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I recently started a D&D-esque tabletop set in modern times with a zombie invasion. I was a thief, I was with a Eurasian Bodyguard, a computer technician, and a stripper. We started in a mall, and soon, after some beautiful driving checks made by me, we found a technology store to hole up in while I gathered fuel and food. We are soon going to try and leave the city.
Our DM wasn't a professional, so he had to make some fun ret-cons, such as realizing that my finding a gardening store would equip us with too many weapons, and after I put together some pole-arm with a bunch of knives I found in restaurants. Oh, and when I rolled a natural 20 on my psychic check, he was pissed at that.
Our DM wasn't a professional, so he had to make some fun ret-cons, such as realizing that my finding a gardening store would equip us with too many weapons, and after I put together some pole-arm with a bunch of knives I found in restaurants. Oh, and when I rolled a natural 20 on my psychic check, he was pissed at that.
I've had such incredible fun with D&D.... one time.
After that nobody wanted to play anymore. It's not because the game sucks, it's simply because I can never gather enough people to join me.
Damn them to hell!
After that nobody wanted to play anymore. It's not because the game sucks, it's simply because I can never gather enough people to join me.
Damn them to hell!
D&D is fun, don't get me wrong. I have a lot of fond memories of it, although I have mostly moved onto other systems.
However, I think the best way to learn is to get someone who has some experience and get them to run a game or two. You can probably figure it out on your own, but it tends to be easier there.
What version were you thinking? I'd strongly reccomend 3.5, (the new one is 4th), but then that's just me.
Oh, and be VERY careful of extra stuff (ie not in the Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide or Monster Manual). D&D extras tend to MASSIVELY break the game. One example is allowing a 5th level (mid-level) character deal over 500 damage in one attack. Some go the other way, such as basically prohibiting ALL violence through the whole party. Ultimately, how much you want is up to you, but make sure you have a good grasp on the basics before you even think about extras.
However, I think the best way to learn is to get someone who has some experience and get them to run a game or two. You can probably figure it out on your own, but it tends to be easier there.
What version were you thinking? I'd strongly reccomend 3.5, (the new one is 4th), but then that's just me.
Oh, and be VERY careful of extra stuff (ie not in the Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide or Monster Manual). D&D extras tend to MASSIVELY break the game. One example is allowing a 5th level (mid-level) character deal over 500 damage in one attack. Some go the other way, such as basically prohibiting ALL violence through the whole party. Ultimately, how much you want is up to you, but make sure you have a good grasp on the basics before you even think about extras.
Not D&D but D20 Modern.
I played and Computer Hacker (Int Hero) who also had levels in Ninja. Anyways, we were in a mystical bookstore and a giant tentacle monster bursts from a crate that was delivered. My character having terrible luck with a gun in the previous scene decides to lunge at the monster and try to stab it with a knife. Rolled a 1 and my character guts himself with the knife. Next round I say fck it, I try my luck at a gun, another 1, my character blows out his kneecap. The next round I drag my bloody mess of a character to a bookshelf and try to push it to cause a chain reaction of bookcases to fall and squash the monster, another 1. My character is a point from being unconscious. Final turn, my character tries to find a book to identify the monster and possibly find any weaknesses. A 4th '1', the DM declares that as my character reads the book he finds undeniable proof of his nonexistance and poofs out of reality.
Another game, this time D&D; long story short we had a Ninja riding a panther, while clutching a hawk in one hand, all on fire.
I played and Computer Hacker (Int Hero) who also had levels in Ninja. Anyways, we were in a mystical bookstore and a giant tentacle monster bursts from a crate that was delivered. My character having terrible luck with a gun in the previous scene decides to lunge at the monster and try to stab it with a knife. Rolled a 1 and my character guts himself with the knife. Next round I say fck it, I try my luck at a gun, another 1, my character blows out his kneecap. The next round I drag my bloody mess of a character to a bookshelf and try to push it to cause a chain reaction of bookcases to fall and squash the monster, another 1. My character is a point from being unconscious. Final turn, my character tries to find a book to identify the monster and possibly find any weaknesses. A 4th '1', the DM declares that as my character reads the book he finds undeniable proof of his nonexistance and poofs out of reality.
Another game, this time D&D; long story short we had a Ninja riding a panther, while clutching a hawk in one hand, all on fire.
If played with the right people, it's a ton of fun. But if you get a troll in the dungeon, so to speak, it turns into a lot of people getting mad at one guy.
My best session?
