Any DUer's D&D nerds?

[nemo137]

Let's have a check-in thread and chat about it. I'm using my being sick and uselss time to write a campaign to play online with some friends. How about you people?

[HopeHoops]

1. I haven't actively played in over 20 years

I prefer Magic The Gathering now.

[nemo137]

2. Why'd you make the jump from RPG to TCG, if I can ask?

I went the other way, actually. I played M:TG and the Decipher SW:CCG as a young'un, and moved on to D&D in highschool/college. TCG/CCG's stopped appealing to me, for the most part.

How about you?

[kentauros]

12. It's been about 10 years for me.

I never got into Magic: The Gathering. I didn't like the idea of playing away cards. I was never good at gambling, so I likely would have lost most of my hard-earned cards ;)

How about a nice game of Nuclear War, Nuclear Escalation, or Nuclear Proliferation instead? :D

[old mark]

3. About 30 years ago - hardly remember it, but it was enjoyable.nt

[nemo137]

4. We played an old school game this summer.

It was fun. I think I prefer the newer-ish versions still, but I liked AD&D.

[ThomCat]

5. Checking in.

:hi:

[nemo137]

6. Greetings. What's your flavor?

:hi:

[ThomCat]

I like 3.5

I can't say I really like the current version. It is far too dedicated to combat, and leaves out any roleplaying. Crazy me, I thought the whole point was that these were role playing games.

I like to play multiclass characters. Most people should have some levels of Rogue for the skills, and in worlds where Gods are real and have so much direct impact on the world, it should be common for people to be devout enough to have some levels of cleric.

[nemo137]

9. The 4e rules were sort of weird, but the DMG was full of win.

I'm not a huge multi-class fan, although I'll do it playing with a small party. I'm one of those horrible people who likes to play dwarf fighters and halfling rogues.

Although playing a halfling favored soul of the goddess of trickery with an INT of 6 was pretty fun.

[NewJeffCT]

11. what do you think of Pathfinder?

the 3.75 game that just came out?

cleans up a bit of the 3.5 mess, but I haven't looked at it too closely yet (too busy with my 3.5 campaign - high level encounters are a real bear to prep for!)

[ThomCat]

13. I haven't seen it yet?

:shrug:

[nemo137]

18. I took a peek at it.

I don't own it, so I haven't been able to get into it real well. I'm mostly of the mind that if you're committed to 3.5e, there's not a whole lot you can't fix with house rules and Rule #1. That said, I can see Pathfinder's utility for a club game where you're bringing in all kinds of people who you might not play with on a regular basis.

[Orsino]

37. I was all set. It was gonna happen.

Glorious fun character: http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=9914826&postcount=92

Game peters out before the first roll of the die: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=438386

[EndersDame]

7. My brother is a serious gamer and I sometimes play with him

I just feel so embaressed around his friends because I don't know all the rules or what to do I also like Seventh Sea

[nemo137]

8. One of my buddies is playing 7th Sea right now.

I've heard good things.

[EndersDame]

21. The system encourages creative character development

[NewJeffCT]

10. I'm about to sit down and DM a TPK

just kidding...

but, I'm running a now 2+ year old D&D campaign (edition 3.5) that is nearing its climax. The PCs are going up against some drow ass kickers in about 5 minutes, including one named after DUer Chovexani.

[EndersDame]

14. Hello Gordon lol

My old DM did that and took a sick pleasure in killing

PCS

[nemo137]

16. Nice. Go kick some ass.

Don't be afraid to use the DM's "smite stupid" class ability if you have to.

[NewJeffCT]

24. The party did a pretty good job overall

One PC died, but they managed to use Revivify to prevent his death, and a couple of PCs spent a good portion of the fight being stunned. However, they finally defeated their long-time nemesis, Chovexani the drow duskblade (who died twice in the battle - she was also Revivified, then healed up, and managed to cause a bunch more damage before finally dropping.

The party cleric cast a Mass Heal (level 9 spell) that really helped, while the drow priestess got killed just before she could cast her own Mass Heal.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. I've never actually played.

But I've got an attic full of the books and old issues of Dragon.

[nemo137]

17. It's as good a way as any to spend a saturday afternoon.

Get a few friends over, kill monsters, take their stuff. Good times.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Yeah, my kids loved it.

By pure coincidence I happened to walk into a gaming store last year on the day Gary Gygax died (I was interested in looking for board games).

I was pleased to see a crowd of kids in the back rolling and shouting things like "you encounter giant spiders" and "I cast fireball!"

[Iggo]

19. Played a little Chainmail way back in the wayback.

Never got into the whole D&D thing.

But I can spot a crenelated battlement a mile away.

[nemo137]

22. I think you just lapped everyone here.

:toast:

[Iggo]

23. The older I get, the more that happens...lol.

:toast:

[DarkTirade]

25. Just started an AD&D campaign, and just converted the 3.5 campaign

into a Pathfinder one.

If I had more time I'd be doing another 3.5 game on Friday nights.

[NewJeffCT]

27. I'm too late into my 3.5 campaign to switch

It's been going on a bit over 2 years now and I think we'll have another 4-6 sessions before it's wrapped up. What do you think of Pathfinder?

[DarkTirade]

38. Seems good so far.

Was easy to convert our characters over from 3.5 to Pathfinder. So far the campaign's running pretty well. Pathfinder was an attempt to fix a lot of the flaws in 3.5, and from what I've seen so far it seems to be working. But we've only had a couple sessions with it, so I'm gonna reserve judgement until I've seen more of it.

[Roon]

26. I never played,but the other neighbor kids did..

they were interrupted once by this lady in the cul-de-sac and she started telling them how evil D&D is and bla bla bla.....talking this smack to little kids...

[nemo137]

34. My DM's pastor used to play with us

Times change, huh?

[Roon]

39. No doubt!

[Orsino]

28. I play in Forgotten Realms with a group online...

...but we are using fantasy-fied Alternity rules. We migrated from Chat to kLoOgE several months back, and it's working well.

I would really like to fire up some AD&D2.5 someday. I never played much third edition, and haven't touched 4th.

[Orrex]

29. Anyone who plays anything after 2nd Ed Skills & Powers is a nerd

:P

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Played as a kid.

[asdjrocky]

31. I am Dex. Level 66 Cleric.

How may I serve you?

[TK421]

32. We play here every Monday night

:hi: though there is much I have to learn about the game

[nemo137]

35. Oh, me too.

That's why you read the books for fun though, right?

[Bucky]

33. It was all fun & games until playing D&D turned me to worshipping Satan

Boy, I sure do miss D&D'ing.

[Hayabusa]

36. Haven't played D&D in years,

but I'm trying to get into an online game. In the meantime, I've mainly been playing the Star Wars RPG. It's really fun, though.