Topic: Dungeons and Dragons

So I just picked up the starter set and was wondering if anyone here plays the game as well.

Whoa, I used to play D&D, Robotech and W40K when I was young but haven't touched anything like that in yeeears. Good to hear ppl still do.

Well, my Dad used to play it with college friends, so he decided to get it for my family to play.

I played it back in the day also. Stopped in high school to avoid a double nerd stigma of video gamer and D&D player.

I too played back in the day, stopped some time in high school. The final sessions we played usually involved smoking pot and drinking (don't drink or do drugs, kids!), and then eventually the D&D was removed from the equation. =D

Haven't played in a few years, but I've got literally a bookcase filled with D & D stuff, 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition.

It's unfortunate that there's no really good, stable, easy way to play the game online.

Yep use to play it back in high school and a bit after wards too. I played mainly 2nd Edition and a bit of 3rd. From what I have seen and heard of 4th edition I am not too impressed with it. I still have several boxes full of books and adventures in my storage shed.

4th edition is not bad. It's a very, very different experience to earlier editions, and people are correct in saying it's got a greater "MMO" feel than it did in the past.

But it actually plays very well, and I'm a fan of it.

I played the crap outta some D&D when I was younger. Regular Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced, 2e, and possibly some 3e before I stopped. Cyberpunk, all of the Palladium Games (Robotech, TMNT, Rifts, etc), some of the White Wolf games, Mutant Chronicles, and tons more. Unfortunately, other commitments hogged up all my rpg time. I still have all my books/notes/characters though.

D&D, Cyberpunk, and Mutant Chronicles were always my favorite.

Amen brother.

Thats exactly what I have heard that it has an MMO feel to it and quiet frankly I have a subscription to World of Warcraft. So if I want an MMO I will just save the time of preparing a D&D 4th edition adventure, calling the guys over, and making sure I have enough munchies and Mountain Dew and just log onto WoW. Plus after playing WoW with the guys for the evening I dont have to worry about cleaning up a bunch of Mountain Dew cans lol.

So, THAC0, anyone?

I love interrogation. It makes me wish I drank some vodka before each game session

I play in a 3.5 game with friends, and I'm in a weekly Pathfinder Society game at a hobby shop.
(Pathfinder is a tweaked 3.5 setting)

I play in a 3.5 game with friends, and I'm in a weekly Pathfinder Society game at a hobby shop.
(Pathfinder is a tweaked 3.5 setting)

Pathfinder is freaking awesome! I love the art style of the books and products.

Yeah I got a few of the Pathfinder books myself mainly the Rule book and I do like some of the tweaks that they did to the 3.5 system mainly I like the things they added for sorcerers to make them different from mages. If I played D&D more often I would be using Pathfinder.

Actually, I heard about an online version called "Dungeons & Dragons Online"

I wish I was young enough to have played Neverwinter Nights (a D&D game) back in the day. It looks like a game I would've greatly enjoyed.

You can still play it now Mickeymac. Some people still prefer NWN over NWN2. I've got some fond memories of that game. I mainly played offline in single-player. On a whim I decided to try one of the many servers and stumbled into a pretty darned awesome persistant world. Everything was well created and it was at least a 15-20 hr time investment just to get through all of the adventures/quests. When you got finished there was a pretty decent community of regulars that you could chat with, while in-game.

One day I was standing around in the town and the designer and some of his friends came in as "DM's" and started a monster invasion of the town. It kinda caught us all by surprise and we quickly had to regroup and fend off the wave after wave of monsters in order to survive and save the town and townsfolk. Once you were dead...you were dead so as each of your friends fell to the fiends, things got a little bit tougher. You could still stay in your body and see how things unfolded. It ended up being a pretty darned epic "last stand" as the shrinking group of survivors stood at the center of town, continuing to defend it from the horde of monsters, and eventually the survivors triumphed.

@Magi: was Mickeyman talking about the recent NWN or the ALO NWN cause thats what I was thinking Mickey was talking about since that was an early MMORPG, but I can be mistaken.

@Sadman: Actually Dungeon and Dragons Online has only base elements of Dungeon and Dragons table top. Mainly the classes and some of the skills and items names and such but its more of an action game than an RPG. I got into it way back in the day when it first came out looking for a D&D subsitute. Dont get me wrong it was a fun game till they ruined it by making it an item mall f2p game but its just like any other MMO out there today people running raids over and over and over for the best gear and such. Who knows you might enjoy but I dont recommend DDO as a D&D replacement or even an accurate online version of D&D.