Poll: Dungeons and Dragons.

[meisterdreister]

I am a major geek and I think Dungeons & Dragons(And RPG in general) are one of the best inventions of the last 50 years or so. I have, like, a hundred books or something in my house, thousands of character sheets and billions of weird dice. And friday nights, all of my geekish friends come over to my house, and we play for hours upon hours deep into the night, and we eat pizza and doritos and we laugh and shout and we will probably never have girlfriends.(Unless they, too, play D&D. But those girls are amazingly rare)
But it's just so much fun!

Do you want to be my friend?
I really would like to play D&D again, but seriously this time. Somehow everytime we play, it all ends in disaster (ingame). People always start murdering every single person who's not in their favour, whining for SUM EPICS ITEMZ and the world being destroyed. Meh, we once started playing a monster-group (goblins, orcs and so on) but we lost interest in that. Since then, we have never played again. A good DM is actually all I want. Reigning with rigour and a sense of humour. Firm but fair.

 

[ae86gamer]

Never played DnD with pens, paper, and dice, but I wish I did.
I played the best of the computer versions (Baldur's Gate! WOO!), and absolutely love those.

I'll always be a 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms nerd at heart.

You sure do love Baldur's Gate..

OP: I've never played it, but I do wanna try it.

 

[McClaud]

D&D is an okay game. Depends on what version we're talking about.

I started playing right before 2nd Edition came out. Classic D&D made races a character class. Then 2nd Edition came out and THAC0 was a little hard to understand, but you had more options. Next was 3.x. It was a bit easier, but with too many options if you weren't careful. Now that 4e is out, I stopped playing altogether.

It's not a horrible game, and can be fun with the right people. But I'm not a fan anymore. I grew up and started liking d20 type games that moved away from high fantasy. Things like Spycraft. The only thing we play that is considered "fantasy" now is the Mouse Guard RPG.

So basically, I liked D&D before it was "cool"

 

[similar.squirrel]

I had a brief phase, but I decided the people involved were a bit..Hm.

 

[Amnestic]

I had a brief phase, but I decided the people involved were a bit..Hm.

Ah yes, we D&D players are a bit "hm." In fact, this one guy I used to play with was so Hm that he was weird even by our standards of how Hm we all were.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I had a brief phase, but I decided the people involved were a bit..Hm.

Ah yes, we D&D players are a bit "hm." In fact, this one guy I used to play with was so Hm that he was weird even by our standards of how Hm we all were.

I would elaborate, but my adjectives have fled. Due to constant abuse.

 

[Amnestic]

I had a brief phase, but I decided the people involved were a bit..Hm.

Ah yes, we D&D players are a bit "hm." In fact, this one guy I used to play with was so Hm that he was weird even by our standards of how Hm we all were.

I would elaborate, but my adjectives have fled. Due to constant abuse.

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[Daveman]

I'm a pretty darned cool chap and I was interested in starting as there is a club in my uni. but i don't think I can fit it in with rugby practice, lectures and going out getting pissed.

 

[Distorted Stu]

I thought this game had died out years ago and was just in the media because it is the shirne of geekiness and the sterotypes it created. I wasnt aware peopel still play it! Hell i think i would enjoy it, i got into Yu-gi-oh card games and i taken that way to seriously (with friends that is)