How Many D&D nerds do we have here?

(Sir_Slam) #1

Title. :3 Whats everyone playing? Edition, race, class ect. Have you ever broken a campaign?

Right now im cruising through a pretty linear campaign because my table doesn’t have the attention span for an open world. Which is less fun, becasue its pretty much “walk into room, axe thing, walk into next room”.

Currently a Human Fighter 2/Psy warrior 8. Ive done nothing but amp up my AC…its 41, and so is my Touch AC. My job is to stand in the room and piss off my DM because nothing can hit me unless he dispells my psionics. (I told him at the beginning of the game to do psion/magic transparency so he could kill me easier, but nooooooo). Im not even getting into the Share Pain/Psicrystal cheese yet. Thats next level.

My role in the Party is to not die. I do it well. I stroll into the room with a blessed hammer, a wolf muzzle and a tower shield. I stroll out without a scratch and covered in blood. Whats sad is im not even the most broken in the party, our local asshat is playing two caster characters. He’s…a munchkin.

I’m also DMing a hugely home brewed campaign, its been some of the most fun ive had. Im really lax DM, because this was our first run through and I wanted to minimize DM error, at least enough to avoid accidentally killing the party by throwing unfair fights at them. I’ve seen some hilarious results, like an attack that resulted in three back to back crits on an attack of opportunity (god damn combat reflexes). The half orc was on his back after getting knocked across the road into a pile of barrels. He took his spiked chain, and helicoptered so hard he killed both the dire wolves and the invisible assassin behind him. The whole table was dying, I had to leave the room because I was laughing so damn hard.

I wanna hear your stories!

(Ctrix) #2

DnD cough.
I’m playing Shadowrun :smiley:
Our party currently are two DnD players, so they made super minmaxed combat characters, and one mage who likes to mindr…ead people. So I was left making someone who actually knows what they’re doing. I’m NullVector: Security Professional, Anarchist Hacker (Information is free), Skill Build, Middleclass Single Child, OhgodwhatdoIdowhichendshootsthebullet

Our last adventure was diving down to Atlantis on the behest of our Aircraft Carrier AI, who as it turns out might’ve actually been a demon trying to manipulate us into wehavenoidea. We tried killing her but she just sorta left with a pout. Leaving her host body behind, who as it turns out is an Elf from Atlantis, and yes she’s 2000 years old.
There’s also 3 warring Queens of Atlantis and nanomachines, son. We might or might not have crashed a rebooted flying Atlantis into the Atlantic afterwards.

(Faraleth) #3

I’m kinda new to DnD, my friends from university got me into it a little while ago, and we’re currently on our 2nd campaign ^.^ I’m not actually sure what edition… Sorry, I’m a noob. Although I believe it’s very “home brewed”, if that’s the correct term to use… haha!

But what I do know is that I’m playing a Tiefling ranger and we’re about 3 sessions into our new campaign. The one we played before I was a barbarian, and that was kind of amusing… haha. Although the campaign lasted FOREEEEEEEEVER (literally, we player some 7-8 hour sessions and it took us a whole year to beat - our DM was kinda crazy) xD

Currently in our campaign I have managed to annoy pretty much every NPC we’ve talked to, as my friend’s druid elf tends to do the job of calming them down, because I’m too quick to speak, heh… heh…

I’m also a lover of the simple things in life and bought myself some sweet stylised dice a little while ago, and I was very happy with them! haha :3

(Sir_Slam) #4

I’ve been thinking about looking into shadowrun, but trying to get a whole group to learn an entirely new game is a pain in the ass. I assume you like it more?

[quote=“Faraleth;112136”]I’m kinda new to DnD, my friends from university got me into it a little while ago, and we’re currently on our 2nd campaign ^.^ I’m not actually sure what edition… Sorry, I’m a noob. Although I believe it’s very “home brewed”, if that’s the correct term to use… haha!

