The incredible austerity of D&D in 1980

lol

do people actually speak in character when playing D&D I don't recall this ever being a thing anybody I played D&D with would tolerate

like, speak in character to each other, that is

ime yes

social justice wizard

the average adventurer party is likely on the hook for a myriad of ethnic cleansings and genocides, particularly among the lowest species of society - the subaltern orcs, goblins + ogres that are already totally alienated from the contemporaneous urban cosmopolitan economy

hundreds of thousands of kobold massacres

well, i realize i kinda fucked up the way i was portraying the character, because he has the Urchin background (grew up on the mean streets with the help of a human) and i made this really generic story that he was abandoned/lost as a small child and didn't grow up in elvin (elvish? elf?) society. so i'd like to call a do-over on the prideful way i was playing him last night and make him more humble and eager to convince other elves he meets to stop being such assholes.

i was trying to defend myself against the accusations of elf racism when someone was like "...wait...aren't you a wizard, too?!"

i think at that point i busted out the mage hand cantrip out of nowhere and was like "hey look at this crazy hand drawing circles in the dust!"

When I dm I do character voices but I kind of don't dig the players doing so, it gets creepy

Inevitable q what edition did u play Karl

i think what i've mostly seen are players speaking in first person from the pov of their character in their normal voices, esp during NPC conversations

Inevitable q what edition did u play Karl

5e

i think what i've mostly seen are players speaking in first person from the pov of their character in their normal voices, esp during NPC conversations

that's pretty much what happened with us

speciesist surely

you would think - but they are actually called races in D&D rulebooks

Mega smh at the term "racial enemy" which they use in the early editions and I can only hope has been changed by now?

Rangers are required to choose one

Sorry young ranger u gotta hate SOMEBODY

When I dm I do character voices but I kind of don't dig the players doing so, it gets creepy

I haven't played since hs but yeah this is my memory of how things went

iirc rangers can pick like spiders tho or wolves which makes the mechanics kinda weirdly progressive in the way they suggest that all living creatures share a category w/ humanoids

That's why they shouldn't call it racial enemy it should be monster enemy or w/e

If species are breeding groups capable of producing fertile offspring then you should be able to test this by seeing whether your half-orc and half-elf are fertile. Make that your first campaign.

Fellowship of the Mule

Karl you should work some secret forbidden orc-love into your character's backstory/persona

Infertility or unexpected fertility could be a product of magic too - lots of species mythologies I think we are supposed to take seriously that involve mad wizards, ambitious gods, spontaneously generation from a pile of rocks, etc

i'd like to call a do-over on the prideful way i was playing him last night and make him more humble and eager to convince other elves he meets to stop being such assholes.

― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone)

no way

double down, make it an insecurity thing. overplays "high" elfishness b/c he knows he so totally isn't like a typical one. so his way of getting into the cool kid's club is by bullying all the uncool kids but the cool kids roll their eyes every time he shows up. and then he cries abt it every night.

"let me help you with your fantasy roleplaying problems" thread... an idea too beautiful to live

if some day an enterprising ilxor decides to GM an RPG campaign over the internet i would be very interested in participating

isn't that what ILM is

ILX the RPG

so his way of getting into the cool kid's club is by bullying all the uncool kids but the cool kids roll their eyes every time he shows up.

why do I hear Steely Dan's "Gaucho" playing in the background

^ stand by my awesome wall-o-text in that thread xp

this is kinda nice, it's free

http://basicfantasy.org/

i haven't used it but roll20.net + skype is supposed to be a good combo

My friend Jason, probably the most RPG-deep guy I know, is into Dungeon World and is actually creating material for it now. IDK much about the system yet,

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/03/ranking-all-of-1980s-fantasy

Fantasy films of the 80s

Weird that it omits Hong Kong films. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain is great 80s fantasy.

It is great but maybe it didn't fit the type they wanted to overview. I'm more surprised Hawk The Slayer isn't there.

this is in the wrong thread but GTF no Hawk

It's not that I like it but that ranking includes a lot of poor films that sit comfortably with Hawk The Slayer.

we've moved on a bit but karl i am dming a 5e campaign and my friend playing an elf wizard has also been rp his character as a racist! maybe theres something in they way theyve written the players handbook that brings it out...

Lamp are u in nyc yet i would hella play in a campaign of yours

yeah, i wasn't trying to be a total elf racist, but i was just playing to the description of the high elf in the Player's Handbook, which reads:

"In many of the worlds of D&D, there are two kind of high elves. One type (which includes the gray elves and valley elves of Greyhawk, the Silvanesti of Dragonlance, and the sun elves of the Forgotten Realms) is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves."

but i should have read more closely, because just after it says:

"The other type (including the high elves of Greyhawk, the Qualinesti of Dragonlance, and the moon elves of the Forgotten Realms) are more common and more friendly, and often encountered among humans and other races."

I think our LVL 1 adventure takes place in the Forgotten Realms, so next time we play I'm going to pull a do-over and play moon elf style. the sad lol in this is that i don't think any of the other people playing (all of us are newbs) care at all about any of this. but hey, i'm maximizing my fun here.

you should be the third kind of high elf

https://ratemydoob.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/joint.jpg

i wanna play D&D :(

if some day an enterprising ilxor decides to GM an RPG campaign over the internet i would be very interested in participating

― Mordy, Thursday, March 12, 2015 3:34 PM (3 days ago)

i've tried this a few times and never quite been able to get it off the ground. people aren't "present" enough ime and the participation becomes very uneven.

still, would love to give it another shot!

have been desperately trying to figure out what i did with my copy of

http://scriiipt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jorune.jpg

ime the trick is to have a set session every week and enough players that some can be missing at any given session and you still have a party

Like you can't count on everyone ever being there at the same time

are you talking like over chat or over message board?

i've only ever tried to do online rpg by message board

I used to play on a dedicated piece of software that included a dice machine, a map rendering program, and chat software but I've heard about ppl playing face to face now over Google or Skype or whatever

i know people that have played via online tabletop and it seems to work well

Lamp are u in nyc yet i would hella play in a campaign of yours

it looks like it wont be until august but i would actually love to run a campaign when ive moved

Well I was totally serious so let's do that. We can make ian play.

Played a small group session today (with my friend being DM), first dnd of the year for me. There were only 4 of us including dm and it's nice how fast things move along with a group that size. Of course it's the smallest viable group, 2 players and a dm is just too few imo.

i've been reading the IDW forgotten realms series and i'm itching to get into a campaign. who can i bully into GMing one online?