dungeons and dragons........

Anyone play it?

i don't

nope

I'm pretty good at chess and that's nerdy enough for me.

i dont play it either but i was wondering if it was a nerdy waste of time and if i should stick to the PC

It's probably somewhat fun if you have a bunch of other nerds to play with.

[quote6d5c1a917e="bballp6699"]It's probably somewhat fun if you have a bunch of other nerds to play with.[/quote6d5c1a917e]
lol

I've played, it is pretty fun. Get a good DM that is expirenced and read up on the Players Handbook before you do anything. And pre-roll your characters before you start the game, it takes forever.

I did... when I was like 7.

I guess that makes me a nerd. I've been playing for 7 years, and DMing for 5.

The key to a good game rests entirely with the DM. If you don't have a good DM, then the game will suck. If you're interested, I suggest you and your friends seek out other gamers (aka nerds), who've played for a while and ask around to find the best DM. Oh, and if you're only looking to kill things for fun, stick to the PC )

I've displayed enough nerd-dom here. PM me if you have any more questions.

[quote66184f8414="tmberwolff"]I guess that makes me a nerd. I've been playing for 7 years, and [b66184f8414]DMing[/b66184f8414] for 5.

The key to a good game rests entirely with the [b66184f8414]DM[/b66184f8414]. If you don't have a good DM, then the game will suck. If you're interested, I suggest you and your friends seek out other gamers (aka nerds), who've played for a while and ask around to find the best DM. Oh, and if you're only looking to kill things for fun, stick to the PC )

I've displayed enough nerd-dom here. PM me if you have any more questions.[/quote66184f8414]
this means......

[quote3d13237ef8="cwncool"][quote3d13237ef8="tmberwolff"]I guess that makes me a nerd. I've been playing for 7 years, and [b3d13237ef8]DMing[/b3d13237ef8] for 5.

The key to a good game rests entirely with the [b3d13237ef8]DM[/b3d13237ef8]. If you don't have a good DM, then the game will suck. If you're interested, I suggest you and your friends seek out other gamers (aka nerds), who've played for a while and ask around to find the best DM. Oh, and if you're only looking to kill things for fun, stick to the PC )

I've displayed enough nerd-dom here. PM me if you have any more questions.[/quote3d13237ef8]
this means......[/quote3d13237ef8]
Dungeon Master, aka King Nerd

Damn, I was certain it was the Dragon Master.

how do you "become a dungeon master"

yes. I am King Nerd. I have a crown and everything. and a +20 Shirt of Smiting (thanks to ThinkGeek).

Unfortunately, most of the time, you become a DM much in the same way that a sacrificial pinguin is chosen to be pushed off the ice to feed the sharks.

[quote3fadaea574="tmberwolff"]yes. I am King Nerd. I have a crown and everything. and a +20 Shirt of Smiting (thanks to ThinkGeek).

Unfortunately, most of the time, you become a DM much in the same way that a sacrificial pinguin is chosen to be pushed off the ice to feed the sharks.[/quote3fadaea574]

My game failed because the DM was brand new, and so was most people. I would love to get another game going. Maybe there is a local houston based D&D forum on the internet.

Dude, that is the creepiest weird game ever. Not only that, but you look like a dumbass doing it.

[quote8eb51b8c06]Dude, that is the creepiest weird game ever. Not only that, but you look like a dumbass doing it.[/quote8eb51b8c06]

true to your name, you are confused. What is so stupid looking about a bunch of people sitting around a big table rolling dice? By this idea, I guess Risk is pretty stupid looking, too, eh? I think you have the wrong game in mind.

As for the "creepiest weird" part... A classic example of a bad DM.

I don't play games that have documented suicide statistics. ;)

How lovely and misinformed. Solitaire has a documented suicide statistic.

Related Do you know what an LD50 number is? It's a statistic that tells you how lethal a product is (specifically food and drugs). It is how much of a substance lab rats have to ingest (or be injected with) before 50% of them die.

Sounds horrible, huh? I say we ban all products that have an LD50 number. They're dangerous, right?

Hint Kool-aid has an LD50 number. It's exceptionally high (and it takes a [ba0eb1e89e8]LOT [/ba0eb1e89e8]of koolaid to kill a rat, btw), but it's there. Everything examined by FDA has an LD50 number. Not everything with an LD50 number should be avoided.

Games are not dangerous. Statistics are not (usually) dangerous. Ignorance, however, is amazingly dangerous.

I'm not calling anyone ignorant. I spent high school being ignorant about D&D. I thought it was Satan's game. That's what I had been taught at church, anyway. Plus, the only D&D player I knew really thought he was a vampire. I realize today that he was just stupid. (Stupid people are far more dangerous than ignorant people).

When I got to college and tried D&D, (some people have drugs... I have dice), I realized that any game is what you make it. D&D is just pencils, paper, dice, and imagination. If you devote your life to believing that drinking Diet Coke is an act of Satanism, then for you, it always will be.

While it was a factual statement, I was joking a bit before.

But...

RPG's, D&D especially, are vehicles for escapism. Very [i75a9c18120]structured[/i75a9c18120] escapism.

While someone well-adjusted might not get as caught up in the intricacies of it, others less grounded in reality will gravitate to it for just that reason. Like a cult, it offers an escape from real life challenges.

Trekkers who larp as Klingons on the weekends are just as bad off.

This goes back to what I was saying about any game is only what you make it. Those type of personalities seek out escapes from reality, no matter what. You cannot fault whatever it is that they chose to use as their escape (drugs, dice, or klingons), as none of those made that person how they are.

It's part cause and effect, and part separating the game from the people who play it. Usually, people get it backwards on both accounts. A lot of people see D&D as something that causes people to escape from reality. That's like blaming a book for causing me to read it. More specifically, It would be like blaming Dragonlance for causing me to read all 278,341 books in that series.

It's actually funny how we don't think reading is a bad thing when far more people use fiction to escape reality than have ever used D&D. And reading Sylvia Plath did kinda wanna make me hurl myself off a cliff. But that's getting side tracked...

Point here is that you cannot blame a d20 or a PHB for the choices that people make. D&D is a just a game.

anyone get PCGamer?? It was on the front cover.