Just cause there wasn't one. Love it or hate it, I've been desperately trying to find a group to play with, and there is no one i can find. I'm no the stereotypical D&D player....i do have a girlfriend...and enjoy outdoor activities.

....anyways....i deal 2d6 +2 damage to this thread. 

HAHAHAHA!

NREDS. 

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!

/preemptive strike. 

wow ... havnt played in like 20 years 

And it shows. 

I attack the darkness.

I haven't played in forever, a guy at work keeps trying to get me to play some Cthulu-esque game... I might take him up on it one day, it seems interesting enough... 

I occasionally LARP. We basically just have a big foam weapon battle royal.
No one dresses up or anything.
We all made our own weapons out of closed cell foam, pvc pipe, and wood. These things hurt - it gets pretty real when every strike leaves a bruise.

I wield a springy polearm type weapon. Mad skillz. 

I didn't think it was possible for this thread to get any nerdier, but lo and behold! 

Shouldn't it be more of a generic RP thread, as long as it doesn't include LARPers I mean. 

I DM for my playgroup which has been dwindling since people went back to collegio. I <3s me some D&D. I do agree LARPing is too nerdy. Pot calling kettle black? I don't care, LARPing makes baby jesus weep. 

WTF IS A NRED? 

Pot calling kettle black?

Oh fuck no. There is something wrong with LARPers. 

I occasionally LARP masturbate. We basically just have a big foam weapon sextoy battle royal.
No one dresses up or anything.
We all made our own weapons sextoys out of closed cell foam, pvc pipe, and wood. These things hurt - it gets pretty real when every strike leaves a bruise.

I wield a springy polearm type weapon sextoy. Mad skillz.

there...thats more like it....(fap fap fap) i score 1d4 +1 funny points against you all! 

mipple said:

Pot calling kettle black?

...somethingsomething that's racist...

I was never a fan of larping... but can be found @ the local renfest in garb and have found steel in garb as well (less lame?) 

ya, that should be *fought... sleep time now. 

i used to play very regularly back before i had kids. 

I just wanna play. I was rolling my dice on the floor the other day......wishing i had something to roll for. .....(sniff)

Anyone close to Harrisburg? 

Anyone close to Harrisburg?

Sort of, about an hour 45 away. 

I played in grade school & high school. Stopped for years because of M:TG took up too much time. I got out of college and joined up with a group of guys that surprised the hell out of me - they were all normal ! Gaming with these guys has been great - the only drawback is that we haven't played any one campaign longer than 8 months. We are ravenously awaiting 4th edition to arrive in may or june or whatever.

And we laugh at LARPers. They know what they are doing. And they ask for it. The Vampire: the Masquerade guys that would lurk all over downtown were the worst. Thank god they're gone. 

http://geocities.com/dhamangry/fazed/temp/old/ig.jpg 

roll for initiative. the goblins have a 14. 

srsly 

Anyone close to Harrisburg?

I'll be in HBG this weekend. Come up and hang out. :) 

I'm in two campaigns at the moment, both with the same group of people.
Always liked board games as a kid. Always liked RPG games as a kid.
It fits me. Been playing on and off for about 4 years now. Mostly off.
I do really enjoy it. I'm not sure if I could play with a group of strangers.
I have only played with this one group, and we just have a good time.
If people started to actually...act as their character, with talking and whatnot?
Yeah I think that would be too much for me. 

If people started to actually...act as their character, with talking and whatnot?

My old GM would do that, just to give the characters some more definition and he did really good voices, that had us rolling. 

I cast prismatic sphere into this thread. It deals 20 points of fire damage, 40 points of acid damage
80 points of electricity damage, Poisons, Turns to stone, makes insane, an energy field destroys all
objects and effects and this thread is sent to another plane.
/hides in bag of holding.
//its roomy in here. 

So i've obviously heard of the game, but had no idea how to play. i was told it was something like a live actino rpg game. so when my friend tried to get a game going with himself as GM of course, i decided to participate.

i assume other people are more hardcore about this, but after about 8 hours of playing, our GM friend was gettign tired, and i turned from a paladin knight into a paladin genie, with a sash that can turn into a jaguar, and a rubie that sings and has -10 constitution (or will? or metal compacity, whatever it is ) for the entire group because HE SINGS SO GODDAMN HORRIBLE. apparently.

it was funny, and worth coming back again, but the next day the GM just kinda looked at what we all wrote down and laughed at his own misdoings. especially the rogue burglar or whatevr that turned into a being of blinding light. kinda hard to sneak around. 

