The DnD jokes thread

[Septentrionalis]

So true what you say about "no OP", with death much more real, and no classes, players became really attached to their highly customised characters. Instead of seeking out endless battles to grind xp, they'd avoid pointless battles so they could reach objectives unbattered.

Oh man, that was so great. I remember the lengths that my players would go to somehow get to the enemy without risking themselves. It was like a project meeting many times. Occasionally as a DM, I could have gone to get something to eat and let them hash it out in the meantime if it wasn't for their constant questions about the details of the setting.

The one janky bit was the "you gain points in skills you use" so with weaker opponents players would enter combat with their primary weapon, hit once, drop it, draw a secondary, hit once, drop that, draw a dagger, hit once, start kicking and punching etc. We had to have a mature conversation about the poor RP experience.

Haha, glad you had that talk. I have always hated those mechanics and I tried my best to encourage and reward roleplaying instead of minmaxing and sacrificing immersion to game mechanics nonsense.

My pet peeve are too specific skills, particularly with weapons. As if someone truly great with a long sword would be comparable to a civilian when equipping an unfamiliar weapon. When so much is about movement, timing, understanding of distance, etc. I liked 2nd edition AD&D a lot for it's simplistic level-based combat skill with the possibility for fighters to gain a bonus in certain specialized weapon groups.

[Flinn]

anyone else here played the original D&D, I mean even before the AD&D?

I still have the books, I remember I bought them second hand in 1993 and paid then 80.000 lire

[Akar]

My first was 3rd edition

[Septentrionalis]

anyone else here played the original D&D, I mean even before the AD&D?

I started with the original Red Box before the AD&D. I think I had the 1989 sucky Finnish translation. The original D&D sold as many as 65,000 copies in Finland, which sounds unbelievable. But it was very popular.

[Cyclops]

I had the pink and the blue boxes, with dice in the box so I think it was the Basic Set and Expert Set second printing (first printing didn't have dice, it had paper chits, and you had to put them in a cup) of both, bought in about 1980 or 1981. I still have 2 or 3 dice from the first lot, a crumbling brown d4 and a not quite true orange d8 and (maybe, not sure where it came from) a red d12. Ugly af which is why they survived unused I guess.

Bought AD&D in 1981, basic 3 books. The dog eared edges were crumbling from use. Built up to the full set ( DMG, PHB, MM, FF and DaD, all first edition). Heaps of scenarios, the epic giant/drow cycle, Village of Homlet, and so on. Sacks of dice.

Got Runequest by the mid 80's, lots of the box sets, all the rule books (Apple Lane, Prax and Pavis, Chaos Gods etc etc), not sure which edition. Also dog eared from use. Got the Avalon Hill version too, an improvemnt I think.

Call of Cthulhu in the late 80's, less use. Adapted some of it for RQ and D&D.

Lost the lot in a flood in 2003.

I bought some books for beer and pizza sessions with a cousin in the mid 00's, 3.5 and later 5th ed, still have them.

The best scenarios were (in order) Dwellers of the Forbidden City (AD&D or 2nd ed), Isle of Dread (D&D or 1st ed) and Pavis (RQ).

[Flinn]

I just realized that Cyclops is way older than me

@ Sept, yes that was the same original box I had (and still have somewhere on the loft)

[Flinn]

if you don't laugh at these, you are a Clay Golem

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[Akar]

if you have time to post memes you have time to join the dnd group in my sig

[Flinn]

you know we have completely opposite time schedules, no hope here I'm afraid

[Flinn]

Not a joke but worth mentioning

Some crazy dudes here in Italy have created a new full set for D&D 5, called Brancalonia, and it's a ing masterpiece I tell you.

A peer view here on the Quickstart manual.

It's based completely on Italian folklore, anthology and other arts (cinema mostly) and it's full of great references, with the typical ironical Italian style

love it, this might really convince me to go back to playing

[Akar]

My interest is piqued.

[Flinn]

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

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[Flinn]

Critical hit

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[ggggtotalwarrior]

I’ve never played DnD besides like two super scuffed newbie sessions