Podcasting D&D Games 46
Reader PoC wrote to give us a heads up on RPGmp3.com, a site that (wait for it) allows you to download reviews of D&D modules in audio format. These include live, unscripted excerpts from gaming sessions trying out the modules. If you've never played D&D before, this is a safe and cheeto-free way to check it out. They even have exerpts from sessions in the awe-inspiring ($100 US) World's Largest Dungeon.
Re:Question (Score:2)
Ever see an absent minded genius? (Score:2)
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Re:Ever see an absent minded genius? (Score:2)
I'm a liberal arts major. I am bad with math, but I'm also bad with people, yet in spite of all this decent with science. Mostly, I've been studying applied (primarily automotive) arts...
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Re:Ever see an absent minded genius? (Score:1)
Re:Ever see an absent minded genius? (Score:1)
they are great with people
That would be charisma then wouldn't it?
Wisdom is making the best use of available knowledge or the ability to make strategically correct decisions based on the values of others that the decision will affect.
I'm sure D&D defines the traits better in the manual.
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Site Downtime and Bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
Some of you may have noticed that the site was down today was we had reached our bandwidth allowance. I have now upgraded the bandwidth to 17GB per month, which should tide us over for a while.
I predict that this will happen again, just 8 days later...
Re:Site Downtime and Bandwidth (Score:1)
Is that when CmdrTaco will post the dupe?
Re:D&D turns 30 (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't really care what your hobby is - there are going to be "normal" people doing it, and some rather extreme people. Whipping down a hill at 100mph on nothing put a board of wood or two is not exactly my favourite activity, but skiing at normal paces is fine. Heck, I know people who ski 3 times a week - how do they do it when they have jobs or girlfriends?
Answer: as with anything else in life, it's priorities. For those who don't spend time organising their priorities before doing them, the priorities naturally gravitate to things you feel comfortable doing, and that you are good at. Some people aren't comfortable in social situations as themselves - e.g., low self-esteem. Don't deny them their hobby just because they ain't like you.
The group that I currently game with involves: one MBA, one elementary teacher, one pre-school teacher, one engineer, and one tech graduate. The two teachers are women. We play once every few months. No harm, no foul - keep your paranoia and delusions to yourself.
Mind you ... none of us were anywhere near those 30th anniversary games.
Re:D&D turns 30 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:D&D turns 30 (Score:1)
Re:D&D turns 30 (Score:3, Funny)
Someone who is stereotyping the whole D&D crowd from a website who's tagline "News for Nerds...."
Nerd!
Mookid77
Re:D&D turns 30 (Score:4, Interesting)
I wish I could quote you a study here, but I don't have one available. I can only talk from my personal experience.
Among my own circle of gaming friends, nearly every one of them has a girlfriend. Many of the girlfriends game with us. I am happily in a circle of gamers that includes half a dozen women. This is not typical, from what I understand, but it is becoming less rare as the hobby regains popularity thanks to the D&D revival phenomenon. Within the group there is a married couple, an engaged couple (myself and my SO, actually), and a couple that has been together for almost 6 years.
We get together twice a week in two groups of four, with another bunch of folks that I haven't had the chance to game with yet getting together on another night during the week. Everyone shows up bathed, clothed, and no one stares at the women when we game. Of the group, I'm the only one who you'd have to worry about lifting dead weight if I were to fall unconcious. Everyone else in the group is of normal human proportions.
Again, I don't have data so I'm not sure of the general trends.
I do know your odd, cut and pasted reply to this story is a pretty shallow look at a diverse group of people who have a penchant for storytelling.
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
DM: An inky black darkness envelopes the area right in front of you, cutting off your vision of the tunnel.
Player (replete with pocket protector and buck-teeth induced lisp): I casth magic missthile at the darknessth!
Oh yeah, I will so be downloading all of these and playing them right alongside my Vivaldi and Mozart mp3's. I tell ya', nothing initiates a Zen-like "self" moment quite like listening to the gorgeous, awe-inspiring arrangement of Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring movement by Vanessa Mae, replete with hard-pounding trance-like fluidity, followed by 6 geeks arguing about the composition and chemical makeup of a 2d6 fireball.
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Re:Sigh... (Score:1)
Re:Sigh... (Score:2)
The context is: "Player (replete with pocket protector and buck-teeth induced lisp)." The singular usage of "protector" indicates the OP only meant one. One pocket protector is hardly "abundantly supplied."
