OT: am playing D&D light and am having fun

[narf poit chez BOOM]

L, could you translate a few of those terms for me, please?

*chases after E3 with a hammer*

any Online retailers anyone's used before? perferably with cheap shipping?

[ December 04, 2003, 15:46: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[tesco samoa]

not that I know anything about d&d but clerics are rather powerful now that they have expanded them past 7th level spells... And that anyone can use a cross bow now. And feats are kind of cool. and they fixed up that crap with dueling or multi class players

The current Version is quite nice.

But again I have no clue what I am talking about.

I would suggest you hit a local store and chat with the people working there.... Players guide will be needed to start.

[Loser]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
L, could you translate a few of those terms for me, please?

Which ones?

Some Guy
A derisive term for a game that is all combat, and/or for players that are only concerned about combat. Looked down upon by most gamers, because it is seen to go against the spirit of RPGs: 'why play a roleplaying game if you're not going to pay any attention to the role? That's what wargames, computer games, and other tactical games are for.'

• munchkin
• power gamer
• minimaxing/minimaxer
• Min-Maxing/minmaxer
• raping the rules/raping the system/rules
• raping/rules raper
• point-shaver
• mathematician
• rules lawyer
• dice bouncing
• roll-playing

Spec-out: the specifications of the character, how its points are spent, its nature
Talk-work Rogue: think Dirk Benedict's character from the A-Team, 'Face'
Finger-work Rogue: think ninja-super-thief

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks.

that link is funny.

[ December 04, 2003, 17:02: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Taera:
yep, stole my post, you did fyron

Hardly...

[gregebowman]

I haven't played pen & paper AD&D in about ten years. I bought a couple of the 2nd Version books, but haven't kept up with it other than knowing that TSR is no more and that Wizards of the Coast now own the rights. too bad we live on different sides of the country, Fyron, or we could get a game going (I wonder if Tampa Gamer is lurking here and is a player also). And you're right; a computerized Version of the game isn't quite the same. I sure do miss the interaction of a good role-playing session. I always played a barbarian. Gotta love them.

[ December 04, 2003, 21:05: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

[Taera]

yes you did -_-

as for Inappropriate Character... imagine yourself a bard WITHOUT ALL THOSE FIGHTER THINGS that was thrown into a KILL ALL THAT MOVES game. that was a distaster, all i could do is sing

D&D is fun

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, depending on your singing, you could still do damage...

[Loser]

A Strong DM addresses feat-creep during character creation. It's not that hard to tell your players "We're using 3rd ed (or 3.5, which is pretty nice), so make your characters with the book, nothing else." The people who want to bring in stuff from elsewhere are the same power-gamers and rules-lawyers that cause you trouble later on in the game, but a good DM can keep them in line.

For your first character you may want to keep it simple and go with Fighter or Sorcerer, keeping more complicated classes like Rogue and Wizard for later, once you are used to the basics of the system.

Try to make sure your DM can run a game that takes advantage of the way you spec-out your character. Few things are as annoying as having a talk-work Rogue in a game with little-to-no role-playing and a group that expects finger-work out of you.

[PvK]

I second Puke's suggestion to consider other RPG's besides D&D, because there is a much variety between them (and between different Groups), and different people have different tastes.

I refer to D&D as DuD, myself, but most of you know I have rare tastes.

PvK