The incredible austerity of D&D in 1980

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/project-eternity-live-stream

The guys at Obsidian Entertainment are drinking and live-streaming their d&d session to advertise their kickstarter

surprised obsidian studios needs a kickstarter to get a game made!

also find it hard to believe anyone would watch some random people play d&d over the internet, can't imagine a less boring thing to do

er more boring

maybe there was a sense in the industry that there wasn't an audience for an infinity engine rpg? this is kinda the perfect thing for kickstarter to be doing actually - projects w/ high chance of success that for whatever reason couldn't get funded in the traditional, industry way.

also all dnd games sound the same no matter who is playing them. everyone has that hesitancy in their voice like "ok i'm going to bow to the princess and then cast magic missile i feel really self-conscious as an adult playing dungeons and dragons"

one guy who talks with a "voice" and is really into it

Apparently they wanted to do an Infinity Engine-type isometric epic like the games of yore and no publisher would fund it, and they figured that both Double Fine and the Wasteland 2 guys did it, so fuggit.

here's their kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

last night of it, and they're less than $120K away from their max stretch goal at $3.5M

and the ILG thread: ILG Kickstarter Gaming HQ

i popped in and they all kinda had that look i get around 1950 in a not-spectacular civ4 game, like come on jason click next turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn i'm bored but i can't walk away

i play civ4 w a person named jason

http://www.dndclassics.com/

so many clicks to download that one free pdf

The incredible inaccessibility of PDF in 2012

a friend of mine had a super high level set of adventures where you travel into hell (or whatever it was called) and meet all those crazy demons and devils that got renamed, anyone know what i'm talking about?

I think it's this one:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6cIjVfswjE/UOMRpx7k9MI/AAAAAAAAE5k/rTYOfhvC3p4/s200/inferno.jpg

that looks cool but i don't think that's it. unless it was re-covered in a later print.

ok lol, wiki'ing for "orcus" got me there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mines_of_Bloodstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Throne_of_Bloodstone

Ia Jubilex Ia!

*spouts acid from innumerable trumpet-nozzles*

lol @ module

lolth in module

WTF

http://gygaxmagazine.com/

Well, I just signed up for their mailing list .We shall see what Gygax brings...

Have any of you guys been listening to Brian Posehn's D&D cast, "Nerd Poker"?

didn't know it existed, so no. Worth a try?

Yup!

Downloaded the first episode after I asked. So far it's pretty fun.

what's it like?

it's a bunch of people, mostly writers and comedians, playing D&D with a mic in the center of the table. So far, that's really it.

I've really been digging it. I haven't played D&D since high school but Nerd Poker makes me wish I knew enough funny people to get a game together. All the guys I knew who played in school were metalheads who took their frustrated theatrical tendencies out in super-serious D&D games where you had to act out your character.

my suggestion for people who played D&D back in high school and want to play tabletop RPGs again is to check out Dungeon World. I somehow haven't gotten a chance to actually play myself yet but it has been said of this game that it is "better at D&D than D&D".

I've got a bad feeling that if this thread stays active I might start posting a bunch of stuff about the weird RPGs I'm into in it, or else linking to terrible people who make D&D terrible. I should probably not drag that whole scene to ILX though.

at least not the "laughing at horrible people" part, gotta k.i.p.

Do we have a "talk about RPGs" thread? I haven't played in ages but still check them out. The next edition D&D beta stuff has been fun to read.

I might start posting a bunch of stuff about the weird RPGs I'm into in it

PLEASE do. I've been out of that world for a couple of decades but have always found it fascinating.

BTW recently I almost lost my mind trying to remember the name of this weird game that used to advertise in Dragon in the 80s, it had really extraordinary art with weird humanoid creatures in it. It turned out to be Skyrealms of Jorune.

I never saw Skyrealms in person. Ads were creepy and memorable though.

I'm pretty sure our local game/comics place never carried it or I would've bought it in a heartbeat. It's apparently not a very well written game, though.

Really? I thought it was supposed to be moderately well-thought of, if ridiculously obscure. Adverts always made me think it was a ERB/John Carter rip-off, which would have made me buy it had I ever seen it anywhere.

let's start a d&d thread, i want a place to laugh at stuff like this:

http://critical-hits.com/2009/08/07/4th-edition-dd-beyond-level-30/

This kinda IS the D&D thread.

this thread is as good as any!

Above level 30, for each level:
+1 retelling old stories, +1 joint sensitivity to weather, +1 incontinence, +2 get off my lawn

The quest to eradicate all evil, everywhere, that’s ever existed would be another kind of such lofty quest that it would need to be undertaken by the mightiest of heroes.

you don't say

they better bring a level 30 philosopher with them

yeah this seems like a good D&D thread

The internet's true home of collecting horrible people's bad D&D opinions is grognards.txt and it sequel on SA. Hours of fun!

why not go around eradicating evil thru charitable work rather than ethnic cleansing?

30th level soup kitchen worker

+4 ladling

"Advanced" d and D - as if its an acheivement