To all D&D players

It's back for more. Come here to talk anything D&D-ish, anything from your favorite things to Things youed like to see done with it
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How ya doing, buddy?

One of my favorite things in D&D - using "Holy Word" on a Balor, blinding it and deafening it for four and six rounds (respectively), which allowed the Rogue to sneak attack it every turn.

Teamwork is the key to Victory.

Great times.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Being that the site is back up and new did post in this tread before it went down? and yes. yes that is fun. also do you always play a rogue or do you varie?

Also I forgot to put the poll in but what is your favorite class overall
Mines a rogue.
And if someone can tell me how to put on one please tell me

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm actually the Cleric who cast the Holy Word. I did post in the old thread, under the same name - I was the one who had the Favored Soul 9/Barbarian 7/Warpriest 10, remember? And the strange party full of weirdos who didn't get along? We still have a strained relationship amongst party members (in-game), especially after I used Quest on the Sorceror.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

One leathal combination of a charecter is a draconic vampire. Ability bouneses out the rear lots of cool special abilitys and any class is just about perfect. I'm running one now I'll post the stats later tonight but he is a little on the craze weird side which is not my normal kind of charecter but I'm having fun with it so far. I've managed to freak out a charecter with him already. Also what should you do should you discover the DM has it out for you? Because I have managed to survive so far but my charecter hasent sleept well for days. full story later.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You know what? I do have a Draconic Vampire in my party in an Epic level campaign. He started as a Half-Dragon. Given situational necessity, he drew from the Deck of Many Things, and got the card that granted him an imeediate wish. He wished for immortality. Shortly thereafter, as he left the rest of us to our bickering, he got whacked in the neck by a high-speed object, which turned out to be a Vampire (bat form). Ironically, he's the only one the Cleric would've trusted, though their is more than a little tension between them, being that he's Undead.

If you find out that the DM has it out for your character, I see that as not good. You should be able to trust your DM completely, and he should in turn work to make the game fun for everybody, especially the players. Is this a Solo campaign, or are you part of a group? That's important.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So then your aware of the ability boosts that they get. mad eh? well anyway as for the DM out to get me it may be for storyline sake because I have made a few enemies most keep coming back for more, Dam Lestat and loyed, always out to kill me. furthermore it's not all my doing either. other party members have contributed to my enemise such as the orcs that worship Gruumsh by defiling their temple with my dagger (dam Joe gnome) as for the other charecters they are doing everything to protect me as much as possible.
Lestat is out to get me because I kicked his ass in a tournament and he's held a grudge for awhile but he's shown up less recently which leads me to think he's building an army and Loyed because He fled his town and I took it over because it was free property (Rogue likes free things sooo....) also hasent shown up for awhile. But if he dose want me dead he's had alot of trouble doing it, can we say final destination like?
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Double Post:
By the way. Once in a while you might see some randome conversation at the end of my post (You might have seen them before) anyway the'll be back and better then ever

FELIPE NO

Hmm... well, the DM being "out to get you" sounds a lot more reasonable now. You seem to enjoy making enemies... even if your friends do help a bit in that department. What are you, True Neutral? And yeah, watch out for the ones that don't show up for a while. That'll catch you off your guard, and then WOAH, you're so screwed.

Also, yes, Draconic + Vampyric = HOLY CRAP. He gets tons of bonuses, such as bonus HP if he keeps a steady bit of blood in him, as well as being immortal. Also, as part Red Dragon, he's resistant to fire, one of the only ways to truly kill a Vampire. Tragic. He's one tough-as-nails guy, though. In a staged match, three Elder Red Dragons showed up, and most of us died, including myself. However, upon dying, we were sent back to the cells we inhabited at the time. He was one of the two to live through it and not get sent back... on his first round, he tried to move somewhere, only to get Attack of Opportunity'd by a dragon, grappled, and flung a long ways off. The Sorceror pulled off a Time Stop, then hit two dragons with a pair of Cone of Cold spells (doubly effective!), but got eaten in the next round. I gave everyone Mass Bear's Endurance, which helped a ton, but eventually, the Dragons stopped ignoring me and chewed me up. The Rogue managed to triple-critical one of them, jumping onto its head and stabbing it in the brain (instant kill), and we'd taken another one down, but then the Rogue got munched. The Monk and the Half-Dragon Fighter managed to survive, though the Monk ended up in the low negatives (he kept fighting, thanks to the Diehard feat).

