Anyone here play Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG, besides my husband and I? ...I'm taking a break from it at the moment, because I had a huge epiphany and realized I just like it for character creation, and then I get bored if there's no hack-n-slash, or if no one brings any alcohol. My husband loves the role-playing aspect of D&D. He likes Eberron, but I'm partial to Forgotten Realms. Give me magic & elves over steampunk & robots anyday.

Just curious who plays what. :)

I play it, but I use my own set of rules(such as odds are modifiers like 11-+1, 13-+2) and I make all the stories and campaigns myself. It's not uncommon during a session for me to never write anything down or look anything up. Kinda a second nature thing. And I use it to roleplay, and orchestrate grand fights. Hell my comic Mercs is litterally based off a campaign I ran.

I've wanted to play D&D for a long time now, but have never really gotten the chance...

:cry:

LOL, Vin Diesel represents.

I tried playing that game with my cousin a few times. I could never get into it. You mean I have to imagine what's going on? WTF?! Don't you have a game board and little plastic monsters I could play with?

You know mlai, after reading you on the forums I DID suspect you had no imagination ^__^.

I still beat you in Turret Warz.

Yeah? Well!.....Stinkyhead!

Honestly got no comeback for that. I'd say who cares, but I actually freaking tried on that game. GOBBLES!

Still, I love DnD. I got a comic out of it if nothing else.

i've done it once or twice, prefer the GURPS system though.

mlai
Don't you have a game board and little plastic monsters I could play with?

Yes. They have D&D miniatures. Were I to play, I would have to have these for the combat sequences.

I can imagine the rest of it though.

I use ALOT of the whatchacallem minis the green ones....damn...

but i do have the plastic dnd minis as well.

Back when I played D&D I was also really into Legos, so we would build elaborate dungeons (though in that half-assed "rainbow" color anything made with legos by people don't give enough of a damn about ends up in) and using legos as our characters. We also didn't really understand the game at all (I was still a preteen at the time), so the whole thing ended up being really dull and unimaginative. I thought of the game as more like an unnecessarily complex game of chess than an open-ended roleplaying game, so I followed restrictions that didn't exist, and ignored the restrictions in the actual gameplay rules that would require me to keep track of numbers and crap. Basically the game devolved into us only being able to move so many spaces in a given turn, and only keeping track of health, attack, and armor. We never really bothered with magic because of the whole "memorizing books" thing, etc.

Hey! I was 12 when I started and Was Dming fine when I was 13! Though my uncle taught me the game and he was HARDCORE so I had to learn it by heart. That was Adnd though. So prefer 3.5

I was like Ink. Basically said "Screw this imagination and storytelling crap. I just wanna fight shit!" So I drew lots and lots and lots of monsters on paper, colored them with markers, cut them out, and pasted them onto pennies. I had boxes full of monsters on penny stands in this way. Then I brought them to my friends and we just treated the whole thing like a Diablo dungeonhack boardgame. We didn't bother with spells either. Enemies had spells, though.

I made my own Monster Manual. That was fun.

Yeah, I'm not surprised that good storytelling don't mean much to you mlai. ^__^ jkin'.

We used to use sprees to represent monsters. You ate what you killed.

mlai
I tried playing that game with my cousin a few times. I could never get into it. You mean I have to imagine what's going on? WTF?! Don't you have a game board and little plastic monsters I could play with?

All the games I've played in do have little miniatures and dry-erase vinyl grid mats laid out on the table, so the DM (Dungeon Master) can draw the map out and place the miniatures on them. It helps greatly during combat. ...I can see where you would be frustrated.

mlai
"Screw this imagination and storytelling crap. I just wanna fight shit!"

You sound like me, LOL. My characters were always Chaotic Neutral. Fuck talking to the monster, just beat it to death.

"Fear of Girls"

All girls just want to beat shit to death; that's why they plays these games. 8D

That thought scares me.

mlai
All girls just want to beat shit to death; that's why they plays these games. 8D

Well we can't beat you guys up. I mean, the last time I tried doing that, the damn a**hole fought back. ...So, we have to do something. D&D satisfies our bloodlust. ;)

Roofies work for it though! Guys use Roofies for sex, girls use em for evil bloody revenge.

....A hammer works just as well. And it's so much cheaper. ;)

Well we can't beat you guys up. I mean, the last time I tried doing that, the damn a**hole fought back. ...So, we have to do something. D&D satisfies our bloodlust.

I don't know, you could probably take most of the guys I know who play D&D.

I don't mind if a girl bets, me just not with a hammer.

OK, no hammer....lead pipe maybe? TV monitor? Those have an added bonus, because you get broken glass too. (/giggle)

Was that a joke at my expense? O__o oddly poignant.

No silly, I was just trying to be funny. lol! Plus broken glass is cool.

No, I jes stepped on a couple big chunks a couple weeks ago and haven't been able to walk until just the last few days. No insurance=no treatment=gotta jes deal wif it.

But yes, broken glass IS cool! The cut was awesome looking and if ntohign else it gets me false sympathy from people, AND free food! Hunh, that's what I should put in the vil thread. That I constantly take advantage of christiants at my college for hotdogs and chips...

Yes, I play. It's pretty fun if you don't take it too seriously. I find it's sort of easy to get bored though so I'll usually have my character do dumb things like tie up other peoples' characters when they're not paying attention and put them in the john or something. It's my "are you paying attention?" test. Other times I'll do something relatively harmless but still obnoxious, like draw weird things on the battle mat (that really bugs the DM.)

I used to be part of this group of guys that played, I'm not now, but they kinda fell apart after I left and the very next week one ofthe guys showed up shitfaced and when the dm started going he kept interjecting with stupid crap. Finally he just said "A pair of breasts jump out?" just kindly randomly and so the dm aggitated agreed and the lil dwarf in the party got all eager and the player jumped up and yelled "I GRAPPLE THE BREASTS!"

Sidwarrious
No, I jes stepped on a couple big chunks a couple weeks ago and haven't been able to walk until just the last few days. No insurance=no treatment=gotta jes deal wif it.

Man, you must live somewhere crappy. Where I live, in the U.S., even if you have no insurance, they will still give you treatment. I mean, they're not just gonna let you die. Even if you are broke, they will work with you to make payment arrangements. For example, I had to go to the E.R. last May because I was in so much pain from a kidney stone. I had no insurance at the time, because I was in the first few months of a new job, but they didn't care. Anyway, I got morphine and the works, and stayed there for about eight hours. A few months later I got a bill for about $500. I called the hospital and they made payment arrangements. They asked how much I could afford a month and I told them. They did a credit check and ta-daaah, it was done.

...Or you could always fly to Canada and get treatment for free. Or vote for Hilary Clinton. (but we're not gonna go there) lol!

Anyway, next time you get sick and have to go to the hospital, there is always a way to make payment arrangements. Just some friendly info from your neighborhood succubus!