But what I do know is that I’m playing a Tiefling ranger and we’re about 3 sessions into our new campaign. The one we played before I was a barbarian, and that was kind of amusing… haha. Although the campaign lasted FOREEEEEEEEVER (literally, we player some 7-8 hour sessions and it took us a whole year to beat - our DM was kinda crazy) xD

Currently in our campaign I have managed to annoy pretty much every NPC we’ve talked to, as my friend’s druid elf tends to do the job of calming them down, because I’m too quick to speak, heh… heh…

I’m also a lover of the simple things in life and bought myself some sweet stylised dice a little while ago, and I was very happy with them! haha :3[/quote]

If its largely homebrewed, I’m guessing its 3.5. 3.5 has the most content out for it, which is nice when you’re homebrewing because you have something to compare too in terms of balance.

Although there is one way to know for sure, Do you have Reflex, Fortitude and Will saves? Those were in 3.5 and not 5. Im assuming youre not playing 1st, 2nd or 4th edition because their either old or shit. 4 was terrible apparently.

(SteelMailbox) #5

Some of my friends play D&D never bothered to play it myself cause it never interested me.

(Ctrix) #6

Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo… and never make a deal with a dragon.

Shadowrun gets a bad rep of being super complicated. It’s really not, the book is just written terribly. You have to actually read it back to front, because the internal references are really bad. (Speaking about 5th, 4th was a little better). Talking about editions, 4th is usually what most people play. 5th came out recently (sorta). It’s a more streamlined version. We’re playing that one in our group. Sometimes I still get confused about things, but overall the changes are good (Also hacking in 4th was very basic. They increased the complexity for 5th to more original levels. In 4th, every hacker was a script kiddy).
Anyways, I dislike DnD because it’s boring, it’s fantasy, and it highly encourages a dungeoncrawl minmaxing approach (cough 4th cough). But even when it’s not, it’s just a dumb system. Alignments are terrible, mages are apparently OP or something, I only really know 3.5, but never got really into it.

I like Shadowrun because it’s Cyberpunk, which is my favourite genre. And you get crazy shit like professional security mages for modern corporations and high threat response teams. Also your PCs are by default criminals, which sorta fits in well with most players (Not like you have to be, it’s just what Runners are paid for most commonly). The whole us vs the Man means you have to be smart by default. For example, there’s a skill for “social stealth” aka fitting into the crowd/system. How much depends on the GM though.
There’s so much you can do with a 2070 setting compared to fantasy. Fantasy always devolves into “what book did the GM read recently” mixed with Tolkin.

Renraku: Red Samurai, High Threat Rapid Response Special Forces
You hear the name, you go the opposite direction.
http://i.imgur.com/p3CDNlV.jpg

(Mr-Penguin) #7

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

(Ctrix) #8

You gotta hand in your nerd card.

(VincentRJaeger) #9

Not D&D per se, but I have dabbled in Vampire the Masquerade a fair amount so I’m versed in the tabletop business so to speak, aswell as Larping.

(Sir_Slam) #10

@Ctrix I agree the alignment system is dumb, that’s why in my campaign I’ve done away with it. XD

Yeah the caster classes are strong as hell, but I don’t mind it. They’re power classes with different roles than mundane classes. It’s all about what people get into.

(tominatorx) #11

I’m doing a campaign as an assassin of Dark Heresy (Warhammer) with some friends. I’m still relatively new to it. :smile: But I do like the universe of Warhammer (well until Games Workshop decided to f*ck it up).

Our group is actually split up in those who are experienced in D&D and those who know almost everything about Warhammer and I’m the “new” guy so to say. I’ve definitely the least experience out of us all.

We switch between Warhammer and D&D from time to time. :smile:

It’s just a fun way to enjoy yourself with some of your friends

(Ctrix) #12

Remember that the chance for a result on 2d10 looks like this:

If you’re using an electrical dice roller (roll20, or just a laptop or whatever) and pick a random number between 1-100, it messes up the entire design of the game, because it changes that graph to a flat line. We made that mistake.

(tominatorx) #13

Remember that the chance for a result on 2d10 looks like this:

If you’re using an electrical dice roller (roll20, or just a laptop or whatever) and pick a random number between 1-100, it messes up the entire design of the game, because it changes that graph to a flat line. We made that mistake.

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Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t know that. We are not using a laptop (just using normal dice) but we’ve been thinking of using a laptop but now that you’ve said that, I will advise them not to do so. :smile: