What got you interested in D&D? - part III

[rabiddog]

I was bullied into it by two of my flat mates when I was at Uni, an Irish rule monster DM and a born again biker nut case Barbarian, they promised me beer and as a fresh faced new recruit (I'd joined the Role playing society at Uni while pissed in freshers week 6 months previously) I followed the exciting prospect of fun and free alchohol.
Little did I realise I'd spend the next five years (wednesdays and sundays only of course...) battling my way through bizarre encounters, losing characters that hurt like losing parts of your body, planning detailed stratergies for defeating enemies when I should have been revising!! & staggering out of smokey flats into the sunlight at 5am having torn through 10 hours of questing with the most bizarre and amazing fun bunch of friends I ever had.

We played a few other games of course, vampire, starwars, middle earth blah blah, but the times that I remember the most fondly are those on D&D, "Don't cut the cat".....

[feickerr]

I remember playing once when I was about 12 or 13 in the back-seat of my parents cadillac with my brother and his friend who DM-ed it for us while we were going to Sioux Falls (about a 4 1/2 hour drive back in the 55 MPH Speed limit days), and I played another RPG with some friends once when I was about 13 (it was some sci-fi thing), and one other time in High School with a friend on a Saturday afternoon, but I didn't get bitten by the bug until I was about 20, and was out with a friend who said, "let's stop by so-and-so's place", so we did. He ran us through an impromptu adventure, and I was hooked. A bunch of my friends started playing and we played for about a year before some of us started to lose interest.

I just recently got back into it, but I'm liking it alot more now, because I don't have any other distractions going on. Although the indecision of the other players still annoys me.

[artemis]

LOL, yeah indecisive players suck! My older brother played when I was a kid, of course I was not allowed to play. When I was about 14 a dude ran us through a Palladium (sp?) adventure. I never played again until I met my fiance, who it turns out has been gaming 20+ years and DMing for most of that.

[feickerr]

The worst were the ones that would start flipping through the Tome of Magic and the Player's Handbook looking to see what a spell did. Whenever I played a magic user, I took the time beforehand to figure out what the spell did in the middle of an encounter. I can see it if you're new to playing, but these were guys who had been playing for months and should, at that point, know what their characters spells did.

That's the kind of thing you should be doing when you pick your spells for the character, NOT during gameplay. Do you think your Mage is actually going to start researching spells when he's being beaten by orcs?

[hatchets]

Well that is partially where you draw the line between your characters knowledge and your own, I have played drunk and stoned and everything else sometimes you miss minor details of spells that you think are there and aren't or that you think aren't there and are. It is rough sometimes.

If all else fails I am good for having my mage just hit it with his staff if im that flustered on what to do next. ill buy time.

[Renthallin]

Woot 666th person to read this thread lol.

Anyway I do it for the girls.......


As far as the whole you should know what spells do what. This is true, but sometimes there are disagreements about the intent of a specific spell that leads us to research it during game time to make sure it is being used correctly.

Also there are times where those spells that get little to no use are dragged into the sunlight for some fresh air. Ya know, when you find out the night before hitting the dragons den that he is really a demi-god in disguise and there is only a few weaknesses he has....low and behold a spell you never thought you would ever really use now has a use.

I guess what Im trying to say is yes you should know, but at the same time there are exceptions to that rule.

[Ross]

We had a player who insisted on playing mages then get so stoned he could hardly see let alone..... actually, the state we were all in at the time it's a wonder we advanced beyond 1st level

What got me interested in D&D? A little computer game called Champions of Krynn, an SSI classic that took place near Throtyl and Neraka(sp?) and took the players from level 2 through to about 9th level, facing goblins, draconians, evil warriors, and..... dragons.
From there I got into Pool of Radiance then it spread through to all the SSI games of that era.
During that time I played Basic D&D, ah the red rules, where in my first adventure I was slimed by a green slime then half burnt to death by the other characters as they attempted to kill it. Then just before the climatic end battle, we'd found a scroll, a priestly one I was told, which was good for me because I was playing a cleric I was also told, read it they said, so I did, <bampf> I got turned into a frog, damn cursed scroll.
That was it, from the easy rules of Basic Red Rules which left me hungering for the Blue set and then beyond, as well as the AD&D SSI games, then hooking up with some kids at high school that were playing the new AD&D 2nd Ed I was in for life!

[feickerr]

Apr 22, 2008 21:35:13 GMT -6 Renthallin said:

Woot 666th person to read this thread lol.

Anyway I do it for the girls.......


As far as the whole you should know what spells do what. This is true, but sometimes there are disagreements about the intent of a specific spell that leads us to research it during game time to make sure it is being used correctly.

Also there are times where those spells that get little to no use are dragged into the sunlight for some fresh air. Ya know, when you find out the night before hitting the dragons den that he is really a demi-god in disguise and there is only a few weaknesses he has....low and behold a spell you never thought you would ever really use now has a use.

I guess what Im trying to say is yes you should know, but at the same time there are exceptions to that rule.

It wouldn't have bothered me if that was what was happening. But these guys were whipping out the books on every round. How many times do you have to read about magic missile before you're going to cast it?

[firew0lf16]

I became interested in DnD when some of my friends invited me to come play with them.
Ive since had a falling out with them and am looking for another group close to home to play with, because i dont care who you are online is no substitute for playing face to face.

[kelfarrior]

What got me interested? Ale and whores!

I was promised that I would gain great hoards of personal wealth and that no one would stop me from spending it how I wanted to. Boy did I take that the wrong way. And ever since that day on my 10th birthday I have been stuck to the game, living lives that take on any kind of personality.


......and I'm still searching for all the ale and whores.

(please take with a grain of salt)

[TheGratefulNed]

Glad to see you're back kelfarrior! Also good to see Ovin's back in Niemz's PBMB

[zara]

I started playing in high school, my Friends who went to other school had been playing, and before long I somehow (I have no idea how) got in with a group of gamers at mine. At some point before I did though my then best Friend rolled out a PC sheet for me... I remember sitting bored at her kittion table feeling somewhat ingnored and annoyed, unable to understand why she need to spend a half hour looking at charts and doing what seemed to be calculations. And worried the game might take just as much "Math". It wasn't till after I had been playing for a bit- and loving it, that I got my own PHB, I still have it.... Its in very poor shape, do in part for me carrying every day to school in my back pack for sevael years. (well used is well loved right?) G'd that was so long ago it feels like another life

[Toad`]

A friend of mine in Junior High School got me involved. Back in the day when 2e was new!! =D

[BlaBla]

1978 Just before i joined the US Navy, i was bored.
Saw these guys from school flipping through books and rolling weird dice.
Asked them what they were doing.
And "BAM."
I was hooked.
Been reading, collecting, & gaming (not as often as i would like) since.

[thesloqualon]

I got asked to play when I was in elementary school, but the group just fooled around alot, so I didnt go again.

In high school I worked at Papa Ginos and met a couple of older guys that played and I always liked fantasy, science fiction and stragety board games, so I gave it a go again.

There was no fooling around and it was....AMAZING! I couldnt believe what I was missing and for so long! The game rocked and the two different dms 2 nights a week I was reveling in the blood of the vanquished! lol!

I came in around 89 and b4 you knew it, I was master of ad&d and since I was the youngest guy, I ate 2nd ed up before any of them! Hell I was running a night dm'ing them guys!!

I never looked back again...all through high school I was running three nights a week (and drinking the other four!!) lol!

I lost it somewhere in 93/94 and never got back to it til 97, but thats when I began writing and mapping, creating forms and world building! By '99 I had a massive fleshed out world, three campaigns set in two different times in the world, ran a main group every monday night and ran it til '05.

Havent played since then, but Im back and like a favorite old chair, i sat back in and it still feels great!!