I want a generic DnD game.

[Klaus]

My current DnD campaign (which has been my first DnD campaign since 3.0) is pretty basic. 3 players (2 humans and 1 half-elf). Until the half-elf picked up a level of Battledancer, it was straight classes (wizard/rogue, ranger and cleric). Curently at 10th level, about to kick Gulthias' butt and end the campaign at 12th (game has been going since 2001).

 

[Faraer]

There's an element of people genuinely branching out and trying new and adventurous settings and styles of play; and one of jaded people seeking novelty in gimmicks rather than looking to their own attitudes.

For myself, I like D&D in the mould of the World of Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms, human and demihuman characters with hearts and ambitions in sword-and-sorcery lands, and for other types of play I go elsewhere than d20.

 

[teitan]

Depends on what you mean by generic. If by generic you mean kick in the door get their loot, never.

If you mean straight up core rules, every darn time. I run an FR game and my campaign tends to be straight up D&D, core rules and the FR books but that is it. I don't allow Underdark races and nobody plays Genasi or the other plane touched so that works well for my tastes. I don't have chosen of running around stirring the pot and some of the sillier elements are gone too so it is very straight up D&D. I occasionally do a dungeon crawl, but even then it is part of the story and not just a kill the monsters and loot em. I learned VERY early on to always include a story or the players get bored after awhile and hack and slash can be boring to run as a DM.

SO I run general D&D every week and don't use a lot of D20 products, in fact, I sold almost all of my nonWOTC stuff to my FLGS in exchange for the 3.5 books because my 3.0 were falling apart from overuse!

Jason

 

[Calico_Jack73]

I know what you (the original poster) mean...

I'd love to go back and play good old basic D&D from the red box. I'd love to play an "Elf" and not worry about classes... all Elves are Fighter Mages or didn't you know?

Unfortunately I am the only DM in our group. I have been thinking about showing up to game day with just my red boxed set and a dungeon I'd draw on graph paper. Maybe I'll do just that this week. Then again my group may lynch me for that.

 

[Ranger REG]

When was the last time you played generic DnD?

In the late 80's ... but we were using Rolemaster.

3e got a bit of RM that makes it very enjoyable. I guess when you have so many rules, the DM's authority lessens to that of interpreting the rules, rather making the rules on-the-spot, but that's what you get when the game is still popular and evolves over 30 years.

 

[Deadguy]

If by generic we mean 'straight up', rules as they are in the book, well that is my next campaign challenge. I always homebrew, and as part of that I always houserule. Now, I find using someone else's setting trickier than using my own (probably because I remember my own stuff better), but it was suggested that this time I leave off the house rules. Okay, I thought, I can do that.

It's proven harder than I thought. I am a happy games designer (for myself - I have no desire to be a professional), so just saying 'no' was darned difficult! As it is, I have allowed through two things so far: I wanted to use Lizardfolk, so I created a Monster Class for them; and I wanted to try out Action Points, so I borrowed the rules from Unearthed Arcana. But otherwise it's straight up. I hope I can last the course!

 

[Kormydigar]

I know what you (the original poster) mean...

I'd love to go back and play good old basic D&D from the red box. I'd love to play an "Elf" and not worry about classes... all Elves are Fighter Mages or didn't you know?

Unfortunately I am the only DM in our group. I have been thinking about showing up to game day with just my red boxed set and a dungeon I'd draw on graph paper. Maybe I'll do just that this week. Then again my group may lynch me for that.

I hear you loud and clear. Last week several of our wives got together to have a girls night, watch movies, and stuff. It wasnt a game night but I thought it might be fu to run a simple game on the fly. I dug out my Moldvay Basic and Expert Sets and good old X2 Castle Amber, perhaps my favorite adventure ever, and made a batch of pregens. We played that basic session late into the night and had a blast. For most of my players this was thier first experience with this edition. Playing with those sets brought back some wonderful memories I dont know about the rest of the gang but I would love to play some more of that Basic D&D goodness, as a player or DM. I live just south of the N VA area, I might be able to attend the gameday and run some.......................hmmmmmmm