Tabletop Role-Playing?

[Thaius]

I know all of us at The Escapist play video games, but what about Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons? Does anyone at The Escapist enjoy that kind of gaming as well? And if so, what is one of your favorite moments from a game session?

Personally, I just played my 3rd session of my first game of D&D tonight, and I'm absolutely loving it.

Tonight one of our players was excited to use a crazy-long telescoping spear he had gotten at the end of last session. We came out of an underground passageway into a room where some kind of priest was doing some sort of ritual to resurrect a dark warlord (this early on, the story is still shrouded in mystery). There were guards around him, but we had killed some of them farther down the tunnel and two of us, including the guy with the spear, had donned their clothes. He started the battle by hurling his spear at the priest to stop the ritual: he rolled a natural 20 on his attack roll (which, how we play, is an instant win), and all his other rolls for this attack went great, so the spear impaled the enemy and flung him across the room in a pile of broken limbs. It was pretty hardcore.

What about the rest of The Escapist? Do you play, and if so, what was a great moment?

 

[metacree]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

 

[Abedeus]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

 

[GodsAndFishes]

Well I have two great moments from D&D:
1) Climbing down a rope into a cave, I roll a natural 1, I fall down, so to slow my fall I decide to stab my sword into the side. Again I roll a natural 1, the sword shatters. I survive the fall by landing on top of the halfling.
2)Where my Sorc used an area attack, which did minimal damage to the enemies within the explosion, but killed outright my ally who had just run into the area. I was called Lord Traitor for weeks after that.

 

[metacree]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I've never played D&D but, I have played other tabletop games like 7th Sea and Traveler. I miss those gaming sessions and wish I had friends xD

Anyway; I liked 7th Sea more than Traveler. In 7th Sea I played as a Viking [can't remember what they were called in the game] and there was a point when the town guard was after a member of my group whom I and a fellow adventurer had recently broken out of prison. We had holed up in a local pub but it wasn't quite crowded enough to keep our new companion concealed for very long. The guard didn't recognize me so I was tasked with distracting them. Being a Viking, I knew that the absolute best way to distract guards is to start a bar fight.

I went to throw a chair into a group of people but my roll failed and I ended up stumbling and smacking a bar winch in the arse with said chair. Sure, a bar fight still happened but not as expected xD

I miss tabletop gaming ... I should try finding people who are into that sort of thing [/tears]

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I play Warhammer 40,000 tabletop, and sometimes an old edition of D&D.

 

[Actual]

I'll play whatever game's running.

Couple years ago, I think it was world of darkness we were playing. We'd escaped a city taking down a crime boss, it was epic and all that, we felt way hardcore. So to keep the atmosphere the GM made us play the journey to the next city, even though he didn't have much planned until we got there.

So my team mate went out to hunt some food down, laid a trap using a big sack that would scoop up anything that walked across it. But then spotted a deer, unaware of him. So goes for a stealth kill with his dagger. Crit fails the roll, trips over his own trap and stumbles out of the undergrowth behind the deer which panics and flails out with it's back legs. Crit success on the roll. Matey is hit in the face with both hooves, out for the count, falls backwards right into his own trap.

We found the trap but assume he's out hunting still so start a fire. (GM didn't tell us what had happened till after). He starts to wake up and stirs, and we club him, still in the sack, unconscious again. That was one of my funniest moments.

Epic was when a the GM mis-leveled a were-wolf and there was almost no way we could kill it. We had an APC mounted cannon but the damn thing was too fast, and killed the gunner. So we bail out and start shooting at it. It kills the entire group barring me, and while it's dismembering one of my friends I decide to run like a little girl.
However as I start driving the APC away it tries to block my way, I ploughed into it without braking, and despite not damaging through it's resistance I've got it pinned against teh wall of a building. I climb onto the roof and mount the cannon, avoiding it's claws lashing out at me I'm able to start firing at it's face at point blank range. After twelve blasts I'm able to kill the thing.

I was given a level on the spot in apology when the GM realised he'd fudged the levels on it.

