D&D thoughts

Aug 15, 2007 01:26


I'm running a D&D game for the first time in... maybe five years. So here are some random thoughts about D&D.

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biomekanic August 15 2007, 12:51:44 UTC
Have you read any of Jack Vance's works? I'd recommend the Lyonesse trilogy - Suldrune's Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc. Reading them out of order is not advised.

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biomekanic August 16 2007, 00:28:11 UTC
That's Jack Palance... Jack Vance is also known by his pen name, Ellery Queen.

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strydor August 16 2007, 05:09:45 UTC
Yeah, I saw the icon and thought I was harrassing someone else. =P Sorry bout that. Bob Cowell needs more icons so I don't get so darn confused.

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pjack August 15 2007, 15:05:02 UTC
I'd be interested in playing, if by some slim chance there's room for me, and I happen to have that day free. (I don't have my hopes up, but you never know.)

I've been trying to work out what is awesome about D&D, and what is sucky about it, and then seeing how I can tweak the system so that there's more of the former and less of the latter. I'm thinking that this "accentuate the positive" approach might help ease my frustration with the game.

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strydor August 15 2007, 23:15:40 UTC
Good luck with your endeavor sir. I'm currently getting prodded to renew my old 2.0 campaign on some level, but having not actually played in over 10 years or so, it's been harder getting back into it than I thought. Hope things run well for you!

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macmoyer August 30 2007, 18:26:02 UTC
You announced you were taking a break from gaming, so I didn't put you on the invite list. I've got a pretty full group now.
We also have kind of a floating M-W-Th schedule, which wouldn't work for you at all.

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A new Edition thesama August 30 2007, 17:36:16 UTC
Well WotC has announced 4th Edition... I won't be jumping on it, although there are rumors that 3rd (3.5) edition will still be supported as "Advanced Dungeons $ Dragons" and the new edition will be "Dungeons & Dragons" but I don't know the truth to that (if any). I've really become disenchanted with the D20 system as a whole as of late, I've got a small group of players pushing for it though.

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Re: A new Edition macmoyer August 30 2007, 19:55:05 UTC

I'm not usually an early adopter. I think it'll be at least a solid year before I'd even consider purchasing or running 4th edition.
I like what I've heard about it, in a general sense. If they decide to head more in the direction of the Star Wars Saga Edition with character generation and skills, I think it'll be a huge improvement.
That doesn't change that I'm not a big fantasy fan.

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