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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:58 am
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:25 am
by The Real MPD
I just bought the Icewind Dale trilogy...

I DID READ THE DARK ELF TRILOGY IN JUNIOR HIGH.

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:54 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:25 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:31 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:34 pm
by FVBTVS
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jk

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:42 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:43 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:32 am
by FVBTVS
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maze of the blue medusa

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:33 am
by MANTIS
B/X moldvay 1981, LotFP etc. retroclones here we come...

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:20 am
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 3:09 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:40 pm
by FVBTVS
the new dungeon of the mad mage is out and it is both mad and a dungeon :shock:

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:38 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
I still haven't played this and I really fucking want to

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:19 am
by FVBTVS
Eight Bit Alien wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:38 pm I still haven't played this and I really fucking want to
d&d ?

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:52 am
by Eight Bit Alien
yep, still to this day ive only had brushes with any of this IRL

someday someday someday

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:53 am
by Eight Bit Alien
I did play a session based on DC Comics last year. I played Man-Bat because I wanted to avoid speaking in character.

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:33 am
by Geeheeb
been playing this with boo, making decisions together. lite fun: https://www.metaarcade.com/cthulhu-chronicles/

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 10:08 am
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:41 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:10 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
did you make that one?

ALSO how do dungeon masters cope when they make a gigantic enormous cavern filled with pre-planned imagination and the players only see like 1/4th of it, or miss the best demilich riddle or something

fuck that

I'd just make everyone sit down and listen to the story I made up

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:21 am
by FVBTVS
no, it's by a person named 'saving thrower'

and yeah prepping an elaborately prescribed set of stuff you expect the players to hone right in on is a bit of a theme referred to as railroading. if you ever get to spend any time as a player you might have a better grasp, as a dm, in how to keep things you really want to do with players of your own more fluid. your demilich riddle doesn't really need to be tied to any location, scenario, or npc but can be an option that stays floating in the background of your gigantic enormous cavern that has multiple tenuous points of contact with it. so no matter what stupid shit your players decide to do you might have a vague sense of how the riddle might slot in to it. your players dont know or care. literally anything i ever planned out that i might have foolishly expected my players to intuit in a prescribed way and explore on their own blew up in my face, so over the years i learned to create stuff with a better idea of how to implement it more broadly. and basically every time i ever had something blow up in my face and i had to aggressively improvise ended up being my most memorable experiences as a dm. i think if your players go into your enormous cavern and go straight to your demilich riddle it'll have a short term effect but it'll be way less memorable for you

its easy to think about in video game terms like when you're playing an old open world game and the draw distance in the game is really terrible and the trees and mountains looks like blobs of shit and theres very little detail beyond the area that your character is standing in. where the demilich riddle is isnt on your players minds because its not in front of them. they're interested in the sights and sounds and smells of whats in front of them. things sprout up and reveal themselves when they're within the players view and really dont need to exist except in that vague way mountains and trees and locations exists in the beloved open world 2006 rpg game of the year Oblivion

or just write a story!

Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:39 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:38 am
by FVBTVS
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Re: Suffering from an urge to play Dungeons & Dragons

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:55 pm
by MANTIS
Currently DMing a Lamentations of the Flame Princess game and recently started a Gloomhaven campaign with a few pals. Quick FUGTUB, find something to cry about!