D&D

[Humerox]

Ran across something pretty interesting. It's an online hosting of tabletop games called:

SceneGrinder

From the FAQ:

What games can SceneGrinder handle?

Dungeons and Dragons®, Advanced or otherwise, Hero System®, d20®, Pathfinder®, Risus, Microlite20... pretty much anything there's a template for. You can create your own templates or borrow and adapt templates from other members who published theirs.

Virtual tabletop games. Why didn't I think of that?

[Qaedain]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ran across something pretty interesting. It's an online hosting of tabletop games called:

SceneGrinder

From the FAQ:

What games can SceneGrinder handle?

Dungeons and Dragons®, Advanced or otherwise, Hero System®, d20®, Pathfinder®, Risus, Microlite20... pretty much anything there's a template for. You can create your own templates or borrow and adapt templates from other members who published theirs.

Virtual tabletop games. Why didn't I think of that?

I've been playing through FantasyGrounds, but this... Wow. This is awesome.

[Reiker]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ran across something pretty interesting. It's an online hosting of tabletop games called:

SceneGrinder

From the FAQ:

What games can SceneGrinder handle?

Dungeons and Dragons®, Advanced or otherwise, Hero System®, d20®, Pathfinder®, Risus, Microlite20... pretty much anything there's a template for. You can create your own templates or borrow and adapt templates from other members who published theirs.

Virtual tabletop games. Why didn't I think of that?

Didn't check out SceneGrinder yet. But it must be relatively new because some friends and I used to run games over the internet using some D&D program I can't remember the name of (think it was fairly popular so someone probably knows it). You could create grid maps and all kinds of cool stuff; in a way it was easier than doing it traditionally.

Haven't played a non-online game in years since everyone I knew who liked to play all moved to weird places. Like Canada. Fucking Canada.

[Aarone]

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AD&D Fiend Folio imo.

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TSR > WotC

Amen.

Started in the way back, prob. c1976, so that's first ed (though not the reaaaal way back). I do recall the "change" to Advanced D&D hitting sometime early in High School for me, that must have been about '80 or '81.

Personally fond of the 2nd Ed. ruleset, myself; I enjoyed both 3rd Ed and 3.5 Ed., but gave up trying to keep up on the game after that point. On the occasions when I do sometimes still play with the "old gang" we use the 3.5 Ed as a base.

Ran many a campaign as a DM, and played a Fighter & Druid as a part of a really epic campaign that took a group of us "nerd-buds" through the high school and college years - an common experience, no doubt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] By the end of it all, we'd worked out a pretty involved set of "House Rules" that used the D&D rules as a base, incorporated the Arms Law/Claw Law/Spell Law ruleset from Iron Crown Enterprises, and then threw in a healthy dose of GURPS for flavor.

Truth be told, over the years, I think I've come to favor GURPS over all, for flexibility/customization reasons. But, in truth, I haven't tabletopped regularly for at least the last 10 years.

Hasbin, your FF pic inspires; this is for you:

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and because there ain't no cheesy cartoon porn like cheesy D&D cartoon porn:

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[Hasbinbad]

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Backatchya sexy!

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[dallammarr]

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I still have 2 of these. agreed TSR > WOTC

[Reiker]

nerds

[fugazi]

Played D&D from 2nd edition through to 4th. I'm not fond of 4th edition, as it feels like playing a computer game instead of a big open rpg with endless possibilities. I love 3.5 as it gives you so much room, but at the same time that same room can easily destroy the game. More characters than I wish to recall were simple game-ruiners, some designed by me whose effectiveness even surprised me.

I've dm'ed, I've played and I've done dungeon crawling with huge ass grids drawn out on maps and plastic boards and even with miniature walls, doors and other random dungeon crap. I also played with guys who didn't and honest to god, D&D without grid maps is less fun. I don't mind skipping mindless dungeon crawls and sticking to RPG and RP combat encounters, but from time to time a dungeoncrawl is cool as its a team effort. Just like with EQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd love to try out Rolemaster though. My cousin has the Lord of the Ring books from way back and it all seems so overwhelmingly awesome.

<3 nerds

[Mournblade]

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Here's my first DnD sourcebook. I loved every edition because I love the game. Guess I played the most 2nd Edition overall though. That was my heyday as a player (seldom was a DM)

[ShadowWulf]

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My mouse pad.