Fourth Edition D&D

[GarretSidzaka]

read and watch the teaser here

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome



this is a game called Dungeons and Dragons, and Wizards of the Coast has created a new edition! first one since 2003
i dont know about you, but i game and i will buy this just because the money is burning a hole in my wallet.

 

[Fifty]

For those of us too lazy to click the link, WTH are you talking about!?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

that is supposed to be spelled "fourth edition" but the southern comfort drink says otherwise

ps: i pm'd the mod about spelling.

this is a game called Dungeons and Dragons, and Wizards of the Coast has created a new edition! first one since 2003

 

[Fifty]

I don't know much about dungeons and dragons, but I did play a computer game once that was apparently based on it and found it fun. I highly doubt I'd like the boardgame style though. I'm not a big fan of complex boardgames.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

its not so complex. it is more of a impromptu group experience

 

[QuoVadisNation]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbqMoEwDqc

This pretty much sums D & D up

Personally, I found D&D to be solely for nerds. Although the game does make for awesome computer games (Neverwinter Nights 2)

 

[GarretSidzaka]

yeah that teaser was freaking hilarious to me!!!!!

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Really? In the words of some of my role-playing inclined friends, the video was apparently "insulting". Apparently they contest to the idea that D&D is just about attacking a fictional troll or a klobold with twenty sided die. I disagree.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

well, yes, but i enjoy whenever i get the opportunity to laugh at myself, including my favorite hobby i have been doing for fifteen years.

 

[Fifty]

Personally, I found D&D to be solely for nerds.

I dunno, I think the line between what nerds and nonnerds can do is really becoming blurred. Nerddom is more a way of life than any specific hobby.

For example, the most non-nerdy person I know is hardcore into WoW. He looks like a model, he's in peak physical condition, he would completely wreck any person who has ever posted on this forum in a fight, he's on the fast track to multiple NCAA Wrestling championships, and hot girls pretty much throw themselves at him. And he plays WoW religiously.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

i consider D&D nerds to be Quantum Uber-Mensch Nerds! BEWARE OUR D20's!!!

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I dunno, I think the line between what nerds and nonnerds can do is really becoming blurred. Nerddom is more a way of life than any specific hobby.

Theoritcally, I would concede to this point. But my claim was.. more of an observational statement; in that all the D&D players I saw came in three types

1) Skinny male nerd
2) Overweight male nerd
3) Moderately overweight girl who happens to also be a nerd

Maybe GarretSidzaka has had better experiences?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

well, i married a woman that i gamed with in high school and have a kid
most of my current group are basically hard core mutha fudgers who you wouldn't think are gamers. but they themselves like to think they are nerds.

edit: we are all also SCA (see my avatar)

 

[Till]

Really? In the words of some of my role-playing inclined friends, the video was apparently "insulting". Apparently they contest to the idea that D&D is just about attacking a fictional troll or a klobold with twenty sided die. I disagree.

Well i can't speak for D&D, but the pen&paper rpgs i used to play were mainly about trying to outwit the gamemaster by exploiting loopholes in the rulesets.
Combat was handled by a messy Turbo Pascal programme.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

Well i can't speak for D&D, but the pen&paper rpgs i used to play were mainly about trying to outwit the gamemaster by exploiting loopholes in the rulesets.
Combat was handled by a messy Turbo Pascal programme.

DAMN yOU mUNCHINKS MiN MAxERS!!!!!!

 

[Heretic_Cata]

So what new stuff will it bring ? (yes i don't want to look at the trailers and stuff - someone sum it up ) New classes/spells or WTH ?

For those of us too lazy to click the link, WTH are you talking about!?

I still can't believe people actually play that in pen&paper. One of the most time consuming thing i've ever heard.
Anyway i wanted to tell you about about D&D in videogames. It's a "we're to lazy to come up with a new/different combat system and stuff so we'll just make lots of games based on this set of lame rules" thing.
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There are some intresting parts to the ruleset i'll give it that. Heck - i'm playing IcewindDale2 right now.

The whole universe of it (Faernum and stuff) seems kinda boring. Even tho i played 3-4 (?) games in this universe i never could get into it. Sure the main stories were nice but everything else was not really ... good.
OTOH i found a much greater fascination (at that age) about the Might&Magic(6-8) | Wizardry | Warcraft | Diablo | Starcraft universes.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

dude, its all about RL friends and a way to game together in person and drink

 

[Till]

DAMN yOU mUNCHINKS MiN MAxERS!!!!!!

Oh no, a real role-player! Run for the hills!

The whole universe of it (Faernum and stuff) seems kinda boring. Even tho i played 3-4 (?) games in this universe i never could get into it. Sure the main stories were nice but everything else was not really ... good.
OTOH i found a much greater fascination (at that age) about the Might&Magic(6-8) | Wizardry | Warcraft | Diablo | Starcraft universes.

They had an awesome universe with the Planescape campaign setting, but unfortunately it was discontinued. I agree that Faerun is a little dull and run out of the mill. It's the sort of universe that the gamemaster is expected to flesh out.

 

[GenMarshall]

dude, its all about RL friends and a way to game together in person and drink

Meh, I can do the same thing with a game of Monopoly

 

[GVBN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbqMoEwDqc

This pretty much sums D & D up

Personally, I found D&D to be solely for nerds. Although the game does make for awesome computer games (Neverwinter Nights 2)

All good D&D computer games use 2nd edition rules