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Cyric
Senior Scribe
Norway
388 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 20:54:30
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What is or rather how do one play this game you are talking about ??
Is it not a thing with dices or somthing pleas explain
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 21:21:46
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What a question to ask! 
I assume that the game you speak of is the absolutely enigmatic, spectacularly engrossing and ultimately fascinating game of intrigue known as Dungeons and Dragons, the dice-and-imagination based frolic that we have all come to know and love.....
It takes a few rulebooks and a few friends and a lot of imagination....oh, and the aforementioned dice....to enjoy the game of which we speak. |
My latest Realms-based short story, about a bard, a paladin of Lathander and the letter of the law, Debts Repaid. It takes place before the "shattering" and gives the bard Arion a last gasp before he plunges into the present.http://candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/log-debts.htm |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 06:38:24
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[::chokes::]
You don't have any idea? Even when I first came here, I had at least some, from hearsay and computer games. Rastilian's explanation of magic use in the start of Dragonlance was a help (marking the only thing I got out of that series  ) in understanding things in general.
All I can really say is that you should go to a store and buy the PHB. It'll be $30 US, but it's pretty important. If you don't have that much cash, then there's always the tried-and-true method of speed-reading in the stacks.  |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 10:02:20
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| Everytime i try to make someone play, i speak of the lord of the rings. Not the book first since people don't read a lot anymore. I say you can play Legolas, Aragorn, Gimly or any person you can imagine. You'll have the choice to act as the purest hero or the vilest villain. It's a little bit like the book where you are the hero but you don't have limited choices, you can do what you want |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 10:23:38
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I'm pretty sure he was speaking of the mechanics of the game. Very good analogy to give a new player, though.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 16:34:15
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| I figured that must have been a typo, so I didn't correct him. Not that my first instinct wasn't to do just that. There are some names you just have to get right. Gimli, Drizzt, Bookwyrm, Zemd . . . . |
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Jander Sunstar
Learned Scribe
Turkey
275 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 23:38:34
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I must say I adore Legolas, I want to be like him.After I saw Orlando Bloom's Legolas on white screen makin those crazy dexterious moves I wondered that what that move's check might be.
Great work indeed, well done |
Punish me if you will, for my hands are not clean. But deny me not my revenge!"
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MuadDib
Senior Scribe
South Africa
442 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2003 : 08:21:08
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There are some names you just have to get right. Gimli, Drizzt, Bookwyrm, Zemd . . . .
It's zemd, with a lower case 'z'
hahahha |
MuadDib - Candlekeep Inn Barhand |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2003 : 20:21:20
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Originally posted by Sage of Perth
zemd, just a small note...it's spelt 'Gimli'...
Argh! I don't know why i made such a mistake! HOW?! I just taped it too quickly... 
And you're right MuadDib, it's just zemd |
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The Cardinal
Senior Scribe
Canada
647 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2003 : 21:35:00
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Cyric, I'm just alittle curious since you played the BG series (you've mentioned it before), Did you read through the manual at all and study the game mechanics? It goes over some second edition style but also (albeit briefly) describes somethings that remain the same, such as how long a round is, A turn, and so on. Personally, whenever I play any second Ed game with my group (which has been awhile though) I still bring my BG books for reference.
It baffles me that even in Computer and console games, many do not dare even look at the manual let alone actualy read through it. I've always studied the instructions (no matter how dry or boring, which usually isn't the case). Insites to the Game of D&D can be found in the BG manuals, look through them again or read through them... Some how though, Cyric, I am not shocked .
Although, I'm just going to sit her in a bit of stunned silence |
It has to be Certain, the Gods Hate Me. For whatever irrevokable Fate, I have been made the walking Joke. Either that, or Beshaba is overlyfond Of Me.
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Cyric
Senior Scribe
Norway
388 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 03:42:39
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I was speaking about the tecnical, so it is a coupel of pages and a few dices, it sounds kind of boring . But the stories are good at least.... |
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The Cardinal
Senior Scribe
Canada
647 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 05:48:25
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..... I give up, Cyric... I give up...
*Throws hands up in surrender* |
It has to be Certain, the Gods Hate Me. For whatever irrevokable Fate, I have been made the walking Joke. Either that, or Beshaba is overlyfond Of Me.
-Unknown |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 08:53:23
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Originally posted by MuadDib
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There are some names you just have to get right. Gimli, Drizzt, Bookwyrm, Zemd . . . .
It's zemd, with a lower case 'z'
hahahha
And here I was thinking that no one would ever notice that one.
Zemd and I had this little discussion once. I think that all proper names should be initially capitolized, including screen IDs. (And the underscores removed, spaces added, etc.) So I keep jabbing at him by writing it 'Zemd.' |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 08:54:48
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| I have to agree with the Cardinal on this one, Cyric. You're hopeless. How can you have fun if you're not willing to take some time to do it? |
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 09:07:03
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| Well im gobsmacked! Ive mentioned such in another scroll (cant remember where at the moment) but the Realms is an old setting with much much lore and material existing way before computer games of late were produced, creating a newer breed of fans...... the computer games, as great and impressive as they are, have nothing over the paper material and the setting generated in the minds of the settings fans (am i sounding too geeky?! ) |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Elrond Half Elven
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
322 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2003 : 14:01:32
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Don't get me wrong the Computer games are great, but i do agree with Rad, they are almost NOTHING like the realm thing, I know peopel who like BG etc but haven't ever played the D&D, and probally won't. To be honest i don't know if they know that BG is D&D.
I think what alot of people forget is D&D is a social game, in the same way as Football or most other team sports are. I'd even say that D&D is a team game- despite getting people who don't play as the team (not always the case but alot of Munchins aren't team players).
I am not saying that this is always the case, but i think that the Computer games have spawned alot of Hack and Slashers. I was playing WFRP last night with a great group- there is 10 of us, with an age range from 17 all the way upto late 30s. In that group everyone was attempting to RP, mainly 'cause you get extra XP for it. Had that game been d&d the coupel of hack and Slashers in the group would have came to the forefront. I think that the problem with no RPing in D&D isno extra Xp is offered for it. For example in WFRP u don't get XP for killing things, but rather you get it for solving questions defeating obsticals (Not always throught force) etc. IMHO this is a much better system for XP. It stops the Whole Hack and SLash idea and Promotes Role-playing. Saying that peopel who want to roleplay in D&D will, but you still get peopel who do enjoy the Rping side of it and just need a little push!
Phew! Ok that started off with BG gamers and moved on to how to Stop Hack n Slash, Sorry evryone for taking up your valuble time.
Hanx
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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DMShinobi
Acolyte
Austria
8 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2004 : 10:39:04
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cyric,
DnD is basically a world where you and a couple of friends create a character under the supervision of "god" (a DM) and are allowed to do just about anything. Almost all you do, your attacks, defense, checks to see if you can do something, all depend on dice. you roll dice, add modifiers, and then voila, u either accomplish or fail the said task. it sounds a bit boring when stated this way, but next time u watch a fantasy movie or read a fantasy book, imagine that each time the hero does something, he had to roll to see if he succeeded. for example, could mad mardigan really take on all of queen bavmora's henchmen while also battling a troll/pyrohydra without very lucky dice rolling? (thats from willow by the way). that brings me to another subject. did george lucas play DnD? and if he did, why did his trolls in the above said movie look more like orangutans?
DMShinobi |
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