Dungeons and Dragons

Discuss, create, and theorize about roleplaying games, tabletop games, board games, and other non-electronic interactive entertainments. Run dedicated or complex forum games here, also.

Moderator: ℎalifax

User avatar
Queen of All Spiders
Posts: 4263
Joined: 2008.09.29 (03:54)
NUMA Profile: http://www.freeWoWgold.edu
MBTI Type: ENFP
Location: Quebec, Canada!

Postby SlappyMcGee » 2008.11.24 (19:45)

I assume this is the correct forum for this, so here goes:

Check out this link for an amazing hand crafted dungeon. Any minatures gamer out there should marvel at these images:

http://www.dwarvenforge.com/dwarvenforu ... hp?id=1048

Furthermore, are there any closets dungeoneers out there that Metanet hasn't uncovered? I know that if you don't go on the Ventrilo, you probably wouldn't be aware of the Pen-And-Paper subculture of the forums.
Loathes

User avatar
Demon Fisherman
Posts: 1265
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby blue_tetris » 2008.11.24 (21:10)

I have heard of this game.
Image
The Real N Sex on the Xerox Space Pimp Online Super Fluffy Pack 1! Super Fluffy Pack 2! Super Crunchy Pack! Mother Thumping Impossible: 2005 MotY! Time is on My Side: 2006 PMotY! Survival map king! Best humor award! Best satire award! Best voice award! Inadvertently intimidating! Assholier than thou! Gdubs is totally back! WIS 14! Cyberzone creator! Clique creator! Most lines on IRC! Ventrilo moderator and regular! Certified Dungeon Master! Most modest person ever! ENTP! Incorrigible alcoholic! CHA 19! AMERICAN! Least pretentious! Elitist extraordinaire! Liberal libertarian! Incapable of experiencing love! Check Safe! Commodore of the Eldritch Seas! Archmagus of the Eleventh Hall! Sheriff of the Uncharted West! Godfather of the IRC Mafia! Pun enthusiast! Quadster! Challenging Dunbar's number! Wikipedian!Approves of 4th Edition! 1,000 Blank White Cards! radio_free_tetris! Migratory! INT 18! Doesn't know when he's being genuine, therefore cannot form lasting relationships with people! Really into black chicks! Even more into Indian chicks and Blasians! Hates moderators! Loves the C word! Tronster! Thinks we should play more Worms! Always wins iSketch! Owns a Wii! Plays as Pikachu in Smash Bros! Wrote literotica! Wrote anime fanfic! Sorta into Asians! Lived and loved the 80's and 90's! Chattiest sig! Cyberzone ][ creator! Operand of the Greater Space Pimp Continuum! Helped lead the forum move!Wizard Date! Participated in the blue_tetris takeover! Pithiest one-liners! Walkin' on, walkin' on broken glass! Seems to have an invisible touch! Economist! Mario hackster! Owner of the most complex D&D campaign setting! Micromanagerial! FREEDOM is all-American! Slowly distancing! Supports the Democrats! Supports the old GOP! CATO Institute fanboy! Penn and Teller fan! Large, in charge, and on a barge! Heralded by community as genius hero! Proud yet humble recipient of the Mare & Raigan Award for 2008! CON 9! Dave of Nazareth! Communist is annoyed with me! Not half bad at images! F.Y.I. I am a medic! It's a spook house, lame ball. Too bad! Space Pimp II: Rags 2 Bitches! F.Y.I. I am a spy! Entire team is babbies! STR 10! Sorta appreciating scythe and atob again, for new reasons! Played CS:S briefly! Welcome to Nebraska! Do you think you can Live! Heist! Portrayer of the mighty 88 Shells! Joyous proprietor of the future estate of Kablizzy and blue_tetris! It's Batmen all the way up! They brought crystals to a sceince fight; that's a good way to lose your cat! Even SlappyMcGee! I'm about to run out of either primates or sexually transmitted diseases! One-upper! Toaster oven clairvoyant Mythomaniac! That's the Magic of Macy's! Half of Half! Spend all my time making love, all my love making time!

Beyond a Perfect Math Score
Posts: 829
Joined: 2008.09.25 (21:35)
Location: England
Contact:

Postby Luminaflare » 2008.11.24 (22:23)

Slappy that thing is freaking sweet.

