Get Monster manual, dungeon master's guide and the rules compendium. Get models (games workshop Warhammer Fantasy models for best value), dice, pad of paper. Make something up.
book .pdfs are everywhere. Although, I would play 3.5, partly because I dislike 4E and partly because there is more stuff for it.EventHorizon said:You enter a dimly lit room, the curtains pulled down over the windows, no doubt to hide the inhabitants inside from the light of the sun. In the center of the room you see 5 short, hunchbacked figures huddled furtively around a wooden table talking amongst themselves excitedly in some strange, primitive tongue. You cannot see what it is they are huddled around but you notice a discarded red packaging on the floor near the table. As terrible ideas form in your mind as to what might be happening, you hear the clattering of dice being rolled, followed by the disappointed moan of one of the shadowy figures. Finally figuring what is going on you take a step into the room, hoping to stop this profane ritual,and as your foot hits the ground with a loud rustle and crack you realize the floor is strewn with sweet wrappers and scraps of crisps and you have stepped on a particularly large sweet wrapper with a particularly dense group of scrip scraps under it. The 5 figures suddenly turn toward you, some of their faces twist into ugly sneers, as if they were going to hiss at you. One of the figures approaches you, a tone of slight desperation in it's voice. Although you can barely understand it's language, you can make out the following:
Hey,
One of my friends over there bought a 4th edition dungeons and dragons red starter set box. We've played through the encounters included a few times over now, and I'm beginning to understand this can't be all. I tried to search for what we should buy next but I am at a total loss.
Could you help me decide what to buy next to expand our dungeons and dragons experience?
EDIT: We've already made up our own adventures, it's just that we don't have enough skill cards to go round, the small bestiary is getting repetitive and once our characters reach a certain (low) level, we can't grant ourselves feats anymore because there ARE no more.
... buy more books?EventHorizon said:EDIT: We've already made up our own adventures, it's just that we don't have enough skill cards to go round, the small bestiary is getting repetitive and once our characters reach a certain (low) level, we can't grant ourselves feats anymore because there ARE no more.
People hated 3e because they thought it was being dumbed down and made like a video game too. Instead of WoW, the hot button video game was Diablo.Link XL1 said:then version 4.0 came out and made some radical changes, a lot of people feel like they dumbed down the game and made it more like a video game. most dnd players dont like 4.0
While this is true for experienced players, it is not for beginners so it won't crop up as a problem until some time (depending on how fast you pick up on the loopholes-ish), and then, well, that's why you have rule 0 (the DM is always right, even when it goes against written rules) The DM can ban certain classes that are too powerful or change them so that they are less so, and change weaker classes so they are more powerful. Or simply make everyone use a class in the same power level. Or use various homebrew fixes for classes. This is only a problem is you do everything exactly by the book, which just leads to Pun-Pun (Pun-Pun is a character build that abuses loop-holes in the various books so that he gets an arbitrarily large amount of everything).Moose Fisher said:3e is terrible for non-casters, as the casters will eventually have a spell to solve all sorts of problems and the non-casters are stuck saying "I hit it" over and over.
http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Core-Rulebook/dp/1601251505EventHorizon said:ok, you've pretty much convinced me to get 3.5 and pathfinder. Does this mean my group and I all have to make new characters and start anew? Also, what do I buy? the rules compendium? Is there a package similiar to the starter kit as in it has dungeon tiles, monster stats, races, classes etc?Link XL1 said:DONT BUY 4th EDITION!