Comments on: Got Dice, Need Time.

By: Rise of Eldrazi

Rise of Eldrazi — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:19:10 +0000

So when i was to play Rise of Eldrazi, do i need to use dice? I wasnt sure if this is like D&D or if i need to just play with the cards but i just thought i might go to the experts before i start buying cards and stuff. Thanks guys!

By: YeahStriker

YeahStriker — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:52:42 +0000

I’ve played D&D 3.5. Now I’m DMing two games, one of a modified 3.5 campaign, and another game of Anima Beyond Fantasy. I’ve been setting WoW aside since I came back to tabletop RPG, far superior in my opininon. Hope you can use the dice sometime soon.

(If my English is not very good, please, forgive me).

By: Caylynn

Caylynn — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:58:54 +0000

Late in replying to this. I played AD&D back in high school (many moons ago) and then, a few years ago, when my husband and I were living in Ottawa, we played D&D 3E once a week with a group of friends, all of us in our 30s. It was mainly an excuse for us to get together and socialize, but we had fun with the D&D campaigns as well. Pen and paper RPGs are fun because you never know what the GM/DM or the players are going to throw at you. We rotated GMs/DMs in our group, but no matter who was the DM, the rest of us usually managed to come up with a way to surprise him/her or come up with a unique solution to solving puzzles and quests.

By: Warren S-H

Warren S-H — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:21:48 +0000

I started out with D&D a long while back, but I got into White Wolf games over a decade ago and they’ve been my primary pen and paper style games (with a sideline into LARPing…the non boffer kind). With the exception of sidegames like Exalted and Scion, White Wolf is primarily a more modern horror storytelling type of game, using the current day setting just…a little darker. Protagonists tend to be vampires, changelings, werewolves and what have you. It’s an interesting sort of game and not too hard to learn, and one thing I like about it is that rather than levels you get general experience you can use to raise a specific ability or power.

If you’re going pure D&D though, I highly reccomend 3.5 over 4. I feel, personally, if you want to do 4th Edition you might as well just play WoW.

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By: pcrotteau

pcrotteau — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:49:48 +0000

Don’t for get the WoW campaign setting for D&D 3e! You could factor in places you already know.

By: Mike Rogers

Mike Rogers — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:54:15 +0000

I have played a lot of both MMOs (EQ, EQII, SWG, CoH, WoW, LotRO) and table top RPGs. In a terrible bit of dating myself, I’ve been playing D&D since the little whit box int he 70s. I have played about a dozen other RPGs as well. I like both.

To me, the key to both is who you play with. A good group will make a bad game fun. A bad group will make the best game ever something you’ll want to avoid. I’ve heard a lot of people saying “this version is better than that”. I think the game is what the people playing make it. I’ve never seen a pen and paper RPG where a group doesn’t have at least one rule they ignore or alter. The main reason we don’t play 4th edition D&D in our group is that we’ve spent so much on the 3.0/3.5 books we don’t want to “throw it away”.

The advantage of table top games in the face to face interaction. That always works best with people you know, and hopefully like.

Either way, enjoy the game style of your choice. After all, if it’s not fun, why the heck are you playing?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:05:27 +0000

I play WoW, Conan, and have been in all Close beta’s and open beta’s for Aion. That said I still find time to play a D7D game now and again. In fact to make it easier, since I have a 9 and 13 y/o My fiance and I got them hooked on D7D also so we have family game night where She DM’s and I play tank for my kids.
In addition to Family game night, the GF and I also DM for eachother on solo campains. It’s a little more chalanging, but it’s also easier to set encounters where you don’t have to worry that the lvl 6 Fighter with 26 AC and wielding 2 1d10+5 bastard swords doesn’t slaughter every simply becuase you have to keep the mobs at a lvl that the lvl 5 wizard (my 9 y/o) can actually assist withoiut getting bludgended to death.

By: Tkrain

Tkrain — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:38:05 +0000

I got my start in gaming when I was in Jr High… D&D was fairly new back then (round 1980 or so). I’ll never forget those 4 hour sessions exploring dungeons with little more than a piece of paper, a couple users guides and a pile of assorted dice. No fancy animation, no worries about frame rate, just a sadistic DM telling us we were getting ambushed by Gethinkes.

By: oksadimiks

oksadimiks — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:54:37 +0000

I’ve DM’d multiple editions of D&D (2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 2.3 (my own cross up between 3.0 and 2.0)) and Tunnels and Trolls (created in the mid 70′s).

Right now I play Tunnels and Trolls. It is the simplest to learn, the easiest to play, and you can learn/teach it and start playing in under 45 minutes. (That includes character creation.) That may sound like a long time, but any seasoned veteran of D&D rpg’s knows that to make a good character, it takes at least two hours with a noob, or 1 hour if you know what your doing. That does not involve learning the rules. Tunnels and Trolls is nice and simple, but you don’t get to develope your character’s abilities as much as in D&D.

Anyways, If you are ever in the Houston Area, I will gladly DM for ya’ll, but I warn you that I have a LOT of young kids (four under the age of four). (Yet another reason I play Tunnels and Trolls right now. When they get old enough, I hope to DM for my family.)

The other comments make me think I should try D&D 4.0 with my wife, because she didn’t like how “complicated” 3.0, 2.0, & 3.5 were.