be rather difficult to have a boring drinking contest in a Dwarven tavern!

Tanaar

Seriously? You think people who avidly play a text MUD have any right to be haughty about DnD? Favorite 3.5 class: Ranger. Hands down

Katzchen

I would like to play, but don't have enough people, especially as both of us have no real clue where to start. I do have a thing for table top board or card games, etc, that work well with two people.

Xaetherian

Katzchen said:

I would like to play, but don't have enough people, especially as both of us have no real clue where to start. I do have a thing for table top board or card games, etc, that work well with two people.

Seeing as I live forty five minutes away from most of the other people I play with,I've always wanted to figure out an way to plan online, a virtual table top, simple messaging, or a chat of some sort. Maybe if enough interest is peaked we could start an Achaean campaign!

Synbios

My only experience with DnD is 4chan's /tg/ board, reading splatbooks and Order of the Stick.

Erasariel

I dabble in tabletop games, but I never really got so far as host a real game. I made a simple system using a d20 and a d6 for some adventures I did on a road trip, but nothing much than that.

That said, if anybody wants to include newbies like us into a game and show us the ropes, feel free to organize - I'd gladly sign up.

Katzchen

Yes, if anyone can work how to do it online, I'd be in.

Nellaundra

I use this: 

http://roll20.net/


It's free, easy to use, and pretty intuitive!

Xaetherian

I'd certainly be willing and able to dm a game for Achaeans, the only trouble is figuring out the best way to do it. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to post them here.

Kaden

>_> I started with 4.0 since it was what my group was playing at the time. Only played 3.5 once and the halfling rogue tried to kill me because I was the only other player left standing in a near TPK. 

Also have experience with nWoD, one of the Star Wars RPG, Space Marine and Dark Heresy and some indie titles like Fiasco.

Babel

Oh, believe me, if you ever want to know what it's like being a volunteer God on Achaea, try being a dungeon master sometime. It's a nearly identical experience in many ways, and can make good practice. I've played a few games and run a few games; my favorite class remains 3.5e Cleric for its sheer overpowered glory. Obliterating an entire session's climactic undead battle with a single Greater Turn Undead has to be a high point.

Nakari

I recently managed to find a group of friends to play 3.5 with again. The only problem is that it is almost all new players, and I have infinitely more practice with character optimization then I do with playing. This has given our poor first-time dm some trouble when I turn the fighter into an enlarged great sword wielding dwarf with three attacks at first level. It's a little silly.

Sigge

I've only ever played DDO (I do love it), even though I have some of the books. I should find them, I've always wanted to play, even bought a bunch of the dice...

Aepas

Dark cleric crossclassed with monk is most OP class in the world. hand to hand attacks mixed with inflict heavy wounds, oversized scythe, blah blah stupid OP, also control undead.

Besides that, I started playing pathfinder since It's difficult to get my hands on 3.5 books, especially when deployments roll around. I'll play with you lot if someone wants to DM.

Synbios

Babel said:

Oh, believe me, if you ever want to know what it's like being a volunteer God on Achaea, try being a dungeon master sometime. It's a nearly identical experience in many ways, and can make good practice. I've played a few games and run a few games; my favorite class remains 3.5e Cleric for its sheer overpowered glory. Obliterating an entire session's climactic undead battle with a single Greater Turn Undead has to be a high point.

Also, CoDzillas, CoDzillas everywhere. 

Tvistor

I used to DM for my friends all the time, ran the coolest campaigns in the uniiiiiverse.

The last one before they all left for the UK (bastards) ended with the party barbarian rage-bullrushing the antagonist off a cliff to be killed by a dragonturtle in an extremely convoluted turn of events. He survived with 1 health and got a heal before rage ended, and they all lived happily ever after.

(also I can't remember how exactly, but I managed to get a +40 hide as a level five ranger and spent half a campaign invisible.)

Kaden

We should have a thread for tabletop RP stories. :P

Synbios

Why not use this thread?

Tvistor

I tried using roll20 a while ago, but just can't get used to it. It's more intuitive than anything I had hoped for, but still hasn't compared to playing face-to-face at a level I'd be willing to invest in.

I dunno, maybe I need to give it more time to get used to it.

Chryenth

I DM'ed a load of Mistborn RPGs. They were so fun.