My party and I had a tendency to piss off authority figures (Chaotic alignments will do that, as will the ego that comes with being level 20). So eventually it all came back to bite us in the ass.
We were cornered by the elite knights of two warring kingdoms who had put aside their differences just to see us hang. Also a swarm of demons had risen from the pit to kill our mage and to make matters worse, a bard necromancer was after our blood with his army of vampires.
Deciding that if this was where the campaign ended, it would be an awesome death for our characters, we attacked the assembled horde. The battle lasted over two hours in real time.
The funniest part? We slaughtered them all and NOT ONE member of my party was so much as scratched. Worst DM rolling I'd ever seen.
My party and I had a tendency to piss off authority figures (Chaotic alignments will do that, as will the ego that comes with being level 20). So eventually it all came back to bite us in the ass.
We were cornered by the elite knights of two warring kingdoms who had put aside their differences just to see us hang. Also a swarm of demons had risen from the pit to kill our mage and to make matters worse, a bard necromancer was after our blood with his army of vampires.
Deciding that if this was where the campaign ended, it would be an awesome death for our characters, we attacked the assembled horde. The battle lasted over two hours in real time.
The funniest part? We slaughtered them all and NOT ONE member of my party was so much as scratched. Worst DM rolling I'd ever seen.
Question: did your DM consider using weapon durability rules when dealing with improvised weapons? I mean, yeah you could bash a zombie or two with a garden hoe, but eventually the thing will break in your hand, possibly injuring you or at least making you lose a turn while the dead come to nosh on your grey matter. I'm just saying....would have saved you the trouble of retconning.blackshark121 said:
I played D&D for a couple years but eventually quit because I never got to do anything important and the other players NEVER listened to me, even when my wizard got a 20 INT around level 10. I prefer the Role-playing to roll-playing, but there was a significant lack of meaningful conversations for me to have in the party, so I quit.
I think my favourite ever session for d&d had to be the one where I killed a party member I was trying to save. One of our players was playing a rogue halfling and got caught in a trap hallway that makes you slide into a small room with a large demon in it. The rest of the party ran to help him, but he was already knocked unconcious. So, full of bravery my dual bastard sword weilding ranger stands over his body, yelling "I'll protect you". I use my most powerful attack and roll a nat 1. In our games we use a system where if you roll a nat 1 you roll to see what your attack hits and then roll another attack roll on the new target. I rolled and hit the halfling. Laughing at the irony I rolled my attack roll pretty sure I'd hurt him but he'd still survive. Rolled the d20........nat 20, critical hit, one dead halfing. Needless to say the entire table burst out laughing. To add insult to injury for the player I then pointed out that one of my swords special ability gave me health as I had killed him with it.
In a campaign set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, our party managed, with one well-executed plan and an inordinately large amount of poison, to kill every important person in the entire Elven court. Being the duel-wielding repeater crossbow-handling warrior, I single-handedly killed three of our targets, including one of the greatest mages to ever live. The Greater Daemon took care of most of the rest.
I've been interested in getting into DnD ever since penny arcade recorded some sessions for wizards they got Wil Wheaton to play a new class when 4E came out 
[http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Archive.aspx?category=resources&subcategory=podcasts]
but have no friends who will commit to it. I've heard of folks playing with skype and virtual tables, has anyone tried that before?
[http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Archive.aspx?category=resources&subcategory=podcasts]but have no friends who will commit to it. I've heard of folks playing with skype and virtual tables, has anyone tried that before?
The fact that a gardening store would have an absurd amount of long point sticks, I think he did.Wildrow12 said:
I think my favorite moment is when I rolled a bluff check to convince enemy monsters I didn't exist, and rolled a natural 20. Dm was stunned, said I was invisible for 3 turns, and during those three turns I dragged a lamp over to one and set him on fire, and got two coup de grace on another.
Another great moment would be when the DM set up a Doppelganger lord as a boss, only for me to cast sleep on him and tie him up in the first round.
Another great moment would be when the DM set up a Doppelganger lord as a boss, only for me to cast sleep on him and tie him up in the first round.
Pointy sticks? Against a zombie hoard?blackshark121 said:
Woah. I'll give you this much, my sharky friend: you got balls.
Me? I would have at least needed a shopping cart with chain saws attached to it before I tried using improvised weapons against zombies in a D20 game.
Ah, D&D 3 1/2, how fun and easily abused you were.
One of the joys of 3.5ed (and 3ed) was that you could actually do ANYTHING, which led to me rolling a half-orc bard, with a Cha of 16, and we'd agreed on playing a 3.5-revised version of pre-Cataclysm Forgotten Realms.
