To a half-elf sorceror named Olaf. He was serving time in a dungeon and cast a Charm spell on me, and next I knew, I was fleeing from a goblin raid against slave carts on their way to Slyaerna. This game rocks!
Does anyone else play D&D? Is there an online Hatrack thang, like I know some play with Mafia? Or... what? I'd love to get something going.
By the way, I think this was it. I'm no longer a boy... I'm a geek. Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
Kind of like the cool kid joining the geeks in Freaks and Geeks.
Now that you play D&D, this webcomic will be so much funnier for you:
Two of my favorites are Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Daughter and Tenser's Double-Sided, Double Density Disk.
[ July 26, 2006, 07:05 AM: Message edited by: MightyCow ]
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Congrats, Lalo. That sounds about like my first D&D game. We were fleeing the ether beasts in Tenh when our evil cleric guide turned out to be a fraud. His slave was really the cleric and got me with a hold person before the fight even started. Thus began my boyfriend's long tradition of pulling my character out of danger.
You should check out the RPGA. It lets you play D&D all over the country with different people. Becuase it's standardized, it does make character creation a teeny bit restirctive. But you know how much xp and gold you'll get every time you play, so it does let you plan out your purchases.
Most of my friends play RPGA stuff so we can play on a flexible schedule. But we play it with our home games. Your home GM can tailor the game to you in ways that the RPGA just can't. But a home game needs the same judge and players each time. RPGA is any judge and 4 to 6 players with a character.
Best online fantasy and sci-fi series out there.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I'll second that. Overlook is among my fondest memories. Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
Rifts. Mecha for the win.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
I DMed a D&D Hatrack campaign some time ago. The players were Kwea, King of Men, Alcon, Human and Apostle Radio. We had lots of fun. Unfortunatelly the time zone difficulties ended-up killing our game.
Must...shake...this...desire to start a new online campaign...
But how cool you started playing, Lalo. Hope you continue enjoying yourself! D&D is great!
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Good to see you've joined the dark side.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
I failed my saving throw against suspension of disbelief that as big a nerd as Lalo had never played D&D before;)
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I've been in three Play by Email D&D campaigns. One is still ongoing. One completed it's story-line and ended. The other I should just say is dead, but I can't. I still hold out the thinnest thread of hope that it will start up again, someday. Maybe when the DM retires and can devote more time to it. Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Karl-- I've lost enough faith in that particular DM (to restart his game), I finally deleted the folder I'd set up in in yahoo to receive his game emails.
It was a sad day.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
(In case anyone was wondering, I'm that particular DM.)
The problem I had: to play by email took too much time to assemble the turns. I've been resistant to using a webforum, but after having seen a few webforum games go more smoothly I'm now wondering if this wouldn't be a more practical approach in the long run.
Posted by Edgehopper (Member # 1716) on :
I guess it's not a surprise that there's a decent number of Hatrack D&D players
Anyone else tried to GM a game based on an OSC setting? I ran a campaign based on the Alvin Maker-verse once...interestingly enough, the PCs absolutely hated Peggy. Gullah Joe as a 9th level druid was a fun touch.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I'm up for trying again, in any format, if we can get more of the old gang together. I think we'd need at least a re-cap and a fresh starting point, though.
[Edit: that was to Tom, in case that wasn't obvious to someone.]
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Well, I know my Segreda game petered out after only a few months, but I've been working on turning it into a .pdf campaign setting for release on RPGNow.com - hopefully by the end of the year.
When I get around to it, I might be interested in running the demo or a module with some playtesters online, or asking some folks to playtest it for me in RL gaming groups.
We'll see.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I still occasionally think wistfully about the Segreda campaign, FlyingCow (though I always think that it's Segrada). I really had fun playing Buchek for the brief time that game was going.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
If we get to that point in game production, I may actually ask you to freelance write a bit for a Buchek module or modules. Right now I've finished the demo, been working on the lost caravan module, and have just outlined a Settlers of Greda sourcebook. After that will come a bestiary.
But the idea of Buchek's backstory would make a decent module in its own right, with him being an NPC.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That would be a lot of fun. I'll definitely be up for that if/when the time comes.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
;_; I miss our game.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Khadanira? Yeah, that was a fun one. You should get in on one of Raja's Chaosium Cthulhu games, Ryuko.
Posted by Bean Counter (Member # 6001) on :
My first game was Tomb of Horrors I think, or the Hidden City, not sure but I died twice, once in an Indiana Jones rolling ball trap and once at the hands of a Were-Rat with my second character. My third character proved to be durable enough to last until retirement though. It is sad to me that I have never been able to play that much. I took over DMing soon after but I still love the excitiment of not knowing what is around the corner...
BC
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Webforum...that's an Idea...I could run a game using a webforum...hmmm...
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Is Hatrack inside my brain??!! I'm going to my first meeting in a LONG time tonight...
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
How many experience points do you get for that?
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
the sad thing is that some RL friends of mine and I are starting up a campaign that we will be playing through WoW (since we're scattered across the country now) We'll see how it starts in a week and a half =p
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Do you mean you're playing an RPG via the MMORPG WoW, or that you're playing the RPG WoW?
