What's the buzz?

[creentmerveille]

Hello... 'bout time I updated this here thang. I keep meaning to, and forgetting.

The Good:
In recent weeks I have...

• Visited the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota for the first time, despite PLANNING to see it for like, decade. O.M.G. Why haven't I ever gone before? 90 minutes from my house, it's an actual art museum like in real big cities

Comments

[phantom42]

coliseum of comics and sci fi city both host table top games. sci-fi city is more likely to do D&D, but they could both probably give you more info about finding local players to play with/learn from.

[creentmerveille]

Hey thanks!

Do you play? If so-- how hard is it to pick up? It seems... daunting. All those rule books and things... and figures... and ... yeeps!

[phantom42]

Sorry, no. I've played a few RP games in the past - but not in over 10 years. I've got a few friends who still play though.

It's really not that hard if you come in as a player. A good Dungeon/Game Master will be able to guide you/Kix easily.

Bottom line is that everything you do has a chance of succeeding or failing - the probabilities are laid out by the rule books - and determined by a roll of the dice.

[jr0124]

You're kidding, right? You and Kix can pick up D&D (especially 4th edition, the most current) in NO time.

The 'basic set' for D&D amounts to picking up the Player's Handbook. Everything else is for the Game Master/Dungeon Master, really. A good 50% of the Player's Handbook is nothing but descriptions of the various spells the wizard-types can sling.

*shakes head and mumbles* Smartest woman I know worried that her genius daughter can't figure out a game antisocial geeks in basements play every day. What's the world coming to. ;)

[buffyfan30]

-I love Kennedy Space Center. And yes, that Apollo show is great

[unteins]

I don't know how easy D&D 4th edition is, but you could always go old school and get like the D&D Basic set from the early 80s. That was super easy. Plus, they sold adventure books you could run as GM that had all the stuff figured out for you so you could get the hang of things before trying to create your own stuff.

Kix will probably want to be a GM in the long run with her penchant for story telling, so finding her a good group to get started with is a good plan. If she hates the first group she tries, keep trying, there are good GMs and bad GMs and bad GMs can make for no fun.

Foxmagic plays some games and jordangreywolf as well so they are localish and might be able to give Kix some time too, but I don't know.

[foxmagic]

Certainly! Our gaming group has even made a little bit of noise about possibly branching off a d20 RPG night. :)

A little late, but better than never

[eusamie]

-Congrats to Kix for all that she has been accomplishing. Most kids her age are only dreaming of things like that!

-Good luck on your potential jobs!

-My boyfriend tells me 4th Ed DnD is actually much easier to learn than 3rd ED, but as I was just getting the hang of 3.5 ED when the 4th came out, I'm having a more difficult time wrapping my head around it than I'd like. As for a play group, 3-4 players is a desirable group size, any larger than that and you should be prepared for your sessions to take all day. My boyfriend says his best campaign only ran with 2 players, so I would use that as the minimum. And you can always add or subtract players based on the players schedules. DnD might seem odd at first, but all that you need to know is written right there in the rules. If you get confused, I believe there is a free online community about DnD on the wizards of the coast web site. Good luck!