Comments on: D&D

By: Jack McAlpin

Jack McAlpin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:50:57 +0000

Here is the story of a first time player and his unusually clever “meat shield” character. Our party was charged with guarding a wall that spanned the width of a canyon against a horde of orcs. As combat commenced, the orcs were as yet some 90 feet distant. My man, Ishmael by name, climbed down off of the wall in preparation of combat (champing at the bit you might say). My compatriot up on the wall, a cleric of Tymora, had begun the verbal and somatic components of one spell or another when the archers among the orcs let loose the arrows they had readied for just such an event. Needless to say he took damage and his spell was lost. When my turn rolled around again the orcs were still too distant for me to risk engaging them alone (I may have been wet behind the ears, but I wasn’t a fool). Having seen what transpired in the preceding round I freed a hand from my greatsword and began making obscure gestures and muttering incoherently. As the orcs were still too far away to tell the difference it appeared that I was casting a spell. They fired their arrows at me and my 22 AC doing … 2 points of damage. As our spell casters got their round of spells off without incident, the DM exclaimed, “3000 bonus XP to Ishmael, because that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen a Newbie do!” And that was just the first time I played.

By: GregT

GregT — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:51:46 +0000

Hi there,

I started the month at Eleven Foot Pole (http://elevenfootpole.blogspot.com) with a post about the future of D&D, and I’ve subsequently found out it’s on topic for the carnival.

While it’s not the piece I would have written to specifically address July’s topic, I’ll submit it for your interest anyway:

No Roll To Hit
http://elevenfootpole.blogspot.com/2009/07/no-roll-to-hit-rationale.html

If it’s included I’ll add Carnival of Bloggers signage and tagging to it and put up a fresh post advertising its inclusion. Contact me at starfall2317 at gmail dot com if there’s any fixable problems.

Regards,

GregT_314

By: Lunatyk

Lunatyk — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:21:25 +0000

Not sure if it fits because it starts with a game that isn’t DnD but ultimately, it’s how “Edition Wars” affected my entrance into DnD…

http://aiest.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/entering-the-dungeon/

By: Chris Tregenza

Chris Tregenza — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:57:26 +0000

@Samuel - I'm not going to include your article on the hubpage in the carnival. It is a good page but a fairly blatant bit SEO. This would not be so bad if you had mentioned the carnival and included a link to the RPG Bloggers network and myself. Chris Tregenza´s last blog post..“You want to do what?”

By: Samuel Van Der Wall

Samuel Van Der Wall — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:18:24 +0000

Everything I Know About Roleplaying, I Learned From D&D

http://hubpages.com/hub/everything-i-know-about-roleplaying-i-learned-from-dnd

This article is located on my Hubpages site, so it will show a different link. I placed the article here, rather than on RoleplayingPro for several reasons. But one of which is that when I started the article I had one idea for it, then it completely diverged! Good topic this month and good topic starting ideas, Chris.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:50:52 +0000

@Johnn Four – An interesting take on house rules – it is far more radical than I would be.

By: Johnn Four

Johnn Four — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:01:21 +0000

A guest post: My House Rules for D&D
http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/my-house-rules-for-dd/

By: Chris Tregenza

Chris Tregenza — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:40:28 +0000

@Will - Nice account of your intro to D&D Chris Tregenza´s last blog post..Keep Players Under Control with an Altoids Catapult

By: Will

Will — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:51:18 +0000

Here’s mine.

http://www.creativeanomalies.com/blog/2009/07/11/rpg-carnival-dd-and-me/

By: admin

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:09:32 +0000

@faustusnotes – It is an interesting project, but the carnival is for new writing so I cannot include your post.

@Samual – another interesting post.