D&D General 40 Year D&D Campaign

[R_J_K75]

Every time I see this guy or hear about his game, all I want is a copy of his rules. What has he changed from 2E? I want to know.

Same here, but I dont think I could get passed pg 4.

 

[Lanefan]

I could barely tolerate watching this video for 10 minutes, let alone imagining playing in this game for 40 years. I'd be out the instant he handed me the 400,000 pg 2E re-write of rules, "Nah, sorry, I think I'm good". Don't get me wrong I really like playing D&D/RPGs but this just seems way too extreme, to the point I picture this guys life as work, sleep, D&D; 24/7-365, rinse and repeat.

It sounds like he's done much the same as we have: taken an edition of D&D (in his case 2e, in ours 1e) and basically rewritten the whole thing over the years to suit what he wants.

He does seem considerably more fanatic about it than we are, however.

 

[R_J_K75]

It sounds like he's done much the same as we have: taken an edition of D&D (in his case 2e, in ours 1e) and basically rewritten the whole thing over the years to suit what he wants.

He does seem considerably more fanatic about it than we are, however.

I never played in games that rewrote too many rules. Few minor ones here and there. Once it gets passed more than a few pages the base line of the edition changes enough for it to be less recognizable to me and I lose interest. Also imo makes it harder to bring in new players.

I think I'd use the word obsessive instead of fanatic. But I have to admit it would be fun to have full reign to play with all those toys for one game.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I have to think that they've been retiring characters and adding new ones the whole time. That was certainly the style in the early 80s. I have to think they had a dark brooding period in the 90s or early 00s where they went to some new continent across the sea and had whole new adventures there.

It's really an impressive amount of work, but as a person who is only a handful of years older than that campaign... I don't take D&D anywhere near as seriously as this guy seems to. And I don't want to.

Oh, I mean "new" in a much broader sense than that.

New worlds. New cosmology. New races. New mechanics. Even with how much I love 4e, I don't think I could play it continuously (with only iterative modifications) for 40 years.

 

[Lanefan]

I never played in games that rewrote too many rules. Few minor ones here and there. Once it gets passed more than a few pages the base line of the edition changes enough for it to be less recognizable to me and I lose interest.

If you think of it more as an almost-entirely-new system or edition rather than trying to tie it to an edition you already know, it's easier.

Also imo makes it harder to bring in new players.

We only play with friends anyway, so they already mostly know what they're getting into.

But I have to admit it would be fun to have full reign to play with all those toys for one game.

I've tried using terrain or terrain-like setups in the past and found them to be a huge drag on table time, in that no sooner do you get one scene set up than the players/PCs decide they want to go somewhere else; so down comes all that terrain and up goes a new scene. 15-30 minutes later, play can resume.

 

[Oofta]

I never played in games that rewrote too many rules. Few minor ones here and there. Once it gets passed more than a few pages the base line of the edition changes enough for it to be less recognizable to me and I lose interest. Also imo makes it harder to bring in new players.

I think I'd use the word obsessive instead of fanatic.

Yeah, he seems a bit OCD about it.

But I have to admit it would be fun to have full reign to play with all those toys for one game.

Sorry, you can't. Only he can touch his precious.

 

[R_J_K75]

If you think of it more as an almost-entirely-new system or edition rather than trying to tie it to an edition you already know, it's easier.

We only play with friends anyway, so they already mostly know what they're getting into.

I've tried using terrain or terrain-like setups in the past and found them to be a huge drag on table time, in that no sooner do you get one scene set up than the players/PCs decide they want to go somewhere else; so down comes all that terrain and up goes a new scene. 15-30 minutes later, play can resume.

I agree with you playing with friends is easier...period. Im pretty reluctant to play with strangers nowadays. And terrain is a PITA. I use a wet-erase map, thats it. Played at a game store in the early 2000s where the DM took 45 minutes setting up some Dwarven Forge pieces. We told him if you want a game next week dont ever do that again or were quitting.

 

[R_J_K75]

Sorry, you can't. Only he can touch his precious.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Now, imagine if one of the original player's character was an elf and 40 years later they are playing the same elf and never played any other PC... what LEVEL would that character be???

Anyway, FWIW my longest running campaign was about 5 years IRL and frankly that was enough.

 

[Mort]

Now, imagine if one of the original player's character was an elf and 40 years later they are playing the same elf and never played any other PC... what LEVEL would that character be???

Seeing as it's 2nd edition, unless he houseruled away the demi-human level limits, not as high as you'd think!