D&D, oh how I miss thee!

[walkertexasdruid]

Do any of you still play D&D? I wish I did. I have not played since last March. The married couple I was playing with decided they did not want to play with me anymore. I guess it was for the best, he turned out to be jerk. Somehow I was expected to read his mind and make sure I did not do anything that annoyed him. By the time he got around to telling me what was on his mind it was already too late, he was already ticked off at me, for some pretty stupid things that most normal people would be alright with. Oh well, that is life. Anyway, I guess this thread is a tribute to the good memories I have of playing this game.

A long time ago I had a friend who managed to die in some rather unusual fasions. One particular incedent, he was onboard an abandoned pirate ship. He found a skeleton in the captain's cabin and he decided to attack it, though it had not moved or gave any indication that it was an undead enemy. He rolled a critical miss, punched a hole in the side of the ship, sunk it, and drowned. He somehow died in similar situations on a regular basis, but he kept trying.

Does anyone else have memories of D&D or other role playing games that they think about from time to time? I would love to hear them.

[Aldurin]

I finally gave up on DnD here due to apathy from all potential DMs and caved on going to the Giant in the Playground forums for that stuff.

Found a campaign and I'm gonna go nuts with a Dread Necromancer build I've been going with for a while (it's open world around one city with all PC's operating independently, so I'm gonna go chaotic evil and raise anarchy). Idea is zambies of all shapes and sizes, and then anyone who puts up any resistance gets reminded that I'm a caster, too. I guess what may happen is I may align with some of the other evil PCs or gain the attention of the good guys. Either way the road to shenanigans will be paved with blood (hopefully not my own).

And damn, you got one unlucky friend for stuff like that to happen. You should suggest that he try to do a run with a Wild Mage Wizard, just to see how crazy of a death he can have.

[Ryong]

I still play DnD 4e every sunday, but lately we stopped for a bit to play Shadowrun.

All my characters in DnD 4e have been petrified at least once, it's incredible. Some time ago, we went fight some sort of magical flying golem, supposed to tire us out. In a single turn, each player rolled a crit. It was fantastic.

I'll say that most of the shenanigans happen in a Dark Sun campaign we play, mostly because everyone's constantly near dead and I have a character that can swap places with a nearby ally every 5 minutes, which leads to ridiculous situations, like trading places with an ally at 2 health - we were 7th level so he had about 60 hitpoints maximum - who bluffed to tell me he was fine and then I proceeded to use a magical taunt to call enemies towards me - and then they fell in a cliff.

[RobinStarwing]

I've actually never played but I had wanted too.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Same situation as Robin for me.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I renounced D&D when i found pathfinder and dethroned the horrible king with a flying lariat. Aint no metaphor there. Right off the throne. Proclaimed myself king and first decree was renaming the new domain The Ringland. Became king of The Ringland.

That was some odd months back and havent had a chance to play again.

Good times. Good times.

[Nikose Tyris]

I've been desperately wanting to run games and the RP games club has me running Exalted and Mutants and Masterminds

[PyrosNine]

Pyros is playing the Pathfinder game, and it is my first real foray into pens and papers (and smartpads) gaming beyond leafing through a Exalted book Krylo sent me.

I am currently playing with a group that a classmate invited me to join, and now there's a long haired vain pyromaniac witch (a male witch at that) wandering around Magnimar with a ferret.

So far I have gotten the entire team 300 xp points by acts of awesome, including sparta-kicking one of my own team members into a filthy pit so I could shoot a goblin in the head with a crossbow for hitting me in the chest with a bag of feces. Rolled a crit, boom headshot.

Somehow I have managed to be the most effective man in the party without ever actually casting any real spells or hexes, and the other party members consist of a min-maxed Death Cleric gnome with an OP skeleton minion and too much money, a custom character Fae Corgi (a talking dog?) that is somehow related to a Pathfinder equivalent of the Shadow Broker from Mass Effect, and a dumb Ninja.

The second most effective person in the party is an unarmed Ranger with cannibalistic tendencies who always grapples with and then attempts to eat our opponents. He has a 80% instant kill percentage.

Last session, we leveled up, and I only now just got my fire spells.

[stefan]

FATE is a far more fun system to screw with that doesn't rely nearly as much on obfuscated minutiae and rolling for every-fucking-thing the way DnD and its bastard hellspawn do. After my first game of Dresden Files I dropped the d20 format more or less entirely, and I wholeheartedly encourage you all to do the same.

[Aerozord]

What little hope I had for a face-to-face RPG were dashed when I finally got a job. My schedule is so unstable its impossible it makes scheduling impossible. The only thing I know is I wont work past midnight, but by then most are asleep for their more stable work day