The incredible austerity of D&D in 1980

5e is fun enough tho. i get together with mostly dads once a week to play for about 3 hours. it really is nothing like when we were all 12 and could play long afternoons of shadowrun or star wars or cyberpunk 2020 or 2nd edition but it still has its pleasures and feels prosocial.

oh i think i can help you bc i have been playing loads of tt roleplaying games over the last decadeish trying to recapture the way i felt when i was 12 and despite lots of cool stuff being out there i am happy to report that feeling is ephemeral and tied directly to the powerlessness, imagination, time, and friendship that was only available at 12yo, it can never be recaptured alas.

― Mordy, Friday, January 31, 2020 10:05 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

important post

that said I wrote a game some years ago trying to recapture the feeling of being 13 years old at a synagogue sleepover, maybe y'all can give it a try

http://jklol.net/grace.html

silby i don't know if i could ever find a good group for playing that (or one i felt comfortable enough with to do so) but i would be curious to hear about yr playtests of it and any other playthrough reports you may have??

It’s been years since I actually played but I had a nice time doing it and at least one group in the world with nothing to do with me has played it, might be able to find their play report…

found it

http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/comment/391359/#Comment_391359

https://jennitalula.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/grace/

oh and we actually discussed it on story-games when I first wrote it http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/16033/x

I was much closer to being a teenager then…

I got given the slipcase version of Art & Arcana for Christmas and the early stuff looks amazing in it.

DCC was the most fun i've had since ad&d second edition

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-advanced-dungeons-dragons-players-handbook-essay-benjamin-markovits/

I played Dread with some old college friends, and our first scene (before the horror started) captured what I think your Grace players felt from their play through: there was a surprising catharsis in role playing the real insecurities and conflicts of our younger selves through the lens of the game. It helped me treat my younger self with empathy—a salve I didn’t know I didn’t have. I’m wondering if it would be nice to find a group to play Grace, and double down on role play as a catalyst for healing.

If you do please post about it! Nothing would warm my heart more

has anybody read any of appelcline's books on the development of d&d? thoughts?

what the
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roll em up everybody

"I kick the pagan with my Boots of the Gospel of Peace, aiming for his head"

What Dice Would Jesus Roll

three sided, duh

the enduring Christian qualities of Faith, Hope, and Quiet Movement

dampening dragons' spirits brb

Oh god. This looks like shit they would have at the Christian bookstore my parents would take me to as a kid. I think the store was called Agape, which in retrospect is lol.

Now I am remembering when I had to do a project for bible class in the low-rent private Christian school our church effectively ran (one step from homeschooling). I waited until the last minute and half-assed it, and my Mom got angry and wouldn't let me hand in what I did. So she helped me put together a poster about "putting on the full armor of God" from Romans or something. "Breastplate of righteousness" my ass.

somehow I have never seen this although it came out m/l in my peak RPG phase

Resist Torture?

Kinky.

totally

it's no Bunnies and Burrows

https://lightraiders.com/dragonraid-2nd-ed/

Please remember that DragonRaid is not just a fun game, it is intended as a serious discipleship system for teenagers (and adults who still have teen-aged hearts). Though the system used as an ordinary roleplaying game (RPG), it is much harder to teach the players how to be more Christ-like, which is the goal of the DragonRaid system. While some of the material presented here is more game-mechanics oriented, that is not intended to be an endorsement of RPG-only play.

Translation: If you RPG without Jesus, you are going to hell.

they're not wrong, many of the kids I played D&D with ended up stranded on one of the outer planes

there is no way i would game with christ, dude is too much of a powergamer

"uh, i shoot a flaming sword out of my mouth and instantly destroy all evil forever"
"sigh. roll for initiative."
"i don't have to roll for initiative, the flaming sword is a free action"
"jesus, is this on your character sheet?"
"yeah, check it out here"
"this says 'and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of jesse'. what does that have to do with flaming swords?"
"uh, it's a PARABLE, duh! i'm 'jesse', the stem is my mouth, and the 'rod' is a flaming sword that destroys all evil forever."

lmao

That is very good.

amazing stuff

started playing a variant of basic D&D w a few friends on roll20, it is fun, really good quarantine activity. highly recommended.

Is there a video component to it (i.e. can you see each other)?

Hey guys. My daughter (and I) got invited to join a D&D group that her friend's dad is conducting, for their 4th grade social circle. Do you guys know of any decent race/class explainers that just get it REAL basic? I was mostly put off of RPGs when I was a teen because of the levels of knowledge seemingly required at entry. For example, I started a Roll20 account and while they have basic descriptions, it would still put my daughter to sleep trying to get through them.

https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Weapons-Adventurers-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/1984856421/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=kids+dungeons+and+dragons&qid=1600468949&s=books&sr=1-6

??

idk where your fourth grader is at reading wise but at least it's real visual + boo the hamster

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Looks pretty good! I was thinking more along the line of something on youtube or elsewhere on the internet, but this would be just right in terms of reading-level. I will check with my local game shop and see if they have it.

I'm in the middle of watching this at the moment, which is also in the right ballpark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RxuEVxHbSk

(I have also asked this question to the DM, btw. I just wanted to see if you all had any other solid ideas)

I came up with a magical weapon called the Random Axe of Kindness (roll percentile for results all over the board, helpful to harmful) a few years ago, and this morning I had the idea for a flesh-burrowing creature called a Squealy Worm because somewhere a DM is just dying to say "X just shit a Squealy Worm."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPm3GKmUkNU

I'll watch this later, but Chaotic-Good is the best.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/

Pretty great.

good thread (via ned)

Writing a d100 table to roll on for D&D entitled “A weird guy you meet while standing in line for the tavern’s outhouse”

— metaltxt (@metaltxt) July 15, 2021

You come to a waterfall

https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/dungeons-and-dragons-musical-here-there-be-dragons_93357.html

A vorpal sword, is very, very very fine sword . . . .

Can I say in this thread that I think all recent editions of D&D (3.0 and onward) make the characters too powerful and the game too complicated? Since playing our B/X game for a couple years I really love the flexibility and simplicity of it all. But I did pick up the Advanced OSE books on black friday and while they look fun, I'm concerned that the additional class abilities will up the power curve too much for my personal taste.

Zero HP = Dead

I'm looking forward to reading this novel that comes out in the U.S. tomorrow:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sorcerer-of-Pyongyang/Marcel-Theroux/9781668002667

(not because of the subject matter, which could be cloying in the wrong hands, but I've really enjoyed his other books)

xp ideally this is offset by more powerful monsters, steeper xp curve (b/x cleric attains 2nd at 1.5k and 14th at 700k, while adv. druid attains 2nd at 2k and 14th at 1.5M) and in the case of ad&d 1e the gm being ultra-strict about things like the cost of spell components, class restrictions (no shield or warhammer for your druid) and responsibilities (when you get to 11th level the archdruids starting tracking you down to fight you, highlander style)

i think some of the spell components and stuff like that are left out of advanced fantasy, since unlike b/x it's not actually a direct port of ad&d?

exalted funeral has a bundle with the b/x tomes + hole in the oak for $50. an insane deal which maybe i should follow up on. i spent too much already this weekend at goodman games, though!