User avatar
Damn You're Fine
Posts: 388
Joined: 2008.09.26 (23:47)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/Eternal_Boredom
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby DoctorAperture » 2008.11.24 (22:27)

Dungeons and Dragons... maaayyybbeeee

im curious: how many people here approve of v4?

And that dungeon is friggin awesome, i use lego blocks and a ruler :/
Image
random stuff

Image
Image
Thanks tp pawz and GTM for the sig
Image

obligatory ad for my comic(s)

Image
Image
Image

LittleViking wrote:Oh, sure. I just hope this doesn't open the door to new jokes instead, you know? I'd hate for this to shed some light on more name-related puns. Maybe now they can focus their efforts elsewhere.
Awww, so cute!

Image


User avatar
Hawaii Five-Oh
Posts: 921
Joined: 2008.09.26 (05:49)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/condog_111
MBTI Type: ISTJ
Location: Melbourne-ish

Postby Condog » 2008.11.24 (22:35)

That table don't have nuffin on 40k tables.
Image

Ice Climbers are awesome. Deal with it.

User avatar
The 700 Club
Posts: 744
Joined: 2008.10.17 (00:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/BionicCryonic
Location: Lethal Lava Land

Postby Yoshimo » 2008.11.24 (23:19)

I don't have it, but I want it. Who would play with me though.
spoiler

Image
Image


User avatar
Life Time Achievement Award
Posts: 255
Joined: 2008.10.07 (01:06)

Postby darkshadow » 2008.11.24 (23:28)

That is really impressive. Anyways I haven't gotten a game together in nearly two years but I played a lot during v 3/3.5. From what I know of v 4 it certainly helps the DM who has to deal with the player who refuses to participate unless he's allowed to use every feat from every third party source every published and the newbie who needs his hand held, however I for one certainly enjoyed a small amount of min/maxing every time I designed a new character (I always had terrific DMs who could maintain control of the group and all the experience players would always help out and sometimes act as assistent DM, especially during character creation, so those things were less of an issue in my groups).
Numerous ex-0ths (xaaaaeeeelaaaar!), over 300 top-20s and a 19+ hour total score.
Unreality's awesome mod
You are an innovator at least as good as Lim ;D - xaelar
Image

User avatar
Dance Dance Revolution Android
Posts: 881
Joined: 2008.09.28 (02:06)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/TribulatioN
MBTI Type: ESFP
Location: Canada

Postby TribulatioN » 2008.11.24 (23:48)

I've heard of DaD, but never really knew what it was about. But that looks totally awesome.
[ispoiler=http://i31.tinypic.com/111p9bo.png]gloomp : gloomp : Why Me : toasters : SkyRay : Slurpee@fpsbanana : KaMikA@Haklabs[/ispoiler]ImageImage[spoiler=Neditor Nation]Currently Challenging: lord_day
Image[/spoiler][spoiler=Puzzle of the Exuberant!]Image
Image
ImageImageImageImageImage[/spoiler]

User avatar
Queen of All Spiders
Posts: 4263
Joined: 2008.09.29 (03:54)
NUMA Profile: http://www.freeWoWgold.edu
MBTI Type: ENFP
Location: Quebec, Canada!

Postby SlappyMcGee » 2008.11.25 (00:02)

Basically, for anyone unfamiliar, Dungeons and Dragons is a game where you create characters based on rules set out by the game and then interact in a world where your actions are determined by your role-playing as the character and probability (dice).

It's great fun, and if you have the -time- to commit to such a thing, (Such as regular nights off, such as every Friday) we'd love for you to join us on Ventrilo and play sometime. We can set you up with all of the materials.

Furthermore, I wasn't clear from the beginning, but the minature setup shown in the first picture is optional; we use a program called MapTool to emulate this experience. It is really only necessary for combat, but boy, that sure does enhance the experience.

And finally, my thoughts on 4th edition is that it is not perfect, but it is a vast improvement on 3.5, and the art in the core books is sweet!
Loathes

User avatar
Retrofuturist
Posts: 3131
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:55)
MBTI Type: ENTP
Location: California, USA
Contact:

Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2008.11.25 (02:57)

I've been a D&D player for 8+ years. Haven't played much of it at all in the last few years, though. Once you go WhiteWolf, you never go back.
[spoiler="you know i always joked that it would be scary as hell to run into DMX in a dark ally, but secretly when i say 'DMX' i really mean 'Tsukatu'." -kai]"... and when i say 'scary as hell' i really mean 'tight pink shirt'." -kai[/spoiler][/i]
spoiler

Image


User avatar
Demon Fisherman
Posts: 1265
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby blue_tetris » 2008.11.25 (03:03)

Tsukatu wrote:I've been a D&D player for 8+ years. Haven't played much of it at all in the last few years, though. Once you go WhiteWolf, you never go back.
Lol. WhiteWolf.

