Haffrung Helleyes
First Post
I recently moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since I didn't know anyone there, I thought a great way to make friends would be to find some D&D players and run a game.
I was pointed to the website www.derol.com.ar , which is an argentinean RPG website. It actually caters to a bunch of RPGs, not just D&D.
I posted an ad for players to play D&D, in English. I got lots of replies, and ended up with 5 players who all could meet on a common day.
We ran our first adventure (Savage Tide Adventure Path) yesterday. I noticed some interesting differences between my old group and this one.
First of all, of all my players, no one owns a Player's Handbook. Apparently these books are very expensive, relative to salaries here. People seem to rely on the SRD and www.d20srd.org (accessed from work, I guess) quite a bit.
I hadn't anticipated this, so I didn't bring one. So we had to use the SRD on my laptop for character creation, along with some PDFs that I bought from drivethrurpg.com.
Also, while all but one player had played D&D before, only half had played 3rd edition.
All of the players were guys. All in their 20s. I am quite the geezer by comparision! I think D&D is a younger hobby here -- when I recruited players by similar means in San Diego, I got a lot of people in their 30s and even 40s.
Argentinian guys kiss guys on the cheek to say hello and goodbye. I'm going to have to get used to that!
I broght some big paper battle mats (unfortunately, my tac-tiles are in storage ) with me, but no minis. None of my players have any minis, either. So I cut out colored inkjet printer paper squares for minis. It actually worked out fine.
The players argued quite a bit amongst themselves, and no one wanted to play a cleric. That, at least, matches my experience in the USA.
We decided as a group that the first person whose character died had to play a cleric. Some of the players are running their characters in a very cowardly fashion (running away as soon as they take damage, for example) as a result, because they are terrified that they will have to play a cleric! This, of course, adds to the in-party arguing, but I find it quite amusing. I'm considering giving the eventual cleric player's PC an extra feat or maybe an extra skill point per level, but I haven't decided yet -- clerics are pretty powerful already.
Fortunately, the party has a Dread Necromancer, so they can rebuke undead. Otherwise, I'd be looking at a TPK very soon.
I think it will be a fun group. And my Spanish will probably improve too.
Ken
Since I didn't know anyone there, I thought a great way to make friends would be to find some D&D players and run a game.
I was pointed to the website www.derol.com.ar , which is an argentinean RPG website. It actually caters to a bunch of RPGs, not just D&D.
I posted an ad for players to play D&D, in English. I got lots of replies, and ended up with 5 players who all could meet on a common day.
We ran our first adventure (Savage Tide Adventure Path) yesterday. I noticed some interesting differences between my old group and this one.
First of all, of all my players, no one owns a Player's Handbook. Apparently these books are very expensive, relative to salaries here. People seem to rely on the SRD and www.d20srd.org (accessed from work, I guess) quite a bit.
I hadn't anticipated this, so I didn't bring one. So we had to use the SRD on my laptop for character creation, along with some PDFs that I bought from drivethrurpg.com.
Also, while all but one player had played D&D before, only half had played 3rd edition.
All of the players were guys. All in their 20s. I am quite the geezer by comparision! I think D&D is a younger hobby here -- when I recruited players by similar means in San Diego, I got a lot of people in their 30s and even 40s.
Argentinian guys kiss guys on the cheek to say hello and goodbye. I'm going to have to get used to that!
I broght some big paper battle mats (unfortunately, my tac-tiles are in storage ) with me, but no minis. None of my players have any minis, either. So I cut out colored inkjet printer paper squares for minis. It actually worked out fine.
The players argued quite a bit amongst themselves, and no one wanted to play a cleric. That, at least, matches my experience in the USA.
We decided as a group that the first person whose character died had to play a cleric. Some of the players are running their characters in a very cowardly fashion (running away as soon as they take damage, for example) as a result, because they are terrified that they will have to play a cleric! This, of course, adds to the in-party arguing, but I find it quite amusing. I'm considering giving the eventual cleric player's PC an extra feat or maybe an extra skill point per level, but I haven't decided yet -- clerics are pretty powerful already.
Fortunately, the party has a Dread Necromancer, so they can rebuke undead. Otherwise, I'd be looking at a TPK very soon.
I think it will be a fun group. And my Spanish will probably improve too.
Ken
