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 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:35 am
All righty, massive D&D topic from ava vs ava can now be continued here...because I wanna have a thread of my own that is active-ish, lol. And it seems like we have several D&D players in the guild, so it should make for a good conversation.
I'll start talking about my crazy campaign of doom when I've got time to write about it. In the meantime...everyone else can just have a blast with this, lol.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:03 am
Well, my crazy D&D tale...
The party: a Warmage (me), a druid, a rogue, a drunken monk, a cleric, an evil paladin, and a flying berserker. Among other people floating in and out.
Now, the problem with a flying bersker is that it has deathless frenzy, which way overpowers it in the game. Happily, to make up for it, the DM gave us a lovely little heal bot so Crunch didn't go nuts after every battle and kill us all.
The evil paladin was that players answer to Crunch, in case Crunch ever decided to be really evil and take over the campaign. And he didn't start out evil...just after a while the DM basically said 'ok, you're playing like an evil guy, so now you are evil.'
The cleric...the only actually good character in the game. So needless to say, we kept him rather deluded so he didn't wander off and leave us. My fav spell he ever did was summon whale in the middle of a naval battle...on top of an enemy ship.
Now...if you've like playing a mage, but hate having the hitpoints of a rabbit, the Warmage is for you. You get armour at no penalty, your get hitpoints, you get weapons like a morning star. The only slight drawback is that you only get a set spell list...and it's nearly all combat spells. I swear you have every fire spell in the game. Basically, I was the heavy artillery in the game. I stood in the back and did rather nice amounts of hit points while taking little damage. It was nice. And I will never forget the battle I innocently Flame Striked a demon...the faces of all the D&D diehards going what is a Warmage doing with a monk spell...ah...**happy face**
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:19 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:40 am
My group has ADD. We start a new campaign after playing for a few sessions, except for one that we've had going for a while. The up side to making new campaigns all the time is looking up all the rules, so I know 3.5 font to back.
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mmmmmmmchips Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:31 pm
My group has a really good campaingn going. We do all sorts of weird s**t, amoung which are my character injuries that I'll go into another time.
However, last session we went and bought 40 $1 cheeseburgers from McDonalds. xD
It was amusing because of the reactions of the Micky D's staff.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:39 pm
mmmmmmmchips My group has ADD. We start a new campaign after playing for a few sessions, except for one that we've had going for a while. The up side to making new campaigns all the time is looking up all the rules, so I know 3.5 font to back. My group's been playing one campaign since September. The original DM has been playing for a while, so my boyfriend is our temporary DM (so we've been on like a side quest for two months, lol). And both DM's are big fans of the idea "if you can think of it, there's probably a way you can do it in D&D," so there's a lot of rule bending and improvising going on. And some rules they've totally done away with (like that spellcasters can only cast one spell per round). Our campaign is entirely ridiculous (cast list to come later, lol...should be doing homework right now).
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:36 pm
Last weekend my friend who just started playing D&D was like "I wanna try DMing!!OMFG." So I made a character completely designed to destroy the campaign. I ended up falling asleep though, it was a shame.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:15 pm
My friend Nick (our most-of-the-time DM) was telling us about how in his other D&D group, one of the guys wanted to try some other game that wasn't based on dice rolls (it was all math and statistics and junk) and nobody else in the group really wanted to play it, but they did anyway...but they made characters purposely designed to die quickly. I think Nick said his character was a ninja with verbal Tourrettes...(and I'm sure I didn't spell that right, but...who cares! leave the spelling to the wizards... [/terrible pun])
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:04 pm
So...on to (finally) my explanation of our ridiculous characters...
Lani (played by Laura) - lvl 14 rogue. She weilds the legacy item Desert Wind, and because of the legacy rituals that went along with it, she's actually a gestalt rogue/fighter. She's also on fire, can cast fireball 3 times a day and scorching ray I dunno how many times a day. Oh, and did I mention she's also a half-celestial?
Cassandra (my character) - lvl 14 ranger. Dual-weilds b*****d swords (one of which is a speed one, yay!), and therefore has 8 attacks per round. Is also a weretiger. With adamantine grafted to her skeleton. And adamantine claws (hmm, remind anyone of Wolverine from X-Men?).
Steve (played by Tom...whom we tend to call SteveTom) - lvl 13 (I think) sorcerer. Sort of the most normal character in our group. Has the ability to polymorph (EDIT: I've been informed that it's shape change, not polymorph) once every 4 days (which is cool sometimes, but got him into big trouble once...more on that later maybe). Was pretty normal until Bry (temp DM) decided he was gimped compared to the rest of us...so now he's got a custom class written for him. So now he's a summoner like Yuna from FFX. His summons don't actually fight in the battles, but summoning them gives the party bonuses and stuff. And he's got dragon somewhere in his lineage, not sure where...
Ilmen (played by Nick, who also DMs most of the time) - lvl 14, um...thingy. Jedi, really, seeing as how he wrote a custom class for himself. He's a fae'ri (no idea how to spell that!)...good drow kind of thing, with dragon in his lineage. But yeah, he's a Jedi...even has the mind trick thing (power of suggestion thingy), and made legacy item lightsabers and blaster pistols. He's also half blue dragon (via a wish spell), and has the power to at will change his arms into living diamond (also via a wish thingy...deck of many things, if I recall correctly). He's also got wands and/or scrolls of just about everything imaginable. Turned himself into a beholder once, that was a fun battle (involved disintigrating holes through walls instead of just going down the passageways...got us surprise rounds anyway!)
Joseph (played by Bryant) - lvl 14 wizard. has been absent since lvl 8, so we're really not sure how Bry's going to make his character as crazy as the rest of ours.
phew. that took a while.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:12 pm
I'm sure they could probably all explain their characters a lot better than I can though...and since they're all on Gaia...mayhap we should invite them all to the guild? that would make my job a lot easier, lol.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:39 pm
My experience with D&D was a disaster. I don't know if it's just me and the game, or if it was the people teaching me.
It just felt way too structured in the character creation process. I don't like being told I can't have such and such characters by default [and they are never overpowered. My stats were determined the same way as everybody else's].
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:15 pm
We've had one campaign going since about mid-summer, in that one everybody is about level eight or so. No crazy stuff that doesn't make any sense, just good old classic D&D fun. I've got a Dwarven fighter with some crazy stories. xd
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:40 pm
*Sighs* i miss playing table D&D i've been in PBP mode for quite a while...on several websites...*sighs* I can't really recall my last Table campaign...we don't have any good groups around here...
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:49 pm
mmmmmmmchips We've had one campaign going since about mid-summer, in that one everybody is about level eight or so. No crazy stuff that doesn't make any sense, just good old classic D&D fun. I've got a Dwarven fighter with some crazy stories. xd We have a lot of crazy stories ourselves...it always makes for a good time. I think one of the most memorable quotes of our entire campaign would definitely have to be, "Chicken dance through the crab people! It's our only hope!" Which would take a lot of explaining...and I don't think I have time to explain it just yet.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:52 am
Oh wow, last night we started an epic battle...it's massive. So many characters to try to deal with. And we're not done with it yet...played it for like the last 2 hours (after spending about 5 hours on a couple other battles and then some shopping), and we only got maybe a third of the way through it.
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