That mechanic is tres gameable.
Image
The Real N Sex on the Xerox Space Pimp Online Super Fluffy Pack 1! Super Fluffy Pack 2! Super Crunchy Pack! Mother Thumping Impossible: 2005 MotY! Time is on My Side: 2006 PMotY! Survival map king! Best humor award! Best satire award! Best voice award! Inadvertently intimidating! Assholier than thou! Gdubs is totally back! WIS 14! Cyberzone creator! Clique creator! Most lines on IRC! Ventrilo moderator and regular! Certified Dungeon Master! Most modest person ever! ENTP! Incorrigible alcoholic! CHA 19! AMERICAN! Least pretentious! Elitist extraordinaire! Liberal libertarian! Incapable of experiencing love! Check Safe! Commodore of the Eldritch Seas! Archmagus of the Eleventh Hall! Sheriff of the Uncharted West! Godfather of the IRC Mafia! Pun enthusiast! Quadster! Challenging Dunbar's number! Wikipedian!Approves of 4th Edition! 1,000 Blank White Cards! radio_free_tetris! Migratory! INT 18! Doesn't know when he's being genuine, therefore cannot form lasting relationships with people! Really into black chicks! Even more into Indian chicks and Blasians! Hates moderators! Loves the C word! Tronster! Thinks we should play more Worms! Always wins iSketch! Owns a Wii! Plays as Pikachu in Smash Bros! Wrote literotica! Wrote anime fanfic! Sorta into Asians! Lived and loved the 80's and 90's! Chattiest sig! Cyberzone ][ creator! Operand of the Greater Space Pimp Continuum! Helped lead the forum move!Wizard Date! Participated in the blue_tetris takeover! Pithiest one-liners! Walkin' on, walkin' on broken glass! Seems to have an invisible touch! Economist! Mario hackster! Owner of the most complex D&D campaign setting! Micromanagerial! FREEDOM is all-American! Slowly distancing! Supports the Democrats! Supports the old GOP! CATO Institute fanboy! Penn and Teller fan! Large, in charge, and on a barge! Heralded by community as genius hero! Proud yet humble recipient of the Mare & Raigan Award for 2008! CON 9! Dave of Nazareth! Communist is annoyed with me! Not half bad at images! F.Y.I. I am a medic! It's a spook house, lame ball. Too bad! Space Pimp II: Rags 2 Bitches! F.Y.I. I am a spy! Entire team is babbies! STR 10! Sorta appreciating scythe and atob again, for new reasons! Played CS:S briefly! Welcome to Nebraska! Do you think you can Live! Heist! Portrayer of the mighty 88 Shells! Joyous proprietor of the future estate of Kablizzy and blue_tetris! It's Batmen all the way up! They brought crystals to a sceince fight; that's a good way to lose your cat! Even SlappyMcGee! I'm about to run out of either primates or sexually transmitted diseases! One-upper! Toaster oven clairvoyant Mythomaniac! That's the Magic of Macy's! Half of Half! Spend all my time making love, all my love making time!

Ice Cold
Posts: 221
Joined: 2008.10.07 (02:46)

Postby Sniperwhere » 2008.11.25 (04:37)

I used to play this game a lot. But when the DM crapped out on us, we couldn't find a new one, and I haven't played since.

Man, what i wouldn't give to play again. I had a great character, with a great background as well.(although it did use the cliche of the evil twin)

Unsavory Conquistador of the Western Front
Posts: 1541
Joined: 2008.09.19 (12:19)
NUMA Profile: http://www.nmaps.net/user/Kablizzy
MBTI Type: ISTJ
Location: Huntington, WV
Contact:

Postby Kablizzy » 2008.11.25 (07:22)

Eternal Boredom wrote:im curious: how many people here approve of v4?
Everyone but me, I think.
Image
vankusss wrote:What 'more time' means?
I'm going to buy some ham.

