D&D players

[admin]

Any old Dungeons and Dragons players like me?


There is a group of (mainly) voice actors that play online, the episodes last between 3-4 hours each and they have been doing this for over 2 years now. I just got up to episode 60, 45 more to go and I'll be caught up (of course they'll probably have 20 more episodes by then. The show is called Critical Role.

here is a link www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954bCkC062rKwXTvJtcqFB8i


Mostly the play is good, but occasionally I'll smack my head and ask "What the heck do they think they're doing?" but mostly its enjoyable.
And they've come a long way since episode 1.

Anyway, if you like D&D or if you want to learn more about D&D (which is basically storytelling) check them out.

[papaof2]

I'm more of a Colossal Cave person. Still have 3 11x17 pages of maps for the version that was written in compiled DEC Basic for the PDP-11/23 computer (now a museum piece with dual 8" floppy drives). Text only, very detailed, some of the text descriptions were subtle with things like "lots of small twisty passages all alike" and "lots of twisty small passages all alike" leading to different destinations.
I've never found a version as complete for any other OS. If I were still an all-night-coder, I could probably re-create that version under Windows.

[willc453]

Boy, I gotta get out more often in seeing what else is on this web site. Yeah, started playing around 1980 by accident. Was in the Air Force at the time and roommate asked me to paint some of his figures for him because I was building plastic models at the time. No problem I said. Thing is, never got into Lord Of The Rings books and other fantasy type books. Just too unreal for me. At the time, I was into reading TWAWKI ending type books, including writing one of my own. Then went with him to a game and was hooked. Peggy (DM) brought realism (to a degree) by using one of those dress maker pattern boards covered in plastic....this was before those erasable mats were available. She'd draw out rooms, hallways, etc. that everyone characters could see, then bringing out monsters, random characters, etc. So I started buying figures/monsters as it looked like a lot of fun being DM.

Skip forward about 5 years and out of the Air Force when I find my nephews/nieces & their friends were playing. When I mentioned I used to play, asked to DM a game for them at my place. We got hooked on playing. Word spread and soon I had 10 kids at my place playing on the kitchen table and of course, made my on DM's board. Would play on the weekends, then during the summer, started having sleepovers, starting Friday night, lasting till Sunday afternoon. Livingroom floor was like a living minefield...if not careful, I'd step on a sleeping kid in their blankets/sleeping bags.

Parents were QUITE HAPPY with this arrangement....free babysitter AND of course, some alone time. Wonder how many kids that were playing ended up with a new baby brother/sister later on during this time? Moms TRIED to be helpful in packing a lunch for their kid, but kids were unhappy I wouldn't be DM'ing for up to an hour because after getting off work, had to cook something for me, while they could just snack as we played. Told the kids to forget their lunches and bring $1 which went to Little Cesare's for pizza/soda. Yeah, lost money on that one, but it was money well spent and there was (of course) NEVER any left over pizza/soda pop. After each session and kids were gone (or sleeping), I'd write up their adventures with kids name/characters name. Somewhere still got a lot of those and frankly, the adventures were a lot better than a lot of stuff I've read. And I brought REALISM to the game as in keeping track of who had what. Got 20 arrows...oops, not any more. Remember, you used them up earlier and no one's gone to the nearest town to resupply. Find yourselves in a dungeon and unable to get out for a couple of days because of the number of hungry monsters roaming around? Well, everyone's eating....where is this human body waste going? Ended up with there being a closet in that room and one of the kids characters had to "donate" his backpack for use as a toilet! Used a critical hit/fumble table which I later modified. NOW the kids were REALLY scared when they rolled a 1. Forgot to put out your campfire while out hunting game? You just started a MASSIVE forest fire....AND NOW YOU HAVE TO RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Of course, the druids in the area were NOT happy with this turn of events. Yeah, I was a mean & nasty DM, but the kids couldn't get enough playing time in with me.

Then the boys discovered girls & cars, while the girls discovered boys and boys who had cars. One nephew still plays when he can and gave him ALL of my Dragon magazines, but not my Dungeon issues. Really got into DM'ing and have something like 1,000 or so monsters/characters along with all the 1st edition books, though the boys did chip in to buy me a couple of the 2nd edition books. Then discovered Hirst Arts 28mm mold sets, which I still have after 10+ years and now using for some zombie/apocalypse dioramas I'm working on in 1/35th scale. Anyone remember the CD for random dungeon generation? Never bought that, but did get (eventually) the 1st 100 issues of Dragon on CD a few years ago when I FINALLY got it cheap enough on Evilbay.

With Hirst Arts molds, didn't want to cast in plaster of paris, something 20-30 times for use in a diorama, so after making 5-6 of something, made a silicone mold of these items. In late 2016, felt my glue sniffing days (building models) coming back after 15 years. But didn't want to build aircraft/armor. Then found out A LOT of people are into zombie/apocalypse dioramas and been hooked since. This diorama is called The Fountain and one of 3 I've been working on. Found out my first attempt would have the diorama 14x14 inches?! It was simply TOO large as I felt it was overwhelming the focus point which was to be the fountain, a tired looking woman with backpack next to her, her rifle and dog. She's going to be sitting on the ledge of the fountain. Second photo shows what I want/got: a 9x9 inch diorama. Fountain base was made using 2 different sizes of sour cream lids as molds for the plaster and a cut up, plastic wine class for the fountain itself. Now have 8 1/4 inch tall, praying angels to go on first level and picking up a set of statues for top level, one which will be Mary. Yeah, know it's not pc for something like this, but don't care. Will build/show all dioramas in a realistic setting...NO Mad Look with women showing T&A, a semi-truck with 2,000 pounds of metal plating some how glued to it's hood or a car doing the same.

Sorry for the sideways photos....for some reason, can't keep it vertical and the figure is 2" tall, representing a 6' tall man. And click on 2nd photo to see normal size.