Well, I'm currently DMing a rather cliche quest campaign (find all the [things] and save teh world), but everyone's enjoying the hell out of it. It's not the smashing success my last campaign was (city floating in space, total urban campaign, LOTS of plot stuff and a high-ranking NPC the players hated so much they made a deal with even worse people just so they could beat the stuffing out him in broad daylight in a public place)

To tell the truth, I'm kinda looking forward to finishing this one this summer, when a friend's campaign will re-start and I'll get to pick up where I left off with my Ghoul/Dread Necromancer. It's fun being the only evil member of the party.

After that, if I can find the books, I want to run a D20 Cthulhu campaign set in the 1920's, but I'm not sure which city to use... Lovecraft country is cool, but I don't want to use anything that's in one of the stories; it gives too much of an advantage to the players when they know things thier characters shouldn't.

Either that or Unhallowed Metropolis, if I can ever get the rulebook... 

Either that or Unhallowed Metropolis, if I can ever get the rulebook...

I've been waiting on that for a while...

Have you ever played Burning Wheel KNW? 

/plays D&D Online... (aka DDO) that doesn't count though does it? 

My brother used to DM games a few years back.
He had the most annoying habit of randomly throwing
cursed items into our booty. His favorite was the
alignment switching armor. I still punch him for that. 

I want to play. At least one of my friends and my stepbrother are nerdish enough.
How many people do you need for a good game? Any advice?
Can anybody be the GM or do you need some experience? 

I just found a game after months of horrible luck playing. Only 10 blocks from my apartment and two different games. Ravenloft and Shackled City. 

I've been playing off and on for about 15 years. I won't play anything after 2nd edition. And to be honest, Hackmaster trumps that.

Gary Gygax has a new(ish) platform (Lejendary Adventures) that's pretty fun, and also a quick start for the uninitiated. 

this is not much of a rpg city
all the nerds are reclusive
i called a dude about a firefly rpg a while back but the ad was 2 months old. he called back and said it did not happen due to lack of interest
oh well, one day.. 

There probably wasn't much interest because of, you know, Firefly sucking and all. 

Oh no no no no no no no NO!

You people have countless videogames and startrek/wars threads.

ENOUGH! 

Play Burning Wheel. 

Ol if ant said:

I want to play. At least one of my friends and my stepbrother are nerdish enough.
How many people do you need for a good game? Any advice?
Can anybody be the GM or do you need some experience?

I'd say 4 people are enough. 1 GM, 3 players. It's really nice having a really experienced GM. Before playing, I would highly suggest really getting into the books and whatnot and get a decent grasp of the game, if you choose to be the GM. 

lowness said:

HAHAHAHA!

NREDS.

Don't you mean NEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!!!!! 

we have talked about this in the past...
but we need to get some sort of online fazed game going
Should be doable , perhaps on irc or even better teamspeak.
one person DM's and has copies of all the character sheets.
Standard Ad&D rules. (latest I have is second edition)
one char per person..
etc...
etc.. 

I'm taking a break and am in a Shadowrun campaign right now.

Sas, what platform would you use for an online game? ScreenMonkey? 

Never used screenmonkey..
It looks like it has potential though. 

Standard Ad&D rules. (latest I have is second edition)

Why? 

3.5 is actually pretty damn nice. They kind of fine tuned a bunch of things...evened out a lot of classes, etc. At least, that is what my friends tell me.

Gravity is still fucked out the wazoo...as is time passing in battle, but I guess you can only do so much. 

Yeah, that's how it has looked. I just dislike level based gaming. 

idsaluteyoubub said:

I'd say 4 people are enough. 1 GM, 3 players. It's really nice having a really experienced GM. Before playing, I would highly suggest really getting into the books and whatnot and get a decent grasp of the game, if you choose to be the GM.

Thank you. That must be doable. My stepbrother played D&D when he lived in the states, maybe he could DM.
I have downloaded cough legally bought the 3.5 player handbook and DM guide, it sounds like great fun.
I think that in time I would like to GM myself.
I once did something a bit like LARP'ing.
We organised a week in a replica of an iron age village.
It was more murder mystery than LARP though.
I modified a Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy pub crawl quest to something that could be done a whole week in an iron age setting.
A friend, who is trying to make movies, wrote the backgrounds for the participants.
One of his friends does special effects make up and props. He lend us a hand. Actually, a leg. 

Get yourself an intro adventure too, oli. That'll help you understand the game, see how encounters and everything works, without you having to plan them all out, from the beginning. 

And I would most assuredly have that adventure start at first level. Don't go epic or higher levels off the bat. Start from the beginning and it will be easier to learn the process of levelling up your character and whatnot. 

Get yourself an intro adventure too, oli. That'll help you understand the game, see how encounters and everything works, without you having to plan them all out, from the beginning.

Probably a good idea.
The next edition is coming out soon, I think I will wait for that.
Either start with the new rules or buy all the left over 3.5 rule books and guides that are no longer worth the paper they are printed on...