Posted by sarfa (Member # 579) on :
hmm, I was just wondering how that TomD run campaign ended up, I guess I know now (it didn't). I would be interested in trying another, but only if there were set times that people came on and played. I found that by the time I got to check my e-mail, all the action had taken place and I was only able to make a few comments after the fact.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
Ravenloft --> the only way to go.
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
I played a couple of years of my life away...good times.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I played cyberpunk and then realized I liked the flavor of the D&D world alittle better. Havent played much, but I think another hatrack campaign could be interesting.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
Do people know anything about the Firefly...I mean (stupid FOX) Serenity RPG?
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I flipped through the book, and considered buying it for all the fanfic material I could use, but that's about it.
Ni!
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I took a look at the Serenity source book, but it didn't look much like a complete game to me, just info about the movie/series mashed into a role playing format.
If I were going to do it, I'd just adopt a d20 or GURPS space/western game into the Serenity universe.
Man, I miss DMing. I just finished up a year+ campaign. It was a lot of work, and I enjoy playing a PC again, but it's so much fun to be in charge of the whole story. Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I pine for Segreda as well, on occasion. I enjoyed writing Elotai almost as much as I enjoyed writing Sa'id in Overlook.
Since switching to Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, though, I haven't really looked back at d20. Especially now that I know about the Dark Ages supplement. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
The Serenity RPG actually has some very clever rules in it. But to be honest, I think the Firefly universe is actually a very poor roleplaying universe; there simply isn't enough room in it for many more stories that don't shadow the ones that are already there. It's why Middle-Earth makes such a poor RPG setting, too.
Posted by Edgehopper (Member # 1716) on :
Tom - Most movie/book universes are too tiny on their own to make for a good RPG. Star Wars only works because there's so much extra canon out there.
What I'd like to try for a Serenity-themed game:
1: Keep the basic government/social structure 2: Use the Spycraft v2.0 rules. They're great for modern and near-future campaigns. 3: Make up your own planets, side organizations, etc. There's plenty of room for any type of outlaw-ish party your players want to run.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
The boys in high school never let me play. Apparently girls weren't cool enough to partake in their campaigns.
So yes, I am still a D&D virgin. Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
The irony of that is incredible, Carrie. The stereotype is that it's not by choice that hardcore nerds don't spend time with the ladies!
And speaking of losing one's virginity in D&D...
Well, I did play a tabletop WoW game once. I had a Gnome mage, our party was in...Ratchet, I believe it was. We were all in a bar, and my little Gnome playa (Obnoticus) spotted a black-leather clad got-looking girl Gnome.
Now, me? I know that's nature's plumage for Warlock. But poor Obnoticus, he just saw the only female Gnome in the bar, looking hawt to boot. So he decided to buy her a couple of drinks and hit her up for dinner, and he was served...umm, it's been a long time, Deviate Fish? I believe. I recognized the description and all of its bizarre effects, but poor Obnoticus did not.
So he ate the fish, and soon wound up spending the night with the Warlock who *ahem* it turned out didn't limit her bondage to demonic slaves. Ouch.
Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
I too would love to take part, despite not knowing how to play. A friend of mine tried to start up a few, what are they called? campaigns? a while back, on AIM, but they fizzled out. He got me really interested and then left me hanging.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Lalo
Just know that it takes a whole lot of time on the part of the DM to run an on line game, either through e-mail or in a forum.
I am sort of surprised at how much work there is. Karl is in my e-mail game and it has been going for just over 1-1/2 years. They have spent almost the whole past year in one dungeon. It is about done and I figure they will be out by mid Augest.
^^ How I initially read that bit, this being a D&D thread and all.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Oh, the wonderous D&D memories.
Although I was more the GM than the player. In the second campaign I created I put in an NPC name Mendax. His demonic goal was to have characters surrender their "souls" to him. He was a collector.
This villian survived and showed up in every major campaign I did from that time forward.
And he showed up in the campaigns of my players when they DM'd. And in the campaigns of some of their players.
When one friend joined the Army and was stationed in Germany, Mendax showed up in games all across the military gaming world.
When a nice merchant named Zadnem started offering things too good to be true, not one of my players took the time to figure out that Zadnem was Mendax spelled backwards.
Mendax is from the latin for lie or liar.
He creates dangerous and life threatening situations, then offers to free your characters unharmed, for their souls. He doesn't like to kill them, for then he won't get their soul. But he is willing to kill a couple to convince the others that they should sign on the dotted line.
Ahh, good times.
And no. This game is not demonic. No sir.
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
What! I thought we'd persuaded you it was better to wait until after marriage!
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
sorry Rakeesh, been busy:
We are just using WoW (The MMO) as a conduit (in conjunction with a Ventrilo server) to play D&D
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Np, TheGrimace. It wasn't a really important question or anything, hehe.
But...wow. That's kind of like holding a mirror up in front of another mirror, isn't it? Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
quote:What! I thought we'd persuaded you it was better to wait until after marriage!
Yeah, dude, wait until it's too late for her to bail on you before you start playing RPGs!
I kinda miss Khadanira, too, although the storytelling part was hard for me. I hope with more experience I'll get better.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
My login name is taken from an NPC in one of my campaigns.
Top that, dorks.
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
a bit rakeesh, but it's a good way to see around multiple corners (or thousands of miles) as it were. and things like the rolling functions and private whispers as well as group/guild/officer channels make for a good setup (Ideally, we'll see how it actually works out)
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