 

[ottenni]

No but it really does interest me greatly. Damn living in the country has its downsides. But when i get the chance i play Warhammer/40k

 

[tk1989]

i played warhammer fantasy years ago when i was like 12, but that is about it...

 

[Abedeus]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

...Term? You should be ashamed to call yourself a gamer. But obviously you aren't, if you don't know what Garry's Mod is.

 

[Hong Meiling]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

...Term? You should be ashamed to call yourself a gamer. But obviously you aren't, if you don't know what Garry's Mod is.

Wow. I mean seriously.

Not everyone is a valvetard you know :V

 

[Abedeus]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

...Term? You should be ashamed to call yourself a gamer. But obviously you aren't, if you don't know what Garry's Mod is.

Wow. I mean seriously.

Not everyone is a valvetard you know :V

Reported for trolling. Also, people not playing Garry's Mod or Valve games know what it is.

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

I'll be damned! I also have recently started playing D&D (4th edition, 1st game, 3rd session).

My character is a human Warlock, revering the Ravenqueen but with Necromantic ambitions, and now the DM has started randomly throughing artifacts of Orcus in my face. Yay for inner conflict and hypocrisy!

Apperantly, I have an inherrent ability to almost always roll under 10. Not that that is very useful.

 

[metacree]

I'm obviously not a gamer even after the 20+ years of playing. No, I simply can't be, because I don't know about garry's mod. There's so much more I would like to say but I really do not want to feed the troll.

 

[UnravThreads]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

G-Mod is basically a Source engine toolkit, primarily based around HL2. If you just use the default kit with the Valve Source games, you have access to most maps/levels/items from HL2 + Episodes, Portal, CS:S, TF2, DoD:S... You get the idea. If you just have HL2, you'd only have access to HL2 stuff, and so forth. You can build things, do Half Life 2 in a really weird way (mods exist to use the Portal gun, I believe) and basically just go nuts. This is a good idea [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYVHII_XFg&feature=related] of what you can do with it. Of course, there are better things out there.

Back on topic... No, I haven't. It's something I've always wanted to do, but D&D is quite expensive in the UK (I think it works out about £50-60 for all 3 source books, and then you "need" the relevant expansion books), so I've never really done it. Suppose if I tracked down a cheap 3.5 Monster Manual and a 3.5 FR campaign book, I'd be able to start 3.5ed.

 

[Lost In The Void]

I have been playing D&D for about three years. I have encountered many things more epic than any video game could provide. No matter how far games progress they can't compete with the imagination!

Neverwinter Nights and Garry's Mod say hello.

I've heard the term gary's mod before but I have no idea what it is really. I guess I could google it but that would be too easy.

...Term? You should be ashamed to call yourself a gamer. But obviously you aren't, if you don't know what Garry's Mod is.

Wow. I mean seriously.

Not everyone is a valvetard you know :V

Reported for trolling. Also, people not playing Garry's Mod or Valve games know what it is.

I'm sorry I'm not seeing you acting any more mature you know. If he asks out of general interest, you answer with the damned answer, not with some snobbish retort

Edit: OT I do enjoy my forum RPs but hesitant to start table top, for one there is no interest where I am from [small rural community] and I would be tormented and never be able to live it down from my not-so-gamer friends

 

[Plinglebob]

I love tabletop RPGs but don't play at the moment as I can't find a group. Also, I have a bad habit of getting killed by the 3rd session rarely due to my actions. My record was 40 minutes into the game due to a string of bad dice rolls.

 

[Spitfire175]

I play WFRP and D&D. It's great fun.

 

[MakerOfRoads]

Bah. Ive been playing DnD for a while now... (8 years or so?)

3.5 is def my favorite, im kinda confused they changed it soo much. I mean, its like Wizards of the Coast looked at it, and found all the ways you can nerf the fun out of a tabletop game. I feel like Im playing wow, only not on the internet.

I have alot of interesting moments through it all, most of which is cant really talk about (lets just say, cleric of nerule, gnomish prostitute, a spear, and a bag of holding.) Im kind of blessed to have one of the best gamestores for this sort of thing in the central US nearby tho.