After that, the OP uses replete in a different context: "replete with hard-pounding trance-like fluidity." This could be a
Re:appledotslashdotdotcom (Score:1)
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Anything like this? (Score:1)
No, more like this.... (Score:2)
I've actually got the original Dead Ale Wives skit on one of my Dr. Demento CDs to boot... Supposedly, the Wives did a follow-up skit on the Dr. D Show involving the DM fudging dice rolls...
Try the "download" link on their site (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No, more like this.... (Score:2)
I listened to the first 17 minutes of the first file in their "World's Biggest Dungeon" game. The first 10 minutes is nothing but them coming up with a list of drinks and munchies for the game...
Paging John Madden... (Score:3, Funny)
So rather than having a turducken [thesalmons.org] this Thanksgiving, have a nerdorkeek! Be sure to leave out the pencil-necks [wwe.com] though...
Out of luck... (Score:1)
Say bebye to those bits quickly because they'll be gone in a few minutes.
4 minutes in... (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory Summoner Geeks Transcript (Score:3, Funny)
2: WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS?!?!
Graham: They're right next to you
Galstaff: I cast a spell
2: Where's the mountain dew?
Graham: In the fridge, DUH!
Galstaff: I wanna cast a spell!
2: CAN I HAVE A MOUNTAIN DEW?!?!
Graham: Yes, you can have a mountain dew just go get it
Galstaff: I can cast any of these right, on the list?
Graham: Yes, any of the first level ones
2: I'M GOING TO GET A SODA, ANYONE WANT ONE?!?! HEY GRAHAM I'M NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT?
Graham: What room?
Galstaff: I want to cast MAGIC MISSILE
2: THE ROOM WHERE HE'S CASTING ALL THESE SPELLS FROM!
Graham: He hasn't cast anything yet
Galstaff: I am though if you'd listen- I'm casting MAGIC MISSILE.
Graham: Why are you casting magic missile? There's nothing to attack here.
Galstaff: I... I'm attacking the darkness!
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: Fine, fine... you attack the darkness. There's an elf in front of you
4: WHOA! That's me right?
Graham: He's wearing a brown tunic, and he has gray hair and blue eyes
4: No I don't, I have gray eyes
Graham: Let me see that sheet
4: Well it says I have... well it says I have blue but I decided I want gray eyes
Graham: Whatever... Okay, you guys can talk to each other now if you want
Galstaff: Hello
4: Hello
Galstaff: I am Galstaff, sorcerer of light!
4: Then how come you had to cast magic missile?
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: You guys are being attacked
2: DO I SEE THAT HAPPENING?!?!
Graham: No, you're outside by the Tavern
2: COOL, I GET DRUNK
Graham: Sigh... there are seven ogres surrounding you
Galstaff: How could they surround us? I had Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog cast
Graham: No you didn't!
2: I'M GETTING DRUNK, ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Galstaff: I totally did! You asked me if I wanted any equipment before this adventure and I said no, but I need material components for all of my spells, so I cast Mordenkaiden's Faithful Watchdog.
Graham: But you never actually cast it
2: ROLL THE DICE TO SEE IF I'M GETTING DRUNK!
Graham: Arghhhh... yeah, you are
2: ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
Graham: Yeah...
Galstaff: I did though- I completely said when you asked me...
Graham: NO YOU DIDN'T. You didn't actually say that you were casting the spell so now there's Ogres okay?
2: OGRES? MAN, I'VE GOT AN OGRE-SLAYING KNIFE, IT'S GOT A +9 AGAINST OGRES!
Graham: YOU'RE NOT THERE! You're getting drunk!
2: OKAY, BUT IF THERE ARE ANY GIRLS THERE I WANT TO DO THEM!
World's Largest Dungeon?! (Score:2)
I'm so not going to buy it (a hundred bucks, c'mon get real) but I have to admit, I'm curious.
Obvious MP3s I'd like to hear (Score:2, Funny)
Head of Vecna (Score:1)
Many years ago (back when we all were still playing D & D), I ran a game where I pitted two groups against each other.
Several members of Group One came up with the idea of luring Group Two into a trap. You remember the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna that were artifacts in the old D&D world where if you cut off your hand (or your eye) and replaced it with the Hand of Vecna (or the Eye) you'd get new awesome powers? Well, Group One thought up The Head of Vecna
Eric and the Gazebo (Score:2)
by Richard Aronson [aronson@sierratel.com]
In the early seventies, Ed Whitchurch ran "his game", and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson. Eric plays something like a computer. When he games, he methodically considers each possibility before choosing his preferred option. If given time, he will invariably pick the optimal solution. It has been known to take weeks. He is otherwise, in all respects, a superior gamer.
Eric was playing a Neutral Paladin in Ed's