Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

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OD&D is a thing of beauty. I love AD&D 1e, too. I'm an old dude, so, you know, old things appeal to me.
 
thx1138 said:
OD&D is a thing of beauty. I love AD&D 1e, too. I'm an old dude, so, you know, old things appeal to me.
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I'm a young dude and old things appeal to me as well.

OD&D and AD&D are awesome!
 
I have a few hardback copies of ODnD, ADnD, some other early stuff, 3.0 stuff, 3.5 stuff and some other add ons like Book of Vile Darkness and Dieties and Demigods. Got em for like 40 bucks at a thrift store. Must be 20-odd books.
 
going old school with one bit of my own gaming project and making my maps by hand with pieces of graph paper for the game maps and blank pieces of white paper for the overview maps with mechanical pencil for the lines and some crayons and colored pencils for color. Going to finalize the introductory thing tonight and finish the maps and classes over the weekend
 
thx1138 said:
That is great, man. Generally the internet was a mistake but it sure did allow us neckbeards to keep the old RPGs going.
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tbh, I met the guy in person through the scout master who was a friend of his as he helped me set up my own campaign. Your point still stands though
 
andr0id psycho sho(ker said:
tbh, I met the guy in person through the scout master who was a friend of his as he helped me set up my own campaign. Your point still stands though
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Yah; I will say the mix is decidedly 70-30 internet to real life these days, but I do find fellow neckbeards out there in the real world.
 
thx1138 said:
That is great, man. Generally the internet was a mistake but it sure did allow us neckbeards to keep the old RPGs going.
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
This reminds me of something a former professor told us that he had character sheets that were older than his students. (He'd been playing since first edition.)
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My woodshop teacher in high school helped work on D&D in the 80s and has run entire continents in the system. My current DM had a friend impress Gary Gygax himself back in 2003 or so.
 
I am probably skating very close to power leveling here so I will mention that I knew Gary in that same time frame and now I wonder if I know "friend". Oh, and the guy who started this thread, Smokedaddy, was a best friend of mine.
 
currently working on the last of my gaming materials, a large batch of classes for other players to use and to be used in the campaign. I've already set up the lesson plan along with multiple maps for both area overviews and for the game board itself and will be getting back on the classes since I took a break to do some various things around my home
 
I sort of had an idea for a pseudo-historical fantasy mega-campaign using OD&D as the main system, with later parts of the game being patched with some OD&D house rules of mine.

Not sure if it could actually be done though.

It is basically run in the style of a pan-historical epic and would be more about fun and classic adventure than strict historical accuracy.

I'm giving it the working title of The History of the World (a reference to the classic Mel Brooks comedy film) and it would consist of a lot of throwbacks to classic Hollywood and literary genres including Sword & Sandal films, the classic tropes of Medieval Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery literature, and other genres and settings such as the Wild West, Feudal Japan (as portrayed in campy Samurai films and anime), Colonial America (complete with superstitious Puritan settlers, Indian braves, and swashbuckling Pirates), and maybe even more out-there settings like the Vietnam War and a Cyberpunk retro-future setting (this is where my house rules come in).

Here is a general outline of the eras I want to include, each era a mini-campaign into itself. I could trim it down to a handful of eras to make it more manageable.

1. The Stone Age (Cavemen, Mega-fauna, and even Dinosaurs)
2. Ancient Rome and the Conquest of Britain
3. Medieval Europe and the Vikings
4. Feudal Japan
5. Colonial America
6. The Wild West
7. World War I
8. World War II
9. The Vietnam War
10. A Cyberpunk Future
 
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Syaoran Li said:
I sort of had an idea for a pseudo-historical fantasy mega-campaign using OD&D as the main system, with later parts of the game being patched with some OD&D house rules of mine.

Not sure if it could actually be done though.

It is basically run in the style of a pan-historical epic and would be more about fun and classic adventure than strict historical accuracy.

I'm giving it the working title of The History of the World (a reference to the classic Mel Brooks comedy film) and it would consist of a lot of throwbacks to classic Hollywood and literary genres including Sword & Sandal films, the classic tropes of Medieval Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery literature, and other genres and settings such as the Wild West, Feudal Japan (as portrayed in campy Samurai films and anime), Colonial America (complete with superstitious Puritan settlers, Indian braves, and swashbuckling Pirates), and maybe even more out-there settings like the Vietnam War and a Cyberpunk retro-future setting (this is where my house rules come in).

Here is a general outline of the eras I want to include, each era a mini-campaign into itself. I could trim it down to a handful of eras to make it more manageable.

1. The Stone Age (Cavemen, Mega-fauna, and even Dinosaurs)
2. Ancient Rome and the Conquest of Britain
3. Medieval Europe and the Vikings
4. Feudal Japan
5. Colonial America
6. The Wild West
7. World War I
8. World War II
9. The Vietnam War
10. A Cyberpunk Future
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Now that sounds like a truly epic and fun campaign. My own busy work is almost done at this rate and I can finish tonight with a bit of effort. I'll edit this when I get done and what classes I was working on
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Say, who's going to GenCon this year?
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That was always one of those things I wanted to do when I was younger, a sort of "Mount Everest" of gaming but now, I feel that like Mount Everest, everyone does it, and it's full of piles of garbage, and there's nothing special about it. Plus they invited Anita Sarkeesian to speak and I don't much care for her, she's a busybody who is (in my opinion) going to try to position herself as some kind of Pat Pulling in pen and paper RPGs, like the trouble she stirred up in video games.
 
thx1138 said:
That was always one of those things I wanted to do when I was younger, a sort of "Mount Everest" of gaming but now, I feel that like Mount Everest, everyone does it, and it's full of piles of garbage, and there's nothing special about it. Plus they invited Anita Sarkeesian to speak and I don't much care for her, she's a busybody who is (in my opinion) going to try to position herself as some kind of Pat Pulling in pen and paper RPGs, like the trouble she stirred up in video games.
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I bet Anita has never played an tabletop game, let alone enjoyed one.
 
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