Want to interview PnP player

[Aranticus]

yeah its was easy and pretty automatic back then but I find new players find it easier and it makes more sense for better ac to be a postive number

the problem isnt with players being new but rather players with no logic

ie +5 attack = means you have higher chance to hit = need smaller number on d20
-5 ac = means mob is hard to hit = need higher number on d20

whenever i tell this to new players they understand it better but looking at my current batch of students in my college...... i wonder if they can even understand the dumbed down 3.0 ver

[baddax]

I found some video of some of my old Pnp Days, not sure how much actual play time we got but here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915EU...eature=related

[Aussieee]

I started playing in 1978 when I spent my birthday money on the blue boxed set.

I was playing in the game filmed by 60 Minutes in 1985.

I'm definitely addicted to DDO (WoW was a stopgap, super-simplified version that I used until DDO was released).

My parents' basement flooded and destroyed my copies of the old hardcover books, The Player's Handbook, The Dungeon Master's Guide, Deities and Demigods, and The Monster Manual about fifteen years ago.

Pick him he sounds like a good choise

[baddax]

I started playing in 1978 when I spent my birthday money on the blue boxed set.

I was playing in the game filmed by 60 Minutes in 1985.

I'm definitely addicted to DDO (WoW was a stopgap, super-simplified version that I used until DDO was released).

My parents' basement flooded and destroyed my copies of the old hardcover books, The Player's Handbook, The Dungeon Master's Guide, Deities and Demigods, and The Monster Manual about fifteen years ago.

Could you elaborate on this?

[baddax]

Dude, go back to Chainmail and be done with it . Ahhhh....those were the days...

"Mom, I just wanna get my fighter through one more little adventure!"
"No, it's time to come home. Get on your bike and get yer butt here by dinner." <click>
*sigh*

My curfew back in those days was "when the street lights come on" so i new no matter where i was when those lights started to first flicker it was my signal to head home.

[kamimitsu]

I started playing D&D in 1985. My parents thought D&D was satanic, so I had to hide my books under my matress. Here is my D&D resume.

I literally know everything there is to know about D&D. What do you want to know? I wrote my history capstone paper - 20 pages- on rule changes from Advanced to 2nd edition D&D and the way that D&D changed the world. I got an A. I am happy to sit down for an interview if you are serious. I have a room full of D&D rule books, supliments, literature and toys all D&D related. I also spend about 40 hours a week playing DDO. DId I mention that I have a beholder tatooed on my sholder? It is the one from the 1st edition Monster manuel. I went to Dave Arneson's wake and have his old cell # in my cell phone still. I defy you to find a bigger D&D geek than me!

Ignore the spelling mistakes... but this is the guy I was talking about. He really does know everything there is to know about D&D (in all its incarnations).

[Mithran]

Could you elaborate on this?

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=24

[baddax]

That is very cool!

[Uska]

the problem isnt with players being new but rather players with no logic

ie +5 attack = means you have higher chance to hit = need smaller number on d20
-5 ac = means mob is hard to hit = need higher number on d20

whenever i tell this to new players they understand it better but looking at my current batch of students in my college...... i wonder if they can even understand the dumbed down 3.0 ver

A increasing AC just always seemed more logical to me even when I started over 30 years ago.

[Uska]

Part 1, Time 1:00 - 1:03

It was filmed at Collector's Corner in DeSoto, TX, after a presentation by Bill Deer at our high school (his participation was later removed from the story).

The other kids were all friends of mine.

The DM was bitten by the store owner's doberman so many times, he nicknamed him "meat."

Wow, I had a lot of hair, then.

Well in 85 I didnt have more hair then you (military) but 10 years earlier when I started playing dnd I had a bunch more and I do now to. I remember seeing this story long ago it ticked me off and I didnt watch 60 minutes for about 15 years. them and their yellow journalism anyways was intersting to find out we all know at least sorta of some one from the story.

[Amabel]

What an awesome response. The genesis for this idea was reminesing with my guildies about the TSR Goldbox games, and then some old PnP campaigns.

There are obviously some veterans here and I'm sure there are some amazing stories. I need to figure out how to do justice to it all. On top of that I have a terribly busy week at work coming up, so it may take a week or two, but I'll get down to it and try to put together a special episode of On the Couch that does justice to the subject matter.

I expect to get in touch with plenty of the people in this thread privately as I pull it all together.

Amabel

[Dymond]

I think we should all meet in the middle and play one hell of a game.. Who's gonna DM and more importantly.. Who is bringing the corn chips?

[Zigana]

I think we should all meet in the middle and play one hell of a game.. Who's gonna DM and more importantly.. Who is bringing the corn chips?

Corn chips? Don't you know there's only two options for proper snacks at a D&D table? Either Dr. Pepper and twinkies or Mt. Dew and Cheetos. Anything else is an abomination! ABOMINATION I TELL YOU!!!!

[Lewcipher]

What an awesome response. The genesis for this idea was reminesing with my guildies about the TSR Goldbox games, and then some old PnP campaigns.

There are obviously some veterans here and I'm sure there are some amazing stories. I need to figure out how to do justice to it all. On top of that I have a terribly busy week at work coming up, so it may take a week or two, but I'll get down to it and try to put together a special episode of On the Couch that does justice to the subject matter.

I expect to get in touch with plenty of the people in this thread privately as I pull it all together.

Amabel

Why not do multiple interviews? Good to see everyone's stories that way!

[Junts]

i still say go back to thac0

Come on over, I'm an officer!

[Nevthial]

Who's gonna DM?

I vote for Uska to DM !!!!

[xanvar]

It would be really cool to play a PnP game again. Though I gotta bring pizza and beer. I still have my lucky D20. Only roll it it life or death situations because I dont want to roll all of the good rolls out of it

[Dark_Helmet]

Corn chips? Don't you know there's only two options for proper snacks at a D&D table? Either Dr. Pepper and twinkies or Mt. Dew and Cheetos. Anything else is an abomination! ABOMINATION I TELL YOU!!!!

I remember when Jolt came out and everyone drank it at the conventions...

[Kistilan]

I remember when Jolt came out and everyone drank it at the conventions...

Probably improved the species through fertility elimination.

[Emili]

The older versions of the game actually pre-date me... however the first time I played it was called AD&D and my cousin had every book and a subscription to dragon magazine, and an older red-box... world most of which somehow ended up in my possession somehow? After those initial

My view on the game however was that AD&D for as complicated as it was.. and the restrictions on race, class and it's overall design. It played much nicer, cleaner and more attune to general relationship of the lore previously envisioned in our past social ideas. This was the last version really design By Gygax and his team. The experience tables, loot tables and racial abilities, class restrictions made for slower progress however, it balanced all playing... Gygax understood when it came to the game it was all about the role and not the powers of the character... it was about Role and Roll (decision and chance) thus the d20 fit the game very well. I absolutely prefered Thaco and I played a ranger in Greyhawk for a long long time... Later I have played a bard - yes under AD&D , a druid, and rogue before. I also played a ranger into epic levels under 3.5... although the power and flexibility of the system unleashed a versitility - the game became more lacking of it's original intent, and actually lacking some of it's fun...