Although i barely remember most of the mechanics i'll always be a 2nd edition girl, so i won't miss the Half-Orcs...
But i always hated that 3rd always made Gnomes wussy (and bards), are there even bards in 4th?
I've been playing that 4th preview and it hasn't bothered me, i think 3.5 cured me of all that (i really hated 3.5, it was a knife in the back)
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.Gary Gigax 1938-2008
Order of the Stick has a misty-eyed strip...
And for your information, my first character was rolled that way...
i miss playing...
Coilhouse has an article by Wayne Chambliss on Remembering Gary Gigax, check it out it's really worth it.
Black Gate Symposium has a collection of reminiscences
Wired.com's Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax.
I loved the first movie, it showed the RPG gaming experience for what it was...All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they’re more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two newbies into the distrust: a non-player character controlled by Lodge, who the power gamers immediately distrust, and the rarest gamer of all — a girl. Can the group overcome their bickering to save the kingdom, or will the evil necromancer Mort Kemnon triumph unopposed? A parody of fantasy films and the adventure gaming community, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a hilarious romp through the world of sword and sorcery — in this case, a world of exploding peasants, giant house cats, and undead roast turkeys. Game on!
| You scored as Storyteller. The Storyteller is in it for the plot: the sense of mystery and the fun of participating in a narrative that has the satisfying arc of a good book or movie. He enjoys interacting with well-defined NPCs, even preferring antagonists who have genuine motivations and personality to mere monsters. To the Storyteller, the greatest reward of the game is participating in a compelling story with interesting and unpredictable plot threads, in which his actions and those of his fellow characters determine the resolution. With apologies to Robin Laws.
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Well it appears today is Quiz day!
Not only that, today is stupid quiz day that tells me what i already know. Well these at least don't tell me i'm the colour green or that if i were a coffee i'd be a cappuccino!
Besides i could use with some more D&D related posts.
The Worldwide D&D Gaming Day will be held on the 4th of November 2006. Sadly i missed it last year, but not this year, this year i'll even be a hosting DM.
First you may wonder what's a D&D?
It's a fantasy tabletop Role-Playing Game (RPG for it's friends), if you don't know what that is, check the link, but let me tell you this, it's not a kinky sex game and it does not involve computers.
Dungeons & Dragons (aka D&D) was actually the first of it's kind, it created an entire format, there was no such thing as an RPG before D&D.
Before you start to get all "oh these geeks!" attitude, consider what an RPG actually is for a moment, it's a game where you play a role, not any pre-ordained role but YOUR role, YOUR choice, YOUR imagination, and you do this with a group of people. I would say that that is the most important thing about any RPG, it's social-creativity unleashed and brought to another level. You don't have to like dragons or faeries, there is an enormous host of genres to choose from, heck you can even make your own, the possibilities are endless, you just need a bunch of folks and rules (it is a game and as such it should have rules, if you don't want even that then you can LARP).
The Worldwide D&D Gaming Day will be a celebration of this specific game, whether you like or not D&D is the daddy of the entire format, and it's been played for 32 years, the only goal in the celebration is to actually get people to play the game in that day.
Remember this is an RPG and as such creativity is encouraged, in case you don't want to do it your way there will be venues which will host the event with all the materials required to play the game, whether you play every week, never played it before, or only played it like 10 years ago. Everyone is welcome!
You can check out a list of the hosting venues here, Portugal has 5 venues this year.
I mentioned above that i would be DMing a table. Let me explain this, most RPGs have 2 types of participants in the game, the players and the Game Masters or GMs. They are the ones who "organize" and "arbitrate" the game. In D&D a GM is called a Dungeon Master (DM for short). We call the act of being a DM or GM, DMing or GMing (yes we're lazy so we reduce everything to letters).
Now i haven't DMed in a long time...
I have this notion i was not bad, although i actually traumatized a guy (sorry T.) and kept killing everybody off (Not my fault, it has been proven!). So for the safety of future parties (a party is a group of players) and the sake of not traumatizing any more players i've stayed off the ropes (this is a lie, DMing is hard work and requires a lot of reading and preparing, and i'm already piling up my TBR as it is).
Now with all of these terms and confusions you think this is a very confusing sport, not really, anyone can play D&D with bare knowledge, the party and the DM will help you, remember social game! The main goal is to have fun, to create a new world, to have adventures (this is what those folks who did the movie forgot).
Anyway, on the 4th of November 2006 i will be playing D&D!
Where will you be?
You know what this makes me think?
Isn't roleplay some sort of Reality Show for GMs?
Also reported here.
WotC is again celebrating the Worldwide D&D Gaming Day, it'll take place on Saturday, 4th of November 2006. And right now me and a few friends are lobbying for it, right here in Portugal. If you want to join in go to AbreOJogo and show your support!
Let's make this a reality this year.