User avatar
Life Time Achievement Award
Posts: 255
Joined: 2008.10.07 (01:06)

Postby darkshadow » 2008.11.25 (15:19)

Kablizzy wrote:
Eternal Boredom wrote:im curious: how many people here approve of v4?
Everyone but me, I think.
Do I not count or something? In case I didn't make it clear, for any game I will run I'll probably continue to use v 3.5. I only think it was an improvement for those groups where the complexity of v 3.5 hindered the campaign.
Numerous ex-0ths (xaaaaeeeelaaaar!), over 300 top-20s and a 19+ hour total score.
Unreality's awesome mod
You are an innovator at least as good as Lim ;D - xaelar
Image

Eine Kleine Yachtmusik
Posts: 22
Joined: 2008.09.26 (14:00)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: INFJ

Postby AF » 2008.11.25 (15:45)

As someone who's new to DMing (I've only DMed, like, 4 sessions), I find 4e to be a lot easier to work with than 3.5. The only problem with 4e is trying to get Kablizzy not to hate every single aspect of it.

User avatar
The Konami Number
Posts: 584
Joined: 2008.09.25 (21:40)
MBTI Type: INFP

Postby Snuggletummy » 2008.11.25 (16:46)

I don't even play D&D, and even I think what that guy made is freaking awesome. Almost makes me want to play it, and, to be honest, the only reason I don't is that part where you role play as your character. I get embarrassed.
Image
Cracked.com wrote:All video-game characters are in fact made of cotton candy. This theory, and only this theory, can explain the cat-like hydrophobia shared universally by their kind. How else are we to believe that Frogger, a frog, is killed instantly on contact with water?

User avatar
Retrofuturist
Posts: 3131
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:55)
MBTI Type: ENTP
Location: California, USA
Contact:

Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2008.11.25 (20:11)

I'm pretty sure that 4th Ed was greed. It's a functional system and all, and it does fix a few issues that might have lingered through the 3.0-3.5 transition, but it also introduces many more problems. To me, 4th Ed is no longer a game about roleplaying, but about tactical combat. It's D&D: Tactics. By introducing nifty little things like "make an attack and then teleport 3 squares" at low levels, you've effectively made low-level PCs immune to jail. The mechanics for combat are fine, sure, but roleplay, exploration, spelunking, and generally interacting with things in a non-violent manner have all gotten screwed over because of them.
I'd play in a 4th Ed game with the understanding that the only challenges to be thrown at us is combat, and the only choices made are whom to fight. I can't imagine myself making a 3-dimensional 4th Ed character.
[spoiler="you know i always joked that it would be scary as hell to run into DMX in a dark ally, but secretly when i say 'DMX' i really mean 'Tsukatu'." -kai]"... and when i say 'scary as hell' i really mean 'tight pink shirt'." -kai[/spoiler][/i]
spoiler

Image


User avatar
Depressing
Posts: 1977
Joined: 2008.09.26 (06:46)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/rennaT
MBTI Type: ISTJ
Location: Trenton, Ontario, Canada
Contact:

Postby Tanner » 2008.11.25 (23:35)

4e : 3.5e :: action movie : docu-drama
Image
'rret donc d'niaser 'vec mon sirop d'erable, calis, si j't'r'vois icitte j'pellerais la police, tu l'veras l'criss de poutine de cul t'auras en prison, tabarnak

Unsavory Conquistador of the Western Front
Posts: 1541
Joined: 2008.09.19 (12:19)
NUMA Profile: http://www.nmaps.net/user/Kablizzy
MBTI Type: ISTJ
Location: Huntington, WV
Contact:

Postby Kablizzy » 2008.11.26 (00:09)

Tsukatu wrote:I'm pretty sure that 4th Ed was greed. It's a functional system and all, and it does fix a few issues that might have lingered through the 3.0-3.5 transition, but it also introduces many more problems. To me, 4th Ed is no longer a game about roleplaying, but about tactical combat. It's D&D: Tactics. By introducing nifty little things like "make an attack and then teleport 3 squares" at low levels, you've effectively made low-level PCs immune to jail. The mechanics for combat are fine, sure, but roleplay, exploration, spelunking, and generally interacting with things in a non-violent manner have all gotten screwed over because of them.
I'd play in a 4th Ed game with the understanding that the only challenges to be thrown at us is combat, and the only choices made are whom to fight. I can't imagine myself making a 3-dimensional 4th Ed character.
Precisely why I like White Wolf games. I make dudes, not statpages.
Image
vankusss wrote:What 'more time' means?
I'm going to buy some ham.

