Search results

My older brother introduced me to D&D in 1989 with AD&D. This of course was just as 2e came out. I was hesitant at first, given that I really hadn't much of a chance to explore 1e (my brother eventually just gave me all of his books when he went to college). Now, I liked 2e. It consolidated a...

Tonight, I just re-read the Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. As a little kid I enjoyed it, because it was spooky. As an adult and D&D player, I still enjoy it, particularly because the three little bears are like dungeon explorers. They encounter dangerous situations and creatures. They...

Ravenloft when through a few stages of development. The first was Ravenloft, Module I6, and it just focused on players journeying to Castle Ravenloft to defeat Strahd. When 2e came out, TSR developed Ravenloft as an outright campaign setting. Well, sort of, the average adventure involved...

The really neat thing about those basic boxed sets, from a beginning player standpoint, you'd didn't need to read the whole thing. Only the DM had to really know the rules, but you only had to keep track the information relevant to your character. The rulebooks didn't surpass 96 pages, and the...

Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long you stand there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence is unbroken, and the stillness gives no token, And the only word there spoken is the whispered word...

An Enworlder shared this solution about three years ago. The transparency might might help with ease of use, but I don't know.

I started playing D&D around 1989 when I was ten. I didn't bother with miniatures for a couple years. I had my players write down their marching order on paper. And then I got my hands on HeroQuest. And later, Dragon Strike. Warhammer Quest finally rounded out my collection. I've used the...

Beyond is a room where a half dozen gamers sit around a table with all of their books and dice. They eagerly invite you to sit down and roll up a character. But they never actually play the game. Most of them debate politics while the DM and the Rules Lawyer argue with each other. Meanwhile...

Unless you are familiar with tabletop RPGs, D&D isn't like anything you've played before. It is an interactive storytelling experience. I can describe it, but no words can do it justice. You have to play it, experience it, to understand. At least that's what I tell people before describing how...

For the names of gods and goddesses, just use names from Greco-Roman history/culture. They might not be an exact fit with the D&D Pantheon or the psuedo-medieval feel (maybe Norse or Celtic deities might work better), but they'll work and readers will find them familiar. For example, Pelor...

May I hit him with a pie without kickstarting his project??? :devil:

It isn't. Then I'll just play any other edition besides 3.5e or 4e where I don't have to Rule Zero as much. It is unstrictly true. It takes an hour to finish an average encounter. They planned it that way. Both rules and options have lengthened the average encounter--which is usually combat...

I don't care for those terms either. I don't like terms like "meatshield," or the extensive use of terminology from Harry Potter (but hey, at least their reading a book instead of playing WoW). One term, however, that made a game fall flat was "squishies." As in "the tank needs to keep the...

That's it! That's The Sundering! Elminster was SUNDERED into pieces. He is finally dead, and what you did is enough--at the heart of the strike was a sphere of annihilation. And on top of that, Elminster was well beyond his natural age when he died. No resurrection. I hereby declare that...

Maybe you should have titled the thread: "Why is Elminster so popular?" I would like to understand the other side of the argument, too. When I watched the keynote, and Greenwood started talking about Elminster, people in the audience started cheering, I was like, "what? Is Elminster really that...

The Forgotten Realms isn't about player-characters adventuring and determining their own destiny. It's more about Greewood showing off Elminster, his favorite character. Everything else, the massive world creation, the other characters from the novels, is just a vapid sideshow. IIRC, WotC...

When Players Really Want to Know the Titles of Books... :cool:

Yeah, I concede this point. There are miniatures over the years I wish I would have bought, but now they are out of production--or, as in certain examples from Games Workshop: they get more expensive, get converted to that crappy Citadel Finecast Resin, or both. (Until I've seen better reviews...

Well then, Pogre, here's some second-hand miniatures of mine on Ebay you can buy, BUY, BUY!!! :lol:

Well... so much for my warning. It's deals like that which have gotten me in trouble with minis in the past.