So, after I'd convinced an elven business-woman that our group would be a prefect addition to her caravan guards, we found ourselves traveling down the road, dusty and a little sore, but employed. The dDM's g/f was playing a mute druid (don't ask me how she talked to the animals), whom the priest of Bane in the caravan had taken a shine to.
Yes, apparently the Caravan-Mistress was that egalitarian about employment; I mean, a half-orc bard really isn't THAT much better than a Priest of Bane, to most elves.
So, the druid had just started riding in my wagon, and when the Banite came be a pest, I managed, while singing inspiring traveling songs, to cast Unseen Servant and Ventriloquism (without triggering his Spellcraft, somehow), used it and a nat 20 on a vocal impersonation of the caravan's Dwarven guard-master, demanded that he get back to his post, because he 'weren't getting paid to make nice with the girls!' I'd had my Unseen Servant get down on all four at the back of the wagon, and when he started to leave, I cast Mage Hand, and shoved him, so he tripped over the Unseen Servant, and out the back of the wagon.
My character's punishment was to stay up all night and recite the Dwarven guard-masters Hearth-Lore Chant... all 77 fucking verses.
One of the joys of 3.5ed (and 3ed) was that you could actually do ANYTHING, which led to me rolling a half-orc bard, with a Cha of 16, and we'd agreed on playing a 3.5-revised version of pre-Cataclysm Forgotten Realms.
So, after I'd convinced an elven business-woman that our group would be a prefect addition to her caravan guards, we found ourselves traveling down the road, dusty and a little sore, but employed. The dDM's g/f was playing a mute druid (don't ask me how she talked to the animals), whom the priest of Bane in the caravan had taken a shine to.
Yes, apparently the Caravan-Mistress was that egalitarian about employment; I mean, a half-orc bard really isn't THAT much better than a Priest of Bane, to most elves.
So, the druid had just started riding in my wagon, and when the Banite came be a pest, I managed, while singing inspiring traveling songs, to cast Unseen Servant and Ventriloquism (without triggering his Spellcraft, somehow), used it and a nat 20 on a vocal impersonation of the caravan's Dwarven guard-master, demanded that he get back to his post, because he 'weren't getting paid to make nice with the girls!' I'd had my Unseen Servant get down on all four at the back of the wagon, and when he started to leave, I cast Mage Hand, and shoved him, so he tripped over the Unseen Servant, and out the back of the wagon.
My character's punishment was to stay up all night and recite the Dwarven guard-masters Hearth-Lore Chant... all 77 fucking verses.
2 Dragons attack group. (version 1.2 levels 1-5)
A red and a black, the level ones in the party hide in a bush. The rest of us plan, do we run or stand our ground and probably die.
Well, I fire my longbow up, and miss, roll for the second dragon and miss. I'm asked to roll again, I figure this is the for the arrow coming back down. I roll 20, then I roll 20. An invisible dragon plummets from the sky, killing the other 2 on the way down. Then crushing the cowering lvl 1s leaving 4 of us alive (me, my friend, his mom, his dad) his other friends that were there all died cowering in the bushes.
We sent the barbarian to engage in diplomacy with the bandit camp that was terrorizing the countryside. Not smart. He comes back swinging a half a bandit as if it were but a club, shouting "DI-PLO-MAT!"
We played a marathon, my friend thinks that it is impossible to die because, nobody in out party had died yet, even against bad odds. So he runs off of a 3000 metre cliff. There is a 0.1% chance of hitting an invisible bridge built by the ancients. He hits it square on.
A red and a black, the level ones in the party hide in a bush. The rest of us plan, do we run or stand our ground and probably die.
Well, I fire my longbow up, and miss, roll for the second dragon and miss. I'm asked to roll again, I figure this is the for the arrow coming back down. I roll 20, then I roll 20. An invisible dragon plummets from the sky, killing the other 2 on the way down. Then crushing the cowering lvl 1s leaving 4 of us alive (me, my friend, his mom, his dad) his other friends that were there all died cowering in the bushes.
We sent the barbarian to engage in diplomacy with the bandit camp that was terrorizing the countryside. Not smart. He comes back swinging a half a bandit as if it were but a club, shouting "DI-PLO-MAT!"
We played a marathon, my friend thinks that it is impossible to die because, nobody in out party had died yet, even against bad odds. So he runs off of a 3000 metre cliff. There is a 0.1% chance of hitting an invisible bridge built by the ancients. He hits it square on.