I recall one time, the two protagonists - Antiheros in the truest sense - stormed a noble keep and confronted the head of the house, and old man. They argued for a while before realizing that they hadn't done their homework and their 'evidence' was, in fact, little more than supposition. One of them was a Mistborn, and he'd left both his Copper and his Bronze turned off.

Which is a bad idea when the heir to this particular House is also a Mistborn, has ready access to Atium and is hanging from the rafters directly above your head. 

That boy was like a one-man Naga gank squad.

Nellaundra

Oh, I fully agree that in person would be several thousand times better than Roll20, but I my group is utterly seperated by about 300 miles at a bare minimum.

So, we had to figure out a way to play, and that was brought up.  And I got "volunteered" to be the DM since it was my idea anyway.

I'll post stories as we go!

Jhaeli

Always wanted to play. Never found IRL friends geeky enough to want to try it with me. (I've always felt like there was something missing in my geek cred for not having ever played.) My closest experience with D&D has been the various video games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, NWN, etc.) and a bored afternoon perusing the Forgotten Realms wiki.

I don't know if I've really got the time at the moment (I'm barely able to sign on to Achaea or Minecraft right now thanks to a very hungry baby!), but would definitely be interested in any sort of online group once I do.

@Chryenth Am slightly jealous - a Mistborn RPG would be awesome!

Friztic

I've been playing a game of Pathfinder (otherwise known as 3.75) for 3 years now, and I have my one and only legit 20th level character to show for it. 20th level fighters are just so, so awesome.

Otherwise I've played and ran many TT games over the years, my favorite for both being Shadowrun.

Zeon

Been playing 3.5 for ~8 or so years now, shortly before I started playing Achaea. 

Funny that @Babel mentioned greater turn undead, because I totally did that about a month ago with my Sun domain cleric. Intense boss fight against a high level vampire? I think not!

Tanaar

Babel said:

Oh, believe me, if you ever want to know what it's like being a volunteer God on Achaea, try being a dungeon master sometime. It's a nearly identical experience in many ways, and can make good practice. I've played a few games and run a few games; my favorite class remains 3.5e Cleric for its sheer overpowered glory. Obliterating an entire session's climactic undead battle with a single Greater Turn Undead has to be a high point.

Similar high point: playing an archer ranger against a vampire meant to be recurring, called a shot against it's heart. Crit. DM didn't allow instant kill, but when I drew a warhammer and threw a called shot on hammering the wooden shaft further into it's heart, critting AGAIN, he let it fly. He awarded a full level for the encounter, as we were meant to be totally outgunned and won

Dorn

I'm in a Pathfinder campaign IRL.

My DM's openly admitted he's turned down perfectly reasonable ideas I've suggested for fear of what I'll do with them.

I've short-circuited the plot three times now with DC50 knowledge checks (at level 5/6), and we've gone five sessions without spending more than five rounds in combat. I know more about an alien race descended from madness than the race themselves know.

Wizard3/Priest3, going into Mystic Theurge. (Priest was a hell of a find - extra skill points, better channelling, an extra domain, at the cost of armour (which I can't use) and combat ability (which I don't use).

Tanaar

@Dorn Try Cloistered Cleric, I think it's in Umearthed Arcana. Definitely on d20srd.org. Sounds like what you just described Priest to be.

Same campaign as above, we were cornered by a vrock in a tower, and totally screwed. One of our fighty types was dead already, and the other and the mage were about to be. It was looking like my ranger/rogue would be the only survivor (I've never, ever lost a DnD character over dozens of campaigns,) when the DM let our cleric, who was RPing praying fervently, summon an avoral. No summoning prepared, and an avoral was well beyond our level, but he decided that, in exchange for a full level of XP and the cleric being comatose for an in-game week, his god would take a personal interest. The avoral and vrock ripped one another apart while we escaped with our fighter's body. Definitely a Rule of Cool DM

@Babel can't picture you playing anything other than a cleric of St. Cuthbert now. How my mind works

Ruth

I used to do D&D 4e. Have the books and everything. It's with my friends though. No particular preference in wha I play, but I find I enjoy being a rogue. Think I have some online character sheets.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=74870

Chryenth

@Jhaeli It is, it really is. Although one of my regular players won't stop going on about how he blew up a boat with a Steelpush. Nearly killing one of the other players with 250mph shrapnel and blowing away all his Tin. But hey, the boat exploded.