User avatar
Demon Fisherman
Posts: 1265
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby blue_tetris » 2008.11.26 (00:28)

I find that the 4th Edition book places a lot of focus on the combat system because the rest of it falls into place with proper DMing. The DMG has nearly no rules--why should it?--and is all about helping the new DMs know how to run everything beyond the confines of combat.

The thing is, WhiteWolf has created a setting for you and so it has to explain that setting in depth. With 4E D&D, there was no endeavor to create a setting for DMs, instead providing more of a generic ruleset that an individual DM can use for combat and mechanics resolution. So if the 4E D&D set seems lacking in gameworld compared to, say, Vampire: The Masquerade, it's only because the former is more open-ended.

That said, those who say the combat for 4E doesn't run as smoothly or tactically as 3.5E are on drugs. In the 3E model, there was a different mechanic for the 18 different things associated with the 18 different classes. There was no top-down resolution as to what things took precedence over others and it lacked a universal model that you could interpret everything through. The reason Dr. Garfield's boss game (M:tG) works is because there's a small set of staple mechanics and everything else in the game can eventually be applied to those standards. When all other rules and references fail, in M:tG there's a failsafe.

4E has that failsafe. The "Powers" dynamic gives an easy-to-figure prism that all class-based abilities are refracted through. The lack of needless complexity and mathematical analysis given to every possible usage of every possible power means that you don't waste time at the table rifling through compendia, rolling d% for everything, and using calculators. It's DM interpretation. If you're not good with that, I'm sure there'll be some guides for sale that let you forgo making up what happens when a frost beam hits a pool of water. (No, that's not covered in the rules in 4E; they figure a DM can make it up. Check 3E for an unnecessarily detailed analysis of each "cold" involving its interaction with each "water".)

Additionally, powers offer generic combat-implications and leave the rest wide open. It's easy to turn Warlord into Bard with a few creative changes on the part of the player. Likewise, it's easy to "de-fantasy" the game by making the usage of powers more mundane than spectacular. Because the numbers are wholly divorced from the world-building and imagining of the game, DMs and players alike are free to mold the world more to their liking.



Having run over 30 sessions of 4E D&D already, I can affirm to you that the jackholes who used to run all-combat sessions might have an easier time running such sessions in 4E (knowing full well those idiots were already doing it with 3E). But running standard high-roleplay sessions is just as easy.

I have a pretty standard mix of 30% roleplay, 30% combat, and 40% thinking and applications stuff. I haven't lost any ability to do that with 4E. Play a game with me sometime and you'll see a standard Dave game that has been bolstered by an easier-to-use ruleset. Once you get the hang of 4E, it's easier to run games with it, altogether.



I played some D&D, I played tons of AD&D (which was a rules nightmare, if you really go back and look at it), I played a ridiculous amount of 3E, and I can honestly say that 4E is better (albeit a high fantasy evolution--even in the ruleset--of the former editions).



Final note: 3E didn't facilitate adding roleplay elements to characters any better than 4E does. Once you get used to the system, it's just as easy (perhaps, just as difficult) to add in the roleplay elements yourself.

