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Has anyone out here tried Knighthood on facebook? It looks intriguing. You gain power by inviting or convincing your contacts to download the application. It could be fun but I dont want to pester all my non-gamer with requests to sign up. have any of you played? Does it suck? Would you all be my vassals (no cost and minimal effort) and help me take over the game-world? This is not a paid ad or anything and I apologize if it seems inappropriate recruiting people for this kind of game.
I am 40 and recently moved to Portland Oregon where I seem to be the only person without a tatoo. Do gamers usually have less tatoos, or is it just me?
A little different from the usual fantasy book, but interesting.
I think that the paladin is a questing class. Like Don Quixote the Paladin should be able to declare/establish that he is on a quest and get quest bonuses. Maybe at first level he needs 24 hours to prepare, but then he can declare a quest and get bonuses for himself. At a higher level he does not need as long to prepare. At another level he is able to get bonuses for the whole party for the duration of a quest. This gives the DM a chance to add flavor to the campaign, because the paladin may learn during his meditation/preparation that there are certain rules he must follow for the duration of the quest, and they could be fairly creative. Maybe at early levels the quest can only last for a day or a week, at higher levels he could declare a quest that may last for the rest of his life, such as following Lavinia's trail into the abyss and not stopping until she is rescued. What should the quest bonuses be? Maybe will saves, saves against fear, maybe damage reduction. I don't know...but we should have some game mechanic that honors the questing aspect of the paladin and helps fill out the dead levels, and gives players who play paladins more incentive to interact with their God, to swear oaths, dedicate themselves to quests, etc. Excuse the repetitive post but I am sort of thinking out loud. This will make playing a paladin more fun, and not complicate things too much.
I just read this while vacationing at the my mother in laws house for several days. It's really good, if you like cyber punk.
My DM in a game I play once every several months volunteered my character to become an Alienist, which is fine. But I am not going to go out and buy the book and I have not been able to find it on a shelf. Can anyone just tell me what happens at first level. I think my familiar changes and stops advancing, and that all ,y summoned monsters get the alien characteristics. Am I missing anything? Do the alient mosters I summon also get teh bonuses from augmented summoning? Thanks.
I'm toying with the idea of starting a game for some of the kids in my neighborhood and maybe some of their fathers. Does anyone have experience with this? I don't want to have to ask them to learn the whole PHB in the beginning. Is anyone writing simple but good adventures for kids around 13 years old? Also, are there simplified rules sets out there? I'm thinking this might actually be an important product line for you game developers if we old farts are going to pass on the game to our kids and their friends. Thanks,
Ladies and Gentlemen gamers,
I know you will back me up here, so thanks. Tsulis
Any of you guys ever read Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott. What a great book! It's got Robiun hood and Friar Tuck in it for good measure. Dont' tell me how it ends cause I am only half way through.
Any one out there with room in their game? I am 40, have played off and on since first edition, usually shower before I play, and chew with my mouth closed. I plan to arrive in Portland in September, but it could be as late as December.
Just curious.
I am playing a game with three old friends and two new friends. We are in the middle of a huge cliff hanger, possibly leading to a TPK. Retreat is not an option, as we are on a kind of island in the middle of a lake, and cannot really fly or swim. Our next game is not scheduled until May 20th. Our group consists of a fighter, a barbarian, a fighter/ranger/rogue, a wizard, a sorcerer, and a cleric, so we have a lot of options. I'm purposley not going into too much detail because I dont want someone to recognize the adventure and inadvertantly spoil it. My question is this: I am a tactical player, and think about different approaches to this battle we are in all day long. I want to trade emails with other players about it, but without either telling them what they should do next game, or even appearing to be trying to tell them what they should do. I especially dont want to alienate the new players, who dont know what a mellow, easy going guy I am when it comes to DnD (a little sarcasm there). So I sent out a group mail: do any of you want to discuss tactics? Am I the only one who obsesses about this game? and none of them replied except the DM, who is one of the old friends. So, what do i do? Just let it lie, right? At least I can obsess with you guys. By the way, I haven't commented on the liscencing thing yet. WOC stinks! Long live Paizo.
I am playing a conjurer. Can I summon some celestial giant bees and have them attack an enemy spellcaster, or do I have to take toungues and spend a round casting it and telling them what I want them to do. Giant bees can hover and have poison that does con damage so three of them may be able to nuetralize a spell caster pretty well. Also, when do you choose where you want the summoned monster to appear? Is it at the beginning of the casting or at the end? So if the enemy caster moves while I am casting, can I change where the bees appear, so they still appear right next to my target. I know the final ruling is up to the DM of our game, but I am trying to work out my own opinion and I'm curious what you all have to say. Honestly, my reading is that the summoner has to find some means to communicate in order to give his monsters specific instructions beyond attacking the nearest evil creature in a way that makes sense to it, but that seems to cumbersome, and sucky. Thanks.
I had this thought, maybe it is self evident to all of you, but no one in my family is that interested in DnD so I thought I would share it here. This is probably the Golden Age of DnD right here. The majority of us players fell in love with the game during first edition when we were young kids (I was 11 or 12). Now we are in our 30s and 40s, at the hight of our powers, still in love with the game, and producing all this great stuff. Dungeon is a great magazine. I think it is by far the best reading in the whole DnD genre including rule books and all that stuff with the possible exception of the DMG. (And I havent read Monte Cooks books). Probably not that many smart, creative 11 year olds are falling in love with table top DnD now, right? Monte Cook, and James Jacobs, and all you other guys are it. And you're totally awesome. I feel really lucky to be around for this, because when you guys retire, DnD will never be the same. I know, another ramblling post, but you know what I mean.
Three players and one DM, all good friends, could use one or two more experienced players so that we can play more often when one person can't make it. The old current Dm, me, is reverting to being a player. The new DM is the best damn DM I ever saw. We are in our 30's with busy lives. Be prepared to be frustrated by scheduling difficulties. We play in Brooklyn, usually on Saturday, hopefully once a month.
Does an enlarged character have increased movement? I didnt see anything about it in the spell description or in the monster manual (3rd edition) in the part where you make monsters bigger. It actually said that the speed doesnt change. That seems counter intuitive. But I went with it in a snap ruling in the middle of a game today. Thanks in advance.
There is a thread in here somewhere that talks about how much fun it will be to play DnD in the old age home when we retire. That post really stuck with me. It will be great to get back to the perfect gaming schedule of high school. Now an article in the NY Times reports that people who know how to play have the best retirements, better even than those who make a lot of money or have a lot of success.
As you can see, we have it made. I am including the link here to the article. Please excuse me if this is illegal for some wierd reason. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/health/psychology/04reti.html?_r=1&or ef=slogin See you all in 30 years.
The last post about favorite monster got me thinking about this:
I also love games set in sewers under cities. These settings are just very resonant with me. I am curious about yours.
It is my turn to DM our group, which includes two fledgling players. We started with Sunken Citadel with another guy DMing and now it is my turn to run Forge of Fury. I tried to switch us all over to AoW, but the other guy who DM's wouldnt have it because he already bought the next tow modules from WOC. Anyway, so I will be running Forge of Fury and just wonder if anyone has any notes from when they ran it. The party consists of three elves (Wiz3, Clr3, and Rog1/Rng2) and a human barbarian3. I particululary wonder about the encounter with the black dragon in the end and the one with Idalla the Succubus. Thanks. PS: I know I could be asking this on the boards at WOC but I like this group much better.
We are a small group struggling to meet once a month, now thinking of finding one or two more steady players and playing age of worms. We are mid-late 30s. Mostly married.
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