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10 months ago ::
Aug 12, 2012 - 3:33PM
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So, I asked you guys how old you were, just because i wanted to know the age ranges here. But now I have another question. what got you started on Dungeons and Dragons? Why do you still play?
I got started in april of this year. I had a gift card to a book store, plus some extra cash. I was browsing through the store, trying to find something to buy, when I stumbled across a D&D board game. I realized then that I was going to buy Dungeons and Dragons. I ended up buying the Red Box, and the Monster Manual, because that was all I could afford at the time XD.
I bought this game because for the past two years i have been extremely interested in playing, but I could never find a group to play with.
I fight for freedom. I fight for justice. I fight for honor. I fight for VENGEANCE.Beware, all you monsters, all you villains, for you have unleashed the wrath of Edward Darkforest. May your god have pity on your soul.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 12, 2012 - 3:43PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 12, 2009
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Well I've played Star Wars miniatures since I was 9, and then at 11 I read something about a roleplaying game for Star Wars, and got the core rulebook on my way to vacation. Ever since then I've been GMing Star Wars SAGA, and last year I got the PHB1 to look over (again, on my way to vacation, gives me time to digest the rules). thought it seemed interesting but I still iked SAGA more as a system and I was a bit disgusted by WotC having 3 different core rulebooks. A month or so again just decided to take another look at the PHB and it appealed to me.
We summoned a devil once. All we used was the D&D books, too. It was pretty kwazy.
God of Arrested Development and Intelligence 
Resident Left Hand of Stalin and Banana Stand Grandstander
Pie-Cooling-On-A-Windowsill of the House of Trolls
In the morning HK'll be sober but you'll still be a meatbag.
I know I misspell "Danke" in my posts. It's an inside joke.
"Ten cents gets you nuts." -George Michael
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''Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.''
—Bill Clinton
You are not a moral man. There are not enough middle fingers in the world for you.
Actually, Santa just didn't like you. However, you weren't on the Naughty List, so he had to give you something "better" than coal.
I'd take coal. Heating your house is expesive, and engery cost arn't going down.
Mabey if i beat enough homeless people, i won't have to be cold this year. 
"Heroes"...I wish I had those. I remember in my first-ever campaign one PC went around shootin all the unconscious baddies in the head to gain Dark Side Points...
Whaaaaaat?!??
Wow...way to waste perfectly good potential slaves.
Er...no wait I mean..uh...something not evil!
(Quotes screwed up on the next one, won't give the poster's name. It's in the Best Lines thread on the D&D forum)
First, an experience from a game I played in a few years back. Our DM didn't like 3.5 as a whole but liked parts of it. So he hands us a big ass rules packet for his modified FR campaign, complete with quotes from important NPC's on the front. I can't remember most of the HRs, just that some how gods like Cyric and Bhaal existed at the same time, despite the obvious problems there. In the end the game became a problem more because of the railroading than the HRs, but it ended with this classic line, after our ranger tried to disarm the strange woman following us WITH HIS BOW: DM: You just killed (insert random noble sounding name here) JP: Was she important? Jack: Dude, she's quoted on the front of the rules packet!
"Why in the wide,wide, world of all things irrational would I help you?
-Daniel Jackson
"Fun will now commence."
-Seven of Nine
"Excellent."
-Mr. Burns.
Whey is a crotch.
Cut the last encounter on your way out after dealing with the Darth. He's the BBEG. Treat him as such. Play up that Darth Revan is THAT much of a badarse. When the shuttle landed, I had no less than 13 JEDI MASTERS step off the shuttle. The PCs were slack-jawed. After the meetup with Bastila (as she's carrying Revan's body), only TWO jedi masters remained with her. Let me tell you, the player whining about not getting to fight Revan himself shut up pretty quickly when he saw that. 
There's so much you can do with insanity, especially when it has alot of resources.
1. Cleric cast protection from fire on Tank.
2. Tank goes in and get surrounded by enemies.
3. Wizard cast fireball and blows them up.
4. ???
5. Profit
I go by the saying," If it ain't friendly fire then it's not working."
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10 months ago ::
Aug 13, 2012 - 5:48AM
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1978 summer camp. Some guy in the cabin had the Basic Blue boxed set. We played every night after Taps, by flashlight, under a sleeping bag tent on the top bunk in the Cherokee cabin at YMCA Camp Crosley. I was hooked.
I still play for a lot of reasons. It connects me to my childhood. It connects me to some friends with whom this is the only thing we share in common. But most of all, I still play because it is still fun.
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 13, 2012 - 6:19AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 17, 2003
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Honestly? I'm dating myself here, but what got me into D&D was a combination of four factors...
1) The old Saturday morning D&D cartoon series that I watched religiously as a kid.
2) The classic Dragon's Lair video came and spin-off cartoon series that I also watched religiously (its no accident my first PC was named "Derik the Daring").
3) The fact that the Red Box was being sold in the Children's Palace chain of toy stores so it was easy for me to find and cajole my mom into buying it for me.
4) An hour-and-half bus ride each way to school with other riders who got on almost as early to form a campaign in the back of the bus that ran twice a weekday during the school year.
It wasn't a very GOOD campaign (I was ten when I started GMing), but it was enough to cement my lifelong love of roleplaying to the point that the first and most important thing I had to do when my family moved was to find the location of the nearest hobby shop that sold D&D.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 13, 2012 - 9:58AM
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Date Joined:
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1975 with the "Brown Box" that a friend in my HS Science Fiction Clubs had. First set I owned was the "White Box". Played all through HS (even with moving across country) as well as in the Army. Took a lapse until 3.x came out, dabbled with it and then went to 4e. Mostly I still play because I have a built-in set of players (3 kids and their freinds, 19-11) and I like to DM. Some of the group (3 college age) will be leaving but I hope to re-kindle with some new players soon
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10 months ago ::
Aug 13, 2012 - 8:38PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 19, 2007
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Early '80's...
I was eight years and my brother was seven - one of his friends from school came over to play, and the friend's older brother got drafted into driving him since he'd just gotten his license.
The older brother brought over the Blue Box and I started asking questions about it so he ran us through a quick dungeon. We spent most of it running around looking for things to kill just so we could light their corpses on fire with our torches.
The concept of a game that let us do anything we wanted was amazing to us.
At around age ten I got the Magenta Box and started playing seriously.
I still play because it's still fun (who ever gets tired of hacking up the dead bodies of your enemies and lighting their faces on fire, am-I-right?)...
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I am the Magic Man.
(Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.)
I am the Lawnmower Man.
(I AM GOD HERE!)
I am the Skull God.
(Koo Koo Ka Choo)
There are reasons they call me Mad...
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10 months ago ::
Aug 14, 2012 - 1:10AM
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Date Joined:
May 17, 2009
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My father played AD&D 1e when he was in high school. Somehow, when the group fizzled, he ended up with the books. He stopped playing shortly thereafter and as far as I know, never picked it up again. When I was little, my grandparents rearranged the house to accomodate having a kid over, pulling out a bunch of kid stuff from the attic in the process. Somehow, in that process, the core books to 1e ended up on the "this is for the grandkid to read" bookshelf. And read them I did. It was many years before I really began to get a grasp on the game being presented, it was just so different from any other game format than I had done before(I was, of course, familiar with playing pretend, but that didn't involve books and dice and as such, didn't seem the same).
When I was a sophomore in high school, I met some older students who invited me to play a game with them. This was 3e, though "different editions" was foreign concept to me at the time. I went for one session, and hated it. The group was just bad. Not legendarily so, but enough so that I didn't care to play with them again, and also enough that I was determined to learn DMing so that I could "do it right". It was some time before I was familiar enough with the rules to do so, but soon I launched an AD&D campaign for my two best friends. The rest is history.
I still play because it's a fun, social game that involves being creative and looking cool in your head. Favorite hobby, hands down.
Seriously, though, you should check out the PbP Haven. You might also like Real Adventures, IF you're cool. | Knights of W.T.F.- Silver Spur Winner | |
4enclave, a place where 4e fans can talk 4e in peace.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 14, 2012 - 7:15AM
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My mom knew I enjoyed reading stuff like the Hobbit, so she picked up the AD&D Player's Handbook for me, thinking that I might enjoy it. I was just a kid at the time, and the material was way above my head. Fortunately, my mom decided to play with my sister and I. The games were basically shared storytelling but it got me interested in the idea of roleplaying. My sister quickly moved on to other things . D&D was a great way to spend some time together, using our imaginations. Mom had serious health problems and wasn't able, physically. I saw the D&D Basic set (the red box) with art by Larry Elmore a few years later and snatched it up. I was in junior high by then. I rounded up a couple of buddies and we started playing. I've been gaming steadily ever since. Love the game.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 14, 2012 - 8:45AM
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I started with the Red Box back in 78. Stopped playing D&D when I discovered other systems and genres I prefer. Ultimately I am back playing D&D because of time constraints. The masses of material out there means I can grab a shop bought scenario and build the encounter maps in Maptool and be up and running in no time at all.
Beyond that, a bit of Old Skool from time to time is fun and my son is now at the age I was when I started role playing. So seeing the Red Box again in the shops, seemed like a sign.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 14, 2012 - 1:07PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 15, 2005
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Around 1990, my dad was into RC planes, so I hung around a hobby store which happened to have D&D stuff. I started out buying Dragon Magazines, because they were full of awesome pictures. Eventually I found friends who played. Most of our games weren't strict interpretations of the rules. I would order Ral Partha figures, buy D&D collectible cards and modules, etc... Eventually friends move away, and I just sunk in to "following" D&D for many years. I'd buy things every so often (core books, campaign settings, miniatures) I never really understood how to play 2E or 3E. Eventually I stumbled across 4E and have been running games for my kids and the occassional Encounters group ever since.
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