Poll: Dungeons and Dragons.
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Not really my cup of tea, I tried to play it once but I just couldn't find any reason to enjoy the game, in my opinion that is.
I found it alright, that's probably got something to do with the fact that we're rather loose with the rules (in the interest of keeping it more entertaining).
Need proof? We once summoned a whale as a weapon (we crushed a bunch of generic bad guys by having it drop on top of them).
Need proof? We once summoned a whale as a weapon (we crushed a bunch of generic bad guys by having it drop on top of them).
Bias poll is bias.
I like D&D it is fun. A good story helps but it's not like it needs to be a yarn that makes all the players take up volunteer work after the campaign is over. Just needs to have good pacing and be exciting,
I like D&D it is fun. A good story helps but it's not like it needs to be a yarn that makes all the players take up volunteer work after the campaign is over. Just needs to have good pacing and be exciting,
Look up your local university, see if they have a game or role-play group that will let outsiders join, they tend to be fun, but incredibly geeky people to hang out with.Flour said:
Or just get mates who don't play and run a complete noob campaign for them, that can be even more fun as no-one understands the rules at first. It just requires you to be a very tolerant and quick thinking GM.
THIS is why I love P&P RPGs, reminds me of the time I was playing Star Wars D6 and stoped a banfa stampeed by running toward them, jumping, and fucking riding one.Iron Mal said:
You could just take turns DMing for eachother, just scale down encounters or give your PC a party of NPCs to make encounters easier.Flour said:
Were you reading a specific sourcebook for one of the pre-existing D&D worlds or just the regular rulebooks? What edition were you reading? The rulebooks are boiled down fantasy because it needs to be usable in any world and setting you create of your own, that's kind of the point.
It's been around since 1974 and has several diffrent campain settings and versions, you need to say which one you are talking about as they can be very diffrent.
Me, I love D&D 4.0 (it's altered by our DM to so that the bits we really dislike can be sidesteped) with the Forgotten Realms Setting, we've only had one campain in FR but it was one of the best we've done (by we I mean the group I play D&D with). I've never done the kind of playstyle where you talk ye'oldy style, mostly we just narrate our action.
I play a Paladin who can best be discribed as a Glacier: I'm slow but I'm powerful and you can't stop me.
Me, I love D&D 4.0 (it's altered by our DM to so that the bits we really dislike can be sidesteped) with the Forgotten Realms Setting, we've only had one campain in FR but it was one of the best we've done (by we I mean the group I play D&D with). I've never done the kind of playstyle where you talk ye'oldy style, mostly we just narrate our action.
I play a Paladin who can best be discribed as a Glacier: I'm slow but I'm powerful and you can't stop me.
D&D is the only PnP I really have access to. I find it to be quite a bit of fun, but there are many other games like Spirit of the Century and Don't rest your Head that interest me more, but my nerdy friends don't like story as much as they like battling, so *shrug*.
Our D&D games are fun and creative, though, and there are always great jokes flying back and forth, which is what makes it so much fun. If you go into playing D&D following every rule and without trying to do anything special, you probably won't have much fun.
EDIT: Also, why isn't this in gaming discussion? D&D is totally a game.
Our D&D games are fun and creative, though, and there are always great jokes flying back and forth, which is what makes it so much fun. If you go into playing D&D following every rule and without trying to do anything special, you probably won't have much fun.
EDIT: Also, why isn't this in gaming discussion? D&D is totally a game.
D&D is fun-- it's all about the group, though. If everyone participates in the game (and if you have a bag of weed) it's a blast. I play 3.5 ed.
However, I actually prefer GURPS for my PnP system.
However, I actually prefer GURPS for my PnP system.
The biggest reason I've found for people not enjoying the game is simply that they haven't found the right DM / players.knight of some random number said:
I play AD&D, 3rd Ed, d20 (Modern, Past, Future, Apocalypse), Shadowrun, Paranoia, Deadlands... I think that's everything... and I really enjoy all of it. The people running the games are really good (the guy who runs the Shadowrun and AD&D games is one of the people that conventions ask for to run their games), and the people I game with are a lot of fun.
As far as story, most of the games I've played in Dungeons and Dragons have been home-brewed stories, with very little to do (beyond the gods, goddesses, and monsters), with established lore. The two campaigns I'm playing at the moment are going on simultaneously in the same world, the first has been running for... a long time, five or six years? I've only recently joined it (because my sister who happens to be playing two characters accidentally bought a slave NPC, who eventually became my character). The other is first through fourth level (Magic users start third or 4th level in an effort to keep them from dieing if someone sneezes), side campaign, and both of them are just really entertaining. I think the low-level game's more fun (and acts as sort of a testing ground for tic-tacs... or... tac-tacs... tactics? Whatever those things are... that (probably won't) get used in the main campaign.).
Did I close all my parenthesis? I think so... That's a really long rambly-graph... Eh. Whee!
*wanders away*