Anybody on O-F play Dungeons and Dragons or any other d20 game?

[Shadow Addict]

I've been playing D&D on and off with a group of four or five friends for about two years now. We're planning on getting our first serious campaign started this fall (still using 3.5, of course; 4e was a let-down in my opinion). It's really one of my fondest hobbies; reading those core rulebooks just makes me feel good. Does anybody else on O-F play D&D or any of the other d20 games out there?

 

[Hielor]

I've been playing D&D on and off with a group of four or five friends for about two years now. We're planning on getting our first serious campaign started this fall (still using 3.5, of course; 4e was a let-down in my opinion). It's really one of my fondest hobbies; reading those core rulebooks just makes me feel good. Does anybody else on O-F play D&D or any of the other d20 games out there?

I have, but not in a long time. I have a few friends up here who would be interested in starting a group, but not really enough people.

Totally agree about 3.5 being better than 4e, though!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Let just say, that I played long before the 2nd edition rules came out.
I probably haven't played since the late 80's. I wish I'd kept all my books though, I see some of them are quite valuable. I may still have "Unearthed Arcana" somewhere around, I had the original "Monster Manual" that had the Cthulu monsters in it (the tentale face dude).
I enjoyed playing, but people always made me be DM. My monsters didn't always play by the rules, and no party ever met a dragon without losing more than half it members. I mean seriously, you want to take a bunch of characters (the oldest of which might be 150 year old dwarf, up against a dragon thats 300+ years old? For real? You think in all that time a dragon might have learned a few dirty tricks...

 

[Shadow Addict]

I've never DMed, but I really want to. I'm gonna start working on a world and campaign from scratch (it's ambitious, but I really wanna use only my own settings/adventures) this year, and hopefully get to run it by early 2011 at the latest.

I wouldn't have switched to 4e anyway because I don't want to shell out for the books. (I have some PDFs of the core rulebooks, but for D&D I really find it important to have the books.) I read through most of the new PHB, and I was really disappointed by the overhauls. I agree that some things, like attacks of opportunity and encounter levels, were a bit complicated (but not to an unusable degree! just confusing), but some of it is just too far. I mean, getting rid of skill points? That's too much. And from what I remember, the spell system is severely different now, with many fewer spells and a generic sort of description that allows rogue abilities to be pretty much the same as wizard spells. I really love the hundred or so pages that the 3.5 PHB dedicates to spells alone, and I was very unhappy to see that truncated.

 

[ar81]

What some orbinauts play is Star Frontiers, a role play game game created by the makers of Dungeons & Dragons, for those who love space adventures.

I made a dice roller and a character generator for that community. You may find them here.

 

[Shadow Addict]

What some orbinauts play is Star Frontiers, a role play game game created by the makers of Dungeons & Dragons, for those who love space adventures.

I made a dice roller and a character generator for that community. You may find them here.

Ho wow, never heard of it. Looked it up on Wikipedia and saw this:

A multiplayer flight simulator version of Knight Hawks Vector is being developed for Orbiter Space Simulator program

Never heard of that addon.

Also, as far as space tabletop games go, I have to say I prefer fantasy. I'm not sure if there's a particular reason why, but I just never was able to enjoy space RPing as much as I do fantasy RPing.

 

[jedidia]

Never heard of that addon.

The 55 Cancrii add-on is from that team (and is StarFrontiers-themed). As far as I know, they're currently reworking that, while also working on a StarFrontiers CRPG, and have already pushed out a two-d version of knight hawks vector. Their long-term goal is to get it all into Orbiter (they still have a chance to make the first space combat simulator for Orbiter...)

Anyways, long time since I played D&D. Even longer ago since I played "Das Schwarze Auge" (the black eye), which isn't well known out of germany and switzerland (was never translated into english, if I'm not mistaken), but in my oppinion had far superior complexity to D&D. There were three CRPGs based on the rules and setting that easily beat the crap out of any AD&D Game I ever played (including Baldurs Gate. Maybe not Planescape Torment, but the glory of that is hardly founded in the rule system. One of the project leaders of the DSA games was actually heavily involved in the developement...) and a fourth one that is... well... not much more than any AD&D game out there. Pitty.

 

[Urwumpe]

Had played ADND some while ago, currently the only "D20 based" RPG in my shelf is "Engel", which has a D20 option in the rules (usually it is played without dices)

 

[n122vu]

There is a big D&D group here that up until a week ago played on Saturdays and Sundays at the local board game store, www.gameknightstore.com . They have outgrown the store and to not interfere with the Magic tournaments, have since moved to another more private location.

Never got into D&D, though I loved the Dragonlance novels back in high school. I used to play GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System), but that was years ago and our games had a more modern theme to them.

I'm currently addicted to plastic crack, aka Heroclix. It's a D6 game, not nearly the complexity of D&D, and you don't get the satisfaction of leveling up a created character, but it has its own brand of strategy and tactics. Play almost every Thursday night at the store.

 

[Space-viking]

I still to this day, both GURPS, D&D, World of Darkness and also LARP ( Live Action Role Play). So yeah hehe I'm a geek :thumbup: