should i start playing D&D

traveling THE country that is

stick with the mm6 roxy

i have read the player's handbook, and i'm starting a campaign with 5 other people at the end of the month. estimated to take about 3 months at one session per week. my first time. i think i'm going to be an elf rogue and be an arcane trickster.

i am considering this

do it!!!

Oh good timing on the revive

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/these-massive-dice-have-120-sides.html

My roommate keeps wanting me to play this star wars board game that takes six hours and has hundreds of different pieces. I feel bad. I sneak out of the house just to avoid it. It's a good game but such an undertaking.

i've been in a couple of d&d groups on and off over the past year (first time) but i stopped going to one more or less because of the rapejoke density and the other one kept happening on sunday when i work all day. nevertheless would like to brag here about the time i threw a dagger into some fleshy monster's eye and cast heat metal on it.

i am thisclose to doing this, as DM for my two boys

however i have never properly been DM before and the last time i even played was more than 20 years ago

i have been reading up on what's become of DnD and um it sounds a little crazy? 4th edition? DnD "Next"??? my gut tells me to go for either 3rd edition or an old "basic set" but i dunno

also i have a question for the hedz: one of the most enjoyable games i ever played was with this DM dude who basically made up 70-80% of everything on the fly and used percentile dice for literally everything. like there was no need for any other dice. i thought it was pretty badass.

5e ("next") seems to work pretty well actually. some neat changes that do away w some of the pettier math without rendering combat vapid. suspect 3.5 is still the gold standard and it's def a much more fun set of books to own than 5 but it sure is... granular. i'm not rly a hed tho.

thank you, that is helpful

why do you say 3rd ed. is a more fun set of books to own? (partic. if it's more tedious?)

well they are luridly designed to look like grimoires, is most of what i meant, lol. and (related to the tedium) they are just really full of stuff, details about all kinds of stuff, labeled pen-and-ink sketches of different kinds of elf, etc.; they're fun to look at, like dinotopia or something. the 5e books are more streamlined, tho the monster manual's still pretty good. the monster manual's always good.

am i right that 5e is 'compatible' with 3?

man those pen and ink sketches...

btw the spur for this late-in-life rpg renaissance is Deadball, one of the only kickstarters i've ever contributed to:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/695502966/smallball-baseball-with-dice

xp i don't think so? lots of mechanics are the same, monsters and items you could maybe convert without much trouble, but characters are built pretty differently. that said, d&d should prob be played sloppily and made to conform to whatever you want from it, espesh in our age, to distinguish it from video games.

:D i'm going to take that as a vote of confidence in my nascent percentile-dice-for-everything steez

but i think u have to take it seriously, sometimes ppl dont & its like, its still a game, that you want to be fun, not "ironic"

emphasizing this important upthread post tho and that it is not wholesale unbalancing let alone "irony" i am recommending here, so much as like, just going ahead and making up what you think a bugbear would be proficient in or how you think this cool sword from elsewhere would work here.

i rly like the platonic assortment of d&d dice. they were fantastical artifacts when i was little. maybe not a lot of reason for them tho, a lot of other games seem to get by w percentile and/or boring ol grownup d6.

me too.

ooh actually the "advantage" and "disadvantage" mechanic looks like a neat and simple addition. i am going to go for 5e i think. it looks like the easiest for beginners (which my kids and i totally are)

i'm slightly suspicious of my sudden enthusiasm for this (what am i procrastinating?) but maybe i should JUST "ROLL" WITH IT HAHAHAHA

Take a look at this, if you get a chance. Completely free- if you want bound hard copies of the rules etc. they're super cheap.

http://www.basicfantasy.org/

interesting. have you played it?

it also seems that the great and good of D&D 5e have made the basic rules and DM's guide available as free downloads as well which is well sporting of them since the full fledged print editions cost a good 50 euros each

holy shit that basic fantasy stuff looks amazing!

I've played it... in my MIND! But, no, just dabbled. Looks interesting and there's a ton of stuff.

i have not started playing d&d. but i have started playing deadball! it is just on the edge of what my 5-y-o is capable of. so I think i will give him a little more time. they LOVE deadball.