Generation Legacy: Part Three

[Samnell]

Well, at least they're pinned and not going anywhere. Next turn they will even get introduced to the ceiling, followed by a reintroduction to gravity.

Yeah, that was what Jerry was thinking to do next if he hadn't been beat to it. Now maybe he'll be throwing things, though. Just as good.

 

[Samnell]

Yeah, a 4. Sorry, dude.

True story:
In my one very ill-fated bout with playing D&D with actual other people in the room I deliberately chose spells that would still give me something decent on a made save because the dice were so unkind. Of course I had one of those DMs bent on hosing us regardless of what we did, so I suppose it didn't really matter.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Oh hey, I think it got lost in all that ooc text but do you mind rolling for Raph's second snare attack (using extra effort)? She'll use one of Cody's HPs next round to negate the fatigue (if it works as I think and they both share his pool).

Edit-Samnell, that's why my last Wizard was a Magic Missile specialist I just took Arcane Thesis and chucked standard and empowered versions all day (with Spell Penetration loaded up just in case). Sounds like you had a bad DM experience more than a game though

 

[Samnell]

Sounds like you had a bad DM experience more than a game though

Yeah, it was really awful and ended amid some bitter arguments...right after I'd decided to give the DM another session or two. He killed off my PC halfway through the game and then as I started digging out the replacement he observes that he has no idea why I'm doing that, since they were moving the game to a night they knew I had a class regardless. I figure this was the passive-aggressive way to kick me out.

Other exciting features:
*Getting ranted at by his wife...who was not even involved in the game
*Never making it past 8th level because he killed everyone close to leveling
*Every adventure featured a minimum of one no-save-you-just-die trap, often without any actual method of death given
*I like playing halflings. Just coincidentally, the fairly standard misdeeds of a single halfling PC (I insulted the king and then broke out of jail...which I was only in because I was with an idiot PC that did the intial insulting.) of mine triggered a global, genocidal campaign against all halflings.

The town's small enough, and I'm social phobic enough, that even if I were in the market for another flesh-and-blood gaming group I would be hesitant to ask around for the chance that I'd be unwittingly walking back to that mess all over again, or a new mess that spread from it.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Small towns and even cities can suck. There's not a whole lot of good gamers in my town either, it seems. I went to a small highschool (graduating class 67, whoo!) and had to convert a few fellow classmates to the dark ways of D&D. Started them off with miniature games and Baldur's Gate for gamecube, they didn't know what hit them, muwhahah. But yeah, before then I just had to do a billion PBP games to get my fix

Edit-I'm not sure if I need to assure you, but generally D&D games are not that terrible. Usually a DM is inexperienced in one way or another (since you're expected to be both a mechanical genius and a storyteller/roleplayer) but if you find a good group the games can be very enjoyable. The pacing/story progression is a lot better than online games, which is why I haven't really gone back to D&D PBP's. Might be worth giving another shot at finding a gaming group if you like the system, although this 3.5e/4e split might make it difficult to find just the right group right now.

 

[Samnell]

I went to a small highschool (graduating class 67, whoo!) and had to convert a few fellow classmates to the dark ways of D&D.

You win. My graduating class was about 425, though my cohort (born ca. 1980) was especially large.

But yeah, before then I just had to do a billion PBP games to get my fix

I mostly do PBEMs. It's slow (although mine seem much faster than the average) but it's very possible to run two or three at a time and play in more. They don't all last, but it's not too much to dust yourself off and start up another. Age of Worms and Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil are running well for me.

 

[Vanifae]

I killed a man once.

 

[Hammerhead]

That's why I avoid small towns. Well, not really, but it's a convenient excuse right now. The trick is to recruit the right people and get them interested in D&D, not joining one of those existing groups. Then again, I am evidently one of the few people who got into RPGs on their own. The release of the Baldur's Gate games was quite convenient.

BTW Samnell: I think I remember reading about this in the general threads way back. Was that the game where no one cared about the genocidal campaign, and the kingdom was paying like 1000 gp per set of halfling ears?

Cool Vanifae. I assume he had it coming.

 

[Hammerhead]

BTW Agamon: I don't think the microwave beam is invisible. I mean, if it is, cool. But I didn't buy Subtle.

 

[Samnell]

BTW Samnell: I think I remember reading about this in the general threads way back. Was that the game where no one cared about the genocidal campaign, and the kingdom was paying like 1000 gp per set of halfling ears?

That was it. The other guy kicked out at the same time posted about it. I think he focused mostly on the just-introduced rule that if he killed a PC, your new guy came in at first level with zero XP...which was the incident that prompted the rant from his wife. I posted an analysis on my blog of the time about how this tended to punish people for dying and simultaneously weakened the party so much as to encourage more death among those who survived, especially considering how often we died already. She argued, aside calling me lots of things, that anything short of being wrestled to the ground and actually spanked by the DM could not reasonably be called punishment.