Any disbelievers in the roleplay, skill-usage, ritual-usage, and other "thinker's elements" of 4E may do well to listen in to my sessions sometime. (The rituals, by the way, are masterful. A player in my game is also picking up alchemy, which lets him make up his own concoctions at random just to see what they might do. It'll be fun DMing some of that.)
Image
The Real N Sex on the Xerox Space Pimp Online Super Fluffy Pack 1! Super Fluffy Pack 2! Super Crunchy Pack! Mother Thumping Impossible: 2005 MotY! Time is on My Side: 2006 PMotY! Survival map king! Best humor award! Best satire award! Best voice award! Inadvertently intimidating! Assholier than thou! Gdubs is totally back! WIS 14! Cyberzone creator! Clique creator! Most lines on IRC! Ventrilo moderator and regular! Certified Dungeon Master! Most modest person ever! ENTP! Incorrigible alcoholic! CHA 19! AMERICAN! Least pretentious! Elitist extraordinaire! Liberal libertarian! Incapable of experiencing love! Check Safe! Commodore of the Eldritch Seas! Archmagus of the Eleventh Hall! Sheriff of the Uncharted West! Godfather of the IRC Mafia! Pun enthusiast! Quadster! Challenging Dunbar's number! Wikipedian!Approves of 4th Edition! 1,000 Blank White Cards! radio_free_tetris! Migratory! INT 18! Doesn't know when he's being genuine, therefore cannot form lasting relationships with people! Really into black chicks! Even more into Indian chicks and Blasians! Hates moderators! Loves the C word! Tronster! Thinks we should play more Worms! Always wins iSketch! Owns a Wii! Plays as Pikachu in Smash Bros! Wrote literotica! Wrote anime fanfic! Sorta into Asians! Lived and loved the 80's and 90's! Chattiest sig! Cyberzone ][ creator! Operand of the Greater Space Pimp Continuum! Helped lead the forum move!Wizard Date! Participated in the blue_tetris takeover! Pithiest one-liners! Walkin' on, walkin' on broken glass! Seems to have an invisible touch! Economist! Mario hackster! Owner of the most complex D&D campaign setting! Micromanagerial! FREEDOM is all-American! Slowly distancing! Supports the Democrats! Supports the old GOP! CATO Institute fanboy! Penn and Teller fan! Large, in charge, and on a barge! Heralded by community as genius hero! Proud yet humble recipient of the Mare & Raigan Award for 2008! CON 9! Dave of Nazareth! Communist is annoyed with me! Not half bad at images! F.Y.I. I am a medic! It's a spook house, lame ball. Too bad! Space Pimp II: Rags 2 Bitches! F.Y.I. I am a spy! Entire team is babbies! STR 10! Sorta appreciating scythe and atob again, for new reasons! Played CS:S briefly! Welcome to Nebraska! Do you think you can Live! Heist! Portrayer of the mighty 88 Shells! Joyous proprietor of the future estate of Kablizzy and blue_tetris! It's Batmen all the way up! They brought crystals to a sceince fight; that's a good way to lose your cat! Even SlappyMcGee! I'm about to run out of either primates or sexually transmitted diseases! One-upper! Toaster oven clairvoyant Mythomaniac! That's the Magic of Macy's! Half of Half! Spend all my time making love, all my love making time!

User avatar
Demon Fisherman
Posts: 1265
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby blue_tetris » 2008.11.26 (00:34)

Oh, follow-up note. "Teleportation" is just a non-shift move across a short distance in the context of combat momentum and "switching places" with people and things. That's the conceptual skeleton of it. For a fey (my version of eladrin), I have described it as a nearly imperceptible shift in the tide of battle, flowing across nature itself--yeah, it's magic, but it ain't unstoppable. As a DM, you have the power to make the flavor of the teleport anything you desire and determine how it functions outside of combat. The book just makes it easier to describe in combat.

A crafty DM puts challenges that properly test the players. I have a fey and they were jammed in a prison. But the fey alone could escape the bars; it wasn't much help for the others. Moreover, that fey alone would've been in the solitary presence of the wardens who could easily have handed his ass to him without the dwarf and the thieves helping out.

It ended up being an amazing scene. The fey chose imprisonment to live the "human punishment" and find the "human escape" from the agents of human law.
Image
The Real N Sex on the Xerox Space Pimp Online Super Fluffy Pack 1! Super Fluffy Pack 2! Super Crunchy Pack! Mother Thumping Impossible: 2005 MotY! Time is on My Side: 2006 PMotY! Survival map king! Best humor award! Best satire award! Best voice award! Inadvertently intimidating! Assholier than thou! Gdubs is totally back! WIS 14! Cyberzone creator! Clique creator! Most lines on IRC! Ventrilo moderator and regular! Certified Dungeon Master! Most modest person ever! ENTP! Incorrigible alcoholic! CHA 19! AMERICAN! Least pretentious! Elitist extraordinaire! Liberal libertarian! Incapable of experiencing love! Check Safe! Commodore of the Eldritch Seas! Archmagus of the Eleventh Hall! Sheriff of the Uncharted West! Godfather of the IRC Mafia! Pun enthusiast! Quadster! Challenging Dunbar's number! Wikipedian!Approves of 4th Edition! 1,000 Blank White Cards! radio_free_tetris! Migratory! INT 18! Doesn't know when he's being genuine, therefore cannot form lasting relationships with people! Really into black chicks! Even more into Indian chicks and Blasians! Hates moderators! Loves the C word! Tronster! Thinks we should play more Worms! Always wins iSketch! Owns a Wii! Plays as Pikachu in Smash Bros! Wrote literotica! Wrote anime fanfic! Sorta into Asians! Lived and loved the 80's and 90's! Chattiest sig! Cyberzone ][ creator! Operand of the Greater Space Pimp Continuum! Helped lead the forum move!Wizard Date! Participated in the blue_tetris takeover! Pithiest one-liners! Walkin' on, walkin' on broken glass! Seems to have an invisible touch! Economist! Mario hackster! Owner of the most complex D&D campaign setting! Micromanagerial! FREEDOM is all-American! Slowly distancing! Supports the Democrats! Supports the old GOP! CATO Institute fanboy! Penn and Teller fan! Large, in charge, and on a barge! Heralded by community as genius hero! Proud yet humble recipient of the Mare & Raigan Award for 2008! CON 9! Dave of Nazareth! Communist is annoyed with me! Not half bad at images! F.Y.I. I am a medic! It's a spook house, lame ball. Too bad! Space Pimp II: Rags 2 Bitches! F.Y.I. I am a spy! Entire team is babbies! STR 10! Sorta appreciating scythe and atob again, for new reasons! Played CS:S briefly! Welcome to Nebraska! Do you think you can Live! Heist! Portrayer of the mighty 88 Shells! Joyous proprietor of the future estate of Kablizzy and blue_tetris! It's Batmen all the way up! They brought crystals to a sceince fight; that's a good way to lose your cat! Even SlappyMcGee! I'm about to run out of either primates or sexually transmitted diseases! One-upper! Toaster oven clairvoyant Mythomaniac! That's the Magic of Macy's! Half of Half! Spend all my time making love, all my love making time!

User avatar
Queen of All Spiders
Posts: 4263
Joined: 2008.09.29 (03:54)
NUMA Profile: http://www.freeWoWgold.edu
MBTI Type: ENFP
Location: Quebec, Canada!

Postby SlappyMcGee » 2008.11.26 (04:12)

Look at it this way; 4e brings a lot of bonuses to combat to the table. It lets everyone do their part in a fight, something that was painstakingly boring if you were a rogue in 3.5. AF, when he would play, would often be helpless in some of our early battles, without a sneak attack. Now, in the new mechanic, powers enable you always to have something interesting to do on your turn.

So, aside from keeping non-combat oriented players attentive to the game, it also streamlines combat. The system gives a vehicle for DMs to describe some fantastic things during the combat (Melf's Acid Arrow might not be Melf's anymore, but it is still fascinating to hear about a giant acidic laser arrow soaring through the sky into a dude) which should satisfy the gorehounds, but it also means that combat can be handled quickly. We can then move on to what a lot of Dunegeoners found was missing from recent games, which is to say an emphasis on character development and plot exposition. I'd rather have an easy combat system that makes us all more powerful so I can get back to deciding whether or not I should trust the traitorous Tarsheva.

Finally, as far as making somebody invincible goes, I don't think this system does that. It certainly forces the DM to strategize as much as the player in his attacks on them, though, and that, to me, is a good thing.

Also, kablizzy sucks.
Loathes

Plus (Size) Member
Posts: 42
Joined: 2008.09.27 (02:56)

Postby taaveti » 2008.11.26 (04:24)

Snuggletummy wrote:I don't even play D&D, and even I think what that guy made is freaking awesome. Almost makes me want to play it, and, to be honest, the only reason I don't is that part where you role play as your character. I get embarrassed.
That really depends on the group, the GM, and the particular game. I've never played in a group who made any attempts (well... serious attempts anyway) to act the part of their characters- it's more like telling a collaborative story, with each "author" telling the part relevant to a single character. I'm like you in that I'd be pretty embarassed to try to "become" my character in any RPG, but I've enjoyed being a gamer for over a decade.

