The Grand To-Do List

[RangerWickett]

The year is soon to end. A new edition is coming. Many of us will conclude our third edition campaigns.

Do you have anything you wanted to do in D&D you haven't had a chance to try yet? An adventure you wanted to run? A character concept you wanted to play? A book whose rules you wanted to power-game? Whether you're planning to convert or not, what are some things you wish you could do in your games? Why haven't you done them yet?

Me, I've never played in a campaign that went above 12th level, and never run one above 15th. I kinda wish I'd had the chance to do all the crazy super-powered stuff I saw in Piratecat's storyhour. I just never plan campaigns that can last that long. The longest I managed went from 5th to 13th, and I felt like it would've been contrived to have the characters still working together after all they'd gone through.

I never finished my d20 Modern storyhour. I finished the game, but I never got around to writing up more than the first half of it.

I wanted to play with Book of Nine Swords more, but the one GM who owns it got bored of running his game.

I never actually got any of my players to use the underwear armor rules from the Chainmail Bikinis book.

I really wish one of my friends would run a game where the adventure is just traveling across the world. Not saving it. No grand epic plots. Just a massive picaresque with an overriding theme. I don't get to enjoy a sense of wonder in most of the games I play in. Maybe I just play with too many guys, dudes who just want to be awesome and kill stuff, but I think it would be awesome in its own way to play a whole party of travelers who decide, for one reason or another, to make the GM use all the different setting books he's bought.

That would be a game I could play for 20 levels.



So, I won't make a new year's resolution, but I will say that I'll look for a chance to have the fun I want, and to use the change of the edition as an excuse to do it now. Anyone else?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

There are a ton of things I want to do in 3.xE before I move on to 4th Edition.

I want to run the Shackled City Adventure Path. I've wanted to run this ever since it first came out. The SCAP was the reason I decided to subscribe to Dungeon. I read the adventures as soon as they were published but I didn't have a group at the time. I own the hardcover version and plan on running it when my current campaign comes to a close sometime early next year.

Get my players to give some non-Core things a go. I have a whole heap of splatbooks, yet most of my players seem to just want to go with things from the PHB or DMG. I paid for all these books so I'd love the chance for them to see more use.

Run or play in a game with some Arcana Evolved characters. After reading the book, I really think that these classes could work in the same party as classes from the regular PHB without too much trouble. I really like the spell system and I want to see how it would play in a campaign.

Run or play in a dungeon crawl. I've not played or ran a lot of dungeon crawls over the years. After running a campaign for the last year and a half that has mainly focused on urban areas and a lot of NPC's, I'm really itching to run a big dungeon crawl with a lot of monsters.

Run or play a campaign from 1st to 20th level. The closest I got was in 2E when the character I played went from 1st level to 15th or 16th level. If I do run the SCAP as planned then I should achieve this goal as well.

Play a Wizard in a campaign. Despite playing D&D since back in the mid-90's, I still haven't played a Wizard PC for any longer than a handful of sessions. I normally play Rogue/Thief PC's so it would be a nice change. Trying out a whole heap of different spells that I've never used before would also be a lot of fun.

I'm sure there are more things that I can't think of right now. Unfortunately there are a lot of things I want to do but not enough time to do them all. I only game once a fortnight so game time is rather limited.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Treebore]

Yeah, I have decided to take this time for going on a long D&D fantasy hiatus. I have a ton of other games I want to run, so I am going to make it happen.


So Shadowrun, Mutants and MAsterminds, Traveller, Runequest, etc... here I come.

Then when I return to fantasy I still have a ton of modules and Dungeon adventures I have yet to run. So I'll run those when I get back to it.

 

[Fifth Element]

I've never run a truly long-running campaign either. I plan for my current 3.5 game to change that. Started at 1st level, currently 3rd, planned the campaign out so the characters should be around 15th level by the end. It won't be done before June, so I will have to wait a couple of months at least before trying 4E. It'll have a certain amount of globetrotting in it, which will let me use some different cultures in the game (Celt, Viking and Greek in this case), something else I've always wanted to do.

 

[Greg K]

Well, I have no plans to switch, but there are something that I haven't had a chance to do as of yet. Some of the things I wish to do include the following:
1) use the Elements of Magic books
2) use Artificer's Handbook
3) use several books that are on my to buy list
4) run a tpk (ok, not really. Thankfully, I have not had one happen, but things have come close).

 

[resistor]

I really wish one of my friends would run a game where the adventure is just traveling across the world. Not saving it. No grand epic plots. Just a massive picaresque with an overriding theme. I don't get to enjoy a sense of wonder in most of the games I play in. Maybe I just play with too many guys, dudes who just want to be awesome and kill stuff, but I think it would be awesome in its own way to play a whole party of travelers who decide, for one reason or another, to make the GM use all the different setting books he's bought.

That would be a game I could play for 20 levels.

I would love to play in that game!

In fact, I've been wanting to do this since the Explorer's Handbook came out.

 

[Ry]

For me the main challenge more than the imminent new edition is the time factor: I've got a baby girl and most gaming requires major commuting. Those two aren't going to mesh well.

The big thing I want to do before 4e arrives is do some online voice-to-voice gaming and make it work. That, much more than any new edition or streamlined ruleset, will help me keep gaming.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Frankly, there are so many things I'd still like to do in 3.5 that I won't need 4E in my lifetime.

So many adventures, so little time ...

 

[crow81]

I want to take my first new character in 12 years to make it to 16th lv in Living Greyhawk. He is almost 11th now. I have 1 year.

I want to finish running the War of the Burning Sky campaign they are 2/3 through the 4th mod with 3 deaths so far in the Campaign. I have lost 1 player to relocation and will lose another in June. But the War goes on

I want to explore new systems like Shadow Run 4th ed and Twilight 2013. I rather spend my money there then feeding WotC

I want to keep the friends I made rejoining the hobby even though we are split over D&D 4th ed

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I'd really like to play a Midnight campaign.