So, crazy times were had by all.

How ya doing, buddy?

Then you know all about the awsome crap they get and for a little fun I discovered that the way the world runs in his campaignes the more people out to kill you (assasinate is better which is wanted of me) is considered great respect (like I want that) in any event I eventualy gave up the city and my sole objective is now to kill Lestat and Loyed. they deserve it. and elves most likly hate me as well, for now

Jam it back in, in the dark.

What about custome classes have anyone made any if so could we see them.
I made a class called the Keepers. I'll post it as soon as I get my copy back from my freind

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's too bad the Planescape setting just kind of died out. It was the most interesting setting by far...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I havent seen one of those campainges for awhile now, I havent been in one but would like to try one out

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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It's too bad the Planescape setting just kind of died out.

Not exactly. Semi-official conversion of Planescape to 3rd edition, more or less with the blessings of WotC.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I never played those campaigns that much. I prefer the kind of campaigns where everything is completely custom (Even some of the rules). I don’t like pre made published campaigns either, once you play them once that’s it you've wasted your money

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Pre-mades are, to me, really a way to teach new players, and sometimes even new DMs, how to play the game. They can often be a stepping stone to other, more complex missions and quests, and if you do a lot of DMing with different groups, you can get more than one use out of the module. Max, who DMs the game I'm in up at college, started with The Sunless Citadel and then integrated it into a widely branching quest that's run for months, and we play one game every Sunday. It's all in what you do with them.

FELIPE NO

Are we talking real D&D or the new online game... I have stories and stories from campaigns.

It was the best when my DM got pissed at me and sent a Black Dragon against my party... let's put this way, somehow in hell we all crit'd the damn dragon...one after the other. He looked at us and told us that we had loaded dice and got pissed at the fact that he realized that the die were the ones he brought.

My favorite class has to be bard... My DM put us in this damn campaign where he ended up in hell for some reason or another. It sucked but somehow, everyone but myself (my lvl 10 bard) was the only one that survived the whole campaign. Well, everyone quit because they got pissed at the DM for trying to non-stop kill us... Mind Flares, Golems, etc..

I like playing the ver 2.5... The whole spot check, etc crap doesn't really appeal to me.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

This is real D&D and thats just plain funny because I have a DM whos out t get me

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by speculative

It's too bad the Planescape setting just kind of died out. It was the most interesting setting by far...

It's not really dead. They've just been cannibalizing it as part of the "core" view of the planes. Granted, a lot of the special flavor of Planescape has been scrubbed out of the details before they land in the Manual of the Planes or the Planar Handbook (or even the 3.5 DMG).

There will probably be some bones thrown at PS fans in the upcoming Fiendish Codex 1. Erik Mona's one of the designers and he's a cut from the cloth Grognard. Of course, that probably means the book is going to swing right past Planescape and tap more into the 1st Edition and Greyhawk material, but hey, what can you do?

I only wish the switch from 3e to 3.5e hadn't aggrivated the D20 bubble burst. We're pretty much down to Malhavoc, Green Ronin, Mongoose Press, and Necromancer games for generic D20 print support. And two of the three are venturing more into their own OGL spin-off games (Arcana Evolved and/or Iron Heroes for Malhavoc and True20 for Green Ronin). Of course, I still need to buy up some older D20 books from outfits like Atlas (Dynasties & Demogogues) and Fantasy Flight Games (Traps & Treachery) so I can't complain TOO much. It's just not like it was when everybody in the industry wanted a piece of D20.

Can't wait for the second edition of Magical Medival Society: Western Europe to come out. I missed out on the first edition before Expeditious Retreat Press sold out...

Er... heh, sorry. Had an over-informed geek moment. Anyone else out there do more of D20 than just D&D? If you don't and you're interested, there are some gems just waiting to be discovered, but there's also a lot of crap too.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I never really got that much into the later versions of D&D. When my friends and I decide to get together to do some dungeon crawling, we tend to stick to first edition, with houserules. After all, we already have all the books for that.

How ya doing, buddy?

I started in 3.5 so I dont know much about the older versions. But when I DM Most of the rules are house rules anyway so it dosent matter much. I also like using my own Compleatly diffrent settings and worlds as well as dungeons. I run specifice campainges such as a Stargate and undead campainge, and hopefully a ghosts of mars if I can get it set up right

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

From the perspective of someone who started in the '80s under the red box Basic set rules, I'll say this - every edition of the game has it's own pros and cons.

In a lot of ways, for example, 2nd Edition was more evocative in the work they put out. They had fewer supplements that focused on new rules and options and more that fleshed out campaign worlds - a high fluff to crunch ratio. 3.x, on the other hand, has been a lot more about churning out new rules options to keep your choices open, but usually at the expense of sterile, uninspiring writing and little flavor to tie everything together. Like I said, pros and cons.

The good thing, however, is a lot of the more evocative 2nd Edition setting work is still completely valid in 3.x rules, just without the horribly unbalanced power levels and internally inconsistent rules that D&D used to put out through OD&D, 1st Edition, and 2nd Edition. Adopting the D20 as the universal resolution mechanic for EVERYTHING (except Turning Undead, which is one of the last ghosts left from the old days) was the smartest thing Wizards did when they sat down to make 3e. Imagine a game where resolving an attack roll was different than succeeding at a general skill, which was different than turning undead, which was different than picking a lock as a thief. Yup, for everything you wanted to do in 1e and 2e, you needed to remember a different form of resolution.

And don't even get me started on THAC0s. Yeah, they didn't really go away. Wizards just removed the funny math from the equation. See, my PC wouldn't get an attack bonus based on level, he'd have a THAC0 that represented the number I needed to roll in order to hit an AC of 0 (which used to be good - think of it like an AC of 20 in 3e). You'd have to calculate backwards (because lower AC was better) and then not every step was the same.

Ah yes, and Exceptional Strength. Rolled an 18 at character creation? Are you a warrior? Break out that d% because it's time to see if you've got a lowly 18/01 or a mighty 18/00!

For all the complaints about 3e being too academic, too videogamey, or combat taking too long (which reminds me, I had some 4 hour battles in 2nd Edition), it's a massive step forward. The lost flavor can be regained with a broad library, a visit to a used bookstore, or a stop by RPGNow to buy some ESDs of old TSR books. What you can't get with those old books are consistent, easy to master rules.

Of course, you don't exactly have that in 3e either. That's where Castles & Crusades and True20 come in....

I was speaking idiomatically.

Read this article and comments then have fun with it and please try to make a good conversation out of it I dont want to post something for nothing

http://www.adequacy.org/public/stori...5438.1158.html

Save point!!!!!!!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Okay, I think I stopped reading after Beatrice's first couple of points. Honestly. She defines Dungeons and Dragons as a cult, as if we follow the books to be some sort of guides to how to live our lives! So, I call the PHB the D&D Bible, but first off, that's a joke, simply because it contains all the information needed to create a character, and secondly, because "Bible" literally means "The Book", so it's a pun. The way I play D&D - it's a game. I get an opportunity to act out things that I would never have a chance to do in reality for obvious reasons, such as the clear lack of existence of both dungeons and dragons, and my real-life moral, physical, and emotional bounds. I would never kill anybody or anything in real life, as I'm incredibly passive and polite.

So, she 'looked into' D&D? How about asking actual players instead of scaremongering websites?

I can't stand ignorant people.

FELIPE NO

"So I did what any responsible parent would do: after a few days passed and I composed myself, I set out to learn as much as I could about Dungeons and why my Billy had chosen those books to kill himself with." Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they slide really well.
This is why I've lost faith in humanity

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, that was the first thing that really turned me off to the article - obviously, the books he chose to stand on were symbolic, and represented why he offed himself. Clearly. It sounds like someone trying to make excuses for their son's death, trying to find something to pin the blame on. It's an incredibly typical thing for parents of children that commit suicide to do. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be an insensitive jerk, but perhaps your parenting had something to do with it? Someone doesn't just get suicidal enough to kill themself at that young of an age by purely outside factors.

Jam it back in, in the dark.