Dungeons & Dragons (and Retro Clones)

[God]

1. It's high time the greatest of all games had a thread.

2. The retro clones are badass.

3. Numbered lists are fun and easy.

Anybody else play?

[Ed Oscuro]

2. The retro clones are badass.

No they're not.

(Well, it depends on which one you mean, I suppose.)

God you're gonna get demoted if you keep testing my faith like this.

[dcharlie]

i played a fair amount of MERP back in the day - and regular Warhammer for battles.

The wife got into it about 6 years back, was stunned to find all the lead figures were now mainly plastic and cost more than the lead figures used to! :\

[TrevHead (TVR)]

I tried to get into Warhammer but i couldnt get anyone intrested enough to play with me. I had blood bowl but would of loved 40k or fantasy battle. Oh well, shame all my mate were either into motorbikes or video games, i was prolly viewed as that sad kid who nags everyone to play his wierd games.

Hmm i bet some of em would think the same if i ever tried to get them to play shmups lol so nothings really changed then

[dcharlie]

I played a fair bit of Blood Bowl too

actually, reminds me that i bought the X360 game - i'm sure it's naff compared to the board game, but probably worth a look.

[Machinehead]

I tried to get into Warhammer but i couldnt get anyone intrested enough to play with me

I always have to laugh when I read stuff like this cause I managed to get a job with a club, which also just started running 4th eidtion D&D (oo segway). I just wish I could afford to grow my collections lol.
Blood Bowl is definitely my favourite of GW's specialist games, which are all great because they LEFT ALONE.

[jonny5]

I tried to get into Warhammer but i couldnt get anyone intrested enough to play with me

I always have to laugh when I read stuff like this cause I managed to get a job with a club, which also just started running 4th eidtion D&D (oo segway). I just wish I could afford to grow my collections lol.
Blood Bowl is definitely my favourite of GW's specialist games, which are all great because they LEFT ALONE.

i played d+d and warhammer in high school....now that i think about it i played more shadowrun than d+d actually, and for warhammer played some 40k but really prefered necromunda....goliaths ftw!!

we actually built a big 4X8 table for 40k.....terrain and everything.....

we had so much 40k stuff too...my friend worked at games workshop

[Machinehead]

I"ve had groups of people wanting to play Necromunda and Mordheim...getting them to show up is another deal all together

[God]

No they're not.

(Well, it depends on which one you mean, I suppose.)

God you're gonna get demoted if you keep testing my faith like this.

What's not to like?

(I didn't have any specific one in mind. Just the ability to get, essentially, out of print editions without resorting to second hand, grungy, yellowing books.)

actually, reminds me that i bought the X360 game - i'm sure it's naff compared to the board game, but probably worth a look.

There's also a knockoff on the Genesis.

[Jockel]

Genesis.

I suppose thats you favourite console ever!

[Ed Oscuro]

Huh, how did I miss the D&D part of the title?

Sure, it's interesting enough, never played any retro campaigns though. Tried to get something like a Version 3 take on "The Keep in the Borderlands" going but it ended up being "pop culture and in-jokes time with the DM"

The two campaigns I've been a part of recently had a problem - fascism, excessive amounts of it, and also DMs not understanding basic rules like "when you have to large creatures within range of a fireball (or other area of attack) they get the full damage, not partial," and stuff of that nature.

There was a campaign I sat in on some time back, cool people, good setting, pretty damn decent overall; too bad the DMs I was with just weren't nice people when DMing.

[Machinehead]

Yeah a bad DM can really make it not worth going back. The times I've tried DMing I've tried to be more open, allowing such things are throwing the weresnake at a hobgoblin . And then my powergaming friends/family try to take advantage of my kindness, and it just gets annoying. Then 6 months later I opt to do it all again lol

[God]

I tried to get into Warhammer but i couldnt get anyone intrested enough to play with me.

Warhammer is probably an intimidating game for total newbies. Pretty rules heavy, lots of stuff to buy.

I suppose thats you favourite console ever!

lol.
Praystation, Exodus Box.

Don't let the fascism get to you. It comes with the territory of DMing. Making shit up instead of looking it up is often just a good way to keep things flowing.

[dcharlie]

There was a campaign I sat in on some time back, cool people, good setting, pretty damn decent overall; too bad the DMs I was with just weren't nice people when DMing.

we were lucky in our MERP Group that we had three great DM's who would script great scenarios that were well balanced and tended to have great stories.

Warhammer - lol - there's something about that game that brings out the worst in people. We had at least three amazing full on board tipping incidents.

Pre-Duel situation - Bugman takes fear test against generic Ogre - roll anything below 12 to pass. Friend rolls double 6. Uneasy silence. DM (friends brother) makes clucking sound, removes bugman from board, replaces with Clucken figure. Entire board goes flying.

[Machinehead]

I tried to get into Warhammer but i couldnt get anyone intrested enough to play with me.

Warhammer is probably an intimidating game for total newbies. Pretty rules heavy, lots of stuff to buy.

Depends which one you look at. Fantasy is very rules heavy and take a while to get completely down.
40k on the other hand has been so simplified that you learn the rule book in an afternoon. Guess which is more popular