I'll see your gelatinous cube and raise you a green slime, an ochre jelly, and a black pudding!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:04 (ten months ago) link
I just watched the movie with my son and it was pretty good! Gelatinous cubes for the whole family! Our attempts at doing tabletop RPGs at home have been thwarted by his older brother who can't sit still for them, but even our minimal experience was enough to notice plenty of little moments that felt as though they could have been rolled for
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:10 (ten months ago) link
Loved the film.
Having a zoom call with a group of fellow beginners as a preliminary to our first ever session. We have a friend with a little DMing experience who has kindly volunteered to do the thing. Other than that, I really don't know what I'm in for
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:29 (ten months ago) link
30-second encounters that take hours to play out
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:42 (ten months ago) link
I never played much of the game, but I am pretty familiar with it (as a kid I used to read the arcana books a lot): in-jokes and little winks aside, was there anything about the movie that was particularly unique to D&D? I always thought a lot of the appeal of the game was that every campaign is different - personalized characters, unique stories, different enemies and encounters and obstacles - with the only constant being the gameplay, more or less: rolling dice, dungeon masters, maps, namely the things this movie totally (by necessity) lacked. I wonder if it would have done better if it was just called, like, "Heroes and Villains" or something more generic, and they played it up as a self-aware fantasy satire of sorts (which is kind of was) rather than an adaptation of something that is not, by design, adaptable.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
pinefox, take your clueless shtick elsewhere plz
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, May 6, 2023 9:35 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
maybe we could not have bullying on the D&D thread, lol
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:22 (ten months ago) link
ok
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
Gelatinous Cube is the name of my Ice Cube tribute band
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:09 (ten months ago) link
"The Wrong DM to Fuck With"
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:32 (ten months ago) link
30 second encounters that take hours to play is a modern thing. I think we had three combats in our last 2 hour session, using the 1981 basic d&d rules.
― ian, Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:51 (ten months ago) link
^^ was gonna say
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:51 (ten months ago) link
Half the time your first level magic user gets hit once and they’re dead, fight over.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 15 May 2023 10:33 (ten months ago) link
i had my first game either late 79 or early 80, my 8th grade teacher brought me and a few friends for an overnight trip to some weird DM in suburban NJ, some sterotypical jersey name like Passaic or Parsippinay. tbh my parents thought it might be some pedo front and told me to be careful. anyway the dm was quite good and me and my pals were hooked for the next 3 years. many a trip to the compleat strategist in midtown ensued.
― buzza, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:51 (ten months ago) link
ha, seems i've been over this before
i played D&D between 79-82 give or take
the austerity didn't really register
― velko, Tuesday, October 25, 2016
― buzza, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:54 (ten months ago) link