Dungeons and Dragons: Never Split the Party Contest Now Live!

[NoaNeumann]

I'm a little sad that they are not at least including the UK.

When 4e came out me and my friends were into D&D but because of various complex rules and character creation process we all were kind of out of it as well. Though when the game came out I remembered that all of my friends were nearly going ape shit over it and wanted to play it NOW! So a few days after my friends played the game at a convention they got some of the books, one opted to be a DM and here we are today loving 4e and all it has to offer. I know that some people will not like 4e but then again some people did not like 3.5 or even 3.0 when it first came out so I couldn't care less, since 4e is something me and my friends both enjoy and occasionally 'geek out' about.

 

[ASH1977LAW]

Why my group should meet up with me...

About 9 months ago I emigrated to America from the UK... just as our party went to Paragon Tier.

I'd had my wizard resurrect Splug as his little helper, had married the party shifter, and was ready to kick into high gear when I got the call to move. I now live near the WotC offices but thousands of miles away from my old gaming group.

I'd love to be able to catch up again with all the guys, play a couple of games and find out what happened to ol' Splug.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Why aren't you guys giving away Core books?

Anyways.

My group should be reunited for the sole fact that we had the best bard in the history of the world. At one point, he used the Glue (or whatever that spell is that creates an adhesive on touch) cantrip to disable a crossbowman by casting the spell while the man was reloading, gluing a bolt to his hand and making him essentially worthless except as cannon fodder.

 

[Steve Franz]

My group has been playing for the better part of a decade from playing 2.0 or 3.5 to our current setup with 4th edition. While our group for the most part has a love for the old style of playing, we have become accustomed to 4th edition, accepting that Wizards is going to stick with this "easier" style of gaming to the grave. With the massive success of MMORPGs aka WoW, the paper and pencil RPG has lost a following even from the most dedicated D&D players. So knowing this, my group has accepted these changes and made investments into the 4th edition. However, our group is crippled due to a lack of the new books and figurines. We have been spoiled by the WoW monster and are used to the visualization of the creatures and players. Because of this we often set a date or a week to play and end up cancelling because we have a raid to get to or we would rather do something with more visual stimulation. My group needs these supples to get back on board with the game and will hopefully find that love for 4th edition that we so eagerly had for 2nd and 3.5 editions.

 

[InsaneFool]

I don't really have a group, and I've only played a couple of times with my friends from back home before I left to go back to school...I've really wanted them to come up here for a weekend and play with the limited resources I have, or even to go visit them for a chance to play, but our plans have never worked out.

Having either one of these prizepacks would really enhance our experience when we finally do get back together for some adventures. Either that or it would make it just that much more awesome when I finally convince my friends here to play with me.

 

[Pepsistopheles]

I'd had RPs ruined for me previously, and hadn't touched one in about four years. Freshman year of college, a thin guy in a bright yellow sweatshirt (said garment was later called "The Horrifying Light Of The Sun") came up to me and asked if I'd like to be in a game. I asked, of course, what the concept was. He said "the Matrix, except inside the Matrix is typical fantasy." I was sold, but that brief description did absolutely no justice to what was to follow. He used modified 3.0 & 3.5 rules to make something I still look back fondly on. Not just for the game, which was well-paced, with an excellent mix of story and combat, but everything around it. The pregame ritual of getting snacks from the campus center. The post-game relaxation, feeling like something important, dramatic, and fun happened. The fact that gradually, those three guys (and one initial girl) who gamed together became great friends. There were other games in and out of school. Some worked (like my senior year fantasy game using 3.5 with my own setting), some didn't (like the convoluted mess that was my first DMing attempt), but I will always, always have Matrix Legends and D&D in my heart.

I considered us the John, George, Paul, and Ringo of tabletop gaming. And no, the female member was not the Yoko that doomed us all. The big scary real world split us up, but going to GenCon or even one of these prize packs would really add to the fun when we do get back together. And I can use them to twist innocents toward the Dark Side.

 

[Christopher Douglas]

I DM for a group of five other people that can only play via the internet. Most of the people who I DM for are new to the game to boot. I have tried to get together a local game at my college, but the people who are interested are never available at the same time. Several of my friends who I have known on the internet, however, -can- arrange to get together at the same time once or twice a month.

I've met several of my players in the flesh before, but there are some whom I have never had the chance to meet. We are from all over the United States - Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts and California, among others. Getting the chance to actually meet -everyone- would be really nice as well.

Explaining rules via IRC can get complicated, and it's difficult to help one of my players with a question simply because I can't look over a character sheet. I can't pull out my PHB and show them things - if we were together to play a game I could do that for my players.

My dice bag lies beneath my bed, gathering dust from disuse. We play online using a dice roller; there's no mystery left to rolling, no contested dice falling to the floor, no blowing on dice for luck, no clacking and no praying and no spilled Mountain Dew, there's just cold, dead math. We get the same result, but there's something missing; the ritual and anticipation and anguish of the dice is a joy most of my players have never known.

If we were to get together, I could be the DM I should be, and they could play the game as it should be played, if only for the one time.