OT: D&D 4e or: Wanna slaughter some minions?

Nocturnal · #1 June 18th, 2008, 07:04 AM

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What I meant to say was I'd be happy to help and play if you need another player.
I can be a chaotic neutral (edit: what? Why can't I be chaotic neutral anymore?) dwarf cleric, even though what little I've seen of clerics in 4th edition looks kind of stupid (why does rushing into battle to strike at enemies heal everyone?) Can't see how I'd make it work with an evil character. I could just be an evil thug, hitman, or mercenary of some sort. (I guess that means neutral evil human fighter?)

Unfortunately I have never actually played a tabletop RPG (though I'm a wizard at Tragic: The Garnering for what that's worth?) and I take it you actually have you pay Mr. Bling-Bling's Cash Money for the rulebooks in order to learn the new D&D? A problem with that is they cost over $60! Is there any way to learn at least a watered-down version, enough to be playable, without shelling out so much for a set of hardcovers that'll be obsolete in three-to-five years?

Randallw · #2 June 18th, 2008, 08:23 AM

The old edition had an SRD (I forget what that means) which was roughly the rules stripped down to basics, and no flashy pictures. 3/3.5 was open gaming, which meant any company was allowed to use it but adventures could only have the basic monsters.

4 might have its own SRD but I've read it's now only really aimed at other companies and only really now tells them what they can use. I don't know if it has basic rules for people.

Well I hunted down the SRD (seems it means system reference document) for 4th. As I thought it appears to be nothing more than a list of terms and names so developers spell stuff right

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/welcome

For what it's worth, this link might at least provide some information

http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=4e

In other news, remember a few days back I said I didn't know where my dice were and I'd get a few more. Well they wanted $2 each. Gee, I told them before I paid $2 each I might just bother to look for my old ones first. It's ok they're friends of mine. Anyway it took me all of 2 minutes to find them.

Nocturnal · #3 June 18th, 2008, 11:44 AM

Thank you! That link looks like it should be enough to get me started... And the rest of you can just keep a close eye on me to correct me whenever I do anything stupid or illegal.

I still have some reading to do in order to determine precise stats but based on this, I think that I could do all right as a Dwarf Cleric, or as an Eldarin Wizard. Whatever the party needs more: if Astorax is the cleric, I will happily play an evil wizard. I think I'd get a kick out of some of the role-playing possibilities I could do.

Astorax · #4 June 18th, 2008, 12:12 PM

Nocturnal, I've sent you a private message. I'm not exactly sure where it will show up as I don't see a "message box" or whatever like other forums. Maybe its sent to your email? Not sure.

Baron Munchausen · #5 June 18th, 2008, 02:49 PM

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Randallw said:
The old edition had an SRD (I forget what that means) which was roughly the rules stripped down to basics, and no flashy pictures. 3/3.5 was open gaming, which meant any company was allowed to use it but adventures could only have the basic monsters.

4 might have its own SRD but I've read it's now only really aimed at other companies and only really now tells them what they can use. I don't know if it has basic rules for people.

Well I hunted down the SRD (seems it means system reference document) for 4th. As I thought it appears to be nothing more than a list of terms and names so developers spell stuff right

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/welcome

For what it's worth, this link might at least provide some information

http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=4e

In other news, remember a few days back I said I didn't know where my dice were and I'd get a few more. Well they wanted $2 each. Gee, I told them before I paid $2 each I might just bother to look for my old ones first. It's ok they're friends of mine. Anyway it took me all of 2 minutes to find them.

Holy collectors' items, Batman! I have a whole bag of D&D dice from the 1980s in all shapes and sizes. If new ones are $2 each I wonder what my 'vintage' dice are worth?

Astorax · #6 June 18th, 2008, 02:56 PM

btw Nocturnal, I have rolled up a halfling rogue, eladrin wizard, human cleric and am currently working out a warlock, too. I would prefer to play as my rogue or wizard but, if nobody else rolls a cleric for the party, I will play mine.

Choices in order:

1. Eladrin Wizard
2. Halfling Rogue
3. Human Cleric
4. there is no 4 at the moment but it will be a Warlock.
5. I don't play fighters

Astorax · #7 June 18th, 2008, 02:59 PM

Hey, theres a question, DM, can we use more than one character in this adventure? Like, could I play as both my Wizard and Rogue or Cleric and Wizard/Rogue, more like?

edit- btw, Narf, JFries on #D&D channel in IRC wants to play in our game.

douglas · #8 June 18th, 2008, 03:26 PM

Well, if everyone who has expressed interest plays that's five people - me, Randallw, Nocturnal, you, and JFries. That's already a full size party.

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Astorax said:
Nocturnal, I've sent you a private message. I'm not exactly sure where it will show up as I don't see a "message box" or whatever like other forums. Maybe its sent to your email? Not sure.

A flashing letter icon shows up next to the "Welcome <user_name>. [Logout]" line on the top left, IIRC. Clicking on it takes you to your message box where you can view the new message. You can also access your message box through the My Home link on the top right. It's the leftmost link on the second row in that big set of links.

Nocturnal · #9 June 18th, 2008, 03:54 PM

New question then: how's this going to work logistically? I'm downloading (or the OpenRPG setup is downloading) wxPython2.8 which is a pretty big file for my pretty slow connection. Please don't make me install IRC again too.

Since it is in real-time, when are we going to meet? I work Sunday to Thursday inclusive from about 0600-1800 GMT so I won't be available at those times, and I use much of the remainder of the weekdays for eating and sleeping. On weekends (Friday and Saturday) I am pretty much free at any time. I like to get sleep in blocks of 10-14 hours during the weekend to restore HP and spells, but I don't need to take them at particular hours.

So ideally I would like to play on Friday or Saturday, during the afternoon or evenings as compared to GMT.

We should sort this out to see who among us can actually play, and then submit the characters.