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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 5803008" data-attributes="member: 509">I've written here before about my return to gaming. In fact, I can't really shut up about it. It's been a little less than a year since my fiancée and two of her friends started badgering me to teach them D&D and around 9 months since we started our campaign. We play biweekly with a core group of these three girls, all born in 1987, with three more casual players who drop in every few sessions. Two of the drop-ins had some prior experience with D&D, but the core group had none. And I mean, they had none. They had not read the novels, or played Baldur's Gate or Diablo or World of Warcraft. I had to introduce them to all the archetypes and tropes of D&D. They are all fans of fantasy, but the closest they've come to D&D-style power fantasy are Tolkien's works and Terry Pratchett's Cohen the Barbarian character. But it's amazing how they just picked it up and ran with it. The Halfling Thief "I stab him! In the back! With my Backstab! Muhaha!" kleptomaniac, the Smite-Happy "Aaaattack! Feel the Wrath of My Mother-Effing Gods! Through my Hammer of PAIN!" Cleric and the Knowledge Check Spamming "Do I pick up anything with Arcana? Perception? Insight? Also, I need healing plz." Elf Wizard.And they're developing a style of play that's more Old School in nature than anything I've ever played. I throw out plot hook after plot hook, setups for epic quests and character arcs, but they're just not interested. They want me to point them towards the next dungeon, so they can kill things and take their stuff. I asked them to write down some goals for their characters and they were:Thief: "I want to be RICH! MORE GOLD!"Cleric: "I want a bigger Warhammer. With SPIKES!"Wizard: "I want to be able to Blow Stuff Up more. My spells are so puny."My old D&D group of yesteryear dropped XP very early into 3e and we never looked back. When we started this campaign, I didn't even think about XP. Last weekend, though, they came to me and asked me to allow them to track XP. They wanted to feel like they were earning their levels.I'm not complaining. I'm just a little flummoxed. I'm going with it. In fact, I'm thinking about running them through White Plume Mountain, starting the session after the next.They want Old School? Allright, the gloves are coming off!</blockquote>

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