User avatar
Demon Fisherman
Posts: 1265
Joined: 2008.09.19 (06:28)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby blue_tetris » 2008.11.26 (04:38)

SlappyMcGee wrote:So, aside from keeping non-combat oriented players attentive to the game, it also streamlines combat. The system gives a vehicle for DMs to describe some fantastic things during the combat (Melf's Acid Arrow might not be Melf's anymore, but it is still fascinating to hear about a giant acidic laser arrow soaring through the sky into a dude) which should satisfy the gorehounds, but it also means that combat can be handled quickly. We can then move on to what a lot of Dunegeoners found was missing from recent games, which is to say an emphasis on character development and plot exposition. I'd rather have an easy combat system that makes us all more powerful so I can get back to deciding whether or not I should trust the traitorous Tarsheva.
Tarsheva reaches for the cuff of your sleeve, but to no avail. She seems to be composed of vaporous ghoststuff. Perhaps it wasn't all lies, after all.
Image
The Real N Sex on the Xerox Space Pimp Online Super Fluffy Pack 1! Super Fluffy Pack 2! Super Crunchy Pack! Mother Thumping Impossible: 2005 MotY! Time is on My Side: 2006 PMotY! Survival map king! Best humor award! Best satire award! Best voice award! Inadvertently intimidating! Assholier than thou! Gdubs is totally back! WIS 14! Cyberzone creator! Clique creator! Most lines on IRC! Ventrilo moderator and regular! Certified Dungeon Master! Most modest person ever! ENTP! Incorrigible alcoholic! CHA 19! AMERICAN! Least pretentious! Elitist extraordinaire! Liberal libertarian! Incapable of experiencing love! Check Safe! Commodore of the Eldritch Seas! Archmagus of the Eleventh Hall! Sheriff of the Uncharted West! Godfather of the IRC Mafia! Pun enthusiast! Quadster! Challenging Dunbar's number! Wikipedian!Approves of 4th Edition! 1,000 Blank White Cards! radio_free_tetris! Migratory! INT 18! Doesn't know when he's being genuine, therefore cannot form lasting relationships with people! Really into black chicks! Even more into Indian chicks and Blasians! Hates moderators! Loves the C word! Tronster! Thinks we should play more Worms! Always wins iSketch! Owns a Wii! Plays as Pikachu in Smash Bros! Wrote literotica! Wrote anime fanfic! Sorta into Asians! Lived and loved the 80's and 90's! Chattiest sig! Cyberzone ][ creator! Operand of the Greater Space Pimp Continuum! Helped lead the forum move!Wizard Date! Participated in the blue_tetris takeover! Pithiest one-liners! Walkin' on, walkin' on broken glass! Seems to have an invisible touch! Economist! Mario hackster! Owner of the most complex D&D campaign setting! Micromanagerial! FREEDOM is all-American! Slowly distancing! Supports the Democrats! Supports the old GOP! CATO Institute fanboy! Penn and Teller fan! Large, in charge, and on a barge! Heralded by community as genius hero! Proud yet humble recipient of the Mare & Raigan Award for 2008! CON 9! Dave of Nazareth! Communist is annoyed with me! Not half bad at images! F.Y.I. I am a medic! It's a spook house, lame ball. Too bad! Space Pimp II: Rags 2 Bitches! F.Y.I. I am a spy! Entire team is babbies! STR 10! Sorta appreciating scythe and atob again, for new reasons! Played CS:S briefly! Welcome to Nebraska! Do you think you can Live! Heist! Portrayer of the mighty 88 Shells! Joyous proprietor of the future estate of Kablizzy and blue_tetris! It's Batmen all the way up! They brought crystals to a sceince fight; that's a good way to lose your cat! Even SlappyMcGee! I'm about to run out of either primates or sexually transmitted diseases! One-upper! Toaster oven clairvoyant Mythomaniac! That's the Magic of Macy's! Half of Half! Spend all my time making love, all my love making time!

User avatar
Damn You're Fine
Posts: 388
Joined: 2008.09.26 (23:47)
NUMA Profile: http://nmaps.net/user/Eternal_Boredom
MBTI Type: ENTP

Postby DoctorAperture » 2008.11.26 (05:19)

I read something about a game over vent that you guys are running. Could I join?
Image
random stuff

Image
Image
Thanks tp pawz and GTM for the sig
Image

obligatory ad for my comic(s)

Image
Image
Image

LittleViking wrote:Oh, sure. I just hope this doesn't open the door to new jokes instead, you know? I'd hate for this to shed some light on more name-related puns. Maybe now they can focus their efforts elsewhere.
Awww, so cute!

Image



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest